绿野仙踪英文节选
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绿野仙踪英文节选
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a classic American children's
novel written by L. Frank Baum. Below is a selected excerpt from
the book:
"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with
Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the
farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had
to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor,
a roof, and a door; but no windows. The house was gray, and the
roof was painted red, just like all the other houses in the country.
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could
see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor
a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the
edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed
land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even
the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long
blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere.
Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint
and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and
gray as everything else.
When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young woman, and
now she was old and her hair was white. Uncle Henry was a thin,
gray-haired man with a mild disposition. They were both dressed
in blue gingham and had lived in the house many years. Of course
they had no children, for there was no one for them to marry, so
they took care of Dorothy as best they could.
One day, Dorothy and her dog Toto were inside the house when
suddenly a cyclone struck. The house shook and swayed and the
wind howled outside. Dorothy and Toto managed to get to the
cellar just in time. When the cyclone was over and everything grew
still, they went upstairs to see what had happened. They were
amazed to find that the house had been lifted up into the air and
was now moving away at a great speed.
Dorothy looked out of the window and saw a beautiful sight. In the
midst of the cyclone, she and the house had been carried up into
the sky and were now floating in the air! But soon, the wind began
to die down, and with a sudden bump, the house landed on the
ground. Dorothy and Toto were safe, but when they looked out of
the window, they saw that they were no longer in Kansas. They
were in a strange country, and everything looked different from
what they had ever seen before."
