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?”

爱丽丝坐在河岸边姐姐的身旁，无所事事，渐渐感到厌烦极了。她曾一两次探头去看姐姐正在读的那本书，但书里既没有图画也没有对话。“要是没有图画，也没有对话，”爱丽丝心想，“那书还有什么意思呢？”

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.

于是她心里盘算着（尽力盘算着，因为炎热的天气让她感到昏昏欲睡、脑子迟钝），编一根雏菊花环的乐趣是否值得自己站起身去摘雏菊。正在这时，一只粉红眼睛的白兔突然从她身旁跑了过去。

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.

这本没有什么特别值得大惊小怪的；爱丽丝听到兔子自言自语说：“天哪！天哪！我要迟到了！”也并没觉得有多么反常（事后回想起来，她才觉得当时自己理应感到惊奇，可当时一切似乎都再自然不过了）；但当兔子真的从马甲口袋里掏出一块怀表看了一眼，然后匆匆赶路时，爱丽丝一跃而起——因为她脑海中猛然闪过一个念头：自己以前从未见过哪只兔子穿马甲口袋，更没见过哪只兔子能从口袋里掏出怀表来。出于极度的好奇心，她穿过田野紧追不舍，万幸的是刚好来得及看见它钻进了树篱下的大兔子洞里。

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

紧接着，爱丽丝也跟着钻了进去，压根儿没去想究竟该怎么再爬出来。

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.

兔子洞先是像隧道一样笔直向前延伸了一段，接着突然垂直向下倾斜，猛烈得让爱丽丝甚至来不及想一想停住脚步，就发现自己正跌入一口极深的深井之中。

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，要么是她落得太慢，因为在下落的过程中，她有充裕的时间环顾四周，琢磨接下来会发生什么。起初，她试图低头看清楚自己将落向何方，但四周太暗，什么也看不见；接着她望向井壁，发现四周摆满了橱柜和书架；这里那里还用木栓悬挂着地图和图画。下落经过时，她顺手从一个架子上拿下一只罐子，上面贴着“香橙果酱”的标签，但令她大失所望的是，罐子是空的。她不敢把罐子直接扔下去，生怕砸死下面的什么人，便趁着擦身而过的工夫，设法把它塞进了途经的一个橱柜里。