Soon after we arrived, the whole family sat down at the table for dinner. The farmer put me on the table, with some small pieces of bread and meat. I was very afraid of falling off the table. The farmer and his family were happy to watch me eating with my small knife and fork.
But when I started walking across the table to the farmer, his youngest son, a boy of about ten, picked me up by the legs. He held me so high in the air that my whole body was shaking. Luckily his father took me away at once, and angrily hit the boy hard on the head. But I remembered how bad children can be to small animals. So I decided to forgive him. I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more. They seemed to understand.
Just then I heard a noise behind me. It sounded like twelve machines running at the same I turned my head and saw a huge cat, three times larger than one of our cows. The farmer's wife it in her arms, so that it could not jump at me. But in fact, because I showed no fear, there was no danger, and the cat even seemed a little afraid of me.
At the end of dinner, a servant came in with the farmer's one-year-old son in her arms. He immediately started crying, because he wanted to play with me. His mother smiled and put me in hand. When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth, I shouted so loudly that he dropped. Luckily, I was not hurt, but it showed me how dangerous life was going to be in Brobdingnag.
After eating, the farmer went back to his work in the fields. ▲ , because she put me on her bed and closed the door. I was very tired, and slept for two hours.
-Take from Gulliver's Travels (《格列弗游记》)
a. The boy held "me" high in the sky.
b. A baby tried to put "me" into his mouth.
c. "I" showed no fear to a big cat.
d. "I" ate with knife and fork.
