My father reads the newspaper when he comes home from work.
我爸下班回家会看报纸。

Our band has a guitar player, a singer, and a drummer.
我们乐团有吉他手、歌手和鼓手。

An artist displays his wares along the banks of the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city is situated in the delta of the Neva River and is built on a series of islands.

旋风牛仔与龙卷风(Pecos Bill and the cyclone)


A long time ago in Texas only a few pioneers（拓荒者）lived there. One of those folks was Pecos Bill.

One day when Bill was just a baby, his family set off to move to the Pecos River area. When they were crossing a stream, they hit a big rock. Little Bill flew right out of the wagon（运货马车）. No one in the family saw him fall; they just traveled on.

Bill sat there on the ground, looking around. In the distance, he spied a pack of coyotes（土狼）.

These coyotes had never seen a human baby before and didn't know quite what to think. One of them trotted（小跑步）up to Bill and offered him a piece of deer meat. Bill ate it. The coyotes then welcomed the boy into their pack. He lived with the coyotes for many years. Bill eventually believed that he was a coyote.

One day, years later, a cowboy happened past. He saw Bill and asked, "What's your name?"

Bill didn't understand human language, so he didn't reply. The cowboy decided Bill needed him, and so he stayed with him. He taught Bill to talk like a human, and proved to Bill that he really wasn't a coyote. So Bill said goodbye to his coyote family. Then he got on a mountain lion and rode with the cowboy to join the other cowboys at the ranch（大牧场；大农场）.

As they rode, Bill caught a rattlesnake（响尾蛇）and turned it into a rope. "This is a lasso（捕牲畜等用的套索）," he said to the cowboy.

After they got back to the ranch, Bill invented spurs for cowboys to wear on their boots, taught them how to round up cattle and how to drive those cattle across the range.

Pecos Bill wanted a horse. For a long time he watched the son of White Mustang, the Ghost King of the Prairie. This young mustang had a wild spirit and was the only horse that Bill couldn't outrun. So Bill built a huge slingshot（弹弓）and climbed in. He shot himself high over the cactus. He landed right in front of the horse.

That mustang was so surprised, he stopped. Bill leaped onto the mustang's（野马）back and yanked on his golden mane and off they went. Bill named his horse Widow-Maker. Together they traveled the prairies（大草原；牧场）, starting new ranches and helping people.

Then came the year of the terrible drought. The land shriveled（枯萎） up. "Hey, Bill," the cowboys said, "You have to help us bring some rain down here."

Bill looked up at that big hot sun. Then he saw a big storm over in Oklahoma. Bill climbed up on Widow-Maker's back and chased it. He jumped on top of that cyclone and tied it up with his rattlesnake lasso. It began to choke（哽住）, spitting out all the rain that was mixed up inside of it.

Down below, the coyotes and the jackrabbits （北美西部长耳大野兔）and the lizards（蜥蜴）and the snakes lifted their heads and caught the falling rain. The cowboys whooped（激动、欢乐的高叫）with delight and held out their pans to catch the drops. Everyone cried out praises for Pecos Bill. Forever afterward, Pecos Bill was famous all over the Southwest.

出口……Left Outside Alone-Anastacia