文档介绍：小小人的大世界
内容简介
一个患病的英国小男孩被送往乡间姑婆的老宅中休养。寂静中他发现了在老宅里的一个秘密:借东西的小人。借东西的小人只有铅笔一般高,他们把家安在房子的地板下,靠从楼上的“巨人”那里“借”东西为生。他们最害怕的就是被“看见”。
借东西的小女孩阿瑞埃蒂在门外草丛里被小男孩看见。好心的小男孩不仅帮助这一家小人借东西,还充当信使,为他们给住在别处的亲戚送信。但好景不长,女管家也发现了小人一家,她关住小男孩,找来警察、猫和捕鼠专家对付小人。万分危急之际,小人一家是如何成功逃脱人类的追捕的呢?他们在后来的颠沛流离的野外生活中又发生了哪些惊险和奇遇呢?
作者简介
玛丽?诺顿(1903?1992),英国作家,以幻想系列丛书“借东西的小人”闻名,该系列一共五本,畅销多年,在英美家喻户晓,曾获1953年卡内基儿童文学奖,2007年入选“七十年来十大童书经典”。
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Chapter Four
Pod came in slowly, his sack on his back; he leaned his hat pin, with its dangling name?tape, against the wall and, on the middle of the kitchen table, he placed a doll
’s tea cup; it was the size of a mixing bowl.
“Why, Pod―” began Homily.
“Got the saucer too,” he said. He swung down the sack and untied the neck. “Here you are,” he said, drawing out the saucer. “Matches it.”
He had a round, currant?bunny sort of face; tonight it looked flabby.
“Oh, Pod,” said Homily, “you do look queer. Are you all right?”
Pod sat down. “I’m fair enough,” he said.
“You went up the curtain,” said Homily. “Oh, Pod, you shouldn’t have. It’s shaken you―”
Pod made a strange face, his eyes swiveled round toward Arrietty. Homily stared at him, her mouth open, and then she turned. “Come along, Arrietty,” she said briskly, “you pop off to bed, now, like a good girl, and I’ll bring you some supper.”
“Oh,” said Arrietty, “can’t I see the rest of the borrowings?”
“Your