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I just lived lonely like this.Without anyone who is truly getting well along with,until an accident struck in desert of the Sahara at six years ago.Part of energy was damaged.On the ground that I wasn't with an engineer or tourist,I tried to finish this repairing task by myself.It's a matter of life.Only one week my water would be used up.

✏️ So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs all alone. It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.

❗️逐句翻译

At first night,I slept in this vasty desert，which was remoting from people and the world.I was more lonely than the people,enmeshed in the raft drifting on the sea.However,at the dawn of  the second day,when I awaken by a light sound,you can imagine how astonishing I was.

✏️ The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice. It said:

I was just like struck by the thunder,standing up immediately.I rubbed my eyes,looking carefully.What I saw was a little quirk guy,glazed at me.This was the best picture that I had draw later.Yet,My draw was inferior to his true appearance.

✏️ I jumped to my feet, completely thunderstruck. I blinked my eyes hard. I looked carefully all around me. And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness. Here you may see the best potrait that, later, I was able to make of him. But my drawing is certainly very much less charming than its model.

It was not my fault.At six years old,the grown-ups worn up my courage of being a drawer. In addition to the boa constrictor,I had not learned anything more.

✏️ That, however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.

❗️except用法 复习

I looked at this suddenly emerging guy,opening amazing eyes.Don't forget I was far away the world around thousand mile.I was impressed by this guy expression,he neither lose way nor feeling of fatigue, hungry or fear. There was not any sign showing he was losing way in dessert. When I finally can speak out my astonishment,I asked

✏️ Now I stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment. Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited  region. And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear. Nothing about him gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any human habitation. When at last I was able to speak, I said to him:

However，he just repeatedly say in a flurry,just like something is of importance

✏️ And in answer he repeated, very slowly, as if he were speaking of a matter of great consequence:

❗️ “非常重要 ”复习 consequences

When you astonished by some mysterious things，you are not dare to uncontrolled by them.In this stark dessert,enmeshing in danger of death,I fished out a paper and a pen,although I thought it was quite absurd.Right now，I realized I just learned geography,history,mathematics and grammar,"I was unable draw a picture "I said unhappily.

✏️ When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen. But then I remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar, and I told the little chap (a little crossly, too) that I did not know how to draw. He answered me:

I was astounded by what he said

✏️ And I was astounded to hear the little fellow greet it with

1:总结：

①保持原意;

②注意形容词，过去分词词性

③状语，从句等偏向后置；使用被动

2:惊讶的：

astoundin:adj  ; astound :vt

astonished/astonishing; astonish

Surprised/surprising;  surprise

amazing/amazed; amaze  ; amazement

Impressive