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dormouse: Watch what you're doing!

Hatter: It's you!

dormouse: No it's not. The Twisp brought us the wrong Alice.

Hare: It's the wrong Alice?

Hatter: It's Absolutely Alice. You're Absolutely Alice. I'd know you anywhere. I'd know her anywhere!  Well, as you can see, we're still having tea. And it's all because I was obliged to kill time waiting for your return. You're terribly late, you know. Naughty! Well anyway, time to came quite offended has stopped all together. Not a tick off a finger.

Hare: Cup.

Alice: Time can be funny in dreams.

Hatter: Yes, yes, of course, but now you're back, you see. And we need to get on to the FrAbjous Day.

Hare: FrAbjous Day!

Hatter: I've been investigating things that begin with the letter "M". Have you any idea why a raven¹ is like a writing desk?

Hare and Dormouse: "Down with the Bloody² Big Head"!

Alice: What?

Cheshire cat: "Down with the Bloody Big Head". Bloody Big Head, being The Red Queen.

Hatter: Come, come we simply must commit to the slaying³ in such. Therefore, is it high time to forgive and forget or forgive and forgive whichever comes first, or is in any case the most convenient, I'm waiting.

Hare: It's ticking, it's ticking again.

Cheshire cat: All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea.

Hatter: The entire world is falling to ruin and poor Chester is off his tea.

Cheshire cat: What happened that day was not... my fault.

Hatter: Oh, dear. Your were out and then to save your own skin. You gutless Scottisch pelgrim juggling⁴ slurking urpal slackush scrum Barlemot.

Dormouse: Hatter!

Hatter: Thank you. I´m fine.

Cheshire cat: What's wrong with you, Tarrant? You used to be the light of the party. You used to do the best Futterwacken in all of WitzEnd.

Alice: Futter what?

Dormouse: It's a dance.

Hatter: One day, FrAbjous Day, when the White Queen once again wears the crown. On that day I shall Futterwacken ... vigorously.

Hare: Oh no!

Dormouse: The Knave⁵.

Cheshire cat: Goodbye.

Hatter: Drink this quickly.

Dormouse: Oh, dear.

Alice: Let me out!

Stayne: Well! If it's not my favorite trio of lunatics.

Dormouse: Would you like to join us?

Hare: You're all late for tea!

Stayne: I'm looking the girl called ... Alice.

Hatter: Speaking of the Queen, here's a little song we used to sing in her honour. Twinkle, twinkle little red how I wonder where you´re at.

Stayne: If you're hiding her, you'll lose your heads.

Hatter: Already lost them. All together now!

Hare and Dormouse: Up Above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky . Twinkle, twinkle little Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle,twinkle.

Hatter: Don't be bloody beggin'!

Hare: Would you like some tea?

Stayne: Follow the blood hound.

Dormouse: Sugar?

Stayne: Yes, please. You're all mad !

Hare: Thanks very much.

Dormouse: Pass the scones⁶, please.

Hatter: Try this one for size. I like it!

Dormouse: Good thing the blood hound is one of us, or you'd be...

Alice: What do they want with me?

Hare: Best take her to the White Queen, she'd be safe there!

妙语佳句 活学活用

1. kill time：消磨时间。

例如：To kill time until the exhibition opened, we looked round the shops.（为了消磨时间等待展览开始，我们逛了逛商场。）

2. not a tick off a finger: 弹指一挥间。疯帽匠的意思是：“这种磨人的日子终于过去了，弹指一瞬间”。

3. high time: 正是时候，早该。

例如：It is high time he should come to our house for dinner.（已经到了他该上咱家吃晚饭的时候了。）

4. put me off my tea：让我倒胃口，喝不下茶。Put off一般用来指“推迟，拖延”，在这里表示让某人“倒尽胃口”。

5. save one's skin: 安然逃脱。也称为save one's hide/neck，尤指置他人于困境而保全自己的性命，使自己免受惩罚。疯帽匠是在责骂柴郡猫：“你为了逃命，一溜烟就没影了。”

下面我们要举的一个例子虽然没有生命危险，但是对于一个学生来说也是很重要的事。 我们看看这位学生是怎么说的：

"I was in real trouble last night: I had to type up a term paper to turn in to my English teacher this morning and my typewriter broke down. But the girl next door loaned me her typewriter; she really saved my skin."

他说：“昨晚我可真是碰到了大问题。今天早上我必须把一篇论文交给英语老师，昨晚得用打字机打完的。结果我的打字机坏了。幸好我隔壁的那个女孩把她的打字机借了给我，这可真是救了我的命。”

6. knave: 这里指红桃皇后领导的扑克牌士兵。

在纸牌中，knave用来指J。平时我们一般用knave来表示“流氓，无赖”，比如：He is a knave in grain.（他是一个坏透了的人。）

7. trio of lunatics：这里指疯帽匠、三月兔、睡鼠组成的“疯子三人组”，他们常举办“疯狂茶会”。Trio可以用来指“三人小组”或者“三件一套、三重唱”。

8. hound：猎犬。

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