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    第十一冊 課文英譯

                However, father and brother’s boat still had no sign.                                                                      It was almost evening. The sun slowly set, and     I think building the Great Wall was a mega proj-
                    From day and night, Ma-Zu continually held    Lesson 9 : The Erupting Volcano                                      the beautiful evening glows reddened the clouds in   ect and it is sad that a lot of people sacrificed their
                the lamp and waited for father and brother to come                                                                     the sky. The front view is a wide, big river flowing   lives for this historic project.
                home.  Sadly, Ma-Zu’s father and brother never came    Teacher told a story about volcanic eruption in                 endlessly toward the farther side of the sea. I would
                back, but she continued to wait on the shore.     the class today. On June, 1991, the Mount Pinatubo                   like to see further, so I climbed one more story up-  Lesson 12: Yang Ming Shan National Park
                    In order to memorize Ma-Zu’s benevolence,     locating in the south of the Philippines came out a                  stairs. Wow, what a fantastic view.
                people build a temple for her and make her “the   plume of steam, following rumbles. This was the                          At the moment, my younger brother broke out        There is an amazing tourist attraction called
                guardian angel of the sailors”.  Until today, Ma-Zu   sign of erupting, while nobody believed that it would            asking, “Grandpa, is water in the Yellow River really   Yang Ming Shan National Park. Every spring during
                temples are the most worshiped temples in the shore-  burst because it had been six centuries since last               yellow?”                                          the flower season, tourists gather on Yang Ming Shan
                line region.                                      known eruptive activity.                                                 Grandpa replied, “Yes. The Yellow River is    to adore its blossoming flowers and its amazing scen-
                                                                       Unexpectedly, the volcano erupted. The hot lava                 originated from Qinghai Province, and it passes   eries. Every year between February and March when

