爱丽丝漫游奇境记

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

All in the golden afternoon
  Full leisurely we glide;
 For both our oars, with little skill,
  By little arms are plied,
 While little hands make vain pretence
  Our wanderings to guide.

Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour.
  Beneath such dreamy weather.
 To beg a tale of breath too weak
  To stir the tiniest feather!
 Yet what can one poor voice avail
  Against three tongues together?

Imperious Prima flashes forth
  Her edict "to begin it"—
 In gentler tone Secunda hopes
  "There will he nonsense in it!"—
 While Tertia interrupts the tale
  Not more than once a minute.

Anon, to sudden silence won,
  In fancy they pursue
 The dream-child moving through a land
  Of wonders wild and new,
 In friendly chat with bird or beast—
  And half believe it true.

And ever, as the story drained
  The wells of fancy dry,
 And faintly strove that weary one
  To put the subject by,
 "The rest next time—" "It is next time!"
  The happy voices cry.

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
  Thus slowly, one by one,
 Its quaint events were hammered out—
  And now the tale is done,
 And home we steer, a merry crew,
  Beneath the setting' sun.

Alice! a childish story take,
  And with a gentle hand
 Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
  In Memory's mystic band,
 Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers
  Pluck'd in a far-off land.

   第 1 篇

   CHAPTER I.

   掉进兔子洞

   Down the Rabbit-Hole

   爱丽丝靠著姐姐坐在河岸边很久了,由于没有什么事情可做,她开始感到厌 倦,她一次又─次地瞧瞧姐姐正在读的那本书,可是书里没有图画,也没有对话, 爱丽丝想:“要是一本书里没有图画和对话,那还有什么意思呢?”

   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?'

   天热得她非常困,甚至迷糊了,但是爱丽丝还是认真地盘算著,做一只雏菊 花环的乐趣,能不能抵得上摘雏菊的麻烦呢?就在这时,突然一只粉红眼睛的白 兔,贴着她身边跑过去了。

   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.

   爱丽丝并没有感到奇怪,甚至于听到兔子自言自语地说:“哦,亲爱的,哦, 亲爱的,我太迟了。”爱丽丝也没有感到离奇,虽然过后,她认为这事应该奇怪, 可当时她的确感到很自然,但是兔于竟然从背心口袋里袭里掏出一块怀表看看, 然后又匆匆忙忙跑了。这时,爱丽丝跳了起来,她突然想到:从来没有见过穿着 有口袋背心的兔子,更没有见到过兔子还能从口袋里拿出─块表来,她好奇地穿 过田野,紧紧地追赶那只兔子,刚好看见兔子跳进了矮树下面的一个大洞。

   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.

   爱丽丝也紧跟著跳了进去,根本没考虑怎么再出来。

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

   这个兔子洞开始像走廊,笔直地向前,后来就突然向下了,爱丽丝还没有来 得及站住,就掉进了─个深井里。

   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.

   也许是井太深了,也许是她自己感到下沉得太慢,因此,她有足够的时间去 东张西望,而且去猜测下一步会发生什么事,首先,她往下看,想知道会掉到什 么地方。但是下面太黑了,什么都看不见,于是,她就看四周的井壁,只见井壁 上排满了碗橱和书架,以及挂在钉子上的地图和图画,她从一个架子上拿了一个 罐头,罐头上写著“桔子醬”,却是空的,她很失望,她不敢把空罐头扔下去, 怕砸著下面的人,因此,在继续往下掉的时候,她就把空罐头放到另一个碗橱里 去了。

   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.

   “好啊,”爱丽丝想,“经过了这次锻炼,我从楼梯上滚下来就不算回事。 家里的人都会说我多么勇敢啊,嘿,就是从屋顶上掉下来也没什么了不起,”─ ─这点倒很可能是真的,屋顶上摔下来,会摔得说不出话的。

   '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.)

