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0每天五分钟听经典英文故事，读绘本，磨耳朵。一个女孩掉进兔子洞，在荒诞离奇的地下世界展开一场难忘的冒险。
The afternoon by the riverbank was hot and quiet
Alice's sister sat on the grass reading a book
Alice sat next to her, so bored she could almost fall asleep
The book had no pictures and no conversations, and she could not see what was interesting about it
The air felt still, the grass pressed against her arm, and the water in the distance swayed gently
A white rabbit ran past her
It was not an ordinary rabbit
It wore a waistcoat, glanced at its pocket watch, and said in a hurry that it was going to be late
Alice snapped awake at once
She did not have time to think about how strange this was — she just knew she could not let it get away
She chased the rabbit and crawled into a hole at the root of a tree
The hole was very deep, and she kept falling down
Cabinets, bookshelves, maps and empty bottles floated past her, and she still had time to wonder if she would fall all the way to the other side of the earth
When she finally landed, the rabbit had already turned a corner down the hallway and disappeared, leaving only a tiny door and a glass table waiting for her
On the table lay a small key, and behind the door was a beautiful garden
But the door was too small for her to get through
She drank what was in the bottle and shrank very small, but now she could not reach the key on the table
She ate a cake and shot up tall again, her head nearly touching the ceiling
She cried
Her tears grew and grew until they formed a pool
When she shrank again, she found herself splashing into her own tears
A mouse, a duck, a dodo bird and many other animals were floundering in the water too
Everyone climbed out dripping wet, and nobody knew how to get dry
In the end they ran a race that anyone could start and anyone could finish, and the prize was something Alice pulled from her own pocket
This place did not make sense from the very beginning
The white rabbit appeared again, mistook Alice for a maid and sent her to fetch gloves and a fan from his house
Alice went inside, saw a bottle, drank from it, and grew so big again that her arms stretched out the windows and her feet filled the room
The rabbit and the animals outside panicked and threw pebbles at the house
The pebbles turned into little cakes, and Alice ate one to shrink again and escape
In the woods she met a caterpillar
The caterpillar sat on a mushroom, slowly smoking a hookah, and asked who she was
Alice could not answer
She had changed so many times today that even she did not know who she was anymore
The caterpillar did not comfort her
It only said that one side of the mushroom would make her taller and the other side would make her shorter
Alice broke the mushroom into two pieces and nibbled at each side, trying to get back to the right size
But in this world, being the right size never lasted long
As soon as she could walk again, she arrived at the Duchess's kitchen
Smoke filled the room, the cook was throwing pepper into the soup, and the baby was crying loudly
The Duchess held the child like a burden
Alice took the baby, wanting to take it away
But the child squirmed and twisted in her arms, its nose pushed upward and its voice changed
When she looked down, it was no longer a baby — it had become a little pig
The pig ran into the woods, and Alice stood there, not knowing whether to be scared or to laugh
On a branch, the Cheshire Cat slowly showed its grinning face
It said that everyone here was mad
One way led to the Hatter, the other way led to the March Hare
Alice said she did not want to stay with mad people
The cat said there was no escaping them here
Alice walked up to a tea table
The Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse were crowded around the table with many cups set out but never enough seats
Their talk went in circles, their riddles had no answers
Time itself seemed to have been offended and stopped forever at teatime
Alice tried to reason with them, tried to follow their thinking, but every sentence got twisted and every question became another question
She left the tea table, walked through a door, and saw a garden
Gardeners were painting white roses red — they had planted the wrong color and were afraid the Queen of Hearts would cut off their heads
The Queen arrived with a whole procession of card soldiers
Her voice was sharp, and she ordered beheadings at every turn
The King whispered quietly nearby, trying to smooth things over, and the soldiers scrambled to obey
Nobody knew whether those orders would ever really be carried out
Alice was pulled into a game of croquet
The balls were hedgehogs, the mallets were flamingos, and the hoops were card soldiers bending over
The hedgehogs ran away, the flamingos twisted their heads, and the hoops moved around too
The Queen kept getting angry and shouting for beheadings
Alice realized that the scariest thing here was not how strict the rules were, but that the rules changed all the while and everyone still pretended they were real
The Gryphon took her to meet the Mock Turtle
The Mock Turtle sobbed as it told stories about its school, about lessons with strange names, sounding both truly sad and like it was joking
As Alice listened, she was taken off to a trial
The courtroom was packed
The Knave of Hearts was accused of stealing the Queen's tarts
The King served as judge, and the jurors hurried to write their own names on slates so they would not forget
Witness after witness came up, but nothing they said made any real sense
The Mad Hatter carried his teacup, the Dormouse was pushed around, and the evidence was as light as a scrap of paper, yet everyone held it up with great seriousness
Alice sat to one side, and her body began to grow again
At first she tried to stay quiet, but the more she heard, the more absurd it seemed
The King said to pass the verdict before the judgment, and the Queen just kept shouting for beheadings
The whole courtroom was like a game getting noisier and noisier, with everyone putting on solemn faces to defend a hollow order
This time, Alice did not shrink herself
She stood up and looked at the fluttering cards — the Queen, the King, the soldiers and the jurors — and suddenly understood that they were not as big as she had imagined
She was no longer afraid of their shouting, and she no longer felt the need to make everything reasonable
The cards flew toward her
Alice waved them away — and snapped her eyes open
She was still on the riverbank, her head resting on her sister's lap
What fell down on her was not cards but leaves
The sunshine was still there, the river was still there, and her sister's hand gently brushed her face
She told her sister about the dream — the White Rabbit, the garden, the tea party, the courtroom
Then she got up and ran home
The grass grew quiet again
Her sister sat alone for a while, as if she could still see the shadow of that strange world, as if she could see Alice grown up, still remembering this afternoon, remembering a rabbit in a waistcoat with a pocket watch, remembering falling into a dream where nothing followed the rules
