59 Swimming

When I was a boy, I liked swimming very much. Once my two brothers and I spent
the summer holidays with my uncle and aunt in their house by the sea. It was
only twenty meters from the water. Every day we put on our swimming shorts
before breakfast, ran down to the sea across the sand and jumped in. From then
until late at night, we were in the sea or on the beach most of the time. When
our aunt rang a bell, we went back to the house for food, but we ate it in our
swimming shorts and were soon back in the sea again.

The water was warm, the sun shone everyday, and on most days there were no
waves. In the middle of the day a wind always began to blow but it was not
strong and did not make the sea rough.

swimming shorts 游泳褲
ring a bell 按鈴，鳴鐘
rough （海水、風雨等）洶涌的，狂暴的

游 泳

當我還是個小男孩時，我非常喜歡游泳。有一次，我和兩個兄弟到我叔叔和嬸嬸海邊的
家里過暑假。從家里到海邊只有二十米遠。每天早飯前，我們穿上游泳褲，穿過沙灘，跑
到海邊跳進水里。從那時一直到晚上的大部分時間，我們都是在海里或沙灘上度過的。當
嬸嬸搖鈴時，我們跑回屋里吃東西，但是我們穿著游泳褲吃，吃完很快又回到海里。

海水很暖和，陽光每天都很燦爛，多數日子里，海上很平靜。每到中午時，風就開始刮
起來，但是不很大，不會使大海變得波濤洶涌。