Try to find a spider's web on a bush or on the grass in your garden, and look very closely at it. The spider makes the outside lines of the web first. Then it forms the lines which extend like the spokes of a wheel from the centre of the net to the e...
Lesson 72 The Clever Spider 第72课 聪明的蜘蛛 You may have seen men setting nets in the sea, or in a river, to catch fish. Let me tell you about the little animals that are always setting nets in your house and in your garden in much the same...
In fact, all these four plants belong to the same class. 实际上, 这四种植物同属一个种类。 If we visit the orchard again in June, we shall find that all the white flowers have fallen off the cherry-trees, and that the seed-vessel of eac...
Lesson 71 The Cherry-tree And Its Fruit 第71课 樱桃树及其果实 The cherry-tree is a small tree which grows to a height of about twenty feet. Its stem is covered with a smooth brown bark, and its green leaves have saw-like edges, somewhat like...
This soft black mark is the place through which the young palm-tree would force its way out, if the cocoanut were planted in the soil of its native land. 如果种植在原生地的土壤之中，年幼的椰子树就会通过这个柔软的黑色斑点...
Lesson 63 The Useful Cocoa-nut 第63课 有用的椰子 Cocoa-nuts grow in clusters at the top of a palm-tree which is found in most hot countries. This palm has a slender brown stem, sometimes from sixty to ninety feet high, without branches, but be...
There is a clear space in the jaws between the front and the back teeth, and into this space we put the steel bit to which the reins are fastened when we drive or ride the donkey. 在驴子前后牙齿之间的腭部有一片空白区域，我们将铁...
Lesson 62 The Patient Donkey 第62课 吃苦耐劳的驴子 Have you ever heard a donkey bray? What a noise he makes! Even if you have not heard one, I am sure that you have all seen a donkey, and perhaps some of you have ridden one at the seaside on...
If you cut this seed-vessel across with a pen-knife, you will find inside it some tiny young green seeds. 用一把小刀将这个种皮切开，就能看到里面尚未成熟的绿色小种。 Within the flower of the snow-drop you can see some gree...
Lesson 61 The Snow-drop 第61课 雪花莲 When the new year comes, the snow-drop is the first of all the flowers to put forth its lovely white blossoms. We call it the snow-drop, not only because its flowers are white as snow, but also because they...
