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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

CHAPTER 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister 姐妹 on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice 两次 she had peeped 窥视 into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy 困 and stupid 愚蠢的), 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 兔子 with pink 粉红色的 eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remark‧able 非凡的；奇异的；引人注目的 in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself 本身, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over after‧ward 之后, it occurred 发生 to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural 自然); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waist‧coat 腰‧上衣-pocket 口袋, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed 使闪光 across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit 3 with either a waist‧coat 腰‧上衣- pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity 好奇心, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately 侥幸的 was just in time to see it pop 流行的 down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge 树篱.

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 隧道 for some way, and then dipped 浸 suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping her‧self 她自己 before she found her‧self 她自己 falling down a very deep well.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell fall 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 see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cup‧board 橱柜 and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps 地图 and pictures hung upon pegs 衣夹. She took down a jar 罐 from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled 标签 ‘ ORANGE 桔子 MARMALADE’, but to her great disappointment 失望 it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar 罐 for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

‘Well!’ thought Alice to her‧self 她自己, ‘after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling 下跌 down stairs 楼梯! How brave 勇敢的 they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!’ (Which was very likely true.)

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen fall by this time?’ she said aloud 高声. ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thou‧sand 千 miles down, I think—’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt learn several things of this sort in her lessons 教训 in the school‧room 学校‧房间, 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, that’s about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand 宏大的 words to say.)

Presently she began again. ‘I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny 有趣的 it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads down‧ward 向下! The Antipathies, I think—’ (she was rather glad 高兴的 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. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?’ (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke speak— fancy 想像 curtseying as you’re falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) ‘And what an ignorant 愚昧 little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.’

Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. ‘Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!’ (Dinah was the cat 猫.) ‘I hope they’ll remember her saucer 茶杯托 of milk 奶 at tea 茶水-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat 蝙蝠, and that’s very like a mouse 老鼠, you know. But do cats 猫 eat bats 蝙蝠, I wonder?’ And here Alice began to get rather sleepy 困, and went on saying to her‧self 她自己, in a dreamy sort of way, ‘Do cats eat bats 蝙蝠? Do cats eat bats 蝙蝠?’ and sometimes, ‘Do bats 蝙蝠 eat cats?’ for, you see, as she couldn’t 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 ear‧nest 热心的, ‘Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat 蝙蝠?’ when suddenly, thump 扑通! thump 扑通! down she came upon a heap 堆 of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

Alice was not a bit 一点 hurt 损害, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark over‧head 高架; 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 corner, ‘Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!’ She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found her‧self 她自己 in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row 行 of lamps 灯 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 悲哀的 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 小 golden 金色的 key, and Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas 唉! 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 second time round, she came upon a low curtain 窗帘 she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen 十五 inches high: she tried the little golden 金色的 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 鼠-hole: she knelt 跪:kneel 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 漫步 about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains 喷泉, but she could not even get her head through the door‧way 门口; ‘and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, ‘it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut 关闭 up like a telescope 望远镜! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.’ For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately 近来, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

There seemed to be no use 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 关闭 people up like telescopes 望远镜: this time she found a little bottle on it, (‘which certainly was not here before,’ said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label 标签, with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully 精美 printed on it in large letters.

It was all very well to say ‘Drink me,’ but the wise 明智的；聪明的 little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. ‘No, I’ll look first,’ she said, ‘and see whether it’s marked “ poison 毒药” or not’; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt burn, and eaten up by wild beasts 野兽 and other unpleasant 不愉快 things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught teach them: such as, that a red-hot poker 捅火钩；扑克 will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds 使出血; and she had never forgotten forget that, if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘ poison 毒药,’ it is almost certain to disagree 不同意 with you, sooner or later.

However, this bottle was not marked ‘ poison,’ so Alice ventured 企业；投机活动；商业冒险 to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry 樱桃-tart 酸, custard, pine 松树-apple 苹果, roast 烤 turkey 火鸡, toffee, and hot buttered 黄油 toast 烤面包,) she very soon finished it off.

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‘What a curious feeling!’ said Alice; ‘I must be shutting up like a telescope 望远镜.’

