12.1【精讲课】第3章 埃德蒙和魔衣柜（2）

本课为第3章 埃德蒙和魔衣柜第2部分。Lucy因为自己所讲述的魔衣柜的经历不被人相信而觉得苦闷，在一个下雨天，趁着大家玩捉迷藏游戏的机会，小Lucy又进入魔衣柜，这一次，埃德蒙跟在了她的后面……

CHAPTER 3

EDMUND AND THE WARDROBE

第3章 埃德蒙和魔衣柜（2）

    For the next few days she was very miserable(痛苦的). She could have made it up with the others quite easily at any moment if she could have brought herself to say that the whole thing was only a story made up(编造故事) for fun(为了开玩笑；好玩). But Lucy was a very truthful（诚实） girl and she knew that she was really in the right; and she could not bring herself to say this. The others who thought she was telling a lie, and a silly lie too, made her very unhappy. The two elder ones did this without meaning to do(打算；有意) it, but Edmund could be spiteful(坏心眼的), and on this occasion he was spiteful(恶毒的). He sneered and jeered at Lucy and kept on asking her if she'd found any other new countries in other cupboards all over the house. What made it worse was that these days ought to have been delightful. The weather was fine and they were out of doors from morning to night, bathing, fishing, climbing trees, and lying in the heather(欧石楠). But Lucy could not properly enjoy any of it. And so things went on until the next wet day.  

    That day, when it came to the afternoon and there was still no sign of a break in the weather, they decided to play hide-and-seek(捉迷藏). Susan was "It" (游戏用语) and as soon as the others scattered (分散) to hide, Lucy went to the room where the wardrobe was. She did not mean to hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about the whole wretched business. But she did want to(的确想……)  have one more look inside it; for by this time she was beginning to wonder(想知道) herself whether Narnia and the Faun had not been a dream. The house was so large and complicated and full of hiding-places that she thought she would have time to have one look into the wardrobe and then hide somewhere else. But as soon as she reached it she heard steps in the passage outside, and then there was nothing for it but to jump into the wardrobe and hold the door closed behind her. She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.  

    Now the steps she had heard were those of Edmund; and he came into the room just in time to see Lucy vanishing into the wardrobe. He at once decided to get into it himself - not because he thought it a particularly good place to hide but because he wanted to go on teasing her about her imaginary country. He opened the door. There were the coats hanging up as usual, and a smell of mothballs(樟脑丸), and darkness and silence, and no sign of Lucy.