英國語文第三冊(雙語):忙碌的小拉普蘭人(上)
LESSON 43 The usy little lapp
第四十三課 忙碌的小拉普蘭人
There is a tribe of busy little people who live in the Frozen Zone, and who are very seldom seen anywhere else. They are called Lapps, which is short for Laplander. Lapland is the name of the country where they live. You will find it in the north of the map of Europe.
在凍結區(qū)有一個忙碌的小人部落，他們很少見到外面的世界。人們叫他們拉普人，是拉普蘭人的簡稱。他們住的地方就叫做拉普蘭，位于歐洲北部地區(qū)。
They do not live in huts, because it would not suit them to do so. They are obliged to wander up and down the country; sometimes on the mountains, and sometimes in the plains. So they pitch tents, which can be easily changed from place to place. The Lapp moves about in this way because of a very useful animal that God has given him, called the reindeer.
他們并不居住在房屋里，因為對他們來說不合適。他們在國內時常遷徙；有時候住在山里，有時候在平原上安家。所以他們住在帳篷里，因為方便移動。拉普人之所以經(jīng)常搬遷是因為他們有一種很有用的動物，叫馴鹿。
The reindeer likes to move about. In the summer some very fierce flies, called mosquitoes, bite him. To escape from them, he runs up the cold mountains, where the Lapp follows him, and sets up his tent. In the winter the flies go away, and then the Lapp drives his reindeer down to the plain. So you see he has to shift his tent again.
馴鹿喜歡到處遷徙。夏天，蚊蟲肆虐，馴鹿會深受其害。為了擺脫這種痛苦，馴鹿就跑到陰涼的山里，拉普人就跟人馴鹿走，馴鹿到哪他們就在哪扎營。冬天等到?jīng)]有了蚊子，拉普人就會把馴鹿趕到平原上。所以他們又得搬一次家。
You would not think the tent very nice to live in. The door is so small that you could hardly enter by it. There is no chimney, but the smoke goes out at a hole in the top;—that is, after it has made everybody's face very black.
你可能會覺得帳篷不是個居住的好地方。門口很小，進出艱難。帳篷沒有煙囪，但是頂上有洞，煙就從那出去；——所以，住在里面的人都會一臉漆黑。
There are no lamps or candles. The Lapps think the fire-light enough. They sit, and they sleep, on skins spread on the floor. They find out the time by looking at the sun. How many things the little Lapp has to do without!
帳篷里沒有燈也沒有蠟燭。拉普人覺得有火光就足夠了。他們把獸皮鋪在地上就能坐也能能睡。他們通過觀察太陽來確定時間。這些小拉普人缺了多少東西啊！
