Chapter 1 Once upon a time a mouse, a bird, and a sausage formed a partnership. They kept house together, and for a long time they lived in peace and prosperity, acquiring many possessions. The bird's task was to fly into the forest every day to fetch wood. The mouse carried water, made the fire, and set the table. The sausage did the cooking. Whoever is too well off always wants to try something different! Thus one day the bird chanced to meet another bird, who boasted to him of his own situation. This bird criticized him for working so hard while the other two enjoyed themselves at home. 从前，有一只老鼠、一只小鸟和一根香肠住在一个家里，它们和睦相处，生活充满了幸福和快乐。 他们分工合作，积累不断增加，变得十分富裕。 小鸟每天飞到森林里去衔柴回来；老鼠担水，生火，布置饭桌；香肠则负责做饭。 一个人生活太顺畅，就会开始变赖，会想着法子玩新花样。 有一天，小鸟遇到了另外一个朋友，它向朋友很自豪谈起自己生活的惬意现状。 那只鸟却嘲笑它是一个可怜的傻瓜，说它辛辛苦苦在外面干活，另两个伙伴待在家里干轻松的活 Chapter 2 For after the mouse had made the fire and carried the water, she could sit in the parlor and rest until it was time for her to set the table. The sausage had only to stay by the pot watching the food cook. When mealtime approached, she would slither through the porridge or the vegetables, and thus everything was greased and salted and ready to eat. The bird would bring his load of wood home. They would eat their meal, and then sleep soundly until the next morning. It was a great life. The next day, because of his friend's advice, the bird refused to go to the forest, saying that he had been their servant long enough. He was no longer going to be a fool for them. Everyone should try a different task for a change. The mouse and the sausage argued against this, but the bird was the master, and he insisted that they give it a try. The sausage was to fetch wood, the mouse became the cook, and the bird was to carry water. 老鼠每天生火、担水之后就回到自己的房间里躺下休息，到了吃饭的时候才去摆好桌椅，铺上桌布。 香肠则坐在锅子旁，除了看食物烹煮的情况外，什么事都不做。 到了要吃饭的时候，只加一点油、盐就算了事，不到一分钟就干完了。 小鸟听了这些话，心里很不是滋味。 它飞回家，把柴担放在地上。 大家和平时一样一起坐在桌子边吃饭，进餐之后又都回房睡觉，一直睡到第二天早晨起来。 还有什么生活比这种默契、合理分工的生活更令人满意呢？ 可是小鸟受了朋友的挑拨，第二天不想到森林里去了，还说自己一直在服待它们两个，做了很久的傻子，现在应该交换一下工作，家务事应该大家轮着来干。 尽管老鼠和香肠苦苦劝说，讲明它们这样分工最合理，这样才可能继续维持正常的生活。 但小鸟听不进去，坚持它的提议。 最后，它俩只好顺着它。 它们用抽签的方式决定了这样的分工：香肠去背柴，老鼠做饭，小鸟去担水。 Chapter 3 And what was the result? The sausage trudged off toward the forest; the bird made the fire; and the mouse put on the pot and waited for the sausage to return with wood for the next day. However, the sausage stayed out so long that the other two feared that something bad had happened. The bird flew off to see if he could find her. A short distance away he came upon a dog that had seized the sausage as free booty and was making off with her. The bird complained bitterly to the dog about this brazen abduction, but he claimed that he had discovered forged letters on the sausage, and that she would thus have to forfeit her life to him. Filled with sorrow, the bird carried the wood home himself and told the mouse what he had seen and heard. They were very sad, but were determined to stay together and make the best of it. 人要是离开了适合自己干的工作岗位时，会有什么结果呢？ 香肠出发到森林里去了，小鸟生起火，老鼠架好锅子，只等香肠回家担来第二天用的柴枝。 但香肠去了很久都没有回来，它俩意识到它一定出事了。 小鸟马上飞出去沿着小路去找香肠，但它飞了不远就发现路上有一条狗，狗说它遇到了可怜的小香肠，把它当作可以捕食的猎物抓起来吃掉了。 小鸟指责狗公开抢劫，行凶杀人。 但一切话都已毫无用处，因为狗说它发现香肠从事的工作与它的身份不符合，断定它是伪装的间谍，这样才把它杀死的。 小鸟非常伤心地衔起柴枝回到家里，把自己所看到和听到的都告诉了老鼠。 他和老鼠都很悲痛，但它们两个商定，最好还是住在一起。 Chapter 4 The bird set the table while the mouse prepared the food. She jumped into the pot, as the sausage had always done, in order to slither and weave in and about the vegetables and grease them, but before she reached the middle, her hair and skin were scalded off, and she perished. When the bird wanted to eat, no cook was there. Beside himself, he threw the wood this way and that, called out, looked everywhere, but no cook was to be found. Because of his carelessness, the scattered wood caught fire, and the entire house was soon aflame. The bird rushed to fetch water, but the bucket fell into the well, carrying him with it, and he drowned. 小鸟把桌子铺好了，老鼠把菜也做好了，但当老鼠去盛菜时，热气一冲，它一子就掉进了锅里 ，连淹带烫死去了。 小鸟来到厨房想把饭菜端到桌子上去，可它没有看到厨师。 它把柴枝翻来翻去扔得到处都是，这里叫，那里喊，每个地方都寻遍了，就是找不到厨师。 就在这时，灶里的火掉到柴枝上，柴枝马上燃了起来。 小鸟急忙去担水，但匆忙间又把木桶掉到井里去了，它也跟着一起掉了下去。 一个好端端的家庭就这样完了。

The Riddle Chapter 1 There was once a King's son who was seized with a desire to travel about the world, and took no one with him but a faithful servant. One day he came to a great forest, and when darkness overtook him he could find no shelter, and knew not where to pass the night. Then he saw a girl who was going towards a small house, and when he came nearer, he saw that the maiden was young and beautiful. He spoke to her, and said, "Dear child, can I and my servant find shelter for the night in the little house?" - "Oh, yes," said the girl in a sad voice, "that you certainly can, but I do not advise you to venture it. Do not go in." - "Why not?" asked the King's son. The maiden sighed and said, "My step-mother practises wicked arts; she is ill-disposed toward strangers." Then he saw very well that he had come to the house of a witch, but as it was dark, and he could not go farther, and also was not afraid, he entered. 从前有位王子，一时兴起去周游世界，身边只带了一个忠实的仆人。 一天，他来到了一片大森林，天黑时，没有找到住处，不知道该在哪里过夜。 这时，他看到一个姑娘向一间小屋走去，便跑上前，结果发现这位姑娘既美丽又年轻。 他和她打招呼，说："好姑娘，我和我的仆人可以在这小屋里过一夜吗？""唉，"姑娘哀伤地说，"可以是可以，但我劝你们最好还是别进去。""为什么？"王子问。 姑娘叹了口气说："我的继母会巫术，她对陌生人不怀好意。"王子这才明白自己来到了巫婆的家，可是天已经黑了，他无法再往前走，再加上他胆子很大，便进了屋。 Chapter 2 The old woman was sitting in an armchair by the fire, and looked at the stranger with her red eyes. "Good evening," growled she, and pretended to be quite friendly. "Take a seat and rest yourselves." She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a small pot. The daughter warned the two to be prudent, to eat nothing, and drink nothing, for the old woman brewed evil drinks. They slept quietly until early morning. When they were making ready for their departure, and the King's son was already seated on his horse, the old woman said, "Stop a moment, I will first hand you a parting draught." Whilst she fetched it, the King's son rode away, and the servant who had to buckle his saddle tight, was the only one present when the wicked witch came with the drink. "Take that to your master," said she. But at that instant the glass broke and the poison spirted on the horse, and it was so strong that the animal immediately fell down dead. "晚上好，"她用嘶哑的声音说，并且竭力装出一副友好的样子，"坐下来歇歇脚吧。"她把炉火扇旺一些，炉子上还有一只小锅子在煮着什么东西。 姑娘警告两位客人千万要小心，什么也不要吃，什么也不要喝，因为老巫婆熬的是魔汤。 他们安安静静地一直睡到天亮，然后便准备动身上路，王子这时已经骑到了马背上了，老巫婆却说："等一等，我还想请你们喝杯饯行的酒呢。"趁她回去拿酒时，王子赶紧骑马走了。 所以当邪恶的老巫婆端着酒回来时，只有王子的仆人还在那里勒马鞍。 "把这杯酒带给你的主人，"她说，可就在这一刹那，杯子破了，毒酒溅在马身上，立刻把马毒死了。 Chapter 3 The servant ran after his master and told him what had happened, but would not leave his saddle behind him, and ran back to fetch it. When, however, he came to the dead horse a raven was already sitting on it devouring it. "Who knows whether we shall find anything better to-day?" said the servant; so he killed the raven, and took it with him. And now they journeyed onwards into the forest the whole day, but could not get out of it. By nightfall they found an inn and entered it. The servant gave the raven to the innkeeper to make ready for supper. They had, however, stumbled on a den of murderers, and during the darkness twelve of these came, intending to kill the strangers and rob them. 仆人追上王子，把发生的事情告诉了他。 仆人舍不得那马鞍，便跑回去取。 可当他跑到死马那里时，竟见一只乌鸦蹲在马的身上，大口大口地吃着马肉。 "谁知道今天还能不能找到更好的东西呢。"仆人心想，便打死了乌鸦，带着它走了。 他们在森林里继续走了整整一天，可怎么也走不出去。 天黑时，他们看到一家旅店，便走了进去。 仆人把乌鸦给店老板，让他烧好了当晚饭。 可是，他们来到的是家黑店，黑暗中店里来了十二个杀人犯，打算杀死这两位陌生人，抢劫他们的钱财。 Chapter 4 Before they set about this work, they sat down to supper, and the innkeeper and the witch sat down with them, and together they ate a dish of soup in which was cut up the flesh of the raven. Hardly, however, had they swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, before they all fell down dead, for the raven had communicated to them the poison from the horse-flesh.There was no one else left in the house but the innkeeper's daughter, who was honest, and had taken no part in their godless deeds. She opened all doors to the stranger and showed him the heaped-up treasures. But the King's son said she might keep everything, he would have none of it, and rode onwards with his servant. 不过在动手之前，他们一起坐了下来吃用乌鸦肉炖的汤，店老板和那老巫婆也加了进来。 他们刚喝了几口汤便全倒在地上死了，因为乌鸦把死马身上的毒汁传给了他们。 旅店里现在只剩下了店老板的女儿，这是一个诚实的姑娘，没有参加那些罪恶的勾当。 她为这两位陌生人打开了所有的门，让他们看里面存放的金银财宝。 可是王子说那些东西现在全都属于她了，他自己什么也不要，然后，他就带着仆人继续上路了。 Chapter 5 After they had traveled about for a long time, they came to a town in which was a beautiful but proud princess, who had caused it to be proclaimed that whosoever should set her a riddle which she could not guess, that man should be her husband; but if she guessed it, his head must be cut off. She had three days to guess it in, but was so clever that she always found the answer to the riddle given her, before the appointed time.Nine suitors had already perished in this manner, when the King's son arrived, and blinded by her great beauty, was willing to stake his life for it. Then he went to her and laid his riddle before her. "What is this?" said he, "One slew none, and yet slew twelve." She did not know what that was, she thought and thought, but she could not find out, she opened her riddle-books, but it was not in them -- in short, her wisdom was at an end. 他们又走了很久，来到了一座城市，这座城里住着一位非常美丽但又非常高傲的公主，她遍告天下，谁要是能出一个她猜不出的谜语，她就嫁给谁；可她要是猜出来了，那个人就要被砍掉脑袋。 她有三天的时间思考，可她聪明极了，总能在规定的时间之前猜出来。 在王子到来之前，已经有九个人这样送掉了性命。 但王子被她的美貌迷住了，愿意拿自己的性命做赌注。他来到公主那里，给她出谜语："什么东西不杀任何人，却杀死了十二个人？"她不知道这是什么东西，想来想去怎么也猜不出。 她查遍了各种谜语书，可里面就是没有，一句话，她的智慧遇到了难题。 Chapter 6 As she did not know how to help herself, she ordered her maid to creep into the lord's sleeping-chamber, and listen to his dreams, and thought that he would perhaps speak in his sleep and discover the riddle. But the clever servant had placed himself in the bed instead of his master, and when the maid came there, he tore off from her the mantle in which she had wrapped herself, and chased her out with rods.The second night the King's daughter sent her maid-in-waiting, who was to see if she could succeed better in listening, but the servant took her mantle also away from her, and hunted her out with rods. Now the master believed himself safe for the third night, and lay down in his own bed. Then came the princess herself, and she had put on a misty-grey mantle, and she seated herself near him. 她不知道该怎么办才好，便派她的女仆溜进王子的房间，偷听他梦中说些什么，以为他或许在说梦话时会把谜底漏出来。 