摘要
从前,有四个孩子,他们是彼得、苏珊、爱德蒙和露茜。那时爆发了战争,为了躲避空袭,家人将他们从伦敦送到了其他地方居住,这个故事讲的就是在此期间发生的事情。他们寄宿在一个老教授的家中,老教授住在偏僻的乡下,那里距离最近的火车站有十英里之遥,到最近的邮局也有两英里。老教授在一栋大宅子里过着独身生活.
ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter,Susan,Edmund and Lucy.This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air raids.They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country,ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office.He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants.(Their names were Ivy,Margaret and Betty,but they do not come into the story much.)He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head,and they liked him almost at once;but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy(who was the youngest)was a little afraid of him,and Edmund(who was the next youngest)wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.
