Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change overcomes her. With a local boy and her cousin the three children work magic in themselves and those around them.
Mary's lips pinched themselves together. She was no more used to considering other people than Colin was and she saw no reason why an ill-tempered boy should interfere with the thing she liked best. She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too. When she had had a headache in India she had done her best to see that everybody else also had a headache or something quite as bad. And she felt she was quite right; but of course now she felt that Colin was quite wrong. (查看原文)
Mary was a frailty and bigoted girl. In the process of getting along with people and the nature, she learned to love and share. And finally she recovered from her fretfulness and illness. She never enjoyed the love from her parents. Her living space was qui...
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I read it just because my reading teacher asked us to do that and then write a book review in English. But it is really a good book which can give you peace in your heart. And this in my book review. Mary was a English girl who had been live in ...
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Mary's lips pinched themselves together. She was no more used to considering other people than Colin was and she saw no reason why an ill-tempered boy should interfere with the thing she liked best. She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too. When she...
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Mary's lips pinched themselves together. She was no more used to considering other people than Colin was and she saw no reason why an ill-tempered boy should interfere with the thing she liked best. She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too. When she had had a headache in India she had done her best to see that everybody else also had a headache or something quite as bad. And she felt she was quite right; but of course now she felt that Colin was quite wrong.引自 Chapter 16 "I won't" said Mary
"And she felt she was quite right; but of course now she felt that Colin was quite wrong."O(∩_∩)O哈哈哈~
“I won't let that boy come here if you go and stay with him instead of coming to talk to me,” he said.引自 Chapter 16 "I won't" said Mary
好戏开始！两个从小被仆人簇拥着长大的孩子吵起架来真是太好玩了！
“I won't let that boy come here if you go and stay with him instead of coming to talk to me,” he said.
Mary flew into a fine passion. She just grew sour and obstinate and did not care what happened. “If you send Dickon away, I’ll never come into this room again!” she retorted.
“You’ll have to if I want you,” said Colin.
“I won’t!” said Mary.
“I’ll make you,” said Colin. “They shall drag you in.”
“Shall they, Mr. Rajah!” said Mary fiercely. “They may drag me in, but they can’t make me talk when they get me here. I’ll sit and clench my teeth and never tell you one thing. I won’t even look at you. I’ll stare at the floor!”
They were a nice agreeable pair as they glared at each other. “You are a selfish thing!” cried Colin.
“What are you?” said Mary. “Selfish people always say that. You’re more selfish than I am. You’re the most selfish boy I ever saw.”
“I’m not!” snapped Colin. “I’m not as selfish as your fine Dickon is! He keeps you playing in the dirt when he knows I am all by myself. He’s selfish, if you like!”
Mary’s eyes flashed fire. “He’s nicer than any other boy that ever lived!” she said. “He’s like an angel!” It might sound rather silly to say that, but she did not care.
“A nice angle!” Colin sneered ferociously. “He’s a common cottage boy off the moor!”
“He’s better than a common Rajah!” retorted Mary. “He’s a thousand times better!”
Because she was the stronger of the two she was beginning to get the better of him. He turned his head on his pillow and shut his eyes and a big tear was squeezed out and ran down his cheek. He was beginning to feel sorry for himself – not for any one else.
“I’m not as selfish as you, because I’m always ill, and I’m sure there is a lump coming on my back,” he said. “And I am going to die besides.”
“You’re not!” contradicted Mary unsympathetically.
He opened his eyes quite wide with indignation. He had never heard such a thing said before. He was at once furious and slightly pleased, if a person could be both at one time.
“I’m not?” he cried. “I am! You know I am! Everybody says so.”
“I don’t believe it!” said Mary sourly. “You just say that to make people sorry. I believe you’re proud of it. I don’t believe it! If you were a nice boy it might be true – but you’re too nasty!”
In spite of his invalid back, Colin sat up in bed in quite a health rage. “Get out of the room!” he shouted, and he caught hold of his pillow and threw it at her. He was not strong enough to throw it far, and it only fell at her feet, but Mary’s face looked as pinched as a nut-cracker.
“I’m going,” she said, “And I won’t come back!”
She walked to the door, and when she reached it she turned round and spoke again. “I was going to tell you all sorts of nice things. Dickon brought his fox and his rook and I was going to tell you all about them. Now I won’t tell you a single thing!” 引自 Chapter 16 "I won't" said Mary
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century ...
2018-01-25 09:32:46
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.
In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered.
In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before.
In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fevergerm get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one.Two things cannot be in one place.
The rain–storm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland.
2014-04-05 09:22:10
The rain–storm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland.
Living as it were, all by herself in a house with a hundred mysteriously closed rooms and having nothing whatever to do to amuse herself, had set her inactive brain to working and was actually awakening her imagination. but she was back at her work in the morning with cheeks redder than ever and in the best of spirits. Martha gave her hand a clumsy little shake, as if she was not accustomed to ...
2014-04-05 09:23:43
Living as it were, all by herself in a house with a hundred mysteriously closed rooms and having nothing whatever to do to amuse herself, had set her inactive brain to working and was actually awakening her imagination.
but she was back at her work in the morning with cheeks redder than ever and in the best of spirits.
Martha gave her hand a clumsy little shake, as if she was not accustomed to this sort of thing either.
The sun was shining and a little wind was blowing—not a rough wind, but one which came in delightful little gusts and brought a fresh scent of newly turned earth with it.
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off—and they are nearly always doing it.
Mary's heart began to thump and her hands to shake a little in her delight and excitement
called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. Sometimes she stopped digging to look at the garden and try to imagine what it would be like when it was covered with thousands of lovely things in bloom. The...
2014-04-05 09:24:47
called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was
It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.
Sometimes she stopped digging to look at the garden and try to imagine what it would be like when it was covered with thousands of lovely things in bloom.
Then the old man's face wrinkled itself slowly into a new expression. He stood still as if he were afraid to breathe—as if he would not have stirred for the world, lest his robin should start away. He spoke quite in a whisper.
As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.
she ended passionately, and she threw her arms over her face and burst out crying—
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century ...
2018-01-25 09:32:46
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.
In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered.
In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before.
In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fevergerm get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one.Two things cannot be in one place.
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Mary's lips pinched themselves together. She was no more used to considering other people than Colin was and she saw no reason why an ill-tempered boy should interfere with the thing she liked best. She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too. When she...
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century ...
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about secret&magic
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约克郡英语太可怕了！
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The nature cured them.
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第一本英语原版小说～
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离泥土越近，就越有生命力。一本美好的童书。
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There are some moments that make you know you will live forever. 如果仅仅是躺在春天的草地里(我做过了)就那么治愈，那有一座秘密花园该多美好啊
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