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[00:06.54]56 河流,我们的邻居
[00:13.09]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:15.82]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:18.55]Why had the neighbours left their farm?
[00:22.52]邻居为什么离开了他们的农场?
[00:26.49]The river which forms the eastern boundary of our farm
[00:29.22]形成我们农场东部的一条河流
[00:31.95]has always played an important part in our lives.
[00:34.63]一直在我们生活中发挥着重要作用.
[00:37.30]Without it we could not make a living.
[00:39.38]要是没有这条河,我们就无法生存下去.
[00:41.46]There is only enough spring water to supply the needs of the house
[00:44.19]泉水只能满足家庭生活用水,
[00:46.92]so we have to pump from the river for farm use.
[00:49.29]因此我们必须从河里抽水以用于农业生产.
[00:51.67]We tell the river all our secrets.
[00:53.64]我们向那条河倾诉我们的秘密.
[00:55.61]We know instinctively,just as beekeepers with their bees,
[00:58.58]我们本能地懂得,就像养蜂人和他的蜜蜂那样,
[01:01.54]that misfortune might overtake us
[01:03.83]我们有可能大祸临头,
[01:06.12]if the important events of our lives were not related to it.
[01:08.90]如果不把生活中的重大事件告诉那条河话.
[01:11.68]We have special river birthday parties in the summer.
[01:14.11]夏天,我们为这条河举办特殊的生日宴会.
[01:16.54]Sometimes we go upstream to a favourite backwater,
[01:19.32]有时,我们溯流而上来到我们喜爱的回水河汊举办;
[01:22.10]sometimes we have our party at the boathouse,
[01:24.34]有时在船坞举办.
[01:26.57]which a predecessor of ours at the farm built in the meadow
[01:29.53]那船坞是农场的一位前辈在一块草地上盖的,
[01:32.50]hard by the deepest pool for swimming and diving.
[01:35.22]草地紧挨着一个专供游泳、跳水的深水池.
[01:37.93]In a heat wave we choose a midnight birthday party
[01:40.72]天气炎热时,我们便选择在半夜举办生日集会,
[01:43.50]and that is the most exciting of all.
[01:45.86]这种集会是最令人激动的
[01:48.23]We welcome the seasons by the riverside,
[01:50.50]我们在河边迎接一年四季.
[01:52.77]crowning the youngest girl with flowers in the spring,
[01:55.34]春天在河边为最年轻的姑娘戴上花冠,
[01:57.92]holding a summer festival on Midsummer Eve,
[02:00.49]夏天在河边欢庆"仲夏前夜",
[02:03.06]giving thanks for the harvest in the autumn,
[02:05.24]秋天在河边为丰收而感恩,
[02:07.43]and throwing a holly wreath into the current in the winter.
[02:10.40]冬天往河中抛撒一个冬青花环.
[02:13.38]After a long period of rain the river may overflow its banks.
[02:16.50]久雨之后,河水会泛滥成灾,
[02:19.62]This is a rare occurrence as our climate seldom goes to extremes.
[02:22.71]在我们这里,气候很少发生异常,河水极少泛滥.
[02:25.79]We are lucky in that only the lower fields,
[02:28.41]值得庆幸的是,只有低洼地--
[02:31.04]which make up a very small proportion of our farm,are affected by flooding,
[02:34.23]--那在我们农场比例很小---会受到洪水影响,
[02:37.41]but other farms are less favourably sited,
[02:39.79]其他农场地势欠佳,
[02:42.17]and flooding can sometimes spell disaster for their owners.
[02:44.95]洪水有时会给农场主带来灾难.
[02:47.73]One bad winter we watched the river creep up the lower meadows.
[02:50.76]一年冬天,天气不好,我们看着河水浸没了地势较低的草场.
[02:53.79]All the cattle had been moved into stalls and we stood to lose little.
[02:56.82]所有的牲口已提前转移到畜圈里,没有造成什么损失.
[02:59.85]We were,however,worried about our nearest neighbours,
[03:02.28]不过,我们很为我们的近邻担心.
[03:04.71]whose farm was low lying and who were newcomers to the district.
[03:07.74]他们的农场地势低洼,而且他们又是新来乍到.
[03:10.77]As the floods had put the telephone out of order,
[03:12.99]由于洪水造成了电话中断,
[03:15.21]we could not find out how they were managing.
[03:17.55]我们无法了解他们的情况
[03:19.89]From an attic window
[03:19.39]从顶楼窗口看去,
[03:18.89]we could get a sweeping view of the river where their land joined ours,
[03:22.02]我们农场与他们农场接壤处的那段河流一览无佘.
[03:25.16]and at the most critical juncture we took turns in watching that point.
[03:28.24]在最紧急的时刻,我们轮流监视那段河流的险情.