爱丽丝梦游仙境英文作者简介
刘易斯•卡罗尔(LewisCarroll)的真名叫査尔斯•勒特威奇•道奇森(1832〜1898), 是一位数学家，长期在享有盛名的牛津大学任堂学院数学讲师，发表了好几本数学著作。他因有严重的口吃，故而不善与人交往，但他兴趣广泛，对小说、诗歌、逻辑都颇有造诣，还是一个优秀的儿童像摄影师。
《爱丽丝漫游仙境》是卡罗尔兴之所致，给友人的女儿爱丽丝所讲的故事，写下后加上自己的插图送给了她。后来在朋友鼓励下，卡罗尔将手稿加以修订、扩充、润色后，于1865年正式岀版。故事讲述了一个叫爱丽丝的小女孩，在梦中追逐一只兔子而掉进了兔子洞，开始了漫长而惊险的旅行，直到最后与扑克牌王后、国王发生顶撞，急得大叫一声，才大梦醒来。这部童话以神奇的幻想，风趣的幽默，昂然的诗情，突破了西欧传统儿童文学逍徳说教的刻板公式，此后被翻译成多种文字，走遍了全世界。
CHAPTER I Down the Rabbit-Hole
CHAPTER I Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or convers
ations in it, v and what is the u of a book,' thought Alice x without pictures or conversation?*
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran clo by he匚There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itlf,、Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!* (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this. but at the time it all emed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on. Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before en a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to e it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge・
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so sud
denly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herlf before she found herlf falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to. but it was too dark to e anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs ・ She took down ajar from one of the shelves as she pasd; it was labelled ORANGE MARMALADE1, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
'Well!' thought Alice to herlf, "after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the hou!1 (Which was very likely true.)
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Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! I wonder how many miles Fve fallen by this time?* she said aloud・、I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me e:
that would be four thousand miles down, I think—'(for, you e, Alice had learnt veral things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)-yes, thafs about the right distance-but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude Fve got to?* (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Prently she began again. X I wonder if I shall fall right THROUGH the earth! How funny it'll em to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think-1 (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word)-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Plea, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?* (and she tried to curty as she spoke-fancy CURTSEYING as yoifre falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl shell think me for asking! No, ifll never do to ask: perhaps I shall e it written up somewhere.1 Down, down, down. There was nothing el to do, so Alice soon began talking again. 、Dinah】l miss me very much to-night, I should think!* (Dinah was the cat.)、I hope lhcy'11 remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air. Fm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that*s very like a mou, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?* And here
二建考试科目都有哪些>simcAlice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herlf, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?* and sometimes, s Do bats cat cats?1 for, you e, as she couldift answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly,、Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?1 when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves・ and the fall was ove 匚
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Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind. and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a comer,、Oh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting!* She was clo behind it when she turned the corne匚but the Rabbit was no longer to be en: she found herlf in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.
Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but. alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the cond time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among tho beds of bright flowers and tho cool fountains, but she
could not even get her head though the doorway; "and even if my head would go through/ thought poor Alice, x it would be of very little u without my shoulders・ Oh. how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.1 For, you e, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible・
There emed to be no u in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table・ half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, fwhich certainly was not here before； said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label with the words 'DRINK ME* beautifully printed on it in large letters ・
It was all very well to say "Drink me/ but the wi little Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. "No, Til look first； she said, v and e whether it's marked ”poison” or not*; for she had read veral nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all becau they WOULD not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a rcdJiot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked x poison? it is almost certain to disagree with you. sooner or later. However, this bottle was NOT marked x poison； so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had. in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
x What a curious feeling!* said Alice;must be shutting up like a telescope.1
And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited for a few minutes to e if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; x for it might end, you know/ said Alice to herlf, K in my going out altogether. like a candle・ I wonder what I should be like then?* And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out. for she could not remember ever having en such a thing.
威尔惠顿hnAfter a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could e it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herlf out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried ・
、Comc, there's no u in crying like that!* said Alice to herlf, rather shaiply; I advi you to leave off this minute!* She generally gave herlf very good advice, (though she very ldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herlf so verely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remem
bered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herlf in a game of croquet she was playing against herlf, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.、But it's no u now/ thought poor Alice, s to pretend to be two people! Why, (here's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!1初吻主题曲
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words TAT ME* were beautifully marked in currants. "Well, I'll eat it； said Alice, K and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!*
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herlf, 'Which way? Which way?： holding her hand on the top
of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprid to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it emed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So she t to work, and very soon finished off the cake・
CHAPTER II The Pool of Tears
CHAPTER II The Pool of Tears
x Curiouscr and curiour!1 cried Alice (she was so much suiprid, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); x now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!* (for when she looked down at her feet, they emed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off).、Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now. dears? I'm sure 丄shanl be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble mylf about you: you must manage the best way you can: -but I must be kind to them/ thought Alice, x or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me e: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.1
And she went on planning to herlf how she would manage it. 'They must go by the carrier； she thought; x and how funny itll em, nding prents to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will look! ALICES RIGHT FOOT ESQ. HEARTHRUG. NEAR THE FENDER. (WITH ALICES LOVE). Oh dean what nonn I'm talking!1 Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and huiTied off to the garden doo匚
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
elmx You ought to be ashamed of yourlf； said Alice, x a great girl like you； (she might well say this), v to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!1 But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears. until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to e what was coming・ Il was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dresd, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry; muttering to himlf as he came,、Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won*t she be savage if Fve kept her waiting!* Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began・ in a low, timid voice, 'If you plea・ sir-1 Tlie Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herlf all the time she went on talking: 'Dea匚dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual.
I wonder if Fve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same・(he next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah. THAT'S the great puzzle!1 And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herlf, to e if she could have been changed for any of them.
'I'm sure I'm not Ada/ she said.、for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can*t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, SHE*S she, and Pm L and-oh dear, how puzzling it all is! Fll try if I know all the things I ud to know. Let me e: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times ven
is-oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography・ London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome-no, THAT'S all wrong. Pm certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I'll try and say H How doth the little」' and she crosd her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoar and strange, and the words did not come the same as they ud to do:—
'How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail. And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!
'How cheerfully he ems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!*
'I’m sure tho are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on.must be Mabel after all. and I shall have to go and live in that poky little hou, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, Fve made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! Ifll be no u their putting their heads down and saying ”Come up again, dear!** I shall only look up and say H Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person. I'll come up: if not, Fll stay down here till Fm somebody el H-but, oh dear!* cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears.、I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!*
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprid to e that she had put on one of the Rabbit*s little white kid gloves while she was talking. v How CAN I have done that?* she thought. I must be growing small again/ She got up and went to the table to measure herlf by it, and found t
hat, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high・ and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cau of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
'That WAS a narrow escape!1 said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herlf still in existence; x and now for the garden!1 and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but. alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, "and things are wor than ever/ thought the poor child, "for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare ifs too bad. that it is!1都是戴茜惹的祸
澳际留学网As she said the words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the a,、and in that ca I can go back by railway； she said to herlf. (Alice had been to the aside once in her life・ and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the a ・ some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging hous, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high・
、I wish I hadn't cried so much!1 said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.、I shall be punished for it now. I suppo, by being drowned in my own tears! That WILL be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.*
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now. and she soon made out that it was only a mou that had slipped in like herlf.
x Would it be of any u, now/ thought Alice, x to speak to this mou? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate. there*s no hann in trying.‘ So she began: O Mou, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mou!* (Alice
