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Описание книги: Эта книга является отличным вариантом для чтения на английском языке, когда не имеется достаточно количества знаний для чтения более сложных произведений. Эта книга содержит упрощенный вариант истории про девочку по имени Алиса, которая оказалась в стране чудес. Книга написана на английском языке, чтобы позволяет изучить его получше. В книге практически на каждой странице имеется грамматика и некоторые слова и выражения, которые наиболее сложны для понимания. Эта книга позволит не просто насладиться чудесной историей, но и узнать много нового об английском языке и его грамматике.

В теперешние времена активной борьбы с пиратством, большинство книг в нашей библиотеки имеют только краткие фрагменты для ознакомления, в том числе и книга Алиса в Стране чудес / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Алиса в Зазеркалье / Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There. Благодаря чему, вы можете понять, нравится ли вам данная книга и стоит ли вам её вам в дальнейшем приобретать. Таким образом, вы поддерживаете труд писателя Льюис Кэрролл путем легальной покупки книги в случае если вам понравилось её краткое содержание.

CHAPTER 1

Looking-Glass house

One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten"s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it COULDN"T have had any hand in the mischief.
The way Dinah washed her children"s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr - no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
- Oh, you wicked little thing! - cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. - Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You OUGHT, Dinah, you know you ought! - she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage - and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up the ball again. But she didn"t get on very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.
- Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty? - Alice began. - You"d have guessed if you"d been up in the window with me - only Dinah was making you tidy, so you couldn"t. I was watching the boys getting in stick for the bonfire - and it wants plenty of sticks, Kitty! Only it got so cold, and it snowed so, they had to leave off. Never mind, Kitty, we"ll go and see the bonfire to-morrow. - Here Alice wound two or three turns of the worsted round the kitten"s neck, just to see how it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again.
- Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty, - Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, - when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you"d have deserved it, you little mischievous darling! What have you got to say for yourself? Now don"t interrupt me! - she went on, holding up one finger. - I"m going to tell you all your faults. Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning. Now you can"t deny it, Kitty: I heard you! What that you say? - (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) - Her paw went into your eye? Well, that"s YOUR fault, for keeping your eyes open - if you"d shut them tight up, it wouldn"t have happened. Now don"t make any more excuses, but listen! Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her! What, you were thirsty, were you? How do you know she wasn"t thirsty too? Now for number three: you unwound every bit of the worsted while I wasn"t looking!
- That"s three faults, Kitty, and you"ve not been punished for any of them yet. You know I"m saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week - Suppose they had saved up all MY punishments! - she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. - What WOULD they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Or - let me see - suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldn"t mind THAT much! I"d far rather go without them than eat them!
- Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows - oh, that"s very pretty! - cried Alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands. - And I do so WISH it was true! I"m sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown.
- Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don"t smile, my dear, I"m asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said "Check!" you purred! Well, it WAS a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn"t been for that nasty Knight, that came wiggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, let"s pretend - And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase - Let"s pretend. - She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the say before - all because Alice had begun with - Let"s pretend we"re kings and queens; - and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn"t, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, - Well, YOU can be one of them then, and I"LL be all the rest." And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, - Nurse! Do let"s pretend that I"m a hungry hyaena, and you"re a bone.
But this is taking us away from Alice"s speech to the kitten.
- Let"s pretend that you"re the Red Queen, Kitty! Do you know, I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you"d look exactly like her. Now do try, there"s a dear! - And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn"t succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn"t fold its arms properly. So, to punish it, she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky it was - and if you"re not good directly, - she added, - I"ll put you through into Looking-glass House. How would you like THAT?
- Now, if you"ll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I"ll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there"s the room you can see through the glass - that"s just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when I get upon a chair - all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I do so wish I could see THAT bit! I want so much to know whether they"ve a fire in the winter: you never CAN tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too - but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I"ve held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.