但是王子那聪明的仆人却睡到了主人的床上，女仆一溜进来他就扯掉了她的斗篷，用鞭子把她赶了出去。 第二天夜里，公主又派她的贴身女仆去碰碰运气，看她是否能打听出来，但王子的仆人也扯下了她的斗篷，用鞭子把她赶了出去。 第三天，王子觉得自己已经有了把握，便睡回到了自己的房间。这次公主本人来了。 她披了件雾一般的灰色斗篷，坐在王子的身边。 Chapter 7 And when she thought that he was asleep and dreaming, she spoke to him, and hoped that he would answer in his sleep, as many do, but he was awake, and understood and heard everything quite well. Then she asked, "One slew none, what is that?" He replied, "A raven, which ate of a dead and poisoned horse, and died of it." She inquired further, "And yet slew twelve, what is that?" He answered, "That means twelve murderers, who ate the raven and died of it."When she knew the answer to the riddle she wanted to steal away, but he held her mantle so fast that she was forced to leave it behind her. 她以为王子已经睡着，便跟他说话，希望他像许多人一样在梦中说出谜底来。 然而王子并没有睡着，心里清楚得很，把她的一举一动全听在了耳朵里。 她问："什么东西不杀任何人？"他回答："一只吃了被毒药毒死、自己又被毒死的乌鸦。"她又问："那什么杀了十二个人呢？"他回答："十二个吃了乌鸦的凶手也死了。"公主得知了谜底后便想悄悄溜走，可王子紧紧扯住她的斗篷，逼得她只好把它留下。 Chapter 8 Next morning, the King's daughter announced that she had guessed the riddle, and sent for the twelve judges and expounded it before them. But the youth begged for a hearing, and said, "She stole into my room in the night and questioned me, otherwise she could not have discovered it." The judges said, "Bring us a proof of this." Then were the three mantles brought thither by the servant, and when the judges saw the misty-grey one which the King's daughter usually wore, they said, "Let the mantle be embroidered with gold and silver, and then it will be your wedding-mantle. 第二天早晨，公主宣布说自己已经猜出了谜语，并且派人叫来十二个法官，当着他们的面说出了谜底。 然而王子请求大家听他说几句。 他说："她在夜里偷偷溜进我的房间，从我这里问出了答案，否则她是不会知道谜底的。"法官们问："拿出证据来。"王子的仆人拿来了三条斗篷，法官们看到那条雾一般的斗篷正是公主常常披在身上的，便齐声说："给这件斗篷绣上金丝银线，它将成为你们的结婚礼服。"

Chapter 7 And when the evening came she wanted to go home, but the prince said he would go with her to take care of her, for he wanted to see where the beautiful maiden lived. But she escaped him, and jumped up into the pigeon-house. Then the prince waited until the father came, and told him the strange maiden had jumped into the pigeon-house. The father thought to himself, "It cannot surely be Cinderella," and called for axes and hatchets, and had the pigeon-house cut down, but there was no one in it. And when they entered the house there sat Cinderella in her dirty clothes among the cinders, and a little oil-lamp burnt dimly in the chimney; for Cinderella had been very quick, and had jumped out of the pigeon-house again, and had run to the hazel bush; and there she had taken off her beautiful dress and had laid it on the grave, and the bird had carried it away again, and then she had put on her little gray kirtle again, and had sat down inc the kitchen among the cinders. The next day, when the festival began anew, and the parents and step-sisters had gone to it, Cinderella went to the hazel bush and cried, "Little tree, little tree, shake over me, That silver and gold may come down and cover me." 他们一起跳到很晚，她才想起要回家去了。 王子想知道这位美丽的姑娘到底住在哪里，所以说道："我送你回家去吧。"灰姑娘表面上同意了，但却趁他不注意时，悄悄地溜走，拔腿向家里跑去。 王子在后面紧追不舍，她只好跳进鸽子房并把门关上。 王子等在外面不肯离去，一直到她父亲回家时，王子才上前告诉他，说那位他在舞会上遇到的不知道姓名的姑娘藏进了这间鸽子房。 当他们砸开鸽子房门时，里面却已空无一人，他只好失望地回宫去了。 父母进屋子时，灰姑娘已经身穿邋遢的衣服躺在灰堆边上了，就像她一直躺在那儿似地，昏暗的小油灯在烟囱柱上的墙洞里摇晃着。 实际上，灰姑娘刚才很快穿过鸽子房来到榛树前脱下了漂亮的礼服，将它们放回树上，让小鸟把它们带走，自己则回到屋里坐到了灰堆上，穿上了她那灰色的外套。 第二天，当舞会又要开始时，她的爸爸、继母和两个姐妹都去了。 灰姑娘来到树下说： "榛树啊！请你帮帮我， 请你摇一摇， 为我抖落金银礼服一整套。 " Chapter 8 Then the bird cast down a still more splendid dress than on the day before. And when she appeared in it among the guests every one was astonished at her beauty. The prince had been waiting until she came, and he took her hand and danced with her alone. And when any one else came to invite her he said, "She is my partner." And when the evening came she wanted to go home, and the prince followed her, for he wanted to see to what house she belonged; but she broke away from him, and ran into the garden at the back of the house. There stood a fine large tree, bearing splendid pears; she leapt as lightly as a squirrel among the branches, and the prince did not know what had become of her. So he waited until the father came, and then he told him that the strange maiden had rushed from him, and that he thought she had gone up into the pear-tree. The father thought to himself, "It cannot surely be Cinderella," and called for an axe, and felled the tree, but there was no one in it. And when they went into the kitchen there sat Cinderella among the cinders, as usual, for she had got down the other side of the tree, and had taken back her beautiful clothes to the bird on the hazel bush, and had put on her old grey kirtle again. 那只小鸟来了，它带来了一套比她前一天穿的那套更加漂亮的礼服。 当她来到舞会大厅时，她的美丽使所有的人惊讶不已。 一直在等待她到来的王子立即上前挽着她的手，请她跳起舞来。 每当有人要请她跳舞时，他总是和前一天一样说："这位女士在与我跳舞。"到了半夜她要回家去的时候，王子也和前一天一样跟着她，以为这样可以看到她进了哪一幢房子。 但她还是甩掉了他，并立即跳进了她父亲房子后面的花园里。 花园里有一棵很漂亮的大梨树，树上结满了成熟的梨。 灰姑娘不知道自己该藏在什么地方，只好爬到了树上。 王子没有看到她，他不知道她去了哪儿，只好又一直等到她父亲回来，才走上前对他说："那个与我跳舞的不知姓名的姑娘溜走了，我认为她肯定是跳上梨树去了。"父亲暗想："难道是灰姑娘吗？"于是，他要人去拿来一柄斧子，把树砍倒了一看，树上根本没有人。 当父亲和继母到厨房来看时，灰姑娘和平时一样正躺在灰烬里。 原来她跳上梨树后，又从树的另一边溜下来，脱下漂亮的礼服，让榛树上的小鸟带了回去，然后又穿上了她自己的灰色小外套。 Chapter 9 On the third day, when the parents and the step-children had set off, Cinderella went again to her mother's grave, and said to the tree, "Little tree, little tree, shake over me, That silver and gold may come down and cover me." Then the bird cast down a dress, the like of which had never been seen for splendour and brilliancy, and slippers that were of gold. And when she appeared in this dress at the feast nobody knew what to say for wonderment. The prince danced with her alone, and if any one else asked her he answered, "She is my partner." And when it was evening Cinderella wanted to go home, and the prince was about to go with her, when she ran past him so quickly that he could not follow her. But he had laid a plan, and had caused all the steps to be spread with pitch, so that as she rushed down them the left shoe of the maiden remained sticking in it. The prince picked it up, and saw that it was of gold, and very small and slender. The next morning he went to the father and told him that none should be his bride save the one whose foot the golden shoe should fit. Then the two sisters were very glad, because they had pretty feet. The eldest went to her room to try on the shoe, and her mother stood by. But she could not get her great toe into it, for the shoe was too small; then her mother handed her a knife, and said, "Cut the toe off, for when you are queen you will never have to go on foot." So the girl cut her toe off, squeezed her foot into the shoe, concealed the pain, and went down to the prince. Then he took her with him on his horse as his bride, and rode off. They had to pass by the grave, and there sat the two pigeons on the hazel bush, and cried, 第三天，当她父亲、继母和两个姐妹走了以后，她又来到花园里说道： "榛树啊！请你帮帮我， 请你摇一摇， 为我抖落金银礼服一整套。 " 她善良的朋友又带来了一套比第二天那套更加漂亮的礼服和一双纯金编制的舞鞋。 当她赶到舞会现场时，大家都被她那无法用语言表达的美给惊呆了。 王子只与她一个人跳舞，每当有其他人请她跳舞时，他总是说："这位女士是我的舞伴。"当午夜快要来临时，她要回家了，王子又要送她回去，并暗暗说道："这次我可不能让她跑掉了。"然而，灰姑娘还是设法从他身边溜走了。 由于走得过于匆忙，她竟把左脚的金舞鞋失落在楼梯上了。 王子将舞鞋拾起，第二天来到他的国王父亲面前说："我要娶正好能穿上这只金舞鞋的姑娘作我的妻子。"灰姑娘的两个姐妹听到这个消息后非常高兴，因为她们都有一双很漂亮的脚，她们认为自己穿上那只舞鞋是毫无疑问的。 姐姐由她妈妈陪着先到房子里去试穿那只舞鞋，可她的大脚趾却穿不进去，那只鞋对她来说太小了。 于是她妈妈拿给她一把刀说："没关系，把大脚趾切掉！只要你当上了王后，还在乎这脚趾头干嘛，你想到哪儿去根本就不需要用脚了。"大女儿听了，觉得有道理，这傻姑娘忍着痛苦切掉了自己的大脚趾，勉强穿在脚上来到王子面。 王子看她穿好了鞋子，就把她当成了新娘，与她并排骑在马上，把她带走了。 但在他们出门回王宫的路上，经过后花园灰姑娘栽的那棵榛树时，停在树枝上的一只小鸽子唱道： Chapter 10 "There they go, there they go! There is blood on her shoe; The shoe is too small, Not the right bride at all!" Then the prince looked at her shoe, and saw the blood flowing. And he turned his horse round and took the false bride home again, saying she was not the right one, and that the other sister must try on the shoe. So she went into her room to do so, and got her toes comfortably in, but her heel was too large. Then her mother handed her the knife, saying, "Cut a piece off your heel; when you are queen you will never have to go on foot." So the girl cut a piece off her heel, and thrust her foot into the shoe, concealed the pain, and went down to the prince, who took his bride before him on his horse and rode off. When they passed by the hazel bush the two pigeons sat there and cried, "There they go, there they go! There is blood on her shoe; The shoe is too small, Not the right bride at all!" "再回去！再回去！ 快看那只鞋！ 鞋太小，不是为她做的！ 王子！ 王子！ 再找你的新娘吧， 坐在你身边的不是你的新娘！ " 王子听见后，下马盯着她的脚看，发现鲜血正从鞋子里流出来，他知道自己被欺骗了，马上掉转马头，把假新娘带回她的家里说道："这不是真新娘，让另一个妹妹来试试这只鞋子吧。"于是妹妹试着把鞋穿在脚上，脚前面进去了，可脚后跟太大了，就是穿不进去。 她妈妈让她削去脚后跟穿进去，然后拉着她来到王子面前。 王子看她穿好了鞋子，就把她当做新娘扶上马，并肩坐在一起离去了。 但当他们经过榛树时，小鸽子仍栖息在树枝头上，它唱道： "再回去！再回去！ 快看那只鞋！ 鞋太小，不是为她做的！ 王子！ 王子！ 再找你的新娘吧， 坐在你身边的不是你的新娘！ " Chapter 11 Then the prince looked at her foot, and saw how the blood was flowing from the shoe, and staining the white stocking. And he turned his horse round and brought the false bride home again. "This is not the right one," said he, "have you no other daughter?" - "No," said the man, "only my dead wife left behind her a little stunted Cinderella; it is impossible that she can be the bride." But the King's son ordered her to be sent for, but the mother said, "Oh no! she is much too dirty, I could not let her be seen." But he would have her fetched, and so Cinderella had to appear. First she washed her face and hands quite clean, and went in and curtseyed to the prince, who held out to her the golden shoe. Then she sat down on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and slipped it into the golden one, which fitted it perfectly. And when she stood up, and the prince looked in her face, he knew again the beautiful maiden that had danced with him, and he cried, "This is the right bride!" The step-mother and the two sisters were thunderstruck, and grew pale with anger; but he put Cinderella before him on his horse and rode off. And as they passed the hazel bush, the two white pigeons cried, 王子低头一看，发现血正从舞鞋里流出来，连她的白色长袜也浸红了，他拨转马头，同样把她送了回去，对她的父亲说："这不是真新娘，你还有女儿吗？"父亲回答说："没有了，只有我前妻生的一个叫灰姑娘的小邋遢女儿，她不可能是新娘的。"然而，王子一定要他把她带来试一试。 灰姑娘先把脸和手洗干净，然后走进来很有教养地向王子屈膝行礼。 王子把舞鞋拿给她穿，鞋子穿在她脚上就像是专门为她做的一样。 他走上前仔细看清楚她的脸后，认出了她，马上兴奋的说道："这才是我真正的新娘。"继母和她的两个姐妹大吃一惊，当王子把灰姑娘扶上马时，她们气得脸都发白了，眼睁睁地看着王子把她带走了。 他们来到榛树边时，小白鸽唱道： Chapter 12 "There they go, there they go! No blood on her shoe; The shoe's not too small, The right bride is she after all." And when they had thus cried, they came flying after and perched on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and so remained. And when her wedding with the prince was appointed to be held the false sisters came, hoping to curry favour, and to take part in the festivities. So as the bridal procession went to the church, the eldest walked on the right side and the younger on the left, and the pigeons picked out an eye of each of them. And as they returned the elder was on the left side and the younger on the right, and the pigeons picked out the other eye of each of them. And so they were condemned to go blind for the rest of their days because of their wickedness and falsehood. "回家吧！回家吧！ 快看那只鞋！ 王妃！ 这是为你做的鞋！ 王子！ 王子！ 快带新娘回家去， 坐在你身边的才是真正的新娘" 鸽子唱完之后，飞上前来，一只停在了她的左肩，一只停在了她的右肩。 当她和王子的婚礼举办时，他们指定让假冒的姐姐也过来参加典礼并助兴。当这一对新人走向教堂时，他们中大的那位走在右边，小的那位走在左边，而鸽子把他们各自的一只眼啄去。当他们返程时，大的那位走在左边，而小的那位走在右边，鸽子又再把她们各自的另一只眼啄去。因为他们的邪恶和坏心肠，她们的余生都将在失明中度过了。

