爱丽丝漫游奇境 第一章A

Alice was tired of sitting by her sister on the riverbank. She had nothing to do. Once or twice she peeked into the book her sister was reading. It wasn't very exciting. It had no pictures or any dialogue in it.

What good is a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?

She wondered if she should search for daisies to make a daisy chain. She was about to begin her search when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. There wasn't anything particularly odd about a rabbit running close to her. But this rabbit was different. This rabbit spoke!

"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" it said. But it wasn't until the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket that Alice ran across the field after it. She caught up with it just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge.

Within a minute, Alice went down after it. She never once considered how in the world she'd get back out again.

The hole went straight on like a tunnel for quite a ways. Then it dipped down so suddenly that Alice had no time to think about stopping herself. She fell so fast! It was as if she was going down a well. She decided that either the well was very deep or she was falling slowly.

Alice had plenty of time to look around her. At first, she tried to look down to see where she was going. But it was too dark to see anything. Then she looked to the sides of the well. They were filled with cupboards and bookshelves. There were maps lying about and pictures hung on pegs.