2.The Pool of Tears眼泪池-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《爱丽丝漫游奇境记Alice's Adventures in Wonderland》

2 The Pool of Tears “Curiouser and curiouser！”cried Alice(she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!Good-bye, feet!"(for when she looked down at her feet,they seemed 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 I shan't be able!I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you:you must manage the best way you can-but I must be kind to them,"thought Alice,"or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go!Let me see.I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.” And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. “They must go by the carrier③，”she thought;“and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet！And how odd④the directions⑤will look! ·016· 2 眼泪池 “越来越古奇，越来越古奇啦！”艾丽丝嚷 道（她是那么吃惊，一时连正经的英国话都说 不好了)，“这会儿我逐渐长成像最大最大的望 远镜那样大了！再见啦，我的 脚！”（因为她低头看脚时， 脚几乎已经远得看不见了)。 “哦，我可怜的小脚啊，亲爱 ①stocking/stokin/n.长袜 的，我不知道现在谁来替你们 穿上鞋袜？我敢断定，我是办 不到的了，我离你们太远，远 得没法为你们操心了，你们只 能自己想法照顾自己吧—不 ②boot/bu:t/.n靴子 过我得待它们好一些，”艾丽 丝想道，“否则我要去什么地 ③carrier'kaeria/撒运人；送信 方，它们也许偏不朝那儿走。让我想想。每年 圣诞节，我要给它们一双新靴子。” ④odd/bd/a古怪的 direction di'rek fan,dai'rek fan 接着她自己就盘算起来，怎样才能把靴子 姓名和地址 给它们送去。“一定得请邮递员送去，”她想， “这看来多滑稽，给自己的脚送礼物，还有这姓 名和地址也显得多奇怪！ ·017· Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Right Foot,Esg Hearthrug②， near the Fender③， (with Alice's love). Oh dear,.what nonsense④I'm talking!” Just at this moment her head struck against the roof of the hall:in fact she was now rather more than nine feet high,and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door. 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. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,”said Alice,“a great girl like you,.”(she might well say this),“to go on crying in this way！ Stop this moment,.I tell you！”But she went on all the same,shedding⑦ 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 a0 dried her eyes to see what was coming.It was the White Rabbit returning,splendidly dressed,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 himself,as he came,"Oh!The Duchess,the Duchess!Oh!Won't she be savage if I've 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 please,Sir-"The Rabbit started violently,dropped the white kid-gloves and the fan,and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. ·018· 艾丽丝爱游奇境记 ①Esq(写正式信件的地址时】 炉挡附近 用于男子姓名后的尊称 ②hearthrug /ha:0rag/n.炉前 炉前地毯上 的地毯 艾丽丝的右脚阁下收 ③fender /'fenda/n火炉围栏： (艾丽丝顺致爱意) 炉格子 ④nonsense /'nons3ns/n.荒谬 哎哟，我在说些什么废话呀！” 的言行 就在这一刹那，她的头碰到了房顶：事实 ⑤strike /straik/.打，击 上，她现在有九英尺多高了。她马上拿起那把 小小的金钥匙，急忙向花园的门走去。 可怜的艾丽丝！现在她 顶多只能侧身躺下，用一只 眼睛往门外看那个花园；可 是要走进去，那是比以前更 ⑥ashamed /'feimd/a.惭愧的， 害臊的 没有希望了。她坐在地上， ⑦shed小cd使流出 ⑧gallon /gaelon/n.加仑（美加 又哭了起来。 仑=3.7853公升：英加仑=4 “你应该感到害臊，”艾丽丝说，“像你这么 546公升) ⑨patter'peta/g发出急速轻 大的姑娘，”（她蛮可以这么说。） “还这样哭 拍声 个不停，我命令你，别哭了！”可是她照样哭 )in the distance在远处 ⑩hastily /heistili/ad.匆忙地 下去，流出了好几加仑眼泪，直到她的周围成 splendidly /'splendidli/ad. 了一个大池子，差不多有四英寸深，淹没了大 丽地 1kid-glove"kid'glAv/n.山羊 厅的一半。 皮做的手套 过了一会儿，她听到远处传来啪嗒啪嗒的 明trot/trot/快步走，小跑步 走 小脚步声，就赶紧擦干眼泪，看看是谁来了。 6 mutter"mwta/南喃自语， 原来是那只白兔回来了，它穿得漂漂亮亮， 作低沉声 duchess /'dAt fis/n公爵夫 手拿着一副白羊羔皮手套，另一只手拿着一把 人，女公爵 大扇子。它一边急匆匆地快步走来，一边自言 savage"savid3:/a凶猛的 1desperate"desparit/a不顾 自语地唠叨着，“哦，公爵夫人，公爵夫人， 一切的，绝望的 唉，要是我让她老等着，她还不大发脾气吗！” 9 timid /timid/a.