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坏小孩的故事
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  • Once there was a bad little boy whose name was Jim — though, if you will notice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called James in your Sunday-school books. It was strange, but still it was true, that this one was called Jim.

    He didn't have any sick mother, either — a sick mother who was pious1 and had the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in the grave and be at rest but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she felt that the world might be harsh and cold toward him when she was gone. Most bad boys in the Sunday books are named James, and have sick mothers, who teach them to say, "Now, I lay me down," etc., and sing them to sleep with sweet, plaintive2 voices, and then kiss them good night, and kneel down by the bedside and weep. But it was different with this fellow. He was named Jim, and there wasn't anything the matter with his mother — no consumption, nor anything of that kind. She was rather stout3 than otherwise, and she was not pious; moreover, she was not anxious on Jim's account. She said if he were to break his neck it wouldn't be much loss. She always spanked4 Jim to sleep, and she never kissed him good night; on the contrary, she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him.

    Once this little bad boy stole the key of the pantry, and slipped in there and helped himself to some jam, and filled up the vessel5 with tar6, so that his mother would never know the difference; but all at once a terrible feeling didn't come over him, and something didn't seem to whisper to him, "Is it right to disobey my mother? Isn't it sinful to do this? Where do bad little boys go who gobble up their good kind mother's jam?" and then he didn't kneel down all alone and promise never to be wicked any more, and rise up with a light, happy heart, and go and tell his mother all about it, and beg her forgiveness, and be blessed by her with tears of pride and thankfulness in her eyes. No; that is the way with all other bad boys in the books; but it happened otherwise with this Jim, strangely enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully7, in his sinful, vulgar way; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also, and laughed, and observed "that the old woman would get up and snort" when she found it out; and when she did find it out, he denied knowing anything about it, and she whipped him severely8, and he did the crying himself. Everything about this boy was curious — everything turned out differently with him from the way it does to the bad Jameses in the books.

    Once he climbed up in Farmer Acorn's apple tree to steal apples, and the limb didn't break, and he didn't fall and break his arm, and get torn by the farmer's great dog, and then languish9 on a sickbed for weeks, and repent10 and become good. Oh, no; he stole as many apples as he wanted and came down all right; and he was all ready for the dog, too, and knocked him endways with a brick when he came to tear him. It was very strange — nothing like it ever happened in those mild little books with marbled backs, and with pictures in them of men with swallow-tailed coats and bell-crowned hats, and pantaloons that are short in the legs, and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms, and no hoops11 on .Nothing like it in any of the Sunday-school books.

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     单词标签: pious  plaintive  stout  spanked  vessel  tar  bully  severely  languish  repent  hoops 


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    1 pious [ˈpaɪəs] KSCzd   第9级
    adj.虔诚的;道貌岸然的
    参考例句:
    • Alexander is a pious follower of the faith. 亚历山大是个虔诚的信徒。
    • Her mother was a pious Christian. 她母亲是一个虔诚的基督教徒。
    2 plaintive [ˈpleɪntɪv] z2Xz1   第10级
    adj.可怜的,伤心的
    参考例句:
    • Her voice was small and plaintive. 她的声音微弱而哀伤。
    • Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail. 观众席里,一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
    3 stout [staʊt] PGuzF   第8级
    adj.强壮的,结实的,勇猛的,矮胖的
    参考例句:
    • He cut a stout stick to help him walk. 他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
    • The stout old man waddled across the road. 那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。
    4 spanked [spæŋkt] 7f5c8f4a184a8a7677239d55dcee6b0f   第10级
    v.用手掌打( spank的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • We spanked along in his new car. 我们坐在他的新车里兜风。 来自辞典例句
    • The nurse spanked the naughty child. 保育员打了一下那个淘气的孩子的屁股。 来自辞典例句
    5 vessel [ˈvesl] 4L1zi   第7级
    n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
    参考例句:
    • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai. 这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
    • You should put the water into a vessel. 你应该把水装入容器中。
    6 tar [tɑ:(r)] 1qOwD   第7级
    n.柏油,焦油;vt.涂或浇柏油/焦油于
    参考例句:
    • The roof was covered with tar. 屋顶涂抹了一层沥青。
    • We use tar to make roads. 我们用沥青铺路。
    7 bully [ˈbʊli] bully   第8级
    n.恃强欺弱者,小流氓;vt.威胁,欺侮
    参考例句:
    • A bully is always a coward. 暴汉常是懦夫。
    • The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble. 那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。
    8 severely [sə'vɪrlɪ] SiCzmk   第7级
    adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
    参考例句:
    • He was severely criticized and removed from his post. 他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
    • He is severely put down for his careless work. 他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
    9 languish [ˈlæŋgwɪʃ] K9Mze   第8级
    vi.变得衰弱无力,失去活力,(植物等)凋萎
    参考例句:
    • Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished. 没有了创始人的斗志与指引,公司逐渐走向没落。
    • New products languish on the drawing board. 新产品在计划阶段即告失败。
    10 repent [rɪˈpent] 1CIyT   第8级
    vi. 后悔;忏悔 vt. 后悔;对…感到后悔 adj. [植] 匍匐生根的;[动] 爬行的
    参考例句:
    • He has nothing to repent of. 他没有什么要懊悔的。
    • Remission of sins is promised to those who repent. 悔罪者可得到赦免。
    11 hoops [hu:ps] 528662bd801600a928e199785550b059   第8级
    n.箍( hoop的名词复数 );(篮球)篮圈;(旧时儿童玩的)大环子;(两端埋在地里的)小铁弓
    参考例句:
    • a barrel bound with iron hoops 用铁箍箍紧的桶
    • Hoops in Paris were wider this season and skirts were shorter. 在巴黎,这个季节的裙圈比较宽大,裙裾却短一些。 来自飘(部分)

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