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有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第15章

“Hurrah!” thought the littleRabbit. “To-morrow we shall go to the seaside!” For the boy had often talked ofthe seaside, and he wanted very much to see the big waves coming in, and thetiny crabs, and the sand castles.

Just then Nana caught sight ofhim.

“How about his old Bunny?” sheasked.

“That?” said the doctor. “Why,it’s a mass of scarlet fever germs!–Burn it at once. What? Nonsense! Get him anew one. He mustn’t have that any more!”

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第14章

It was a long weary time, for theBoy was too ill to play, and the little Rabbit found it rather dull withnothing to do all day long. But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forwardto the time when the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in thegarden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in theraspberry thicket like they used to. All sorts of delightful things he planned,and while the Boy lay half asleep he crept up close to the pillow and whisperedthem in his ear. And presently the fever turned, and the Boy got better. He wasable to sit up in bed and look at picture-books, while the little Rabbitcuddled close at his side. And one day, they let him get up and dress.

It was a bright, sunny morning,and the windows stood wide open. They had carried the Boy out on to thebalcony, wrapped in a shawl, and the little Rabbit lay tangled up among thebedclothes, thinking.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第13章

Weeks passed, and the littleRabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He lovedhim so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his earsturned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and hescarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was alwaysbeautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn’t mindhow he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, andwhen you are Real shabbiness doesn’t matter.

And then, one day, the Boy wasill.

His face grew very flushed, andhe talked in his sleep, and his little body was so hot that it burned theRabbit when he held him close. Strange people came and went in the nursery, anda light burned all night and through it all the little Velveteen Rabbit laythere, hidden from sight under the bedclothes, and he never stirred, for he wasafraid that if they found him some one might take him away, and he knew thatthe Boy needed him.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第12章

Just then there was a sound offootsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flashof white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.

“Come back and play with me!”called the little Rabbit. “Oh, do come back! I know I am Real!”

But there was no answer, only thelittle ants ran to and fro, and the bracken swayed gently where the twostrangers had passed. The Velveteen Rabbit was all alone.

“Oh, dear!” he thought. “Why didthey run away like that? Why couldn’t they stop and talk to me?”

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第11章

“He hasn’t got any hind legs!” hecalled out. “Fancy a rabbit without any hind legs!” And he began to laugh.

“I have!” cried the littleRabbit. “I have got hind legs! I am sitting on them!”

“Then stretch them out and showme, like this!” said the wild rabbit. And he began to whirl round and dance,till the little Rabbit got quite dizzy.

“I don’t like dancing,” he said.“I’d rather sit still!”

But all the while he was longingto dance, for a funny new tickly feeling ran through him, and he felt he wouldgive anything in the world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did.

The strange rabbit stoppeddancing, and came quite close. He came so close this time that his longwhiskers brushed the Velveteen Rabbit’s ear, and then he wrinkled his nosesuddenly and flattened his ears and jumped backwards.

“He doesn’t smell right!” heexclaimed. “He isn’t a rabbit at all! He isn’t real!”

“I am Real!” said the littleRabbit. “I am Real! The Boy said so!” And he nearly began to cry.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第10章

They stared at him, and thelittle Rabbit stared back. And all the time their noses twitched.

“Why don’t you get up and playwith us?” one of them asked.

“I don’t feel like it,” said theRabbit, for he didn’t want to explain that he had no clockwork.

“Ho!” said the furry rabbit. “It’sas easy as anything,” And he gave a big hop sideways and stood on his hindlegs.

“I don’t believe you can!” hesaid.

“I can!” said the little Rabbit.“I can jump higher than anything!” He meant when the Boy threw him, but ofcourse he didn’t want to say so.

“Can you hop on your hind legs?”asked the furry rabbit.

That was a dreadful question, forthe Velveteen Rabbit had no hind legs at all! The back of him was made all inone piece, like a pincushion. He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the otherrabbits wouldn’t notice.

“I don’t want to!” he said again.

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第9章

Near the house where they livedthere was a wood, and in the long June evenings the Boy liked to go there aftertea to play. He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered offto pick flowers, or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbita little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy, for hewas a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be comfortable. Oneevening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran toand fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creepout of the tall bracken near him.