   掉啊,掉啊,掉啊,难道永远掉不到底了吗?爱丽丝大声说:“我很知道掉 了多少英里了,我一定已经靠近地球中心的一个地方啦!让我想想:这就是说已 经掉了大约四千英里了,我想……”(你瞧,爱丽丝在学校里已经学到了一点这 类东西,虽然现在不是显示知识的时机,因为没一个人在听她说话,但是这仍然 是个很好的练习。)“……是的,大概就是这个距离。那么,我现在究竟到了什 么经度和纬度了呢?”(爱丽丝不明白经度和纬度是什么意思,可她认为这是挺 时髦的字眼,说起来怪好听的。)

   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.)

   不一会儿,她又说话了:“我想知道我会不会穿过地球,到那些头朝下走路 的人们那里,这该多么滑稽呀!我想这叫做‘对称人’(19世纪中学地理教科书 上流行个名洞,叫“对跖人”,意思是说地球直径两端的人,脚心对着脚心。爱 丽丝对“地球对面的人”的概念模糊,以为他们是“头朝下”走路的,而且把 “对跖人”错念成“对称人”了。)吧?”这次她很高兴没人听她说话,因为 “对称人”这个名词似乎不十分正确。“我想我应该问他们这个国家叫什么名称: 太太,请问您知道这是新西兰,还是澳大利亚?”(她说这话时,还试着行个屈 膝礼,可是不成。你想想看,在空中掉下来时行这样的屈膝礼,行吗,)“如果 我这样问,人们一定会认为我是一个无知的小姑娘哩。不,永远不能这样问,也 许我会看到它写在哪儿的吧!”

   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.'

   掉啊,掉啊,掉啊,除此之外,没別的事可干了。因此,过一会儿爱丽丝又 说话了:“我敢肯定,黛娜今晚一定非常想念我。”(黛娜是只猫)“我希望他 们別忘了午茶时给她准备一碟牛奶。黛娜,我亲爱的,我多么希望你也掉到这里 来,同我在一起呀,我怕空中没有你吃的小老鼠,不过你可能捉到一只蝙蝠,你 要知道,它很像老鼠。可是猫吃不吃蝙蝠呢?”这时,爱丽丝开始瞌睡了,她困 得迷迷糊糊时还在说:“猫吃蝙蝠吗?猫吃蝙蝠吗?”有时又说成:“蝙蝠吃猫 吗?”这两个问题她哪个也回答不出来,所以,她怎么问都没关系,这时候,她 已经睡着了,开始做起梦来了。她梦见正同黛娜手拉着手走着,并且很认真地问: “黛娜,告诉我,你吃过蝙蝠吗?,就在这时,突然“砰”地一声,她掉到了一 堆枯枝败叶上了,总算掉到了底了!

   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.

   爱丽丝一点儿也没摔坏,她立即站起来,向上看看,黑洞洞的。朝前一看, 是个很长的走廊,她又看见了那只白兔正急急忙忙地朝前跑。这回可別错过时机, 爱丽丝像一阵风似地追了过去。她听到兔子在拐弯时说:“哎呀,我的耳朵和胡 子呀,现在太迟了!”这时爱丽丝已经离兔子很近了,但是当她也赶到拐角,兔 子却不见了。她发现自己是在一个很长很低的大厅里,屋顶上悬挂著一串灯,把 大厅照亮了。

   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.

   大厅四周都是门,全都锁著,爱丽丝从这边走到那边,推一推,拉一拉,每 扇门都打不开,她伤心地走到大厅中间,琢磨著该怎么出去。

   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.

   突然,她发现了一张三条腿的小桌,桌子是玻璃做的。桌上除了一把很小的 金钥匙,什么也没有,爱丽丝一下就想到这钥匙可能是哪个门上的。可是,哎呀, 要么就是锁太大了,要么就是钥匙太小了,哪个门也用不上。不过,在她绕第二 圈时,突然发现刚才没注意到的一个低帐幕后面,有一扇约十五英寸高的小门。 她用这个小金钥匙往小门的锁眼里一插,太高兴了,正合适。

   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!

