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《神奇树屋》 第三十三册 Carnival at Candlelight 02 CarnivalAnnie laughed.

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  Jack1 opened his eyes. He and Annie were wearingpurple and pink outfits2 with huge ruffled3 collars. Ontheir heads were funny hats. On their feet were redslippers with big bows.

"Who are we?" Annie asked.

"I don't know," said Jack. He didn't feel like a wiseand brave helper in his red slippers4. He felt stupid.

Together Jack and Annie looked out the tree housewindow. They had landed in a small tree28inside a walled garden. The sky was gray. Jackcouldn't tell if it was morning or evening, but the airfelt damp and heavy, as if a storm was about to break.

"I guess this is Venice," he said.

"Let's check our book," said Annie. She opened theirresearch book and read aloud:

Today the city of Venice (say VEN-iss) is one of themost popular tourist spots in the world. It lies in alagoon of the Adriatic Sea. Instead of roads, Venicehas waterways called canals. People glide6 along thecanals in shallow boats called gondolas8 (GON-duhluz).

A man called a gondolier (gon-duh-LEER) standsin the back of the boat and uses a long oar9 to propelthe gondola7 through the water.

"That sounds like fun," said Jack.

"Yep," said Annie. She closed the book. "Let's go."29"Wait," said Jack. "We don't even know what ourmission is yet." He took out Merlin's letter andunfolded it. He read aloud:

Dear Jack and Annie of Frog CreekYour mission will require great patience and a bit ofmagic. The Grand Lady of the Lagoon5 is in terribledanger. The only one who can help you save her fromdisaster is the Ruler of theSeas. To locate him, follow these directions:

When waters rise beneath the moon,Visit the Grand Lady of the Lagoon.

To find out where you need to go,Seek out a painter named Tiepolo.

At midnight two men will tell you the time. To thetop of their tower hurry and climb.

The King of the Jungle will carry you there,Not over land, but high in the air.

An angel of gold will show you the way To the seaby night, and home by day. -M.

30Jack pushed his glasses into place. "Hmm," he said.

"I wonder who the Grand Lady is," said Annie.

"And why do we need to save her?""I'm wondering lots of stuff," said Jack. "What aboutthe King of the Jungle? We're in a city, not a jungle.

And what about that angel? And--""Let's just take one thing at a time," said Annie.

"What are we supposed to do first?"Jack looked back at the letter and read:

When waters rise beneath the moon,Visit the Grand Lady of the Lagoon.

"So let's start by finding the Grand Lady," saidAnnie. She headed down the tree house ladder.

Jack put Merlin's letter into his backpack, alongwith Morgan's research book and Teddy andKathleen's book of magic rhymes. Then he climbeddown the rope ladder and caught up with Annie.

Jack and Annie walked over a pebbly10 path as thesky darkened.

Good,thought Jack.

It's night.

31He didn't want anyone to see him in his silly outfit-especially the red slippers with the bows.

"That must be the way out," said Annie. She ledJack to a wooden gate in the garden wall and pushedit open.

Jack and Annie stepped through the gate onto aquiet, empty walkway. Next to the walkway was anarrow lane of water.

"I guess that's a canal," said Jack.

"And that must be a gondola," said Annie. Shepointed to a long, curved black boat rounding thecorner. In the last light of day, the gondola wasgliding silently up the canal toward them.

"Yikes," whispered Annie.

There were two people in the boat--a gondolier anda passenger. Each wore a black cloak, white gloves,and a ghostly white mask. The masks had long,pointy noses shaped like bird beaks13. The passenger satin the middle of the boat, holding a lantern. Thegondolier stood in the back, pushing a long oarthrough the water.

32"They look a lot weirder15 than us," said Annie. "Nokidding," said Jack.

"Hello!" the passenger shouted.

33The person's voice was muffled16 behind the whitemask. "Do you need help?""Yes!" Annie shouted back. "Can you take us to theGrand Lady of the Lagoon?""Yes, of course. She is back that way!" answered themasked passenger. "Come."34"Great!" said Annie. She grabbed Jack's hand andpulled him over to the gondola. The gondola rocked abit as she and Jack climbed aboard and took seatsbetween the gondolier and the passenger.

