Sentence Structure 句子結構

After lunch, Marco and I returned to our classroom.

吃完午飯，我同 Marco 回到課室。

Nobody was inside, but the lights were still on, and two fans were spinning noisily.

課室裡面沒有人，但燈還開著，兩部風扇還在嗡嗡轉。

'Who forgot to switch off the lights?' Marco asked.

Marco 問：「誰忘記熄燈？」

We looked for the class monitor, but we could not find her.

我們找班長，但怎麼找也找不到。

She was not in the hall, and she was not in the music room either.

她不在禮堂，又不在音樂室。

Because we are classmates who help each other, we decided to search for her together.

因為我們是互相幫助的同學，所以我們決定一起去找她。

Finally, we found her in the library, reading quietly under the window.

最後我們在圖書館找到她，她靜靜地坐在窗邊看書。

'Did you leave the lights on?' I asked her softly.

我低聲問她：「是不是你忘記熄燈？」

She laughed and said, 'Oh no! I was in a hurry because the lunch bell rang early.'

她笑著說：「哎呀！因為午飯鐘早了響，我走得太急。」

We did not blame her, because everyone forgets things sometimes.

我們沒有怪她，因為每個人都會有忘記東西的時候。

Instead, the three of us made a plan.

相反，我們三個人想了個辦法。

We wrote a big reminder and stuck it beside the light switches.

我們寫了張大字提示，貼在燈掣旁邊。

Then we went back to the classroom together, switched off the lights and the fans, and closed the door carefully.

之後我們一起回到課室，熄了燈同風扇，再小心關上門。

Our teacher heard about the plan and praised us in front of the class.

老師知道了這個辦法，在全班面前讚我們。

Now the last student who leaves always checks the switches.

現在最後離開課室的同學一定會檢查電掣。

Small actions like this save energy for our school, and they also show that we care about our community.

這些小小的行動可以幫學校省電，還顯示出我們關心自己的社群。

It was a small afternoon, but we learned something big.

那個下午很平凡，但我們學會了很重要的東西。