15.2【学习版】第4章 土耳其软糖（1） 外教朗读

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CHAPTER 4

TURKISH DELIGHT（1）

第4章 土耳其软糖（1）

  "BUT what are you?" said the Queen again. "Are you a great overgrown(长过了头) dwarf that has cut off its beard(胡子)?"  

    "No, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I never had a beard, I'm a boy."  

    "A boy!" said she. "Do you mean you are a Son of Adam?"  

Edmund stood still(静止的), saying nothing. He was too confused(迷惑不解的) by this time to understand what the question meant.

    "I see you are an idiot（白痴）, whatever else you may be," said the Queen. "Answer me, once and for all(彻底地), or I shall lose my patience(失去耐心). Are you human?"  

    "Yes, your Majesty," said Edmund.  

    "And how, pray, did you come to enter my dominions(领土)?"  

    "Please, your Majesty, I came in through a wardrobe."  

    "A wardrobe? What do you mean?"  

    "I - I opened a door and just found myself here, your Majesty," said Edmund.  

    "Ha!" said the Queen, speaking more to herself than to him. "A door. A door from the world of men! I have heard of such things. This may wreck(破坏) all. But he is only one, and he is easily dealt with." As she spoke these words she rose from her seat and looked Edmund full in the face（直愣愣地盯着某人）, her eyes flaming(明亮的); at the same moment she raised her wand. Edmund felt sure that she was going to do something dreadful(可怕的) but he seemed unable to move. Then, just as he gave himself up for lost(认定自己死路一条), she appeared to change her mind(改变主意).  

    "My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, "how cold you look! Come and sit with me here on the sledge and I will put my mantle(披风) round you and we will talk."  

    Edmund did not like this arrangement(安排) at all but he dared not disobey(违背); he stepped onto the sledge and sat at her feet, and she put a fold(衣服袍子的皱褶) of her fur mantle round him and tucked(把……藏好/夹好) it well in.  

    "Perhaps something hot to drink?" said the Queen. "Should you like that?"  

    "Yes please, your Majesty," said Edmund, whose teeth were chattering(打颤).

    The Queen took from somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked as if it were made of copper(铜). Then, holding out her arm, she let one drop fall from it onto the snow beside the sledge.