The Big Dipper

THE BIG DIPPER

北斗七星

I like to go outside at night. Everything is still and dark. Atnight I can see the stars.

我喜欢晚上出门散步，夜黑黑的 静静的，可以看到星星

Some nights the stars are very bright. They look close,too. It seems that I can almost touch them.IknowIcannot.They are too far away.

有些夜晚的星星很亮， 看起来很近 似乎可以抓到， 我知道我抓不到 它们太远了

My father and I look at the stars. We look at them insummer and in winter. They are not always the same.In summer, these are some of the stars I see.

爸爸和我在夏天和冬天看星星 看到的不总是一样的 这是夏天我看到的一些星星

In winter I see these stars. But there are some stars that I can see both in summerand in winter. I can see the Big Dipper almost every night,if the sky is clear.

这是冬天看到的星星 有些星星 在冬天和夏天都能看到 如果天气晴朗，我几乎每晚都能看到北斗七星

Long ago people drank water from dippers. The Dipperin the sky looks like a water dipper. It has a bent handle,and it has a bowl. There are three stars in the handle of the Dipper. Thereare four stars in the bowl.

很久以前人们用长柄勺喝水，空中的北斗七星就像一个长柄勺。 它有一个弯弯的柄，还有一个碗，柄的部分有三颗星，勺子的部分有四颗星