Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

爱丽丝开始感到非常厌倦，她坐在姐姐旁边的河岸上，无事可做：她曾一两次偷看姐姐正在读的书，但书中没有图画或对话，“一本书没有图画或对话有什么用呢？”爱丽丝想。

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

于是她在心里琢磨着（尽管尽力思考，但炎热的天气让她昏昏欲睡，头脑迟钝），编一条雏菊花环的乐趣是否值得她费劲起身去采摘那些雏菊，就在这时，一只长着粉红色眼睛的白兔突然从她身边跑过。

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

那也没什么非常奇怪的；爱丽丝也不觉得听到兔子自言自语“哦，亲爱的！哦，亲爱的！我要迟到了！”有什么太不寻常的（后来她回想起来，才觉得当时本应感到奇怪，但那时一切似乎都很自然）；但当真兔子从它的背心口袋里掏出一块表，看了看，然后匆忙赶路时，爱丽丝一下子站了起来，因为她脑海里闪过一个念头：她以前从未见过兔子有背心口袋，或者有表可以掏出来。她充满好奇，追着它跑过田野，幸运的是，她正好赶上看见它跳进篱笆下的一个大兔子洞里。

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

转眼间爱丽丝跟着它掉了下去，压根没想过自己怎样才能再出来。

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.

兔子洞像隧道一样笔直向前延伸了一段路，然后突然向下倾斜，如此突然，以至于爱丽丝还没来得及想到要停下来，就发现自己掉进了一口很深的井里。

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

要么是井太深，要么是她下落得很慢，因为她在下落的过程中有充足的时间东张西望，猜想接下来会发生什么。起初，她试着往下看，想弄清自己会落到什么地方，但下面太黑，什么也看不见；于是她转而打量井壁，发现井壁上摆满了碗柜和书架；她不时看到地图和图画挂在钉子上。她经过一个架子时顺手拿下了一个罐子，上面标着“橘子酱”，但令她大失所望的是，罐子是空的：她不想把罐子扔下去，怕砸到底下的人，于是趁自己下落经过一个碗柜时，设法把罐子放了进去。

“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!” (Which was very likely true.)

“哎呀！”爱丽丝心里想，“经历了这样一次坠落之后，我倒觉得从楼梯上滚下去根本不算什么了！家里的人肯定会觉得我多勇敢啊！哼，就算我从房顶上摔下来，我也不会提起这件事的！”（这很可能倒是真的。）

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? “I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—” (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) “—yes, that’s about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)

往下掉，往下掉，不停地往下掉。这坠落究竟何时才是个尽头？“我不晓得这会儿已经掉了多少英里了？”她大声说，“我一定快到地球的中心了。让我想想：那样的话，就该是往下四千英里了，我想——” （因为，你知道，爱丽丝在课堂上学过不少这类东西，虽然现在并不是炫耀学问的好机会，因为没有人听她讲，可把这说一遍倒也是个练习的好法子）“——对了，差不多就是这个距离——可我究竟到了什么纬度或经度呢？”（爱丽丝根本不知道什么是纬度，也不懂经度，不过她觉得这几个词念起来又响又漂亮。）