- How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they"d give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn"t good to drink - But oh, Kitty! now we come to the passage. You can just see a little PEEP of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and it"s very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond. Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Lookingglass House! I"m sure it"s got, oh! such beautiful things in it! Let"s pretend there"s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let"s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it"s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It"ll be easy enough to get through She was up on the chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there. And certainly the glass WAS beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. - So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room, - thought Alice: - warmer, in fact, because there"ll be no one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it"ll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can"t get at me!
Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was a different as possible. For instance, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her.
- They don"t keep this room so tidy as the other, - Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little - Oh! - of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two!
- Here are the Red King and the Red Queen, - Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), - and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel - and here are two castles walking arm in arm - I don"t think they can hear me, she went on, as she put her head closer down, - and I"m nearly sure they can"t see me. I feel somehow as if I were invisible
Here something began squeaking on the table behind Alice, and made her turn her head just in time to see one of the White Pawns roll over and begin kicking: she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next.
- It is the voice of my child! - the White Queen cried out as she rushed past the King, so violently that she knocked him over among the cinders. - My precious Lily! My imperial kitten! - and she began scrambling wildly up the side of the fender.
- Imperial fiddlestick! - said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt by the fall. He had a right to be a LITTLE annoyed with the Queen, for he was covered with ashes from head to foot.
Alice was very anxious to be of use, and, as the poor little Lily was nearly screaming herself into a fit, she hastily picked up the Queen and set her on the table by the side of her noisy little daughter.
The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid journey through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence. As soon as she had recovered her breath a little, she called out to the White King, who was sitting sulkily among the ashes, - Mind the volcano!
- What volcano? - said the Kind, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if he thought that was the most likely place to find one.
- Blew - me - up, - panted the Queen, who was still a little out of breath. - Mind you come up - the regular way - don"t get blown up!
Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, - Why, you"ll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I"d far better help you, hadn"t I? - But the King took no notice of the question: it was quite clear that he could neither hear her nor see her.
So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn"t take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes.
She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
- Oh! PLEASE don"t make such faces, my dear! - she cried out, quite forgetting that the King couldn"t hear her. - You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you! And don"t keep your mouth so wide open! All the ashes will get into it - there, now I think you"re tidy enough! - she added, as she smoothed his hair, and set him upon the table near the Queen.
The King immediately fell flat on his back, and lay perfectly still: and Alice was a little alarmed at what she had done, and went round the room to see if she could find any water to throw over him. However, she could find nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got back with it she found he had recovered, and he and the Queen were talking together in a frightened whisper - so low, that Alice could hardly hear what they said.
The King was saying, - I assure, you my dear, I turned cold to the very ends of my whiskers!
To which the Queen replied, - You haven"t got any whiskers. - The horror of that moment, - the King went on, - I shall never, NEVER forget!
- You will, though, - the Queen said, - if you don"t make a memorandum of it.
Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him.
The poor King look puzzled and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time without saying anything; but Alice was too strong for him, and at last he panted out, - My dear! I really MUST get a thinner pencil. I can"t manage this one a bit; it writes all manner of things that I don"t intend
- What manner of things? - said the Queen, looking over the book (in which Alice had put - THE WHITE KNIGHT IS SLIDING DOWN THE POKER. HE BALANCES VERY BADLY") - That"s not a memorandum of YOUR feelings!
There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, - for it"s all in some language I don"t know, - she said to herself.
It was like this.

YKCOWREBBAJ

sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawT
ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD
,sevogorob eht erew ysmim llA
.ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnA

She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. - Why, it"s a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again."
This was the poem that Alice read.

JABBERWOCKY

- Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tumtum gree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wook,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

- And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.

- Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

It seems very pretty, - she said when she had finished it, - but it"s RATHER hard to understand! - (You see she didn"t like to confess, ever to herself, that she couldn"t make it out at all.) - Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don"t exactly know what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that"s clear, at any rate
- But oh! - thought Alice, suddenly jumping up, - if I don"t make haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass, before I"ve seen what the rest of the house is like! Let"s have a look at the garden first! - She was out of the room in a moment, and ran down stairs or, at least, it wasn"t exactly running, but a new invention of hers for getting down stairs quickly and easily, as Alice said to herself. She just kept the tips of her fingers on the hand-rail, and floated gently down without even touching the stairs with her feet; then she floated on through the hall, and would have gone straight out at the door in the same way, if she hadn"t caught hold of the door-post. She was getting a little giddy with so much floating in the air, and was rather glad to find herself walking again in the natural way.

