The Voyage of Gulliver Learn English through story level 3

chapter one

a voyage to lilliput

i was born in nottinghamshire

and was the third of five sons

father was not a rich man

but he was able to send me to cambridge

university

where i studied for three years

when i left college

i continued my studies and became a

doctor

but i always wanted to travel

and so i made several voyages as a

ship’s doctor

when i married my wife mary however

i planned to stay at home for a while

but after a few years

i discovered i was not earning enough

money from my patients

i decided to go to sea again

and this time

i joined a ship sailing to the islands

in the south pacific ocean

we started our journey from bristol

on may the 4th

at first our voyage went well

we sailed across the atlantic

round the coast of africa

and into the indian ocean

but before we could reach the pacific

a violent storm hit us

and drove us to the northwest of

tasmania

the wind drove our ship onto a rock

which broke the ship in half

some of the sailors and i

managed to get a boat into the water

and we rode away to look for land

but when we were too tired to row

anymore

a great wave hit our small boat

and we all fell into the sea

i do not know what happened to my

companions

but i suppose they were all drowned

the wind and waves pushed me along as i

struggled to keep my head above water

i became very tired

and soon felt i could not swim anymore

luckily

just then my feet touched the ground

i walked out of the sea

and onto a beach

where there was no sign of any people or

houses

i was so exhausted

that i lay down

and went to sleep

when i woke up next morning and tried to

get up i could not move i was lying on

my back

and my whole body my arms and legs

were strongly fastened to the ground

even my hair which was long and thick

was tied to the ground

the sun began to grow hot

and i was very uncomfortable

soon

i felt something alive moving along my

leg

and up my body to my face

and when i looked down

i saw a very small human being

only 15 centimeters tall

he had a bow and arrow in his hands

and there were forty more of these

little men following him

i was so surprised that i gave a great

shout

they all jumped back very frightened

and some hurt themselves by falling off

my body

meanwhile

i was struggling to unfasten myself

but just as i managed to pull my left

arm free of the ropes

i felt a hundred arrows land on my free

hand

and more arrows on my face and body

this was very painful

and made me cry aloud

i lay quietly

to see what would happen next

when they saw i was no longer struggling

they quickly built a platform next to my

head

and an official climbed up there to

speak to me

although i could not understand his

language

i understood that they would be friendly

towards me if i did not try to harm them

by now i was extremely hungry

so i used sign language

to beg the official for food

he seemed to understand me

because immediately ladders were put

against my sides

and little men climbed up with baskets

of food and drink

they were surprised at how much i could

eat and drink

in just one mouthful

i ate three of their meat dishes

and three of their loaves of bread

i drank two of their barrels of wine and

was still thirsty

because that was only half a liter

while they were bringing me food

i wondered whether to pick up a handful

of the little men

and throw them to their death

but i was afraid they would shoot at me

again

and anyway

i was grateful for their kindness in

giving me food and drink

so i did not move

after some time

another official climbed up to the

platform and spoke to me

from his signs

i understood that they were going to

move me

the king of this country which was

called lilliput

had ordered his people to carry me to

the capital city about a kilometer away

i made signs to ask whether i could be

untied

but the official politely refused

while i was eating a platform had been

prepared to carry me

the people of lilliput

known as the lilliputians

are very intelligent and clever with

their hands

for me

500 men built a special wooden platform

with 22 wheels

900 of the strongest men worked for

about three hours to lift me on to the

platform

and 1

500 of the king’s largest horses

each 11 and a half centimeters high

pulled me to the capital

i did not know about any of this

because they had put a sleeping powder

in my wine

and i was in a deep sleep

the king had decided i would stay in the

largest available building

just outside the city gates

its door was only a meter high and half

a meter wide

so i could only just get inside on my

hands and knees

my guards put 91 chains on my left leg

so that i could not escape

then they cut the ropes that tied me and

i was able to get to my feet

as i stood up i heard cries of

astonishment all around me

i felt rather miserable

but at least i could walk about now

in a two meter circle

i was certainly an interesting sight for

the lilliputians

who had come out of the city in crowds

of several thousand to see me

now i had a good view of the countryside

the fields looked like flower beds in a

garden

and even the tallest trees were only two

meters high

i was soon visited by the king himself

he has a strong handsome face

and is very popular among his people

he arrived with his queen his children

and his lords and ladies all dressed in

beautiful golden silver clothes

in order to make conversation easier

i lay on my side so that my face was

close to him

i spoke to him in all the languages i

knew

but we still could not understand each

other

the king ordered his people to make me a

bed

using 600 lilliputian beds

it was not very comfortable

but it was better than sleeping on the

stone floor

he ordered the crowds of sightseers to

go back to their homes

so that the work of the country could

continue

and i would not be annoyed

for a long time he discussed with his

lords in private

what should be done with me

i was told all this later by a good

friend of mine

clearly such a large person could be a

danger to his small people

at last it was decided that as i had

behaved so well up to now

i would be kept alive

food and drink would be brought to me

every day from all the villages

600 people would be my servants

300 men would make me a new suit

and six teachers

would teach me their language

and so

in about three weeks

i began to speak the language of

lilliput

the king often visited me

and every time he came i asked him to

take off my chains

he explained

that first

i must promise not to fight against

lilliput

or hurt lilliputians

and that i must be searched for weapons

i agreed to both these things

and carefully picked up two of his

officers in my hands

i put them first in one pocket

then move them to all my other pockets

except two

which i kept secret

as they searched they wrote down in a

notebook

details of all the things they found

afterwards

i read some of their report

in the second coat pocket

we found two

very large pieces of wood

and inside them

were great pieces of metal

very sharp

in another pocket

there was a most wonderful engine

at the end of a long chain

the engine was inside a huge round

container

which was made half of silver

and half of another metal

this second metal

was very strange

as we could see through it to some

mysterious

writing and pictures

the engine made a continuous loud noise

the officers could not guess what these

things were

but they were of course my two pocket

knives and my watch

they also found my comb

a purse with several gold and silver

coins

my gun and bullets

the king wanted to know what the gun was

used for

bring it out he ordered me and show me

how it works

i took the gun out and put a bullet into

it

don’t be afraid i warned the king

then i fired the gun into the air

it was the loudest noise the

lilliputians had ever heard

hundreds of them thought they were dead

and fell down

the king himself was very frightened

as i gave my gun to the officials to

keep i warned them to be careful with it

they allowed me to keep all my other

things

and i hoped

that one day soon

i would be free

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chapter 2

life in lilliput

i was careful to behave as well as

possible

to persuade the king to give me my

freedom

lilliputians soon began to lose their

fear of me

they called me

the man mountain

sometimes

i lay down and let them dance on my hand

and from time to time children came to

play games in my hair

by now

i was able to speak their language well

one day

the king invited me to watch the regular

entertainments

which are greatly enjoyed by him

his family

and his lords and ladies

i was most interested in the rope

dancing

a very thin rope is fixed 30 centimeters

above the ground

people who want to become the king’s

most important officials jump and dance

on this rope

and whoever jumps highest

without falling

gets the best job

sometimes the king orders his lords to

dance on the rope to show that they can

still do it

this sport is of course

rather dangerous

and there are occasional deaths as a

result

it seems a strange way of choosing

officials

there was another interesting

entertainment

the king

holds a stick in front of him

and sometimes moves it up and down

one by one

people come up to him and jump over the

stick or crawl under it

they go on jumping and crawling as the

king moves the stick

the winner is the one who jumps and

crawls for the longest time

and he receives a blue ribbon to wear

around his waist

the second best receives a red ribbon

and the third best gets a green one

many of the lilliput lords wear their

ribbons proudly at all times

i had certainly never seen entertainment

like this in any of the countries i had

visited before

some days later

a strange black thing was seen on the

beach where i had first arrived in

lilliput

when the people realized it was not

alive

they decided that it must belong to the

man mountain

and the king ordered them to bring it to

me

i thought i knew what it was

when it arrived it was rather dirty

because it had been pulled along the

ground by horses

but i was delighted to see that it was

in fact my hat

i had lost it in the sea when swimming

away from the ship

i begged the king so often for my

freedom

that at last he and his lords agreed

that i need not be a prisoner any longer

however

i had to promise certain things

to help the lilliputians in war and

peace

to give two hours warning before a visit

to their capital

so that people could stay indoors

to be careful not to step on any

lilliputians or their animals

to carry important messages for the king

if necessary

to help the king’s workmen carry heavy

stones to stay in lilliput until the

king allowed me to leave

on his side the king promised i would

receive food and drink

enough for

1724 lilliputians

i agreed to everything at once

my chains were broken

and i was free at

last the first thing i did was visit the

capital city

the people were warned so that they

would not be in danger

i stepped carefully over the city wall

which was less than a meter high and

walked slowly through the two main

streets

it is usually a very busy city with

shops and markets full of people

but today

the streets were empty

there were crowds watching me from every

window

in the middle of the city is the king’s

palace

the king had invited me to enter it

so i stepped over the surrounding wall

into the palace garden

but unfortunately the palace itself has

walls a metre and a half high around it

i did not want to damage these walls by

trying to climb over them

so i walked carefully back out of the

city

and into the king’s park

here i cut down several of the largest

trees with my knife and made two wooden

boxes

when i returned to the palace with my

boxes

i was able to stand on one box on one

side of the wall

and step onto the other box on the other

side

i lay down on the ground and looked

through the windows right into the

king’s rooms

you cannot imagine a more beautiful

place to live in

the rooms and furniture are perfect in

every detail

as i was looking in

i could see the queen surrounded by her

lords and ladies

she kindly put her hand out of the

window for me to kiss

i think i should give you some general

information about lillyput

most lilliputians are about 15

centimeters tall

the birds and animals are of course much

smaller than the people

and the tallest trees are only a little

taller than i am

all crimes here are punished

but if someone is accused of a crime

and then it is proved that the accuser

is lying

the accuser is immediately killed

lilliputians believe that there are two

sides to the law

criminals must be punished

but people of good character must be

rewarded

so if a man can prove that he has obeyed

every law for six years

he receives a present of money from the

king

they also believe that any man who is

honest truthful and good

can serve his king and country

it is more important to have a good

character than to be clever or

intelligent

however

only those who believe in god

are allowed to be the king’s officials

many of their laws and customs are very

different from ours

but human nature is the same in every

country

the lilliputians like us

have learnt bad ways

choosing officials because they are able

to dance on a rope is just one example

now i shall return to my adventures in

lilliput

about two weeks after my first visit to

the capitol

i was visited by one of the king’s most

important officials

his name was rael drasol

and he had helped me many times since i

had arrived in lilliput

i started the conversation

i’m so glad they’ve taken away my chains

i told him

well my friend he answered

let me tell you something

you’re only free

because the king knows we’re in a very

dangerous situation

dangerous i cried

what do you mean

lily put has enemies at home and abroad

he explained

for six years now

we’ve had two political groups

the high heels and the low heels

perhaps the high heels were more popular

in the past but as you can see

our present king and all his officials

wear the lowest heels

the two groups hate each other

and a high heel will refuse to speak to

a low heel

that’s the problem in lilliput

now we are getting information that the

people of blefuscu are going to attack

us have you heard of blefuscu

it’s an island very near us

almost as large and important as

lilliput

they’ve been at war with us for three

years you see but how did this war start

i asked

well you know of course that most people

used to break their boiled eggs at the

larger end

but our king’s grandfather

once cut a finger while breaking his egg

this way

and so his father the king

ordered all lilliputians from then on

to break the smaller end of their eggs

people who do that are called small

endians

but lily pusians feel strongly about

this

and some big endians have fought angrily

against this law

as many as 11 000 people have been

killed because they refused to break

their eggs at the smaller end

some of the big endians have escaped to

join our enemies in blefuscu

the king of blefuscu has always wanted

to defeat lilliput in war

and now we hear

that he’s prepared a large number of

ships

which will attack us very soon

so you see my friend

how much our king needs your help

in order to defeat his enemies

i did not hesitate for a moment

please tell the king

i answered warmly

that i am ready to give my life to save

him or his country

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chapter three

lily put at war

the island of bliffasco

is only about a kilometer to the north

of lilliput

i knew that just beyond the narrow sea

separating the two countries

there were at least

50 warships

ready to attack us

with many other smaller ships

but i had kept away from that side of

the coast

so that the people of nyphuscu would not

see me

i had a secret plan

from the king’s workmen

i ordered 50 heavy metal hooks

each fastened to a piece of strong rope

i took off my coat and shoes and walked

into the sea with the hooks and ropes in

my hands

the water was deep in the middle

so i had to swim for a few meters

but it only took me half an hour to get

to blifascu

when the bliffascon saw me they were so

frightened

they jumped out of their ships and swam

to the beach

i then used one hook for each ship

and tied all the ropes together at one

end

while i was doing this the enemy shot

thousands of arrows at me

which caused me a lot of pain

i was afraid of getting an arrow in my

eyes

but i suddenly remembered

i still had an old pair of reading

glasses in my pocket

so i put them on

and continued my work

when i was ready

i started walking into the shallow water

away from the fescue

as i walked through the waves

i pulled the enemy’s warships behind me

when the people of blefuscu realized

that all their warships were

disappearing

their cries were terrible to hear

as i came nearer to lilliput i saw the

king and all his lords and ladies

standing on the beach

they could only see blefuscu’s warships

coming closer

as i was swimming and my head was

occasionally under the water therefore

they supposed that i had drowned and

that the brefuscan ships were attacking

but when they saw me walking out of the

sea

they welcomed me warmly with cries of

astonishment and delight

the king himself came down to the water

to meet me

everyone in lilliput is grateful to you

he cried

for your bravery

you will be one of my lords from now on

thank you sir i replied

and now

he continued

go back and steal all the enemy ships

so that we can defeat bliphuscu forever

we’ll destroy the big endians

and i’ll become king of the whole world

but i would not agree to this plan sir i

replied

i will never help to take a brave

nation’s freedom away

lilliput and blefuscu should live in

peace now

the king could not persuade me

and unfortunately he never forgot that i

had refused to do what he wanted

although i had saved his country from

attack by befusking warships

he preferred to remember my refusal

from this time on

i heard from my friends

there were secret conversations in the

palace between the king and some of his

lords who were jealous of me

these conversations

nearly led to my death in the end

about three weeks later

the king of blefuscu sent his officials

to ask for peace between the two

countries

after the glyphuscans had arranged

everything with the lilliputian

officials

they came to visit me

they had heard how i had prevented the

king from destroying

all their ships

after thanking me

they invited me to visit their country

however

when i asked the king of lilliput if i

could visit blefuscu

he agreed but very coldly

i learned later that he and some of his

lords

considered i was wrong to have a

conversation with enemies of lilliput

now i was beginning to understand how

difficult and dangerous political life

can be

a few days later

i had another chance to help the king

i was woken at midnight by the cries of

hundreds of lilliputians outside my

house

fire

fire they shouted

the queen’s rooms in the palace are

burning

come quickly man mountain

so i pulled on my clothes and hurried to

the palace

a large part of the building was in

flames

people were climbing ladders up the

walls and throwing water on the flames

but the fire was burning more strongly

every minute

at least

the queen and her ladies had escaped

but there seemed to be no way of saving

this beautiful palace

suddenly

i had an idea

the evening before

i had drunk a lot of good wine

and very luckily

i had not made water since then

in three minutes i managed to put out

the whole fire

and the lovely old building was safe

i went home without waiting for the

king’s thanks

because i was not sure what he would say

although i had certainly saved the

palace

i knew it was a crime

punishable by death

to make water anywhere near the palace

i heard later that the queen was so

angry that she refused to enter any of

the damaged rooms ever again and

promised to take her revenge on me

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chapter four

gulliver escapes from lilliput

i soon discovered that flimnap

one of the king’s highest officials

was my secret enemy

he had always disliked me

although he pretended to like me

but now

he began to suspect his wife of visiting

me privately

and he became jealous

of course his wife didn’t visit me

but always with her daughters and other

ladies who came for regular afternoon

visits

when visitors arrived at my house

i used to bring the coaches and horses

inside

and put them carefully on my table

there was a high edge round the table so

that nobody would fall off

i sat in my chair with my face close to

the table

and while i was talking to one group of

visitors

the others used to drive round the table

i spent many hours like this

in very enjoyable conversation

in the end flimnap realized that his

wife was not in love with me

and had not done anything wrong

but he was still angry with me

there were other lords who also disliked

me

and together

they managed to persuade the king

that i was a danger to lilliput

