Three Leaves Line Up on the Back Step - 適合初學者的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音
後階上的三片葉子排成一列 | 英文/中文 雙語朗讀
故事內容
English 原文
Damp earth smells by Flora's knees.
She kneels at the flower bed.
She picks three fallen leaves.
One is round and green.
One is long and thin.
One is small and yellow.
The aunt hangs a wet sheet.
Wind power tugs the sheet.
Wind tugs.
Wind lifts Flora's skirt hem.
Many ants race along the stone joint.
Ants race.
Flora sits on the back step.
The back step is warm.
Her palm presses the rough wood.
A small paint curl lifts nearby.
She lines the leaves by size.
Leaves line up.
Green first, then long, then small.
The smooth wood gives no grip.
The yellow leaf slides.
It skids.
Flora sets a flat stone.
She pins the end leaf.
The row holds on the step.
The aunt says, "Nice row of leaves."
Flora leans back to the bed.
At the flower bed, damp earth smells lighter.
It rises past her neat line.
繁體中文 翻譯
在 Flora 的膝旁，潮濕泥土的味道飄來。
她在花圃邊跪著。
她撿起三片落葉。
一片又圓又綠。
一片細長發亮。
一片小小發黃。
阿姨掛起一條濕床單。
風力拉動濕的床單。
風在拉。
風把 Flora 的裙擺掀起來。
許多螞蟻沿著石縫快跑。
螞蟻快快跑。
Flora 坐在後階上。
後階很溫暖。
她的手心按著粗木頭。
一小片剝落的漆翹起來。
她把葉子照大小排好。
葉子排好隊。
先綠的，再長的，再小的。
光滑的木頭抓不住。
那片黃色的葉子滑走。
它滑了一下。
Flora 放上一塊扁石。
她壓住最尾端的葉子。
這一排在臺階上穩住。
阿姨說：「這排葉子真整齊。」
Flora 身子傾回花圃邊。
在花圃旁，潮濕泥土的味道比較淡。
氣味從她整齊的葉子排旁邊升起。
情境單字卡
- wind
風；空氣的流動
“Wind lifts the wet sheet.”
風把溼的床單掀起。
- power
力量；使某物移動或改變的能量（此處指風力）
“Wind power pulls the wet sheet.”
風力把溼的床單拉動。
- race
飛奔；很快地移動
“Ants race along the stone line.”
螞蟻沿著石頭的線快速前進。
- many
許多的；大量的（用於可數名詞）
“Many ants race by the stone joint.”
許多螞蟻在石縫旁奔跑。
- skirt
裙子；圍在腰部以下的衣服下擺
“The wind lifts Flora's skirt edge.”
風把芙蘿拉的裙擺邊緣掀起。
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