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LESSON 56 Habits of flowers
第五十六課 花的習性
Nearly all flowers turn towards the light, as if they loved it. This can be seen by watching plants that are standing near a window. The flowers will all be bent towards the light, if the pots are allowed always to stand in the same position. But by turning them round a little every day, while the blossoms are opening, the plants can be made to show flowers on all sides.
幾乎所有的花都有向陽的，好像它們很喜歡太陽。通過觀察窗戶旁邊的植物就可以看出來。如果花盆都放在相同的位置，花兒都向光彎曲。當花骨朵正在開放的時候，我們每天都把花盆旋轉一點點，植物將會面向四方開花的。
Some flowers shut themselves up at night, as if they were going to sleep, and open again in the morning. This is the case with tulips.
一些花兒晚上閉合，好像要去睡覺一樣，到了第二天早上再開放。郁金香就是這樣。
The writer was one morning admiring some flowers that had been sent to him the evening before. Among them were some tulips, and out of one of these, as it opened, flew a bee!
作家一天早上正在欣賞昨天晚上被人送來的一些花兒。花兒中有些郁金香，其中一朵郁金香，當它開放時飛出來一只蜜蜂。
A lazy, dronish bee he must have been, to be caught in this way, when the flower was closing for the night. Or, perhaps, he had done a hard day's work in gathering honey, and at last had become sleepy. At any rate, he stayed too long in the tulip, and so was shut in for the night.
它一定是只懶散的蜜蜂，在晚上花兒閉合的時候,不小心被困住了。或許它一整天都在辛勤的采蜜，最后睡著了，無論是哪種情況，它在郁金香里停留太久了，所以最后在閉合的郁金香里呆了一夜。
The little daisy is one of the flowers that close at night; but it is as beautiful and bright as ever, on its "slender stem", when it awakes in the morning.
雛菊也是晚上閉合一種花，但是當它早上開放時，花朵和往常一樣明艷美，亭亭玉立。