And so it was indeed: she was now only ten 十 inches high, and her face brightened 变亮 up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely 可爱的 garden. First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous 担心的 about this; ‘for it might end, you know,’ said Alice to her‧self 她自己, ‘in my going out altogether 全部地, like a candle 蜡烛. I wonder what I should be like then?’ And she tried to fancy 想像 what the flame 火焰 of a candle 蜡烛 is like after the candle 蜡烛 is blown blow out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas 唉 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 see 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 滑；狡猾的; and when she had tired her‧self 她自己 out with trying, the poor little thing sat sit down and cried.

‘Come, there’s no use in crying like that!’ said Alice to her‧self 她自己, rather sharply; ‘I advise you to leave off this minute!’ She generally gave her‧self 她自己 very good advice 劝告, (though she very seldom 很少 followed it), and sometimes she scolded 责骂 her‧self 她自己 so severely 严峻的 as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated 欺骗 her‧self 她自己 in a game of croquet she was playing against her‧self 她自己, for this curious child was very fond 喜欢的 of pretending 假装 to be two people. ‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend 假装 to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respect‧able 可敬 person!’

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 蛋糕, on which the words ‘EAT ME’ were beautifully 精美 marked in currants. ‘Well, I’ll eat it,’ said Alice, ‘and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep 爬行 under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!’

She ate a little bit 一点, and said anxiously 焦急的 to her‧self 她自己, ‘Which way? Which way?’, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake 蛋糕, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull 钝的；没兴趣 and stupid 愚蠢的 for life to go on in the common way.

So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

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CHAPTER 2. The Pool of Tears

‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot forget how to speak good English); ‘now I’m opening out like the largest telescope 望远镜 that ever was! Good-bye 再见, 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 我 about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,’ thought Alice, ‘or perhaps they won win’t walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots 靴；鞋 every Christmas 圣诞节.’

And she went on planning to her‧self 她自己 how she would manage it. ‘They must go by the carrier,’ she thought; ‘and how funny 有趣的 it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet! And how odd 奇 the directions will look!

Alice’s Right Foot, Esq.
Hearthrug,
near The Fender,
(with Alice’s love).

Oh dear, what non‧sense 废话 I’m talking!’

Just then her head struck strike against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine 九 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 hope‧less 绝望 than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.

‘You ought to be ashamed 惭愧的 of your‧self 你自己,’ 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, shedding 棚 gallons 加仑 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 草草 dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly 壮观的 dressed, with a pair of white kid 孩子 gloves 手套 in one hand and a large fan 扇子 in the other: he came trotting 小跑 along in a great hurry, muttering 咕哝 to himself as he came, ‘Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won’t she be savage 野蛮人 if I’ve kept her waiting!’ Alice felt so desperate 殊死 that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid 胆小 voice, ‘If you please, sir 先生—’ The Rabbit started violently 猛烈, dropped the white kid 孩子 gloves 手套 and the fan 扇子, and skurried away into the darkness 黑暗 as hard as he could go.

Alice took up the fan and gloves 手套, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning 扇子 her‧self 她自己 all the time she went on talking: ‘Dear, dear! How queer 奇怪 everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve 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, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle 使迷惑!’ And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as her‧self 她自己, to see 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 I’m I, and—oh dear, how puzzling 使迷惑 it all is! I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve 十二, and four times six is thirteen 十三, and four times seven 七 is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty 二十 at that rate! However, the Multiplication 增加 Table doesn’t signify 表示: 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 doth the little—“’ and she crossed her hands on her lap 膝部 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 鳄鱼
Improve his shining 发光 tail 尾,
And pour 淋；倒 the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

‘How cheerfully 乐意 he seems to grin 微笑,
How neatly 整洁的 spread his claws 爪,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws 下巴!’

‘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 玩具 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 到 I’m somebody else”—but, oh dear!’ cried Alice, with a sudden burst 爆裂 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 孩子 gloves 手套 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 her‧self 她自己 by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking 收缩 rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily 草草, just in time to avoid shrinking 收缩 away altogether 全部地.

