A Pebble Pins the Towel Corner - 適合初級的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

Blake stood on the wooden boardwalk above the dry sand.

A baby carriage rested near the low painted bench.

His father wrote notes in a small journal nearby.

A quiet salty smell rose from the tide pool.

The salt-cooled breeze lifted the rolled-up towel corner once.

The breeze came in quick gusts, then slowed to calm.

Fine sand drifted between two plank gaps, then settled again.

By the rocks, the long dark kelp strand pressed on the hollow log.

Blake watched a full change: lift, hush, then lift again.

He set the pale-pink scallop shells into a neat line.

He used the ridged conch fragment as a curved guide.

A gust disturbed the start, and one scallop shell slid.

He waited through the next lift and the quiet after.

During the calm, he set the round white pebble on the corner.

He finished the line quickly with the pale-pink scallop shells.

The new gust met the pinned towel and bent around it.

Sand curled past the edge and poured into two plank gaps.

The bucket's handle tapped the rim once, a soft quick clink.

His father looked up and said, "Nice line, Blake."

Blake pressed the last scallop shell with one firm fingertip.

Blake 站在乾燥沙地上的木棧道上。

一台嬰兒推車停在矮漆椅旁。

他父親在旁邊的小筆記本上寫字。

潮池飄來淡淡的鹹味。

帶鹽的涼風掀起捲起毛巾的一個角。

風一陣一陣地吹來，接著又慢下來變得平靜。

細沙在兩條木板縫間飄過，然後又落回去。

岩石旁，長而深色的海帶貼緊中空的原木。

Blake 看著整個變化：掀起、安靜、再度掀起。

他把淡粉色扇貝殼排成整齊的一列。

他用有稜的海螺殼碎片當作彎曲的參考。

一陣風擾亂了開頭，有一個扇貝殼滑動了。

他等過下一次掀起和隨後的安靜。

平靜時，他把圓白小石放在那個角上。

他用淡粉色扇貝殼很快完成了這一列。

新的陣風碰到被壓住的毛巾，便繞了過去。

沙子沿著邊緣旋過，灑進了兩條木板縫。

水桶的提把敲了一下桶緣，發出輕快的聲響。

他父親抬起頭說：「排得真好，Blake。」

Blake 用手指按實最後一個扇貝殼。