Holes
《洞》
Stanley has been unjustly1 sent to a boysdetention2 center, Camp Green Lake.All the boys there should spend all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide andfive feet deep. After the boys have finished digging the 45th holes, everythingbecomes different.
斯坦利被不公正地送到了一个男孩拘留中心———翠湖营。那里所有男孩每天都要花一整天时间挖五英尺宽、五英尺深的洞。在这些男孩挖完第四十五个洞之后,一切都变得不同了。
Student made “mini boat”travels from US to UK
学生制造的“迷你船”从美国航行到英国
A “miniboat”made by students at three Rhode Island schools has traveledfrom the US to the UK. The boat was placed in the Atlantic Ocean and washed upon a British beach 10 months later.
由罗德岛三所学校的学生制作的一艘“迷你船”从美国航行到了英国。这艘船被放进大西洋中,10 个月后冲上了英国海滩。
An artist paints on water
一位艺术家在水上作画
Zohra Zarougui is a painter from Tunisia. She uses a special style of paintingcalled Ebru. She puts different dyes3 in something like water. They change thecolor of the water and make beautiful patterns4. Then she puts paper or cloth on it.The pattern moves to it.
祖赫拉·扎魯圭是一名来自突尼斯的画家,她使用的是一种叫做湿拓画的特殊绘画方式。扎鲁圭把不同的染料放在像水一样的东西里,它们改变了水的颜色,形成了漂亮的图案。然后她把纸或布放在图案上面,图案就印上去了。
Notes
1. unjustly 不义地;不法地
2. detention 拘留;关押
3. dye 染料;染液
4. pattern 图案;花样