Rainbow彩虹

长庚

At the beginning of the winter， after a long，long time of sunshine， it started to rain.“Don’tworry，” said Megan’s mother. “It always startsraining.”

While it rained for ten days and Megan said，“This has been raining a lot of while， and I want itto stop raining.”“Don’t worry，”said Mom.“Italways stops raining.”Then it rained for many days.

Megan said， “It’s been raining for forty daysand forty nights and it never stopped once. This hasbeen a horrible1 rain and I want it to stop. I wantto move to a desert2. I want to be someplace wherethere is sunshine. I am going crazy3.”

She went up to her room， crawled4 under her bed and tried to take along nap5. Maybe it would stop raining when she woke up. When she wokeup it was still raining. And it rained for more days.

Megan freaked6 out. “Eighty days of rain！ No sunshine. I have moss7in my hair. I have mushrooms8 in my ears. Snails9 on my bicycle. I need adesert. I need sunshine. Help！ ”

Megan’s mother went upstairs， crawled under Megan’s bed and wentto sleep. She hoped it would stop raining. “I don’t believe it，”said Megan.

She went downstairs， played with her blocks10 allday and went to bed. Then the next day she wokeup and there was something shiny11 in her face.

在冬天开始的时候，经过一段长时间的大晴天之后，天开始下雨了。“别担心。”梅根的妈妈说，“天总会开始下雨的。”

雨下了十天，梅根说：“雨下了好长时间了，我希望雨停下来。”“别担心。”妈妈说，“雨总会停的。”然后雨又下了好多天。

梅根说：“雨下了四十天四十夜了，从来没有停过。这是一场可怕的雨，我想雨停下来。我想搬到沙漠里。我想去一个有阳光的地方。我快疯了。”

她上楼回到自己的房间，爬到床底下，试着睡个长长的午觉。也许她醒来时雨就停了。当她醒来时，天还在下雨。雨又下了好多天。

梅根崩溃了。“下了八十天的雨！没有阳光。我头发上长满了苔藓。耳朵里长满了蘑菇。自行车上有蜗牛。我需要沙漠，我需要阳光。救命！”

梅根的母亲上楼爬到梅根的床下睡着了，她也希望雨能停下来。“我不相信。”梅根说。她下了楼，玩了一整天積木，然后上床睡觉。然后第二天她醒来时，脸上有一些闪闪发光的东西。

“Get that flashlight12 out of here，”said Megan. Therewas still something shiny in her face. “Turn out the lights，”said Megan. There was still something shiny in her face.“Iwant to go to sleep，”shouted Megan， and she opened hereyes and saw sunshine.

“Sunshine！ ”said Megan.“Sunshine after eight-one days！ ”She opened up herwindow and there was a big rainbow. It went all the way across the sky. Megan said，“I’m going to find the end of this rainbow. Maybe there is a pot13 of gold at the endof the rainbow.”

She ran out the backyard and finally came to the end of the rainbow rightunder a large tree. There was no pot of gold. Megan dug and dug and dug in theground and there was still no pot of gold. “Nuts，”she said. She looked back theother way， and from far， far away saw the end of the rainbow going into her veryown bedroom window.

“Ah！ ”said Megan. “I should look under my bed.”She ran all the way homeand ran up into her bedroom. She looked under the bed and there was her mother，fast asleep. “Oh dear！ ”said Megan. She stood in the middle of the bed with therainbow coloring her head and shouted， “Mommy！ A rainbow！ Mommy， there is arainbow！ ”Megan’s mother crawled out from under the bed and said， “Wow！ Arainbow！ ”

“Isn’t it great？”said Megan.“All we need now is a pot of gold.”“Silly，”saidMegan’s mom， looking at Megan shining in the rainbow light. “You are the pot of gold！ ”And Megan’s mom gave Megan a rainbow shining hug.

“把手電筒拿出去。”梅根说。她的脸上仍然有闪光的东西。“关灯。”梅根说。她的脸上还是有亮亮的东西。“我想睡觉。”梅根喊道，接着她睁开了眼睛，看到了阳光。

“阳光！”梅根说。“八十天后的阳光！”她打开窗户，看到一道大大的彩虹，它一直穿过天空。梅根说：“我要找到彩虹的尽头。也许彩虹的尽头有一罐金子。”

她跑出后院，终于来到彩虹的尽头，就在一棵大树下，那没有金子。梅根在地里挖了又挖，仍然没有金子。“傻瓜！”她说。她回头向另一个方向看去，远远看到彩虹的尽头进入了她自己卧室的窗户。

“啊！”梅根说，“我应该看看床底。”她一路跑回家，跑上楼进了卧室。她看了看床底，发现她妈妈正在熟睡。“天哪！”梅根说。她站在床中央，彩虹染红了她的脑袋。她喊道：“妈妈！彩虹！妈妈，有彩虹！”梅根的妈妈从床底下爬出来，然后说：“哇！彩虹！”

“是不是很棒？”梅根说，“我们现在只缺一罐金子了。”“傻孩子！”梅根妈妈看着在彩虹光下闪闪发光的梅根说，“你才是我的那罐金子。”妈妈给了梅根一个彩虹般灿烂的拥抱。

（英语原文选自：robertmunsch.com）