Prince Caspian

Peter, Edmund,  Susan and Lucy return to Narnia

Narnia ... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen ... and where the adventure begins. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narina - the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed.


Once there were for children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe, how they had a remarkable adventure. They had opened the door of a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a quite different world from ours, and in that different world they had become Kings and Queens in a country called Narnia. While they were in Narnia they seemed to reign for years and years; but when they came back through the door and found themselves in England again, it all seemed to have taken no time at all. At any rate, no one noticed that they had ever been away, and they never told anyone except one very wise grown-up.

That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them. They had traveled together as far as this station, which was a junction; and here, in a few minutes, one train would arrive and take the girls away to one school, and in about half an hour another train would arrive and  the boys would go off to another school. The first part of the journey, when they were all together, always seemed to be part of the holiday; but now when they would be saying good-bye and going different ways so soon, everyone felt thar the holidays were really over and everyone felt their term-time feelings beginning again, and they were all rather gloomy and no one could think of anything to say. Lucy was going to boarding school for the first time.



Language Note


boarding
a school at which the pupils receive board and loding during the school term
기숙학교

summon
to call for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; call
소환하다

dreary
causing sadness or gloom
쓸쓸한, 음울한

wardrobe
a piece of furniture for holding clothes
옷장

reign
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne
치세, 통치기간

notice
to pay attention to or take notice of
주목하다, 관찰하다

grown-up
an adult
성인

junction
a place with or station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge
접속점, 갈아타는 역

gloomy
filled with or showing gloom; sad, dejected, or melancholy
어두운, 암흑의


EBS Power English Aug, 2008 중에서