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那是古老冬天里的一天，天那么冷，黎明都被冻住了。太阳卡在两块冰块之间，地球也被冻得那么结实，根本无法转动。第一缕阳光在半路就被冻在了山顶上，看起来就像是垂向大地的黄色冰锥。 经过一夜的狩猎，大卫•克罗基特收获颇丰，准备回家，然而这时黎明已经被冻住了。他是一个聪明人，知道自己一定要做些什么，否则地球就完蛋了。他背上驮着一只刚打来的熊，猛地把它抛在地上，就爬到太阳光线上面，开始把热乎乎熊的尸体往那些卡住太阳的冰块上摔打。不久，一股热流从熊的身体里爆发出来，把冰融化了。大卫使劲地踢了太阳一脚让它转动，太阳的热量化解了冰冻的地球，地球又转起来了。于是大卫在太阳上点燃了烟斗，肩头扛着熊，又在口袋里装了一些朝阳，在光线融化之前溜了下来。 Davy Crockett and the Frozen Dawn It was an ancient winter day, and it was so cold that the dawn froze solid. The sun got caught between two ice blocks, and the earth iced up so much that it couldn't turn. The first rays of sunlight froze halfway over the mountain tops. They looked like yellow icicles dripping towards the ground. Now Davy Crockett was headed home after a successful night hunting when the dawn froze up so solid. Being a smart man, he knew he had to do something quick or the earth was a goner. He had a freshly killed bear on his back, so he whipped it off, climbed right up on those rays of sunlight and began beating the hot bear carcass against the ice blocks which were squashing the sun. Soon a gush of hot oil burst out of the bear and it melted the ice. Davy gave the sun a good hard kick to get it started, and the sun’s heat unfroze the earth and started it spinning again. So Davy lit his pipe on the sun, shouldered the bear, slid himself down the sun rays before they melted and took a bit of sunrise home in his pocket. |
