木偶奇遇记 The Adventures of Pinocchio 9｜英语名著

    The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that badchildren do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do.Verylittle time did it take to get poor old Geppetto to prison. In the meantimethat rascal, Pinocchio, free now from the clutches of the Carabineer, wasrunning wildly across fields and meadows, taking one short cut after anothertoward home. In his wild flight, he leaped over brambles and bushes, and acrossbrooks and ponds, as if he were a goat or a hare chased by hounds.

　　On reaching home, he found the house door half open.

　　He slipped into the room, locked the door, and threw himself on thefloor, happy at his escape.

　　But his happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he heardsomeone saying:

　　"Cri-cri-cri!""Who is calling me?" askedPinocchio, greatly frightened.

　　"I am!" Pinocchio turned and saw a large cricket crawling slowlyup the wall.

"Tell me, Cricket, who are you?" "I am the TalkingCricket and I have been living in this room for more than one hundredyears." "Today, however, this room is mine," said theMarionette," and if you wish to do me a favor, get out now, and don't turnaround even once.""I refuse to leave this spot," answered theCricket, "until I have told you a great truth." "Tell it, then,and hurry." "Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and runaway from home! They will never be happy in this world, and when they are olderthey will be very sorry for it."

　好，小朋友们，现在我来告诉大家，当可怜的杰佩托平白无辜地给送进监狱的时候，皮诺乔这小坏蛋看见自己逃脱了警察的手，马上撒腿就跑，穿过田野，抄近路回家。他拼命地跑啊跑啊，跳过一个个很高很高的土墩和荆棘丛，跳过一条条水沟，像只被猎人追赶的小山羊或者小野兔。
　　他跑到房子前面，看见朝街的门半掩着，就推门进去，他放下门臼，卜通坐到地上，得意洋洋地吐了一口长气。
　　可他得意了也只有一眨眼的工夫，因为他听见屋子里有声音叫：
　　“唧唧，唧唧！”
　　“谁在叫我啊？”皮诺乔吓坏了说。
　　“是我！”
　　皮诺乔转过脸，看见一只大蟋蟀在墙上，正慢腾腾地往上爬。
　　“告诉我，蟋蟀，你是谁。”
　　“我是会说话的蟋蟀，在这屋子里已经住了百把年啦。”
　　“这屋子今天是我的了，”木偶说，“如果您真肯行行好，让我高兴高兴，就请头也别回，马上走吧。”
　　“要让我走，”蟋蟀回答说，“可得让我在走以前先告诉你一个大道理。”
　　“那就说吧，快点，”
　　“孩子不听父母的话，任意离开家，到头来决不会有好结果！他们在这个世界上要倒霉，迟早会后悔的，”