THE DUTCH GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE

 Jan’s grandmother lives in a little pink and white house by the sea. You can hear the waves as they come up on the sandy shore.

 

You can stand in grandmother’s garden and look away out over the sea.

Sometimes the water looks bright and blue. Sometimes it looks deep and green. Sometimes it looks dark gray, and the waves have white caps of foam¹. The children call them the “Sea-King’s White Horses.”

Grandmother’s house is very neat and clean. She has brick² floors in her house. She covers her brick floors with clean white sand.

Grandmother has a very old black table in her house. She has some old black chairs, too. She rubs³ them every day. They are always bright and shining.

Grandmother loves to keep them so.

 

Jan says he can see his face in the top of grandmother’s table. It is so shiny that it is like a looking-glass.

Grandmother has a row of plates on her wall. They look like silver.

She has some blue dishes, too. Katrina says that they are like her mother’s dishes. They have boats and windmills on them.

Grandmother says they are Delft dishes. They were made in Delft. Delft is a city in Holland where they make beautiful dishes.

1 foam   

v./n.泡沫，起泡沫

参考例句：

• The glass of beer was mostly foam.这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫。
• The surface of the water is full of foam.水面都是泡沫。

2 brick   

n.砖；vt.用砖砌，用砖堵住

参考例句：

• She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her.她面无表情地瞪着面前的砖墙。
• I bought a brick of ice cream for my daughter.我给女儿买了块冰砖。

3 rubs   

v.擦( rub的第三人称单数 )；擦掉；涂；（使）相互磨擦

参考例句：

• It rubs to be presided over by such a man. 受这样的人管辖真是使人恼火。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• That door rubs on the floor. 那扇门与地板摩擦。 来自《简明英汉词典》