When it shuts itself up, it forms a little green ball, not unlike a pea, 当它闭合时，形成一个绿球，有点像豌豆， and can hardly be known from the green grass amidst which it lies. 在草丛中很难被认出来。 But look next morn...
LESSON 56 Habits of flowers 第五十六课 花的习性 Nearly all flowers turn towards the light, as if they loved it. 几乎所有的花都有向阳的,好像它们很喜欢太阳. This can be seen by watching plants that are standing near a windo...
LESSON 55 Meddlesome Matty 第五十五课 淘气的玛蒂 Oh, how one ugly trick has spoiled 噢！令人讨厌的恶作剧 The sweetest and the best! 把最甜美，最美好的东西都给糟蹋了！ Matilda, though a pleasant child, 玛蒂尔达，...
LESSON 54 Letters of recommendation 第五十四课 引荐信 A gentleman once advertised for a boy to assist him in his office, and nearly fifty applied for the place. 曾经有一位先生刊登了一则广告，招聘一名男孩做办公室助理，...
II. （二） Before her journey was half done, winter overtook her, and greatly increased her hardships; 她的旅途还没到一半，冬天就来了，这大大增加了她旅途的难度； but some carriers with whom she fell in were very kind t...
LESSON 53 The heroic daughter I. 第五十三课 英勇的女儿（一） A captain in the Russian army, who had been sent as an exile for life to a small village in the north of Siberia, 俄军一名上尉被流放到西伯利亚北部的一个小村庄...
When the brave Columbus saw the land, he thought it was the India which he had come to seek. 看到陆地的那一刻，勇敢的哥伦布以为这就是他一直在寻找的印度， So he called it India. Afterwards, when it was found that this was...
Lesson 52 The west India islands 第五十二课 西印度群岛 More than three hundred years ago, there stood near a small town on the coast of Spain an ancient convent. 三百多年前，在西班牙海岸小镇附近有一座古老的修道院。...
All the time they are at work, the beavers are constantly moving to and fro, trampling down the soft clay with their paws, 工作时间，海狸总会走来走去，用爪子踩实软粘土， and making all as smooth as they can. And it is a curious...
Lesson 51 A beaver town 第五十一课 海狸小城 Beavers were at one time abundant in Europe, but they are now found chiefly in Canada and other parts of North America. 曾经欧洲有大量的海狸,但是现在却主要分布在加拿大和北美...
