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Lesson 3 Do your family a favor this weekeng
這個周末帶你一家出去玩
I'm Connie Swife,and today"Hello America"is visiting a restored New England farm.
我是康妮.斯威夫特.今天"你好,美國"節目將帶大家支參觀一個修葺過的新英格蘭式農場。
A few years ago,this old barn was falling apart.
幾年前，這個舊谷倉散架了。
The question?What to do about it?
問題來了，該怎么辦？
Many people thought the barn was too old to restore.
許多人認為這個谷倉太舊，已經不能修復了。
Others thought it wasn't important enouth to save.
而另外一些人認為，這個谷倉不那么重要，不值得修復。
The Stamford Nature Center thought the barn was too important to lose.
斯坦福德自然中心則認為這個谷倉太重要了，不能丟棄，
and they did a good job of restoring it.
他們的修復工作做得不錯。
Bard Burnham is Assistant Director here.
白蘭德·貝克沒姆是這兒的副主管。
I can see you did your best to keep the original features.
我看得出來，你們盡力保持了谷倉的原貌。
Yes,we did.
是的，我們盡力了。
Why did you save the barn?It was too good to lose.
為什么你們要保留這個谷倉呢？它太棒了，不能丟棄。
It looks wonderful.
它看起來真棒。
We did our best to restore it.I think we did a good job fixing it.
我們盡力進行修復，我認為修復工作還是做得不錯的。
Life on this farm two hundred years ago was difficult.
兩百年前，這個農場的生活很苦。
The men did the farm work.They did the plowing.
男人們做農活。他們耕地。
The women did the housework.They did the cooking.
女人們做家務。她們燒飯，
They did the cleaning.They made the clothes.
搞清潔，做衣服。
If the children were big enough to work,they fed the animals.
如果孩子長大能干活了，他們就要喂牲畜。
In the summer,the women did the laundry in the pond.
夏天，女人們在池塘里洗衣服，
But in the winter,it was too cold to do the laundry there.
但到了冬天池塘的水太冷了，
They had to heat water over a fire.
她們就得在火上把水燒熱。
To do ironing ,they heated an iron over a fire.
要熨衣服的話，先得在火上把熨斗燒熱。
To make meals,they made a fire inside an iron stove.
做飯了要先在爐子里生火。
The men and the women had to do all their work before sunset.
男人和女人必須在太陽下山前做完所有的工作，
After the sun went downk,it was too dark to do farm work or housework.
太陽下山后天就黑了，不能再做農活和家務了。
They used oil lamps.And that's how the children did their homework.
人們晚上點油燈。孩子們也借助油燈寫作業。
They did their compositions with ink pens.
他們用鋼筆寫作文，
If they made a mistake,they had to do their homework all over again.
如果寫錯的話，就得全部重寫一遍。
Life wasn't easy then,wasit?Do your family a favor this weekend.
那時的生活不容易，是吧？這個周末，
Visit the farm!You don't need to make reservations.
給家里人找點樂趣，到農場來玩吧，你不需要預定
You don't need to make an appointent,
也不需要預約，
just make a phone call to check the opening and closing times.
只需打個電話來查一下開門和關門的時間。
This is Connie Swift reporting for WEFL.
我是康妮。斯威夫特，WEFL為您報道。
Connie,you did a good job on that farm story.
康妮，那個農場的新聞做得不錯呀。
I'm making plans to go back to the Center this weekend on my day off.
我正準備趁周末的休息時間到農場去看看。
Maybe you and Anne would like to come with me.
你和安妮也和我一起去，怎么樣？
You can bring the baby.
你們可以把孩子也帶上。
No.The baby isn't old enough to go to the farm.
去不了，孩子太小，去不了農場，
And Anne and I are too busy to go.
我和安妮也太忙了，去不成。
Too busy to take a Staurday afternoon off?
忙得連周六下午都抽不出時間？
If we go out on Staurday afternoon,
如果周六下午出去玩，
when will we do teh grocery shopping?When will I do my exercises?
我們什么時候去買東西，我什么時候鍛煉呢？
Come on.Just a couple of hours.We also have to
哎呀，只要幾個小時就夠了。
make appointments to interview baby-sitters.
我們還得約保姆來見見，
And when will we make dinner and do the dishes?
再說，如果去了，什么時間做飯洗碗呢？
I'm sorry,Steven.I think you are too busy to take an afternoon off.
真遺憾，史蒂文。我想你們真是忙得連個下午都抽不出來了。
This is an end of lesson 3.
第三課已經結束了。