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Книга Льюиса Кэрролла Алиса в Зазеркалье на английском и русском языках. Вверху вы видите ссылку, чтобы скачать бесплатно и без регистрациидвуязычную книгу Алиса в Зазеркалье. Такое паралельное слушание и чтение хорошо помогает в изучении английского:

Through the Looking Glass
By Lewis Carroll
Chapter 1

LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE

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Алиса в Зазеркалье
Льюис Кэрролл
1. ЗАЗЕРКАЛЬНЫЙ ДОМ

Одно было совершенно ясно: белый котенок тут ни при чем; во всем виноват черный и никто другой. Вот уже полчаса, как мама-кошка мыла Снежинке мордочку (а та стойко сносила эту муку) - так что при всем желании Снежинка ничего не могла сделать.
А знаешь, как Дина умывала своих котят? Одной лапой она хватала бедняжку за ухо и прижимала к полу, а другой терла ей всю мордочку, начиная с носа, против шерсти. Как я уже сказал, что это время она трудилась над Снежинкой, а та лежала смирно, не сопротивлялась, да еще пыталась мурлыкать - видно, понимала, что все это делается для ее же блага.
С черненькой Китти Дина покончила раньше, и теперь, пока Алиса сидела, свернувшись калачиком на уголке просторного кресла, что-то бормоча про себя в полудреме, Китти от души забавлялась, играя с клубком шерсти, которую Алиса мотала поутру; она весело гоняла его по полу и, конечно, размотала и запутала вконец. Нитки валялись теперь на коврике перед камином, до того спутанные, что на них страшно было смотреть, а Китти прыгала по ним, пытаясь поймать собственный хвост.
- Ах, Китти, до чего же ты противная! - сказала Алиса, поймав ее и легонько целуя в мордочку, - для того, видно, чтобы она получше поняла, что хозяйка на нее сердится. - Неужели Дина тебе не объясняла, как себя нужно вести?
Она взглянула с укоризной на Дину и как можно строже добавила:
- Нехорошо, Дина, нехорошо!
А потом она опять забралась в кресло, прихватив с собой шерсть и котенка, и снова принялась за клубок. Но дело у Алисы шло медленно, потому что она все время отвлекалась - то беседовала с Китти, а то бормотала что-то себе под нос. Китти смирно сидела у нее на коленях, притворяясь, что внимательно следит за тем, как Алиса мотает шерсть; время от времени она протягивала лапку и тихонько трогала клубок, словно желая сказать, что с удовольствием помогла бы, если б умела.
- А знаешь, что будет завтра? - говорила Алиса. - Ты бы и сама догадалась, если б сидела со мной утром на окошке. Только ты была занята - Дина тебя умывала. А я смотрела, как мальчишки собирают щепки на костер. Для костра надо много щепок, Китти. Было ужасно холодно, а тут еще снег пошел - пришлось им разойтись по домам! Но не горюй, Китти! Завтра мы пойдем смотреть на костер! (*3)
Тут Алиса намотала немножко шерсти Китти на шею - просто так, чтобы посмотреть, пойдет ли ей это; Китти стала вырываться - клубок скатился на пол и опять размотался.

Chapter One – Looking-Glass House : Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls «Snowdrop») and a black kitten (whom she calls «Kitty»)-the offspring of Dinah, Alice’s cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland -when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror’s reflection. Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirrorbehind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, «Jabberwocky», whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror. She also observes that the chess pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up.

Chapter Two – The Garden of Live Flowers : Upon leaving the house (where it had been a cold, snowy night), she enters a sunny spring garden where the flowers have the power of human speech; they perceive Alice as being a «flower that can move about.» Elsewhere in the garden, Alice meets the Red Queen, who is now human-sized, and who impresses Alice with her ability to run at breathtaking speeds. This is a reference to the chess rule that queens are able to move any number of vacant squares at once, in any direction, which makes them the most «agile» of pieces.

