A River Trip with Mishaps and Mustard

When we finished breakfast, the sun was up, and it was a warm morning. I sat on the riverbanknoun.河堤 near Runnymede. I thought about King John, who signedverb.签署 the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. What a great moment in English historynoun.历史. I imaginedverb.想象 the scenenoun.一场. George came over and said, "When you finish restingverb.使休息 and dreamingverb.做梦, please help me wash the dishes and other things." I cleaned the frying pannoun.平底锅 with some grass and with George's wet shirt. Later on, we went to Magna Carta Island.

We saw the stone where the Magna Carta was signedverb.签署. In this areanoun.区域, King Henry VIII met with his sweetheartnoun.爱人, Anne Boleyn. I am certainadj.确实的 that King Henry VIII met with Anne Boleyn in severaladj.几个的 other places too. We continuedverb.继续 slowlyadv.缓慢地 up the river and stopped for lunch near Monkey Island. We had cold meat for lunch. "Where's the mustardnoun.芥末?" I asked. "The mustardnoun.芥末?" Harris said. We had forgotten to bring the mustardnoun.芥末. At that moment, we all wanted mustardnoun.芥末 more than anything in the world.

"How boringadj.无趣的 life is without mustardnoun.芥末," said George. We ate our cold meat in silencenoun.沉默. We thought about the happy days of childhoodnoun.童年 when there was lotsnoun.许多 of mustardnoun.芥末 on the table. The adultnoun.成年人 world can be a crueladj.残忍的 place. All three of us loved tinnedverb.涂锡于 fruit. George brought out a tinnoun.锡 of pineapplenoun.[园艺] 菠萝. This was perfectadj.完美的 to make us forget the mustardnoun.芥末. We felt that life was smilingverb.微笑 at us again. "Look at the picture on the tinnoun.锡," said Harris.

"Ah, I can't wait," I said. "I'm dreamingverb.做梦 about the sweet juice," George said. Harris got a spoon ready. Then we looked for the tinnoun.锡 openernoun.[五金] 开启工具. We took everything out of the two hampersnoun.大篮子. We took everything out of the bag. We looked in every corner of the boatnoun.小船. There was no tinnoun.锡 openernoun.[五金] 开启工具. Harris triedverb.尝试 to open the tinnoun.锡 with a little knife, and he cut himself. George triedverb.尝试 to open it with a pair of scissors. The scissors flew up and almostadv.几乎 cut his eye.

I triedverb.尝试 to open it with a piece of metal. I did something wrong because I fell into the river. The tinnoun.锡 flew away and brokeverb.打破 a teacupnoun.茶碗. Then we all got angry. I started hittingverb.打 the tinnoun.锡 with a piece of woodnoun.木材. Harris hitverb.打 the tinnoun.锡, and so did George. We changed its shape. We made it squareadj.平方的. We made it roundadj.圆的. Then we made it flatadj.平的, but we still couldn't open it. The tinnoun.锡 looked at us and seemedverb.似乎 to be laughing.

It was uglyadj.难看的, and it frightenedverb.使惊恐 us. I threw it in the river. Then we rode away and didn't stop until we reachedverb.抵达 Maidenhead. It was evening, and a strong wind started blowing. The wind was behind us, and we put up the sailnoun.帆 quickly. The wind blew, and the boatnoun.小船 flew up the river. I was steeringverb.驾驶 the boatnoun.小船, and George and Harris were enjoying the tripnoun.[C] 旅行. Sailingnoun.航行 is excitingadj.令人兴奋的. It's almostadv.几乎 like flying. You feel that you are partnoun.一部分 of naturenoun.大自然.

We were aloneadj.单独的 and we flew along the river. Far in the distancenoun.距离, we saw a small fishingnoun.渔业 boatnoun.小船. There were three fishermennoun.渔民 in it. The sun was going down, and there was a red light on the water. The river seemedverb.似乎 magicadj.魔术的. It was like a dream. We felt that we were sailingverb.航行 into a strangeadj.陌生的 landnoun.陆地. We did not sailverb.航行 into a strangeadj.陌生的 landnoun.陆地. We sailedverb.航行 straight into the fishingnoun.渔业 boatnoun.小船 with the three old fishermennoun.渔民. At first we didn't know what was happening, but when we heard the bad words that came from the other boatnoun.小船, we knew we were near people.

We also knew that those people were not happy. The three old fishermennoun.渔民 fell off their seats. There were fish all over them. They slowlyadv.缓慢地 triedverb.尝试 to get up. As they did this, they cursedverb.诅咒 us. They didn't curseverb.诅咒 us with commonadj.普通的 cursesverb.诅咒. They used longadv.长期地, special cursesnoun.诅咒. They also cursedverb.诅咒 our parents, families, friends, neighbours, pets and jobs. These cursesnoun.诅咒 were for the present and the futurenoun.将来. Harris stood up and said, "Be thankfuladj.感谢的 for a bitnoun.一点 of excitementnoun.兴奋 in your lives. Your lives must be so boringadj.无趣的, just sitting and fishingverb.钓鱼 all day.