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吃完蛋糕后，爱丽丝惊奇地发现自己变大了，大到连自己的脚都快远得看不见了，想到自己再没有希望到那美丽的花园里，她伤心地哭了。然而没过多久，白兔不小心丢下的扇子又让她迅速缩小，她被困在了自己眼泪形成的池子里。正当爱丽丝游来游去试图寻找出路的时候，她遇到了一只老鼠。爱丽丝很想与它好好交谈，却总是不长记性地提起自己的猫，一次次地激怒老鼠。
终于，老鼠决定带她游上岸，告诉她自己的伤心往事。和他们一起游上岸的，还有一大群其他鸟兽……
They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled
on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging
close to them, and all dripping wet,cross, and uncomfortable.
The first question of course was, how to get dry again:they had a consultation about this, andaftera fewminutesitseemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turnedsulky, and would only say,“I am older than you, and must know better”; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority
among them, called out,“Sit down, all of you,and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!”They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle.Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
“Ahem!”said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round,if you please!“William the Conqueror, whose cause was favored by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English,who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed
to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria—”
“Ugh!”said the Lory, with a shiver.
“I beg your pardon!”said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: “Did you speak?”
“Not I!”said the Lory hastily.
“I thought you did,”said the Mouse. “—I proceed. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared
for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic
archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—”
“Found what?”said the Duck .
“Found it,”the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know what‘it’means.”
“I know what‘it’means well enough, when I find a thing,”said the Duck:“it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?”
The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,—found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence
of his Normans—“How are you getting on now, my dear?”it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.
“As wet as ever,”said Alice in a melancholy
tone:“it doesn't seem to dry me at all.”
“In that case,”said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet,“I move that the meeting adjourn
, for the immediate adoption
of more energetic remedies—”
“Speak English!”said the Eaglet.“I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!”And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered
audibly.
“What I was going to say,”said the Dodo in an offended hat the best thing to get us dry would be a “tone,was,tCaucus-race .”
“What is a Caucus-race?”said Alice; notthatshewantedmuch to know, but the Dodo had paused
as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to
say anything.
“Why,”said the Dodo,“the best way to explain it is to do it.”(And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle,( “the exact shape doesn't matter,”it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no“One, two, three, and away,”but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over .
However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!”and they all crowded round it, panting
,and asking, “But who has won?”
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, “Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.”
“But who is to give the prizes?”quite a chorus of voices asked .
“Why, she, of course,”said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, “Prizes! Prizes!”
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair
she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits
,(luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a-piece all round.
“But she must have a prize herself, you know,”said the Mouse .
“Of course,”the Dodo replied very gravely.“What else have you got in your pocket?”he went on, turning to Alice.
“Only a thimble,”said Alice sadly.
“Hand it over here,”said the Dodo.
Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly
presented the thimble, saying“Webegyour acceptance of this elegant
thimble”; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.
Alice thought the whole thing very absurd
, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.
The next thing was to eat the comfits: thiscausedsomenoise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked
and had to bepattedontheback. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.
“You promised to tell me your history, you know,”said Alice,“and why it is you hate—C and D,”she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be offended again.
“Mine is a long and a sad tale!”said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing
.
“It is a long tail, certainly,”said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail;“but why do you call it sad?”And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:—
“Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the house,
“Let us both go to law:
I will prosecute
you.
—Come,
I'll take no denial
;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning I've nothing to do.”
“Said the mouse to the cur,
“Such a trial
,
dear Sir,
With no jury or judge,
would be wasting our breath.”
“I'll be judge,
I'll be jury,”
Said cunning
old Fury:
“I'll try the whole cause,
and condemn
you to death.”
“You are not attending!”said the Mouse to Alice severely
. “What are you thinking of?”
“I beg your pardon,”said Alice very humbly:“you had got to the fifth bend, I think?”
“I had not!”cried the Mouse, sharply
and very angrily.
“A knot!”said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. “Oh, do let me help to undo it!”
“I shall do nothing of the sort,”said the Mouse, getting up and walking away.“You insult
me by talking such nonsense
!”
“I didn't mean it!”pleaded poor Alice.“But you're so easily offended, you know!”
The Mouse only growled in reply.
“Please come back and finish your story!”Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus,“Yes, please do!”but the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.
“What a pity it wouldn't stay!”sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter“Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!”
“Hold your tongue, Ma!”said the young Crab, a little snappishly.“You're enough to try the patience of an oyster
!”
“I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!”said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.“She'd soon fetch it back!”
“And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?”said the Lory.
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet:“Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!”
This speech caused a remarkable sensation
among theparty. Some of the birds hurried off at once: one the old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking,“I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn't suit my throat!”and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children,“Come away, my dears! It's high time you were all in bed!”On various pretexts
they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone .
“I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!”she said to herself in a melancholy tone. “Nobody seems to like her, down here,and I'm sure she's the best cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever see you any more!”And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited.
In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind,and was coming back to finish his story.
1.And after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life.
>没过几分钟，爱丽丝发现自己很自然地就同它们亲热地攀谈了起来，就好像老相识似的。
*as if 引导的方式状语从句，后面用虚拟语气，用“”had+过去分词表示与过去事实相反的情况。
2....not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
>她倒不是有多想知道，只是渡渡鸟说到这里停住了，就好像在等别人提问似的，而其他人偏偏又好像什么都不想说。
*that引导状语从句，表明原因，not that...but... 倒不是说……只是……。
3.We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.
>我们请求你接受这只精致的顶针。
*beg 表示“恳求，祈求”，后面直接跟祈求的内容，或与介词for、of、from搭配。
4....and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter “Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!”
>老螃蟹趁这个机会教育女儿说：“噢，我的宝贝！把这当做一个教训吧，以后千万不要发脾气。”
*lose your temper 表示“发脾气”，后面可以接with引出某人发脾气的对象。相反的意义用keep your temper表达，“忍住怒火”。
1.要说明它的最好办法就是亲自做一做。
2.爱丽丝真不知该怎么办了，她无可奈何地把手伸进衣袋，掏出了一盒糖果，然后把糖果作为奖品分发给了大家。正好周围的人一人一块。
3.爱丽丝认为这些事情全都非常荒唐，但它们却都一本正经，所以她也不敢笑。
4.我才不会做那种事呢，你胡说的这些话侮辱了我！
5.这话在鸟兽中引起了轩然大波。