胆怯的，害 羞的 艾丽丝这时感到毫无办法，不管遇见谁都打算 violently'vaiolontli/ad猛烈 求救了。所以，当兔子走近的时候，她就胆怯 地，激烈地 @scurry /skAri/.快跑 地低声说道，“劳您驾，先生一”兔子大吃一 惊，扔下那副白羊羔皮手套和扇子，拼命向暗 ·019· Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice took up the fan and gloves,and,as the hall was very hot,she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking."Dear,dear! How queer everything is to-day!And yesterday things went on just as usual.I wonder if I've 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,the next question is Who in the world am I?Ah,that's the great puzzle!"And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself,to see if she could have been changed for any of them. “T'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 I'm I,and-oh dear,how puzzling3 it all is!I'll try if I know all the things I used to know.Let me see: four times five is twelve,and four times six is thirteen,and four times seven is-oh dear!I shall never get to twenty at that rate!However, the Multiplication-Table④doesn't signify⑤：let's try Geography London is the capital of Paris,and Paris is the capital of Rome,and Rome-no,that's all wrong,I'm certain!I must have been changed for Mabel！I''ll try and say‘How doththe little--',”and she crossed her hands on her lap,as if she were saying lessons,and began to repeat it,but her voice sounded hoarse and strange,and the words did not come the same as they used to do- "How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale！ ·020· 艾丽丝漫游奇境记 处跑去了。 艾丽丝拿起扇子和手套，而且因为大厅里 ①queer/kwia/a奇怪的 很热，就一边说着话，一边扇个不停。“乖乖， 今天样样事情都那么古怪！昨天什么都还像往 常一样。不知道我是不是在昨天夜里就变了？ 让我想想看：今天早晨我起床的时候是不是还 是原样？我有点觉得，我能记得有点儿不同的 感觉。不过我要是变得不一样了，那么下一个 问题是：我到底是谁呢？啊，这个谜才难猜 呢！”她把她知道的，和她一般年龄的小孩都挨 着个儿想了一遍，看看自己会不会变成了她们 ②ringlet /rinlit/n卷发 中间的哪一个。 “我肯定不是艾达，”她说，“因为她有长长 ③puzzling∥pAzlin/a.令人迷 的卷发，我的头发一点也不卷；我肯定也不会是 惑的，莫名其妙的 梅布尔，因为我懂得各种各样的事，她呢，哼！ 她只知道那么一点点，而且她是她，我是我，天 ④multiplication table[数]乘法 哪，全都闹糊涂啦！我来试试，看我以前知道的 表 东西是不是还都知道。让我想想：四五一十二， ⑤signify/signifai/￥.有重要 性 四六一十三，四七一哎哟！这样我老数不到二 6 geography /d3i'ografi,'d3iog-/ 十！可是乘法表没有意思，咱们来试试地理。伦 n地理 敦是巴黎的首都，巴黎是罗马的首都，罗马 是一不对，我敢肯定，这全都搞错了！我一定 ⑦1a即xp/m.(坐看时的)大腿 被换成梅布尔了！我来背一下《小鳄鱼》试试。” 部 ⑧hoarse/ho:s/a沙哑的 于是她两手交叉着放在腿上，就像课堂背书似的 开始背起来，可是她的声音听起来又沙哑又奇 ⑨crocodile/'krokadail/n鳄鱼 怪，背出来的那些词儿也不像以前常背的那样： nile /nail/n.尼罗河 “小鳄鱼，尾巴亮， 怎样使它亮又亮， scale /skeil/n.鳞 尼罗河水哗哗响， ·021· Alice's Adventures in Wonderland “How cheerfully he seems to grin①， How neatly spreads his claws②， And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws③！ "I'm sure those are not the right words,said poor Alice,and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on,"I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house,and have next to no toys to play with,and oh,ever so many lessons to learn!No, I've made up my mind about it:if I'm Mabel,I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying 'Come up again,dear!'I shall only look up and say 'Who am I,then?Tell me that first,and then,if I like being that person,I'll come up;if not,I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else'-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 surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid-gloves while she was talking.“How can I have done that?”she thought..