许国璋英语听力第一册 Lesson 20

（单词翻译）

　　Lessen¹ 20
Word list:
cock
crow
midnight
landload
sly²
greedy
famrhand
eat
naturally
hate
strange
habit
dawn
time
every time
word
lazy bones
deep
hatred³
to have a deep hatred for
both
both…and…
steal
courtyard
just
so
trick
angry
decide
cry
stop
thief
immediately
run
knock
beat
beating
to give sb.a good beating
no longer
Words to the dialogue:
feel
cold
clinic
fever
medicine
feel
tempreture
headache
worry
catch
to catch up
Text:The cock crew at midnight
When Gaoyubao was a child,he worked for a landload.This landload was especially sly and greedy. He made the farmhands work very hard and gave them a little to eat. Naturally,they hated him. Now this landload had a cock. The cock had strange habit,it did not crow at dawn, but midnight. Everytime it began to crow,the landload was shout:Get up you lazy bone!get up and go to work.So the farmhands had a deep hatred for both the landload and his cock..Once, at midnight gaoyubao saw the landload steal into the courtyard. There, the man began to crow, just like a cock!So that was his trick!When Gaoyubao told the other farmhands what he had seen, they were very angry,and decided⁴ to teach the landload a lessen. So the next night,as soon as the landload stole into the courtyard, Gaoyubao cried out: Stop thief! stop thief! Immidiately, all the farmhands run out. They knocked the “thief” down and gave him a good beating. After that, the cock no longer crew at midnight.
Dialogue:
A：Why insn＇t Liming⁵ here today?Is he ill?
B：Yes,he is. He has a cold.
A：Did he go to see the doctor?
B：Yes, he went to the clinic this morning. The doctor said he had a fever and give him some medicine.
A：How does he feel now?
B：He feels much better. His temperature is down. But he still has a headache.
A：Tell him not to worry about his studies. we＇ll help him to catch up when he＇s weel.