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【第194期】

主播：DD

坐标：美国 · 洛杉矶

【引言】

在DD的第一期节目里，和大家分享了歌曲《猫》经典曲目Memory的原型：艾略特的《风夜狂想曲》

在今天的节目里，DD要和大家分享的故事来自《爱丽丝梦游仙境》Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 这本风靡世界的奇幻作品表面上看起来荒诞不经，但却极具逻辑性与哲理，深受大家的喜爱。

《爱丽丝梦游仙境》（Alice's Adventures in Wonderland）是英国作家查尔斯·路德维希·道奇森以笔名刘易斯·卡罗尔于1865年出版的儿童文学作品。《爱丽丝梦游仙境》已经被翻译成至少125种语言，到20世纪中期重版300多次，其流传之广仅次于《圣经》和莎士比亚的作品。

今天要读的这一段摘自书中的第六章，小猪与胡椒。

在前面的故事里，爱丽丝追着一只手持怀表古怪的白兔掉到了兔子洞里，在经历了一番变大缩小之后，她偶然进入了一个小庄园。马上，爱丽丝将要见到公爵夫人和那只著名的咧嘴笑的柴郡猫。

下面就让我们一起跟着爱丽丝走进这个童话世界吧：

1.

The door led rightinto a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: theDuchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; thecook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to befull of soup.

这门直通一间大厨房，厨房里充满了烟雾，公爵夫人在房子中间，坐在—只三腿小凳上照料一个小孩。厨师俯身在炉子上的一只人锅里搅拌着，锅里好像盛满了汤。

'There's certainlytoo much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could forsneezing.

“汤里的胡椒确实太多了！”爱丽丝费劲儿地对自己说，并不停地打着喷嚏。

There wascertainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; andas for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment'spause. The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and alarge cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

空气里的胡椒味也确实太浓了，连公爵夫人也常常打喷嚏。至于那个婴孩，不是打喷嚏就是嚎叫，一刻也不停。这间厨房里只有两个生物不打喷嚏，就是女厨师和一只大猫，那只猫正趴在炉子旁，咧着嘴笑哩。

'Please would youtell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether itwas good manners for her to speak first, 'why your cat grins like that?'

“请告诉我，”爱丽丝有点胆怯地问，因为她还不十分清楚自己先开口合不合规矩，“为什么你的猫能笑呢？”

'It's a Cheshirecat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'

“它是柴郡猫（郡：英国的行政区域单位，柴郡为一个郡的名称，由于本书影响，现在西方人都把露齿傻笑的人称为柴郡猫。），”公爵夫人说，“这就是为什么它会笑了。猪！”

She said the lastword with such sudden violence that Alice quite jumped; but she saw in anothermoment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage,and went on again:--

公爵夫人凶狠地说出的最后的—个字，把爱丽丝吓了一大跳。但是，爱丽丝马上发觉她正在同婴孩说话，而不是对自己说，于是她又鼓起了勇气，继续说：

'I didn't knowthat Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats COULDgrin.'

“我还不知道柴郡猫经常笑，实际上，我压根儿不知道猫会笑的。”