牛津英语书虫系列through the lookingglass 爱丽丝镜中世界奇遇记.docx

1、牛津英语书虫系列through the lookingglass 爱丽丝镜中世界奇遇记 Through the Looking Glass by LEWIS CARROLL CHAPTER 1 Looking-Glass house One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to dowith it: - it was the black kittens fault entirely. For the whitekitten had been having its face washed by the old ca

2、t for the lastquarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so yousee that it COULDNT have had any hand in the mischief. The way Dinah washed her childrens faces was this: first she heldthe poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the otherpaw she rubbed its face all ov

3、er, the wrong way, beginning at thenose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the whitekitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr - no doubtfeeling that it was all meant for its good. But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in theafternoon, and so, while Alice was

4、 sitting curled up in a corner ofthe great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, thekitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worstedAlice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and downtill it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over

5、 thehearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after itsown 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 indisgrace. Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners!You OUGHT,

6、Dinah, you know you ought! she added, lookingreproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as shecould manage - and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair,taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up theball again. But she didnt get on very fast, as she was t

7、alking allthe time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself. Kittysat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress ofthe winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touchingthe ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might. Do you know what to-morrow is, Kit

8、ty? Alice began. Youd haveguessed if youd been up in the window with me - only Dinah wasmaking you tidy, so you couldnt. I was watching the boys getting instick for the bonfire - and it wants plenty of sticks, Kitty! Onlyit got so cold, and it snowed so, they had to leave off. Never mind,Kitty, well

9、 go and see the bonfire to-morrow. Here Alice wound twoor three turns of the worsted round the kittens neck, just to seehow it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolleddown upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again. Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty, Alice went

10、on as soon as theywere comfortably settled again, when I saw all the mischief you hadbeen doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you outinto the snow! And youd have deserved it, you little mischievousdarling! What have you got to say for yourself? Now dont interruptme! she went on,

11、 holding up one finger. Im going to tell you allyour faults. Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washingyour face this morning. Now you cant deny it, Kitty: I heard you!What that you say? (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) Herpaw went into your eye? Well, thats YOUR fault, for kee

12、ping youreyes open - if youd shut them tight up, it wouldnt have happened.Now dont make any more excuses, but listen! Number two: you pulledSnowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milkbefore her! What, you were thirsty, were you?How do you know she wasnt thirsty too? Now for n

13、umber three: youunwound every bit of the worsted while I wasnt looking! Thats three faults, Kitty, and youve not been punished for anyof them yet. You know Im saving up all your punishments forWednesday week - Suppose they had saved up all MY punishments! shewent on, talking more to herself than the

14、 kitten. What WOULD theydo at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, whenthe day came. Or - let me see - suppose each punishment was to begoing without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I shouldhave to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldnt mindTHAT much! Id

15、 far rather go without them than eat them! Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How niceand soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window allover outside. I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, thatit kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you

16、 know,with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, darlings, tillthe summer comes again. And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty,they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever thewind blows - oh, thats very pretty! cried Alice, dropping the ballof worsted to clap her hand

17、s. And I do so WISH it was true! Imsure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are gettingbrown. Kitty, can you play chess? Now, dont smile, my dear, Im askingit seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watchedjust as if you understood it: and when I said Check! you purre

18、d!Well, it WAS a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if ithadnt been for that nasty Knight, that came wiggling down among mypieces. Kitty, dear, lets pretend - And here I wish I could tellyou half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favouritephrase Lets pretend. She had had

19、quite a long argument with hersister only the say before - all because Alice had begun with Letspretend were kings and queens; and her sister, who liked being veryexact, had argued that they couldnt, because there were only two ofthem, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, Well, YOU can beone o

20、f them then, and ILL be all the rest. And once she had reallyfrightened 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 kno

21、w, Ithink if you sat up and folded your arms, youd look exactly likeher. Now do try, theres a dear! And Alice got the Red Queen offthe table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it toimitate: however, the thing didnt succeed, principally, Alice said,because the kitten wouldnt fold its arm

22、s properly. So, to punish it,she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky itwas - and if youre not good directly, she added, Ill put youthrough into Looking-glass House. How would you like THAT? Now, if youll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, Ill tellyou all my ideas abou

23、t Looking-glass House. First, theres the roomyou can see through the glass - thats just the same as our drawingroom, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when Iget upon a chair - all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I doso wish I could see THAT bit! I want so much to know wheth

24、er theyvea fire in the winter: you never CAN tell, you know, unless our firesmokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too - but that may beonly pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Wellthen, the books are something like our books, only the words go thewrong way; I know that, beca

25、use Ive held up one of our books to theglass, and then they hold up one in the other room. How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? Iwonder if theyd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milkisnt good to drink - But oh, Kitty! now we come to the passage.You can just see a li

26、ttle PEEP of the passage in Looking-glass House,if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and its verylike our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quitedifferent on beyond. Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we couldonly get through into Looking- glass House! Im sure it

27、s 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 thatwe can get through. Why, its turning into a sort of mist now, Ideclare! Itll be easy enough to get through - She was up on thechimney-

28、piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she hadgot there. And certainly the glass WAS beginning to melt away, justlike a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumpedlightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing shedid was to look w

29、hether there was a fire in the fireplace, and shewas quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away asbrightly as the one she had left behind. So I shall be as warm hereas I was in the old room, thought Alice: warmer, in fact, becausetherell be no one here to scold me away from the fi

30、re. Oh, what funitll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and cant getat me! Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seenfrom the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that allthe rest was a different as possible. For instance, the pictures onthe wall next

31、the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock onthe chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in theLooking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned ather. They dont keep this room so tidy as the other, Alice thought toherself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearthamong the cinders: but in another moment, with a little Oh! ofsurprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. Thechessmen were walking about, two and two! Here are the Red King and the Red Queen, Alice said (in a