24 Winter Fishing

Winter Fishing written by Pam Holden illustrated by Kelvin Hawley

冬天钓鱼，帕姆·霍尔顿写，凯文·霍利配图

Best friends and cousins, Eliza and Charlie, went on a special trip to visit their grandparents. Charlie and Eliza live on a warm island that is very different from the cold and snowy place where their Grandpa and Nan live. The children found it strange to see people outside playing on the snow and ice and wished they could try it. They asked their Grandpa if he would take them skating on the lake, but Grandpa told them that he had made a different plan for today.

最好的朋友和表兄弟，伊丽莎和查理，进行了一次特殊的旅行去看望他们的祖父母。 查理和伊丽莎住在一个温暖的岛上，与他们爷爷和奶奶住的寒冷多雪的地方截然不同。 孩子们看到人们在外面的冰雪上玩耍感到很奇怪，希望他们也能试一试。 他们问爷爷是否愿意带他们去湖上滑冰，但爷爷告诉他们，他今天有一个不同的计划。

At Nan and Grandpa's house, the cousins put on their warmest outside clothes while Nan made them a basket of food to take she made some yummy sandwiches and a nice warm drink for them to share. Nan talked to them about staying safe outdoors and being extra careful to only walk on the thickest ice. Just when Eliza and Charlie were starting to wonder what Grandpa had planned for them, Grandpa told them that he was taking them to his special fishing spot.

在奶奶和爷爷的房子里，表兄妹们穿上了最暖和的衣服，奶奶给他们准备了一篮子食物，她做了一些美味的三明治和一杯热饮给他们分享。 南告诉他们在户外要注意安全，要格外小心，只在最厚的冰面上行走。 就在伊丽莎和查理开始怀疑爷爷为他们准备了什么时，爷爷告诉他们，他要带他们去他特别的钓鱼地点。

Grandpa led the way, pulling a little sled slowly out on to the frozen lake. "Walk where I walk," said Grandpa. "Then you will only walk on the thickest ice, and you will stay safe." "How thick is this ice?" asked a frightened Eliza. "How do we know that it's safe to walk on?" "Trust Grandpa," answered Charlie, "He has been coming to his special fishing spot for his whole life!"

爷爷在前面带路，拉着一个小雪橇慢慢地来到结冰的湖面上。 “跟着我走，”爷爷说。 “那么你只会走在最厚的冰上，你会很安全。” “这冰有多厚?”吓坏了的伊丽莎问。 “我们怎么知道在上面行走是安全的呢?”“相信爷爷，”查理回答说，“他这辈子都来这个特别的钓鱼地点!”

Before long, Grandpa stopped and took a strange tool out of his bag, then he carefully made a small round hole in the ice. Eliza and Charlie held hands while they looked down into the water below. Grandpa dropped one fishing line down through the hole and handed the fishing rod to Charlie. "While you wait for a bite, I'll make another hole for Eliza to fish from," said Grandpa.

没过多久，爷爷停下来，从包里拿出一个奇怪的工具，然后他小心地在冰上钻了一个小圆洞。 伊丽莎和查理手牵着手看着下面的水。 爷爷把一根鱼线从洞里扔下去，把鱼竿递给查理。 “在你等鱼上钩的时候，我再挖一个洞给伊丽莎钓鱼，”爷爷说。

It didn't take very long before Eliza shouted, "Wow! I felt a bite! I'm sure I've caught a fish." Soon she pulled up a very small fish. Before Grandpa carefully took the hook out from the fish's mouth, Charlie took a photo of Eliza and her first-ever fish. The next thing Grandpa did seemed strange to the children he put the little fish back through the hole in the ice and they all watched it quickly swim away. Grandpa told the children how if they took all of the small fish, then one day there would be no fish left in the lake. Grandpa told them to keep trying to catch bigger fish.

没过多久，伊丽莎就喊道:“哇!我被咬了一口!我肯定我钓到了一条鱼。” 很快，她钓上来一条非常小的鱼。 在爷爷小心翼翼地把鱼钩从鱼嘴里拿出来之前，查理给伊丽莎和她的第一条鱼拍了张照片。 爷爷做的第二件事在孩子们看来很奇怪，他把小鱼从冰洞里放了回去，他们都看着它迅速游走了。 爷爷告诉孩子们，如果他们把所有的小鱼都带走，总有一天湖里会没有鱼。 爷爷告诉他们要继续钓更大的鱼。