The gondolier pushed the gondola away from thelanding. His long oar made soft splashes in the wateras the boat moved up the canal.

Jack cleared his throat. "Urn17, excuse me," he said.

"Why are you wearing bird masks?""For Carnival18, of course," said the passenger. "Thatis why you are wearing clown costumes, no?""Oh, yeah, sure," said Jack.

As the gondola slid through the canal, Jack snucktheir research book out of his backpack.

"Oh, boy, a carnival!" Annie whispered to Jack. "Ihope it has a roller coaster.""I don't think they had roller coasters two hundredsixty years ago," whispered Jack.

Jack looked upcarnivalin the index. He35found the page. Then he and Annie silently readtogether:

For many centuries, Carnival has been the mostfamous yearly festival of Venice. For Carnival, peopledisguise themselves as anything they want to be.

Rich, poor, male, female, young, and old--all are equalduring Carnival.

"Look, that's us," whispered Annie. She pointed11 to apicture of a colorful costume with a white ruffledcollar and red slippers with bows.

"Yeah, and that's them," whispered Jack. He pointedto a picture of a person dressed in a black cloak and awhite mask with a bird's beak12.

Jack closed the book and put it away. The gondolapeople didn't seem so weird14 anymore. But he stillwondered why a grand lady was in terrible danger atCarnival.

As the boat glided19 around a bend, Jack caught hisbreath. He saw dozens of gondolas rocking on thechoppy waters of a wide, open canal. They36were all decorated with ribbons and flowers.

Candlelight from their lanterns danced on the dark,rippling water.

"Look, that must be Carnival over there," saidAnnie, pointing.

In the distance, thousands of candles twinkledalong the shoreline. Sounds of laughter, clapping, andshouting floated over the water.

"Hold on tightly!" said the masked person in thefront of the gondola. "The tide is high tonight!" Astheir gondola joined the fleet of boats heading towardCarnival, the wind picked up. The waves grew taller.

Jack and Annie held on to the sides of the boat. Jackheard a faint rumble20 of faraway thunder. He saw azigzag flash of lightning in the distant sky. Is a storm coming?

he wondered nervously21.

Is the storm part of the disaster that's going tohappen to the Grand Lady of the Lagoon?

"This is going to be fun, isn't it?" said Anniecheerfully.

"Sure," said Jack. He tried to shake off his worriesas the wind and tide helped push the gondola towardthe twinkling candles of Carnival.


