在开始读故事之前，可以让孩子根据书的封面和故事的名称想象一下这会是一个怎样的故事，故事中会发生什么。亲子共读过程中可以考虑以下活动：      

1.和孩子一起读标题和看封面。问：你认为这个故事是关于什么的？  

2. 彩虹有几种颜色呢？你能说出来都是哪些颜色吗？            

3.讨论标题，问：你认为这个故事可能发生在什么地方？

接下来让我们来看故事吧。

It was raining, but the sun was shining at the same time.

The children looked up and saw a rainbow across the sky.

“ I wonder where the rainbow begins?"

asked Wilf,"and where it ends?"

下着雨，但同时太阳灿烂。

孩子们抬起头，看到天空中有一道彩虹。

“我想知道彩虹是从哪里开始的，”

Wilf问，“它的尽头在哪里呢?”

In a place far away, there was a lorry.

It was a very big lorry because on the back was a verybig machine.

The machine made rainbows and was called The Rainbow Machine.

There are seven colours in the rainbow.

It took seven people to look after the rainbow machine.

They cleaned it and polished it and they made sure it worked properly.

在一个很远的地方，有一辆卡车。

那是一辆非常大的卡车，因为在后面是一台非常大的机器。

这台机器可以制造彩虹，被称为彩虹机器。

彩虹有七种颜色。

这需要七个人来照看彩虹机。

他们把它擦干净，擦亮，并且确保它正常运作。

The rainbow machine had to be ready at anytime.

Sometimes weeks and weeks went by and a rainbow was not needed.

But when the call came,  the rainbow makers had to work fast.

Off they went in the lorry.

While it was going along, the rainbow makers got the machine ready.

Then, one... two.. .three... Go!

They pressed a  button and the rainbow shot out of the machine.

彩虹机器需要随时准备就绪。

有时候好几个星期过去，都不需要彩虹。

但是当电话响起的时候，彩虹制造制造者们不得不飞速工作。

他们坐卡车走。

当它前进的时候，彩虹制造者把机器准备就绪。

然后，一···二 ···三···走!

他们按下了一个按钮，彩虹就从机器里喷了出来。

When there was a rainbow, everyone stopped to look at it.

Children ran to their mums or dads and said," What a beautiful rainbow!"

Sometimes the rainbow was very bright butsometimes it was quite pale.

Often the childrenran towards it.

They wanted to find the end of it,and play in all the colours.

But, of course, they never could.

当彩虹出现的时候，每个人都停下来看。

孩子们跑向他们的妈妈或爸爸说:“多么美丽的彩虹啊!”

有时彩虹很亮，但有时它很苍白。

孩子们常常朝它跑过去。

他们想找到它的尽头，并在所有的颜色中玩耍。

但是，当然，他们永远也找不到。

One of the rainbow makers was a young man called Fred.

He was new and he was learning to be a rainbow maker.

One day, the other  rainbow makers said,

"Look after the lorry, Fred. We won’t be long."

The lorry was on a double yellow line. Fred saw a traffic warden.

'Oh no! 'said Fred. "I must move the rainbow machine."

So he climbed into the driver's cab and drove away.

彩虹制造者中有一个叫Fred的年轻人。

他是新来的，他正在学习做一个彩虹制造者。

有一天，其他彩虹制造者说，“看好卡车，Fred。我们不会耽搁很久的。”

卡车开在一条双黄线上。Fred看到一个交通管理员。

“噢,不!”Fred说。"我必须移动彩虹机。”

于是他爬上司机的驾驶室，开车走了。

Fred drove the lorry along the road.

This is fun, he said. But I'd better not be too long.

He wanted to turn the lorry round, so he droveinto a field.

Oh no! The lorry stuck in the mud.

The wheels spun round and round and the lorry sank deeper and deeper.

"Now what shall I do?" thought Fred.

Suddenly, there was a door in the field.

Biff and Chip came through it with Wilf, Nadim and Anneena.

Biff had the magic key.

A new adventure had begun.

The children saw that a lorry was stuck in the field.

Then they saw Fred.

"  Can you help me?"called Fred. "Will you push the lorry?"

突然，田野里出现了一扇门。

Biff和Chip带着Wilf，Nadim。Anneena。

Biff拿着魔法钥匙。一个新的冒险开始了。

孩子们看见一辆卡车困在地里。

然后他们看到Fred。

“你们能帮帮我吗?”Fred大喊。"你们能推那辆卡车吗?" 

完整译文：

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