i knew they were discussing me in

private

but i was seriously alarmed

when i discovered what they had decided

luckily as well as rel dress all

i had another good friend among the

king’s officials

late one night

he visited me secretly

in order to warn me

you know

he began

that you’ve had enemies here for some

time

many of the lords are jealous of your

great success against bifuscu

and flimnap still hates you

they accuse you of crimes against

lilliput

crimes punishable by death

but i cried that’s not right

i only want to help lily put

listen he said

i must tell you what i’ve heard

although my life is in danger if i do

they’ve accused you

of making water in the king’s palace

refusing to take all the enemy’s ships

refusing to destroy all the big endians

the enemy’s officials privately

and planning to visit blefuscu

in order to help the enemy against

lilliput

this is unbelievable i cried

i must say

continued my friend

that our king reminded his lords how

much you had helped the country

but your enemies wanted to destroy you

and they suggested setting fire to your

house at night

then you would die in the fire

what i shouted angrily

be quiet nobody must hear us

anyway

the king decided not to kill you

and that’s when your friend real result

started speaking

he agreed you’d made mistakes

but said that a good king should always

be generous

as our king is

and he suggested

that a suitable punishment would be for

you to lose your sight

you’d still be strong enough to work for

us

but you wouldn’t be able to help the big

endians

i covered my eyes with my hands

i had wanted to help these people and

their king

how could they decide to punish me as

cruelly as this

your enemies were most disappointed

with real results plan

my friend went on

they said

you were a big endian in your heart

and reminded the king how much you

costly put in food and drink

real drusol spoke again

to suggest saving money by giving you a

little less food every day

in this way

you’d become ill

and in a few months you’d die

and so they all agreed

in three days relda saul will be sent to

explain your punishment to you

he’ll inform you

that the king has been very kind to you

and that you’re lucky to lose only your

eyes

you will be tied down

and very sharp arrows will be shot into

your eyes

the king’s doctors

will make sure that you can no longer

see

this is terrible news i said

but thank you for warning me my dear

friend

you alone must decide what to do

he replied

now i must leave you so that nobody

suspects me of warning you

when i was alone

i thought about the situation for a long

time

perhaps i was wrong but i could not see

that the king was being kind and

generous in ordering such an inhuman

punishment

what should i do

i could ask for a trial

but i was not confident of the judge’s

honesty

i could attack the capital and kill all

the lilliputians

but when i remembered the king’s past

kindness to me

i did not want to do that

at last

i decided to escape

and so before realdressault came to tell

me of my punishment

i went to the north of lilliput where

our ships lay

i took my clothes off

and put them into one of the largest

warships

i also put a blanket into it

then i stepped into the sea and swam to

blefuscu

by pulling the lilliput warship behind

me

i kept my clothes and blanket dry

when i arrived the king of blefuscu sent

two guides to show me the way to the

capitol

there i met the king

the queen

and the lords and ladies in their

coaches

i explained that i had come to visit

bliefuscue as i had been invited

however

i did not say anything about the

punishment waiting for me in lilliput

they welcomed me warmly

that night

as there was no building big enough for

me

i slept on the ground

covered by my blanket

it was not as comfortable as my bed in

lilliput but i did not mind

i did not spend long in blefuscu

only three days after my arrival

i noticed a boat in the sea

near the beach

it was a real boat

large enough for me

perhaps it had been driven there by a

storm

i swam out to it and tied ropes to it

then

with the help of twenty oblifuscu ships

and three thousand sailors

i pulled it onto the beach

it was not badly damaged

and it was exciting to be able to start

planning my journey back to england and

my home

during this time

the king of lilliput had written to ask

the king of bifuscu

to send me back

as a prisoner

so that i could receive my punishment

the king of blifascu however replied

that i was too strong to be taken

prisoner

and that i would soon be returning to my

country anyway

secretly

he invited me to stay and help him in

blefuscu

but i no longer believed in the promises

of kings or their officials

so i politely refused

i was now impatient to start my voyage

home

and the king ordered his workmen to

repair the boat and prepare everything i

needed

i had the meat of 100 cattle

and 300 sheep to eat on the journey

and i also had some live animals to show

to my friends in england

about one month later

i left blefuscu on september the 24th

1701

the king the queen

and their lords and ladies

all came down to the beach

to wave goodbye

after sailing all day

i reached a small island where i slept

that night

on the third day

september the 26th

i saw a sail

and was delighted to discover that it

was an english ship on its way home to

england

the captain picked me up and i told him

my story

at first he thought i was mad

but when i took the live animals out of

my pocket to show him

he believed me

we arrived home at last on april the

13th

1702

and i saw my dear wife and children

again

at first i was delighted to be at home

again

i earned quite a lot of money by showing

my lilliputian animals to people

and in the end

i sold them for a high price

but as the days passed

i became restless

and wanted to see more of the world

and so

only two months later

i said goodbye to my family

and sailed away again

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chapter 5

a voyage to brobdingnag

i left bristol

on june the 20th

1702

in a ship which was sailing to india

we had good sailing weather until we

reached the cape of good hope in south

africa

where we landed to get fresh water

we had to stay there for the winter

however because the ship needed repairs

and the captain was ill

in the spring we left africa

and sailed around the island of

madagascar

into the indian ocean

but on the 19th of april

the wind began to blow very violently

from the west

and we were driven to the east of the

malacca islands

on the 2nd of may

the wind stopped blowing

and the sea was calm

but our captain

who knew that part of the world very

well

warned us that there would be a storm

the next day

so we prepared the ship as well as we

could

and waited

the captain was right

on the third of may the wind began to

get stronger

it was a wild dangerous wind blowing

from the south this time

we had to take down our sails as the

storm hit our ship

huge waves crashed down onto us

and the wind drove our helpless ship

eastwards

into the pacific ocean

for several days we struggled with the

wind and waves

but at last

the storm died away

and the sea was calm again

luckily our ship was not badly damaged

but we had been driven over 2 000

kilometers to the east

none of us knew exactly where we were

so the captain decided to continue

sailing eastwards

where we had never been before

we sailed on for another two weeks

finally

on the 16th of june 1703

we saw a large island

with a small piece of land joined to it

i later discovered that this country was

called brobdingnag

the captain sent some of his sailors in

a boat to land there

and bring back some fresh water

i went with them because i was

interested in seeing a new country

we were delighted to be on land again

and while the men looked for a river or

a lake

i walked for about a kilometer away from

the beach

when i returned to my astonishment i saw

that the sailors were already in the

boat

they were rowing as fast as they could

towards the ship

i was going to shout to tell them they

had forgotten me

when suddenly

i saw a huge creature

walking after them into the sea

i realized he could not catch them

because they had nearly gone to the ship

but i did not wait to see the end of

that adventure

i ran away from him as fast as possible

and did not stop

until i found myself in some fields

the grass was about seven meters high

and the corn about 13 meters high

it took me an hour to cross just one

field

which had a hedge at least 40 meters

high

the trees were much taller than that

just as i was trying to find a hole in

the hedge

so that i could get into the next field

i saw another giant coming towards me

he seemed as tall as a mountain

and every one of his steps measured

about 10 meters

in fear and astonishment

i hid in the corn

and hoped he would not notice me

he shouted in a voice like thunder

and seven other giants appeared

they seemed to be his servants

when he gave the order

they began to cut the corn in the field

where i was hiding

as they moved towards me

i moved away

but at last

i came to a part of the field where rain

had knocked down the corn

there was no longer anywhere for me to

hide

and i knew i would be cut to pieces

by the giant’s sharp knives

i lay down

and prepared to die

i could not stop myself thinking of

lilliput

there

i myself had been a giant

an important person

who had become famous for helping the

people of that small country

here

it was the opposite

i was like a lilliputian in europe

and i began to understand

how a very small creature feels

suddenly

i noticed that one of the giants was

very close to me

as his huge foot rose over my head

i screamed as loudly as i could

he looked around on the ground

and finally saw me

he stared at me for a moment

and very carefully

he picked me up with finger and thumb

and looked at me

i was now 20 meters up in the air

and i desperately hoped he would not

decide to throw me to the ground

i did not struggle

and spoke politely to him

although i knew he did not understand

any of my languages

he took me to the farmer

who soon realized that i was not an

animal

but an intelligent being

he carefully put me in his pocket

and took me home to show to his wife

when she saw me she screamed and jumped

back in fear perhaps thinking i was an

insect

but in a little while

she became used to me

and was very kind to me

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chapter six

gulliver and his master

soon after we arrived

the whole family sat down at the table

for dinner

there was a large piece of meat on a

plate about eight meters

across the farmer put me on the table

with some small pieces of bread and meat

in front of me

i was very frightened of falling off the

edge of the table

which was 10 meters from the ground

the farmer and his family were delighted

to watch me eating food with my own

small knife and fork

but when i started walking across the

table to the farmer his youngest son

a boy of about ten

picked me up by the legs

he held me so high in the air that my

whole body trembled

fortunately his father took me away at

once

and angrily hit the boy hard on the head

but i remembered how cruel children can

be to small animals

and i did not want the boy to take his

revenge on me

so i fell on my knees

and asked them not to punish the child

anymore

they seemed to understand

just then

i heard a noise behind me

it sounded like 12 machines running at

the same time

i turned my head

and saw a huge cat

three times larger than one of our cows

the farmer’s wife held it in her arms

so that it could not jump at me

but in fact

because i showed no fear

there was no danger

and the cat even seemed a little afraid

of me

at the end of dinner

the servant came in with the farmer’s

one-year-old son in her arms

he immediately started crying and

screaming

because he wanted to play with me

his mother smiled and put me in his hand

when he picked me up and put my head in

his mouth

i shouted so loudly that he dropped me

luckily i was not hurt

but it showed me how dangerous life was

going to be

after eating

the farmer

or my master as i shall now call him

went back to his work in the fields

i think he told his wife to take good

care of me

because she put me carefully on her bed

and locked the bedroom door

i was exhausted

and slept for two hours

when i woke up

i felt very small and lonely in such a

huge room

and on such a large bed

suddenly

i saw two huge rats run towards me

across the bed

one came right up to my face

so i pulled out my sword and cut open

his stomach

the other

ran away at once

i walked up and down on the bed to

control my trembling legs

and looked at the dead rat

it was as large as a big dog

and its tail measured two meters

when my master’s wife came into the room

some time later

i showed her how i had killed the rat

she was delighted that i was not hurt

and threw the dead rat out of the window

my master had a daughter

who was about nine years

old she was given the special

responsibility of taking care of me

and i owe her my life

during my stay in her country we were

always together and she saved me from

many dangerous situations

i called her glum dal glitch which means

little nurse

she was good at sewing and managed to

make some clothes for me in the thinnest

material available

she also made me a small bed

which was placed on a shelf too high for

rats to reach

perhaps the most useful thing she did

was to teach me the language

so that in a few days

i could speak it quite well

soon

all my master’s neighbors were talking

about the strange little creature he had

found in a field

one of them came to see me

and as i walked towards him across the

table

he put on his glasses

his eyes behind the glasses

looked like the full moon shining into

two windows

i thought this was very funny and

laughed loudly

unfortunately

that made him very angry

i heard him whispering to my master all

evening

and i was sorry i had laughed at him

next day

glum dog clitch came to me in tears

you’ll

never guess

what’s happened

she told me

sadly our neighbor

has advised father

to show you to people

for money

father’s going to take you to market

tomorrow

where there’ll be crowds of people

ready to pay for entertainment

oh i’m so ashamed

and perhaps you’ll get hurt

other people won’t be as careful with

you as i am

don’t worry dumb dull clitch i replied

as i’m a stranger here

i don’t mind being shown to people like

a strange wild animal i must do what

your father wants

i was secretly hoping

i would one day find a way of escaping

and returning to my own country

so the next day

my master and his daughter

got on their huge horse

glendale clitch carried me inside a

small box which had hair holes so that i

could breathe

when we arrived at the market town

my master hired the largest room in the

public house

and placed me upon the table there

his daughter stayed close to me to make

sure that nobody hurt me

i was told to speak in their language

pull out my sword

drink from a cup

and do other things to amuse the crowd

only 30 people were allowed in to see me

at one time

on that first day everybody wanted to

see me

and i was shown to over 350 people

my master’s plan was so successful

that he arranged to show me again

on the next market day

i did not look forward to this at all

i was so tired with the journey

and the entertainment

that i could only walk and speak with

difficulty

for the next three days

even when we were at home

neighbors and friends from all parts of

the country

came to look at me

and my master made me work hard to amuse

them

so i had almost

no rest

my master finally realized that he could

make a fortune by showing me to people

all over the country

so about two months after my arrival in

brobdingnag

we left the farm

and started our journey to the capitol

as before glumdalclitch came with us to

take care of me

on the way we stopped in many towns and

villages

so that i could be shown to people

at last

after a journey of nearly 5 000

kilometers

we arrived at the capitol

now i had to work even harder

as people came to look at me

10 times a day

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chapter 7

of the king’s palace

although glom del clinch tried to make

things as comfortable as possible for me

such an exhausting life was beginning to

have a bad effect on my health

i was becoming thinner

and thinner

when my master noticed this

he thought i would not live much longer

but it was clear that he wanted to make

as much money out of me as he could

while he was thinking how to do this he

was asked to bring me to the palace

the queen and her ladies had heard about

me and wanted to see me

when we arrived in front of the queen

i fell on my knees and begged to be

allowed to kiss her foot

but she kindly held out her hand to me

i took her little finger in both my arms

and put it very politely to my lips

she seemed very pleased with me and

finally she said

would you enjoy living here in the

palace do you think

great queen i answered

i must do what my master wants

but if i were free

i would want to spend my whole life

obeying your orders

she immediately arranged to buy me from

my master

he was delighted to receive a good price

for me especially as he felt sure i

would not live longer than a month

i also begged the queen to let glum dog

clitch stay with me

because she had always taken such good

care of me

the queen agreed

and glumdo klitsch could not hide her

happiness

when my master had left the palace alone

the queen said to me

why didn’t you say goodbye to him

and why did you look at him so coldly

madam i must tell you i replied

but since he found me

my master has used me as an easy way of

making money for himself

he’s made me work so hard that i feel

tired and ill

he sold me to you only because he thinks

i’m going to die soon

but i feel better already

now that i belong to such a great and

good queen

the queen was clearly surprised to hear

such intelligent words from such a small

creature

and decided to show me to her husband

when the king saw me

he thought at first that i must be a

mechanical toy

however

when he heard my answers to his

questions

he realized i must be alive

and he could not hide his astonishment

to discover what kind of animal i was

he sent for three of his cleverest

professors

after looking at me carefully

they decided that i was a creature

outside the laws of nature

i was much too small to climb their

trees

or dig their fields

or kill and eat their animals

they could not understand where i had

come from

or how i could possibly survive

and when i told them that in my country

there were millions just like me

they did not believe me

but just smiled

however

the king was more intelligent than they

were

after speaking to gumdel clitch and

questioning me again

he realized that my story must be true

they took very good care of me

the queen’s workman made a special

bedroom for me

it was a wooden box with windows a door

and two cupboards

the ceiling could be lifted off

so that dog clitch could change my

sheets and tidy my room

the workman even made me two little

chairs and a table

and a lock for the door

so that no rats could get in the queen

became so fond of me that she could not

eat without me

my small table and chair were always

placed on the dinner table near her left

elbow

and glumdalclitch stood near me

in case i needed her help

i ate off tiny silver plates

with silver knives and forks

but i never got used to seeing the queen

eat

in one mouthful

she ate as much as 12 english farmers

could eat in a whole meal

she drank from a cup as big as one of

our barrels

and her knives were like huge swords

i was quite frightened of them

on wednesday which is a day of rest in

brobdingnag like our sunday

the king and queen always had dinner

together with their children

in the king’s rooms

i was usually invited too

my little chair and table were at the

king’s left elbow

he enjoyed very much hearing me talk

about england

our laws our universities are great

buildings

he listened so politely that i perhaps

talked a little too much

about my dear country

in the end he looked at me kindly

but could not stop himself laughing

he turned to one of his lords

how amusing it is

he said to him

that an insect like this should talk of

such important matters

he thinks his country is so highly

developed

but i suppose even tiny creatures like

him

have a hole in the ground that they call

a home

they argue they love

they fight and they die

as we do

but of course the poor little animals

aren’t on our level

i could not believe what i was hearing

he was laughing at my country a country

famous for its beautiful cities and

palaces it’s great kings and queens it’s

brave and honest people

however

there was nothing i could do about it

and i simply had to accept the situation

the worst problem i had at the palace

was the queen’s dwarf

until i arrived

he had always been the smallest person

in the country

he was about 10 meters tall

as i was much smaller than him

he was very rude to me and behaved very

