爱丽丝梦游仙境｜Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

每天五分钟听经典英文故事，读绘本，磨耳朵。一个女孩掉进兔子洞，在荒诞离奇的地下世界展开一场难忘的冒险。The afternoon by the riverbank was hot and quietAlice's sister sat on the grass reading a bookAlice sat next to her, so bored she could almost fall asleepThe book had no pictures and no conversations, and she could not see what was interesting about itThe air felt still, the grass pressed against her arm, and the water in the distance swayed gentlyA white rabbit ran past herIt was not an ordinary rabbitIt wore a waistcoat, glanced at its pocket watch, and said in a hurry that it was going to be lateAlice snapped awake at onceShe did not have time to think about how strange this was — she just knew she could not let it get awayShe chased the rabbit and crawled into a hole at the root of a treeThe hole was very deep, and she kept falling downCabinets, bookshelves, maps and empty bottles floated past her, and she still had time to wonder if she would fall all the way to the other side of the earthWhen she finally landed, the rabbit had already turned a corner down the hallway and disappeared, leaving only a tiny door and a glass table waiting for herOn the table lay a small key, and behind the door was a beautiful gardenBut the door was too small for her to get throughShe drank what was in the bottle and shrank very small, but now she could not reach the key on the tableShe ate a cake and shot up tall again, her head nearly touching the ceilingShe criedHer tears grew and grew until they formed a poolWhen she shrank again, she found herself splashing into her own tearsA mouse, a duck, a dodo bird and many other animals were floundering in the water tooEveryone climbed out dripping wet, and nobody knew how to get dryIn the end they ran a race that anyone could start and anyone could finish, and the prize was something Alice pulled from her own pocketThis place did not make sense from the very beginningThe white rabbit appeared again, mistook Alice for a maid and sent her to fetch gloves and a fan from his houseAlice went inside, saw a bottle, drank from it, and grew so big again that her arms stretched out the windows and her feet filled the roomThe rabbit and the animals outside panicked and threw pebbles at the houseThe pebbles turned into little cakes, and Alice ate one to shrink again and escapeIn the woods she met a caterpillarThe caterpillar sat on a mushroom, slowly smoking a hookah, and asked who she wasAlice could not answerShe had changed so many times today that even she did not know who she was anymoreThe caterpillar did not comfort herIt only said that one side of the mushroom would make her taller and the other side would make her shorterAlice broke the mushroom into two pieces and nibbled at each side, trying to get back to the right sizeBut in this world, being the right size never lasted longAs soon as she could walk again, she arrived at the Duchess's kitchenSmoke filled the room, the cook was throwing pepper into the soup, and the baby was crying loudlyThe Duchess held the child like a burdenAlice took the baby, wanting to take it awayBut the child squirmed and twisted in her arms, its nose pushed upward and its voice changedWhen she looked down, it was no longer a baby — it had become a little pigThe pig ran into the woods, and Alice stood there, not knowing whether to be scared or to laughOn a branch, the Cheshire Cat slowly showed its grinning faceIt said that everyone here was madOne way led to the Hatter, the other way led to the March HareAlice said she did not want to stay with mad peopleThe cat said there was no escaping them hereAlice walked up to a tea tableThe Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse were crowded around the table with many cups set out but never enough seatsTheir talk went in circles, their riddles had no answersTime itself seemed to have been offended and stopped forever at teatimeAlice tried to reason with them, tried to follow their thinking, but every sentence got twisted and every question became another questionShe left the tea table, walked through a door, and saw a gardenGardeners were painting white roses red — they had planted the wrong color and were afraid the Queen of Hearts would cut off their headsThe Queen arrived with a whole procession of card soldiersHer voice was sharp, and she ordered beheadings at every turnThe King whispered quietly nearby, trying to smooth things over, and the soldiers scrambled to obeyNobody knew whether those orders would ever really be carried outAlice was pulled into a game of croquetThe balls were hedgehogs, the mallets were flamingos, and the hoops were card soldiers bending overThe hedgehogs ran away, the flamingos twisted their heads, and the hoops moved around tooThe Queen kept getting angry and shouting for beheadingsAlice realized that the scariest thing here was not how strict the rules were, but that the rules changed all the while and everyone still pretended they were realThe Gryphon took her to meet the Mock TurtleThe Mock Turtle sobbed as it told stories about its school, about lessons with strange names, sounding both truly sad and like it was jokingAs Alice listened, she was taken off to a trialThe courtroom was packedThe Knave of Hearts was accused of stealing the Queen's tartsThe King served as judge, and the jurors hurried to write their own names on slates so they would not forgetWitness after witness came up, but nothing they said made any real senseThe Mad Hatter carried his teacup, the Dormouse was pushed around, and the evidence was as light as a scrap of paper, yet everyone held it up with great seriousnessAlice sat to one side, and her body began to grow againAt first she tried to stay quiet, but the more she heard, the more absurd it seemedThe King said to pass the verdict before the judgment, and the Queen just kept shouting for beheadingsThe whole courtroom was like a game getting noisier and noisier, with everyone putting on solemn faces to defend a hollow orderThis time, Alice did not shrink herselfShe stood up and looked at the fluttering cards — the Queen, the King, the soldiers and the jurors — and suddenly understood that they were not as big as she had imaginedShe was no longer afraid of their shouting, and she no longer felt the need to make everything reasonableThe cards flew toward herAlice waved them away — and snapped her eyes openShe was still on the riverbank, her head resting on her sister's lapWhat fell down on her was not cards but leavesThe sunshine was still there, the river was still there, and her sister's hand gently brushed her faceShe told her sister about the dream — the White Rabbit, the garden, the tea party, the courtroomThen she got up and ran homeThe grass grew quiet againHer sister sat alone for a while, as if she could still see the shadow of that strange world, as if she could see Alice grown up, still remembering this afternoon, remembering a rabbit in a waistcoat with a pocket watch, remembering falling into a dream where nothing followed the rules前往小宇宙评论区与主播互动