                Lesson 8 : Guan-Yu                                slowly flowed out and destroyed everything wherever                  through the Loess Plateau where a large amount of   the temperature starts to rise, Cherry blossom and
                                                                                                                                                                                         Rhododendron compete to blossom. The red, white
                                                                  it reached. And, what was worse, the volcano ejected
                                                                                                                                       dusty soil is carried away along the side. So the soil
                    Father and mother were happy because uncle    a large amount of ashes, dust and rocks, as well as                  dyes the river yellow.”                           and thousands of other colors of flowers on the na-
                came back from Taiwan, and they invited him to our   lava at the same time and flushed down the slope to                   After hearing those from Grandpa, my younger   tional park create an imagery of an ocean filled with
                home for a meal.  Uncle could drink a lot, so he and   flood the roads, cars, farms and many villages, when            brother and  I  both  realized  its  background  and   flowers. A lot of people visit the Yang Ming Shan
                dad had lots of cup of drink.  Mom said: “Look at   people were caught off guard.                                      smiled.                                           National Park during the weekends of spring time,
                you two, your faces are as red as Guan-Yu.”  Uncle     A few days after the eruption, typhoon rains                                                                      making it one of the best places to visit during the
                laughed when he heard, and he touched his chin and   took the deposits into rivers and caused flooding,                Lesson 11: The Great Wall                         weekend in the spring time.
                said, “Only thing that missing are some beard.”   bringing another unbearable damage to the local.                                                                            Each season of the Yang Ming Shan National
                    I asked uncle who the Guan-Yu is. He said,    Many houses were destroyed and their family mem-                         There is a book mentioning that the only human   Park has different scenery. During spring, the park
                “He is the guy from the book, Romance of the Three   bers were killed, so they could not but leave where               built structure visible to an astronaut on the moon is   offers scenery of flowers blossoming, butterflies
                Kingdoms, who swings a big blade sword! Red face,   they were born, while other more people braced up,                 China’s Great Wall. I did not believe this, so I ques-  dancing gracefully in the air and bees harvesting
                long beard.”  Uncle started to tell me the story of The   regardless of teardrops and sweat, they began to re-         tioned my teacher.                                honey. During summer, when the weather is cool, the
                Oath of Peach Garden between Liu-Bei, Guan-Yu,    store the homeland. Filipinos are not afraid of failure,                 Teacher went online and downloaded a picture   waterfall splashes. Standing under the waterfall pro-
                and Zhang-Fei from the book along with his gesture.  and they would not yield to the fate. Let us work hard            of the great wall taken from the moon to prove the   vides a cool sensation for the tourists. The fall of the
                    Uncle said, Guan-Yu was a very brave man.     together. We believe that green grass and flowers will               fact. On the picture, there is a visible long structure.   park offers another amazing scenery as white silver
                One time, his arm was injured by a poisonous arrow   grow out of land of lava soon.                                    Teacher said that the Great Wall is located in the   grass flowers blossom and spread all over the nation-
                while he was fighting.  Afterward, Hua-Tuo, a leg-                                                                     northern part of China and it was used by Emperor   al park, while maple leaves turn red, creating scenery
                endary doctor, performed a surgery on his arm.  Hua-  Lesson 10 : The Yellow River Flows to The Sea                    Qin to prevent invasion from outsiders. The total   full of red leaves and white flowers. During winter,
                Tuo cut the wound open and scraped out the poison                                                                      length of the Great Wall is 6700 kilometer. If you   the chilly wind from the north east brings along soft
                on the bone by a small knife, and then he sewed the    Grandpa was reciting a poem in his study yes-                   convert it into the Chinese miles used in the past, it is   snow flakes to the summit of the park, creating white
                wound.  While performing the surgery, Guan-Yu’s   terday, and my younger brother and I followed up                     more than 10000 Chinese miles. Such great construc-  and silver snowing scenery.
                arm was severely bleeding.  Everyone around Guan-  reciting. The following is what Grandpa recited:                    tion was built in the Warring State Period of China     Between May and June, there is an amazing
                Yu was frightening, but Guan-Yu was focusing on his    The midday sun slips behind mountains                           (403 to 221 B.C). This is unbelievable.           scenery, that thousand of butterflies dance in groups
                board game like nothing happen.                        The Yellow River turns for the sea                                  The teacher also added that the architecture was   between the valleys of the mountain. A lot of tour-
                    Uncle also said that in whatever condition,        Trying to see thousands of miles                                not advanced and during the Qin’s dynasty, the em-  ists purposely visit the national park for this scenery.
                Guan-Yu never betrayed his brothers.  Therefore,       I climb one more story                                          peror forced men to work in Northern China, which   Tourists were fascinated as they see such scene. If
                Guan-Yu’s loyalty spirit had been admired among        This is the jueju in five-syllable-long form con-               is very cold during the winter. Majority of people, 8   you ever go to the Yang Ming Shan National Park,
                Chinese from then on, and people entitled him “the   sists of 20 characters. I memorized the poem in a short           or 9 out of 10 who worked on the project died there;   you will think it is an excellent tourist attraction. The
                Lord of War” and built temples to worship him.    time.                                                                therefore, there is a story of a legendary lady Meng-  national park of Northern Taiwan, Yang Ming Shan
                    Uncle told me couple other stories from Romance    Grandpa was happy, and he asked us to close                     Jiang who was bitter weeping over her husband, one   National Park welcomes you!
                of the Three Kingdom too, such as: Straw Boat Borrows   our eyes and to think over connotations while recit-           of the laborers, moved parts of the wall to collapse.
                Arrows or Empty Fort Strategy…etc.  Each story was   ing this poem once again.
                more fascinating than the other.  I asked uncle to tell   I closed my eyes, dreaming of climbing high
                more, and he said he was going to bring the book for   upstairs myself and looking into four directions, and
                me. That was great, and I could not wait for this book to   mountains-and-rivers natural landscape immediately
                come.                                             turned up:

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