badly especially when nobody was looking

once he took a large bone from the table

and stood it on the queen’s plate

then he took me in both hands

and pushed my legs into the top of the

bone

i could not pull myself out

and had to stay there feeling

and looking extremely stupid

when the queen finally saw me

she could not stop herself laughing

but she was angry with the dwarf at the

same time

in brobdingnag there are large numbers

of flies in summer

and these awful insects each as big as

an english bird

gave me no peace

the dwarf used to catch some in his

hands

and then let them out suddenly under my

nose

he did this both to frighten me

and amuse the queen

i had to use my knife to cut them to

pieces as they flew around me

another time

the dwarf picked me up and dropped me

quickly into a bowl of milk on the table

luckily i am a good swimmer so i managed

to keep my head out of the milk

as soon as grumdilclitch saw i was in

danger

she ran from the other side of the room

to rescue me

i was not hurt

but this time the dwarf was sent away

from the palace as a punishment

i was very pleased

i would now like to describe brobdingnag

the people who draw our european maps

think there is nothing but sea between

japan and america

but they are wrong

brobdingnag is quite a large country

joined onto northwest america

but separated from the rest of america

by high mountains

it is about 10 000 kilometers long

and from 5 to eight thousand wide

the sea around it is so rough

and there are so many rocks in the water

that no large ships can land on any of

the beaches

this means that the people of

brobdingnag do not normally have

visitors from other parts of the world

there are 51 cities

and a large number of towns and villages

the capital stands on both sides of a

river

and has more than 80 000 houses

it covers

340 square kilometers

the king’s palace covers about 11 square

kilometers

the main rooms are 80 meters high

the palace kitchen is huge

if i described it with its great pots on

the fire and the mountains of food on

the tables

perhaps you would not believe me

travellers are often accused of not

telling the truth when they return

to avoid this happening to me

i am being careful to describe what i

saw as exactly and carefully as possible

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chapter eight

more adventures in brobdingnag

because i was so small

i had several dangerous accidents

during my stay at the palace

one day

gumdel klitsch put me down on the grass

in the palace garden

while she went for a walk with some of

the queen’s ladies

a small white dog which belonged to one

of the gardeners appeared

and seemed very interested in me

he took me in his mouth

and carried me to his master

luckily he had been well trained and did

not try to bite me so i was not hurt

one day

the queen said to me

it would be good for your health to do

some rowing or sailing

what do you think

would you like me to arrange it for you

madam i answered

i’d love to row or sail a little every

day

but where can we find a boat that’s

small enough

leave that to me

she replied and called for her workmen

she ordered them to make a tiny boat

with sails

they also made a wooden container

about a hundred meters long

seventeen meters wide and three meters

deep

this container was filled with water

and i was carefully placed in my boat on

the water

every day i used to row or sail there

while the queen and her ladies watched

there was no wind of course

but the ladies blew hard to move my boat

along

i nearly lost my life again

when a lady picked me up to put me in

the boat

she was not careful enough and dropped

me

with horror

i felt myself falling through the air

but instead of crashing to the ground i

was caught by my trousers

on a pin in her clothes

i had to stay there without moving a

finger until

clitch came running to rescue me

but the greatest danger to me in

brobdingnag

came

from a monkey

one day

gumdel clitch left me alone in her

bedroom

while she visited some of the ladies

it was a warm day

and her window was open

i was in the box which i used as my

bedroom with a door open

suddenly

i heard the noise of an animal jumping

through the window

and immediately i hid at the back of my

box

the monkey which appeared huge to me

very soon discovered my hiding place

he picked me up

and held me close to him like a baby

when he heard someone opening the

bedroom door

he jumped out of the window and ran onto

the roof

i thought i had never been in such great

danger

he was running on three legs and holding

me in the fourth

at any moment he could let me fall

and we were at least 300 meters above

the ground

i could hear a lot of shouting in the

palace

the servants had realized what was

happening

and brought ladders to climb up onto the

roof

glumdalclitch was crying

and hundreds of people were watching

from the garden

meanwhile

the monkey was sitting calmly on top of

the roof

he was taking food from his mouth and

trying to push it into my mouth

he still seemed to think i was his baby

i suppose it was an amusing sight for

the crowd below

but i was in terrible fear of falling

finally

several servants climbed on the roof

and as they came nearer

the monkey put me down

and ran away

i was rescued and brought down to the

ground

i had to stay in bed for two weeks after

this

before i felt well enough to meet people

again

the monkey was caught

and killed

when i next saw the king he asked me

about this experience

how did you feel

he said when the monkey was holding you

up on the roof

sir i replied bravely

i was afraid that’s true

but next time an animal like that

attacks me i shall not hesitate

i’ll pull out my sword like this

and i showed him what i would do

and give the creature such a wound that

it will never come near me again

but while i waved my tiny sword in the

air

the king and his lords laughed loudly

i had wanted to prove my bravery

but i failed

because to them

i was only an unimportant little

creature

i realized later

that this often happens in england

when we laugh at someone of no family

fortune or intelligence

who pretends to be as important as our

great leaders

in the next few weeks

i began to have some very interesting

conversations with the king

he was an intelligent understanding

person

tell me more about your country

he said to me one day

i would like to hear about your laws

your political life and your customs

tell me everything

there may be something that we can

usefully copy here in brobdingnag

i shall be delighted sir

i answered proudly

our king controls our three great

countries scotland ireland and england

we grow much of our own food

and our weather is neither too hot nor

too cold

there are two groups of men who make our

laws

one is called the house of lords

they are men from the oldest and

greatest families in the country

the other is called the house of commons

these are the most honest

intelligent and sensible men in the

country and are freely chosen by the

people

we have judges to decide punishments for

criminals

and we have a large army which cannot be

defeated by any other in the world

while i was talking the king was making

notes

for several days i continued my

explanation

and i also described british history

over the last hundred years

then the king asked me a large number of

questions

these were some of them

how do you teach and train young people

of good family

if the last son of an old family dies

how do you make new lords for the house

of lords

are these lords really the most suitable

people to make the country’s laws

and in the house of commons

are these men really so honest and

intelligent

do rich men

never buy their way into this house

you say the lawmakers receive no pay

but are you sure

that they never accept bribes

then he asked questions about our law

courts

why are your trials so long and so

expensive

how much do your lawyers and judges

really know about the laws

how carefully do they decide between

right and wrong

and why

he went on

are you so often at war

either you enjoy fighting or you have

very difficult neighbors

why do you need an army at all

you would not be afraid of any other

country if you were peaceful people

and in the last hundred years

you’ve done nothing but rob

fight and murder

your recent history shows the very worst

effects of cruelty

jealousy

dishonesty and madness

i tried to answer the king as well as i

could

but he did not think our system was a

good one

no

my little friend

he said kindly but seriously

i’m sorry for you

you’ve proved to me

that your country has nothing valuable

to offer us

perhaps once in the past

your political life was adequately

organized

but now it is clear

that there is laziness and selfishness

in every part of the system

your politicians can be bribed

your soldiers aren’t really brave

your judges and lawyers are neither

reasonable nor honest

and your law makers themselves

know little

and do less

i sincerely hope that you

who have spent most of your life

traveling

have a better character than most

englishmen

but from what you’ve told me

i’m afraid that your countrymen

are the worst little nation of insects

that has ever crawled upon the ground

i am very sorry to have to report these

words of the kings

and i only do so

because of my love of the truth

i must tell you exactly what happened

even if i do not agree with it

i had to listen patiently

while he was giving his extraordinary

opinions of my dear country

we must remember however

that this king

lives in a country almost completely

separate from the rest of the

world because he does not know other

countries systems or customs

he has a certain narrowness of thinking

which we europeans do not have of

course you will find it difficult to

believe what happened next

sir

i said

i’d like to give you something

to thank you for your kindness to me

since i arrived at the palace

three or four hundred years ago

we europeans discovered how to make a

special powder

when you set fire to it

it burns and explodes immediately

with a noise louder than thunder

you can use it to shoot heavy balls of

metal from large guns

it can destroy the largest ships

it can kill a whole army

it can cut men’s bodies in half

it can destroy the strongest walls

it’s called gunpowder

and it’s easy and cheap to make

to show you how grateful i am to you

i’m offering to explain how to make it

then you will be able to destroy all

your enemies

i was very surprised by the king’s reply

no

he cried in horror

don’t tell me

i don’t want to know how to murder

people like that

i would rather give half my country away

than know the secret of this powder

how can a tiny creature like you have

such inhuman cruel ideas

never speak to me of this again

how strange that such an excellent king

should not take the chance i was

offering him

no european king would hesitate for a

moment

but he had other strange ideas

he believed very simply that every

problem can be solved by honest

sensible people

and that the political life of a country

must have no secrets and must be open

for all to see and understand

of course

we know that this is impossible

so perhaps his opinion of us

is not worth considering

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chapter nine

gulliver escapes from brobdingnag

i was still hoping to return to england

one day

but the ship in which i had arrived in

brobdingnag

was the first that had ever come near

the coast

so i could not see how i could get away

i began to think more and more about my

family and my home

by now

i had been in brobdingnag for about two

years

when the king and queen traveled to the

south coast

gumdelklich and i went with them

i really wanted to be close to the sea

again

which i had not seen or even smelt for

so long

as glom del klitsch was ill

i asked a young servant to take me down

to the beach for some fresh air

the boy carried me in my traveling box

and put me down on the beach

while he looked for birds eggs among the

rocks

i looked sadly at the sea

but stayed in my box

and after a while

i fell asleep

i was woken suddenly when my box was

lifted high in the air

i can only suppose

that a large bird took hold of the ring

on top of the box with his talons

and flew away with it

through the windows i could see the sky

and clouds passing by

and i could hear the noise of the bird’s

wings

then

i was falling

so fast that i felt quite breathless

there was a loud crash as the box fell

into the sea

perhaps the bird had been attacked by

others

and so had to drop what he was carrying

luckily

the box had been well made

and not much sea water came in

but i do not think any traveler has ever

been in a worse situation than i was

then

i wondered how long i would survive

with no food or drink

in the middle of the ocean

i felt sure i would never see poor glum

dull clitch again

and i knew how sad she would be to lose

me

several hours passed

and then i suddenly heard a strange

noise above my head

people were fastening a rope to the ring

then my box was pulled through the water

was it a ship that was pulling me along

help

help

i shouted as loudly as i could

i was delighted to hear english voices

reply

who’s there

they cried

i’m english

i shouted back desperately

please help me to get out of here

just put your finger

into the ring on top of the box

and lift it out of the water

quickly

there were great shouts of laughter

he’s mad

i heard one man say

ten men couldn’t lift that huge box

said another

there was more laughter

indeed

because i had been with giants for so

long

i had forgotten that my countrymen were

as small as me

the only thing the sailors could do

was to cut a hole in the top of my box

and help me to climb out

i was exhausted and unable to walk far

they took me to their captain

welcome to my ship

he said kindly

you’re lucky we found you

my men saw that huge box on the water

and we decided to pull it along behind

the ship

then we realized there was a man inside

why were you locked up in there

was it a punishment for some terrible

crime

but tell me all about it later now you

need to sleep

and then eat

when i told him my story a few hours

later

he found it difficult to believe

but after a while

he began to accept that what i told him

must be true

but why do you shout so loudly

he asked

we can hear you perfectly well if you

speak normally

you see

i explained

for two years

i’ve had to shout to make myself

understood by the giants

i was like a man in the street

who was trying to talk to another man

at the top of a very tall building

and another thing

your sailors all seem very small to me

because i’ve been used to looking up at

people

20 meters tall

you shook his head

wow

what a story

i think you should write a book about it

when you get home

i stayed on the ship for several months

as we sailed slowly home to england

finally

we arrived in bristol on june the 3rd

when i reached home

my wife made me promise

never to go to sea again

and i thought

my adventures had come

to an end

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

chapter 10

the flying island of laputa

i had only been at home

for about 10 days

when a friend of mine

asked me to join him on a journey to the

east indies

i still wanted to see more of the world

and as he was offering to give me double

the usual pay

i managed to persuade my wife to let me

go

the voyage took eight months

and after stopping for a short time in

malaysia

we arrived in the gulf of tonkin

i’ll have to stay here for a while on

business

my friend the captain told me

but you can take the ship and some of

the sailors

go and see what you can buy and sell in

the islands around here

that sounded interesting to me

so i agreed

unfortunately

we sailed straight into a terrible storm

which drove us many miles eastward

then

by a very unlucky chance

we were seen and chased by two pirate

ships

our ship was not fast enough to escape

and the pirates caught us

they decided to keep the sailors to help

sail the ship

but they did not need me

i suppose i was lucky they did not kill

me

instead

they left me alone in a small boat in

the middle of the ocean

with only enough food for a few days

while they sailed away

i’m sure the pirates thought i would die

however

i saw land some hours later

and i managed to sail the boat to it

as i stepped out of the boat and walked

up the beach

i noticed that

although the sun had been very hot the

air

suddenly seemed cooler

at first i thought a cloud was passing

over the sun

but when i looked up i saw

to my great astonishment

a large island in the sky

between me and the sun

it was moving towards me

and there were people running around on

it

i waved my arms and shouted as loudly as

possible

help

help

i cried

rescue me

when the island was about a hundred

meters over my head

they let down a seat on a chain

i sat on it

and was pulled up to the island

i had discovered

the flying island of laputa

the putins

are certainly strange looking people

their heads

always turn either to right or left

one of their eyes turns inwards

the other upwards

their main interests are music and

mathematics

they spend so much time thinking about

mathematical problems

that they do not notice what is

happening around them

in fact

rich leputians

employ a servant

whose job is to follow his master

everywhere

the servant warns him if he is going to

step into a hole

and reminds him to reply

if someone speaks to

him i was taken to see the king

but had to wait for at least an hour

while he struggled with a difficult

mathematical question

however

when he had finished he spoke politely

to me

and ordered his servants to show me to a

room

for dinner

they gave me three kinds of meat

a square of beef

a triangle of chicken

and a circle of lamb

even the bread was cut into mathematical

shapes

in the evening

a teacher arrived to help me learn the

language and in a few days

i was able to make conversation with the

island people

laputa

is a circle of land about eight

kilometers across

covered with houses and other buildings

it is moved by a simple machine

which uses magnets to pull the island

closer to land

or push it higher into the sky

the island always moves slowly

it can only fly over the country called

bellnibabi

which belongs to the king of laputa

it is difficult talking to laputans as

they have little interest in anything

except music and mathematics

they are however

very worried about the future of the

earth

the sun

and the stars

and they often discuss this

i heard a conversation about this

shortly before i left laputa

how are you my friend

one man asks another

as well as can be expected

came the reply

and how is the sun do you think

i thought he looked rather feverish this

morning

i’m afraid he’ll get too hot and destroy

himself one day

if he goes on like this

i know

it’s very worrying

and what about the earth

it’s only 30 years until the next

falling star comes this way

and the earth was very nearly destroyed

by the last one

that’s right

we know that the next falling star is

almost certain to get too close to the

sun

and catch fire

and when the earth passes through that

fire

it’ll be destroyed immediately

only 30 years

that’s not much to look forward to is it

and the two men shook their heads sadly

after several months on the island

i asked if i could visit the country

underneath us

the king agreed and ordered his

officials to put me down on bell nibabi

and show me around the capital legato

the most interesting place i saw there

was the university

which was full of very clever men with

very clever ideas

they were all working hard to find

better

faster cheaper

easier ways of doing and making things

they had ideas

for building houses from the roof

downwards

turning rocks into soft material

making rivers run uphill

and saving sunshine in bottles

i cannot remember half of the

astonishingly clever ideas which they

were working on

one day

they told me

they would find the answers to all these

problems

and then their country would be the most

wonderful place in the world

meanwhile

i noticed the people looked hungry and

miserable

their clothes were old and full of holes

their houses were badly built and

falling down

there were no vegetables or corn growing

in the fields

when i visited the school of mathematics

i could not understand why the students

looked so unhappy

what’s the matter young man

i asked one of them

you look quite ill

yes sir

he answered

you see

we’ve only just eaten our lessons for

today

and it’s made us feel

rather sick

eaten them

i repeat it in surprise

why did you do that

oh

that’s the way we learn here sir

he replied

our professors write mathematical

questions and answers on paper

then we eat the paper

after that

we’re only supposed to have bread and

water for three days

while the information moves upwards to

our heads

but it’s awful sir not eating much for

three days

and we often feel sick

up

excuse me sir

and he ran past me out of the room

this highly developed system of teaching

did not seem to be working well

[Music]

