Chalk Stick Snaps Near the Screen Door - 適合初級的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

Alma set a low tray two steps from the screen door.

Tobin knelt on the cool tiles beside her left hand.

She placed a tin box, a chalk stick, and a block.

Cool tile pressed through her jeans at both knees.

She rubbed chalk on the metal near the hinge.

Fine powder marked the line, and dusted her fingers white.

"It squeaks again," Alma said softly.

"I can hear it," Tobin said.

She lifted the lid, and the stiff hinge squeaked.

A tiny crumb slipped from the tray to the floor.

Ants under the doorstep turned, then formed a quick line.

The line ran by the crumb and broke it.

A small lizard watched, then dashed across the warm doorstep.

Its tail hit the screen frame and shook the screen.

A clip-on device on the screen slipped and dropped.

It rolled on the tray and struck the chalk.

The stick snapped; white powder puffed over the tin box.

The device kept rolling toward the edge.

Alma slid the wooden block forward and stopped it.

By the doorstep, ants kept walking past the chalk dust.

Alma把一個淺盤放在離紗門兩步的位置。

Tobin跪在她左手邊的冰涼磁磚上。

她放上鐵盒、粉筆和一塊木塊。

冰涼的磁磚透過牛仔褲貼著她的雙膝。

她把粉筆在鉸鏈附近的金屬上擦過。

細粉畫出一道痕跡，也把她的手指染白。

「又在吱呀了，」Alma輕聲說。

「我聽得到，」Tobin說。

她抬起蓋子，硬梆梆的鉸鏈發出吱聲。

一小粒碎屑從淺盤滑到地板上。

門檻下的螞蟻轉了個彎，接著很快排成一列。

那條隊伍經過碎屑，把它分開了。

一隻小蜥蜴看著，然後衝過溫熱的門檻。

它的尾巴碰到紗門的框，把紗門晃了一下。

夾在紗門上的小裝置滑落下來。

它在淺盤上滾動，撞到粉筆。

粉筆折斷；白色粉末噗地散在鐵盒上方。

小裝置繼續朝邊緣滾去。

Alma把木塊往前一推，擋住了它。

在門檻旁，螞蟻繼續走過那灑著粉筆粉的地方。