《愛麗絲漫游仙境》選段
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll CHAPTER V Advice from a Caterpillar The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present, at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
毛毛蟲和愛麗絲彼此沉默地注視了好一會(huì)。最后，毛毛蟲從嘴里拿出了水煙管，用慢吞吞的、瞌睡似的聲調(diào)同她說起了話。 “你是誰？”毛毛蟲問，這可不是鼓勵(lì)人談話的開場白，愛麗絲挺不好意思地回答說：“我……眼下很難說，先生……至少今天起床時(shí)，我還知道我是誰的，從那時(shí)起，可是我就變了好幾回了，”