If There Were No Trees

by Yun Gu-byung

If There Were No Trees

假如没有了树木

本篇适合：朗读、复述

by Yun Gu-byung

同学们，假如没有了树木，你们能想象这个世界会变成什么样吗？假如没有了树木，很多美好的事物将不复存在，那将是一件非常可怕、残酷的事。所以，我们要从自己做起，从身边做起，爱护一花一草一木。

If there were no trees,

we could not see interesting picture books.

Paper is made from trees.

We could not eat apples, pears or peaches.

They grow on trees.

Birds could not build nests.

Nests are built in trees.

Giraffes could not live.

Giraffes feed on the leaves of trees.

We could not build our houses.

We need the wood from trees to build the houses.

If there were no trees,

there could be flooding.

And our houses might float away.

If there were no trees,

mountains as well as streets would not be beautiful.

We could not build ships to sail out to sea.

We need trees to build ships.

Without trees, we would have trouble breathing.

Most oxygen that we breathe is produced by trees.

have trouble doing sth. 的意思是“做某事出现问题，做某事有困难”，还可以写成have trouble in doing sth.，其中in是可以省略的。

nest [nest] n. 巢，窝（复数：nests）

giraffe [dʒɪ'rɑːf] n. 长颈鹿（复数：giraffes）

sail [seɪl] v. 航行

flooding ['flʌdɪŋ] n. 泛滥

oxygen ['ɒksɪdʒ（ə）n] n. 氧，氧气

中文大意请见第44页。