The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Page 4
埃姆婶婶吓得不轻，猛地掀开地板上的活板门，顺着梯子爬进那个狭小黑暗的地洞里。
Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
多萝西好不容易才抓住托托，准备跟着婶婶下去。
Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to follow her aunt.
她走到房间中央时，狂风突然发出一声巨响，房子剧烈地摇晃，她脚下一滑，猛地跌坐在地板上。
When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.
接着，一件奇怪的事发生了。
Then a strange thing happened.
房子打着转儿转了两三圈，然后缓缓地升入了空中。
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.
多萝西感觉自己就像坐在热气球里往上飘。
Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
南风和北风在房子所在的地方交汇，使它恰好处于龙卷风的正中心。
The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone.
龙卷风的中心通常是平静的，但四面八方强大的风压把房子越抬越高，直到它到达龙卷风的最顶端。
In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone;
房子就停在那里，像一根羽毛一样轻飘飘地被带着飞越了千里万里。
and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
四周一片漆黑，狂风在她身边凄厉地呼啸，但多萝西发现自己坐得相当平稳。
It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.
经过最初几次旋转，以及房子一次严重倾斜之后，她感觉自己就像躺在摇篮里被轻轻摇晃的婴儿一样。
After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
托托可不喜欢这样。
Toto did not like it.
Vocabulary
- Aunt
- 父母的姐妹，称为姑姑或阿姨
- badly
- 严重地，程度很深地
- frightened
- 感到恐惧的，受到惊吓的
- threw
- throw的过去式，用力打开或抛掷
- open
- 打开，使处于开启状态
- trap
- 地板上的活板门或陷阱
- door
- 门，供人进出的开口装置
- floor
- 地板，房间内的地面
- climbed
- climb的过去式，攀爬向下进入
- ladder
- 梯子，用于上下攀爬的工具
- dark
- 黑暗的，没有光线的
- hole
- 洞，地面或墙壁上的空穴
- caught
- catch的过去式，抓住、捉住
- last
- 终于，经过一段时间后最终
- follow
- 跟随，走在某人后面
- aunt
- 姑姑或阿姨，父母的姐妹
- halfway
- 到一半的距离，中途
- across
- 横过，从一边到另一边
- great
- 巨大的，程度非常强烈的
- shriek
- 尖叫声，刺耳的高声呼叫
- wind
- 风，空气流动产生的自然现象
- shook
- shake的过去式，剧烈震动
- hard
- 猛烈地，用力地，程度强
- lost
- lose的过去式，失去，丧失
- footing
- 脚下的立足点，站稳的能力
- sat
- sit的过去式，突然坐下
- suddenly
- 突然地，出乎意料地发生
- upon
- 在……上面，相当于on
- strange
- 奇怪的，不寻常的，令人惊异的
- happened
- happen的过去式，发生了
- whirled
- 快速旋转，急速转动
- rose
- rise的过去式，缓缓升起
- slowly
- 缓慢地，速度不快地
- through
- 穿过，从内部通过某空间
- air
- 空气，天空中的气体
- felt
- feel的过去式，感觉，感受到
- balloon
- 气球，充满气体会升空的球
- north
- 北方，指南针所指方向之一
- south
- 南方，与北方相反的方向
- winds
- 风，来自不同方向的气流
- met
- meet的过去式，相遇，汇合
- stood
- stand的过去式，站着，位于
- exact
- 精确的，恰好的，正好的
- center
- 中心，正中间的位置
- cyclone
- 龙卷风，旋转的强烈风暴
- middle
- 中间，中央部分
- generally
- 通常，一般情况下
- still
- 平静的，没有风或运动的
- pressure
- 压力，来自四周的挤压力
- side
- 侧面，方向，每一边
- raised
- raise的过去式，举起，提升
- higher
- 更高，比原来位置高
- until
- 直到……为止，表示时间终点
- top
- 顶部，最高的位置
- remained
- remain的过去式，留在某处
- carried
- carry的过去式，被带走运走
- miles
- 英里，距离单位，复数形式
- away
- 离开，到远处去
- easily
- 轻松地，毫不费力地
- carry
- 携带，搬运，承载某物
- feather
- 羽毛，鸟类身上轻盈的毛
- howled
- howl的过去式，发出呼啸声
- horribly
- 可怕地，极其恐怖地
- found
- find的过去式，发现自己处于
- riding
- 乘坐，被风托起随风飘行
- quite
- 相当，颇为，程度副词
- whirls
- 旋转，急速打转的动作
- tipped
- tip的过去式，倾斜，歪向一侧
- rocked
- rock的过去式，轻轻摇动
- gently
- 轻柔地，温和地，缓缓地
- baby
- 婴儿，小宝宝
- cradle
- 摇篮，用于轻摇婴儿的床
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