Bambi looked down at his mother and said, "let's go to the meadow(草地). "
His mother looked up at him, "go to the meadow now?" Her voice(嗓音)was full of surprise and fear(害怕), so Bambi became quite afraid.
"Can't we go to the meadow?" he asked softly. "No, you can't go now," his mother answered.
"Why?" Bambi thought there was something strange going on here. He became more afraid, but at the same time he wanted to learn about everything. "Why can't we go to the meadow?" he asked.
"You'll find out all about it later when you're older," his mother replied. "But," Bambi asked again, "why don't you tell me now?"
"Later," his mother repeated, "you're nothing but a baby," she went on in a soft voice, "and we don't talk about these things to children." She thought about it carefully and said. "Go to the meadow at this time of day. I don't even like to think of it. Why, it's in the daytime now. The sun is shining brightly in the sky."
"But it was in the daytime when we went to the meadow before," Bambi said. "That's different," his mother said, "it was early in the morning."
"Can we only go there early in the morning?" Bambi was verycurious. He always liked asking questions and wanted to know about everything.
His mother smiled. "Only in the early morning or late evening," she said, "or at night."
"And never in the daytime, never?"
"Well," she said at last, "I can't make you understand. You are too young…Some of us go there…But it is too dangerous. That's what life teaches us."