Chapter 1 There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, "Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you." And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother's grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife. The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. "Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?" said they; "those who eat food must earn it. Out upon her for a kitchen-maid!" They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old grey kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. "Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!" cried they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her, mocking her, and strewing peas and lentils among the ashes, and setting her to pick them up. In the evenings, when she was quite tired out with her hard day's work, she had no bed to lie on, but was obliged to rest on the hearth among the cinders. And as she always looked dusty and dirty, they named her Cinderella. 从前，有一个富人的妻子得了重病，在临终前，她把自己的独生女儿叫到身边说："乖女儿，妈去了以后会在九泉之下守护你、保佑你的。"说完她就闭上眼睛死了。 她被葬在了花园里，小姑娘是一个虔诚而又善良的女孩，她每天都到她母亲的坟前去哭泣。冬天来了，大雪为她母亲的坟盖上了白色的毛毯。 春风吹来，太阳又卸去了坟上的银装素裹。 冬去春来，人过境迁，他爸爸又娶了另外一个妻子。 新妻子带着她以前生的两个女儿一起来安家了。 她们外表很美丽，但是内心却非常丑陋邪恶。 她们到来之时，也就是这个可怜的小姑娘身受苦难之始。 她们说："要这样一个没用的饭桶在厅堂里干什么？谁想吃上面包，谁就得自己去挣得，滚到厨房里做厨房女佣去吧！"说完又脱去她漂亮的衣裳，给她换上灰色的旧外套，恶作剧似地嘲笑她，把她赶到厨房里去了。 她被迫去干艰苦的活儿。 每天天不亮就起来担水、生火、做饭、洗衣，而且还要忍受她们姐妹对她的漠视和折磨。 到了晚上，她累得筋疲力尽时，连睡觉的床铺也没有，不得不睡在炉灶旁边的灰烬中，这一来她身上都沾满了灰烬，又脏，又难看，由于这个原因她们就叫她灰姑娘。 Chapter 2 It happened one day that the father went to the fair, and he asked his two step-daughters what he should bring back for them. "Fine clothes!" said one. "Pearls and jewels!" said the other. "But what will you have, Cinderella?" said he. "The first twig, father, that strikes against your hat on the way home; that is what I should like you to bring me." So he bought for the two step-daughters fine clothes, pearls, and jewels, and on his way back, as he rode through a green lane, a hazel-twig struck against his hat; and he broke it off and carried it home with him. And when he reached home he gave to the step-daughters what they had wished for, and to Cinderella he gave the hazel-twig. She thanked him, and went to her mother's grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished and became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day, and wept and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the tree, and if she uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she had wished for. 有一次，父亲要到集市去，他问妻子的两个女儿，要他给她们带什么回来。 第一个说："我要漂亮的衣裳。"第二个叫道："我要珍珠和钻石。"他又对自己的女儿说："孩子，你想要什么？"灰姑娘说："亲爱的爸爸 ，就把你回家路上碰着你帽子的第一根树枝折给我吧。 "父亲回来时，他为前两个女儿带回了她们想要的漂亮衣服和珍珠钻石。在路上，他穿过一片浓密的矮树林时，有一根榛树枝条碰着了他，几乎把他的帽子都要扫下来了，所以他把这根树枝折下来带上了。回到家里时，他把树枝给了他女儿，她拿着树枝来到母亲的坟前，将它栽到了坟边。她每天都要到坟边哭三次，每次伤心地哭泣时，泪水就会不断地滴落在树枝上，浇灌着它，使树枝很快长成了一棵漂亮的大树。不久，有一只小鸟来树上筑巢，她与小鸟交谈起来。后来她想要什么，小鸟都会给她带来。 Chapter 3 Now if came to pass that the king ordained a festival that should last for three days, and to which all the beautiful young women of that country were bidden, so that the king's son might choose a bride from among them. When the two stepdaughters heard that they too were bidden to appear, they felt very pleased, and they called Cinderella, and said, "Comb our hair, brush our shoes, and make our buckles fast, we are going to the wedding feast at the king's castle." Cinderella, when she heard this, could not help crying, for she too would have liked to go to the dance, and she begged her step-mother to allow her. "What, you Cinderella!" said she, "in all your dust and dirt, you want to go to the festival! you that have no dress and no shoes! you want to dance!" But as she persisted in asking, at last the step-mother said, "I have strewed a dish-full of lentils in the ashes, and if you can pick them all up again in two hours you may go with us." Then the maiden went to the backdoor that led into the garden, and called out, "O gentle doves, O turtle-doves, And all the birds that be, The lentils that in ashes lie Come and pick up for me! The good must be put in the dish, The bad you may eat if you wish." 国王为了给自己的儿子选择未婚妻，准备举办一个为期三天的盛大宴会，邀请了不少年青漂亮的姑娘来参加。 王子打算从这些参加舞会的姑娘中选一个作自己的新娘。 灰姑娘的两个姐姐也被邀请去参加。 她们把她叫来说道："现在来为我们梳好头发，擦亮鞋子，系好腰带，我们要去参加国王举办的舞会。"她按她们的要求给她们收拾打扮完毕后，禁不住哭了起来，因为她自己也想去参加舞会。 她苦苦哀求她的继母让她去，可继母说道："哎哟！灰姑娘，你也想去？你穿什么去呀！你连礼服也没有，甚至连舞也不会跳，你想去参加什么舞会啊？"灰姑娘不停地哀求着，为了摆脱她的纠缠，继母最后说道："我把这一满盆碗豆倒进灰堆里去，如果你在两小时内把它们都拣出来了，你就可以去参加宴会。"说完，她将一盆碗豆倒进灰烬里，扬长而去。 灰姑娘没办法，只好跑出后门来到花园里喊道： "掠过天空的鸽子和斑鸠， 飞来吧！ 飞到这里来吧！ 快乐的鸟雀朋友们， 飞来吧！ 快快飞到这里来吧！ 大伙快来帮我忙， 快快拣出灰中的碗豆来吧！ " Chapter 4 Then there came to the kitchen-window two white doves, and after them some turtle-doves, and at last a crowd of all the birds under heaven, chirping and fluttering, and they alighted among the ashes; and the doves nodded with their heads, and began to pick, peck, pick, peck, and then all the others began to pick, peck, pick, peck, and put all the good grains into the dish. Before an hour was over all was done, and they flew away. Then the maiden brought the dish to her step-mother, feeling joyful, and thinking that now she should go to the feast; but the step-mother said, "No, Cinderella, you have no proper clothes, and you do not know how to dance, and you would be laughed at!" And when Cinderella cried for disappointment, she added, "If you can pick two dishes full of lentils out of the ashes, nice and clean, you shall go with us," thinking to herself, "for that is not possible." When she had strewed two dishes full of lentils among the ashes the maiden went through the backdoor into the garden, and cried, "O gentle doves, O turtle-doves, And all the birds that be, The lentils that in ashes lie Come and pick up for me! The good must be put in the dish, The bad you may eat if you wish." 先飞来的是从厨房窗子进来的两只白鸽，跟着飞来的是两只斑鸠，接着天空中所有的小鸟都叽叽喳喳地拍动着翅膀，飞到了灰堆上。 小白鸽低下头开始在灰堆里拣起来，一颗一颗地拣，不停地拣！ 其它的鸟儿也开始拣，一颗一颗地拣，不停地拣！ 它们把所有的好豆子都从灰里拣出来放到了一个盘子里面，只用一个小时就拣完了。 她向它们道谢后，鸟雀从窗子里飞走开了。 她怀着兴奋的心情，端着盘子去找继母，以为自己可以去参加舞宴了。 但她却说道："不行，不行！你这个邋遢女孩，你没有礼服，不会跳舞，你不能去。"灰姑娘又苦苦地哀求她让她去。 继母这次说道："如果你能在一个小时之内把这样的两盘碗豆从灰堆里拣出来，你就可以去了。"她满以为这次可以摆脱灰姑娘了，说完将两盘碗豆倒进了灰堆里，还搅和了一会，然后得意洋洋地走了。 但小姑娘又跑到屋后的花园里和前次一样地喊道： "掠过天空的鸽子和斑鸠， 飞来吧！ 飞到这里来吧！ 快乐的鸟雀朋友们， 飞来吧！ 快快飞到这里来吧！ 大伙快来帮我忙， 快快拣出灰中的碗豆来吧！ " Chapter 5 So there came to the kitchen-window two white doves, and then some turtle-doves, and at last a crowd of all the other birds under heaven, chirping and fluttering, and they alighted among the ashes, and the doves nodded with their heads and began to pick, peck, pick, peck, and then all the others began to pick, peck, pick, peck, and put all the good grains into the dish. And before half-an-hour was over it was all done, and they flew away. Then the maiden took the dishes to the stepmother, feeling joyful, and thinking that now she should go with them to the feast; but she said "All this is of no good to you; you cannot come with us, for you have no proper clothes, and cannot dance; you would put us to shame." Then she turned her back on poor Cinderella, and made haste to set out with her two proud daughters. 先飞来的是从厨房窗子进来的两只白鸽，跟着飞来的是两只斑鸠，接着天空中所有的小鸟都叽叽喳喳地拍动着翅膀，飞到了灰堆上。 小白鸽低下头开始在灰堆里拣起来，一颗一颗地拣，不停地拣！ 其它的鸟儿也开始拣，一颗一颗地拣，不停地拣！ 它们把所有的好豆子都从灰里拣出来放到了盘子里面，这次只用半个小时就拣完了。 鸟雀们飞去之后，灰姑娘端着盘子去找继母，怀着极其兴奋的心情，以为自己可以去参加舞会了。 但继母却说道："算了！你别再白费劲了，你是不能去的。你没有礼服，不会跳舞，你只会给我们丢脸。"说完他们夫妻与她自己的两个女儿出发参加宴会去了。 Chapter 6 And as there was no one left in the house, Cinderella went to her mother's grave, under the hazel bush, and cried, "Little tree, little tree, shake over me, That silver and gold may come down and cover me." Then the bird threw down a dress of gold and silver, and a pair of slippers embroidered with silk and silver. , And in all haste she put on the dress and went to the festival. But her step-mother and sisters did not know her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, she looked so beautiful in her golden dress. Of Cinderella they never thought at all, and supposed that she was sitting at home, arid picking the lentils out of the ashes. The King's son came to meet her, and took her by the hand and danced with her, and he refused to stand up with any one else, so that he might not be obliged to let go her hand; and when any one came to claim it he answered, "She is my partner." 现在，家里的人都走了，只留下灰姑娘孤伶伶地一个人悲伤地坐在榛树下哭泣： "榛树啊！请你帮帮我， 请你摇一摇， 为我抖落金银礼服一整套。 " 她的朋友小鸟从树上飞出来，为她带了一套金银制成的礼服和一双光亮的丝制舞鞋。 收拾打扮、穿上礼服之后，灰姑娘在她两个姐妹之后来到了舞厅。 穿上豪华的礼服之后，她看起来是如此高雅、漂亮、美丽动人极了。 她们都认不出她，以为她一定是一位陌生的公主，根本就没有想到她就是灰姑娘，她们以为灰姑娘仍老老实实地待在家中的灰堆里呢。 王子看到她，很快向她走来，伸出手挽着她，请她跳起舞来。 他再也不和其他姑娘跳舞了，他的手始终不肯放开她。 每当有人来请她跳舞时，王子总是说："这位女士在与我跳舞。"

