🔊 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 conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

爱丽丝开始觉得坐在河岸上陪姐姐很无聊,又没事可做:有一两次她偷看了一下姐姐正在读的书,但里面既没有插图也没有对话,"一本书有什么用呢,"爱丽丝想,"如果没有插图或对话？"

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peeped /piːpt/

v. 偷看,窥视➕

🔊 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 close by her.

于是她在心里琢磨着（尽她所能,因为炎热的天气让她感到非常困倦和迟钝）,编一个雏菊花环的乐趣是否值得她起身去摘雏菊的麻烦,这时突然一只白兔睁着粉红色的眼睛从她身边跑过。

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considering /kənˈsɪdərɪŋ/

v. 考虑,认为（现在分词作状语）➕

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daisy-chain /ˈdeɪzi tʃeɪn/

n. 雏菊花环➕

🔊 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 itself, "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 seemed 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 seen 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 see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

这并没有什么特别值得注意的；爱丽丝也不觉得听到兔子自言自语说:"天哪！天哪！我要迟到了！"有什么不对劲（后来她回想起来,才意识到自己本该对此感到惊讶,但当时一切似乎都很自然）；但当兔子真的从背心口袋里掏出一块表,看了看,然后匆忙赶路时,爱丽丝猛地站了起来,因为她突然想到自己从未见过兔子有背心口袋,或者能从口袋里掏出表来,她好奇心大发,跑过田野去追它,幸运的是刚好看到它扑通一声钻进篱笆下的一个大兔子洞。

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remarkable /rɪˈmɑːrkəb(ə)l/

adj. 非凡的,引人注目的➕

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occurred /əˈkɜːrd/

v. 发生,被想到（过去式）➕

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waistcoat-pocket /ˈweɪstkoʊt ˈpɒkɪt/

n. 马甲口袋➕

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curiosity /ˌkjʊəriˈɒsəti/

n. 好奇心,求知欲➕

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fortunately /ˈfɔːrtʃənətli/

adv. 幸运地,幸好➕

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hedge /hedʒ/

n. 树篱,篱笆➕

🔊 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

紧接着爱丽丝也跟着跳了下去,一次也没考虑过自己到底要怎么出来。

🔊 The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.

兔子洞像隧道一样笔直地延伸了一段路,然后突然向下倾斜,如此突然以至于爱丽丝还没来得及想停下,就发现自己掉进了一口很深的井里。

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tunnel /ˈtʌn(ə)l/

n. 隧道,地道➕

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dipped /dɪpt/

v. 下降,下沉；浸,蘸（过去式）➕

🔊 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 see 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 a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE", 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.

要么是井很深,要么是她掉得很慢,因为她有充足的时间在下落时环顾四周,想知道接下来会发生什么。首先,她试图向下看,弄清楚她会落到哪里,但太黑了,什么也看不见；然后她看了看井壁,注意到井壁上摆满了橱柜和书架；她到处看到地图和图片挂在钉子上。她经过时从书架上取下一个罐子；上面标着"橙子果酱",但令她大失所望的是,它是空的:她不想扔掉罐子,怕砸到人,于是在掉过去时设法把它放进了其中一个橱柜。

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cupboards /ˈkʌbərdz/

n. 橱柜,碗柜（复数）➕

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book-shelves /ˈbʊk ʃelvz/

n. 书架,书橱（复数）➕

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MARMALADE /ˈmɑːrməleɪd/

n. 橘子（或柠檬等）果酱➕

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disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/

n. 失望,沮丧➕

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for fear of /fɔː(r) fɪər ɒv/

phrase. 生怕,以免➕

🔊 "Well!" thought Alice to herself, "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 house!" (Which was very likely true.)

"好家伙！"爱丽丝心想,"经过这样一摔,我再也不会把摔下楼梯当回事了！家里人会认为我多勇敢啊！嘿,我甚至不会提起这件事,即使我从屋顶上摔下来！"（这很可能没错。）

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tumbling /ˈtʌmblɪŋ/

v. 摔倒,滚落（现在分词）➕

🔊 Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—" (for, you see, Alice had learnt several 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, 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 words to say.)

