The followingadj.接着的 evening we met again to discussverb.讨论 our plans. Harris said, "Now, we must decideverb.决定 what to take with us. You get a piece of paper, Jay, and you get a pencil, George. I'll write the listnoun.目录." Harris is always like this. He tells everyone what to do, and he does nothing. My old Uncle Podger was just like Harris. When Uncle Podger did a job, everybody in the house helped. One day, Uncle Podger bought a picture. Aunt Podger asked, "Where can we put this picture?" "Leave it to me. Don't worryverb.担忧 about it.
I'll do it all." Uncle Podger said. He sent one of the girls to buy the nails. Then he sent one of the boys to tell her the size of the nails. He sent Bill to get the hammernoun.锤, and he sent Tom to get the ruler. "Now get me a kitchen chair, Jim. I need two people to holdverb.拿住 the chair. Maria, come here and holdverb.拿住 the light. Tom, come here and give me the nail." He finallyadv.最后 had the nail in his hand, but it fell on the floor.
Everyone looked everywhere for the nail. When someone finallyadv.最后 found it, Uncle Podger lostverb.失去 the hammernoun.锤. "Where's the hammernoun.锤? Where did I put the hammernoun.锤? Help me find the hammernoun.锤." When we found the hammernoun.锤, he lostverb.失去 the place on the wall to put the picture. So each one of us climbedverb.攀登 up on the chair to look for the place. Each one thought it was a different place. When Uncle Podger climbedverb.攀登 up on the chair, he fell on the piano.
Aunt Podger was very angry. She said, "The next time you put a picture on the wall, please tell me I'll go and spend a week with my mother." Uncle Podger triedverb.尝试 again and again. At midnight, the picture was on the wall. Howeveradv.然而, it was not straight. The wall was dirty. Everyone was tired and unhappyadj.不快乐的. Uncle Podger looked at the picture and said, "It was such an easy job." I told Harris, "You get the paper and pencil. George will write the listnoun.目录, and I'll do the work."
The first listnoun.目录 was too long. We threw it away. We started another listnoun.目录. "In order to travel to the northadj.北方的 partnoun.一部分 of the river Thames, we need a small boatnoun.小船," George said. "With a small boatnoun.小船, we can carry only necessaryadj.必要的 things. We won't take a heavy tentnoun.帐篷. We can put a canvasnoun.粗帆布 cover over the boatnoun.小船 at night. It'll be like a little house, warm and comfortableadj.舒适的." We made a listnoun.目录 of all the clothes we needed. George said he knew everything about the right clothes for a tripnoun.[C] 旅行.
We discoveredverb.发现 later that this wasn't true. We talked about food next. George said, "Let's continueverb.继续 with breakfast. For breakfast, we'll need a fryingverb.油煎 pannoun.平底锅." "That's quiteadv.完全 difficultadj.困难的 to eat," Harris said, smilingverb.微笑. "Stop being stupidadj.愚蠢的, Harris," I said. "Let's continueverb.继续," said George. "We'll need tea, sugar, eggs, baconnoun.咸肉, bread, butter and jam. For lunch, we can take biscuits, cold meat and fruit, but no cheese. The smellnoun.气味 of cheese is too strong. After a day or two, everything will smellverb.闻出 of cheese.
For dinner, we can take meat piesnoun.(西点)馅饼, fruit piesnoun.(西点)馅饼, tomatoes and green vegetables. This good food will keep us healthy," George said. "We didn't take winenoun.酒 or beernoun.啤酒, because they both make you sleep." George continuedverb.继续, "We'll also need a teapotnoun.茶壶, a pannoun.平底锅 and a campingnoun.露营 stovenoun.炉. We don't want a paraffin oil stovenoun.炉." "Oh, no, not a paraffin oil stovenoun.炉," I said. "We once took a paraffin oil stovenoun.炉. It was horribleadj.令人恐惧的. The smellnoun.气味 of paraffin oil was everywhere.
The river smelledverb.闻出 of paraffin. The wind smelledverb.闻出 of paraffin. Evenadv.甚至 the sunsetnoun.日落 smelledverb.闻出 of paraffin. When we visited the town of Marlowe, it smelledverb.闻出 of paraffin, too. Evenadv.甚至 the church of Marlowe smelledverb.闻出 of paraffin. The countrysidenoun.乡下 for milesnoun.英里 around smelledverb.闻出 of paraffin. We decidedverb.决定 never to take a paraffin oil stovenoun.炉 again. The next day, we bought everything we needed. We met in the evening to packverb.捆扎 our suitcasesnoun.手提箱. We got a large suitcasenoun.手提箱 for the clothes, and two large hampersnoun.大篮子 for the food and utensilsnoun.器具.
I am very good at packingverb.捆扎. Packingnoun.包装 is one of those things that I do best." "I'll organizeverb.组织 the packingnoun.包装," I said to George and Harris. They agreed. George sat in the armchairnoun.扶手椅, and Harris put his feet up on the table. This was not what I had intendedverb.想要. I wanted to organizeverb.组织 the packingnoun.包装, not do it. I wanted George and Harris to do all the work. Howeveradv.然而, I didn't say anything. I started packingverb.捆扎 the clothes. It took a long time, but I finallyadv.最后 finished.
I sat on the big suitcasenoun.手提箱 to close it. George and Harris watched me. "Aren't you putting the bootsnoun.靴子 in?" asked Harris. I'd forgotten them. "Why didn't you tell me before?" I said. Harris said nothing. George laughed. I was furiousadj.狂怒的. I opened the suitcasenoun.手提箱 again and packedverb.捆扎 the bootsnoun.靴子. Then an awfuladj.令人不愉快的 ideanoun.想法 came to me. Did I packverb.捆扎 my toothbrush? I started looking for it. I took everything out of the suitcasenoun.手提箱. I found George's toothbrush. I found Harris's toothbrush.
But I didn't find minenoun.矿. In the end, I found it inside a bootnoun.靴子. I packedverb.捆扎 everything again. When I finished, George asked me, "Is the soap in the suitcasenoun.手提箱?" "I don't careverb.关心 about the soap," I answered. I sat on the big suitcasenoun.手提箱 again to close it. Then I remembered that my cigarettesnoun.香烟 were in the suitcasenoun.手提箱. I opened it again and finallyadv.最后 closed it at 10.50 p.m. There were still the two hampersnoun.大篮子 to packverb.捆扎. Harris and George decidedverb.决定 to packverb.捆扎 them. I sat down to watch.