2.1【精讲课】第1章 露西初探魔衣柜（2）

本部分内容为《纳尼亚传奇：狮子、女巫和魔衣柜》第一章 露西初探魔衣柜的第二部分，介绍了四个孩子在大宅子里的各种活动。

CHAPTER 1

LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE（2）

露西初探魔衣柜（2）

    "Oh, come off it!" said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered. "Don't go on talking like that."   

     "Like what?" said Susan; "and anyway, it's time you were in bed."  

"Trying to talk like Mother," said Edmund. "And who are you to say when I'm to go to bed? Go to bed yourself."

     "Hadn't we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we're heard talking here."  

     "No there won't," said Peter. "I tell you this is the sort of house where no one's going to mind what we do. Anyway, they won't hear us. It's about ten minutes' walk from here down to that dining-room, and any amount of stairs and passages in between."  

     "What's that noise?" said Lucy suddenly. It was a far larger house than she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy.  

     "It's only a bird, silly," said Edmund.  

     "It's an owl," said Peter. "This is going to be a wonderful place for birds. I shall go to bed now. I say, let's go and explore tomorrow. You might find anything in a place like this. Did you see those mountains as we came along? And the woods? There might be eagles. There might be stags（成年壮鹿）. There'll be hawks."  

     "Badgers（獾）!" said Lucy.   

     "Foxes!" said Edmund.   

     "Rabbits!" said Susan.   

     But when next morning came there was a steady rain falling, so thick that when you looked out of the window you could see neither the mountains nor the woods nor even the stream in the garden.  

     "Of course it would be raining!" said Edmund. They had just finished their breakfast with the Professor and were upstairs in the room he had set apart for them - a long, low room with two windows looking out in one direction and two in another.    

     "Do stop grumbling, Ed," said Susan. "Ten to one it'll clear up in an hour or so. And in the meantime we're pretty well off. There's a wireless（无线电） and lots of books."  

     "Not for me"said Peter; "I'm going to explore in the house." 

     Everyone agreed to this and that was how the adventures（冒险） began.