They were rabbits like himself,but quite furry and brand-new. They must have been very well made, for theirseams didn’t show at all, and they changed shape in a queer way when theymoved; one minute they were long and thin and the next minute fat and bunchy,instead of always staying the same like he did. Their feet padded softly on theground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while theRabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew thatpeople who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn’t seeit. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.

该篇系本人本应发在另一专辑Quora Selected中的音频，因涉及语言学习的一些实践经验，同时也讲述了儿童故事对学习新语言的意义，因此特别在该专辑中更新，望帮助各位正努力学习英语的童鞋们。

I've learned several foreign languages as an adult. I was able to learn French to conversation fluency in 17 days using the following techniques. Note that I had previously learned Spanish to fluency so this was not my first foreign language.

In summer of 2005 I stayed with a French friend in a tiny village in the Beaujolais region of France. No one in the village spoke English and, since my friend knew I had an ambitious learning goal, she refused to speak to me in English as well.

I set up a routine where I did the same things every day.

In the mornings, I woke up and wrote out longhand the regular and irregular verb tables for 1.5-2 hours. I managed to get through an entire pad of paper in two weeks. I still believe that writing things out by hand is the best way to memorize things.

While I wrote, I would listen to Michel Thomas' language learning mp3s (http://www.michelthomas.com/). On the CDs you listen as he teaches French to other English speakers. It's really helpful to hear other students make mistakes that you can learn from, just like a regular classroom environment. In two weeks I listened to the foundation, advanced and language building courses twice.

I would run for 45-60 minutes in the early afternoon in the French countryside listening to catchy French music. Music is a great way to learn the intonation of a language and train your facial muscles as you sing along.

I had lunch with my friend and her French friends everyday. As they refused to slow down when speaking to me in French, it was learn or starve!

In the afternoon, if I wasn't playing darts or Boules with my French friends, I was reading "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in French. Reading the children's books you read as a child is a great hack to learning new languages. Firstly, the language used is simple and secondly, knowing the story helps you to guess the meaning of new words and avoid using a dictionary. Surprisingly children's books are more entertaining in a foreign language.

I spent at least an hour writing basic essays about myself which I had my French friend check for errors. When you meet new people you inevitably get asked the same things: "Where are you from?", "What do you do?", "Do you like France?". By learning ready-made answers, you get to practice what you learned and build up your confidence.

Another good tip is to learn the filler words. These are the words and phrases people say then all the time between sentences (alors, en fait, etc.) but have no real meaning; allowing you to buy time in a conversation and increase your confidence.

After 17 days I left the small town and went to Paris. I met a girl in a coffee shop and we started talking. After a few minutes, she asked how long I had lived in France. When I told her I had been learning French for 17 days, she swore that I had lived in France for at least a year.

Hopefully there are some useful tips you can use in your learning. Let me know and bonne chance!

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有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第8章

When the little Rabbit heard thathe was happy, for he knew that what the Skin Horse had said was true at last.The nursery magic had happened to him, and he was a toy no longer. He was Real.The Boy himself had said it.

That night hewas almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdustheart that it almost burst. And into his boot-button eyes, that hadlong ago lost their polish, there came a look of wisdom and beauty, so thateven Nana noticed it next morning when she picked him up, and said, “I declareif that old Bunny hasn’t got quite a knowing expression!”

That was a wonderful Summer!

有声英语儿童童话故事 绒布兔子 第7章

Spring came, and they had long days in thegarden, for wherever the Boy went the Rabbit went too. He had rides in thewheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for himunder the raspberry canes behind the flower border. And once, when the Boy wascalled away suddenly to go out to tea, the Rabbit was left out on the lawnuntil long after dusk, and Nana had to come and look for him with the candlebecause the Boy couldn’t go to sleep unless he was there. He was wet throughwith the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made forhim in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner ofher apron.

“You must have your old Bunny!”she said. “Fancy all that fuss for a toy!”

The Boy sat up in bed andstretched out his hands.

“Give me my Bunny!” he said. “Youmustn’t say that. He isn’t a toy. He’s REAL!”