英文名著--A wrinkle in time - Madeleine LEngle.pdf

A Wrinkle in Time Madelein L’Engle TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Mrs. Whatsit 2 Mrs. Who 3 Mrs. Which 4 The Black Thing The Tesseract 6 The Happy Medium 7 The Man With Red Eyes 8 The Transparent Column 9 IT 10 Absolute Zero 11 Aunt Beast 12 The Foolish and the Weak 1 Mrs. Whatsit It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. very few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraith- like shadows that raced along the ground. The house shook. Wrapped in her quilt, Meg shook. She wasnt usually afraid of weather. —Its not just the weather, she thought. —Its the weather on top of everything else. On top of me. On top of Meg Murry doing everything wrong. School. School was all wrong. Shed been dropped down to the lowest section in her grade. That morning one of her teachers had said crossly, Really, Meg, I dont understand how a child with parents as brilliant as yours are supposed to be can be such a poor student. If you dont manage to do a little better youll have to stay back next year. During lunch shed rough-housed a little to try to make herself feel better, and one of the girls said scornfully, After all, Meg, we arent grammar-school kids any more. Why do you always act like such a baby? And on the way home from school, walking up the road with her arms full of books, one of the boys had said something about her dumb baby brother. At this shed thrown die books on the side of the road and tackled him with every ounce of strength she had, and arrived home wit