The valiant little tailorC9 He thought a long while about it, and at last made up his mind what to do. He sent for the little tailor, and told him that as he was so great a warrior he had a proposal to make to him. He told him that in a wood in his dominions dwelt two giants, who did great damage by robbery, murder, and fire, and that no man durst go near them for fear of his life. But that if the tailor should overcome and slay both these giants the King would give him his only daughter in marriage, and half his kingdom as dowry, and that a hundred horsemen should go with him to give him assistance. "That would be something for a man like me 1"thought the little tailor, "a beautiful princess and half a kingdom are not to be had every day." And he said to the King, "Oh yes, I can soon overcome the giants, and yet have no need of the hundred horsemen; he who can kill seven at one blow has no need to be afraid of two." The valiant little tailorC10 So the little tailor set out, and the hundred horsemen followed him. When he came to the border of the wood he said to his escort, "Stay here while I go to attack the giants." Then he sprang into the wood, and looked about him right and left. After a while he caught sight of the two giants; they were lying down under a tree asleep, and snoring so that all the branches shook. The little tailor, all alive, filled both his pockets with stones and climbed up into the tree, and made his way to an overhanging bough, so that he could seat himself just above the sleepers; and from there he let one stone after another fall on the chest of one of the giants. For a long time the giant was quite unaware of this, but at last he waked up and pushed his comrade, and said, "What are you hitting me for?" "You are dreaming," said the other, "I am not touching you." And they composed themselves again to sleep, and the tailor let fall a stone on the other giant. "What can that be?" cried he, "what are you casting at me?" 他绞尽脑汁，冥思苦想，终于想出一个主意。 他派人去告诉小裁缝，说小裁缝是一位出类拔萃、英勇无畏的英雄，因此希望向他做如下提议： 在他的领地上，有一座大森林，林中住着两个巨人，他们俩烧杀抢劫无恶不作，为害极大，可是至今却没有谁敢冒生命危险去和他们较量。 要是小裁缝能制服和杀死这两个巨人，国王就答应把自己的独生女儿许配给他，并赐给他半个王国，而且还准备给他派去一百名骑士，为他助阵。 "对你这样一个人来说，这是多么大的鼓舞呀，"小裁缝心里想道，"一位漂亮的公主，还有半个王国，真是千载难逢的好机会啊。" 于是，他回答说："当然可以啦，我去制服那两个巨人。那一百名骑士嘛，我并不需要他们。我这样一个英雄，一下子能打死七个，那两个怎么会是我的对手呢。" 小裁缝出发了，后面跟着一百名骑士。 他们来到森林前，他对这些骑士说："你们就呆在这儿，我一个人去收拾那两个家伙。"说罢，他独自跑进了林中，一边走着，一边环顾左右。 没多大一会儿，就发现了那两个巨人。 他们俩躺在一棵大树下正睡觉呢，鼾声如雷，树枝都快被震掉了。 小裁缝忙着把两个口袋装满石头，然后爬到树上。 爬到一半时，他悄悄地攀上一根树枝，树枝下边就是那两个熟睡中的巨人的脑袋。 接着，他把石头接二连三地朝一个巨人的胸口使劲砸下去。 这位大家伙有好一会动也不动一下，后来终于醒了，用力推了推身边的同伴，问道："你干嘛打我？" "你在做梦吧，"另一个回答说，"谁打你来着？" 说完，他们俩又躺下睡了。 这回，小裁缝把一块石头朝第二个巨人砸了下去。 "干什么？"第二个嚷嚷起来，"干嘛拿石头打我呀？" The valiant little tailorC11 "I am casting nothing at you," answered the first, grumbling. They disputed about it for a while, but as they were tired, they gave it up at last, and their eyes closed once more. Then the little tailor began his game anew, picked out a heavier stone and threw it down with force upon the first giant's chest. "This is too much!" cried he, and sprang up like a madman and struck his companion such a blow that the tree shook above them. The other paid him back with ready coin, and they fought with such fury that they tore up trees by their roots to use for weapons against each other, so that at last they both of them lay dead upon the ground. And now the little tailor got down. "Another piece of luck!" said he, "that the tree I was sitting in did not get torn up too, or else I should have had to jump like a squirrel from one tree to another." Then he drew his sword and gave each of the giants a few hacks in the breast, and went back to the horsemen and said, "The deed is done, I have made an end of both of them: but it went hard with me, in the struggle they rooted up trees to defend themselves, but it was of no use, they had to do with a man who can kill seven at one blow." "我没有哇。"第一个咆哮着回答说。 他们争吵了几句，却因为感到困乏，又闭上眼睛睡了。 小裁缝呢，故伎重演，选了一块最大的石头，朝第一个巨人狠命砸了下去。 "这太不像话啦！"第一个巨人吼了起来。 他疯了一样地从地上一跃而起，把他的同伴朝树上猛地一搡，撞得大树都摇晃起来了。 第二个分毫不让，以牙还牙，两个家伙怒不可遏，把一棵棵大树连根拔起，朝着对方猛扔过去，最后他们两败俱伤，都倒在地上死了。 小裁缝立即从树上跳了下来。 "真是万幸，"他说道，"他们没有拔掉我刚才上的那棵树。" 说罢，他拔出剑来，在每个巨人的胸口上猛刺一剑，然后他走到那些骑士面前说："完事了，那两个巨人都被我给解决了，可真是一场惊心动魄的遭遇呀。他们见势不妙就把大树连根拔起进行顽抗，当然啦，面对本人这样一下子能打死七个的英雄，那是徒劳的。" The valiant little tailorC12 "Then are you not wounded?" asked the horsemen. "Nothing of the sort!" answered the tailor, "I have not turned a hair." The horsemen still would not believe it, and rode into the wood to see, and there they found the giants wallowing in their blood, and all about them lying the uprooted trees. The little tailor then claimed the promised boon, but the King repented him of his offer, and he sought again how to rid himself of the hero. "Before you can possess my daughter and the half of my kingdom," said he to the tailor, "you must perform another heroic act. In the wood lives a unicorn who does great damage; you must secure him." "A unicorn does not strike more terror into me than two giants. Seven at one blow! - that is my way," was the tailor's answer. So, taking a rope and an axe with him, he went out into the wood, and told those who were ordered to attend him to wait outside. 骑士们策马跑进森林一看，两个巨人躺在血泊之中，四周还有连根拔出的大树，这才相信了小裁缝的话。 返回后，小裁缝要求国王把答应给他的奖赏赐给他，国王却后悔了，又左思右想，考虑怎样才能把小裁缝打发走。 "你在得到我的女儿和半个王国之前，"他说，"必须再完成一个壮举。在那座森林里，有一头危害很大的独角兽，你必须把它捕捉住。" "两个巨人我都没怕，一头独角兽又有什么可怕的呀。"小裁缝吹嘘道。 小裁缝带着一根绳索和一把斧头便动身去了森林，告诉他的随从们在森林外等着。 The valiant little tailorC13 He had not far to seek, the unicorn soon came out and sprang at him, as if he would make an end of him without delay. "Softly, softly," said he, "most haste, worst speed," and remained standing until the animal came quite near, then he slipped quietly behind a tree. The unicorn ran with all his might against the tree and stuck his horn so deep into the trunk that he could not get it out again, and so was taken. "Now I have you," said the tailor, coming out from behind the tree, and, putting the rope round the unicorn's neck, he took the axe, set free the horn, and when all his party were assembled he led forth the animal and brought it to the King. The King did not yet wish to give him the promised reward, and set him a third task to do. Before the wedding could take place the tailor was to secure a wild boar which had done a great deal of damage in the wood. The huntsmen were to accompany him. "All right," said the tailor, "this is child's play." But he did not take the huntsmen into the wood, and they were all the better pleased, for the wild boar had many a time before received them in such a way that they had no fancy to disturb him. 他没找多大功夫，便发现那头独角兽就在眼前，并且正向他直冲过来。 他纹丝不动地站在那里，等独角兽逼近了，敏捷地一下子跳到树后。 独角兽发疯似的朝大树撞过来，把角牢牢地戳进了树干里，怎么拔也拔不出来，就被捉住了。 "伙计，这回我可逮住你啦，"小裁缝从树后转出来后说道。 他用那根绳索把独角兽的脖子捆了起来，然后用斧头劈开树干，松开兽角，牵着独角兽回去见国王。 谁知国王还是不肯把答应给小裁缝的奖赏赐给他，又提出了第三个条件。 他必须再到森林里去把一头危害很大的野猪逮住，然后才举行婚礼。 "我很乐意去，"小裁缝回答说，"逮住一头野猪那还不是跟玩儿似的。" The valiant little tailorC14 When the boar caught sight of the tailor he ran at him with foaming mouth and gleaming tusks to bear him to the ground, but the nimble hero rushed into a chapel which chanced to be near, and jumped quickly out of a window on the other side. The boar ran after him, and when he got inside the door shut after him, and there he was imprisoned, for the creature was too big and unwieldy to jump out of the window too. Then the little tailor called the huntsmen that they might see the prisoner with their own eyes; and then he betook himself to the king, who now, whether he liked it or not, was obliged to fulfil his promise, and give him his daughter and the half of his kingdom. But if he had known that the great warrior was only a little tailor he would have taken it still more to heart. So the wedding was celebrated with great splendour and little joy, and the tailor was made into a king. 野猪一见小裁缝，就口里冒着白沫，咬着牙，朝他猛冲过来，想一头把他撞倒在地。 谁知勇敢的小裁缝敏捷地跳进了旁边的一座小教堂，眨眼之间，又从窗口跳了出去。 野猪追进了教堂，小裁缝从教堂后面几步跑了过来，把门关住，气势汹汹的野猪又重又笨，没法从窗口跳出去，就这样被擒住了。 然后，勇敢的小裁缝去见国王，告诉他说，愿意也罢，不愿意也罢，他这次必须信守诺言，把他的女儿和半个王国赏赐给他。 他们的婚礼隆重举行，欢笑却很少。 不过，小裁缝还是当上了国王啦。 The valiant little tailorC15 One night the young queen heard her husband talking in his sleep and saying, "Now boy, make me that waistcoat and patch me those breeches, or I will lay my yard measure about your shoulders!" And so, as she perceived of what low birth her husband was, she went to her father the next morning and told him all, and begged him to set her free from a man who was nothing better than a tailor. The king bade her be comforted, saying, "To-night leave your bedroom door open, my guard shall stand outside, and when he is asleep they shall come in and bind him and carry him off to a ship, and he shall be sent to the other side of the world." So the wife felt consoled, but the king's water-bearer, who had been listening all the while, went to the little tailor and disclosed to him the whole plan. "I shall put a stop to all this," said he. 不久，年轻的王后在一天夜里听见丈夫说梦话。 小裁缝在梦中大声地嚷嚷着："徒弟，快点儿把这件背心缝好，再把这条裤子补一补，不然我就让你的脑袋尝尝尺子的厉害。"这样一来，她便弄清了她的君主和丈夫是什么出身。 第二天一早就对父亲大发牢骚，抱怨国王给她选择的丈夫只不过是一个下贱的裁缝。 国王安慰她说："今天晚上，你打开化妆室的门，我派侍从守在外边，等他睡着了，我的侍从就悄悄地进去把他捆起来，然后放到一艘船上，把他送到天涯海角。" 当了国王的小裁缝有个男仆，听见了老国王说的话，就把这个阴谋禀报了主子。 The valiant little tailorC16 At night he lay down as usual in bed, and when his wife thought that he was asleep, she got up, opened the door and lay down again. The little tailor, who only made believe to be asleep, began to murmur plainly, "Now, boy, make me that waistcoat and patch me those breeches, or I will lay my yard measure about your shoulders! I have slain seven at one blow, killed two giants, caught a unicorn, and taken a wild boar, and shall I be afraid of those who are standing outside my room door?" And when they heard the tailor say this, a great fear seized them; they fled away as if they had been wild hares, and none of them would venture to attack him. And so the little tailor all his lifetime remained a king. 到了晚上，小裁缝像往常一样按时上床就寝，躺在妻子身边。 她以为他已经入睡，就从床上爬起来，打开了化妆室的门，然后又躺在床上。 小裁缝只是在装睡，这时便开始尖着嗓子喊叫起来："徒弟，把这件背心缝好，再把这条裤子补一补，不然我就让你的脑袋尝尝尺子的厉害。我一下子打死了七个，杀死了两个巨人，捉住了一头独角兽，还逮住了一头大野猪，难道我还怕化妆室里的哪一个不成？"听到了小裁缝的这一番话，打算把他捆绑起来的那几个人，个个吓得要死，拔腿就逃走啦。 从此，再没有谁敢碰他一根毫毛。 就这样，勇敢的小裁缝继续当他的国王，一直当到离开人世。

