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EARNING A PLAYGROUND
獲得游樂場
Edward W. Frentz
愛德華·w·弗倫茨
Boys and girls must have places to play.
男孩和女孩們得有地方玩。
The streets are often dangerous in this day of swift automobiles,
在汽車飛速運(yùn)行的今天，街道通常很危險(xiǎn)。
and of course they do not make the best kind of playground.
所以，街道肯定不是最合適的游樂場所。
Sometimes older people are not as thoughtful as they should be in giving children playgrounds.
有時(shí)，老人在給孩子們選地兒時(shí)，考慮得并不那么周到。
This story tells how some boys who were willing to work for their fun won a playground,
這個(gè)故事講述了一些男孩如何贏得了一個(gè)游樂場作為他們玩耍的地方，
not only for themselves, but for all boys and girls who might ever live in their town.
不僅是為他們自己，還為了所有可能住在鎮(zhèn)上的男孩和女孩兒們。
Between the Long Road and the Cross Road near Brookvale lay a large three-cornered field,
在長路和布魯克維爾附近的十字路之間，有一片大的三角地，
a part of the old Ross farm. Around it stretched an old fence, now only a post here and there, still holding together a few rails.
這個(gè)地方是老羅斯農(nóng)場的一部分。四周有一圈舊柵欄，現(xiàn)在只有一根桿子矗在那，用圍欄連在一起。
Along the fence line had grown up a row of bushes almost as thick as a hedge.
籬笆邊長出了一排灌木，幾乎和樹籬一樣粗。
At the lower end of the field stood some tall old elm trees that kept it always shady.
盡頭有幾棵高大的老榆樹，總是能帶來陰涼。
No other place in town made so good a ball field on a hot day.
這么熱的天，鎮(zhèn)上沒有比這更好的地方了。
But now some one had bought the old place,
但現(xiàn)在有人買下了這塊舊地，
and the boys of the town had heard that the new owner was going to rebuild the fences,
鎮(zhèn)上的孩子們聽說新主人要重建籬笆，
plow the fields, and make a real farm of it.
耕地，把它變成一個(gè)真正的農(nóng)場。
