Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole - Part 4
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage
into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and
those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could
shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.'
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately,
that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this
time she found a little bottle on it, ('which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large
letters.
It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and
see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they WOULD not remember
the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never
forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
However, this bottle was NOT marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot
buttered toast) she very soon finished it off.
| kneel down | arrodillarse |
| long | anhelar |
| wander about | deambular por |
| shut up | cerrarse |
| out-of-the-way | raro |
| half hoping | medio esperando |
| wise | sabio, prudente |
| in a hurry | rápidamente |
| poker | atizador |
| bleed | sangrar |
| venture | atreverse |
| custard | crema, natillas |
| roast turkey | pavo asado |
| toffee | caramelo de manteca y azúcar |
| buttered toast | tostada con manteca |
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