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两只青蛙
a group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. when the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. the two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. the other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. he fell down and died.
the other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. he jumped even harder and finally made it out. when he got out, the other frogs said, did you not hear us? the frog explained to them that he was deaf. he thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
一群青蛙正在穿越森林,突然其中两只掉进一个深坑。当其他青蛙看到这个坑有多深时,就对这两只青蛙说他们必死无疑了。那两只青蛙没有理会他们的话,竭尽全力想跳出这个坑。其他青蛙不停地劝他们别再白费力气了,说他们死定了。最后,其中一只听从了那些青蛙的话,于是就放弃了。他倒下去死掉了。
另一只青蛙继续使劲地跳。那群青蛙再次向他大喊,要他放弃努力等死算了。他却跳得更欢,最终跳了出来。在他出来之后,其余的青蛙问他:“你没听到我们的话吗?”这只青蛙解释说他是个聋子,以为他们一直在鼓励他呢。
5.The Clever Servant
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
How fortunate is the master and how well it goes within his household when he has a clever servant who, to be sure, hears his orders, but does not obey them, preferring instead to follow his own wisdom.
A clever Hans of this kind was once sent out by his master to look for a lost cow. He stayed away a long time, and the master thought, "My faithful Hans is not sparing any pains with his work."
But when he did not return at all, the master was afraid that something had happened to him, and he himself went out to look for him.
He had to look for a long time, but at last he caught sight of his servant running up and down a large field.
"Now, dear Hans," said the master after catching up with him, "did you find the cow that I sent you after?"
"No, master," he answered, "I did not find the cow, but then I have not been looking for it either."
"Then what have you been looking for, Hans?"
"Something better. And fortunately I have found it."
"What is it?"
"Three blackbirds," answered the servant.
"And where are they?" asked the master.
"I see one of them, I hear the other, and I am chasing after the third," answered the clever servant.
Take an example from this. Do not trouble yourselves about your masters or their orders. Instead, just do what comes to you and makes you happy, and then you will act just as wisely as did clever Hans.
如果主人有一个聪明的小伙计,他既顺从听话,又能凭着自己的聪明才智行事,那主人多幸运啊,他的家又该是多安乐!曾有这样一位聪明的小伙计汉斯,一次主人让他去找回走失的牛,他出去后好长时间没回家,主人想:“汉廝多忠心,干起活来多卖力!”可这么晚他还没回来,主人担心他出意外,便亲自起身去找他。他找了好久,最后总算瞧见汉斯在宽阔的田野另一头,正一蹦一跳地朝他迎面赶来。“喂!亲爱的汉斯,我打发你去找牛,找到没有?”主人走近问。“没有,老爷。我没有找到牛,不过我也没去找。”小伙计答道。“那你去找甚么了,汉斯?”“找更好的东西,很幸运找到了。”“是甚么,汉斯?”“三只山鸟。”小傢伙答道。“在哪里?”主人问。“我见到一只,听到一只,然后拔腿去赶第三只。”聪明的小傢伙回答道。
学学榜样吧!别再为主人或他们的命令犯愁。想干甚么,乐意怎么干,尽管去做,到时你肯定会像聪明的汉斯一样机智。
The Old Cat An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.
Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."
老猫
一位老妇有只猫,这只猫很老,它跑不快了,也咬不了东西,因为它年纪太大了。一天,老猫发现一只老鼠,它跳过去抓这只老鼠,然而,它咬不住这只老鼠。因此,老鼠从它的嘴边溜掉了,因为老猫咬不了它。
于是,老妇很生气,因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫,猫说:“不要打你的老仆人,我已经为你服务了很多年,而且还愿意为你效劳,但是,我实在太老了,对年纪大的不要这么无情,要记住老年人在年青时所做过的有益的事情。”
A Good Boy
Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. "What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?" "I gave it to a poor old woman," he answered. "You're a good boy," said the mother proudly. "Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?" "She is the one who sells the candy."
好孩子
小罗伯特向妈妈要两分钱。 “昨天给你的钱干什么了?” “我给了一个可怜的老太婆,”他回答说。 “你真是个好孩子,”妈妈骄傲地说。“再给你两分钱。可你为什么对那位老太太那么感兴趣呢?” “她是个卖糖果的。”
A pairy friend
神奇的朋友
Peter was a little boy. His parents were very busy with their work, sohe was usually very lonely.
