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MINA AND KARSTEN OF NORWAY Caroline Mabry
挪威的米娜和卡斯滕，卡羅琳·馬布里
You have read a story of Spain in southern Europe and one of Poland in central Europe.
你已經聽到了歐洲南部的西班牙故事，以及歐洲中部的波蘭故事。
Now you will travel to the far north to the little country of Norway, famous for its sturdy fishermen and sailors and the wild beauty of its scenery.
如今你要前往最北端，前往小國家挪威，當地最著名的是強壯的漁民和水手，和優美的自然風光。
Of course you remember Lief the Lucky, that bold viking who sailed to America nearly five hundred years before Columbus.
你當然要記得幸運者列夫，他比哥倫比亞抵達美國早了近500年，他是一名勇敢的維京人。
Let us spend a little time with Mina and Karsten, two viking children of today.
讓我們花一點時間來了解米娜和卡斯滕，當今的兩個維京兒童。
VISITING UNCLE NORDAHL IN BALHOLM
拜訪巴爾霍爾姆的諾達爾叔叔
It was ten o'clock at night, and it was broad daylight. In Norway the midsummer sun does not set, and the nights are like the days.
那是晚上十點鐘，外面還是很亮，在挪威，仲夏的陽光不會落山，黑夜和白天一樣。
Mina and Karsten lived in the Flaam valley. The high walls of the mountains came down to enclose it, and many waterfalls trickled down into the valley.
米娜和卡斯滕住在福萊姆山谷，高山圍起的高墻包圍了這里，許多瀑布流淌進了山谷。
The children's red house stood facing the fjord. Now they were helping their father gather hay.
兒童的紅房子矗立在面對峽灣的地方，如今他們正在幫父親堆積干草。
It was thrown over racks which stood near the barn like helter-skelter broken fences. A rack stood here and another there,
干草會扔到架子上，架子放在了倉谷附近，很像雜亂破碎的圍欄，那邊一個架子，這邊一個架子。
for there is so much rain in Norway that the hay will not dry if piled on the ground.
挪威的雨水很多，如果干草對方在地上它不會干。
The children talked of the wonderful journey they were to have tomorrow. When they'd carried the last arm load of hay to the barn,
孩子們談論著明天要去的美妙旅程，當他們用胳臂把最后一捆干草放到倉谷時，
they ran to the house, and their mother said they must go to sleep early so that they'd awaken for their journey tomorrow morning.
他們跑到了房子，他們的媽媽說他們必須早睡覺，明天早上還要啟程。
As if they could oversleep! They were going to visit their uncle who lived in Balholm, and the visit was a great event to them.
好似他們會睡過頭一樣，他們會去拜訪居住在巴爾霍爾姆的叔叔，這次拜訪對他們來說是一件大事。
Their clothes were already packed in a brown cloth bag with a shawl strap around it. It lay in the corner looking like a giant sausage.
他們的衣服已經放在了棕色的衣服袋中，袋子用披肩帶纏繞，袋子放在了角落里，好似一個巨大的香腸。
When the children wakened the next morning, the boat whistle was already sounding. Mina and Karsten hurried on board with their bag,
當兒童第二天醒來時，船的哨聲已經響起，米娜和卡斯滕拿著包裹匆匆上船，
and the boat pulled out into the fjord. The water looked miles deep, and the children knew that in places it was.
船進去了峽灣，河水看起來有幾英里深，兒童知道有些地方確實如此。
