新概念第三册课文翻译及学习笔记：Lesson56

新概念第三册课文翻译及学习笔记：

Lesson56

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【课文】

The river which forms the eastern boundary of our farm

has always played an important part in our lives. Without it

we could not make a living. There is only enough spring water

to supply the needs of the houses, so we have to pump from

the river for farm use. We tell river all our secrets. We

know instinctively, just as beekeepers with their bees, that

misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our

lives were not related to it.

We have special river birthday parties in the summer.

Sometimes we go upstream to a favourite backwater, sometimes

we have our party at the boathouse, which a predecessor of

ours at the farm built in the meadow hard by the deepest pool

for swimming and diving. In a heat wave we choose a midnight

birthday party and that is the most exciting of all. We

welcome the seasons by the riverside, crowning the youngest

girl with flowers in the spring, holding a summer festival on

Midsummer Eve, giving thanks for the harvest in the autumn,

and throwing a holy wreath into the current in the winter.

After a long period of rain the river may overflow its

banks. This is a rare occurrence as our climate seldom guest

to extremes. We are lucky in that only the lower fields,

which make up a very small proportion of our farm, are

effected by flooding, but other farms are less favorably

sited, and flooding can sometimes spell disaster for their

owners.