Rainbow彩虹

長庚

At the beginning of the winter， after a long，long time of sunshine， it started to rain.“Don’tworry，” said Megan’s mother. “It always startsraining.”

While it rained for ten days and Megan said，“This has been raining a lot of while， and I want itto stop raining.”“Don’t worry，”said Mom.“Italways stops raining.”Then it rained for many days.

Megan said， “It’s been raining for forty daysand forty nights and it never stopped once. This hasbeen a horrible1 rain and I want it to stop. I wantto move to a desert2. I want to be someplace wherethere is sunshine. I am going crazy3.”

She went up to her room， crawled4 under her bed and tried to take along nap5. Maybe it would stop raining when she woke up. When she wokeup it was still raining. And it rained for more days.

Megan freaked6 out. “Eighty days of rain！ No sunshine. I have moss7in my hair. I have mushrooms8 in my ears. Snails9 on my bicycle. I need adesert. I need sunshine. Help！ ”

Megan’s mother went upstairs， crawled under Megan’s bed and wentto sleep. She hoped it would stop raining. “I don’t believe it，”said Megan.

She went downstairs， played with her blocks10 allday and went to bed. Then the next day she wokeup and there was something shiny11 in her face.

在冬天開始的時候，經(jīng)過一段長時間的大晴天之后，天開始下雨了。“別擔心。”梅根的媽媽說，“天總會開始下雨的。”

雨下了十天，梅根說：“雨下了好長時間了，我希望雨停下來。”“別擔心。”媽媽說，“雨總會停的。”然后雨又下了好多天。

梅根說：“雨下了四十天四十夜了，從來沒有停過。這是一場可怕的雨，我想雨停下來。我想搬到沙漠里。我想去一個有陽光的地方。我快瘋了。”

她上樓回到自己的房間，爬到床底下，試著睡個長長的午覺。也許她醒來時雨就停了。當她醒來時，天還在下雨。雨又下了好多天。

梅根崩潰了。“下了八十天的雨！沒有陽光。我頭發(fā)上長滿了苔蘚。耳朵里長滿了蘑菇。自行車上有蝸牛。我需要沙漠，我需要陽光。救命！”

梅根的母親上樓爬到梅根的床下睡著了，她也希望雨能停下來。“我不相信。”梅根說。她下了樓，玩了一整天積木，然后上床睡覺。然后第二天她醒來時，臉上有一些閃閃發(fā)光的東西。

“Get that flashlight12 out of here，”said Megan. Therewas still something shiny in her face. “Turn out the lights，”said Megan. There was still something shiny in her face.“Iwant to go to sleep，”shouted Megan， and she opened hereyes and saw sunshine.

“Sunshine！ ”said Megan.“Sunshine after eight-one days！ ”She opened up herwindow and there was a big rainbow. It went all the way across the sky. Megan said，“I’m going to find the end of this rainbow. Maybe there is a pot13 of gold at the endof the rainbow.”

She ran out the backyard and finally came to the end of the rainbow rightunder a large tree. There was no pot of gold. Megan dug and dug and dug in theground and there was still no pot of gold. “Nuts，”she said. She looked back theother way， and from far， far away saw the end of the rainbow going into her veryown bedroom window.

“Ah！ ”said Megan. “I should look under my bed.”She ran all the way homeand ran up into her bedroom. She looked under the bed and there was her mother，fast asleep. “Oh dear！ ”said Megan. She stood in the middle of the bed with therainbow coloring her head and shouted， “Mommy！ A rainbow！ Mommy， there is arainbow！ ”Megan’s mother crawled out from under the bed and said， “Wow！ Arainbow！ ”

“Isn’t it great？”said Megan.“All we need now is a pot of gold.”“Silly，”saidMegan’s mom， looking at Megan shining in the rainbow light. “You are the pot of gold！ ”And Megan’s mom gave Megan a rainbow shining hug.

“把手電筒拿出去。”梅根說。她的臉上仍然有閃光的東西。“關燈。”梅根說。她的臉上還是有亮亮的東西。“我想睡覺。”梅根喊道，接著她睜開了眼睛，看到了陽光。

“陽光！”梅根說。“八十天后的陽光！”她打開窗戶，看到一道大大的彩虹，它一直穿過天空。梅根說：“我要找到彩虹的盡頭。也許彩虹的盡頭有一罐金子。”

她跑出后院，終于來到彩虹的盡頭，就在一棵大樹下，那沒有金子。梅根在地里挖了又挖，仍然沒有金子。“傻瓜！”她說。她回頭向另一個方向看去，遠遠看到彩虹的盡頭進入了她自己臥室的窗戶。

“啊！”梅根說，“我應該看看床底。”她一路跑回家，跑上樓進了臥室。她看了看床底，發(fā)現(xiàn)她媽媽正在熟睡。“天哪！”梅根說。她站在床中央，彩虹染紅了她的腦袋。她喊道：“媽媽！彩虹！媽媽，有彩虹！”梅根的媽媽從床底下爬出來，然后說：“哇！彩虹！”

“是不是很棒？”梅根說，“我們現(xiàn)在只缺一罐金子了。”“傻孩子！”梅根媽媽看著在彩虹光下閃閃發(fā)光的梅根說，“你才是我的那罐金子。”媽媽給了梅根一個彩虹般燦爛的擁抱。

（英語原文選自：robertmunsch.com）