One day, Peter sat in the garden playing alone, and he really wished that he could have a friend to play with.
Suddenly, Peter saw a purple-winged fairy sitting on a rose. " " Hi! I am Peter. Who are you? " asked Peter. " I am a fairy named Sara," said the fairy.
" Hi! Sara, would you like to be my friend and play with me? " asked Peter. "Yes, I'd love to." Sara replied.
Sara then sat on Peter's knee and talked happily about her fairyland.
" There are many beautiful flowers in my homeland. I like to ride on the wind and play with the sky-horses," said Sara.
" Fantastic!" said Peter.
They became good friends. However, Sara needed to go home, so Peter was sad.
"Don't be sad, Peter, I'll pray for your happiness. And I'll come and visit you someday." said Sara.
" I'll miss you, Sara." said Peter.
Peter was glad that he had a fairy friend now.
译:小男孩彼得的父母非常忙于工作,因此他常常感到寂寞。
有一天,彼得坐在花园里独自玩耍,他真希望能有人与他一起玩。
突然间他看到一个紫色翅膀的仙子坐在玫瑰花上。
“嗨!我是彼得,你是谁?”彼得不禁问起仙子。仙子回答彼得:“我是小仙女莎拉。”
彼得便问起莎拉来了:“嗨!莎拉!你愿意当我的朋友,跟我一起玩吗?”莎拉回答:“我很乐意啊!”
莎拉坐在彼得的膝上,高兴地谈论着她的仙境故乡。
莎拉说着:“我家乡有许多漂亮的花朵,我喜欢乘着风,骑着我的天马,四处游玩。”
“真是太棒了!”彼得不可思议地回答。
他们两人从此成为好朋友。但莎拉总是必须回家的,彼得因此感到非常悲伤。
莎拉安慰着彼得:“彼得,不要悲伤。我会为你的幸福而祈祷。而且我会再回来看你的。”
彼得不禁对莎拉说:“我会想念你的,莎拉。”
彼得因而非常庆幸有一个莎拉仙子这么一个朋友。
Snow-white
Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden-snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the hunts and on the trees: all things were white with snow.
The Queen was making a coat for a little child. She said, "I want my child to be white as this cloth, white as the snow. And I shall call her Snow-white."
Some days after that the Queen had a child. The child was white as snow. The Queen called her Snow-white.
But the Queen was very ill, and after some days she died. Snow-white lived, and was a very happy and beautiful child.
One year after that, the King married another Queen. The new Queen was very beautiful; but she was not a good woman.
A wizard had given this Queen a glass. The glass could speak. It was on the wall in the Queen's room. Every day the queen looked in the glass to see how beautiful she was. As she looked in the glass, she asked: "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass spoke and said: "The Queen is most beautiful of all."
Year went by. Snow-white grew up and became a little girl. every day the Queen looked in the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass said, "Snow-white is most beautiful of all."
When the Queen heard this, she was very angry. She said, "Snow-white is not more beautiful than I am. There is no one who is more beautiful than I am."
Then the Queen sat on her bed and cried.
After one hour the Queen went out of her room. She called one of the servants, and said, "Take Snow-white into the forest and kill her."
The servant took Snow-white to the forest, but he did not kill her, because she was so beautiful and so good. He said, "I shall not kill you; but do not go to the King's house, because the Queen is angry and she will see you. If the Queen sees you, she will make some other man kill you. Wait here in the forest; some friends will help you." Then he went away.
Poor Snow-white sat at the foot of a tree and cried. Then she saw that night was coming. She said, "I will not cry. I will find some house where I can sleep tonight. I cannot wait here: the bears will eat me."
She went far into the forest. Then she saw a little hut. She opened the door of the hut, and went in. In the hut she saw seven little beds. There was a table, and on the table there were seven little loaves and seven little glasses. She ate one of the loaves. Then she said, "I want some water to drink." So she drank some water out of one of the glasses. Then she fell asleep on one of the seven little beds.
The hut was the home of seven Little Men. When it was night, the seven Little Men came to the hut. Each Little Man had a big beard, and a little blue coat. Each Little Man came into the hut, and took his little lamp. Then each Little Man sat down, and ate his little loaf, and drank his little glass of water.