chapter 11

glob dub drib and lugnag

although the laputans were kind to me

i did not want to spend a long time in

their country

therefore

i decided to travel from belnie baby

to the island of lagnag

from there to japan and then home to

england

but before i went to lagnag

an official i had met in legato

persuaded me to visit the small island

of glob dub drib

you’ll find it a very interesting place

you told me

glub dub drib

means the island of magicians

all the important people there are good

at magic you see

the president is the best magician of

them all

but i must warn you

he has some very strange

they’re all ghosts

by using magic

he can order the ghost of any dead

person

to be his servant for 24 hours

and the ghost must obey

it seemed unbelievable

but it was true

when we arrived on the island

we were invited to the president’s

palace

his servants

certainly looked strange to me

there was a smell of

death about them

when the president no longer needed them

he waved a hand

and they simply disappeared

i visited the president every day during

my stay

and soon got used to seeing the ghosts

one day

the president said gulliver

would you like to call a ghost

it could be anyone

from the beginning of the world up to

the present day

you could ask them questions about their

lives

and you can be sure they’ll tell the

truth

ghosts always do

that’s very kind of you sir i replied

and thought hard for a moment

first i’d like to see alexander the

great please

the president pointed out of the window

there

in a large field

was the ghost of alexander with his huge

army

this famous king lived long ago in

macedonia in northern greece

his kingdom covered many countries

from greece to egypt

from persia to parts of india

but he died very young

when he was only 33

and no one knew why

the president called him into the room

great king

i said to him

just tell me one thing

were you murdered

or did you die naturally

young man he replied

nobody murdered me

i drank too much

and died of a fever

so

in these few words

i had learnt one of the secrets of

history

i turned to the president

and now

may we see

julius caesar and brutus

the two romans took alexander’s place

brutus of course

had killed julius caesar in rome on the

15th of march 44 bc

one of the most famous murders in

history

it is terrible to die by the hand of a

friend

great caesar i said

how do you feel about your murderer

brutus

do not call him that

replied caesar

he is a brave

good man

the best in rome

and he did

the right thing

for rome

by killing me

in death

as in life

he has always been my friend

i cannot remember

how many more ghosts i called to appear

i was very interested in their answers

to my questions

which often seemed to offer a different

view of history

from the one i had been taught at school

however

it was soon time to leave glob dub drib

and sail to lagnag

a much larger island to the southeast of

japan

the lagnagians are polite and generous

people

and i stayed here for three months

i made many friends among them

one day

one of them asked me

have you ever seen any of our strolled

drugs

i don’t think so

i replied

what’s that

well

a strolled brug is a human being who

will never die

but will live forever

if a lug nuggium baby is born with a

round spot above its left eye

which never disappears

it’s a strolledbrag

we have over a thousand of them in the

country

how wonderful i cried

how exciting

how lucky you are in lugnag

where a child has a chance of living

forever

and how especially lucky the strolled

drugs are

disease

disaster and death can never touch them

and imagine how much we can learn from

them

i expect they’re among the most

important people in the country

they’ve lived through history and know

so much

which they’re certain to pass on to the

rest of us

if i had the chance

i’d like to spend my whole life

listening to the intelligent

conversation of these

extraordinary people here in lugnag

well of course

answered my lugnuggian friend with a

smile

we’ll be delighted if you stay longer

with us

but

i’d like to know how you would plan your

life if you were a strolled brugg

oh that’s easy

i replied

first

i’d work hard

and earn a lot of money

in about 200 years

i’d be the richest man in lugnag

i’d study too

so that i knew more about everything and

the cleverest professors

i’d also

write down everything important that

happened over the years

so that students of history would come

to me for help

i’d teach young people what i had

learned

but most of my time

i’d spend with other strong drugs

friends of mine

together

we could help to destroy crime in the

world and begin to build a new and

better life for everyone

i had only just finished describing the

happiness of endless life

when i realized

that my friend’s shoulders were shaking

and tears of laughter were running down

his face

i really must explain

he said you see

you’ve made a very

understandable mistake

you suppose

that if someone lives forever

he is young

healthy

and strong forever too

and that doesn’t happen

our strolled bruggs have a terrible life

after living for about 80 years

they become ill and miserable

they have no friends and they can’t

remember much of the past

at that age the law considers them to be

dead

so their children inherit their houses

and money

then they sometimes have to beg

to get enough food to eat

they lose their teeth and hair

they forget the names of their families

and the only thing they want is to die

but that’s impossible

i realized how stupid i had been

and felt very sorry for the poor

strolled bruggs

i finally left lugnag on a boat sailing

to japan

from there i found a ship which was

returning to england

my voyage to laputa

belnibarbi

glub dubdrib and lugnag

had taken me away from home

for five and a half years

[Music]

chapter 12

a voyage to the country of the whoms

it was not long before i started my next

voyage

on the 7th of september

1710

as captain of my own ship this time

the owner of the ship wanted me to sail

to the indian ocean

to do some business for him there

but i was very unlucky

on the way

i had to employ some new sailors from

barbados

but they were men a very bad character

i heard them whispering to the other

sailors several times

but i did not suspect what they were

planning

one morning

as we were sailing around the cape of

good hope

they attacked me

and tied me up

they told me they were going to take

control of the ship

and become pirates

there was nothing i could do

they left me alone

on the beach of a small island

in the middle of the indian ocean

as the ship sailed away

i realized i had no idea where i was

i found a road away from the beach

and walked very quietly and carefully

along

in case i was attacked

several

strange-looking animals were lying in a

field

and some were sitting in a tree

their heads and chests were covered in

hair

and they had beards as well

they walked sometimes on two

and sometimes on four legs

and could climb trees

they were certainly the ugliest animals

i had ever seen in all my travels

when i met one of these creatures on the

road

his face showed great surprise

and he lifted a foot high in the air

i did not know if he was going to attack

me or not

but i hit him hard with the side of my

sword

he screamed so loudly that all the other

animals ran to help him

there were about 40 of them around me

i kept them away by waving my sword in

the air

but their wild cries frightened me

and the horrible smell from their bodies

made me feel sick

suddenly

they all ran away

i noticed that a horse was coming along

the road

so i suppose the animals were afraid of

him

the horse stopped when he saw me

and seemed very surprised

he made several times in a very

intelligent gentle way

and i almost wondered if he was speaking

in his own language

when another horse came along

the two horses walked up and down

together while naying to each other

they seemed like two important people

discussing a difficult problem

i watched this with astonishment

and decided that if the animals in this

country seemed so sensible

the human beings must be the most

intelligent in the world

the two horses then came close to me

looking at my face and clothes with

great interest

they talked to each other again

and then the first horse made clear

signs for me to follow him

he led me to a long low building

inside there were several large airy

rooms with no furniture

other horses were sitting or lying

comfortably on the floor on clean

blankets

but where was the master of the house

were these horses his servants

i began to wonder if i was going mad

then i realized

that the house did not belong to a human

but to the horse who had brought me here

in this country horses

not people were in control

i started learning a little of their

language

their word huinam means a horse

and the word itself sounds very like the

noise a horse makes

i found it very difficult to say this

word

and so i decided to shorten it and call

them who is

their servants were the horrible looking

animals i had seen earlier

they did all the hard work

and lived in dirty little rooms in

another building

where they were tied to the walls

to my horror these ugly animals called

yahoos

had human faces which looked very

similar to mine

i did not want anyone to think i was a

yahoo

so i tried to make it clear that my

habits were very different from theirs

at least

i was allowed to sleep in a separate

room from them

at first

i thought i would die of hunger

as i could not eat the yahoo’s dirty

meat or the who is grass and corn

but i soon learned how to bake little

cakes made of corn which i ate with warm

milk

sometimes i caught a bird and cooked it

or picked leaves of plants to eat with

my bread

my hui master was very interested in me

and as soon as i could speak the

language he asked me to explain where i

had come from

well master

i need

i’ve come from a country on the other

side of the world

and you may not believe this

but in my country

all the important people look like

yahoos

but

how is that possible

he asked gently

you’re who is

surely wouldn’t allow unintelligent

creatures like yahoos

to control the country it may seem

strange i agreed

but you see

i was surprised to find that in this

country the who is

are the sensitive and intelligent

creatures

and if i’m lucky enough to return home

i’ll tell my friends all about it

but

i’m afraid they may accuse me of lying

my master looked quite worried

what is lying yes

in their language there is no word which

means telling lies

and my master had great difficulty in

understanding me

i tried to explain

oh

he answered still unsure

but why does anyone tell a lie

there’s no reason for doing it

we use language in this country

in order to understand each other

and to give and receive information

if you don’t tell the truth

how can people understand each other

i began to see how different hooey life

was from what i was used to

but

tell me

he continued

about your country

i was delighted to describe recent

english history to him especially some

of our most successful wars

but

why does one country attack another he

asked

there are many reasons i replied

a king

or his lords may want more land

or there may be a difference of opinion

between two countries

for example

whether uniform should be black

white red

more grey

sometimes we fight because the enemy’s

too strong

sometimes because he isn’t strong enough

sometimes our neighbors want the things

we have

or have the things we want

so we both fight until they take ours or

give us theirs

we often attack our best friend if we

want some of his land

there’s always a war somewhere

for this reason

being a soldier is one of the best jobs

you can have

a soldier

repeated my master

i’m not quite sure what that is

a soldier is a yahoo who works for his

king and country

his orders are to kill as many people as

he can i answered

people

who’ve never hurt him

asked the hui

that’s right i said pleased that he

seemed to understand at last

soldiers have killed thousands of people

in recent history

you shook his head and looked sad

i think you must be

what was your word

ah yes

lying to me

how could you

and your countrymen

kill so many other yahoos

and why would you want to

i smiled as i replied proudly sir

you don’t know much about european war

with our guns and bullets and gunpowder

we can destroy a thousand ships a

hundred cities and twenty thousand men

you see

be quiet

he ordered

i’ve heard enough

i know yahoos are bad

but i didn’t realize they could possibly

do such terrible things

after these conversations

i began to wonder whether the who is

were right

why do we humans so often fight wars and

tell lies

peace and truth

began to seem more important than making

war or making money

i became more and more used to the who

is ideas and way of life

as the whois did

i hated the yahoos for their dirty

habits and unpleasant character

by the time i had been there a year

i walked and nade like the who is

i felt

such a strong love for them

that i planned to spend the rest of my

life among them

and to try to become more like them

it is a great sadness to me even today

that this was not possible

one day

my huey master said

can you explain something to me

why are the yahoos so violently fond of

those shining stones in the fields

they dig for days to get them out of the

ground

and hide them jealously from other

yahoos

i expect they found pieces of gold or

silver i said

because he did not seem to understand i

added we use them as money to pay for

things you see

how strange he replied

we share everything here

know who he needs

what do you call it

money

perhaps you can imagine how i felt

i knew i could be happy forever with

these sensible gentle creatures who

never lied or stole

in a country which had no disease no

crime

no wars

but this perfect happiness

did not last long

i’m sorry

said my master one day

my friends and i

have decided you can’t stay here any

longer

you see

you’re neither one of us nor a yahoo

no

i cried desperately

don’t send me away

how can i go back to england to live

with those awful yahoos

i’m afraid you must

he replied gently

my servants will help you make a boat

and so

two months later

although i was very sad to leave i said

goodbye to my dear master and his family

and rode away from the land of the who

is

i knew

that i would never find happiness

anywhere else

after several days traveling eastwards

i arrived in australia

and from there managed to find a ship

returning to europe

i did not enjoy the voyage

the sailors all laughed at me because i

walked and nade like a horse

they looked just like those horrible

yahoos and at first i could not let them

touch me or come near me

their ugly faces and unpleasant smell

made me feel quite ill

and when i arrived home in england

after being away for five years

my wife and children were delighted to

see me because they had thought i was

dead

but to my horror

they looked and smelled like yahoos too

and i told them to keep away from me

even now

five years later

i do not let my children get close to me

although i sometimes allow my wife to

sit with me while i eat

i try to accept my countrymen now

but the proud ones who are so full of

their own self-importance

well

they had better not come near me

how sad that people cannot learn from

the who is

i was hoping that perhaps human beings

would change their ways

after reading the stories of my life

with the who is

but they accused me of lying in my book

and now

i realize that people still lie

steal and fight

just as they have always done and

probably will always do

i will say no more

clearly

there is no hope for human beings

i was stupid to think that i could bring

reason and truth into their lives and

thoughts

humans are all yahoos

and yahoos

they will remain

[Music]

