这2本经典儿童文学作品，值得把英文版翻烂！

书中的英式幽默随处可见

每个章节都有大量生动有趣的对话。文字中可明显感觉到说话人的语气和谈话气氛。开头就用风趣的语言，吐槽了溺爱孩子、把孩子当成天才的父母们

School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports. 

If I were a teacher, I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents.

I would even delve deeper into natural history and say, ‘The periodical cicada spends six years as a grub underground and no more than six days as a free creature of sunlight and air. Your son Wilfred has spent six years as a grub in this school and we are still waiting for him to emerge from the chrysalis. ’

以对Matilda介绍为例，小姑娘鲜明的性格跃然纸上

The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child. 

She displayed almost no outward signs of her brilliance and she never showed off. ‘This is a very sensible and quiet little girl’, you would have said to yourself. And unless for some reason you had started a discussion with her about literature or mathematics, you would never have known the extent of her brain-power.

本书有很多精彩句子，随便翻开一页就可以动手摘抄

比如：

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it.  Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

这本书的蓝思值是840L。可参考《杀死一只知更鸟》（790L）、《简爱》（870L）、《哈利波特与魔法石》（880L）、《双城记》（1080L）的蓝思值做个评估。

要注意的是蓝思值仅仅针对语言本身的难度，并不能完全反映内容本身的难度。

这本书的每个章节有很多议论性和描写性的内容，其中包括不少长难单句，这部分的难度要高于人物对话。