高中英语 A Note about Witches素材

A Note about Witches

In

fairy-tales,

witches

always

wear

silly

black

hats

and

black

cloaks,

and

they

ride

on broomsticks.

But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.

The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very

carefully. Never forget what is coming next.

REAL

WITCHES

dress

in

ordinary

clothes

and

look

very

much

like

ordinary

women.

They

live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs.

That is why they are so hard to catch.

A REAL WITCHES hates children with a

red-hot sizzling hatred that is more sizzling

and red-hot than any hatred you could possibly imagine.

A REAL WITCHES spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her

particular territory. Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. It is all

she thinks about the whole day long. Even if she is working as a cashier in a

supermarket

or

typing

letters

for

a

businessman

or

driving

round

in

a

fancy

car

(and

she

could

be

doing

any

of

these

things),

her

mind

will

always

be

plotting

and

scheming

and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty

thoughts.

child,

she

says

to

herself

all

day

long,

which

child

shall

I

choose

for my next squelching?

A

REAL

WITCHES

gets

the

same

pleasure

from

squelching

a

child

as

you

get

from

eating

a plateful of strawberries and thick cream.

She

reckons

doing

away

with

one

child

a

week.

Anything

less

than

that

and

she

becomes

grumpy.

One child a week is fifty-two a year.

Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.

That is the motto of all witches.

Very carefully a victim is chosen. Then the witch stalks the wretched child like

a

hunter

stalking

a

little

bird

in

the

forest.

She

treads

softly.

She

moves

quietly.

She gets closer and closer. Then at last,

when everything is ready…phwisst, and

she swoops! Sparks fly. Flames leap. Oil boils. Rats howl. Skin shrivels. And the

child disappears.

A witch, you must understand, does not knock children on the head or stick knives

into them or shoot at them with a pistol. People who do those things get caught by

the police.

A

witch

never

gets

caught.

Don't

forget

that

she

has

magic

in

her

fingers

and

devilry

dancing in her blood. She can make stones jump about like frogs and she can make

tongues of flame go flickering across the surface of the water.

These magic powers are very frightening.

Luckily,

there

are

not

a

great

number

of

REAL

WITCHES

in

the

world

today.

But

there

are

probably

about

one

hundred

of

them

altogether.

Some

countries

have

more,

others

have not quite so many. No country in the world is completely free from witches.

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有关女巫的一点说明

作者：

aprilzhou

童话故事里的女巫总是戴着可笑的黑帽子，穿着黑斗篷，骑着扫帚柄。

不过我们现在说的可不是童话故事。而是真正的女巫。

接下来是你应该知道的关于真正的女巫的最重要的事。

听仔细了。

不要忘了下面所说的一切。

真正的女巫穿 着普通的衣服，

看上去和平常的女人没什么两样。

她们住在普通 的房子里，

从

事着普通的工作。

所以她们很难被抓到。

真正的女巫对 小孩的仇恨激烈得咝咝作响，而且比你可以想象得到的任何仇恨都更为激烈。

真正的女巫把所有的时间都花在密谋如何干掉她所在地区的小孩们上面。

她憧憬着一个接一

个地解决这些小孩。

一整天她想的都是这个。

不管她是在超市里做着收银的工作，

为商人打

< br>着信件，或是驾驶着奇异的车子兜风（她可能在做其中任何一样事情）

，她的大脑 总会不停

地策划、图谋、旋转、燃烧、充斥着各种血腥的杀人的念头。

< br>

“哪个小孩，

”她整天问自己，

“到底接下来要处置哪个小孩呢？”

真正的女巫从折磨小孩 中得到的满足感就和我们吃了一大盘草莓和厚奶油一样。

她想要一星期干掉一个孩子。如果做不到她会变得闷闷不乐。

一星期一个孩子也就是一年

52

个。< /p>

压碎、扭曲孩子们，然后让他们消失。

这是所有女巫的座右铭。

先要很仔细 地挑选受害者。

然后女巫会像猎人在丛林里捕猎一只小鸟一样追踪那个可怜的孩

子。她轻手轻脚地走动，不发出任何声响。她靠得越来越近了。最后，当时机成熟时，她猛

扑上去。火星闪动。火焰跳跃。滚油沸腾。老鼠嚎叫。皮肤萎缩。最终小孩消失不见了。

你可要知道，

女巫不会敲小孩的头，

或是用刀戳、

用手枪射他们。

这样做的人会被 警察抓住。

女巫永远不会被抓住。

别 忘了她的手指有魔力，

她的血液里有魔法。

她能让石头像青蛙一 样

跳跃，她的舌头吐出的火焰能穿过水面燃烧。

这些魔力非常吓人。

幸运的是，

如今世上并没有很多真正的女巫。

但全部加起来可能也有一百个。< /p>

有些国家有不

少，有些国家则没有那么多。没有哪个国家一个女巫 都没有。

A Note about Witches

解读巫婆

作者：

hyhpatti

在童话里，巫婆们总是戴着可笑的黑帽子，披着黑斗篷，骑着扫把到处飞。

但是我要讲的不是童话故事里的巫婆，而是“真实的巫婆”

。

这是你该知道的关于那些

“真实的 巫婆”

最重要的事，仔细听好了，千万别忘了下面所讲的

一切。

“真实的巫婆”穿着普通的衣服，看起来和一般的妇女没什么 两样。

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