The valiant little tailorC1 One summer morning a little tailor was sitting on his board near the window, and working cheerfully with all his might, when an old woman came down the street crying, "Good jelly to sell! good jelly to sell!" The cry sounded pleasant in the little tailor's ears, so he put his head out of the window, and called out, "Here, my good woman, come here, if you want a customer." So the poor woman climbed the steps with her heavy basket, and was obliged to unpack and display all her pots to the tailor. He looked at every one of them, and lifting all the lids, applied his nose to each, and said at last, "The jelly seems pretty good; you may weigh me out four half ounces, or I don't mind having a quarter of a pound." The woman, who had expected to find a good customer, gave him what he asked for, but went off angry and grumbling. "This jelly is the very thing for me," cried the little tailor; "it will give me strength and cunning; "and he took down the bread from the cupboard, cut a whole round of the loaf, and spread the jelly on it, laid it near him, and went on stitching more gallantly than ever. 夏季一个阳光明媚的早晨，一个小裁缝坐在靠窗的台子旁，竭尽全力地做着手中活儿。 这时，街上走来一个农家妇女，边走边吆喝："买果酱啦！物美价廉呀！"小裁缝觉得这声音挺悦耳，于是就将一头卷发的脑袋伸出了窗外，喊叫道： "上这儿来吧，亲爱的太太，您的货这儿有人要！" 农妇手提沉甸甸的篮子，跨上台阶，来到小裁缝跟前，按照他的吩咐打开一只又一只的罐子。小裁缝挨个仔细察看，还把罐子举到鼻子跟前闻了又闻，最后才说道："给我来四盎司，亲爱的太太，半镑也行。" 农妇原来以为找到了好买主呢，她把小裁缝要的那一点点果酱如数秤给他之后，就气呼呼地嘟哝着走了。 "愿上帝保佑，"小裁缝嚷嚷道，"这些果酱能给我带来好胃口。" 他从柜子里拿出面包，切了一片下来，把果酱涂在上面。 "我心里有数，不会不可口的，"他说，"不过我得先做完这件背心再吃。" 于是，他把涂了果酱的面包放在身旁，继续缝了起来，心里感到美滋滋的，针脚就一针比一针大了。 The valiant little tailorC2 All the while the scent of the sweet jelly was spreading throughout the room, where there were quantities of flies, who were attracted by it and flew to partake. "Now then, who asked you to come?" said the tailor, and drove the unbidden guests away. But the flies, not understanding his language, were not to be got rid of like that, and returned in larger numbers than before. Then the tailor, not being able to stand it any longer, took from his chimney-corner a ragged cloth, and saying, "Now, I'll let you have it!" beat it among them unmercifully. When he ceased, and counted the slain, he found seven lying dead before him. "This is indeed somewhat," he said, wondering at his own gallantry; "the whole town shall know this." So he hastened to cut out a belt, and he stitched it and put on it in large capitals "Seven at one blow!" "The town, did I say!" said the little tailor; "the whole world shall know it!" And his heart quivered with joy, like a lamb's tail. The tailor fastened the belt round him, and began to think of going out into the world, for his workshop seemed too small for his worship. So he looked about in all the house for something that it would be useful to take with him, but he found nothing but an old cheese, which he put in his pocket. Outside the door he noticed that a bird had got caught in the bushes, so he took that and put it in his pocket with the cheese. Then he set out gallantly on his way, and as he was light and active he felt no fatigue. 这时，果酱香甜的气味招引来了一群聚在墙上的苍蝇，它们纷纷落在面包上，要品尝一下这美味佳肴。 "哪有你们的份啊？"小裁缝说着把苍蝇赶跑了。 苍蝇才不理睬他说了什么，怎么也不肯走，于是落在面包上的苍蝇越来越多了。 这下子，小裁缝火冒三丈，随手抓起一条毛巾，朝着苍蝇狠命地打了下去，打死了整整七只苍蝇，有的连腿都给打飞了。 "你可真了不起！"他说道，不禁对自己的勇敢大加赞赏，"全城的人都应该知道你的壮举。"说罢，小裁缝风风火火地为自己裁剪了一条腰带，缝好后，在上面绣了几个醒目的大字："一下子打死七个！""不仅仅是全城，"他突然喊了起来，"还得让全世界的人都知道！"说到这儿，他的心激动得欢蹦乱跳，活像一只小羊羔的尾巴。 小裁缝把腰带系在腰间，打算出去闯世界，因为在他看来，凭着他的英勇无畏精神，再留在小小的作坊里，就大材小用啦。 动身前，他四下里搜寻了一番，看看有没有值得带上的东西，却只发现了一快陈干酪，就随手装进口袋里。 在门前，他发现灌木丛中绊住了一只小鸟，便捉来放进装干酪的口袋里。 随后，他得意洋洋地上了路。 由于个子矮小，他身轻如燕，走起来一点儿也不感到累。 The valiant little tailorC3 The way led over a mountain, and when he reached the topmost peak he saw a terrible giant sitting there, and looking about him at his ease. The tailor went bravely up to him, called out to him, and said, "Comrade, good day! there you sit looking over the wide world! I am on the way thither to seek my fortune: have you a fancy to go with me?" The giant looked at the tailor contemptuously, and said, "You little rascal! you miserable fellow!" - "That may be!" answered the little tailor, and undoing his coat he showed the giant his belt; "you can read there whether I am a man or not!" The giant read: "Seven at one blow!" and thinking it meant men that the tailor had killed, felt at once more respect for the little fellow. But as he wanted to prove him, he took up a stone and squeezed it so hard that water came out of it. "Now you can do that," said the giant, "that is, if you have the strength for it." 走着走着，来到一座大山上。 他到了山顶一看，发现一个力大无比的巨人正坐在那儿，悠然自得地环顾左右。 小裁缝壮着胆子走到巨人跟前，跟他打招呼： "你好，伙计。你坐在这儿眺望大世界，是吧？我正要去闯闯世界咧，怎么样，有没有心思跟我一快儿去？" 巨人轻蔑地瞟了他一眼，扯着嗓子对他说："你这个小可怜虫！弱不禁风的小瘪三！" "啊哈，你这么小看我，是吗？你再往这儿瞧瞧！"小裁缝回答道。 说着解开上衣，露出腰带来给巨人看。 "你念一念就知道我是何等人啦。" 巨人念了起来："一下子打死七个"。 以为这位裁缝一下子打死的是七个人，心里不禁对小裁缝产生几分敬意。 不过，他决心要和小裁缝先试试身手，于是，就拣起一快石头来，用手使劲一捏，捏得石头滴出了水。 "要是你真有力气，"巨人说，"也来这么一手吧。" The valiant little tailorC4 "That's not much," said the little tailor, "I call that play," and he put his hand in his pocket and took out the cheese and squeezed it, so that the whey ran out of it. "Well," said he, "what do you think of that?" The giant did not know what to say to it, for he could not have believed it of the little man. Then the giant took up a stone and threw it so high that it was nearly out of sight. "Now, little fellow, suppose you do that!" "Well thrown," said the tailor; "but the stone fell back to earth again, I will throw you one that will never come back." So he felt in his pocket, took out the bird, and threw it into the air. And the bird, when it found itself at liberty, took wing, flew off, and returned no more. "What do you think of that, comrade?" asked the tailor. "There is no doubt that you can throw," said the giant; "but we will see if you can carry." He led the little tailor to a mighty oak-tree which had been felled, and was lying on the ground, and said, "Now, if you are strong enough, help me to carry this tree out of the wood." "就这个呀？"小裁缝说，"对本人来说，跟玩儿似的。"说着把手伸进口袋里，掏出那快软绵绵的干酪来，轻轻一捏，乳汁就冒了出来。 巨人看了不知说什么才好，却怀疑这么个小人儿是不是真有那么大的力气。 随后，他又拣起一快石头来，朝空中猛地一抛，石头飞得那么高，用肉眼几乎看不见了。 "喏，"巨人说，"可怜的小矮子，你也来一下。" "的确，扔得挺高，"小裁缝回敬道，"可是你扔的那快石头还是掉回到了地上。本人给你露一手，扔出去就不会再掉回来。" 说罢，他从口袋里把那只小鸟抓出来，往空中一扔。 重获自由的小鸟欢欢喜喜地飞走了，头也不回地一下便无影无踪。 "喂，伙计，这一手还行吧？"小裁缝问道。 "我不否认，扔东西你还行。"巨人回答说，"现在我再瞧瞧你能不能扛动沉重的东西。" 他把小裁缝领到一棵已砍倒在地的大橡树跟前。 "你要是真有力气，就帮我把这棵树从林子里抬走。" The valiant little tailorC5 "Willingly," answered the little man; "you take the trunk on your shoulders, I will take the branches with all their foliage, that is much the most difficult." So the giant took the trunk on his shoulders, and the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant, who could not see what he was doing, had the whole tree to carry, and the little man on it as well. And the little man was very cheerful and merry, and whistled the tune: "There were three tailors riding by" as if carrying the tree was mere child's play. The giant, when he had struggled on under his heavy load a part of the way, was tired out, and cried, "Look here, I must let go the tree!" The tailor jumped off quickly, and taking hold of the tree with both arms, as if he were carrying it, said to the giant, "You see you can't carry the tree though you are such a big fellow!" They went on together a little farther, and presently they came to a cherry-tree, and the giant took hold of the topmost branches, where the ripest fruit hung, and pulling them downwards, gave them to the tailor to hold, bidding him eat. But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and as the giant let go, the tree sprang back, and the tailor was caught up into the air. And when he dropped down again without any damage, the giant said to him, "How is this? haven't you strength enough to hold such a weak sprig as that?" 好的，"小裁缝说，"你扛树干，我扛树枝，这树枝可是最难弄的呀。" 巨人扛起树干，小裁缝却坐在了一根树枝上面。 巨人没法回头看，不得不整个扛着大树，还扛着坐在树枝上的小裁缝。 小裁缝坐在后面，心旷神怡，快乐地吹着口哨，还唱了几句"三个裁缝骑马出了城"这首歌，抬树对他来说仿佛就是一场游戏而已。 巨人扛着沉重的大树走了一段路程，累得上气不接下气，嚷嚷着说他再也走不动了，必须把树放下来。 小裁缝一下子跳了下来，用两只胳膊抱住树身，做出一副一路上抬着大树的样子，接着对巨人说，"亏你这么个大块头，连棵树也扛不了！" 他们一快儿往前走着，来到一棵樱桃树前，树冠上挂满了熟透的樱桃。 巨人一把抓住树冠，拉低后递给小裁缝，让他吃个够。 可小裁缝哪有这么大的力气抓住樱桃树呢，巨人一松手，树就忽地一下直起了身，小裁缝也随着被弹到了空中。 小裁缝安然落地，巨人嚷嚷道："咳！你连抓住这么一根小树枝的力气也没有啊？" The valiant little tailorC6 "It is not strength that is lacking," answered the little tailor; "how should it to one who has slain seven at one blow! I just jumped over the tree because the hunters are shooting down there in the bushes. You jump it too, if you can." The giant made the attempt, and not being able to vault the tree, he remained hanging in the branches, so that once more the little tailor got the better of him. Then said the giant, "As you are such a gallant fellow, suppose you come with me to our den, and stay the night." The tailor was quite willing, and he followed him. When they reached the den there sat some other giants by the fire, and each had a roasted sheep in his hand, and was eating it. The little tailor looked round and thought, "There is more elbow-room here than in my workshop." And the giant showed him a bed, and told him he had better lie down upon it and go to sleep. The bed was, however, too big for the tailor, so he did not stay in it, but crept into a corner to sleep. "这和力气有何相干！"小裁缝回答说，"本人一下子能打死七个，你以为我连根小树枝都抓不住吗？林子里有个猎人要朝我开枪，我才急急忙忙跑过树顶。你要是有能耐，跳给我瞧瞧。" 巨人试了一下，却没能跳过去，而被挂在了枝丫间。 这样一来，小裁缝又占了上风。 于是，巨人说："你是一个了不起的小勇士，就请你到我的山洞里去过夜吧。" 小裁缝很愿意，就跟着他去了。 他们来到洞中，只见还有一些巨人围坐在火堆旁，个个手里拿着一只烤羊，像吃面包似的在吃着。 小裁缝心想："这儿可比我的作坊好多啦。"巨人指给他一张床，叫他躺下休息。 可这张床对小裁缝来说，实在是太大了，他没有躺在床中间，而是爬到了一个角落里。 The valiant little tailorC7 As soon as it was midnight the giant got up, took a great staff of iron and beat the bed through with one stroke, and supposed he had made an end of that grasshopper of a tailor. Very early in the morning the giants went into the wood and forgot all about the little tailor, and when they saw him coming after them alive and merry, they were terribly frightened, and, thinking he was going to kill them, they ran away in all haste. So the little tailor marched on, always following his nose. And after he had gone a great way he entered the courtyard belonging to a King's palace, and there he felt so overpowered with fatigue that he lay down and fell asleep. In the meanwhile came various people, who looked at him very curiously, and read on his belt, "Seven at one blow!" - "Oh!" said they, "why should this great lord come here in time of peace? what a mighty champion he must be." Then they went and told the King about him, and they thought that if war should break out what a worthy and useful man he would be, and that he ought not to be allowed to depart at any price. 半夜时分，那个巨人以为小裁缝睡熟了，抓起一根大铁钉，照准床上猛地扎了下去，以为把这个小蚱蜢给解决了。 第二天拂晓，巨人们动身到林子里去，把小裁缝忘得一干二净。 小裁缝仍然像往常一样活蹦乱跳，无忧无虑，朝他们走去。 巨人们一见，以为小裁缝要打死他们，个个吓得屁滚尿流，拔腿就跑。 小裁缝呢，继续赶他的路，一直往前走去。 走了很久，小裁缝来到一座王宫的院子里。 这时，他已累得精疲力尽，便倒在地上睡着了。他正躺在那儿睡的时候，不少人过来，看见了他腰带上绣的字："一下子打死七个！""哎呀！"他们心想，"这一定是位了不起的英雄。和平时期他到这里来干什么呢？"他们立即去向国王禀报，说一旦战争爆发，此人大有用场，千万不能放他走呵。 The valiant little tailorC8 The King then summoned his council, and sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to beg him, so soon as he should wake up, to consent to serve in the King's army. So the messenger stood and waited at the sleeper's side until his limbs began to stretch, and his eyes to open, and then he carried his answer back. And the answer was, "That was the reason for which I came," said the little tailor, "I am ready to enter the King's service." So he was received into it very honourably, and a separate dwelling set apart for him. But the rest of the soldiers were very much set against the little tailor, and they wished him a thousand miles away. "What shall be done about it?" they said among themselves; "if we pick a quarrel and fight with him then seven of us will fall at each blow. That will be of no good to us." So they came to a resolution, and went all together to the King to ask for their discharge. "We never intended," said they, "to serve with a man who kills seven at a blow." The King felt sorry to lose all his faithful servants because of one man, and he wished that he had never seen him, and would willingly get rid of him if he might. But he did not dare to dismiss the little tailor for fear he should kill all the King's people, and place himself upon the throne. 国王很赞赏这个主意，便差了一位大臣去找小裁缝，等他一醒来，就请他在军队里效力。 这位使者站在一旁，眼睁睁地看着熟睡中的小裁缝，直等到小裁缝伸了伸懒腰，慢慢睁开了双眼，才向他提出请求。 "我正是为此而来的，"小裁缝回答说，"本人很愿意为国王效劳。" 他于是受到了隆重的接待，得到了一处别致的住所。 可是其他军官却很妒嫉，巴不得他早点儿远远地离开这里。 "要是我们和他打起来，"他们交谈着，"他一下子就能打死我们七个，这可怎么是好呢？我们一败涂地呀。"后来，他们决定，一快儿去见国王，提出集体辞职。 "我们这号人呐，"他们跟国王解释说，"无法和一位一下子就打死七个人的大英雄共事。" 因为一个人而要失去所有忠心耿耿的军官，国王感到十分难过，希望压根儿就没见过这个小裁缝，巴不得能早早把他打发走。 可是，国王却没有这个胆量把他赶走，担心小裁缝把他和他的臣民都打死，自己登上王位。

