Unit 1
Johnny the Explorer 约翰尼探险家 Johnny was three when he ran away from home for the first time. Somebody left the garden gate open. Johnny wandered out, crossed some fields, and two hours later, arrived in the next village. He was just able to give his name and address.
当约翰尼第一次离家出走时,他只有 3岁。

有些人的花园门口敞开着。

约翰尼越过这些地段就漫步出去了,接着 2个小时后,他到了下一个村子。

他只能说出他的名字和地址。

By the time he was seven, Johnny used to vanish from home two to three times a year. Sometimes he covered quite long distances on foot. On other occasions he got on a bus or even a train, and simply sat there until someone asked for his ticket. Generally the police brought him home. "Why do you do it?" they used to ask. "You aren't unhappy at home, are you? .... " "Of course not," Johnny replied. "Then why?" "I just like seeing places," Johnny told them.
等到他 7岁的以后,约翰尼经常离家出走,一年内有两到三次。

有时他步行到很远的地方。

其他时候,他通常坐公共汽车或甚至坐火车外出,并朴素地坐在里面直到有人来买票。

通常警察来带他回家。

“为什么你要离家出走?” 警察们问他,“你在家里是幸福的,不是吗? .... ”“当然不是不幸福,”约翰尼回答道。

“那是为什么呢?”“我只是喜欢外出探险, ”约翰尼告诉他们。

Johnny continued to "see places" although everyone tried to stop him. His parents used to watch him closely, and so did his teachers; but sooner or later Johnny managed to slip away.
As he grew older, his favorite trick was to hide on a long distance truck. Sometimes he used to travel hundreds of miles before anyone discovered him.
约翰尼依然继续“探险旅程”即使每个人都尝试阻止过他。

虽然他的父母和老师们曾经紧紧的看住他, 但是他早晚还是设法溜走了。

随着年龄的增长, 他长大了,他最喜欢招数就是藏在一辆长途卡车。

有时他经常旅行了数百英里才被人发现。

It is hardly surprising that eventually Johnny managed to get on board a plane. He was twelve at the time. It was a cargo plane and, a few hours later, Johnny found himself in Cairo. How did he get on board? No one knows! According to Johnny himself, it was easy: he just went into the airport, walked along some corridors and got on board the nearest plane. 这没什么好惊讶的,最后约翰尼设法登上了飞机。

在那时他只有 12岁。

这是一架货物飞机, 几个小时后, 约翰尼发现他自己在开罗。

他是如何登机的? 没有人知道!按照约翰尼他自己说的,这是容易的:他只是进入了飞机场,沿着一些候车长廊然后登上了快要起飞的飞机。

In spite of all this, Johnny did well at school. He enjoyed maths and languages and, perhaps not surprisingly, he was especially good at geography. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" his teachers asked him. Johnny did not take long to answer that question. "An explorer!" he answered. "But it's difficult to become an explorer in this modem age." they tried to tell him, "unless you go into space!" But it was no use: Johnny knew what he wanted!
虽然有这些事情,但是约翰尼在学校表现出色。

他喜欢数学和语言学, 也许并不令人意外的是他尤其擅长地理。

“当你长大以后想要做什么?”他的老师们问过他。

约翰尼并没有花很长时间去回答那个问题。

“一个探险家”他
回答道。

“但是在这个现代社会想要成为一个探险家是困难的,”他们试图告诉他,“除非你进入了太空!”但是这些话是没用的:约翰尼知道自己想要什么!
Just before he left school, Johnny saw a notice in one of the daily papers. An expedition was about to go to Brazil to travel up the Amazon River. There were vacancies for three young people "willing to work hard and with a sense of adventure". Johnny applied, and, two months later, he was on his way to Brazil.
刚要离开学校时,约翰尼在一张日报中看到一个公告。

一个探险队将要去巴西的亚马逊河上探险。

队伍需要招 3个年轻人“希望工作努力并带有一种冒险感的优先” 。

约翰尼申请了, 接着 2个月后, 他踏上了去巴西探险的旅程。