The Skeleton Inside you

The Skeleton Inside you

我们的骨骼

On Halloween I wore a skeleton costume. l used to think skeletons were made up just to scare people. Now I know that skeletons are real. They are not scary. I would not be me without a skeleton. You would not be you.

在万圣节狂欢夜,我穿上了骷髅化妆服。我曾经认为,骷髅骨架仅仅是用来吓唬人的现在,我知道骨架真的存在,并且没那么可怕,它就是我们身体里的骨骼。没有了骨骼,你我都不会是现在看到的样子。

Skeletons are made up of many bones. Bones give you shape. A ball of clay has no bones inside it. You can make a ball of soft clay into any shape you want. You can make it into a little figure. Then you can squash the figure and roll it into a mustache or a snake. But nothing can change your shape, because you have a skeleton inside you.

骨骼是由许多骨头构成的。看这个泥球 ,因为没有骨头 ,你能将它捏成想要的任何形状。能捏一个小人,也能压扁它,搓成一条小蛇或一撇胡须。但你的身体没法这么变,因为里面有骨骼，正是他赋予了我们现在的体型。

A marionette has a skeleton too, but it is made of wood and wire, not of real bones. A plain wooden chair is like a skeleton without any covering. When the chair is covered with stuffing and cloth, it is like your skeleton covered with muscles and skin. But your skeleton is different. It is made up of bones.

牵线木偶也有骨骼,不过那不是真正的骨头,而是由木头和牵线构成的。 普通的木椅子像是没有皮肤包裹的骨骼,加上填充物和布套,就像你的骨骼裹上了肌肉和皮肤。不同的是，对你来说，构成骨骼的是骨头。

Your skeleton is made up of 206 bones. There are 64 bones just in your two hands and arms. Some of your bones are big, others are small. Some bones are flat, others are round.

我们的骨骼由 206 块骨头组成,其中双手和双臂有 64 块。骨头有大有小,有扁有圆。

Bones are hard. They give your body shape. Your ears and nose have something called cartilage in them to give them shape. Cartilage is softer than bone, and so it can bend. When the barber folds over your ear to cut your hair, your ear does not break off. That's because of the soft cartilage in your ear. Once I pushed my nose flat against a bakery window to look at some cookies. My nose didn't hurt, and it didn't break off. It came back to the same shape. Push your nose flat. It will bend too, because it has cartilage inside it.

骨头质地坚硬,它们支撑着你的身体。支撑耳朵和鼻子的是软骨。软骨比骨头软，能弯曲变形。正因为是软骨，你去理发时，理发师将你的耳朵折到前方，耳朵才不会断。 有一次,我的鼻子紧紧贴在面包店的橱窗上,看着里面美味的小饼干。鼻子尖被压得扁扁的,记不疼,也没有断,还恢复了原样。试一试,压平你的鼻子尖,它还会弯曲,因为鼻子里有软骨。