Online Class Notes (Mike)

Everyday there is a lot of people visit them, so Holmes spend a lot of time to do his work. Watson is a doctor, he helps Holmes to work.
Everyday there is a lot of people visit them, so Holmes spends a lot of time doing his work. Watson is a doctor, he helps Holmes with his work.

Holmes and Watson are all single, but sometime later, Watson married, at last his wife dies, they lived together again.
Holmes and Watson were both single. Later, Watson got married.

Once upon a time, there was a dwarf living in a big forest, in a small wood house. Everyday, the dwarf does his homework, he plays football with his friends.

Vocabulary

work (不可数) 工作
work (可数) 作品

dwarf (n) 小矮人

cabin (n) 小木屋

signs (n)

drag (v) 拖，拉，拽

molasses 糖浆

jar 罐子

ceiling (n) 天花板

greedy (adj.) 贪婪的

bottom (n) 底部

perhaps (adv.) 也许，可能 

swarm (n) 一群
A swarm of ants

swan (n) 天鹅

march (v) 前进，冲锋
The Long March 长征

unite (v) 团结
We should unite together to fight against the enemy.

curious 好奇的
I am curious about your job.

Franklin thought that ants knew how to talk to one another. He thought that they talked by some kind of signs. When an ant had found a dead fly too big for him to drag away, he would run off and get some other ants to help him. Franklin thought that ants had some way of telling other ants that there is work to do.

One day he found some ants eating molasses out of a little jar in a closet. He shook them out. Then he tied a string to the jar and hung it from a nail in the ceiling. But he had not got all the ants out of the jar. One little ant liked sweet things so well that he stayed in the jar and kept on eating greedily.

At last, when this greedy ant had eaten all that he could, he started to go home. Franklin saw him climb over the rim of the jar and then run down the outside of the jar. But when he got to the bottom, he did not find any shelf there. He went all round the jar. There was no way to get down to the floor.

The ant ran this way and that way, but he could not get down. Finally, the greedy ant thought he would see if he could go up. He climbed up the string to the ceiling. Then he went down the wall to his own hole in the floor.

After a while the ant got hungry again. He thought about that jar of sweets at the end of a string. Then perhaps he told the other ants. Maybe he let them know that there was a string by which they could get down to the jar.

In about half an hour after the ant had gone up the string, Franklin saw a swarm of ants going down the string. They marched in a line, one after the other. Soon there were two lines of ants on the string.

The ants in one line were going down to get at the sweet food. The ants in the other line were marching up the other side of the string to go home. Do you think that the greedy ant told the other ants about the jar?