掉啊,掉啊,掉啊。这掉落难道永无止境吗！"我想知道到现在我掉了多少英里了？"她大声说道。"我一定快到地心附近了。让我想想:那应该是往下四千英里,我想——"（因为,你看,爱丽丝在课堂上学过一些这类知识,虽然这不是炫耀知识的好机会,因为没人在听她说话,但说出来练习一下也好）"——是的,那大概是对的——但那么我到了什么纬度或经度呢？"（爱丽丝不知道纬度是什么,经度也不知道,但觉得这两个词说起来很好听。）

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centre /ˈsentə(r)/

n. 中心,中央（英式拼写）➕

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showing off /ˈʃəʊɪŋ ɒf/

v. 炫耀,卖弄（现在分词短语）➕

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Latitude /ˈlætɪtjuːd/

n. 纬度➕

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Longitude /ˈlɒndʒɪtjuːd/

n. 经度➕

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

过了一会儿,她又开始想。"我想知道我会不会直接穿过地球！从那些头朝下走路的人中间钻出来会多有趣啊！我想是对跖地——"（这次她很高兴没人在听,因为这个词听起来完全不对）"——但我得问问他们这个国家叫什么,你知道。请问,夫人,这是新西兰还是澳大利亚？"（她说话时试图行屈膝礼——想想看,在空中掉落时行屈膝礼！你觉得你能做到吗？）"她一定会认为我问这个问题是多么无知的小女孩！不,绝不能问:也许我会在某个地方看到写着的。"

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Antipathies /ænˈtɪpəθiz/

n. 反感,厌恶（复数,原文中爱丽丝误用了该词,实指'Antipodes'）➕

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curtsey /ˈkɜːrtsi/

v./n. 行屈膝礼（也作curtsy）➕

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fancy /ˈfænsi/

v. 想象；喜欢,想要➕

🔊 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.) "I hope they'll 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, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, "Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes, "Do bats 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 earnestly, "Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?" when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

掉啊,掉啊,掉啊。没事可做,所以爱丽丝很快又开始说话了。"黛娜今晚一定会很想我,我想！"（黛娜是那只猫。）"我希望他们茶点时记得给她一盘牛奶。黛娜亲爱的！我真希望你在这里陪着我！恐怕空中没有老鼠,但你可能抓到蝙蝠,那很像老鼠,你知道。但猫吃蝙蝠吗,我想知道？"说到这里爱丽丝开始有点困了,继续迷迷糊糊地自言自语,"猫吃蝙蝠吗？猫吃蝙蝠吗？"有时又说,"蝙蝠吃猫吗？"因为,你看,她回答不了哪个问题,所以怎么问都无所谓。她感到自己在打瞌睡,刚刚开始梦见自己和黛娜手牵手走着,非常认真地对她说:"现在,黛娜,告诉我实话:你吃过蝙蝠吗？"突然,砰！砰！她掉到了一堆树枝和干叶子上,掉落结束了。

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dozing off /ˈdəʊzɪŋ ɒf/

v. 打瞌睡,打盹（现在分词短语）➕

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earnestly /ˈɜːrnɪstli/

adv. 认真地,诚挚地➕

🔊 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 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 herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.

爱丽丝一点也没受伤,她立刻跳了起来:她向上看,但头顶一片漆黑；面前是另一条长长的通道,白兔还在视线内,匆忙往下走。一刻也不能耽搁:爱丽丝像风一样追去,刚好听到它在拐弯时说:"哦,我的耳朵和胡子,多晚了！"她拐弯时紧跟在它后面,但兔子已经不见了:她发现自己在一个又长又低的大厅里,大厅由一排挂在屋顶的灯照亮。

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passage /ˈpæsɪdʒ/

n. 通道,走廊；段落➕

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whiskers /ˈwɪskərz/

n. （猫、鼠等动物的）胡须（复数）➕

🔊 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.