Chapter 7 "Now, wife," said the man, "what do you want to be emperor for?" "Husband," said she, "go and tell the fish I want to be emperor.!' "Oh dear!" said the man, "he could not do it-I cannot ask him such a thing. There is but one emperor at a time; the fish can't possibly make any one emperor-indeed he can't." "Now, look here," said the wife, "I am king, and you are only my husband, so will you go at once? Go along! for if he was able to make me king he is able to make me emperor; and I will and must be emperor, so go along!" So he was obliged to go; and as he went he felt very uncomfortable about it, and he thought to himself, "It is not at all the right thing to do; to want to be emperor is really going too far; the flounder will soon be beginning to get tired of this." With that he came to the sea, and the water was quite black and thick, and the foam flew, and the wind blew, and the man was terrified. But he stood and said, "O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not." "What is it now?" said the fish. "Oh dear! "said the man, "my wife wants to be emperor." "Go home with you," said the fish, "she is emperor already." "哎呀，老婆，"丈夫说，"你干嘛要当皇帝呢？" "当家的，"妻子说，"快去找比目鱼。说我要当皇帝。" "哎，老婆，"丈夫回答说，"比目鱼没法使你当皇帝，我也不想对他提出这个愿望。整个帝国就一个皇帝呀，比目鱼哪能随便使谁当皇帝呢？他确实不能。" "你说什么！"妻子大声喝道，"我是国王，你不过是我的丈夫而已。你去不去？给我马上去！他既然可以使我当上国王，他也能使我当皇帝。我一定一定要当皇帝，马上给我去！" 渔夫不得不去了。 他走在路上时，心里感到非常害怕，边走边想，"这不会有好下场的。要当皇帝！脸皮真是太厚啦！ 到头来，比目鱼就会恼怒啦。 " 他就这样一边想着一边走，来到了海边。 只见海水一片墨黑，混浊不清，不仅汹涌翻腾，泡沫飞溅，而且旋风阵阵，令渔夫感到心惊胆战。不过，他还是站在海岸上说： "比目鱼啊，你在大海里， 恳请你好好听我说仔细， 我捉你放你没提愿望， 老婆对此却不饶又不依。 " "她想要什么呀？"比目鱼问。 "唉，"渔夫回答说，"她要当皇帝。" "回去吧，"比目鱼说，"她已当上了皇帝。" Chapter 8 So the man went home, and found the castle adorned with polished marble and alabaster figures, and golden gates. The troops were being marshalled before the door, and they were blowing trumpets and beating drums and cymbals; and when he entered he saw barons and earls and dukes waiting about like servants; and the doors were of bright gold. And he saw his wife sitting upon a throne made of one entire piece of gold, and it was about two miles high; and she had a great golden crown on, which was about three yards high, set with brilliants and carbuncles; and in one hand she held the sceptre, and in the other the globe; and on both sides of her stood pages in two rows, all arranged according to their size, from the most enormous giant of two miles high to the tiniest dwarf of the size of my little finger; and before her stood earls and dukes in crowds. So the man went up to her and said, "Well, wife, so now you are emperor." "Yes," said she, "now I am emperor." Then he went and sat down and had a good look at her, and then he said, "Well now, wife, there is nothing left to be, now you are emperor." "What are you talking about, husband?" said she; "I am emperor, and next I will be pope! so go and tell the fish so." "Oh dear!" said the man, "what is it that you don't want? You can never become pope; there is but one pope in Christendom, and the fish can't possibly do it." 于是，渔夫往回走，到家时一看，整座宫殿都由研磨抛光的大理石砌成，石膏浮雕和纯金装饰四处可见。宫殿门前，士兵们正在列队行进，号角声，锣鼓声，震耳欲聋。在宫殿里，男爵、伯爵走来走去，个个一副奴才相。纯金铸造的房门为他一道道打开，他走进一看，妻子正坐在宝座上，宝座用一整块金子锻造而成，有数千英尺高。她头戴一顶宽大的金冠，足有三码高，上面镶嵌着无数珠宝；她一只手里握着皇仗，另一只手托着金球。在她的两侧，站着两列侍从，一个比一个矮，最高的看上去像个巨人，最矮的是个小侏儒，还没有他的手指大。她的面前侍立着不少王孙贵族。 渔夫走了过去，站在他们的中间，说道："老婆，你这回真的当皇帝啦？" "是的，"她回答说，"我真的当皇帝了。" 渔夫往前移动了几步，想好好看看她。看了一会儿，他说："哎，老婆，你当上了皇帝，真是太妙啦！" "喂！"她对渔夫说，"你还站在这里发什么呆？我现在当上了皇帝，可是我还想当教皇。快去找比目鱼告诉他。" "哎呀，老婆，"渔夫说，"你到底想当什么呀？你当不了教皇。在整个基督教世界教皇只有一个呀，比目鱼无法使你当教皇。" Chapter 9 "Husband," said she, "no more words about it; I must and will be pope; so go along to the fish." "Now, wife," said the man, "how can I ask him such a thing? it is too bad-it is asking a little too much; and, besides, he could not do it." "What rubbish!" said the wife; '' if he could make me emperor he can make me pope. Go along and ask him; I am emperor, and you are only my husband, so go you must." So he went, feeling very frightened, and he shivered and shook, and his knees trembled; and there arose a great wind, and the clouds flew by, and it grew very dark, and the sea rose mountains high, and the ships were tossed about, and the sky was partly blue in the middle, but at the sides very dark and red, as in a great tempest. And he felt very desponding, and stood trembling and said, "O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not." "Well, what now?" said the fish. "Oh dear!" said the man, "she wants to be pope." "Go home with you, she is pope already," said the fish. "我的丈夫呀，"她说，"我要当教皇。快去吧！我今天就要当教皇。" "不行呀，老婆，"渔夫回答说，"我可不想再去告诉比目鱼这个啦，那不行，那太过分啦。比目鱼无法让你当教皇的呀。" "好啦，别再胡说八道啦！"她说，"他既然能让我当上皇帝，他当然也就能够让我当教皇了。马上去！我是皇帝，你只不过是我的丈夫而已，你马上就去！" 渔夫胆战心惊，只得去了。他走在路上，感到浑身发软，两腿哆嗦。颤抖不止，海岸边的山上狂风呼啸，乌云滚滚，一片昏黑。树叶沙沙作响，海水像开锅了似地汹涌澎湃，不断拍打着他的鞋子。他远远地看见有些船只在狂涛中颠簸跳荡，燃放着求救的信号。天空一片火红，并且越来越红，只露出中间一点儿蓝色，好像一场暴风雨即将来临。渔夫站在那里，浑身颤抖，说道： "比目鱼啊，你在大海里， 恳请你好好听我说仔细， 我捉你放你没提愿望， 老婆对此却不饶又不依。 " "她想要什么呀？"比目鱼问。 "唉！"渔夫回答说，"她要当教皇。" "回去吧，她已当上了教皇。"比目鱼说。 Chapter 10 So he went home, and he found himself before a great church, with palaces all round. He had to make his way through a crowd of people; and when he got inside he found the place lighted up with thousands and thousands of lights; and his wife was clothed in a golden garment, and sat upon a very high throne, and had three golden crowns on, all in the greatest priestly pomp; and on both sides of her there stood two rows of lights of all sizes-from the size of the longest tower to the smallest rushlight, and all the emperors and kings were kneeling before her and kissing her foot. "Well, wife," said the man, and sat and stared at her, "so you are pope." "Yes," said she, "now I am pope!" And he went on gazing at her till he felt dazzled, as if he were sitting in the sun. And after a little time he said, "Well, now, wife, what is there left to be, now you are pope?" And she sat up very stiff and straight, and said nothing. 于是，渔夫往回走，到家时一看，一座大教堂矗立在那里，周围是几座宫殿。人们正潮水般拥挤着往里走。大教堂里燃着上千支蜡烛，照得四处通明雪亮，他老婆浑身上下穿戴着金子，坐在更高更大的宝座上，头上戴着三重大金冠。教会中的众多显贵簇拥在她的周围，她的两侧竖立着两排大蜡烛，最大一根大得就像一座高大的宝塔，而最小的一根则跟普通的蜡烛差不多。天下所有的皇帝和国王都跪在她的面前，争先恐后地吻她的鞋子。 "老婆，"渔夫看着她说，"你现在真的是教皇了吧？" "是的，"她回答说，"我是教皇。" 说着他凑上前去，好好打量了一番，感觉她像耀眼的太阳一般，光辉灿烂。看了一会儿之后，他说： "老婆，你当了教皇，这可真是太了不起啦！"可她呢，坐在那里泥雕木刻一样，一动不动。 Chapter 11 And he said again, "Well, wife, I hope you are contented at last with being pope; you can be nothing more." "We will see about that," said the wife. With that they both went to bed; but she was as far as ever from being contented, and she could not get to sleep for thinking of what she should like to be next. The husband, however, slept as fast as a top after his busy day; but the wife tossed and turned from side to side the whole night through, thinking all the while what she could be next, but nothing would occur to her; and when she saw the red dawn she slipped off the bed, and sat before the window to see the sun rise, and as it came up she said, "Ah, I have it! what if I should make the sun and moon to rise-husband!"she cried, and stuck her elbow in his ribs, "wake up, and go to your fish, and tell him I want power over the sun and moon." The man was so fast asleep that when he started up he fell out of bed. 接着他又说："老婆，你已经当上了教皇，这回可该满足了，不可能还有比这更高的什么啦。" "这个嘛，我还得想一想，"妻子回答说。说完，他们就上床休息了。可是，她还是感到不满足，她的野心在不断地膨胀，贪欲使她久久不能入睡，她左思右想，想自己还能成为什么。 丈夫因为白天跑了那么多的路，睡得又香又沉，可妻子呢，在床上辗转反侧，不停地考虑着自己还能成为什么，却怎么也想不出来了，所以整整一夜没能睡着。这时，太阳快要出来了，她看见了黎明的曙光，一下从床上坐起身来，望着窗外。透过窗口，她看见一轮红日冉冉升起，忽然产生了一个念头："哈哈！我难道不该对太阳和月亮发号施令吗？""当家的，"她用胳膊肘捅了捅丈夫的腰，说道，"快起来，去找比目鱼去，告诉他我要控制太阳和月亮。" 丈夫睡得迷迷糊糊的，一听她这话，吓得从床上滚了下来。 Chapter 12 Then he shook himself together, and opened his eyes and said, "Oh,-wife, what did you say?" "Husband," said she, "if I cannot get the power of making the sun and moon rise when I want them, I shall never have another quiet hour. Go to the fish and tell him so." "O wife!" said the man, and fell on his knees to her, "the fish can really not do that for you. I grant you he could make you emperor and pope; do be contented with that, I beg of you." And she became wild with impatience, and screamed out, "I can wait no longer, go at once!" And so off he went as well as he could for fright. And a dreadful storm arose, so that he could hardly keep his feet; and the houses and trees were blown down, and the mountains trembled, and rocks fell in the sea; the sky was quite black, and it thundered and lightened; and the waves, crowned with foam, ran mountains high. So he cried out, without being able to hear his own words, "O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not." "Well, what now?" said the flounder. "Oh dear!" said the man, "she wants to order about the sun and moon." "Go home with you!"said the flounder, "you will find her in the old hovel." And there they are sitting to this very day. 他以为是自己听错了，就揉了揉眼睛，大声地问："老婆，你说什么来着？" "当家的，"她说，"要是我不能对太阳和月亮发号施令，要他们升他们就升，要他们落他们就落，我就没法活了。我要按自己的意愿要他们什么时候升起，不然我就难以有一刻的安宁。" 她极其凶狠地瞪着丈夫，吓得他不寒而慄。 "快去！"她喊叫起来，"我要成为太阳和月亮的主人。""哎呀呀，我的老婆呀！"渔夫跪在她面前说，"比目鱼办不到这个呀，他只能使你成为皇帝和教皇。好好想一想，我求求你啦，就当教皇算啦。" 一听这话，她勃然大怒，脑袋上的头发随即飘荡起来。她撕扯着自己的衣服，朝着丈夫狠狠地踢了一脚，冲他吼叫道："我再也无法忍受啦！我再也无法忍受啦！你给我快去！" 渔夫赶紧穿上衣服，发疯似的跑了出去。 外边已是狂风呼啸，刮得他脚都站不住了。一座座的房屋被刮倒，一棵棵大树被吹翻，连山岳都在震颤着身子，一块块的岩石滚落在大海中。天空雷鸣电闪，一片漆黑，大海掀起滚滚的黑色巨浪，浪头有山那么高，浪尖上翻涌着白沫。 渔夫嘶声力竭地喊道： "比目鱼啊，你在大海里， 恳请你好好听我说仔细， 我捉你放你没提愿望， 老婆对此却不饶又不依。 " "那么，她到底想要什么呀？"比目鱼问。 "唉，"渔夫回答说，"她想要当太阳和月亮的主人。" "回去吧，"比目鱼说，"她又重新住进了那个破渔舍。" 就这样，他们一直在那儿生活到今天。

