Pre-reading

Question: What did Robinson’s mother do in his dream?

Intensive Reading

One of my dreams was really crazy. I was in a pub. The pub was on my island. I wanted to drink some rum. But the waitress was very lazy. She sat at the bar. She did nothing. I didn’t like it. I was angry but I waited.

我有一个梦真的很疯狂。我在一个酒吧里。酒吧在我的岛上。我去喝点朗姆酒。但是女服务生很懒。她坐在吧台旁。她什么都不做。我不喜欢这点。我有些生气但我在等。

Then my wife came to the pub. She gave me a piece of paper with some text. It was a message from her father. He wrote, “Come home. You have to work on the plantations.”

然后我的妻子来到了酒吧。她给了我一张纸，上面写了一些字。那是她父亲捎来的一条消息。他写道：“回家吧。你需要在种植园工作。”

But I didn’t want to go home. I went to the kitchen in the pub. There was my mother in the kitchen. She prepared some steaks. She also cooked soup. I tasted the soup. It tasted fantastic.

但我不想回家。我来到了酒吧的厨房。我母亲在厨房里。她准备了一些牛排。她还煮了一些汤。我尝了尝汤。太好喝了。

Then two Englishmen came to the pub. They wanted to sell gunpowder. One man looked like a gentleman. But the second man was horrible.

I told the horrible man, “I’m sorry. I don’t need your gunpowder. I have a lot of gunpowder in my camp.”

然后两名英国人来到了酒吧。他们想售卖火药。一个人看上去像位绅士。但另一个人很可怕。我告诉那个可怕的人，“很抱歉。我不需要你的火药。我营地里有很多火药。”

Notes:

1. pub: 酒吧，指传统的英国酒吧，在英国和爱尔兰较为常用。

2. rum: 朗姆酒。

3. waitress: 女服务生，女招待，“男服务生”是waiter。

4. gentleman: 绅士，先生。

Exercise:

Why did the two Englishmen come to the pub?