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1、【儿童英文读物】Through the Looking-GlassCHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:it was the black kittens fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pret
2、ty well, considering); so you see that it couldnt have had any hand in the mischief. The way Dinah washed her childrens faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just
3、 now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purrno doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good. But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-c
4、hair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with
5、the kitten running after its own tail in the middle. Oh, you wicked little thing! cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought! she added, lo
6、oking reproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manageand then she scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up the ball again. But she didnt get on very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the k
7、itten, and sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might. Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty? Alice began. Youd have guessed
8、if youd been up in the window with meonly Dinah was making you tidy, so you couldnt. I was watching the boys getting in sticks for the bonfireand it wants plenty of sticks, Kitty! Only it got so cold, and it snowed so, they had to leave off. Never mind, Kitty, well go and see the bonfire to-morrow.
9、Here Alice wound two or three turns of the worsted round the kittens neck, just to see how it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again. Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty, Alice went on as soon as they were comforta
10、bly settled again, when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And youd have deserved it, you little mischievous darling! What have you got to say for yourself? Now dont interrupt me! she went on, holding up one finger. Im
11、going to tell you all your faults. Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning. Now you cant deny it, Kitty: I heard you! Whats that you say? (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) Her paw went into your eye? Well, thats your fault, for keeping your eyes openif
12、youd shut them tight up, it wouldnt have happened. Now dont make any more excuses, but listen! Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her! What, you were thirsty, were you? How do you know she wasnt thirsty too? Now for number three: you unw
13、ound every bit of the worsted while I wasnt looking! Thats three faults, Kitty, and youve not been punished for any of them yet. You know Im saving up all your punishments for Wednesday weekSuppose they had saved up all my punishments! she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. What would
14、 they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Orlet me seesuppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldnt mind that much! Id far rather go witho
15、ut them than eat them! Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a whi
16、te quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance aboutwhenever the wind blowsoh, thats very pretty! cried Alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands. And I do so w
17、ish it was true! Im sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown. Kitty, can you play chess? Now, dont smile, my dear, Im asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said “Check!” you purred! Well, i
18、t was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadnt been for that nasty Knight, that came wiggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, lets pretend And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase Lets pretend. She had had quite a
19、 long argument with her sister only the day beforeall because Alice had begun with Lets pretend were kings and queens; and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldnt, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, Well, you can be one of the
20、m then, and Ill be all the rest. And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, Nurse! Do lets pretend that Im a hungry hyaena, and youre a bone. But this is taking us away from Alices speech to the kitten. Lets pretend that youre the Red Queen, Kitty! Do you know,
21、 I think if you sat up and folded your arms, youd look exactly like her. Now do try, theres a dear! And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didnt succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldnt fold its
22、arms properly. So, to punish it, she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky it wasand if youre not good directly, she added, Ill put you through into Looking-glass House. How would you like that? Now, if youll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, Ill tell you all my ideas
23、about Looking-glass House. First, theres the room you can see through the glassthats just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when I get upon a chairall but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I do so wish I could see that bit! I want so much to know whe
24、ther theyve a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room toobut that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that,
25、because Ive held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room. How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if theyd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isnt good to drinkBut oh, Kitty! now we come to the passage. You can just see
26、 a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and its very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond. Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House! Im
27、 sure its got, oh! such beautiful things in it! Lets pretend theres a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Lets pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, its turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! Itll be easy enough to get through She was up on
28、the chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there. And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she d
29、id was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room, thought Alice: warmer, in fact, because therell be no one here to scold
30、 me away from the fire. Oh, what fun itll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and cant get at me! Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible. For instance, the
31、pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her. They dont keep this room so tidy as the other, Alice thought to herself, as she
32、 noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little Oh! of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two! Here are the Red King and the Red Queen, Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of
33、 frightening them), and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shoveland here are two castles walking arm in armI dont think they can hear me, she went on, as she put her head closer down, and Im nearly sure they cant see me. I feel somehow as if I were invisible Her
34、e something began squeaking on the table behind Alice, and made her turn her head just in time to see one of the White Pawns roll over and begin kicking: she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next. It is the voice of my child! the White Queen cried out as she rushed past the K
35、ing, so violently that she knocked him over among the cinders. My precious Lily! My imperial kitten! and she began scrambling wildly up the side of the fender. Imperial fiddlestick! said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt by the fall. He had a right to be a little annoyed with the Queen
36、, for he was covered with ashes from head to foot. Alice was very anxious to be of use, and, as the poor little Lily was nearly screaming herself into a fit, she hastily picked up the Queen and set her on the table by the side of her noisy little daughter. The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid j
37、ourney through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence. As soon as she had recovered her breath a little, she called out to the White King, who was sitting sulkily among the ashes, Mind the volcano! What volcano? said th
38、e King, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if he thought that was the most likely place to find one. Blewmeup, panted the Queen, who was still a little out of breath. Mind you come upthe regular waydont get blown up! Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at
39、 last she said, Why, youll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. Id far better help you, hadnt I? But the King took no notice of the question: it was quite clear that he could neither hear her nor see her. So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than sh
40、e had lifted the Queen, that she mightnt take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes. She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in
41、the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor. Oh! please dont make such faces, my dear
42、! she cried out, quite forgetting that the King couldnt hear her. You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you! And dont keep your mouth so wide open! All the ashes will get into itthere, now I think youre tidy enough! she added, as she smoothed his hair, and set him upon the table near the Queen
43、. The King immediately fell flat on his back, and lay perfectly still: and Alice was a little alarmed at what she had done, and went round the room to see if she could find any water to throw over him. However, she could find nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got back with it she found he ha
44、d recovered, and he and the Queen were talking together in a frightened whisperso low, that Alice could hardly hear what they said. The King was saying, I assure, you my dear, I turned cold to the very ends of my whiskers! To which the Queen replied, You havent got any whiskers. The horror of that m
45、oment, the King went on, I shall never, never forget! You will, though, the Queen said, if you dont make a memorandum of it. Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the en
46、d of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him. The poor King looked puzzled and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time without saying anything; but Alice was too strong for him, and at last he panted out, My dear! I really must get a thinner pencil.
47、I cant manage this one a bit; it writes all manner of things that I dont intend What manner of things? said the Queen, looking over the book (in which Alice had put The White Knight is sliding down the poker. He balances very badly) Thats not a memorandum of your feelings! There was a book lying nea
48、r Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, for its all in some language I dont know, she said to herself. It was like this. YKCOWREBBAJ sevot yhtils eht dna,gillirb sawT ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD ,sevogorob eht erew ysmim llA .ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnAShe puzzled o