you

第一

章小人国之旅

我出生在诺丁汉郡

，是五个儿子中的老三

一个

医生，

但我一直想去旅行

，所以

当我和我的妻子玛丽结婚时，我作为船上的医生做了几次航行，但是

我计划在家里呆一段时间，

但几年后

我发现

我从病人那里赚到的钱不够

我决定再次出海

，这次

我加入了一艘驶往南太平洋岛屿的船，

我们于 1699 年 5 月 4 日从布里斯托尔开始了我们的旅程

。

起初我们的航程很顺利，

我们在大西洋上

航行 非洲

和印度洋，

但在我们到达太平洋之前，

一场猛烈的风暴袭击了我们

，把我们带到了

塔斯马尼亚

的西北部，风把我们的船吹到一块岩石

上，把船的帆折断了

一半 ors 和我

设法让一艘船下水，

然后我们骑马离开寻找陆地，

但是当我们太累无法再划船时

，

巨大的海浪击中了我们的小船

，我们都掉进了海里，

我不知道我的

同伴们，

但我想他们都被淹死

了 风和海浪推着我，

我努力将头保持在水面上

我变得很累

，很快就觉得我不能再游泳了，

幸运的

是我的脚刚着地

我走出了大海

在一个

没有任何人或房屋迹象的海滩上，

我筋疲力尽

，以至于我

躺下睡觉

，第二天早上我醒来并试图

起床时，我无法动弹，我仰面躺着，

整个人 身体 我的胳膊和

腿都牢牢地固定在地上

甚至我长而浓密的头发

也被绑在

地上 太阳开始变得

炙热 我感到非常不舒服

很快

我感觉到有什么活的东西沿着我的

腿向上移动 面对

，当我低头时，

我 看到一个只有15厘米高的非常小的人

，他手里拿着弓箭

，还有四十多个

小人跟着他

我从身体上掉下来，

同时

我正努力解开自己，

但当我设法将左臂从绳索中拉出来时，

我感到一百支箭落在了我空闲的

手上

，更多的箭落在了我的脸上和身上，

这非常痛苦

并且使 我大声哭泣

我安静地躺着

看看接下来会发生什么

当他们看到我不再挣扎时

他们迅速在我的头旁边搭建了一个平台

一个官员爬上

去和我说话

虽然我听不懂他的

语言

我明白他们

如果我现在不试图伤害他们

，我会对我很友好我现在非常饿，

所以我用手语

向官员乞求食物，

他似乎理解我，

因为立即放了梯子

靠在我身边

的小个子们拿着一篮子食物和饮料爬了上来，

他们惊讶于我一口就能吃到这么多，

我吃了他们的三个肉菜

和三个面包

我喝了他们的两桶 酒

，仍然口渴，

因为

他们给我送食物的时候只有半升

我想知道是否要抓起

一把小人，

然后把他们扔死，

但我害怕他们会再次向我开枪

，反正

我是 感谢他们

给我食物和饮料的好意，

所以我没动

，

过了一会儿，另一个官员爬上平台和我说话，从他的迹象我知道他们要让我成为这个被称为小人国的国家的国王

令他的人把我

抬到一公里外的京城

我打手势问我是否可以

解开，

但官员礼貌地拒绝了

，我正在吃一个平台已经

准备好 携带

我 被称为小人国的小人国人民对我

来说非常聪明和聪明

500 名男子用 22 个轮子建造了一个特殊的木制平台

900 名最强壮的男子工作了

大约三个小时将我抬到

平台上

，1

500 国王最大的马匹，

每匹 11 厘米高，

把我拉到了首都

城门外最大的建筑，

它的门只有一米高，

半米宽，

所以我只能

用手和膝盖进去

我的警卫在我的左腿上放了91条铁链，

这样我就无法

逃脱 切断束缚我的绳索，

当我站起来时，我能够站起来。我听到

周围传来震惊的

哭声

成群结队从城里出来

来看我的小人国的景象现在我可以看到

乡村的美景

了田野看起来像

花园里的花坛

，即使是最高的树也只有两

米高 不久国王亲自拜访

他有一张强壮英俊的脸

在他的人民中很受欢迎

他带着他的王后他的孩子

和他的领主和女士们都穿着

漂亮的金色银色

衣服为了让谈话更容易

我躺在我身边所以 我的脸

离他很近，

我用我知道的所有语言和他说话，

但我们仍然无法相互理解

，国王命令他的人民用 600 张小人床给我

铺床，

这不是很舒服，

但比睡觉要好 他在

石地板

上命令大批观光客

回家，

以便国家的工作能够

继续

，我不会

生气很长时间他与他的

领主讨论 私下里

我应该怎么办，

后来我的一个好朋友告诉

了我这一切，

很明显，这么大的人可能会对

他的小人造成

危险，最后决定，因为我

到目前为止表现得很好，

我会 每天都会从所有村庄

为我送来食物和饮料

600 人将成为我的仆人

300 人将为我制作一套新西装

，六位老师

将教我他们的语言

，

所以大约三周后，

我开始说

小人

国的语言 国王经常来看我

，每次他来我都要求

他解下我的锁链，

他解释

说，首先

我必须保证不与

小人国战斗

或伤害小人国

，并且必须搜查我的武器

我同意这两件事

我小心翼翼地捡起他的两个

军官，

我先把它们放在一个口袋里，

然后把它们移到我所有的其他口袋里，

除了

两个我在

他们搜查时保密的，他们在

笔记本上写下

了所有这些的细节 他们后来发现的 ngs

我在第二个外套口袋里读了他们的一些报告

我们发现了

两块非常大的木头

，里面

是很大的金属片，

在另一个口袋里非常锋利 在

一条长链的末端有一个非常棒的引擎

引擎在一个巨大的圆形容器内，该

容器

由一半银

和另一半金属制成

这第二种

金属非常奇怪，

因为我们可以通过它看到一些

神秘的

文字和

图片 引擎发出持续的

巨响 军官们无法猜测这些是什么

东西是，

但它们当然是我的两把

小刀和我的手表

他们还发现了我的梳子

一个装有几枚金币和银币的钱包

我的枪和

子弹 国王想知道枪是

用来做

什么的 他命令我拿出来 我是

怎么工作的

我把枪拿出来，把子弹放进

去

不要害怕 我警告国王

然后我向空中开枪

这是小人国听过的最响亮的声音

数百人以为自己死了

，倒在地上

，国王本人非常害怕，

因为我把枪交给官员

保管我警告他们要小心，

他们允许我保留我所有的其他

东西

，我希望

有一天很快

我会是自由的

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第 2 章

小人国的生活

我小心翼翼地表现得尽可能好，

以说服国王给我我的

自由

小人很快就开始失去

对我的恐惧

他们称

我为人山

有时

我躺下 让他们在我手上跳舞

，不时有孩子

来玩我的头发游戏

现在

我已经可以说他们的语言了有

一天国王邀请我观看

他的家人

和他的家人非常喜欢的常规娱乐活动 各位大人，

我最感兴趣的是跳绳

一根很细的绳子固定

在离地30厘米高的地方

想成为国王

最重要的官员的人都

在这根绳子

上跳跳跳跳 mps最高

不倒下

得到最好的工作

有时国王命令他的领主

在绳子上跳舞以表明他们

仍然可以这样做

这项运动当然是

相当危险的

并且偶尔会有死亡

因此

这似乎是一种奇怪的选择

官员的方式

还有另一个有趣的

娱乐活动 国王

在他面前拿着一根棍子

，有时

一个接一个地

上下移动人们走到他身边跳过

棍子或在它下面

爬行 当国王移动棍子时他们继续跳跃和爬行

获胜者是跳跃和

爬行时间最长的人

，他会收到一条蓝丝带，系

在腰间。

第二名获得红丝带

，第三名获得绿丝带。

许多小人国领主

都自豪地佩戴他们的丝带

几天后，在我访问过的任何国家，

我肯定从未见过这样的娱乐活动

小人国

当人们意识到它没有

生命时，

他们认为它一定属于

人山

，国王命令他们把它带给

我

被马踩在地上，

但我很高兴看到

这实际上是我的帽子

，当我从船上游泳时，我把它丢在海里

了 不再是囚犯了，

但是

我必须承诺某些事情

来帮助战争与

和平

中的

小人 必要时为国王携带重要信息，

帮助国王的工人搬运沉重的

石头留在小人国，直到

国王允许我

离开他身边国王答应我会

得到足够的食物和饮料

1724 lilliputians

我一下子答应了一切

我的枷锁被打破了

，我终于自由了

我做的第一件事就是访问

首都 警告

人们不要有危险

我小心翼翼地翻过

城墙 一米多高

慢慢地穿过两条主要

街道

它通常是一个非常繁忙的城市，

商店和市场挤满了人，

但

今天街道空无一人

，人群从每个

窗口都

在注视着我在城市的中心是国王的

宫殿

国王邀请我进入，

所以我跨过围墙

进入宫殿花园，

但不幸的是，宫殿周围有

一米半高的围墙，

我不想爬过它们而损坏这些围墙，

所以我 小心翼翼地走出

城市

，进入国王公园

，我用刀砍了几棵最大的树，做了两个

木箱，

当我带着箱子回到宫殿时，

我是 能够站在墙一侧的一个盒子上

，

然后踩到另一边的另一个盒子上

我躺在地上，

透过窗户直接看到

国王的房间，

你无法想象

在房间里住的地方更漂亮

家具的每一个细节都很完美，

因为我正在看

我可以看到女王被她的

领主和女士们包围了

她好心地将手伸出

窗外让我亲吻

我想我应该给你一些

关于

lillyput 大多数小人国的一般信息 大约15

厘米高

的鸟和动物当然

比人小很多

最高的树也只

比我高一点

这里所有的罪行都受到惩罚

但是如果有人被指控犯罪

然后证明控告者

是

撒谎的原告立即被处决 遵守

所有法律六年，

他收到国王的礼物

他们还相信任何

诚实诚实和善良的人

都可以为他的国王和国家服务

，拥有良好的

品格比聪明或

聪明更重要 相信上帝的人

被允许成为国王的官员

他们的许多法律和习俗

与我们的非常不同，

但人性在每个

国家

都是一样的。像我们这样的小人

已经学会了

选择官员的坏方法，因为他们能够

在舞会上跳舞 绳索只是一个例子，

现在我将

在我第一次访问国会大厦大约两周后回到

我在小人国的冒险之旅。国王最重要的官员之一拜访了我，

他的名字叫雷尔·德拉索尔

，自从我有他以来，他帮助了我很多次

到达小人国

我开始谈话

我很高兴他们拿走了我的锁链

我告诉他

很好我的朋友他回答

让我告诉你一些事情

你只是自由

因为 国王知道我们处于非常

危险的境地

危险的 我哭

了 你是什么意思

莉莉在国内外都有敌人

他解释

了六年 现在

我们有两个政治

团体 高跟鞋和高跟鞋

也许高跟鞋 在过去更受欢迎

，但正如你所看到的，

我们现在的国王和他的所有官员都

穿着最低的高跟鞋，

这两个群体互相憎恨

，高跟鞋会拒绝与低跟说话，

这是小人国的问题，

现在我们正在获取信息

blefuscu 的人要攻击

我们 你听说过 blefuscu

这是一个离我们很近的岛

几乎和 lilliput 一样大和重要

他们已经和我们交战了

三年 你知道 但这场战争是如何开始的

我问

得很好 你当然知道，大多数人

过去常常在较大的一端打破他们的煮鸡蛋，

但是我们国王的祖父

曾经在这样打破他的鸡蛋时割伤了手指

，所以他的父亲国王

从那时起命令所有的小人

为了打破他们鸡蛋的较小一端

，这样做的人被称为小端人，

但百合普斯人对此有强烈的感觉

，一些大端人愤怒地

反对这项法律

，有多达 11 000

人因为拒绝

在 较小的一端

一些大端人已经逃到布莱夫斯库

加入我们的敌人

布莱夫斯库国王一直想

在战争中击败小人国

，现在我们

听说他准备了大量

船只

，它们很快就会攻击我们，

所以你看我的 朋友

，我们的国王多么需要你的

帮助才能打败他的敌人

我毫不犹豫

请告诉国王

我热情地回答

我准备献出我的生命来拯救

他或他的国家

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第三章

百合放于

战争 布里法斯科岛

距离小人国以北仅一公里

我知道就在分隔两国的狭窄海域之外

，至少有

50 艘军舰

准备用 m 攻击我们

任何其他较小的船只，

但我一直远离海岸那一侧，

以免尼弗斯库的人民

看到我

我从国王的工人那里得到了一个秘密计划

脱掉外套和鞋子，手里

拿着钩子和绳索走进海里，

中间的水很深，

所以我不得不游了几米

，

但当 bliffascon 看到时，我只花了半个小时就到了 blifascu 我他们

吓坏了，

他们跳下船游

到海滩上，

然后我为每艘船用一个钩子

，把所有的绳子绑在一起，

当我这样做的时候，敌人

向我射了数千支箭，

这让我感到 好痛

我害怕中箭

但我突然想起

我的口袋里还有一副旧的老花镜

所以我戴上它们

准备好继续工作

我开始走进浅水区

从羊茅

当我穿过海浪时，

我把敌人的战舰拉到我身后

，这时布莱夫斯库的人民

意识到他们所有的战舰都在

消失，

他们的哭声很难听，

当我靠近小人国时，我看到

国王和他所有的贵族和女士们

站在海面上 海滩

他们只能看到 blefuscu 的军舰

在

我游泳时靠近我，我的头

偶尔会在水下，因此

他们认为我已经淹死了

，并且 brefuscu 的船只正在攻击

，但当他们看到我走出

海面时，

他们热情地欢迎我

惊讶和高兴

的哭声 国王亲自下水

迎接我

小人国的每个人都感谢你

他

为你的勇敢而哭泣

你从现在开始将成为我的领主之一

谢谢你 先生 我回答了

，现在

他继续

回去 偷走所有敌舰，

这样我们就可以永远打败

bliphuscu 我们将摧毁大端

，我将成为全世界的国王，

但我不会同意 计划先生，我

回答说，

我永远不会帮助剥夺一个勇敢的

国家的自由，

现在国王无法说服我

，他永远不会忘记

我拒绝做他想做的事，

尽管我已经拯救了他的国家

被迷惑的军舰袭击

他宁愿记住我的拒绝

从那时起

我从我的朋友那里听说

国王和一些嫉妒我的贵族在宫殿里秘密交谈

这些谈话

最后几乎导致我死亡

三周

后，在格利弗斯坎人与小人国官员安排好一切后，布莱夫斯库国王派他的

官员请求两国和平，

他们来拜访我，

他们听说我在感谢我后阻止

国王摧毁

他们所有的船只

他们邀请我访问他们的国家，

但是

当我问小人国国王我

是否可以访问 blefuscu 时，

他同意了，但很冷淡

我后来才知道他和他的一些

领主

认为我

与小人国的敌人交谈是错误的

现在我开始明白

政治生活是多么艰难和危险

几天后

我又有机会帮助

国王 半夜被

我家门外数百个小人的叫喊声吵醒了

火他们

喊着王后在宫殿里的房间

着火了

快来人山

所以我穿上衣服匆匆赶到

宫殿

大楼的很大一部分

着火了

人们正在爬梯子爬上

墙壁，往火焰上泼水，

但火势

每分钟都

在燃烧，

至少女王和她的女士们已经逃脱了，

但似乎没有办法挽救

这座美丽的宫殿。

突然间，

我晚上有了一个

主意 在

我喝了很多好酒之前

，非常幸运的是

我从那以后三分钟内就没有煮过水了

，我设法

把整个火

和可爱的老建筑 丁是安全的，

我没有等待国王的感谢就回家了，

