第5章 EARLY RISING 早早起床

Get Tip, little sister; the morning is bright,

And the birds are all singing to welcome the light:

The buds are all opening; the dew's on the flower;

If you shake but a branch, see, there falls quite a shower.

By the side of their mothers, look, under the trees,

How the young lambs are skipping about as they please;

And by all those rings on the water, I know,

The fishes are merrily swimming below.

The bee, I dare say, has been long on the wing.

To get honey from every flower of spring;

For the bee never idles, but labours all day.

Thinking (wise little insect) work better than play.

The lark's singing gaily; it loves the bright sun,

And rejoices that now the gay spring has begun:

For the spring is so cheerful, I think't would be wrong

If we did not feel happy to hear the lark's song.

Get up; for when all things are merry and glad,

Good children should never be lazy or sad:

For the nature gives us daylight, dear sister, that we

May rejoice like the lark, and may work like the bee.

Pronunciation

sing'-ing moth'-ers swim'-ming la'-bours cheer'-ful

morn'-ing skip'-ping dare-say' in'-sect hap'-py

o'-pen-ing fish'-es hon'-ey sing'-ing la'-zy

show'-er mer'-ri-ly i'-dles gai'-ly day'-light

Write

shake lambs lark dear

branch please wrong gives

起床了，小妹妹；天亮了，

鸟儿欢快地唱起歌迎接晨光：

花儿开了；布满了露珠；

如果你摇一下树枝，好像下起了阵雨。

大树下边，坐在母亲身边，

看着小羊羔尽情欢快地跳着；

我知道水面上所有的波纹，

是鱼儿在水下欢快地游着。

我敢说，为了从春天盛开花朵上获取蜂蜜，

蜜蜂一直在飞行着；

蜜蜂从来不会无所事事，而是一直劳动，

聪明的小昆虫都认为工作比玩更好。

百灵鸟欢快地唱着歌；它喜欢明亮的阳光，

因为欢快的春天已经开始欢乐：

春天是如此欢快，如果我们听到百灵鸟唱歌却不快乐，

我想那肯定是错觉。

快起床；世界万物都是如此欢快，

好孩子不应该懒惰或者悲伤：

亲爱的姐妹，大自然给予我们阳光，

我们应该像百灵鸟一样快乐，像蜜蜂一样工作。