Gilbert and the Lizard

吉尔伯特和蜥蜴

Eliza disliked Australia. Firstly, she'd had to spend twenty uncomfortable hours on an aircraft getting here. She wanted to go to the beach, but her husband was a zoology professor and wanted to look for some interesting animals. So now she was traversing a swamp in the midday heat.

伊丽莎不喜欢澳大利亚。首先，她不得不在飞机上花20个小时不舒服地到达这里。她想去海滩，但她的丈夫是动物学教授，想找一些有趣的动物。所以现在她正冒着正午的炎热穿过一片沼泽地。

Let me sit down, Gilbert. I'm not hardy like you, she said, eventually.

终于，她说道：“让我坐下歇会，吉尔伯特，我体力没你好。”

They sat under a tree. There were lots of birds in that secluded, rural place, and they watched them Flying overhead.

他们坐在树下。在那个偏僻的乡下，有许多鸟飞过他们的头顶。

Then suddenly Gilbert saw something on a rock. "That's strange," said Gilbert. "That looks like a Red Swamp Lizard, but I thought that species was extinct. " He carefully picked it up. "Yes, it is! I'm going to take it back to the ZoologyInstitute. They will be filled with so much jealousy when they see what I have found!",

突然吉尔伯特看到岩石上有什么东西。“真奇怪，”吉尔伯特说。“那好像是一条红色沼泽蜥蜴，但我一直认为它们已经灭绝了”。他小心翼翼地将蜥蜴捡起来。“没错，正是红色沼泽蜥蜴!我要把它带回动物学研究所，他们肯定会羡慕死的。”

Are you sure we should take it from its home? asked Eliza.

“你确定要把它带离它的家乡吗?”伊丽莎问道。

Nonsense, many animals migrate. They're used to changes, said Gilbert.

“胡说，很多动物都迁徙。他们已经习惯了变化，”吉尔伯特说。

Hmm, I don't agree with the principle of it, said Eliza. "It isn't ethical. " But Gilbert was decisive and took the lizard back to the hotel in the city. He thought that this find would make him a highly esteemed celebrity at the Zoology Institute.

“嗯，我不同意这个说法，”伊丽莎说。“这不太道德。”。但是吉尔伯特心意已决，把蜥蜴带回了城里的旅馆。他认为这一发现将使他成为动物学研究所备受尊敬的名人。

For the next few days, Gilbert Fed and nurtured the lizard. But the lizard wasn't happy. It lost its beautiful red color and began to look ordinary. In fact, Gilbert started to wonder whether it was special at all. He went outside and found a common lizard on a piece of concrete. When he compared them, they looked exactly alike. The lizard was only red in the swamp!

接下来的几天里，吉尔伯特喂养这只蜥蜴。但是蜥蜴并不高兴。它失去了美丽的红色，看起来很普通。事实上，吉尔伯特开始怀疑它是否特别。他走到外面，在一块混凝土上发现了一只普通的蜥蜴。他把两者做了比较，发现二者一模一样。蜥蜴只在沼泽里是红色的!

Gilbert said to Eliza, "I'm going to return this lizard to the swamp. I've learned an important lesson. Home is where we are happiest. At home, we are special like the red lizard. We can never be so happy when we are away. "

吉尔伯特对伊丽莎说:“我要把这只蜥蜴送回沼泽地。我学到了重要的一课。家是我们最快乐的地方。在家里，我们就像这只红蜥蜴一样特别。而远离家的我们就会变得不快乐。”

Good, said Eliza. "So, can we go home now?"

“好，”伊丽莎说。“那我们现在可以回家了吗?”

核心单词表

aircraft n.飞机

celebrity n.名人

concrete n.凝结物

decisive adj.果断的

esteemed adj.受人尊敬的

ethical adj.道德的

extinct adj.灭绝的

hardy adj.坚强的

institute n.机构

jealousy n.嫉妒

migrate v.移动

nurture y.养育

overhead adv.在头顶上方

principle n.主义

rural adj.农村的

secluded adj.隐蔽的

species n.种类

swamp n.沼泽

traverse v.穿过

zoology n.动物学

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