   爱丽丝打开了门,发现门外是一条小走廊,比老鼠洞还小,她跪下来,顺着 走廊望出去,见到一个从没见过的美丽花园。她多想离开这个黑暗的大厅,到那 些美丽的花圃和清凉的喷泉中去玩呀!可是那门框连脑袋都过不去,可怜的爱丽 丝想:“哎,就算头能过去,肩膀不跟著过去也没用,我多么希望缩成望远镜里 的小人呀(爱丽丝常常把望远镜倒着看,一切东西都变得又远又小,所以她认为 望远镜可以把人放大或缩小。),我想自己能变小的,只要知道变的方法就行了。” 你看,一连串稀奇古怪的事,使得爱丽丝认为没有什么事是不可能的了。

   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.

   看来, 守在小门旁没意思了,于是,她回到桌子边,希望还能再找到一把钥匙,至少也 得找到一本教人变成望远镜里小人的书,可这次,她发现桌上有一只小瓶。爱丽 丝说:“这小瓶刚才确实不在这里。”瓶口上系著一张小纸条,上面印著两个很 漂亮的大平:“喝我”。

   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.

   说“喝我”倒不错,可是聪明的小爱丽丝不会忙着去喝的。她说:“不行, 我得先看看,上面有没有写著‘毒药’两个字。”因为她听过一些很精彩的小故 事,关于孩子们怎样被烧伤、被野兽吃掉,以及其它一些令人不愉快的事情,所 有这些,都是因为这些孩子们没有记住大人的话,例如:握拨火棍时间太久就会 把手烧坏;小刀割手指就会出血,等等。爱丽丝知道喝了写著“毒药”瓶里的药 水,迟早会受害的。

   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.

   然而瓶子上没有“毒药”字样,所以爱丽丝冒险地尝了尝,感到非常好吃, 它混合着樱桃馅饼、奶油蛋糕、菠萝、烤火鸡、牛奶糖、热奶油面包的味道。爱丽丝一口气就把一瓶喝光了。

   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.

   “多么奇怪的感觉呀!”爱丽丝说,“我一定变成望远镜里的小人了。”

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

   的确是这样,她高兴得眉飞色舞,现在她只有十英寸高了,已经可以到那个 可爱的花园里去了。不过,她又等了几分钟,看看会不会继续缩小下去。想到这 点,她有点不安了。“究竟会怎么收场呢?”爱丽丝对自己说,“或许会像蜡烛 的火苗那样,全部缩没了。那么我会怎么样呢?”她又努力试着想象蜡烛灭了后 的火焰会是个什么样几。因为她从来没有见过那样的东西。

   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.

   过了一小会,好像不会再发生什么事情了,她决定立刻到花园去。可是,哎 哟!可怜的爱丽丝!她走到门口,发觉忘拿了那把小金钥匙。在回到桌子前准备 再拿的时候,却发现自己已经够不著钥匙,她只能通过玻璃桌面清楚地看到它, 她尽力攀著桌腿向上爬,可是桌腿太滑了,她一次又一次地溜了下来,弄得她精 疲力竭。于是,这个可怜的小家伙坐在地上哭了起来。

   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.

   “起来,哭是没用的!”爱丽丝严厉地对自己说,“限你─,分钟内就停止 哭!”她经常爱给自己下个命令(虽然她很少听从这种命令),有时甚至把自己 骂哭了。记得有一次她同自己比赛槌球,由于她骗了自己,她就打了自己一记耳 光,这个小孩很喜欢装成两个人,“但是现在还装什么两个人呢?”可怜的小爱 丽丝想,“唉!现在我小得连做一个像样的人都不够了。”

   '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!'

   不.一会儿,她的眼光落在桌子下面的一个小玻璃盒子上。打开一看,里面 有块很小的点心,点心上用葡萄干精致地嵌著“吃我”两个字,“好,我就吃它,” 爱丽丝说,“如果它使我变大,我就能够著钥匙了;如果它使我变得更小,我就 可以从门缝下面爬过去,反正不管怎样,我都可以到那个花园里去了。因此无论 怎么变,我都不在乎。”

   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!'

   她只吃了一小口,就焦急地问自己:“是哪一种,变大还是变小?”她用手 摸摸头顶,想知道变成哪种样子。可是非常奇怪,一点没变,说实话,这本来是 吃点心的正常现象,可是爱丽丝已经习惯了稀奇古怪的事了,生活中的正常事情 倒显得难以理解了。

   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.

   于是,她又吃开了,很块就把一块点心吃完了。

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

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