There were dishes, cups, bottles, pansnoun.平底锅, tomatoes, cakes and many other things to packverb.捆扎 in the hampersnoun.大篮子. As soon as George and Harris started packingverb.捆扎, they brokeverb.打破 a cup and this was just the beginningnoun.开始. George is the worst packernoun.包装工人 in the world. When George dies, Harris will be the worst packernoun.包装工人 in the world. They walked on things and brokeverb.打破 them. Harris put a big jarnoun.罐子 of jam on top of a tomato and crushedverb.压碎 it. George stepped on a big packetnoun.小包(裹) of butter and Harris sat on it.
Soon there was butter everywhere. They packedverb.捆扎 the piesnoun.(西点)馅饼 in the hampernoun.大篮子, then they put heavy things on top of them. The piesnoun.(西点)馅饼 were crushedverb.压碎, just like the tomato. In the middle of all this, there was Montmorency, of course. He put his leg in the sugar and soon there was sugar everywhere. He ran away with the teaspoonsnoun.茶匙. He pretendedverb.假装 that the lemons were rats and killedverb.杀死 three of them. This was Montmorency's ideanoun.想法 of fun. At one in the morning, the packingnoun.包装 was finished.
We were ready for bed. George said, "What time shall I wakeverb.醒来 you up?" Harris said, "Seven o'clock." I said, "Six o'clock." "Wakeverb.醒来 us up at half past six, George," we said. It was Mrs. Poppets who wokeverb.醒来 me up the next morning. "Do you know that it's nearlyadv.差不多 nine o'clock?" "What?" I shoutedverb.呼喊 as I jumped out of bed. I wokeverb.醒来 up Harris and George. We began to get ready and we remembered that we had packedverb.捆扎 our toothbrushes, so we went to get them out of the suitcasenoun.手提箱.
This was not an easy job. At last, we were ready to eat breakfast. While we ate breakfast, George read the newspaper. He told us about the people killedverb.杀死 on the river and about the bad weather report. George went to work and Harris and I finished our breakfast. That morning, Montmorency invitedverb.邀请 two of his friends to the house. They foughtverb.打(仗) mostadj.最多的 of the time. When we were finallyadv.最后 ready, we carried our luggagenoun.行李 to the road. We waited twenty minutes for a taxi.
Taxis usuallyadv.通常地 come every three minutes. A crowdnoun.群 of people was watching us. They looked at us at Montmorency and at Montmorency's friends. They looked at all our luggagenoun.行李, a big suitcasenoun.手提箱, a small bag, two big hampersnoun.大篮子, some pansnoun.平底锅, some umbrellas, five coats and raincoats. At Waterloo Station, we took the 1105 train to Kingston. At Kingston, our boatnoun.小船 was waiting for us below the bridge. Harris and I put our luggagenoun.行李 in it. We got on the boatnoun.小船 happilyadv.快乐地, but Montmorency was worriedadj.担心的.
Harris took the oarsnoun.桨 and we started our two-week tripnoun.[C] 旅行 on the River Thames. Harris was wearingverb.磨损 a red and orange blazer. It was a beautiful sunny day. We were enjoying the first moments of our holidaynoun.假日. When we passedverb.经过 Hampton Court Palace, Harris asked, "Have you everadv.在任何时候 visited the maze here?" He said he had gone into the maze once to show a friend. He studied a map of the maze before going in. He knew it was very easy to get out again.
Harris said to his friend, "We'll go in and walk aroundadv.在周围 for 10 minutes. Then we'll come out and have lunch. It's very easy. Take the first turnnoun.轮流 to the rightnoun.正确 each time." In the maze, they met some people who had been there for 45 minutes. They wanted to get out because they were lostverb.失去. Harris said, "Followverb.跟随 me. I'm going out in 10 minutes." The people thanked him and started followingverb.跟随 him. Other people began followingverb.跟随 Harris too.
Some of them were worriedadj.担心的 and afraid. He continuedverb.继续 turning to the rightnoun.正确, but he was still in the maze. Harris got lostverb.失去. The people were angry with him. They all started callingverb.把…叫做 for helpnoun.帮手. A young keepernoun.看护人 heard them and came to help, but he got lostverb.失去 too. Finallyadv.最后, the old keepernoun.看护人 came back from lunch. He let the people out. Everyone was tired and angry. Harris said, "Let's ask George to tryverb.尝试 the maze on our returnnoun.回报 tripnoun.[C] 旅行."
"Not a bad ideanoun.想法," I said. When we passedverb.经过 Molsey Lock, we were the onlyadj.唯一的 boatnoun.小船 in the Big Lock. Usuallyadv.通常地, the Lock is a very busy place. On Sundays, there are boatsnoun.小船 everywhere. People like the river and the sun. It's such a beautiful picture. The river, the trees, the flowers and the people in their colorfuladj.富有色彩的 clothes. At Hampton, Harris wanted to stop the boatnoun.小船 and have a look at the church. I don't like visiting churches, but Harris loves it.
I came on the tripnoun.[C] 旅行 only because I wanted to visit Hampton Church. You know, I love churches, churchyards and tombsnoun.坟墓. The ideanoun.想法 of not seeing Hampton Church with Mrs. Thomas's tombnoun.坟墓 makes me angry. "Who is Mrs. Thomas?" I asked. "I don't know, but she has a strangeadj.陌生的 tombnoun.坟墓." I said, "We must be at Shepperton at five o'clock to meet George." Harris said, "George? Why can't George be here to do some work? Why doesn't he help us with this heavy boatnoun.小船?
What does he do at the bank? He sits behind a piece of glass all day and does nothing. I work. Why doesn't he work? I'm going to have a drink." "There are no pubsnoun.酒馆 near here. The nearest pubnoun.酒馆 is far away," I said. "What? We'll all die of thirstnoun.渴, no pubsnoun.酒馆?" "If you're thirstyadj.口渴的, we have water in the boatnoun.小船," I said. "Water? Water makes people ill," he said. "Howeveradv.然而, I am very thirstyadj.口渴的 and I must drink something." So he took the bottle and drank some water.