因为我不确定他会说什么，

尽管我确实拯救了

宫殿

我知道

在宫殿附近的任何地方制造水都是可以判处死刑的罪行

我后来听说女王 非常

生气，她拒绝再进入

任何损坏的房间，并

承诺要报复我

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第四章

格列佛从小人国逃走

我很快发现

国王的最高官员之一弗林纳普

是我的秘密敌人，

他一直

虽然他假装喜欢我但不喜欢我，

但现在

他开始怀疑他的妻子

私下来看我

，他嫉妒

他的妻子当然没有来看我，

而是总是和她的女儿和其他

女士一起来

在我家，

我常常把马车和马带

进去

，小心翼翼地放在我的桌子上，桌子

周围有一个高边，

这样没人会掉下来

我坐在 我的椅子靠着桌子，我的脸

靠近桌子

，当我和一群游客交谈时，

其他人过去常常围着桌子开车

我

并没有做错任何事

但他仍然生我的气

还有其他不喜欢

我的领主

他们一起说服

国王我对小人来说是危险

我知道他们在私下讨论我

但我非常害怕

当我发现他们幸运的决定时，我

在

国王的官员中

找到了另一个好朋友，

他偷偷拜访了我

，以警告我

你知道

他开始

说你在这里有很多敌人已经有一段

时间

了 领主们嫉妒你

对 bifuscu 的巨大成功，

而 flimnap 仍然讨厌你，

他们指责你犯有对

小人国的

罪行，可判处死刑，

但我哭了，这不对，

我只是 wan t 帮助莉莉

听他说

我必须告诉你我所听到的

尽管我有生命危险如果我这样做

他们指责你

在国王的宫殿里制造水

拒绝占领所有敌人的船只

拒绝摧毁所有 big

endians 敌人的官员

私下计划访问 blefuscu

以帮助敌人对抗

小人国

这太不可思议了

他们建议晚上放火烧你的

房子

然后你会死在火

里我愤怒地大喊

保持安静无论如何都不能听到我们

的声音国王决定不杀

你那是你的朋友真正的结果

开始说话的时候

他同意你做了 错误，

但说一个好国王应该

像我们的国王一样慷慨

，他

建议适当的惩罚是让

你失去视力，

你仍然足够强壮，可以为你工作 是

我们，

但你无法帮助

大端人

我用手捂住眼睛

我想帮助这些人和

他们的国王

他们怎么会决定像这样残忍地惩罚我

你的敌人

对真正的结果最失望 计划

我的朋友继续

说他们说

你在你心中是一个大端

并提醒国王你

在食物和饮料上花费了多少

真正的drusol再次

说话建议通过每天少给你一点食物来省钱

这样

你' 我

生病了，几个月后你就会死

，所以他们都同意

在三天内派 relda saul

向你解释你的惩罚，

他会告诉

你国王对你很好

，你是 幸运的是只失去了你的

眼睛

你会被绑住

，非常锋利的箭会射入

你的

眼睛国王的医生

会确保你再也

看不到

这是一个可怕的消息我说

但谢谢你警告我亲爱的

朋友

你一个人 必须决定做什么

他回答说

现在我必须离开你，以免有人

怀疑我一个人的时候会警告你

我想了很久

也许我错了，但我看不出

国王

下令如此不人道的仁慈和慷慨

惩罚

我应该怎么做

我可以要求审判

但我对法官的诚实没有信心

我可以攻击首都并杀死

所有小人

但当我想起国王过去

对我的善意时

我最终不想这样做

决定逃跑

，所以在realdressault来告诉

我我的惩罚之前，

我去了小人国北部，我们的船停在那里，

我脱掉衣服

，把它们放到最大的

战舰之一

我还把毯子放进去，

然后我走进去 大海和

小人国军舰在我身后游到布莱夫斯库

当我到达时，我把衣服和毯子都晾干了 布莱夫斯库国王派了

两个向导带我去国会大厦的路 我在

那里遇见了

国王和王后

领主和女士们在他们的

教练

我解释说我

是应邀来拜访 bliefuscue

但是

我没有说任何关于

在小人国等待我的惩罚的事情当晚

他们热情地欢迎我

因为没有足够大的建筑物

我睡在地上，盖着毯子，

它不像我在小人国的床那么舒服，

但我不介意

我到达后仅三天就没有在 blefuscu 呆太久

我注意到海滩附近的海中有一艘船

一艘

对我来说足够大的真正的船，

也许它是被

暴风雨吹到那里

的 能够在这段时间开始

计划我回到英国和

我家的旅程令人兴奋

，小人国国王写信

要求比弗斯库国王

把我

作为囚犯送回去，

这样我就可以收到我的阴茎了

然而，布利法斯库国王回答

说我太强大了，不能被

俘虏

，而且我很快就会回到我的

国家，

他秘密邀请我留在布利法斯库帮助他，

但我不再相信

国王或他们的承诺 官员，

所以我礼貌地拒绝了

我现在迫不及待地开始我的航程

回家

，国王命令他的工人

修理船并准备我

需要的一切

我有100头牛

和300只羊的肉在旅途中吃

，我也有一些活 1701

年 9 月 24 日，要向英国朋友展示的动物 1701 年 9 月 24 日，我离开

了布莱夫斯库 国王

和他们的贵族和女士们

在航行了一整天后，都来到海滩上挥手告别

我到达了一个小岛，我在那里睡觉

9 月 26 日第三天的那个晚上，

我看到了一艘帆

，很高兴地发现那

是一艘英国船，正在回

英国

的路上，船长接我，我告诉他

我

在 f 的故事 起初他以为我疯了

，但当我从口袋里拿出活生生的动物

给他看时，

他相信我，

我们终于在 1702 年 4 月

13

日

回到了家

，起初我再次见到了我亲爱的妻子和孩子，我很高兴能在

再次回家，

我通过

向人们展示我的小人国动物赚了很多钱

，最后

我以高价卖掉了它们，

但随着时间的流逝，

我变得焦躁不安

，想看到更多的世界

，所以

仅仅两个月后，

我 告别我的家人

，再次启航

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第 5 章

前往布罗布丁纳格的航程 1702

年 6 月 20

日

，我乘坐一艘驶往印度的船离开布里斯托尔，

我们的航行天气很好，直到我们

到达了南非的好望角

我们登陆的地方是为了获得淡水，

我们不得不在那里过冬，

但是因为船需要修理

，而且船长

在春天生病了，我们离开非洲

，绕着马达加斯加岛航行

到印度洋，

但在美联社 19 日 5 月 2 日

，西风开始刮得很猛

，我们被驱赶到

马六甲

群岛的东边

第二天会有

暴风雨，

所以我们尽可能地准备了船

，

等待船长在 5

月 3 日就对了，风开始

变得更强，

这是来自南方的狂野危险风

这次

我们 当

暴风雨袭击我们的船时，要

放下我们的风帆，巨浪向我们袭来

，风将我们无助的船

向东

驶入太平洋

，我们在风浪中挣扎了几天

，

但

最终风暴消失了

，大海 再次平静，

幸运的是我们的船没有受到严重损坏，

但我们已经向东行驶了 2 000 多

公里

，我们都不知道我们在哪里，

所以船长决定继续

向东航行

，这是我们从未去过的地方

我们又航行了两个星期，

终于

在 1703 年 6 月 16 日，

我们看到了一个大岛，上面

有一小块土地，

后来我发现这个国家

叫做

brobdingnag，船长派他的一些

水手乘船到那里登陆

并带回一些淡水

我和他们一起去，因为我有

兴趣看到一个新的国家，

我们很高兴再次登陆陆地

，当男人们寻找河流

或湖泊时，

我走了大约一公里的距离

海滩 回到我的惊讶中，我

看到水手们已经在

船上，

他们以最快的速度

向船划去

我意识到他无法抓住他们，

因为他们几乎已经上船了，

但我等不及看到

那次冒险的结束，

我尽快逃离了他，

直到我发现自己陷入了一片荒野中才停下来

ds 草大约 7 米高

，玉米大约 13 米高

我花了一个小时才穿过一个

有至少 40 米高树篱的田地

在树篱中，

这样我就可以进入下一个田野

我看到另一个巨人向我走来

他似乎像一座山一样高

，他的每一步都

大约有 10 米

，我害怕和惊讶地

躲在玉米地里

，希望他不会 注意我，

他用雷鸣般的声音大喊，

另外七个巨人出现了，

他们似乎是他的仆人，

当他下达命令时，

他们开始在我躲藏的田地里割玉米，

当他们向我

走来时，我移开了，

但最后

我 来到田地的一部分，

雨水打倒了玉米

，我再也没有地方可以

躲藏了

，我知道我会

被巨人锋利的刀子切成碎片

我

躺下准备死

我无法停止自己的思考

小人国

在那里，

我自己曾经是一个巨人，

一个重要人物

，因帮助

那个小国家的人民而闻名

，而恰恰相反，

我就像欧洲的小人一样

，我开始

理解一个非常小的生物的感受，

突然

我注意到一个 巨人

离我很近，

他的大脚从我头顶抬起，

我拼命尖叫，

他在地上四处张望

，终于看到了我，

他盯着我看了一会儿

，非常小心

地用手指把我抱起来，

拇指看着我，

我现在在 20 米高的空中

，我非常希望他不会

决定把我扔到地上。

我没有挣扎

，礼貌地对他说话，

尽管我知道他不懂

我的任何语言

农夫很快意识到我不是

动物

而是聪明人，

他小心翼翼地把我放在口袋里

，带我回家给他的妻子看，

当她看到我时，她

害怕地尖叫着往后跳，也许是在想我 本来是

虫子，

不过没

多久就习惯了，对我也很好[音乐] 第六章格列佛和他的师傅 我们刚到不久

，全家人就坐在桌边

吃晚饭，上面

有一大块肉 一个横跨农夫

约八米的盘子

把我放在桌子

上，我面前放着一些小面包和

肉，

我非常害怕

从距离地面 10 米的桌子边缘掉下来

农夫和他的家人 很

高兴看到我用自己的小刀和叉子吃东西，

但是当我开始穿过

桌子走向农夫时，他最小的儿子

一个大约十岁的男孩

抓住了我的腿，他把我高高举起，我的

整个身体 颤抖着

幸好他父亲立刻把我带走了

，愤怒地打了男孩的头，

但我记得

孩子对小动物是多么残忍

，我不想让男孩

报复我，

所以我

跪下问 他们不是 o 不再惩罚孩子

了，

他们似乎明白

了，然后

我听到身后

有声响，听起来像是 12 台机器同时运转

她的胳膊

使它不会扑向我，

但事实上

因为我没有表现出恐惧，

所以没有危险

，而且猫甚至

在晚餐结束时似乎有点害怕我，

仆人带着农夫

一岁大的儿子进来了 在她的怀里，

他立即开始哭泣和

尖叫，

因为他想和我一起玩

他妈妈笑着把我放在他的手里，

当他把我抱起来，把我的头放在

他嘴里时，

我大声喊叫，他把我摔倒了，

幸好我没有受伤

但这让我看到

，吃

了农夫

或我的主人（我现在叫

他）后，我的

生活会有

多么危险 她的床

并锁上了 卧室门

我累了

，睡了两个小时

醒来的时候，

我觉得自己很渺小，很孤独，在这么

大的房间里

，在这么大的床上，

突然

我看到两只巨大的老鼠穿过床向我跑来，

一只跑到了我的脸上

于是我拔出剑，切开

他的

肚子，对方

立刻跑了，我在床上来回走动，

控制着颤抖的双腿

，看着那只死老鼠，

它有一条大狗一样大

，尾巴有两米。

过了一段时间，当我主人的妻子走进房间

时，

我向她展示了我是如何杀死老鼠的，

她很高兴我没有受伤

，并将死老鼠扔出窗外

我主人有一个

大约九岁的女儿

考虑到

照顾我的特殊责任，

我在她的国家逗留期间，我欠她我的生命，我们

一直在一起，她把我从

许多危险的情况中救了

出来 给

妈妈 给我买了最薄的衣服

她还给我做了一张小床

，放在架子上，架子太高了，

老鼠够不着

她做的最有用的事情

就是教我语言，

这样几天后

我就可以 说得好 很快

我主人的所有邻居都在

谈论他在田野里发现的那个奇怪的小动物

，

其中一个人来看我

，当我穿过桌子走向他时，

他戴上眼镜，眼镜

后面的眼睛

看起来像 满月照进

两扇窗户

我觉得这很有趣，然后

大声笑了起来，

不幸的

是这让他很生气

我听到他整个晚上都在对我的主人耳语

，我很抱歉第二天我嘲笑他了

你

永远猜不到

发生了什么事

她

伤心地告诉我 我们的

邻居建议

父亲带你去见

人要钱

父亲明天要带你去市场

那里会有很多人

准备好 仅供娱乐

哦，我很惭愧

，也许你会受伤

其他人不会像我一样小心

你，

别担心愚蠢的陈词滥调我回答

说我是一个陌生人

我不介意 像

一只奇怪的野生动物一样被展示给人们 我必须按照

你父亲的意愿去做

我暗自

希望有一天我能找到逃离

并回到我自己的国家的方法

所以第二天

我的主人和他的女儿

骑上了他们的大马格伦代尔 陈词滥调把我抱进一个

小盒子里，盒子里有毛孔，这样

当我们到达集镇时

我就可以呼吸

了 没有人伤害我

我被告知要说他们的语言

从杯子里拿出我的剑酒

做其他事情来娱乐人群

第一天只允许 30 个人一次看到我 每个人都想见

我 向超过 350 人展示了

我的主人 r 的计划非常成功

，他安排在下一个集市日再次向我展示

我一点也不期待

我对旅程和娱乐感到厌倦，

以至于我在接下来的三天里只能走路和说话都

困难

在家的时候，

邻居和全国各地的朋友

都来看我

，我的师父让我努力逗

他们

开心，所以我几乎没有休息，我的师父终于意识到他可以

通过带我发财

全国各地的人，

所以在我到达布罗布丁纳格大约两个月后，

我们离开了农场

，开始了前往国会大厦的旅程，

因为在

我们停在许多城镇和村庄的路上，glumdalclitch 和我们一起来照顾我，

这样我就可以

经过近5000公里的路程，终于被人看到了，

我们到达了国会大厦，

现在我不得不更加努力，

因为人们每天来看我

10次

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国王的宫殿第7章

你 gh glom del clinch 试图

让我

的生活尽可能舒适 如此疲惫的生活开始

对我的健康产生不良影响

当我的主人注意到这一点时，我变得越来越瘦，

他认为我不会活得更久，

但它是 很明显，他想

从我身上赚到尽可能多的钱，

而他正在考虑如何做到这一点，他

被要求带我去

王宫，王后和她的女士们听说了

我，想

在我们到达时见我

我跪在王后面前，请求

允许亲吻她的脚，

但她亲切地向我伸出了手

最后她

说你喜欢住在

皇宫里吗？你认为

伟大的女王我回答

我必须做我主人想要的，

但如果我有空

我会一辈子

听你的命令，

她立即安排从

我家买下我 大师

h 我很高兴为我收到了一个好价钱

，特别是因为他确信我

不会活超过一个月。

我还请求女王让

闷闷不乐的狗和我在一起，

因为她一直

对我照顾得很好

，女王同意了，

并且

当我的主人独自离开宫殿时，glumdo klitsch 无法掩饰她的喜悦

王后对我说，

你为什么不和他说再见

，为什么你这么冷酷地看着他，

夫人我必须告诉你，我回答了，

但既然他找到了我