“I must be growing small again."She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it,and found that,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 cause of this was the fan she was holding,and she dropped it hastily,just in time to save herself from shrinking away altogether. “That was a narrow escape⑧I”said Alice,a good deal frightened at the sudden change,but very glad to find herself still in existence. “And now for the garden！”And she ran with all speed back to the little door;but,alas!the little door was shut again,and the little golden key ·022· 艾丽丝漫游奇境记 冲得鳞甲闪金光。 ①gnin/grin/.露齿而笑 “咧开嘴，笑得欢， ②claw /klo:/n.爪 伸开爪，多灵巧， 张开两颚眯眯笑， ③jaw/d3ln颚，颌 欢迎小鱼往里跳。” “这些话肯定都不对，”可怜的艾丽丝说， 她又眼含泪水继续说：“说到底，我一定还是变 ④poky /pauki/a.(地方)狭小 的，不舒适的 成梅布尔啦，我只好住到那幢破旧的小房子里， 差不多什么玩具都没有，唉，还老得念那么多 make up one's mind决定，下 书！不行，我已经打定了主意：要是我变成了 决心 梅布尔，我就在这下面住下去！他们把脑袋伸 下来叫：‘上来吧，宝宝！’那也没有用。我只 消望着上面说，‘那么，我究竟是谁，先告诉我 这个，然后，要是我乐意变成那个人，我就上 来；要不，我就一直待在这儿，直到我变成别 @burst/ba:st/n爆发 的什么人。’一可是，哎哟！”艾丽丝突然眼 泪哗哗地哭了起来，“我真希望他们会伸下脑袋 来！老是一个人待在这儿，我真觉得太腻味 了” 她说着，朝下看了看自己的手，发现自己 ①neasure/me3a/.量 一边说着话，一边已经把兔子的一只白羊羔皮 小手套戴在手上了，不由得大为惊讶。“我怎 么能戴上它的？”她想，“我准是又变小了。”她 站起身，走到桌子边比了一下，知道自己这会 儿是二英尺来高，跟她猜想的差不多，而且还 在很快地继续缩小。她很快就发现，手里拿着 narrow escape九死一生，幸 的扇子就是使她变小的原因，就赶紧把它扔掉， 免于难 刚好来得及救了自己，没有缩得一点儿不剩。 ⑨in existence存在 “好险哪！”艾丽丝说，突然的变化把她吓 坏了，可是看到自己还活着，又感到非常高兴。 ·023· Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was lying on the glass table as before,"and things are worse than ever, thought the poor child,"for I never was so small as this before,never! And I declare①it's too bad,that it is！” As she said these 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 sea,"and in that case I can go back by railway③，”she said to herself..(Alice had been to the seaside 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 sea,some children digging in the sand with wooden spades,then a row of lodging-houses,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!"said Alice,as she swam about, trying to find her way out."I shall be punished for it now,I suppose, 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 mouse, that had slipped in like herself. “Would it be of any use,now,”thought Alice,“to speak to this mouse?Everything is so out-of-the-way down here,that I should think very likely it can talk:at any rate,there's no harm in trying."So she began:"O Mouse,do you know the way out of this pool?I am very tired of swimming about here,O Mouse!"(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:she had never done such a thing ·024· 艾丽丝爱游奇境记 “现在该到花园里去啦！”她尽快奔回到小门那 里：可是天哪！小门又关上了，那把小小的金 ①declare/di'klea/v.断言 钥匙还照旧放在玻璃桌上。“越来越糟了，”这 可怜的孩子思忖道，“因为我还从来没有这么小 过，从来没有！这真是太 糟了，太糟了！” ②chin /tfin/n.下巴 ③railway /reilwei/n铁路 她正说着这些话的时 候，脚一滑，接着啪嗒一 声，跌进了齐下巴深的咸 ④general /d3 enoral/.d一般 的，普適的 水里。她开头以为自己不 conclusion /kan'klu:3on/n. 知怎的掉进了海里，“要是这样的话，我就可以 论 坐火车回去啦。”她对自己说道。（艾丽丝生平 spade/speid/n.铲子，铁锹 到过一次海边，所以总以为，不管你到英国什 ⑦lodging house公寓，寄宿舍 ⑧weep/wi:p/k.哭泣，流泪 么地方的海边去，总能看到海边有许多更衣车， 有些孩子在用木铲挖沙子，还有一排出租的房 子，房子后面就是火车站。)可是她很快就明白 过来，自己掉进了眼泪池，那是她身高九英尺 时哭成的。 ⑨punish /pAnij/惩罚，处罚 D drown/draun/.淹死 “我真不该哭得那么厉害！”艾丽丝一边游 着一边想道，想找到一条出路，“我想，现在我 要受到惩罚了，要淹死在自己的泪水里了！这 会是件怪事，真的！不过今天件件事都奇怪。” 正在这时候，她听见池子里不远的地方有 walrus /wo:lras/n.海象 hippopotamus/hipa'potamas/ 什么东西在划水，她游近一些，想看清楚是什 n.河马 么东西。开头她以为那个东西想必是一只海象 或者河马，可是马上想起自己现在已经是多么 小了，于是立刻就看出那不过是一只耗子，像 她自己一样滑进池里来了。 艾丽丝想道，“跟这只耗子说说话，嗯，不 知道有没有用？这里样样事情都那么稀奇古怪， 我想这只耗子很可能也会说话；试一试反正没 有坏处。”于是她开口问道，“耗子啊，你认得 从这个池子里出去的路吗，我在这儿游来游去 ·025·