A Bed for Paul

A Bed for Paul

保罗的床

When people need wood, they cut down the trees. People who cut down trees for a living are called lumberjacks. Long ago, as lumberjacks worked, they made up tall tales. Many of these tales were about Paul Bunyan. He was the biggest and strongest make-believe lumberjack of all!

当人们需要木头的时候， 他们砍倒了树。 以砍树为生的人 被称为伐木工人。 很久以前，当伐木工人工作时， 他们编造了一些荒诞的故事。 这些故事中有许多是关于保罗·班扬的。 他是最大的 最强壮的假想伐木工人！

Most stroies about Paul Bunyan were about his grown-up life. But some of the tales start with Paul as a baby. And what an amazing baby he was, or so the story goes! Paul was way too big for a baby bed. He was even too big for his parents' bed. Paul was a huge baby！

关于保罗·班扬的大部分故事 是关于他长大后的生活。 但有些故事是从保罗小时候开始的。 他是个多么了不起的孩子， 故事就是这样发生的！ 保罗对婴儿床来说太大了。 他甚至比他父母的床还大。 保罗是个大婴儿！

What will we do? Paul's mother moaned. A neighbor pulled a rowboat up to the Bunyans' cabin. The boat made a fine bed for Paul. But by the end of a week, Paul had grown as big as a moose. What bed wil be big enogh?his father asked.

我们该怎么办？ 保罗的母亲呻吟着。 一个邻居拉了一条划艇 到了布尼亚人的小屋。 船为保罗铺了一张很好的床。 但在周末 保罗长得和驼鹿一样大。 什么床才是大床？他父亲问。

Paul's parents decided to build a bed the shape and size of a sailing ship. They thought this would be big enough for their gigantic son. By then, Paul had grown as big as the family cabin. Again, the neighbors came to help.

保罗的父母决定盖一张床 帆船的形状和大小。 他们认为这个足够大了 为了他们的大儿子。 到那时， 保罗长得和家庭小屋一样大。 再一次， 邻居们来帮忙。

When the ship bed was finished, they all knew it would not fit inside the cabin. So they pushed Paul's bed down to the lake and floated it on the water. They dropped an anchor so it would not float away. Then they all followed Paul as he toddled down to his new bed.

船台完工后， 他们都知道它不适合在船舱里。 所以他们把保罗的床推到湖边 然后漂浮在水面上。 他们抛锚了 所以它不会漂走。 然后他们都跟着保罗 当他蹒跚地走到他的新床上时。