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1 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 outfits ed01b85fb10ede2eb7d337e0ea2d0bb3     
n.全套装备( outfit的名词复数 );一套服装;集体;组织v.装备,配置设备,供给服装( outfit的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits. 他把承包工程分包给许多小单位。 来自辞典例句
  • Some cyclists carry repair outfits because they may have a puncture. 有些骑自行车的人带修理工具,因为他们车胎可能小孔。 来自辞典例句
3 ruffled e4a3deb720feef0786be7d86b0004e86     
adj. 有褶饰边的, 起皱的 动词ruffle的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • She ruffled his hair affectionately. 她情意绵绵地拨弄着他的头发。
  • All this talk of a strike has clearly ruffled the management's feathers. 所有这些关于罢工的闲言碎语显然让管理层很不高兴。
4 slippers oiPzHV     
n. 拖鞋
参考例句:
  • a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
  • He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋,倒在床上。
5 lagoon b3Uyb     
n.泻湖,咸水湖
参考例句:
  • The lagoon was pullulated with tropical fish.那个咸水湖聚满了热带鱼。
  • This area isolates a restricted lagoon environment.将这一地区隔离起来使形成一个封闭的泻湖环境。
6 glide 2gExT     
n./v.溜,滑行;(时间)消逝
参考例句:
  • We stood in silence watching the snake glide effortlessly.我们噤若寒蝉地站着,眼看那条蛇逍遥自在地游来游去。
  • So graceful was the ballerina that she just seemed to glide.那芭蕾舞女演员翩跹起舞,宛如滑翔。
7 gondola p6vyK     
n.威尼斯的平底轻舟;飞船的吊船
参考例句:
  • The road is too narrow to allow the passage of gondola.这条街太窄大型货车不能通过。
  • I have a gondola here.我开来了一条平底船。
8 gondolas c782a4e2d2fa5d1cca4c319d8145cb83     
n.狭长小船( gondola的名词复数 );货架(一般指商店,例如化妆品店);吊船工作台
参考例句:
  • When the G-Force is in motion, the gondolas turn as well. 当“惊呼狂叫”开始旋转时,平底船也同时旋转。 来自互联网
  • Moreton Engineering &Equipment Co. Ltd. -Services include sales tower crane, gondolas, material hoist construction equipment. 山明模型工作室-制作建筑模型,包括售楼模型、规划模型、比赛模型等。 来自互联网
9 oar EH0xQ     
n.桨,橹,划手;v.划行
参考例句:
  • The sailors oar slowly across the river.水手们慢慢地划过河去。
  • The blade of the oar was bitten off by a shark.浆叶被一条鲨鱼咬掉了。
10 pebbly 347dedfd2569b6cc3c87fddf46bf87ed     
多卵石的,有卵石花纹的
参考例句:
  • Sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed. 有时河水泛流在圆石子的河床上,晶莹发光。
  • The beach is pebbly. 这个海滩上有许多卵石。
11 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的,直截了当的
参考例句:
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
12 beak 8y1zGA     
n.鸟嘴,茶壶嘴,钩形鼻
参考例句:
  • The bird had a worm in its beak.鸟儿嘴里叼着一条虫。
  • This bird employs its beak as a weapon.这种鸟用嘴作武器。
13 beaks 66bf69cd5b0e1dfb0c97c1245fc4fbab     
n.鸟嘴( beak的名词复数 );鹰钩嘴;尖鼻子;掌权者
参考例句:
  • Baby cockatoos will have black eyes and soft, almost flexible beaks. 雏鸟凤头鹦鹉黑色的眼睛是柔和的,嘴几乎是灵活的。 来自互联网
  • Squid beaks are often found in the stomachs of sperm whales. 经常能在抹香鲸的胃里发现鱿鱼的嘴。 来自互联网
14 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
参考例句:
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
15 weirder cd9463d25463f72eab49f2343155512f     
怪诞的( weird的比较级 ); 神秘而可怕的; 超然的; 古怪的
参考例句:
  • Actually, things got a little weirder when the tow truck driver showed up. 事实上,在拖吊车司机出现后,事情的发展更加怪异。
16 muffled fnmzel     
adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己)
参考例句:
  • muffled voices from the next room 从隔壁房间里传来的沉闷声音
  • There was a muffled explosion somewhere on their right. 在他们的右面什么地方有一声沉闷的爆炸声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
17 urn jHaya     
n.(有座脚的)瓮;坟墓;骨灰瓮
参考例句:
  • The urn was unearthed entire.这只瓮出土完整无缺。
  • She put the big hot coffee urn on the table and plugged it in.她将大咖啡壶放在桌子上,接上电源。
18 carnival 4rezq     
n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演
参考例句:
  • I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
  • Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。
19 glided dc24e51e27cfc17f7f45752acf858ed1     
v.滑动( glide的过去式和过去分词 );掠过;(鸟或飞机 ) 滑翔
参考例句:
  • The President's motorcade glided by. 总统的车队一溜烟开了过去。
  • They glided along the wall until they were out of sight. 他们沿着墙壁溜得无影无踪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
20 rumble PCXzd     
n.隆隆声;吵嚷;v.隆隆响;低沉地说
参考例句:
  • I hear the rumble of thunder in the distance.我听到远处雷声隆隆。
  • We could tell from the rumble of the thunder that rain was coming.我们根据雷的轰隆声可断定,天要下雨了。
21 nervously tn6zFp     
adv.神情激动地,不安地
参考例句:
  • He bit his lip nervously,trying not to cry.他紧张地咬着唇,努力忍着不哭出来。
  • He paced nervously up and down on the platform.他在站台上情绪不安地走来走去。
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