选择字号:【大】【中】【小】 | 关灯
护眼
|
Chapter Thirteen. “Shooskin’.”
关注小说网官方公众号(noveltingroom),原版名著免费领。
Next day Roy and Nelly rose with the sun, and spent the forenoon in skinning and cutting up the bear, for they intended to dry part of the meat, and use it on their journey. The afternoon was spent in dragging the various parts to the hut. In the evening Roy proposed that they should go and have a shoosk. Nelly agreed, so they sallied forth1 to a neighbouring slope with their sledge2.
Shoosking, good reader, is a game which is played not only by children but by men and women; it is also played in various parts of the world, such as Canada and Russia, and goes by various names; but we shall adopt the name used by our hero and heroine, namely “shoosking.” It is very simple, but uncommonly3 violent, and consists in hauling a sledge to the top of a snow-hill or slope, getting upon it, and sliding down to the bottom. Of course, the extent of violence depends on the steepness of the slope, the interruptions that occur in it, and the nature of the ground at the bottom. We once shoosked with an Indian down a wood-cutter’s track, on the side of a steep hill, which had a sharp turn in it, with a pile of firewood at the turn, and a hole in the snow at the bottom, in which were a number of old empty casks. Our great difficulties in this place were to take the turn without grazing the firewood, and to stop our sledges4 before reaching the hole. We each had separate sledges. For some time we got on famously, but at last we ran into the pile of firewood, and tore all the buttons off our coat, and the Indian went down into the hole with a hideous5 crash among the empty casks; yet, strange to say, neither of us came by any serious damage!
“There’s a splendid slope,” said Roy, as they walked briskly along the shores of Silver Lake, dragging the sledge after them, “just beyond the big cliff, but I’m afraid it’s too much for you.”
“Oh, I can go if you can,” said Nell, promptly6.
“You’ve a good opinion of yourself. I guess I could make you sing small if I were to try.”
“Then don’t try,” said Nelly, with a laugh.
点击
收听单词发音

1
forth
![]() |
|
adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2
sledge
![]() |
|
n.雪橇,大锤;v.用雪橇搬运,坐雪橇往 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3
uncommonly
![]() |
|
adv. 稀罕(极,非常) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4
sledges
![]() |
|
n.雪橇,雪车( sledge的名词复数 )v.乘雪橇( sledge的第三人称单数 );用雪橇运载 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5
hideous
![]() |
|
adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6
promptly
![]() |
|
adv.及时地,敏捷地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7
streak
![]() |
|
n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8
hurrah
![]() |
|
int.好哇,万岁,乌拉 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9
impetus
![]() |
|
n.推动,促进,刺激;推动力 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10
swerves
![]() |
|
n.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的名词复数 )v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11
steer
![]() |
|
vt.驾驶,为…操舵;引导;vi.驾驶 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12
laden
![]() |
|
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13
plunged
![]() |
|
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14
crest
![]() |
|
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15
gasp
![]() |
|
n.喘息,气喘;v.喘息;气吁吁他说 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
16
squeak
![]() |
|
n.吱吱声,逃脱;v.(发出)吱吱叫,侥幸通过;(俚)告密 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
17
delightful
![]() |
|
adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
18
engenders
![]() |
|
v.产生(某形势或状况),造成,引起( engender的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
19
steered
![]() |
|
v.驾驶( steer的过去式和过去分词 );操纵;控制;引导 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
20
crimson
![]() |
|
n./adj.深(绯)红色(的);vi.脸变绯红色 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
21
fixed
![]() |
|
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
22
ridge
![]() |
|
n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
23
steering
![]() |
|
n.操舵装置 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
24
dire
![]() |
|
adj.可怕的,悲惨的,阴惨的,极端的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
25
warrior
![]() |
|
n.勇士,武士,斗士 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
26
resolute
![]() |
|
adj.坚决的,果敢的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
©英文小说网 2005-2010