五个孩子和一个怪物

Five Children and It

Edith Nesbit · 初版 1905 年

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你是否曾想过，如果能实现三个愿望，你会许下什么？在 Nesbit 这部妙趣横生的经典之作中，五兄妹发现了一个能实现愿望的神奇生物，但正如老话所说：当心你许的愿，因为它可能会成真……

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anjbe · 2022 年
……已经过期了，所以它们现在也在 Standard Ebooks 上作为开源、公有领域的电子书提供：https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit 我小时候非常喜欢内斯比特的沙仙（Psammead）三部曲：《五个孩子和一个怪物》、《凤凰与飞毯》和《护身符的故事》。
…have expired, so they’re also available now as open‐source, public domain ebooks at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit I was a big fan of Nesbit’s Psammead trilogy as a child: Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet.
jdsnape · 2026 年
我没有什么确凿的证据，但我小时候很喜欢大约 1900 年写的儿童书《五个孩子和一个怪物》。孩子们不管去哪儿都把两岁大的弟妹带在身边（完全没有父母跟着），大家都觉得这再正常不过了。
I don’t have hard evidence, but when I was a kid I enjoyed the children’s book ‘Five children and it’, written ~1900 The children cart their two year old sibling around with them everywhere (sans parents) and it’s totally unremarkable.
ComputerGuru · 2012 年
……因此公然用它来替代 he/she 是不对的，而 it 是单数且无性别的（虽然无性别 != 性别中立（至少不一定如此））。任何读过 E. Nesbit 的《五个孩子和一个怪物》的人（书名里的“It”完全是另一码事，因为它指的是一个神话生物而不是人类）都会体会到英语的这种奇葩之处，而且<s>他们</s>……
…and therefore blatantly incorrect as a he/she replacement, whereas it was singular and gender-less (though gender-less != gender-neutral (at least, not necessarily)). Anyone that's read E. Nesbit's The Five Children and It (the 'It' in the title is completely unrelated, as it refers to a mythical being and not any human) would have experienced this oddity of the English language, and <strike>they</strike>…
thaumasiotes · 2023 年
> 主页上确实写着“大家好，我是 maia arson crimew (it/she)”。> 不过把任何人称作“it”，我都会觉得很不舒服。在《五个孩子和一个怪物》（1902年出版）中，书名里的“It”是一个魔法生物。然而，其中一个角色是个人类婴儿，书里总是用代词“it”来称呼。我读的时候直接跳过了那段……
> the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". > I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though In Five Children and It (published in 1902), the "It" of the title is a magical creature. However, one of the characters is a human baby who is always referred to with the pronoun "it". I glossed right over that reading the…

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