But one Little Man said, "Someone has eaten my little loaf." And another Little Man said, "Someone has drunk my little glass of water." Then the seven Little Men went to bed, but one Little Man said, "Someone is sleeping on my little bed." All the seven Little Men came to look at Snow-white as she slept on the Little Men's bed. They said, "She is very beautiful."
Snow-white awoke, and saw the seven Little Men with their big beards standing near her bed. She was afraid. The Little men said, "Do not be afraid. We are your friends. Tell us how you came here." Snow-white said, "I will tell you." Then she told them her story.
They said, "Do not be afraid. Live here with us. But see that the door shut when we are not in the house with you. Do not go out. If you go out, the bad Queen will find you. Then she will know that you are not dead, and will tell someone to kill you." So Snow-white lived in the hut with the seven Little Men.
After some days Snow-white went into the garden. One of the Queen's servants was going through the forest, and he saw her. He went and told the Queen, "Snow-white is in a hut in the forest." The Queen was very angry when she heard that Snow-white was not dead.
The Queen took an apple. She made a hole in the red side of the apple, and put some powder into the hole. Then she put on old clothes and went to the hut. She called, "Is any one there?" Snow-white opened the door, and came out to her. The Queen said, "I have some pretty apples. Eat one of my pretty apples." Snow-white took the apple and said, "Is it good?" The Queen said, "See, I will eat this white side of the apple; you eat the red side. Then you will know that it is good."
Snow-white ate the red side of the apple. When the powder was in her mouth, she fell down dead. The Queen went back to her house. She went into her room. she looked into the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" The glass said, "The Queen is most beautiful of all." Then the Queen know that Snow-white was dead.
The Little Men came back to the hut. When they saw that Snow-white was dead, the poor Little Men cried. Then they put Snow-white in a box made of glass. They took the glass box to a hill and put it there, and said, "Everyone who goes by will see how beautiful she was." Then each Little Man put one white flower on the box, and they went away.
Just as they were going away, a Prince came by. He saw the glass box and said, "What is that?" Then he saw Snow-white in the box. He said, "She was very beautiful: but do not put her there. There is a hall in the garden of my father's house. It is all made of white stone. We will take the glass box and put it in the hall of beautiful white stone."
The Little Men said, "Take her." Then the Prince told his servants to take up the box. They took up the box. Just then one of the servants fell down. The box fell, and Snow-white fell with the box. The bit of apple fell out of her mouth: she awoke, and sat up, and said, "Where am I?"
The Prince said, "You are with me. I never saw anyone as beautiful as you. Come with me and be my Queen."
The Prince married Snow-white, and she became his Queen.
A man went and told this to the bad Queen. When she heard it she was so angry that she fell down dead.
Snow-white lived and was very happy ever after. And the Little Men came to see her every year.
I. Translation for Reference(参考译文)
望采纳
6.Choosing a Bride
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
There was a young herdsman who wanted very much to marry, and was acquainted with three sisters. Each one was just as beautiful as the other, so it was difficult for him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to any one of them. Then he asked his mother for advice, and she said, "Invite all three, and set some cheese before them, and watch how they cut off a slice."
The youth did so. The first one ate the cheese with the rind on. The second one hastily cut the rind off the cheese, but she cut it so quickly that she left much good cheese with it, and threw that away also. The third peeled the rind off carefully, and cut neither too much nor too little. The shepherd told all this to his mother, who said, "Take the third for your wife."
This he did, and lived contentedly and happily with her.
从前,有个牧羊人急於想娶个老婆。他一下子认识了三姐妹,发现个个貌美,哪个也不差。这下他可为难了,一时不知该选哪一个好。他只好去问他母亲,母亲说:请她们三个一块儿来我们家,在她们面前摆些奶饼,看看她们怎么个吃法,年轻人照做了。第一个连皮把奶饼一口吞了下去;第二个想先削皮,但一时匆忙,削去的皮上还留有许多奶酪,就把它给扔了;第三个去皮时很仔细,切得不多也不少。牧羊人把这一切都看在眼里,然后告诉了他母亲,母亲说:“就挑第三个做你的媳妇吧!”牧羊人照办了,从此他俩过着幸福美满的生活。
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