Chapter Three – Looking-Glass Insects : The Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. This is a reference to the chess rule of Promotion. Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen’s pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, thus acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.

Chapter Four – Tweedledum and Tweedledee : She then meets the fat twin brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee, whom she knows from the famous nursery rhyme. After reciting the long poem «The Walrus and the Carpenter», the Tweedles draw Alice’s attention to the Red King-loudly snoring away under a nearby tree-and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King’s dreams (thereby implying that she will cease to exist the instant he wakes up). Finally, the brothers begin acting out their nursery-rhyme by suiting up for battle, only to be frightened away by an enormous crow, as the nursery rhyme about them predicts.

Chapter Five – Wool and Water : Alice next meets the White Queen, who is very absent-minded but boasts of (and demonstrates) her ability to remember future events before they have happened. Alice and the White Queen advance into the chessboard’s fifth rank by crossing over a brook together, but at the very moment of the crossing, the Queen transforms into a talking Sheep in a small shop. Alice soon finds herself struggling to handle the oars of a small rowboat, where the Sheep annoys her with (seemingly) nonsensical shouting about «crabs» and «feathers». Unknown to Alice, these are standard terms in the jargon of rowing. Thus (for a change) the Queen/Sheep was speaking in a perfectly logical and meaningful way.

Chapter Six – Humpty Dumpty : After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in «Jabberwocky». In the process, he introduces Alice (and the reader) to the concept of portmanteau words, before his inevitable fall.

Chapter Seven – The Lion and the Unicorn : «All the king’s horses and all the king’s men» come to Humpty Dumpty’s assistance, and are accompanied by the White King, along with the Lion and the Unicorn, who again proceed to act out a nursery rhyme by fighting with each other. In this chapter, the March Hare and Hatter of the first book make a brief re-appearance in the guise of «Anglo-Saxon messengers» called «Haigha» and «Hatta» (i.e. «Hare» and «Hatter»-these names are the only hint given as to their identities other than John Tenniel’s illustrations).

Chapter Eight – “It’s my own Invention” : Upon leaving the Lion and Unicorn to their fight, Alice reaches the seventh rank by crossing another brook into the forested territory of the Red Knight, who is intent on capturing the «white pawn»-who is Alice-until the White Knight comes to her rescue. Escorting her through the forest towards the final brook-crossing, the Knight recites a long poem of his own composition called Haddocks’ Eyes, and repeatedly falls off his horse. His clumsiness is a reference to the «eccentric» L-shaped movements of chess knights, and may also be interpreted as a self-deprecating joke about Lewis Carroll’s own physical awkwardness and stammering in real life.

Chapter Nine – Queen Alice : Bidding farewell to the White Knight, Alice steps across the last brook, and is automatically crowned a queen, with the crown materialising abruptly on her head. She soon finds herself in the company of both the White and Red Queens, who relentlessly confound Alice by using word play to thwart her attempts at logical discussion. They then invite one another to a party that will be hosted by the newly crowned Alice-of which Alice herself had no prior knowledge.

Chapter Ten – Shaking : Alice arrives and seats herself at her own party, which quickly turns to a chaotic uproar-much like the ending of the first book. Alice finally grabs the Red Queen, believing her to be responsible for all the day’s nonsense, and begins shaking her violently with all her might. By thus «capturing» the Red Queen, Alice unknowingly puts the Red King (who has remained stationary throughout the book) into checkmate, and thus is allowed to wake up.

Chapter Eleven – Waking : Alice suddenly awakes in her armchair to find herself holding the black kitten, whom she deduces to have been the Red Queen all along, with the white kitten having been the White Queen.

Chapter Twelve – Which dreamed it? : The story ends with Alice recalling the speculation of the Tweedle brothers, that everything may have, in fact, been a dream of the Red King, and that Alice might herself be no more than a figment of his imagination. One final poem is inserted by the author as a sort of epilogue which suggests that life itself is but a dream.