我的主人把我当作自己赚钱的一种简单方法

他让我工作如此努力，以至于我感到

疲倦和生病

他把我卖给你只是因为他认为

我很快就会死，

但现在我已经感觉好多了

属于这样一位伟大而

善良的

王后，王后显然很惊讶

听到这么小的生物说出如此聪明的话，

并决定带我去见她的丈夫，

当国王看到我时，

他起初认为我一定是一个

机械玩具，

但当他 听到我对 h 的回答 是

他意识到我一定还活着的问题

，他无法掩饰惊讶

地发现我是什么样的动物。在仔细观察了我之后，

他派他找了三位最聪明的

教授

，

他们认为我是一个

超出自然法则的生物。

太小了，不能爬树，不能

挖地

，不能杀死和吃掉他们的动物，

他们无法理解我

来自哪里，

或者我怎么可能生存

，当我告诉他们在我的国家

有数百万人和我一样，

他们没有 相信我，

但只是笑了笑，

但是国王比他们更聪明

，

在和 gumdel 陈词滥调交谈并

再次询问我之后，

他意识到我的故事一定是真的，

他们对我非常照顾，

女王的工人为我做了一个特别的

卧室，

这是一个 带窗户的木箱 一扇门

和两个

橱柜 天花板可以被掀开，

这样狗夹子就可以换我的

床单和整理我的

房间 工人甚至给我做了两把小

椅子 找到一张桌子

和一把锁，

这样女王就不会进到老鼠里了

万一我需要她的帮助，

我会用银刀和叉子把小银盘子吃掉

，

但我从来不习惯看到女王

一口吃东西，

她吃的量相当于

她用杯子喝的一整顿饭能吃的 12 个英国农民 和

我们的一个桶一样大

，她的刀就像巨大的剑一样

，星期三我很害怕他们，这是在布丁纳格休息的一天，

就像我们的星期天一样

，国王和王后总是

和他们的孩子一起

在国王的

房间里吃饭。 通常也会被邀请

我的小椅子和桌子在

国王的左手肘

他非常喜欢听我

谈论英国

我们的法律 我们的大学是很棒的

建筑

他听得如此礼貌以至于我可能

说得太多了 h 最后

谈到了我亲爱的

国家 他和蔼地看着我，

但忍不住笑了

他转向他的一位领主

他对他

说，像这样的昆虫会谈论

他认为他的国家如此重要的事情，这是多么有趣 如此高度

发达，

但我想即使是像

他

这样的微小生物也会在地上有一个洞，他们

称之为家，

他们争辩说他们喜欢

战斗，他们

像我们一样死去，

但当然可怜的小动物

不在我们的水平，

我不能 相信我听到

他在嘲笑我的国家 一个

以其美丽的城市和

宫殿而闻名的国家 它是伟大的国王和王后 它是

勇敢和诚实的人

但是我对此无能为力

，我只能接受

最糟糕的情况 在我到达之前，我在宫殿里

是王后的小矮人

，

他一直是这个国家最小的人

，

他大约 10 米高，

因为我比他小得多，

他对我很粗鲁，举止非常

非常糟糕，尤其是当没有人在看的时候

，他从桌子上拿了一根大骨头

放在女王的盘子上，

然后他双手抓住我

，把我的腿推到骨头的顶部，

我无法把自己拉出来

，不得不呆在那里

当王后终于看到我时，感觉和看起来都非常愚蠢，

她忍不住笑了起来，

但她对小矮人很生气，

同时

在 brobdingnag 夏天有大量

的苍蝇

，这些可怕的昆虫每个都像英国鸟一样大

我不

平静 小矮人过去常常用手抓住一些

，然后突然从我的

鼻子下放出来

他这样做既是为了吓我又是为了

逗女王

我不得不用我的刀把它们切成

碎片，因为它们又一次在我周围飞来飞去

小矮人把我抱起来，迅速把我

扔到桌子上的一碗牛奶里，

幸好我游泳健将，所以当

grumdilclitch 看到我有危险时，我设法把头从牛奶里拿出来，

她从另一边跑了 在

救我的房间里，

我没有受伤，

但这次小矮人被

送出宫殿作为惩罚，

我很高兴

我现在想描述 brobdingnag

绘制我们欧洲地图的人

认为日本之间只有海

和美国，

但他们错了

brobdingnag 是一个相当大的国家，

与美国西北部相连，

但与美国其他地区被高山隔开。

它长约 10 000 公里，

宽 5 到 8000 公里，

它周围的海非常崎岖

，有 水中的岩石如此之多，

以至于没有大型船只可以降落在

任何海滩上，

这意味着 brobdingnag 的人民

通常没有

来自世界其他地区的游客

首都有 51 个城市和大量城镇和村庄 在

河的两岸

，有8万多间房屋

，占地

340

平方公里，国王的宫殿，占地约11

平方公里，主要房间高80米。

厨房很大，

如果我用

火上的大锅和桌子上堆积如山的食物来描述它，

也许你不会相信我

旅行者经常被指责

在他们回来时没有说实话

以避免这种情况发生在我身上

我很小心

尽可能准确和仔细地描述我所看到的

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第八章

brobdingnag 的冒险，

因为我太小

了，我在宫殿逗留期间发生了几起危险的事故

。

当她和几位

王后的女士们出去散步时，

一只小白狗

出现了，它属于一个园丁

，它似乎对我很感兴趣，

他把我含在嘴里

，把我带到他的主人

那里，幸运的是他训练有素，并且做到了

不要试图咬我，所以有一天我没有受伤

，女王对我说，

划船或划船

对你的健康有好处你

觉得你想让我为你安排什么？

亚当，我回答说

我很想每天划船或航行一点，

但是我们在哪里可以找到足够小的船

留给我，

她回答并召集她的工人

她命令他们制造一艘

带帆的小船，

他们还做了一个 木容器

长约一百米，

宽十七米，深三米，

这个容器装满了水

，我被小心地放在水上的小船上，

我每天都在那里划船或航行，

而女王和她的女士们看着

没有 当然是风，

但是女士们用力吹我的

船，

我几乎再次失去了生命，

当一位女士把我抱起来把我放到

船上时，

她不够小心，惊恐地把

我丢了

我觉得自己从空中掉了下来，

但相反 摔倒在地的

时候，我的裤子被

她衣服上的别针夹住了，

我不得不呆在那里一

动也不动，直到 clitch 跑过来救我，

但在 brobdingnag 对我来说最大的危险

来自一只猴子

有一天

，当她拜访一些女士时，gumdel clitch 把我一个人留在了她的

卧室里

，

那是一个温暖的日子

，她的窗户是开着

的 我

从窗户跳

了出来，我立刻把我藏在盒子后面

这只在我看来很大的猴子

很快就发现了我的藏身之处

当他听到有人打开卧室的门时，他把我抱起来，像婴儿一样抱在

他身边 从窗外

跑到屋顶上

我以为我从来没有遇到过如此大的

危险

他三腿奔跑 第四腿随时抱着

我

他可以让我

跌倒 我们至少

离地 300 米

我 王宫里传来一阵阵叫喊声，

仆人们意识到

发生了什么事

，带着梯子爬到

屋顶上

glumdalclitch在哭泣

，数百人

在花园里注视着，

而猴子正坐着 他平静地站在屋顶上，

从嘴里拿食物，

试图把它塞进我嘴里，

他似乎仍然认为我是他的孩子，

我想这对下面的人群来说是一个有趣的景象，

但我非常害怕最终跌倒

几个仆人爬上屋顶

，当他们靠近时

，猴子把我放倒

并逃跑了

当我再次见到国王时被抓住并杀死了他问

我这次经历

他说当猴子把

你抱在屋顶上时你感觉如何

先生我勇敢地回答

我害怕这是真的

但是下次像这样的动物

袭击我 我会毫不犹豫地

像这样拔出我的剑

，我告诉他我会做什么

，给这个生物一个这样的伤口，

让它永远不会再靠近我，

但是当我在空中挥舞我的小剑时，

国王和他的 领主笑了

我曾经想证明我的勇敢，

但我失败了，

因为对他们来说

我只是一个不重要的小

动物，

后来我

意识到，

当我们嘲笑一个没有家庭

财富或智慧的

人假装和我们的伟大人物一样重要时，这经常发生在英国

在接下来的几周里，

我开始与国王进行一些非常有趣的

对话 我的一切

都可能有一些我们可以

在brobdingnag有用地复制的东西

我会很高兴先生

我自豪地回答

我们的国王控制着我们三个伟大的

国家苏格兰爱尔兰和英国

我们自己种植大部分食物

而且我们的天气既不太热也不

太冷

有两组人制定我们的

法律，

一组被称为上议院，

他们来自该国最古老和

最伟大的家庭

另一个被称为下议院

这些是该国最诚实的

聪明和明智的人，

由人民自由选择

我们有法官来决定对

罪犯的惩罚

，我们有一支庞大的军队，

在世界上任何其他人都无法击败 世界

在我说话的时候国王做

了几天的笔记我继续我的

解释

，我还描述

了过去一百年的英国历史

然后国王问了我很多

问题

这些是其中一些

你如何教和培养年轻人

好家庭的人，

如果老家的最后一个儿子死

了，你如何为上议院任命新的领主，

这些领主真的是最适合

制定国家法律的人吗？

在

下议院，这些人真的如此诚实和诚实吗？

聪明的

富人

从不买进这所房子

你说立法者没有报酬

但你

确定他们从不收受贿赂

然后他问了关于我们法律

公司的问题 urts

为什么你的审判如此漫长和如此

昂贵

你的律师和法官

对法律的真正了解

程度 他们在对与错之间做出的决定有多谨慎

难相处的邻居

为什么你根本需要一支军队

如果你是和平的人民

，你不会害怕任何其他国家，在过去的一百年里，

你除了抢劫和谋杀什么也没做

你最近的历史显示

了残忍的最坏影响

嫉妒

不诚实和疯狂

我试图尽可能地回答国王，

但他认为我们的系统不是一个好系统

不，

我的小朋友，

他说得很客气，但很认真，

我为你感到抱歉，

你已经向我证明了

你的国家 没有什么有价值的东西

可以提供给我们，

也许在过去，

你的政治生活组织得很好，

但现在很明显

，你的政客可以被贿赂

的系统的每个部分都存在懒惰和自私

你的士兵并不真正勇敢

你的法官和律师既不

通情达理也不

诚实 你的立法者自己也

知之甚少

我真诚地希望

你一生中大部分时间都在

旅行的

人比大多数英国人有更好的品格，

但从你 “我告诉过

我，我担心你们的同胞

是有史以来在地上爬行的最糟糕的昆虫小国。

我很抱歉不得不报告

国王的这些话

，我这样做只是

因为我热爱真理

我必须确切地告诉你发生了什么事

即使我不同意

我不得不耐心地听

他

对我亲爱的国家发表他非凡的意见

但是我们必须

记住这位国王

生活在一个几乎与其他国家完全不同的国家

世界，因为他不了解其他

国家的制度或习俗，

他有一定的狭隘思维

，我们欧洲人没有，

当然你会很难

相信什么 接下来发生了，

先生，

我说

我想给你一些东西，

以感谢你对我的好意，

因为我三四百年前来到皇宫，

我们欧洲人发现了如何制作一种

特殊的粉末，

当你放火时

它会燃烧 并立即爆炸

，发出比雷声还响亮的声音

你可以用它从大炮中发射沉重的金属球

它可以摧毁最大的船只

它可以杀死整个军队

它可以将人的身体切成两半

它可以摧毁最坚固的墙壁

它被称为火药

而且制作起来既简单又便宜，可以

向您展示我对您的感激之

情 别告诉我

我不想知道如何

杀人这样

我宁愿放弃一半的国家也

不愿知道这种粉末的秘密

像你这样的小生物怎么会有

如此不人道的残忍想法

从来不跟我谈这个 再次

这么优秀的国王

居然不抓住我给他的机会，这真是太奇怪了，

没有一个欧洲国王会犹豫

片刻，

但他还有其他奇怪的想法，

他非常简单地相信每个

问题都可以由诚实

明智的人来解决

，而且欧洲的政治生活 一个国家

必须没有秘密，必须公开

让所有人看到和

理解当然

我们知道这是不可能的，

所以也许他对我们的看法

不值得考虑

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第九章

格列佛从布罗布丁纳格逃脱

我仍然希望回到 有一天英国，

但我抵达

brobdingnag 的船

是第一艘

靠近海岸的船，

所以我看不出我怎么能离开

我开始越来越多地想我的

家人和我的家

到现在

我有

当国王和王后前往

南海岸

gumdelklich 我和他们一起去时

，我在 brobdingnag 已经呆了大约两年了

只要格洛姆·德尔·克里奇（glom del klitsch）生病，就一直闻到臭味

我让一个年轻的仆人带我

去海滩呼吸新鲜

空气 男孩把我放在我的旅行箱里，

然后把我放在海滩上，

同时他在岩石中寻找鸟蛋

我悲伤地望着大海，

但呆在我的盒子里

，过了一会儿

我睡着了，

当我的盒子被高高举起时，我突然被惊醒，

我只能

假设一只大鸟抓住

了盒子顶部的戒指 他的爪子

从窗户飞走了我可以看到天空

和云彩经过

，我可以听到鸟儿翅膀的声音

然后

我坠落得

如此之快以至于我感到非常喘不过气来

当盒子掉入时发出一声巨响

大海，

也许这只鸟被其他人袭击了

，所以不得不放下他随身携带的东西，

幸运的是

，盒子做得很好

，没有多少海水进来，

但我认为没有任何旅行者的

情况比我更糟糕

然后

我想知道我要多久 我在大洋中间

不吃不喝地生存

我确信我再也不会看到可怜的

闷闷不乐的陈词滥调了

，我知道几个小时过去了她会失去我会有多难过

，然后我突然听到头顶传来奇怪的

声音

人们把绳子系在圆环上，

然后我的箱子被拉进了水里，

是不是一艘船在拉着我？

救命？

我尽可能大声地喊叫

我很高兴听到英语的声音

回复

谁在那儿

他们哭了

我是英国人

我拼命地喊回去，

请帮我离开这里

，把你的手指

伸进盒子顶部的戒指，

然后迅速把它从水里拿出来，然后

是大笑声，

他疯了

我听到一个人说

十个人不能 举起那个巨大的盒子

说另一个

确实有更多的笑声，

因为我和巨人在一起太久

了，我忘记了我的同胞

和我一样小，

水手们唯一能做的

就是在我的盒子顶部切一个洞，

然后 帮助我 爬出来

我筋疲力尽，无法走多远，

他们带我去找他们的船长，

欢迎来到我的船，

他说

你很幸运，我们找到了你，

我的手下看到了水面上的那个巨大的盒子

，我们决定把它拉到

后面 船

然后我们意识到里面有一个人

为什么你被关在

里面这是对一些可怕罪行的惩罚

但是稍后告诉我这一切现在你

需要睡觉

然后吃饭

当我告诉他我的故事几个小时

后

他 很难相信，

但过了一会儿

他开始接受我告诉他的

一定是真的，

但是你为什么大声喊叫

他问

如果你说话正常，我们可以很好地听到你，

你看

我解释

了两年

我已经 必须大声喊叫才能让

巨人理解

我就像街上的一个人，

试图

在一座很高的建筑物的顶部

与另一个人交谈

习惯抬头看人

20米 高，

你摇了摇头，

哇，

多么棒的故事，

我想你回家后应该写一本书。

我在船上呆了几个月

，我们慢慢地驶回英国，

最后

我们于 1706 年 6 月 3 日抵达布里斯托尔。

当我 到家

了 老婆让我发誓

再也不出海

我以为

我的冒险

已经结束了

[音乐]

[鼓掌]

