Peter Pan — Page 12
她从窗户放下一根卷尺垂到人行道，足足有三十英尺的垂直落差，连一根可以攀爬的水管都没有。
She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.
温迪肯定是在做梦。
Certainly Wendy had been dreaming.
但温迪并没有在做梦，紧接着的第二天晚上就证明了这一点——正是那个夜晚，可以说开启了这些孩子们非同寻常的冒险。
But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.
在我们所说的那个夜晚，所有的孩子都再次躺在床上。
On the night we speak of all the children were once more in bed.
那天恰好是娜娜的休息之夜，达林太太给孩子们洗了澡，唱歌哄他们入睡，直到他们一个接一个地松开她的手，滑入梦乡。
It happened to be Nana's evening off, and Mrs. Darling had bathed them and sung to them till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep.
孩子们看起来都那么安稳舒适，她不禁对自己先前的担忧感到好笑，平静地在炉火旁坐下来缝衣。
All were looking so safe and cosy that she smiled at her fears now and sat down tranquilly by the fire to sew.
她在缝的是给迈克尔的东西，他快过生日了，正是开始穿衬衫的年纪。
It was something for Michael, who on his birthday was getting into shirts.
炉火暖融融的，育儿室里只有三盏夜灯，光线昏暗，不知不觉间，针线活就搁在了达林太太的膝上。
The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs. Darling's lap.
接着她的头轻轻地、轻轻地垂了下来，她睡着了。
Then her head nodded, oh, so gracefully.
她睡着了。
She was asleep.
你看他们四个：温迪和迈克尔在那边，约翰在这边，达林太太在炉火旁。
Look at the four of them, Wendy and Michael over there, John here, and Mrs. Darling by the fire.
本应该有第四盏夜灯的。
There should have been a fourth night-light.
她睡着后做了一个梦，梦见梦幻岛离得太近了，一个陌生的男孩从那里破门而入。
While she slept she had a dream. She dreamt that the Neverland had come too near and that a strange boy had broken through from it.
Vocabulary
- let
- 允许某人做某事
- down
- 向下，往低处
- tape
- 胶带或细长带状物
- window
- 窗户，建筑物上的开口
- pavement
- 人行道，铺有硬面的道路
- sheer
- 完全的，陡直的，毫无遮挡
- drop
- 垂直下落的距离或高度
- feet
- 英尺，长度单位，foot的复数
- without
- 没有，不带某物或条件
- spout
- 水管或排水管，突出的管口
- climb
- 攀爬，向上爬升
- Certainly
- 当然，肯定地，无疑地
- dreaming
- 正在做梦，dream的现在分词
- very
- 正是，恰好（修饰名词时）
- next
- 紧接着的，下一个
- showed
- 展示，表明，show的过去式
- extraordinary
- 非凡的，极不寻常的
- adventures
- 冒险经历，adventure的复数
- may
- 可能，也许，表示推测
- begun
- begin的过去分词，已经开始
- speak
- 说话，讲述某一话题
- once
- 曾经，一旦，一次
- happened
- 碰巧发生，happen的过去式
- evening
- 傍晚，黄昏时分
- off
- 离开，休假，关闭
- Mrs.
- 已婚女性的称谓，太太
- bathed
- 给……洗澡，bathe的过去式
- sung
- 唱歌，sing的过去分词
- till
- 直到，until的同义词
- slid
- 滑动，slide的过去式
- away
- 离开，远去
- land
- 国度，土地，领域
- safe
- 安全的，没有危险的
- cosy
- 温馨舒适的，惬意的
- smiled
- 微笑，smile的过去式
- fears
- 恐惧，担忧，fear的复数
- sat
- 坐，sit的过去式
- tranquilly
- 平静地，安静地
- sew
- 缝纫，用针线缝制
- getting
- 即将到来，get的现在分词
- shirts
- 衬衫，shirt的复数
- warm
- 温暖的，有热度的
- however
- 然而，表示转折或对比
- nursery
- 育儿室，儿童睡觉的房间
- dimly
- 昏暗地，光线不足地
- lit
- 被照亮，light的过去分词
- night-lights
- 小夜灯，夜间照明小灯
- presently
- 不久，过了一会儿
- sewing
- 正在缝纫，sew的现在分词
- lay
- 放置，躺，lie的过去式
- lap
- 大腿上方，坐时形成的平面
- nodded
- 点头，头部前倾，nod的过去式
- gracefully
- 优雅地，动作轻柔美丽地
- asleep
- 睡着了，处于睡眠状态
- should
- 应该，本来应当
- fourth
- 第四，序数词
- night-light
- 小夜灯，夜间用的小灯
- While
- 当……的时候，在……期间
- slept
- 睡觉，sleep的过去式
- dream
- 梦，梦境，做梦
- dreamt
- 做了梦，dream的过去式
- near
- 靠近，在附近
- strange
- 奇怪的，陌生的
- broken
- 破碎的，break的过去分词
- through
- 穿过，通过，从一端到另一端
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