Through the Looking Glass перевод текста. Reading outside the class will help you increase your vocabulary and improve your English. Read books, newspapers and magazines or browse the Net. — Внеклассное чтение поможет вам расширить словарный запас и улучшить свой английский. Читайте книги, газеты и журналы или просто читайте Интернет.

Look at the pictures and answer the questions. — Посмотри на картинки и ответь на вопросы.

1. What do you know about Alice in Wonderland ? — Что вы знаете об Алисе в Стране Чудес?

2. Is Alice a real person or a fictional character? — Алиса — настоящий человек или вымышленный персонаж?

3. Who created this character? — Кто создал этого персонажа?

4. Who’s Humpty Dumpty? What does he look like? — Что такой Шалтай Болтай? Как он выглядит?

Lewis Carroll (1832- 1898)

is a very famous English writer of books for children. His famous books include Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass . These books are about the adventures of Alice, a little girl, in a strange place called Wonderland. The extract is a short dialogue from the second book. Alice is talking to Humpty Dumpty, an egg with a nose and a mouth!

Льюис Кэрролл (1832 — 1898)

очень известный английский детский писатель. Его известные книги включают в себя «Приключения Алисы в Стране Чудес » и » Алиса в Зазеркалье» (примеч. Through the Looking Glass — Сквозь увеличительное стекло ). Эти книги о приключениях Алисы, маленькой девочки, в странном месте, называемом Страна Чудес. Отрывок — это коротенький диалог из второй книги. Алиса разговаривает с Шалтаем Болтаем, яйцом, у которого есть нос и рот.

Alice : What a beautiful belt you’ve got!

Humpty Dumpty: It’s a cravat, child, and a beautiful one, as you say. It’s a present from the White King and Queen. There now!

Alice: Is it really?

Humpty Dumpty : They gave it to me, for an unbirthday present.

Alice: I beg your pardon?

Humpty Dumpty: I’m not offended!

Alice: I mean, what is an unbirthday present?

Это Гарри Дампти, который находится в городе Медисон в США.Он связан с известным героем «Алисы в стране чудес» Шалтаем-болтаем. Эта скульптура- плод работы Джорджа Брента.

Humpty Dumpty: A present people give you when it isn’t your birthday, of course!

Alice: I like birthday presents best.

Humpty Dumpty: You don’t know what you are talking about. How many days are there in a year?

Alice: three hundred and sixty — five.

Humpty Dumpty: And how many birthdays have you?

Alice: One.

Humpty Dumpty: I’d rather see that on paper.

Alice: (writing on a piece of paper) 365-1=364

Humpty Dumpty: Then that shows that there are three hundred and sixty — four days when you might get unbirthday presents…

Alice: Certainly…

Алиса в Зазеркалье

Алиса: Какой у вас замечательный пояс!

Шалтай Болтай: Это галстук, дитя, и красивый, как ты сказала! Это подарок от Белого Короля и Королевы. Вот так вот!

Алиса: В самом деле?

Шалтай Болтай: Они подарили мне его на день нерождения.

Алиса: Простите?

Шалтай Болтай: Я не обижаюсь.

Алиса: Я имела в виду что за «подарок на день нерождения»?

А это Алиса в Стране Чудес. Этот прекрасный памятник расположен в Нью-Йоркском Центральном парке.

Шалтай Болтай: это подарок, который люди дарят, когда у тебя не день рождения, конечно же!

Алиса: Мне больше всего нравятся подарки, которые дарят на день рождения.

Шалтай Болтай: Не понимаю о чем ты! Сколько всего дней в году?

Алиса: триста шестьдесят пять.

Шалтай Болтай: И сколько у тебя всего дней рождения?

Алиса: Один.

Шалтай Болтай: Я бы предпочел увидеть это на бумаге.

Алиса: (пишет на кусочке бумаги): 365-1=364

Шалтай Болтай: Итак, тут написано, что еще остается триста шестьдесят четыре дня, когда ты можешь получать подарки на день нерождения…

Алиса: Конечно…

Данный диалог в полном варианте можно прослушать здесь с 8-й минуты

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