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第10章

飞翔的拉普塔岛

我才

在家大约10天的

时候 我的一个朋友

邀请我和他一起去

东印度群岛

旅行 八个月

，在马来西亚短暂停留后，

我们到达了东京湾，我的朋友船长告诉我，

我将不得不在这里停留一段时间

出差，

但你可以乘船，

一些水手

去看看 您可以

在阿鲁岛买卖什么 在这里

，这听起来对我来说很有趣，

所以我同意

不幸的是，

我们直接驶入了一场可怕的风暴

，将我们向东驱赶了许多英里，

然后非常不幸的机会，

我们被两艘海盗船看到并追赶，

我们的船速度不够快，无法逃脱

，海盗 抓住了我们，

他们决定让水手帮助

航行，

但他们不需要我，

我想我很幸运，他们没有杀了

我，

而是把我一个人留在了大海中央的一艘小船上

，只有足够的食物吃 几天后，

当他们扬帆远航时，

我敢肯定海盗们以为我会死，

但是

几个小时后我看到了陆地

，当我走出船走上海滩时，我设法将船驶向了那里

，

我注意到

虽然太阳 天气很热

空气

突然变得凉爽

起初我以为有一朵云

从太阳上空掠过，

但当我抬起头时

，我非常惊讶地看到

天空中有一个大岛

在我和太阳之间，

它正在向我移动

d 有人在上面跑来跑去

我挥动手臂，尽可能大声地喊

救命

我哭了

救我

当小岛离我头顶大约一百米时，

他们放下了一个链子上的座位

我坐在

上面被拉了 到岛上

我发现

了飞翔的拉普塔岛

普京肯定是长相

很奇怪的人

他们的头

总是左右

转动 一只眼睛向内 另一只眼睛

向上

他们的主要兴趣是音乐和

数学

他们花了很多时间思考 关于

数学问题

，他们没有注意到

周围发生的

事情 事实上，

富有的勒普特人

雇用了一个仆人，

他的工作是跟随他的主人到

任何

地方，如果他要

踏入一个洞

，仆人会警告他，

如果有人说话，他会提醒他回复

他我被带去见国王，

但至少等了一个小时，

而他却在一个困难的数学问题上苦苦挣扎，

但是

当他完成后，他说出了 po

对我很礼貌，

并命令他的仆人带我到一个

房间

吃晚饭，

他们给了我三种肉，

一块

牛肉，三角形鸡肉

和一圈羊肉，

甚至面包都被切成数学

形状

，

晚上老师来了 帮助我学习

语言，几天后

我就可以和岛上的人交谈了

laputa 是一个大约八

公里宽的土地，

上面覆盖着房屋和其他建筑物，

它由一台简单的机器移动，该机器

使用磁铁来拉动岛屿

靠近陆地

或将其推向

天空 岛屿总是缓慢移动

它只能飞越

属于拉普塔国王的称为 bellnibabi 的国家

与拉普塔人交谈很困难，因为

他们对

音乐和数学以外的任何东西

都不感兴趣 然而

非常担心

地球

的未来太阳

和

星星他们经常讨论这个

我在离开拉普塔前不久听到了一个关于这个的谈话

你是我的朋友吗

一个人问另一个人

吗 像这样继续

下去 离

太阳太近会着火

，当地球经过那场

大火时，

它会立即被摧毁，

只有 30 年

，这没什么好期待

的，两个人在岛上呆了几个月后悲伤地摇了摇头。

问我是否可以参观

我们脚下

的国家，国王同意并命令他的

官员让我坐在贝尔尼巴比上

，带我参观首都连奏曲

我看到的最有趣的地方

是充满v的大学 非常聪明的人 有

非常聪明的想法

他们都在努力寻找

更好

更快 更便宜

更简单的做事和制造方法

他们有

想法从屋顶向下建造房屋

将岩石变成柔软的材料

使河流上坡

并在瓶子中保存阳光

我做不到 记得有一天他们正在研究的

令人惊讶的聪明想法中有一半

他们告诉我

他们会找到所有这些问题的答案

然后他们的国家将成为世界上最

美妙的地方

同时

我注意到人们看起来很饿而且

他们的衣服很痛苦 他们的房子很旧而且满是洞

他们的房子建得很差而且

倒塌

当我参观数学学校时，田里没有蔬菜或玉米

我不明白为什么学生们

看起来这么不开心

我问了一个年轻人怎么了 他们，

你看起来病得很厉害，

是的，先生，

他回答说，

你看

我们今天才刚吃完课

，就做好了 我们

吃了它们感觉

很恶心我惊讶地重复一遍

你为什么这样做

哦

这就是我们在这里学习的方式先生

他回答

我们的教授

在纸上写数学问题和答案

然后我们吃纸

之后

我们只应该吃面包 和

水三天，

而信息向上移动到

我们的脑海中，

但是这很糟糕，先生三天没有吃太多东西

，我们经常感到

恶心，

对不起，先生

，他从我身边跑出房间

这个高度发达的教学系统

似乎没有 为了好好工作

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第 11 章

glob dub drib 和 lugnag

虽然 laputans 对我很友善，但

我不想在他们的国家待太久，

因此

我决定从 belnie baby

到 lagnag 岛，

从那里到日本 然后回到英国的家，

但在我去 lagnag 之前，我

在 legato 遇到的一位官员

说服我参观

glob dub drib 的小岛，

你会发现这是一个非常有趣的地方，

你告诉我

glob dub drib

意思是魔术师岛

所有重要的人都

擅长魔术你

看总统是他们所有人中最好的魔术师

但我必须警告你

他有一些非常奇怪

他们

都是使用魔法

的鬼魂他可以命令任何人的鬼魂 死人

要当他的仆人 24 小时

，鬼必须服从

这似乎令人难以置信

，

但当我们到达岛上时，这是真的，

我们被邀请到总统的

宫殿，

他的仆人

对我来说当然看起来很奇怪，当他们身上

有一股死亡的气味

时 总统不再需要他们

他挥了挥

手 他们就消失

了 我逗留期间每天都去拜访总统

很快就习惯了

有

一天总统说格列佛

你想叫鬼魂

吗 可以是任何

人 世界之初

到现在，

你可以问他们关于他们

生活的问题

，你可以肯定他们会说

实话

鬼总是

这样，你真好，先生，我回复了

d 想了想

首先我想看看亚历山大

大帝总统指着窗外

的一大片田野

是亚历山大的鬼魂和他的庞大

军队

这位著名的国王很久以前住

在希腊北部的马其顿

他的王国覆盖了许多国家，

从希腊到埃及，

从波斯到印度的部分地区，

但他在 33 岁时很年轻就去世了

，没有人知道

总统为什么叫他进入房间

伟大的国王

我对他说，

告诉我一件事

是你 被谋杀

还是你自然而然地死了

年轻人他回答

没有人谋杀我

我喝得太多

并且死于发烧

所以

在这几句话中

我学到了历史的秘密之一

我求助于

总统现在

我们可以看到

朱利叶斯凯撒和布鲁图斯

两位罗马人取代了亚历山大的位置，

布鲁图斯当然

在公元前 44 年 3 月 15 日在罗马杀死了凯撒大帝，这是

历史上最著名的谋杀案之一

，死在一位伟大凯撒的朋友之手是可怕的

sar 我说

你对你的凶手

brutus 有

什么看法 不要打电话给他

caesar

他是一个勇敢的

好人

罗马最好

的人 他为罗马做

了正确的事

死时杀了我 生前

他一直是我的朋友

我不记得

我叫了多少鬼魂出现

我对他们对我的问题的回答非常感兴趣，这些

问题

似乎提供了

与我在学校所教的不同的历史观

但是很快就该离开 glob dub drib

然后航行

到日本东南部的一个更大的岛屿

lagnag 人是有礼貌和慷慨的

人

，我在这里住了三个月

我在他们中间结交了很多朋友，其中

一个人问

我你有没有看过我们的任何漫步

毒品

我 不这么认为，

我回答

说，

一个漫步的布鲁格是一个

永远不会死的人，

但

如果一个鲁格努格婴儿出生时左眼上方有一个永远不会消失的

圆形斑点，

它将永远活着。 trolledbrag

我们在这个国家有超过一千个，

我哭得多么精彩

，你在卢尼亚格多么幸运

，一个孩子有机会永远活下去

，特别幸运，漫步的

药物是

疾病

灾难，死亡永远无法触及他们

并想象 我们可以从他们身上学到多少

我希望他们是

这个国家最重要的人之一

我愿意一生都在聆听卢格纳格

这些非凡人物的智慧对话，

当然，

我的卢格纳格朋友微笑着回答，

如果你能和我们待得更久，我们会很高兴

，

但

我想知道你会怎么做

如果你是一个流浪的布鲁格

，计划你的生活哦，这很容易

我首先回答说

我会努力工作

并

在大约200年内赚很多钱

我会成为卢格纳最富有的人

我也会学习，

这样我会知道更多关于 一切 ing 和

最聪明的教授们

我也会

写下

这些年来发生的所有重要的事情，

这样历史系的学生就会来找

我寻求帮助 强毒的

朋友们

一起，

我们可以帮助摧毁

世界上的犯罪，开始为每个人建立新的

更美好的生活

我刚刚描述完

无尽生活的幸福，

当我

意识到我朋友的肩膀在颤抖

，笑得泪流满面 从他脸上跑下来

我真的必须解释

他说你知道

你犯了一个非常可以

理解的错误

你

认为如果有人永远活着

他

也永远年轻健康强壮

而且这不会发生

我们漫步的布鲁斯之后的生活很糟糕

活了大约 80 岁

他们变得生病和痛苦

他们没有朋友 并且他们不

记得过去的很多事情

在那个年龄，法律认为他们已经

死了，

所以他们的孩子 人继承了他们的房子

和钱

然后他们有时不得不

乞求得到足够的食物

他们失去了牙齿和头发

他们忘记了家人的名字

他们唯一想要的就是死

但那是不可能的

我意识到我曾经是多么愚蠢

为可怜的布鲁格漫步感到非常抱歉，

我终于离开了卢格纳格，

乘船从那里

驶往日本

年

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第 12 章

一次航行到谁的国家

不久之后，我在 1710 年 9 月 7 日开始了我的下一次

航行

，

作为我自己的船的船长，

这次船的主人要我航行

到印度 海洋

在那里为他做些生意，

但我很不走运

，

我不得不雇用一些来自巴巴多斯的新水手，

但他们是男人，性格非常糟糕，

我多次听到他们对其他水手窃窃私语

但是我没有怀疑他们在一天早上计划什么，

因为我们在好望角航行时

他们袭击了我

并将我绑起来

他们告诉我他们将

控制这艘船

并成为海盗

我无能为力

他们 把我一个人

留在印度洋中部一个小岛的海滩上

当船驶离时

我意识到我不知道自己在哪里

我找到了一条远离海滩的路，

然后非常安静小心地走着

，以防万一 袭击

了几只

长相奇特的动物，它们躺在

田野里

，有些坐在树上，

它们的头和胸膛上长满了

毛发

，还留着胡须，

它们有时用两条腿走路，有时用四只脚走路，

并且可以爬树，

它们肯定是

我在所有旅行中见过的最丑的动物，

当我在路上遇到这些生物时，

他的脸上露出了极大的惊讶

，他高高举起一英尺，

我不知道他是要攻击

我还是要攻击我 不是，

但我用我的剑侧重击了他

他大声尖叫，所有其他

动物都跑来帮助他

我周围大约有 40 只我

通过在空中挥舞我的剑来阻止它们，

但它们狂野的叫声吓坏了我

他们身上散发出的难闻气味

让我感到恶心

他们

突然都跑了 以一种非常

聪明温和的方式

，我几乎想知道他是否

在用他自己的语言说话，

当另一匹马走过时

，两匹马一起走来走去，

同时互相反对，

他们似乎是两个重要的人在

讨论一个难题

我一起看这个 惊讶

并决定如果这个国家的动物

看起来如此明智，

那么人类一定是

世界上最聪明的

那两匹马然后靠近我

看着我的 脸和衣服饶有兴

致地再次交谈

，然后第一匹马做出明确的

手势让我跟着他，

他带我到一栋长长的低矮建筑，

里面有几间通风的大

房间，没有家具，

其他马舒适地坐着或躺着

地板上铺着干净的

毯子，

但房子的主人在哪里？

这些马是他的仆人吗？

这个国家的马

不是人在控制

我开始学习一点他们的

语言

他们的单词huinam的意思是一

匹马这个词本身听起来很像马发出的声音

我发现这个词很难说

所以我决定缩短它 叫

他们谁是

他们的仆人是

我之前看到的那些看起来很可怕的动物，

他们做了所有的努力

，住在另一栋楼里肮脏的小房间里

，他们被绑在

令我恐惧的是，这些被称为雅虎的丑陋动物

的人脸看起来

与我的非常

相似 起初

我以为我会饿死，

因为我不能吃雅虎的脏

肉或谁是草和玉米，

但我很快就学会了如何

烤玉米制成的小蛋糕，我用热牛奶吃

有时我抓到一只鸟煮了

或摘了植物的叶子和

我的面包一起吃

我的慧老师对我很感兴趣，

我一会说这种

语言他就让我解释我来自哪里

以及主人

我需要

我 “来自

世界另一端的一个国家

，你可能不相信，

但在我的国家，

所有重要人物看起来都像

雅虎，

但这

怎么可能？

他温柔地问

你是谁，

肯定不会允许不聪明的

生物 l 像雅虎

一样控制这个国家这似乎很

奇怪我同意了

但你看

我很惊讶地发现在这个

国家谁

是敏感和聪明的

生物如果我有幸回家

我会告诉我的朋友们 关于它，

但

我担心他们可能会指责我撒谎

我的主人看起来很担心

什么是

在他们的语言中是的 没有任何词

意味着

说谎 我的主人很难

理解我

我试图解释

哦

他仍然回答 不确定

但为什么有人说谎

没有理由这样做

我们在这个国家使用语言

是为了相互理解

并提供和接收信息

如果你不说实话

人们怎么能相互理解

我开始看到 胡说八道的

生活与我以前的生活有多么不同，

但

告诉我

他继续

介绍你的国家

我很高兴向他描述最近的

英国历史，尤其

是我们最成功的一些战争

国家攻击另一个他

问

有很多原因我回答

一个国王

或他的领主可能想要更多的土地

或者两个国家之间可能存在意见分歧

例如

制服是否应该是黑色

白色红色

更灰色

有时我们会因为敌人

太强大而战斗

有时因为他不够强壮

有时我们的邻居想要

我们

拥有的东西或拥有我们想要的东西

所以我们都在争吵直到他们拿走我们的或

给我们他们的

我们经常攻击我们最好的朋友如果我们

想要他的一些土地

总有一个

出于这个原因，

在某处打仗成为一名士兵是最好的工作之一，

你可以让

一名士兵

重复我的主人

我不太确定那是

什么士兵是一个为他的国王和国家工作的雅虎

他的命令是杀死尽可能多的人

我能回答的

人 从来没有伤害过他的人

问回

是的 我说很高兴 他

似乎终于明白了

士兵在近代历史上杀死了数千人

你嘘 看着他的头，看起来很伤心，

我想你一定

是你的话

啊，是的

，对我撒谎，

你

和你的同胞怎么能

杀死这么多其他雅虎

，你为什么要

这样我笑着自豪地回答，先生，

你知道的不多 关于欧洲战争

用我们的枪、子弹和火药

我们可以摧毁一千艘船

一百个城市和两万人

你

看他下令保持安静

我已经听够了

我知道雅虎很糟糕

但我没有意识到他们可能

会这样做 可怕的事情

在这些谈话之后

我开始怀疑谁

是对的

为什么我们人类经常打仗和

说谎

和平与真理

开始似乎比

发动战争或赚钱更重要

我变得越来越习惯谁

是谁 作为whois的想法和生活方式

我讨厌雅虎的肮脏

习惯和令人不快的

性格当我在那里一年的时候

我走路和裸体像谁

我

对他们产生了如此强烈的爱，

所以我计划 o 与他们共度余生，

并努力变得更像他们。

即使在今天，这对我来说也是一种巨大的悲哀，

有一天

我的 Huey 主人

说这不可能

他们在田野

里挖了好几天才把它们挖出来

，然后嫉妒地把它们藏起来，不让其他雅虎看到

我希望他们找到了金子或

银子 付钱

，你看

他回答得多么奇怪

我们在这里分享一切

知道他需要

谁 你怎么称呼它

没有疾病没有

犯罪

没有战争的国家，

但这种完美的幸福

并没有持续多久

对不起我的主人有一天

我的朋友们和

我决定你不能再呆在这里

你看到

你既不是我们中的一员也不是 是的 ahoo

不，

我绝望地哭了

，不要把我送走，我

怎么能回英国

和那些可怕的雅虎生活在一起，

恐怕你必须

温柔地回答，

我的仆人会帮你造一艘船

，所以

两个月后，

虽然我很 悲伤的离开我

告别了我亲爱的主人和他的家人

，骑马离开了

我知道在向东旅行了几天后

，我永远不会

在其他任何地方找到幸福

我到达了澳大利亚，

并从那里找到了一艘船

回到欧洲

我不喜欢这次

航行 水手们都嘲笑我 因为我

走路和裸体像一匹马

他们看起来就像那些可怕的

雅虎 起初我不能让他们

碰我或靠近我

他们丑陋的脸和难闻的气味

让我感觉很不舒服

，当我离开五年后回到英国时

，

我的妻子和孩子们很高兴

看到我，因为他们认为我已经

死了，

但令我恐惧的是，

他们看起来和闻起来都像 oos 也是

，我告诉他们

即使在

五年后的现在也要远离

我我不让我的孩子靠近我

虽然我有时让我的妻子

在我吃饭的时候和我坐在一起

我现在试着接受我的同胞，

但骄傲的人 那些自以为是的

人，

他们最好不要靠近我

但他们指责我在我的书中撒了谎

，现在

我意识到人们仍然

像他们一直做的那样偷窃和

打架

我可以将

理性和真理带入他们的生活和

思想

人类都是雅虎

和雅虎

他们将继续

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