‘That was a narrow escape!’ said Alice, a good deal frightened 使惊恐 at the sudden change, but very glad 高兴的 to find her‧self 她自己 still in existence; ‘and now for the garden!’ and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas 唉! the little door was shut 关闭 again, and the little golden key 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 declare it’s too bad, that it is!’

As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash 溅! she was up to her chin 下巴 in salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, ‘and in that case I can go back by rail‧way 铁路,’ she said to her‧self 她自己. (Alice had been to the sea‧side 海滨 once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion 结论, that wherever 随地 you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing 沐浴 machines in the sea, some children digging 挖 in the sand 沙 with wooden 木制的 spades 铁锹, then a row 行 of lodging 存放 houses, and behind them a rail‧way 铁路 station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept weep when she was nine 九 feet high.

‘I wish I hadn’t cried so much!’ said Alice, as she swam 游泳:swim about, trying to find her way out. ‘I shall be punished 处罚 for it now, I suppose, by being drowned 淹死 in my own tears! That will be a queer 奇怪 thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer 奇怪 to-day.’

Just then she heard something splashing 溅 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 老鼠 that had slipped in like her‧self 她自己.

‘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 损害 in trying.’ So she began: ‘O Mouse 3, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming 游泳 about here, O Mouse!’ (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar 语法, ‘A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!’) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink 眨眼 with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.

‘Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,’ thought Alice; ‘I dare‧say 敢‧说 it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror 征服者.’ (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion 概念 how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again: ‘Ou est ma 嘛 chatte?’ which was the first sentence 句子 in her French lesson 教训-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap 飞跃 out of the water, and seemed to quiver 颤动 all over with fright 恐怖. ‘Oh, I beg 乞讨 your pardon 宽恕；说啥？!’ cried Alice hastily 草草, afraid that she had hurt 损害 the poor animal’s feelings. ‘I quite forgot you didn’t like cats.’

‘Not like cats!’ cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate 多情 voice. ‘Would you like cats if you were me?’

‘Well, perhaps not,’ said Alice in a soothing 缓和 tone 音: ‘don’t be angry 生气的 about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d take a fancy 想像 to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,’ Alice went on, half to her‧self 她自己, as she swam lazily 懒惰的 about in the pool, ‘and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking 舔 her paws 爪子 and washing her face—and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse 护士—and she’s such a capital one for catching mice—oh, I beg your pardon 宽恕；说啥？!’ cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling 鬃 all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended 触怒. ‘We won’t talk about her any more if you’d rather not.’

‘We indeed!’ cried the Mouse, who was trembling 发抖 down to the end of his tail 尾. ‘As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty 讨厌, low, vulgar 庸俗 things! Don’t let me hear the name again!’

‘I won’t indeed!’ said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. ‘Are you—are you fond 喜欢的—of—of dogs?’ The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly 渴望的: ‘There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly 卷曲 brown hair! And it’ll fetch 取 things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful 有用, it’s worth a hundred 百 pounds! He says it kills all the rats 鼠 and—oh dear!’ cried Alice in a sorrowful tone 音, ‘I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!’ For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

So she called softly after it, ‘Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!’ When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion 激情，热情；强烈情感, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, ‘Let us get to the shore, and then I’ll tell you my history, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.’

It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck 鸭子 and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures 动物；生物. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.

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CHAPTER 3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

They were indeed a queer 奇怪-looking party that assembled 集合 on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers 羽毛, the animals with their fur 毛皮 clinging 依偎 close to them, and all dripping 滴 wet 湿的, cross, and uncomfortable 不舒服.

The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation 会诊 about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural 自然 to Alice to find her‧self 她自己 talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument 论据 with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, 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 积极 refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority 权威 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 征服者, whose 谁的 cause was favoured by the pope 教皇, was soon submitted 给 to by the English, who wanted leaders 领导, and had been of late much accustomed 使习惯 to usurpation and conquest 征服. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria—“’

‘Ugh!’ said the Lory, with a shiver 发抖.

‘I beg your pardon 宽恕；说啥？!’ said the Mouse, frowning 皱眉, but very politely 有礼貌的: ‘Did you speak?’

‘Not I!’ said the Lory hastily 草草.

