澳洲小学学期具体时间（新西兰本土小学读物分享之二年级小学生假期读什么）
澳洲小学学期具体时间（新西兰本土小学读物分享之二年级小学生假期读什么）strikes（strike） 出击（动词）It catches a wiggling quicksilver minnow from where it was hiding under the pond.heron 苍鹭tenses（tense） 拉紧（动词）and strikes!
今天为大家分享<Over and Under the Pond>下篇。
上篇，请参看：新西兰本土小学读物分享之二年级小学生假期读什么（2）
Over the pond there at the shore tall and silent and still a great blue heron stares down into the deep.
It tenses ... takes one long-legged step ...
heron 苍鹭
tenses（tense） 拉紧（动词）
and strikes!
It catches a wiggling quicksilver minnow from where it was hiding under the pond.
strikes（strike） 出击（动词）
quicksilver 水银
Over the pond we drift heads tipped up to the sun.
A woodpecker clings to a teetering pine digging for ants.
woodpecker 啄木鸟
teetering 摇摇欲坠的
Under the pond an otter claws for freshwater mussels.
otter 水獭
mussels 青口贝，蚌
Over the pond a sleepy dragonfly lands for a rest.
His spindly legs tickle my knee.
Under the pond dragonfly larvae watch what swims by.
They catch minnows in monster-fast jaws.
dragonfly 蜻蜓
spindly 细长瘦弱的
larvae 幼虫
jaws（jaw） 颚、颌
Over the pond the shadows stretch.
Ospreys circle on quiet wings.
Raccoons and mink stalk the shoreline for supper.
Under the pond with a flip of a tail a crayfish disappears in the dark.
Ospreys（osprey） 鱼鹰
Raccoons（raccoon）浣熊、狸
mink 貂
Over the pond we head for home.
We glide-swish-bump! -right up onto shore as a far-off loon calls good night.
The sky turns from sunset to dusk to dark.
Night settles over the pond - the prowling catfish and drowsy turtles the scuttling crayfish and tadpoles - turned - frog.
Waiting herons and stalking raccoons.
glide-swish-bump 滑行颠簸
far-off 遥远的，偏僻的
loon 浅鸟
prowling 徘徊，潜行
catfish 鲶鱼
drowsy 昏昏欲睡的
And the hidden world under the pond.
This is the back cover.