Chapter 1 There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a hovel by the sea-shore, and the fisherman went out every day with his hook and line to catch fish, and he angled and angled. One day he was sitting with his rod and looking into the clear water, and he sat and sat. At last down went the line to the bottom of the water, and when he drew it up he found a great flounder on the hook. And the flounder said to him, "Fisherman, listen to me; let me go, I am not a real fish but an enchanted prince. What good shall I be to you if you land me? I shall not taste well; so put me back into the water again, and let me swim away." "Well," said the fisherman, "no need of so many words about the matter, as you can speak I had much rather let you swim away." Then he put him back into the clear water, and the flounder sank to the bottom, leaving a long streak of blood behind him. Then the fisherman got up and went home to his wife in their hovel. 从前，有个渔夫，他和妻子住在海边的一所肮脏的小渔舍里。 渔夫每天都去钓鱼，他总是钓啊钓的，不愿休息有一天，他拿着钓竿坐在海边，两眼望着清澈的海水，竟就这样望啊望的，坐在那里一直发呆。 忽然，钓钩猛地往下沉，沉得很深很深，都快沉到海底了。 等他把钓钩拉上来时，发现钓上来一条很大的比目鱼。谁知比目鱼竟对他说："听着，渔夫，我恳求你放我一条生路。我并不是什么比目鱼，我是一位中了魔法的王子，你要是杀死我，对你又有多大好处呢？我的肉不会对你的口味的。请把我放回水里，让我游走吧。" "哎，"渔夫说，"你不必这么费口舌。一条会说话的比目鱼，我怎么会留下呢？"说着，他就把比目鱼放回清澈的水里。比目鱼立刻就游走了，身后留下一条长长的血痕。随后，渔夫回到他的小屋，走到他妻子的身边。 Chapter 2 "Well, husband," said the wife, "have you caught nothing to-day?" "No," said the man "that is, I did catch a flounder, but as he said he was an enchanted prince, I let him go again." "Then, did you wish for nothing?"said the wife. "No," said the man; "what should I wish for?" "Oh dear!" said the wife; "and it is so dreadful always to live in this evil-smelling hovel you might as well have wished for a little cottage; go again and call him; tell him we want a little cottage, I daresay he will give it us; go, and be quick." And when he went back, the sea was green and yellow, and not nearly so clear. So he stood and said, "O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not." Then the flounder came swimming up, and said, "Now then, what does she want?" "Oh," said the man, "you know when I caught you my wife says I ought to have wished for something. She does not want to live any longer in the hovel, and would rather have a cottage. "Go home with you," said the flounder, "she has it already." So the man went home, and found, instead of the hovel, a little cottage, and his wife was sitting on a bench before the door. And she took him by the hand, and said to him, "Come in and see if this is not a great improvement." "喂，当家的，"他妻子问道，"今天你什么也没钓到吗？" "钓到了，"他回答说，"怎么说呢，我钓到了一条比目鱼，可他说他是一位中了魔法的王子，我就把他放了。" "难道你没有提什么愿望吗？"妻子问。 "没有，"丈夫回答说，"我该提什么愿望呢？""唉，"妻子说，"住在我们这样一间肮脏的小房子里，实在是受罪。你该提希望得到一座漂亮的小别墅呀。快去告诉他我们要一幢小别墅，我肯定，他会满足咱们的愿望的。" "可是，"丈夫说，"我怎么好再去哪？" "唉，"妻子说，"你捉住了他，又放走了他。他肯定会满足咱们的愿望的，快去吧。" 渔夫还是不太愿意去，可又不想惹他妻子生气，于是，就去了海边。 他来到海边时，海水绿得泛黄，也不像以往那样平静。他走了过去，站在海岸上说： "比目鱼啊，你在大海里， 恳请你好好听我说仔细， 我捉你放你没提愿望， 老婆对此却不饶又不依。 " 那条比目鱼果真朝他游了过来，问道，"她想要什么呀？""嗨，"渔夫说，"刚才我把你逮住了，我老婆说，我应该向你提出一个愿望。她不想再住在那个小屋子里了，她想要一幢小别墅。" "回去吧，"比目鱼说，"她已经有一幢小别墅啦。" 渔夫便回家去了，他妻子已不再住在那个破破烂烂的渔舍里，原地上已矗立起一幢小别墅，她正坐在门前的一条长凳上。妻子一见丈夫回来了，就拉着他的手说："快进来看一看。现在不是好多了吗？" Chapter 3 So they went in, and there was a little house-place and a beautiful little bedroom, a kitchen and larder, with all sorts of furniture, and iron and brass ware of the very best. And at the back was a little yard with fowls and ducks, and a little garden full of green vegetables and fruit. "Look," said the wife, "is not that nice?" "Yes," said the man, "if this can only last we shall be very well contented." "We will see about that," said the wife. And after a meal they went to bed. So all went well for a week or fortnight, when the wife said, "Look here, husband, the cottage is really too confined, and the yard and garden are so small; I think the flounder had better get us a larger house; I should like very much to live in a large stone castle; so go to your fish and he will send us a castle." "0 my dear wife," said the man, "the cottage is good enough; what do we want a castle for?" "We want one," said the wife; "go along with you; the flounder can give us one." "Now, wife," said the man, "the flounder gave us the cottage; I do not like to go to him again, he may be angry." "Go along," said the wife, "he might just as well give us it as not; do as I say!" The man felt very reluctant and unwilling; and he said to himself, "It is not the right thing to do;" nevertheless he went. So when he came to the seaside, the water was purple and dark blue and grey and thick, and not green and yellow as before. And he stood and said, "O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not." 随即，他们进了屋。小别墅里有一间小前厅，一间漂亮的小客厅，一间干干净净的卧室、卧室里摆放着一张床还有一间厨房和食物贮藏室，里面摆放着必备的家具，锡制铜制的餐具一应俱全。还有一个养着鸡鸭的小院子，和一片长满蔬菜水果的小园子。 "瞧，"妻子说，"不漂亮吗？" "漂亮。"丈夫回答说，"咱们就住在这儿，快快乐乐地过日子吧。" "这个嘛，咱们还要想一想，"妻子说。 他们随后吃了晚饭，就上床休息了。 他们就这样生活了一两个星期。有一天，妻子突然时："听着，当家的，这房子太小了，院子和园子也太小了。那条比目鱼可以送咱们一幢更大一些的。我要住在一座石头建造的大宫殿里。快去找比目鱼，叫他送咱们一座宫殿。" "唉，老婆，"丈夫说，"这别墅不是够好的了嘛？咱们干嘛非得要住在宫殿里呢？" "胡说，"妻子回答说，"你只管去找比目鱼好啦，他会完全满足咱们的愿望的。" "不行啊，老婆，"丈夫说，"比目鱼刚刚送给咱们一幢别墅，我实在不想再去找他，他会不高兴的。" "去吧，快去吧，"妻子大声说，"他办得到，也乐意这么办。快去吧。" 渔夫心情很沉重，本来是不想去的。他低声地反反复复地自言自语道："这不应该呀。"可他还是去了。 他来到海边时，海水不再是绿得泛黄，已变得混浊不清，时而暗蓝，时而深紫，时而灰黑，不过仍然很平静。渔夫站在岸边说： "比目鱼啊，你在大海里， 恳请你好好听我说仔细， 我捉你放你没提愿望老婆对此却不饶又不依。 " Chapter 4 "Now then, what does she want?"said the flounder. "Oh," said the man, half frightened, "she wants to live in a large stone castle." "Go home with you, she is already standing before the door," said the flounder. Then the man went home, as he supposed, but when he got there, there stood in the place of the cottage a great castle of stone, and his wife was standing on the steps, about to go in; so she took him by the hand, and said, "Let us enter." With that he went in with her, and in the castle was a great hall with a marble- pavement, and there were a great many servants, who led them through large doors, and the passages were decked with tapestry, and the rooms with golden chairs and tables, and crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling; and all the rooms had carpets. And the tables were covered with eatables and the best wine for any one who wanted them. And at the back of the house was a great stable-yard for horses and cattle, and carriages of the finest; besides, there was a splendid large garden, with the most beautiful flowers and fine fruit trees, and a pleasance full half a mile long, with deer and oxen and sheep, and everything that heart could wish for. "There! "said the wife, "is not this beautiful?" "Oh yes," said the man, "if it will only last we can live in this fine castle and be very well contented." "We will see about that," said the wife, "in the meanwhile we will sleep upon it." With that they went to bed. "唉，"渔夫说，心里有几分害怕，"她想住在一座石头建造的宫殿里。" "回去吧，"比目鱼说，"她现在正站在宫殿门前呢。" 渔夫于是往回走，心里想着快点儿到家吧。走到了原来的地方一看，那儿真的矗立着一座石头建造的宫殿，非常宏伟壮观。他老婆站在台阶上，正准备进去，一见丈夫回来了，就拉着他的手说："快，快跟我进去。" 他和他老婆走了进去，只见宫殿里的大厅铺着大理石；众多的仆人伺候在那里，为他们打开一扇又一扇的大门；宫中的墙壁色彩艳丽，精美耀眼；房间里摆放着许多镀金桌椅；大厅所有的房间都铺了地毯；桌子上摆满了美味佳肴和各种名贵的东西。屋后还有一个大院子，院子里设有马厩牛棚，有不少马匹和母牛，一辆富丽堂皇的大马车就停在那儿；除了院子，还有一座美丽的大花园，花园里开满了万紫千红的花朵儿，生长着不少名贵的水果树；还有一座占地有两英里多长的公园，里面有鹿啊，野兔啊等等，凡能想象出来的里面都有。 "喏，"妻子说，"不漂亮吗？" "漂亮，当然漂亮啦，"丈夫回答说，"这足够好啦。咱们就好好地住在这座美丽的宫殿里吧，总该心满意足啦。" "这个嘛，咱们还要想一想，"妻子说，"不过，现在可该上床休息了。"说完，他们就上床休息了。 Chapter 5 The next morning the wife was awake first, just at the break of day, and she looked out and saw from her bed the beautiful country lying all round. The man took no notice of it, so she poked him in the side with her elbow, and said, "Husband, get up and just look out of the window. Look, just think if we could be king over all this country . Just go to your fish and tell him we should like to be king." "Now, wife," said the man, "what should we be kings for? I don't want to be king." "Well," said the wife, "if you don't want to be king, I will be king." "Now, wife," said the man, "what do you want to be king for? I could not ask him such a thing." "Why not?" said the wife, "you must go directly all the same; I must be king." So the man went, very much put out that his wife should want to be king. "It is not the right thing to do-not at all the right thing," thought the man. He did not at all want to go, and yet he went all the same. And when he came to the sea the water was quite dark grey, and rushed far inland, and had an ill smell. And he stood and said, '' O man, O man!-if man you be, Or flounder, flounder, in the sea- Such a tiresome wife I've got, For she wants what I do not." "Now then, what does she want?" said the fish. "Oh dear!"said the man, "she wants to be king." "Go home with you, she is so already," said the fish. 第二天早晨，妻子先醒了，这时正是黎明时分，她坐在床上看得见眼前的田野，富饶美丽，一望无际。她用胳膊肘捅了捅丈夫的腰，然后说，"当家的，起床吧，快点儿跟我到窗前来。瞧啊，咱们难道不可以当一当这个国家的国王吗？快去找比目鱼，说咱们要当国王。" "哎呀，老婆呀！"丈夫说，"咱们干吗要当什么国王呢？ 我才不想干这个。 " "喂，"妻子说，"你不想当，我可想当。快去找比目鱼，告诉他说我必须当国王。" "唉，老婆呀，"丈夫嚷嚷着说，"你干吗要当什么国王呢？ 我跟他说不出口的呀。 " "为什么说不出口呢？"妻子反驳说，"你给我快点儿去，我非当国王不可。" 渔夫只得走了出去。一想到老婆非要当国王，心里就感到特别担忧。 "这不应该呀，这实在不应该呀。"他打定主意想不去了，可他还是去了。 他来到海边时，海水一片灰黑，波涛汹涌，从海底翻涌上来的海水散发着恶臭。他站在海边说： "比目鱼啊，你在大海里， 恳请你好好听我说仔细， 我捉你放你没提愿望， 老婆对此却不饶又不依。 " "她想要什么呀？"比目鱼问。 "唉，"渔夫回答说，"她要当国王。" "回去吧，"比目鱼说，"她的愿望已经实现了。" Chapter 6 So the man went back, and as he came to the palace he saw it was very much larger, and had great towers and splendid gateways; the herald stood before the door, and a number of soldiers with kettle-drums and trumpets. And when he came inside everything was of marble and gold, and there were many curtains with great golden tassels. Then he went through the doors of the saloon to where the great throne-room was, and there was his wife sitting upon a throne of gold and diamonds, and she had a great golden crown on, and the sceptre in her hand was of pure gold and jewels, and on each side stood six pages in a row, each one a head shorter than the other. So the man went up to her and said, "Well, wife, so now you are king!" "Yes," said the wife, "now I am king." So then he stood and looked at her, and when he had gazed at her for some time he said, "Well, wife, this is fine for you to be king! now there is nothing more to wish for." "O husband!" said the wife, seeming quite restless, "I am tired of this already. Go to your fish and tell him that now I am king I must be emperor." 渔夫于是回家去了。来到宫前时，他发现宫殿大了许多，增加了一座高塔，塔身上有漂亮的雕饰。一排警卫守卫在宫殿门口，附近还有许多士兵，门前还有一支乐队，敲着锣打着鼓。他走进宫殿，只见样样东西都是金子和大理石做成的；桌椅上铺着天鹅绒，垂挂着很大的金流苏。一道道的门忽地打开了，整座王宫处处体现着富丽堂皇。他的老婆就坐在镶嵌着无数钻石的高大的金宝座上，头戴一顶宽大的金冠，手握一根用纯金和宝石做成的王仗。在宝座的两旁，六名宫女一字排开，一个比另一个矮一头。渔夫走上前去对她说："喂，老婆，你现在真的当上了国王吗？" "是的，"妻子回答说，"咱现在就是国王啦。"他站在那里上上下下地打量着妻子，过了一会儿说："哎，老婆，如今你当了国王，多么称心如意啊，往后咱们就不用再要什么了吧？" "当家的，那可不行，"妻子回答说，情绪开始烦躁起来，"我已经感到无聊得很，再也无法忍受了。快去找比目鱼，告诉他说我要当皇帝。"