‘I thought you did,’ said the Mouse. ‘—I proceed 继续. “Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic 爱国的 arch‧bishop 大主教 of Canterbury, found it advisable 可取—“’

‘Found what?’ said the Duck 鸭子.

‘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 青蛙 or a worm 虫. The question is, what did the arch‧bishop 大主教 find?’

The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, ‘“—found it advisable 可取 to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown 王冠. William’s conduct 进行 at first was mode‧rate 有节制的. But the insolence of his Normans—” How are you getting on now, my dear?’ it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.

‘As wet 湿的 as ever,’ said Alice in a melancholy 愁绪 tone 音: ‘it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.’

‘In that case,’ said the Dodo solemnly 庄严的, rising to its feet, ‘I move that the meeting adjourn 休会, for the immediate adoption 采用；收养 of more energetic 有活力 remedies 治疗法—’

‘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 bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly 听得见.

‘What I was going to say,’ said the Dodo in an offended tone 音, ‘was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.’

‘What is a Caucus-race?’ said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused 暂停 as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined 倾斜 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 your‧self 你自己, 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 喘气, 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 fore‧head 前额 (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 奖赏.’

‘But who is to give the prizes?’ quite a chorus 合唱 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 使困窘 way, ‘Prizes! Prizes!’

Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair 绝望 she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily 幸 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 奖赏 her‧self 她自己, you know,’ said the Mouse.

‘Of course,’ the Dodo replied very gravely 坟墓；严重的. ‘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 ‘We beg your acceptance 验收 of this elegant 优雅 thimble’; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered 欢呼.

Alice thought the whole thing very absurd 荒诞, but they all looked so grave 坟墓；严重的 that she did not dare 敢 to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed 弓, and took the thimble, looking as solemn 庄严的 as she could.

The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise 噪音 and confusion 混乱, as the large birds complained 抱怨 that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked 呛 and had to be patted 拍 on the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged 乞讨 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 低声说, half afraid that it would be offended again.

‘Mine is a long and a sad 悲哀的 tale 故事，不实之词!’ said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing 叹.

‘It is a long tail 尾, certainly,’ said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail 3; ‘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 起诉
you.—Come,
I’ll take no
denial 否认; 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 先生,
With
no jury 陪审团
or judge,
would be
wasting
our
breath.”
“I’ll be
judge, I’ll
be jury 陪审团,”
Said
cunning 狡猾
old Fury:
“I’ll
try the
whole
cause,
and
condemn 谴责
you
to
death.”’

‘You are not attending!’ said the Mouse to Alice severely. ‘What are you thinking of?’

‘I beg your pardon 宽恕；说啥？,’ said Alice very humbly 谦逊的: ‘you had got to the fifth bend, I think?’

‘I had not!’ cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily 生气的.

‘A knot 结!’ said Alice, always ready to make her‧self 她自己 useful 有用, and looking anxiously about her. ‘Oh, do let me help to undo 解开 it!’

‘I shall do nothing of the sort,’ said the Mouse, getting up and walking away. ‘You insult 侮辱 me by talking such non‧sense 废话!’

‘I didn’t mean it!’ pleaded 求情 poor Alice. ‘But you’re so easily offended, you know!’

The Mouse only growled 吠声 in reply.

‘Please come back and finish your story!’ Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus 合唱, ‘Yes, please do!’ but the Mouse only shook shake its head impatiently 不耐烦, and walked a little quicker.

‘What a pity 怜悯 it wouldn’t stay!’ sighed 叹 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 教训 to you never to lose your temper 性情!’ ‘Hold your tongue 舌头, Ma!’ said the young Crab, a little snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience 耐心 of an oyster 牡蛎!’

‘I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!’ said Alice aloud 高声, addressing nobody in particular. ‘She’d soon fetch 取 it back!’

‘And who is Dinah, if I might venture 企业；投机活动；商业冒险 to ask the question?’ said the Lory.

Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet 宠物: ‘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 remark‧able 非凡的；奇异的；引人注目的 sensation 感觉 among the party. Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping 包 itself 本身 up very carefully 小心, 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 her‧self 她自己 in a melancholy 愁绪 tone 音. ‘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 孤独的 and low-spirited. In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of foot‧step 脚步 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.