五个孩子和沙精(牛津书虫中英文双版本).pdfVIP

简介 它是个“赛米德” （即沙精）。有一大孩子们在砾石坑中挖沙时发现了它。它 已经几千岁了。 当然了，沙精们可以帮人们实现他们的愿望——愿望每天只能实 现一个，而且当太阳落山时一切也就结束了。安西娅、西里尔、罗伯特和简觉得 这棒极了。他们的小弟弟还太小，不会许愿，而且大部分时间都呆在家里；可其 他几个盘算着要些激动人心的东西。 可那又是什么呢？变得漂亮， 富有，还是能像鸟儿一样飞翔？有时候想出真 正的好愿望很困难，可是脱口说出“但愿……”却是很容易的，那时你就得到了 并不真正想要的东西。这时沙精就不肯帮忙了。出了差错时它就生气地说： “为 什么你不先想好了再说？” 而事情的确常出差错…… 伊迪丝·内斯比特 1858 年生于伦敦， 1924 年逝世。她一生从事写作，为儿 童写了很多书。其中著名的有《五个孩子和沙精》 、《长生鸟与地毯》及《铁路上 的孩子》等。 1 Beautiful Children The house was about four kilometres from the station ，but after only a minute or two the children began to ask， Are we nearly there？And every time they saw a house they said， Oh， is this it ？But it never was. Then they came to the top of a hill ， and there was a White house with a green garden and lots of fruit trees. Here we are ！Mother said. Everyone hurried to get out of the carriage—— Robert，Anthea， Jane， Cyril， and Martha ，the nursemaid ，with the baby. But Mother did not hurry. The children ran round the house and all through the garden to see what there was. But Mother stood and watched the driver while he carried the boxes into the house. The children loved the house. They knew immediately that they were going to be happy there. Mother did not like the house very much because it was old and there were no cup-boards. But it was deep in the country and after two years in London the children thought that it was wonderful. If you live in London and your family is not rich ， you get bored because you cannot go to shops and theatres，and people say， Dont do this and Dont go there. In the country you can go any-where and do anything. The white house was on the hill， with a wood behind it and a gravel-pit on one side . It was at the gravel-pit， a week later，that the children found a fairy. Well ， that was what it called itself. But it was different from other fairies. It happened