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Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said "What else had you to learn?"
爱丽丝不敢再继续讨论这个题目，于是她转身问假海龟：“你还学什么了？”
"Well, there was Mystery," the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, " -- Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling -- the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils."
“嗯，还学神话，”假海龟一边回答一边扳着蹼数着课程，“——古代和现代神话，还有海洋地理学，然后是慢条斯理课——教慢条斯理的老师是只老鳗鱼，一般一周来一次：他教我们慢条斯理，伸展四肢，和转得天旋地转。”
"What was that like?" said Alice.
“那是什么样？”爱丽丝问。
"Well, I can't show it you myself," the Mock Turtle said: "I'm too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it."
“嗯，我可给你表演不了，”假海龟说，“我身体太僵硬了。可狮身鹰又从来没学过这些。”
"Hadn't time," said the Gryphon: "I went to the Classics master, though. He was an old crab, he was."
“没时间，”狮身鹰说，“不过，我去上古典文学老师的课了。他是一只老螃蟹，真的。”
"I never went to him," the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: "he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say."
“我从来没上过他的课，”假海龟叹了口气说，“他们说他教的是欢笑和悲伤。”
"So he did, so he did," said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
“是这么回事儿，是这么回事儿。”狮身鹰说，这回轮到他叹气了，于是两个家伙都把脸深埋在了爪子里。
"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?" said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
“一天你们上几小时课？”爱丽丝连忙改变了话题。
"Ten hours the first day," said the Mock Turtle: "nine the next, and so on."
“第一天十小时，”假海龟说，“第二天九小时，依此类推。”
"What a curious plan!" exclaimed Alice.
“多么奇怪的计划！”爱丽丝叫道。
"That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day."
“所以才称之为课程啊，”狮身鹰说，“因为它一天比一天减少。”
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark. "Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?"
对爱丽丝来说这可是个新说法，所以她想了一会儿才接着发表意见，“那么，第十一天就该放假了吧？”
"Of course it was," said the Mock Turtle.
“那当然啦。”假海龟说。
"And how did you manage on the twelfth?" Alice went on eagerly.
“那第十二天你们怎么安排呢？”爱丽丝急切地接着问。
"That's enough about lessons," the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: tell her something about the games now."
“关于课程已经谈得够多的了，”狮身鹰口气坚决地插话进来，“现在给她讲讲游戏的事吧。”
