Shark and Boat Shapes in Pasta - 適合初學者的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

What shape is that noodle?

Ella sits at the table. A warm plate is near her. Steam curls above the sauce. The room is bright. A grown-up sits close and eats. A door stands across the room.

Ella hunches over the plate. She turns her fork. The cool metal slides in her hand. The fork twists against smooth, slippery pasta. The prongs press into a spongy mushroom edge. A yellow corn kernel pops off the tine. It rolls on the plate. Soft clink. "Your fork makes a small sound," the grown-up says. She leans toward the cheese side. Gritty grated cheese rests in the bowl. She peers past it. A small boat shape rests in thin sauce. She bends farther to the grown-up's plate. Noodles tangle there. A dot of sauce stays on their chin. She overlooks a shark shape there. It hides in a mushroom slice.

Ella eases back. Her eyes pass the grown-up's plate first. A slice shows a shark shape between noodles. Her gaze drifts to her own plate edge. A short tube pasta makes a boat shape. Steam forms a magic ring above it.

那條麵是什麼形狀？

艾拉坐在餐桌旁。她面前有一盤溫熱的麵。醬汁上方有蒸氣盤旋。房間很明亮。大人坐在旁邊用餐。房間另一頭有一扇門。

艾拉往盤子前傾。她轉動叉子。涼涼的金屬在她手中滑動。叉子在光滑又滑溜的麵上打轉。叉齒頂住一片有彈性的蘑菇邊。黃色的玉米粒從叉齒彈開。它在盤子上滾動。輕輕一聲叮。大人說：「你的叉子有小小的聲音。」她身體往起司那邊靠。碗裡的乾乾的起司粉躺著。她往那邊看過去。薄薄的醬汁裡有一個小船形。她再往大人的盤子探去。那裡的麵條纏在一起。他們下巴上有一點醬。她沒留意到那裡有個鯊魚形。它藏在一片蘑菇裡。

艾拉慢慢坐回來。她的目光先掠過大人的盤子。一片切片在麵條間顯出鯊魚形。她的視線滑回自己的盤邊。一段短短的空心麵做出一個小船形。蒸氣在上方繞成一個像魔法的圈。