大厅四周都是门,但全都锁着；爱丽丝从一边走到另一边,试了每扇门后,她悲伤地走到中间,想知道自己到底怎么才能出去。

🔊 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 second 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!

突然她发现一张小三脚桌,全由实心玻璃制成；上面除了一把小小的金钥匙外什么都没有,爱丽丝的第一个念头是它可能属于大厅的某扇门；但是,唉！要么锁太大,要么钥匙太小,总之它打不开任何一扇门。然而,第二次绕圈时,她发现了一个之前没注意到的低帘子,后面是一扇约十五英寸高的小门:她把小金钥匙插进锁里试了试,令她高兴的是,它正合适！

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three-legged /ˌθriː ˈleɡɪd/

adj. 三条腿的➕

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alas /əˈlæs/

interj. 唉,哎呀（表示悲痛、遗憾的感叹词）➕

🔊 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 those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; "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 up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin." For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

爱丽丝打开门,发现它通向一个小通道,不比老鼠洞大多少:她跪下来沿着通道望进去,看到了你见过的最可爱的花园。她多么渴望离开那个黑暗的大厅,在那些明亮的花床和凉爽的喷泉间漫步,但她甚至连头都伸不进门；"即使我的头能伸进去,"可怜的爱丽丝想,"没有肩膀也没用。哦,我多希望我能像望远镜一样缩起来！我想我能,只要我知道怎么开始。"因为,你看,最近发生了这么多稀奇古怪的事,爱丽丝开始认为确实很少有事情是真的不可能的。

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knelt /nelt/

v. 跪下,跪着（过去式）➕

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loveliest /ˈlʌvliɪst/

adj. 最可爱的,最美的（lovely的最高级）➕

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telescope /ˈtelɪskəʊp/

n. 望远镜➕

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out-of-the-way /ˌaʊt əv ðə ˈweɪ/

adj. 偏僻的,人迹罕至的；不寻常的➕

🔊 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 people up like telescopes: 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, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters.

在小门边等着似乎没用,所以她回到桌子旁,半希望能在上面找到另一把钥匙,或者至少一本关于如何像望远镜一样缩起来的规则书:这次她在上面发现了一个小瓶子,（"这之前肯定不在这里,"爱丽丝说,）瓶子颈上贴着一张纸标签,上面用大字漂亮地印着"喝我"。

🔊 It was all very well to say "Drink me," but the wise 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' or not"; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot 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 "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

说"喝我"很好,但聪明的小爱丽丝不会匆忙这么做。"不,我先看看,"她说,"看看它是否标有'毒药'"；因为她读过几个不错的小故事,关于孩子们被烧伤、被野兽吃掉和其他不愉快的事,都是因为他们不记得朋友教给他们的简单规则:比如,烧红的拨火棍如果拿太久会烫伤你；如果你用刀割手指很深,通常会流血；她从未忘记,如果你从一个标有"毒药"的瓶子里喝太多,它几乎肯定会对你不利,迟早的事。

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wise /waɪz/

adj. 明智的,英明的➕

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poison /ˈpɔɪz(ə)n/

n. 毒药,毒物➕

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histories /ˈhɪstəriz/

n. 历史（复数）；故事,经历➕

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unpleasant /ʌnˈplez(ə)nt/

adj. 令人不快的,讨厌的➕

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red-hot /ˌred ˈhɒt/

adj. 炽热的；最新的,热门的➕

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bleeds /bliːdz/

v. 流血,出血（第三人称单数）➕

🔊 However, this bottle was not marked "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.

然而,这个瓶子没有标"毒药",所以爱丽丝冒险尝了尝,发现它很好喝,（事实上,它有一种混合口味,有樱桃馅饼、蛋奶冻、菠萝、烤火鸡、太妃糖和热黄油吐司的味道,）她很快就喝光了。

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ventured /ˈventʃərd/

v. 冒险；敢于,鼓起勇气（过去式）➕

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flavour /ˈfleɪvə(r)/

n. 味道,风味（英式拼写）➕

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custard /ˈkʌstərd/

n. 蛋奶沙司,卡仕达酱➕

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toffee /ˈtɒfi/

n. 太妃糖,乳脂糖➕

🔊 "What a curious feeling!" said Alice; "I must be shutting up like a telescope."

