Online Class Notes (Mike)

One day, two children want to go out and play. And then, the mother didn’t want them to go out and play. And then they go out furtively. They walk across a meadow, finally they arrive the frozen pond.

One day, two children wanted to play on a frozen pond. But their mother didn’t want them to do that because she thought it was dangerous. So they went out furtively. They walked across a meadow, finally they arrived at the frozen pond.

The ice seems very thick, so they play on it. After sometimes, the ice thaw. The children fall down in the river. They scream very loudly, a stranger coming. He help them out. They nearly frozen.

The ice seemed very thick, so they played on it. After some time/after a while, the ice began to thaw. The children fell in the river. They screamed very loudly, a stranger came and saved them. They were nearly frozen to death. 

Grammar

sometimes (adv.) 偶尔，有时候
I read it sometimes.

sometime

some time 一些时间

some times 几次

Vocabulary

furtively (adv.) 鬼鬼祟祟地，偷偷摸摸地

after a while, 一阵子后，过了一阵子

save (v) 存钱，保存，救护，拯救，挽救
save money
save life

shade (n) 阴影
shadow (n) 影子

fairy tale 童话，传说，神话

daydream (n) 白日梦

companion (n) 同伴，同伙

fasten (v) 系，收紧
fasten your seat belt 系好安全带

lantern (n) 灯笼
Lantern Festival 元宵节

as soon as 一…. 就

lot (n) 场地
parking lot 停车场

tie (v) 系领带

pitch (v) 丢，放手，投掷
pitcher (n) 投球手

attempt (n/v) 尝试

string (n) 线，琴弦

unwound

gaze (v) 盯着看

sweep (v) 扫地
Today I swept the floor. 今天我扫了地

comet (n) 彗星

firefly (n) 萤火虫

hobgoblin (n) 小妖怪，小精灵 = goblin

Ray was a silly boy. You will think so too when you have read this story. Ray liked to play with the boys at school well enough; but he liked to be alone under the shade of some tree reading a fairy tale or dreaming daydreams better. There was one activity that he liked as well as his companions; that was flying a kite.

One day when he was flying his kite, he said to himself, “I wonder if anybody ever tried to fly a kite at night. It seems to me it would be nice. But then, if it is dark, the kite cannot be seen. What if I should fasten a light to it, though? That would make it show. I’ll try it tonight.”

As soon as it was dark, without saying a word to anybody, he took his kite and lantern and went to a large, open lot a distance from his home. “Well,” thought he, “this is strange. How lonely and still it seems without any other boys around! I am going to fly my kite anyway.”

So he tied the lantern, which was made of tin punched full of small holes, to the tail of his kite. Then he pitched the kite, and, after several attempts, succeeded in making it rise.

Up it went, higher and higher, as Ray let out the string. When the string was all unwound, he tied it to a fence, and then he stood and gazed at his kite as it floated high up in the air.

While Ray was enjoying his kite, some people who were out on the street in the village saw a strange light in the sky. They gathered in groups to watch it. Now it was still for a few seconds; then it seemed to be jumping up and down; then it made long sweeps back and forth through the air.

“What can it be?” asked one person. “How strange,” said another. “It cannot be a comet because comets have tails,” said a third. “Perhaps it’s a big firefly,” said another. At last some of the men decided to find out what this strange light was—whether it was a hobgoblin dancing in the air, or something dropping from the sky.

So off they started to get as close to it as they could. While this was taking place, Ray, who had gotten tired of standing and was sitting on a fence behind a tree. He could see the men as they approached, but they did not see him. When they were directly under the light, and saw what it was, they looked at each other and said while laughing, “This is some boy’s trick, and it has fooled us nicely.

Let us keep the secret and have our share of the joke.” Then they laughed again and went back to the village. Some of the people there had not yet found out what that strange light was.

When the men had gone, Ray thought it was time for him to go, so he wound up his string, picked up his kite and lantern, and went home. His mother had been wondering where he was. When she heard what he had been doing, she hardly knew whether to laugh or scold, but I think she laughed and told him that it was time for him to go to bed.