Peter Pan读书笔记(1)

CHAPTER ONE

Peter Breaks Through

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Two is the beginning of the end!

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way they Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in the garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain this forever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grew up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

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形容女人心细

Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more.

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现实中有这么聪明的狗？？

It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed.

你若是看到她护送孩子上学时那种合乎礼仪的情景，真会大长见识。当孩子们规规矩矩时，她就安详地走在他们身边，当孩子们走的不直就把他们赶回队列。

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形象描写妈妈如何帮孩子收拾东西,太可爱了！

It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are sleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thought ready for

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you to put on.

CHAPTER TWO

The Shadow

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夸张

...... lowered the whole tone of the house

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不太明白……

They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.

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好幽默的写法，描写加议论，后面是作者以成年的眼光嘲讽小孩子

“I won’t go to bed,” he had shouted, like one who still believed that he had the last word on the subject.

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Sometimes the thing yielded to him without a contest, but there were occasions when it would have been better for the house if he had swallowed his pride and used a made-up tie.

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滑稽笨拙的Mr. Darling

“Matter!” he yelled; he really yelled. “This tie, it will not tie.” He became dangerously sarcastic. “Not round my neck! Round the bed-post! Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-past, but round my neck, no! Oh dear no! Begs to be excused!”

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Really Sarcastic!

He thought Mrs. darling was not sufficiently impressed and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.”

Mrs. Darling 和 Mr. Darling鲜明对比

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Even then Mrs. Darling was placid. “Let me try, dear,” she said, and indeed that was what he had come to ask her to do; and with her nice cool hands she tied his tie for him, while the children stood around to see their fate decided. Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling was far too fine a nature for that; he thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his back.

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妻管严

At first he pooh-poohed the story, but he became thoughtful when she showed him the shadow.

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In the dead of the night

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作者又开始装作无所不知的成人跟孩子对话了~~

The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. It is the fairy languages. You ordinary children can never hear it, but if you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it once again.

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Peter had a sinking. 彼得的心沉了一下。

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有妈妈好还是没妈妈好？Peter和Wendy有不同的看法。

She asked where he lived.

“Second to the right,” said Peter, “and then straight on till morning.”

“What a funny address”

“No, it isn’t,” he said.

“I mean,” Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, “is that what they put on the letters?”

He wished she had not mentioned letters.

“Don’t get any letters,” he said contemptuously.

“But your mother gets letters?”

“Don’t have a mother,” he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had

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not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very overrated person. Wendy, however, felt at once that she was in the presence of a tragedy.

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什么是kiss? 看来Peter并不知道。Wendy太可爱了！

It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.

But for the moment Wendy was shocked. “ You conceit,” she exclaimed, with frightful sarcasm; “of course I did nothing!”

“You did a little,” Peter said carelessly, and continued to dance.

“A little!” she replied with hauteur; “if I am no use I can at least withdraw”; and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets.

To induce her to look up he pretended to be going away, and when this failed he sat on the end of the bed and tapped her gently with his foot. “Wendy,” he said, “don’t withdraw. I can’t help crowing, Wendy, when I’m pleased with myself.” Still she would not look up, though she was listening eagerly. “Wendy,” he continued in a voice that no woman has ever been able to resist, “Wendy,

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one girl is more use than twenty boys.”

Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bedclothes.

“Do you really think so, Peter?”

“Yes, I do.”

“I think it’s perfectly sweet of you,” she declared, “and I’ll get up again”; and she sat with him on the side of the bed. She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

“Surely you know what a kiss is?” She asked, aghast.

“I shall know when you give it to me,” he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.

“Now,” said he, “shall I give you a kiss?” and she replied with a slight primness, “if you please.” She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand, so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain round her neck. I t was lucky that she did put it on that chain, for it was afterwards to save her life.

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小精灵是这样出生的：

“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”