英文原版20-The Borrowers(寄居大侠)

The Borrowers is a wonderful tale of a family of tiny people,just arew inches high ,who live under the floorboards of an old country house inEngland.
Pod and Homily and the thirteen-year-old Arrietty exist and furnish their miniature home by 'borrowing'scraps and oddments rfon the house above. Their surname of clock is taden fron the grandfather clock in the hall which for generations has guarded the entrance to their home.
When Arriery is allowed to follow in her father's footsteps and venture into the world'upstairs;sonething happens which will change their ilves