Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
이상한 나라의 앨리스
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
The Story
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Alice was sitting beside the river with her sister on a warm afternoon, and she had nothing to do.Her sister was reading a book, but it had no pictures and no conversations in it.Alice felt sleepy and bored, and she wondered if it was worth getting up to pick some daisies.
Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close past her.Then the Rabbit said out loud, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”Alice did not even think that was strange — but then the Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket.
She had never seen a rabbit with a waistcoat or a watch, and she jumped to her feet, full of curiosity.She ran across the field after it, just in time to see it disappear down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.Alice went straight in after it, and she never once stopped to think how she would get out again.
For a little way the hole went straight on like a tunnel, and then it suddenly dropped down.Alice fell slowly, down and down, with plenty of time to look around her as she went.Cupboards and shelves covered the sides of the hole, and here and there maps and pictures hung on the wall.
As she passed a shelf, she took down a jar with the label “ORANGE MARMALADE” on it, but the jar was empty.She did not drop it, in case it hit somebody far below, so she put it back into a cupboard as she fell past.Down, down, down she went, until she began to wonder if she was near the centre of the earth.
Then, thump! thump! she landed on a great heap of dry leaves and sticks, and the fall was over.She was not hurt at all, and far down a long passage ahead she could still see the White Rabbit, hurrying away.
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어느 따뜻한 오후, 앨리스는 언니와 함께 강가에 앉아 있었는데, 할 일이 하나도 없었어요. 언니는 책을 읽고 있었지만, 그 책에는 그림도 없고 대화도 없었어요. 앨리스는 졸리고 지루했고, 데이지 꽃을 꺾으러 굳이 일어날 만한 가치가 있을까 생각했어요.
그때 갑자기 분홍색 눈을 한 하얀 토끼 한 마리가 앨리스 곁을 바짝 스쳐 달려갔어요. 그러더니 토끼가 큰 소리로 말했어요. "이런! 이런! 늦겠어!" 앨리스는 그것조차 이상하다고 생각하지 않았어요. 그런데 그때 토끼가 조끼 주머니에서 회중시계를 꺼냈어요.
앨리스는 조끼를 입고 시계를 든 토끼는 한 번도 본 적이 없어서, 호기심에 가득 차 벌떡 일어났어요. 앨리스는 들판을 가로질러 토끼를 뒤쫓았고, 때마침 토끼가 산울타리 아래 커다란 토끼 굴로 사라지는 모습을 볼 수 있었어요. 앨리스는 곧장 토끼를 따라 굴로 들어갔고, 어떻게 다시 나올지는 한 번도 생각하지 않았어요.
굴은 얼마 동안 터널처럼 곧게 이어지다가, 갑자기 아래로 뚝 떨어졌어요. 앨리스는 천천히 계속 아래로 떨어졌고, 떨어지는 동안 주위를 둘러볼 시간이 넉넉했어요. 굴의 벽면은 찬장과 선반으로 뒤덮여 있었고, 여기저기 지도와 그림이 벽에 걸려 있었어요.
선반을 지나면서 앨리스는 "오렌지 마멀레이드"라고 적힌 병을 하나 집어 들었지만, 병은 비어 있었어요. 앨리스는 저 아래에 있는 누군가가 맞을까 봐 병을 떨어뜨리지 않고, 찬장을 지나칠 때 그 안에 도로 넣어 두었어요. 아래로, 아래로, 아래로 떨어지면서, 앨리스는 자기가 지구 중심 가까이에 온 게 아닐까 생각하기 시작했어요.
그때 쿵! 쿵! 하고 앨리스는 마른 나뭇잎과 나뭇가지가 잔뜩 쌓인 더미 위에 떨어졌고, 그렇게 추락은 끝이 났어요. 앨리스는 하나도 다치지 않았고, 저 앞 긴 복도 끝에서 하얀 토끼가 서둘러 달아나는 모습이 아직 보였어요.
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Chapter 1 · 2,161 words · 5 short readings
Read the originalComprehension Check
1. Why did Alice jump up and run after the White Rabbit?
2. What was unusual about the way Alice fell down the hole?
3. Why didn't Alice simply drop the empty marmalade jar?
Vocabulary
noun
waistcoat
조끼 (셔츠 위에 입는 소매 없는 옷)
The White Rabbit wore a waistcoat and kept a watch in its pocket.
하얀 토끼는 조끼를 입고 주머니에 시계를 넣고 다녔어요.
Your Summary
In 1–2 sentences, describe how Alice ended up falling down the rabbit-hole and what she saw on the walls as she fell.
Source: Adapted from Chapter 1 ("Down the Rabbit-Hole") of Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (first published 1865; long in the public domain, Project Gutenberg #11). This simplified retelling and its Korean translation are original text written for SeoJae Story.
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Famous line from this story
“We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
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