英语绘本故事 | 新年前夜《The Night Before New Year's 》

《The Night Before New Year"s 》

新年前夜

▲Twas the last day of December;

what we call New Year’s Eve.

A whole year had flown by, it was hard to believe.

这是十二月的最后一天，

也就是我们说的“新年前夜”。

整整一年已经过去了，真是难以置信呀。

▲We were pretty excited. Our puppy was, too.

We cheered, “Out with the old and in with the new!”

“Oh PLEEEASE,” I begged.

“Can we stay up till midnight?”

For this one special evening my parents told us,

“ All right.”

我们特别兴奋，我家的小狗也是。

我们欢呼着，“辞旧迎新啦！”

“噢，求你了，”我说，

“我们能熬夜到半夜么？”

于是，为了这个特殊的夜晚，我的父母告诉我们，

“好吧。”

▲So we drove to the store to buy party supplies.

Hats! Horns and poppers!

And sparkly bow ties!

所以我们开车去商店买了些派对用品。

帽子，喇叭还有礼花筒

还有闪闪发光的蝴蝶结。

▲At home we put up all the streamers and balloons—

Silver glitter and gold stars to twinkle up our rooms.

A banner was hung by the ceiling with care in hopes that

Baby New Year soon would be there.

回到家里面，我们把所有彩带和气球挂了起来---

房间里银光闪耀，金色的小星星也闪闪发光

新年的横幅被小心翼翼地挂在了天花板上，

盼望着新年能快点到来。

▲We gathered for dinner—a grand, late-night feast!

All our family favorites—

I ate three cupcakes, at least!

我们聚在一起吃晚餐---丰盛的，深夜大餐！

都是我们全家喜欢的---

我吃了至少三个纸杯蛋糕！

▲With a clink of our glasses we all gave a toast,

Making New Year’s resolutions—

My dad had the most!

But I couldn’t come up with one single vow.

“That’sokay,” said Mom.

“You don’t have to right now.”

我们一起碰杯，为了新年干杯，做出新年的决心---

爸爸说得最多了。

但是我没能想出任何决心的话。

妈妈说，“没关系”

“你不需要马上下决心。”

▲After dinner was done,

we played checkers and charades,

then broke out the cards for a long game of spades.

We shared fond memories—oh , there were dozens!

Holidays,camping trips, and new baby cousins.

吃完晚饭，我们玩起了跳棋和猜谜游戏，

然后拿出纸牌玩了好长时间的黑桃游戏。

我们一起分享快乐的回忆---噢，真的太多了！

假期，露营旅行还有新出生的表兄弟。

▲Our eye lids were droopy,

so we ducked out for fresh air.

我们的眼皮开始下垂了，

所以我们溜出去呼吸一下新鲜空气。

▲Then came in to watch the crowd lining Times Square.

“One more hour,” said Dad, “till the New Year is here!”

然后回来观看时代广场拥挤的人群。

“还有一个小时了，”爸爸说道，

“新年就要来了！”

▲“Put on your hats,” said Mom

“Let’spractice our cheer!”

Counting down from ten, without a single mistake,

We tooted horns and popped poppers!

I was now wide awake!

“戴上你们的帽子，”妈妈说道，

“让我们来练习一下我们欢呼仪式！”

从十开始倒数，不要出任何错误。

我们吹响了喇叭，拉响了礼花筒。

我现在无比清醒

▲My brother chased our puppy all through the house,

then Mom and Dad noticed it was as quiet as a mouse.

There was no sound of barking, no little-boy chatter.

So we sprang from the couch to see what was the matter.

本来弟弟追着小狗满屋子跑，可是这会儿，

爸爸妈妈注意到它像老鼠一样安静。

没有小狗的叫声，没有小男孩的追逐声。

于是我们从沙发上起来看看怎么回事。

▲When what to our wondering eyes should appear,

but two party poopers—

Make that three now, oh dear.

当我们怀着好奇之心走近，映入眼帘却是，

两个“晚会的扫兴者”---

现在只剩下我们三个了，噢，天哪。

▲While our puppy curled up on my father’s lap,

My brother and I went upstairs for a five-minute nap.

小狗蜷缩在爸爸的膝上。

弟弟和我上楼，准备小睡5分钟。

▲We both soon were nestled all snug in our beds,

while visions of fireworks dancedin our heads.

The next thing I knew it was sunny and bright.

Rats! We missed ringing in the New Year last night!

我们都不一会就舒服地躺在床上了，

然而烟花的美景还在脑海里跳跃。

接下来我看见的就是阳光和天亮了。

天哪！昨晚我们错过了新年的钟声！

▲But that’s when I came up with my resolution, I believe.

I absolutely will stay up for next New Year’s Eve!

但是，也是这个时候，我相信我想到了我的新年决心，

下一个跨年夜，我一定要熬夜到零点！

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