Then they flew off—and Gub–Gub came out from behind his barrel to see them go. Up and up and up they went—higher and higher and higher still. Then, when the Doctor could only just see them, they parted company and started going off all different ways—North, East, South and West, looking like tiny grains of black sand creeping across the wide, blue sky. "My gracious!" said Gub–Gub in a hushed voice. "What a height! I wonder they don't scorch their feathers—so near the sun!" (查看原文)
The lad isn't old enough to be knocking around the world by himself. Boys aren't like ducklings—they have to be taken care of till they're quite old… (查看原文)
"Money is a nuisance," he used to say. "We'd all be much better off if it had never been invented. What does money matter, so long as we are happy?"
"Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry." (查看原文)
"But animals don't always speak with their mouths," said the parrot in a high voice, raising her eyebrows. "They talk with their ears, with their feet, with their tails—with everything. Sometimes they don't WANT to make a noise. Do you see now the way he's twitching up one side of his nose?" "What's that mean?" asked the Doctor. "That means, "Can't you see that it has stopped raining?"" Polynesia answered. "He is asking you a question. Dogs nearly always use their noses for asking questions." (查看原文)
"I was thinking about people," said Polynesia. "People make me sick. They think they're so wonderful. The world has been going on now for thousands of years, hasn't it? And the only thing in animal–language that PEOPLE have learned to understand is that when a dog wags his tail he means "I'm glad!"—It's funny, isn't it? You are the very first man to talk like us. Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about "the dumb animals." DUMB!—Huh! Why I knew a macaw once who could say "Good morning!" in seven different ways without once opening his mouth. He could talk every language—and Greek. An old professor with a gray beard bought him. But he didn't stay. He said the old man didn't talk Greek right, and he couldn't stand listening to him teach the language wrong.... (查看原文)
