【细节描写的片段】第1505天：饮水机，英文人物动作和叙事细节描写

#亲子欢喜大年#

第1505天：净水器、英语人物动作、叙事细节

第1505天，英语超级写作保姆，4.1年双语日记记录了女儿的生活

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中英合计：103.5万字英语41.5万字，中文62万

云日记

第1505天)2022年1月26日(3)

A diary for my yunduo 'er

Day 1505、Jan 26、2022 (Wed)

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kudos to the mind who had such a brilliant idea as to conceive of such a teeny weeny sweet toy water dispenser for kids . it was the bite-version on Eal

真的有这样的大脑，能想到设计这么可爱的玩具饮水机。

You had no inkling what the toy was for when mummy first took it out. Mummy did a demonstration. "It's downright fun," you said excitedly. Mummy gave the bucket a quick wash and filled it with water. A small handle pressed down, water trickled from a nozzle into a tiny cup that came with the machine. With the first mouthful of water, you said, "It's really yummy." In fact, the contents of the bucket were nothing but ordinary water. After finishing off one bucket of water, you removed the bucket from the machine, poured more water into it, put the machine upside down and screwed it back on the bucket and then upended the whole thing again, as mummy had shown you. The bucket couldn't be upended first to be screwed down on the machine because in that way water would gush out from it. You gulped down three buckets' worth of water at a stretch. The small gadget turned out to be a viable speedy solution to your longstanding disinclination to drink water.

妈妈拿出来时你完全不知道怎么玩儿。妈妈做了个示范。“太好玩了，”你很兴奋。妈妈把桶洗了一下，往里面装满水。按下小手柄，水便从水嘴儿里缓缓流出进了一个配套的小杯子。喝了一口，你说，“水好香。”其实那就是普通的水。喝完一桶水，你卸下水桶，把桶再装满水，把机械部分颠倒过来拧到水桶上，再整体倒过来。这些都是妈妈教你的。不能先把水桶倒过来拧到机械上，因为那样水就会从桶里奔涌而出。你连续灌下了三桶水。看来，这个小玩意儿多快好省地解决了你不爱喝水的长期问题。

a small handle pressed down在语法上叫独立式，看上去有点怪，绝大多数人包括曾经一个医学博士后指出是语法错误。其实不是错误，叫独立式，商业专业文献中几乎见不到，文学中极其常见

趣味表达和俚语：

teeny weeny （儿语）很小的