My favorite bedtime story
我最喜欢的睡前故事
Every night when I was little, my mother would read me a bedtime story.
我小的时候，每天晚上，妈妈都会给我读一个睡前故事。
My favorite story was Tom’s Midnight Garden.
我最喜欢的故事是《汤姆的午夜花园》。
This was a story by Philippa Pearce.
这是菲利帕·皮尔斯的故事。
It was quite a long book, and it took quite a few nights for my mother to read the entire book to me.
这是一本很长的书，我母亲花了好几个晚上才把整本书读给我听。
In Tom’s Midnight Garden Tom moves to the city to stay with his aunt and uncle.
在汤姆的午夜花园里，汤姆搬到城里和他的叔叔婶婶住在一起。
He is very bored at their apartment.
他对他们的公寓感到很无聊。
They have no children, so Tom has nothing to do.
他们没有孩子，所以汤姆无事可做。
One night, the clock strikes thirteen times.
一天晚上，钟敲了十三下。
Tom knows that this is impossible.
汤姆知道这是不可能的。
A clock can only strike up to twelve times.
时钟最多只能敲十二下。
He sneaks downstairs and goes outside.
他偷偷下楼走了出去。
When he gets outside, there is a wonderful garden that wasn’t there the day before.
当他走到外面时，那里有一个前一天没有的美丽花园。
The next day, Tom goes outside and finds that there is no garden.
第二天，汤姆走到外面，发现没有花园。
The garden only seems to appear at night.
花园似乎只在晚上出现。
Every night, Tom slips out to this wonderful garden, and he meets some people in the garden.
每天晚上，汤姆溜到这个美丽的花园，他在花园里遇到一些人。
He meets a girl named Hattie.
他遇到了一个叫海蒂的女孩。
Hattie and Tom become very good friends in this garden.
海蒂和汤姆在这个花园里成了好朋友。
Some very strange things happen in this book.
这本书中发生了一些非常奇怪的事情。
There are some coincidences that keep you guessing about what is really going on.
有些巧合让你一直在猜测到底发生了什么。
The surprise ending is wonderful.
意外的结局很精彩。
I really enjoyed Tom’s Midnight Garden and I was very sad when my mother and I came to the end of the book.
我真的很喜欢汤姆的午夜花园，当我妈妈和我读到这本书的结尾时，我非常难过。
I felt that I had visited the magical garden with Tom.
我觉得我和汤姆一起参观了魔法花园。
It is a book that I will remember all of my life.
这是一本我终生难忘的书。
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