"多奇怪的感觉！"爱丽丝说；"我一定在像望远镜一样缩起来。"

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curious /ˈkjʊəriəs/

adj. 好奇的；奇特的,不寻常的➕

🔊 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 see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself, "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 seen such a thing.

确实如此:她现在只有十英寸高,想到自己现在的大小正好可以通过小门进入那个可爱的花园,她的脸亮了起来。然而,首先她等了几分钟,看看自己是否会进一步缩小:她对此有点紧张；"因为这可能会结束,你知道,"爱丽丝自言自语,"就像蜡烛一样完全熄灭。我想知道那时我会是什么样子？"她试图想象蜡烛吹灭后的火焰是什么样子,因为她不记得见过这样的东西。

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brightened /ˈbraɪt(ə)nd/

v. 使变亮；使活跃,使有希望（过去式）➕

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shrink /ʃrɪŋk/

v. 收缩,缩小；退缩➕

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nervous /ˈnɜːrvəs/

adj. 紧张的,不安的；神经的➕

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candle /ˈkænd(ə)l/

n. 蜡烛➕

🔊 After 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 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; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.

过了一会儿,发现没有更多事情发生,她决定立即进入花园；但是,可怜的爱丽丝啊！当她走到门边时,发现自己忘了小金钥匙,当她回到桌子旁取钥匙时,发现她根本够不到它:她可以通过玻璃清楚地看到它,她尽力爬上桌子的一条腿,但太滑了；当她尝试得筋疲力尽时,这个可怜的小东西坐下来哭了。

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slippery /ˈslɪpəri/

adj. 滑的,滑溜的；狡猾的,不可靠的➕

🔊 "Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said Alice to herself, rather sharply; "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. "But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"

"得了,那样哭没用！"爱丽丝对自己说,相当尖锐；"我建议你马上停下来！"她通常给自己很好的建议,（虽然她很少遵循）,有时她责备自己如此严厉以至于眼泪都出来了；有一次她记得试图打自己的耳光,因为在一场自己对自己的槌球游戏中作弊,因为这个好奇的孩子非常喜欢假装成两个人。"但现在假装成两个人没用了！"可怜的爱丽丝想,"嘿,剩下的我几乎不够做一个体面的人！"

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scolded /skəʊldɪd/

v. 严厉责备,斥责➕

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severely /sɪˈvɪəli/

adv. 严重地；严厉地；严格地➕

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pretending /prɪˈtendɪŋ/

v. 假装,佯装➕

🔊 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 "EAT ME" were beautifully 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 under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!"

很快她的目光落在桌子下的一个小玻璃盒上:她打开它,发现里面有一个非常小的蛋糕,上面用葡萄干漂亮地标着"吃我"。"好吧,我吃它,"爱丽丝说,"如果它让我变大,我能够到钥匙；如果它让我变小,我可以从门下爬过去；所以无论哪种方式我都能进入花园,我不在乎发生哪种！"

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currants /ˈkʌrənts/

n. 小葡萄干（无核的）；醋栗➕

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creep /kriːp/

v. 匍匐爬行,缓慢移动➕

🔊 She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, "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, 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 and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

她吃了一小口,焦急地对自己说:"哪边？哪边？",把手放在头顶感觉它在朝哪边长,她很惊讶地发现自己大小没变:当然,吃蛋糕时通常会发生这种事,但爱丽丝已经习惯了只期待稀奇古怪的事情发生,以至于生活以普通方式继续显得相当乏味和愚蠢。

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anxiously /ˈæŋkʃəsli/

adv. 焦虑地,不安地；急切地➕

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dull /dʌl/

adj. 枯燥的,乏味的；迟钝的；不清晰的➕

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

于是她开始工作,很快就把蛋糕吃完了。

Chapter one: Down The Rabbit-Hole (第一章:掉进兔子洞)