As soon as the cover was in place, we started to prepareverb.准备 suppernoun.晚餐. We wanted some hot water to make tea. We put the tea kettlenoun.水壶 on the stovenoun.炉. We pretendedverb.假装 that we were not interested in the water. We wanted the water to think that we did not careverb.关心 about it. We began to prepareverb.准备 suppernoun.晚餐. This was the onlyadj.唯一的 way to make the water boilverb.沸腾 on a boatnoun.小船. If the water knows you are waiting for it, it will never get hot.
You must not look at it. It's a good ideanoun.想法 to shoutverb.呼喊, "I don't want any tea. Do you, George?" George shoutsverb.呼喊 back, "Oh, no, I don't like tea. I'll have milk." "And you, Harris, tea is terribleadj.可怕的. I never drink it. I'll have lemonade." This makes the water very angry. At this pointnoun.要点, the water will boilverb.沸腾. We reallyadv.真正地 wanted that suppernoun.晚餐. We needed that suppernoun.晚餐. For 35 minutes, nobody spoke. We just ate and ate. Finallyadv.最后, we all had full stomachsnoun.胃 and we were happy.
A full stomachnoun.胃 makes you feel kindadj.善良的 and generousadj.慷慨的. We sat and smiledverb.微笑 at each other. We smiledverb.微笑 at Montmorency too. We started smokingverb.冒烟 our pipesnoun.管子 and began to talk. We went to bed at 10 o'clock. I didn't sleep well. I wasn't comfortableadj.舒适的 in the boatnoun.小船. I wokeverb.醒来 up at 6 o'clock the next morning and George did too. There was no reasonnoun.理由 to wakeverb.醒来 up so early. We were on holidaynoun.假日. Why did we wakeverb.醒来 up so early?
It never happens to us when we are working. We decidedverb.决定 to wakeverb.醒来 up Harris. This was hard work. We used an oarnoun.桨 to help us. Harris moved a bitnoun.一点 and said, "I'll be downstairsadv.在楼下 in a minute. Get my best bootsnoun.靴子 ready, please." We triedverb.尝试 again with a boatnoun.小船 hooknoun.钩. Harris sat up suddenlyadv.突然地 and Montmorency fell off the bed. We pulled up the canvasnoun.粗帆布 cover and all four of us looked out at the river. We were very cold.
We had plannedverb.计划 to go swimming but the water looked so cold and wet. "Well, who's going swimming first?" asked Harris. No one wanted to be first. George decidedverb.决定 to get dressed. Montmorency barkedverb.狗叫 with horrornoun.惊骇 at the ideanoun.想法. Harris went to look for his trousers. I decidedverb.决定 to go to the river bank and throw some water on myself. I heldverb.拿住 on to the branchnoun.树枝 of a tree as I moved to the water. It was very cold and I decidedverb.决定 not to wetverb.弄湿 myself.
I wanted to go back to the boatnoun.小船 but suddenlyadv.突然地 the branchnoun.树枝 of the tree brokeverb.打破. I fell into the river along with my towel. I also drank about a bottle of Tim's water. "Good heavensnoun.天堂, old Jay is in the water," Harris said. "How's the water?" George asked. "It's lovely," I answered. "Why don't you come in?" Nobody wanted to tryverb.尝试 the water. When I got back to the boatnoun.小船, I was very cold. I wanted to put on my shirt but it fell into the river.
This made me angry. George started laughing. "I don't see anything to laugh at," I said. George laughed evenadv.甚至 moreadv.更. I never saw a man laugh so much. I was cold and furiousadj.狂怒的. I was tryingverb.尝试 to get my shirt out of the river. George was laughing louder and louder. "Stop laughing, you stupidadj.愚蠢的 idiotnoun.白痴!" I shoutedverb.呼喊. When I finallyadv.最后 pulled the shirt out of the river, I saw that it wasn't mine. It was George's shirt. I started laughing too.
I laughed so much that I droppedverb.使落下 the shirt into the river again. "Aren't you going to get it out?" said George, who continuedverb.继续 laughing. I didn't answer him for a while because I was laughing so much. At last I said, "It isn't my shirt, it's yours." I never saw a man's face changenoun.改变 so quickly. "What?" he shoutedverb.呼喊. "You donkeynoun.驴, why can't you be careful with things? Why don't you go and get dressed on the riverbanknoun.河堤? People like you don't know how to live on a boatnoun.小船."
I triedverb.尝试 to tell him how funny it was, but he didn't understandverb.(understood) 理解. George is a little slow at understandingverb.(understood) 理解 a jokenoun.笑话 sometimesadv.有时. Harris said, "I'm cooking scrambledverb.爬 eggs for breakfast this morning. Once people tryverb.尝试 my scrambledverb.爬 eggs, they always want them." He was quiteadv.完全 famousadj.著名的 for his scrambled eggs. George and I got the stovenoun.炉 and the fryingverb.油煎 pannoun.平底锅 ready. Then we looked for the eggs that weren't brokenverb.打破. We found only six of them. "Now you can start," we said.
Breakingverb.打破 the eggs was difficultadj.困难的 for Harris. The eggs got on his trousers and went up his arms. He put six eggs into the fryingverb.油煎 pannoun.平底锅. Then he sat down by the stovenoun.炉 and mixedverb.使混合 them with a fork. George and I saw that it was difficultadj.困难的 work. Harris often burntverb.烧 his fingers. Then he danced around the stovenoun.炉. He wavedverb.波动 his hands in the air and shoutedverb.呼喊. George and I thought that this was an importantadj.重要的 partnoun.一部分 of his cookingnoun.烹饪 methodnoun.方法.
We didn't know what scrambled eggs were. We thought they were some sortnoun.种类 of Red Indian food, and to cook them correctlyadv.正确地, it was necessaryadj.必要的 to do special dances with magicadj.魔术的 words. Montmorency went to put his nose over the frying pannoun.平底锅 once and burntverb.烧 himself. He too began dancing aroundadv.在周围 and barkingverb.狗叫. It was interesting and excitingadj.令人兴奋的 to watch this shownoun.演出. George and I were sorry when it was finished. When the scrambled eggs were ready, there was very little to eat.
Six eggs had gone into the pannoun.平底锅, but all that came out was a teaspoonnoun.茶匙 full of burntverb.烧 eggs. The problem is the fryingverb.油煎 pannoun.平底锅, Harris said. I need another type of pannoun.平底锅 and another stovenoun.炉. We decidedverb.决定 not to tryverb.尝试 scrambledverb.爬 eggs again until Harris had the right pannoun.平底锅 and stovenoun.炉.