白蛇 The White Snake C1 A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land. Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him through the air. But he had a strange custom; every day after dinner, when the table was cleared, and no one else was present, a trusty servant had to bring him one more dish. It was covered, however, and even the servant did not know what was in it, neither did anyone know, for the King never took off the cover to eat of it until he was quite alone. This had gone on for a long time, when one day the servant, who took away the dish, was overcome with such curiosity that he could not help carrying the dish into his room. When he had carefully locked the door, he lifted up the cover, and saw a white snake lying on the dish. 从前有位以他的智慧而闻名全国的国王，世界上的事情他没有不知道的，而且，好像再秘密的事情也能有风声传到他的耳朵里。 不过，这位国王有个古怪的习惯：每天吃完晚饭，桌子已经收拾干净，而且其他人也都已离开之后，一位忠实的侍从会再给他端来一道菜。不过，这道菜用盖子盖着，谁也不知道里面装的是什么，就连这侍从也不知道，因为国王每次都要等到房间里只剩下他一个人时才揭开盖子吃。 这种情况持续了很长一段时间，终于有一天，端碗的侍从再也克制不住好奇心，把这道菜端进了自己的房间。他小心地锁上门，揭开盖子，看到盘子里的菜是一条白蛇。 C2 But when he saw it he could not deny himself the pleasure of tasting it, so he cut off a little bit and put it into his mouth. No sooner had it touched his tongue than he heard a strange whispering of little voices outside his window. He went and listened, and then noticed that it was the sparrows who were chattering together, and telling one another of all kinds of things which they had seen in the fields and woods. Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals. Now it so happened that on this very day the Queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere. The King ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could before the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed. In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer. 他看到之后，就忍不住想尝一尝，于是他用刀子割下一小块送进嘴里。蛇肉刚碰到他的舌头，他就听到了窗子外面有一些奇怪的小声音在窃窃私语。他走到窗边侧耳细听，发现原来是一群麻雀在聊天，相互说着在田野和森林里的所见所闻。吃了那块蛇肉之后，他现在居然能听懂动物语言了！ 说来也巧，也就在这一天，王后最漂亮的戒指不见了，因为这个侍从哪里都可以去，所以偷戒指的嫌疑也就落到了他的头上。国王把他叫去大骂一通，并且威胁说，要是他第二天早晨说不出小偷是谁，那么他自己会被判为小偷，并被处死。侍从一再声明自己是清白无辜的，可没有用，国王还是不改变自己的主意。 C3 In his trouble and fear he went down into the courtyard and took thought how to help himself out of his trouble. Now some ducks were sitting together quietly by a brook and taking their rest; and, whilst they were making their feathers smooth with their bills, they were having a confidential conversation together. The servant stood by and listened. They were telling one another of all the places where they had been waddling about all the morning, and what good food they had found, and one said in a pitiful tone, "Something lies heavy on my stomach; as I was eating in haste I swallowed a ring which lay under the Queen's window." The servant at once seized her by the neck, carried her to the kitchen, and said to the cook, "Here is a fine duck; pray, kill her." - "Yes," said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; "she has spared no trouble to fatten herself, and has been waiting to be roasted long enough." So he cut off her head, and as she was being dressed for the spit, the Queen's ring was found inside her. 侍从的心里又是烦恼又是害怕，便走进院子去想怎样摆脱自己厄运的办法。有几只鸭子安安静静地坐在院子里的小溪旁，一面用喙梳理羽毛，一面说着悄悄话。侍从站在一旁听着。它们分别讲述着他们一上午都到过哪些地方，都找到一些什么好东西吃。其中一只鸭子抱怨说："我的胃里有样很重的东西。我吃东西的时候匆匆忙忙的，结果把王后窗子下的一只戒指吞进肚子里去了。 "侍从立刻抓住这只鸭子的脖子，把它拿到厨房，对厨师说："送你一只肥鸭子。请把它宰了。 ""好的，"厨师说，一面用手掂了掂鸭子，"这家伙拼死拼活地把自己吃得肥肥的，早就等着进烤箱了。 "厨师说着便砍下了鸭子的脑袋，在掏鸭内脏的时候，发现王后的戒指在里面。 C4 The servant could now easily prove his innocence; and the King, to make amends for the wrong, allowed him to ask a favour, and promised him the best place in the court that he could wish for. The servant refused everything, and only asked for a horse and some money for travelling, as he had a mind to see the world and go about a little. When his request was granted he set out on his way, and one day came to a pond, where he saw three fishes caught in the reeds and gasping for water. Now, though it is said that fishes are dumb, he heard them lamenting that they must perish so miserably, and, as he had a kind heart, he got off his horse and put the three prisoners back into the water. They quivered with delight, put out their heads, and cried to him, "We will remember you and repay you for saving us!" He rode on, and after a while it seemed to him that he heard a voice in the sand at his feet. He listened, and heard an ant-king complain, "Why cannot folks, with their clumsy beasts, keep off our bodies? That stupid horse, with his heavy hoofs, has been treading down my people without mercy!" So he turned on to a side path and the ant-king cried out to him, 'We will remember you - one good turn deserves another!" 这下侍从轻而易举地证明了自己的清白。国王觉得不该那样冤枉他，想作一些弥补，便允许他提出一个请求，而且还答应，只要他开口，可以把宫中最好的职位给他。可是侍从谢绝了这一切，只请求给他一匹马和一些旅费，让他出去看看外面的世界。国王答应了他的请求，他便上了路。一天，他来到了一个池塘边，看到池塘里有三条鱼让芦苇缠住了，嘴一张一张地想喝水。虽然人们常说鱼都是哑巴，他却听到它们在为自己这样惨死而哀声叹气。他很善良，下了马，把三条鱼重新放回到水里。鱼高兴极了，从水里探出头来，冲着他喊道："我们会记住你的，而且会报答你的救命之恩。" 他骑着马继续向前走。过了一会儿，他觉得好像听到脚底下的沙子里有什么声音。他听了一会儿，听到一只蚁王在抱怨："那些骑着笨牲口的人类为什么不离我们远一点呢？这匹蠢马沉重的蹄子踩死了我们多少人呵！"于是，他赶紧把马带到旁边的小路上。蚁王对他叫道："我们会记住你的。好心自然会有好报的！" C5 The path led him into a wood, and here he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones. "Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!" cried they; "we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves." But the poor young ravens lay upon the ground, flapping their wings, and crying, "Oh, what helpless chicks we are! We must shift for ourselves, and yet we cannot fly! What can we do, but lie here and starve?" So the good young fellow alighted and killed his horse with his sword, and gave it to them for food. Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried, "We will remember you - one good turn deserves another!" And now he had to use his own legs, and when he had walked a long way, he came to a large city. There was a great noise and crowd in the streets, and a man rode up on horseback, crying aloud, "The King's daughter wants a husband; but whoever sues for her hand must perform a hard task, and if he does not succeed he will forfeit his life." Many had already made the attempt, but in vain; nevertheless when the youth saw the King's daughter he was so overcome by her great beauty that he forgot all danger, went before the King, and declared himself a suitor. 这条小路把他带进了一座森林。他看到两只老乌鸦站在窝边，正往外扔小乌鸦。 "你们这些好吃懒做、没有用的东西！都给我出去！"老乌鸦在骂着，"我们再也养不活你们了。你们都长这么大了，应该自己养活自己。"可那些小乌鸦一个个躺在地上，扑打着翅膀喊着："我们真是可怜啊！没有谁能帮助我们。要我们自己养活自己，可我们连飞都还不会啊！除了躺在这里饿死，我们还有什么别的法子呢？ "善良的青年从马背上跳下来，拔出宝剑把马杀了，留给小乌鸦当粮食。小乌鸦们立刻跳过来，一面吃一面叫道："我们会记住你的。好心自然会有好报！ " 他现在只能靠两条腿步行。他走了很长一段路后，来到了一座大城市。街上叽叽喳喳的围了一群人，一个人骑在马背上高声叫道："公主要选丈夫，但求婚者必须完成一项艰巨的任务，完不成就得送掉自己的性命。"许多人都已经尝试过了，可他们只是白白地送掉了性命。我们这位年轻人一看到公主，就被她的美貌迷住了，他忘记了危险，到国王面前去求婚。 C6 So he was led out to the sea, and a gold ring was thrown into it, in his sight; then the King ordered him to fetch this ring up from the bottom of the sea, and added, "If you come up again without it you will be thrown in again and again until you perish amid the waves." All the people grieved for the handsome youth; then they went away, leaving him alone by the sea. He stood on the shore and considered what he should do, when suddenly he saw three fishes come swimming towards him, and they were the very fishes whose lives he had saved. The one in the middle held a mussel in its mouth, which it laid on the shore at the youth's feet, and when he had taken it up and opened it, there lay the gold ring in the shell. Full of joy he took it to the King, and expected that he would grant him the promised reward. But when the proud princess perceived that he was not her equal in birth, she scorned him, and required him first to perform another task. 他被带到海边，一枚戒指当着他的面被扔进了海中。国王命令他从海底把戒指捞上来，并且说："要是你捞不上来，我们就把你重新推进大海，直到浪涛把你吞没。"大家都为这位英俊的小伙子感到惋惜，一个个都悄悄走了，只留下他一个人在海边。 他站在海边，盘算着该怎么办。突然，他看到有三条鱼在向他游来，而且正是他救过的那三条鱼。中间那条鱼衔着一只贝壳，游到岸边就把它吐在了年轻人的脚边。他捡起贝壳打开一看，只见那枚金戒指就在里面。他兴冲冲地带着戒指去见国王，以为国王一定会把答应的奖赏赐给他。 可是，当高傲的公主得知他出身低微时，非常瞧不起他，要他先完成第二项任务。 C7 She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacks-full of millet-seed on the grass; then she said, "To-morrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting." The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death. But as soon as the first rays of the sun shone into the garden he saw all the ten sacks standing side by side, quite full, and not a single grain was missing. The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet-seed and gathered them into the sacks. Presently the King's daughter herself came down into the garden, and was amazed to see that the young man had done the task she had given him. 她走到花园里，亲手撒了十袋小米在草地上，并且说："明天日出之前，你必须把这些全部捡起来，一粒也不能少！" 年轻人坐在花园里，盘算着怎样才能完成这项任务。可是他什么办法也没有想出来，只好难过地坐在那里，等待着天亮被人带去处死。谁知当第一缕阳光照进花园时，他却看到那十袋小米已经装得满满的排在他的身旁，而且一粒也不少。原来，那只蚁王晚上带着成千上万的蚂蚁来过了。这些知恩报恩的小动物不辞辛劳地捡起所有的小米，装进了袋子。 不一会儿，公主亲自来到了花园，看到年轻人已经完成了交给他的任务，她不由得感到万分惊讶。 C8 But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said, "Although he has performed both the tasks, he shall not be my husband until he has brought me an apple from the Tree of Life." The youth did not know where the Tree of Life stood, but he set out, and would have gone on for ever, as long as his legs would carry him, though he had no hope of finding it. After he had wandered through three kingdoms, he came one evening to a wood, and lay down under a tree to sleep. But he heard a rustling in the branches, and a golden apple fell into his hand. At the same time three ravens flew down to him, perched themselves upon his knee, and said, "We are the three young ravens whom you saved from starving; when we had grown big, and heard that you were seeking the Golden Apple, we flew over the sea to the end of the world, where the Tree of Life stands, and have brought you the apple." The youth, full of joy, set out homewards, and took the Golden Apple to the King's beautiful daughter, who had no more excuses left to make. They cut the Apple of Life in two and ate it together; and then her heart became full of love for him, and they lived in undisturbed happiness to a great age. 可她那颗高傲的心还没有被征服，于是她说："虽然他完成了两项任务，我还是不能嫁给他，除非他能从生命之树上摘来一个苹果。 "年轻人根本不知道生命之树长在什么地方，可他还是出发了，而且准备一直找下去，直到他走不动为止。不过他也不抱多大希望，他找遍了三个王国，一天来到了一座森林。他躺在一棵树下刚准备睡觉，突然听到树枝上有沙沙的声音，一个金苹果掉进了他的手里！与其同时，三只乌鸦飞了下来，落在他的膝盖上，说："我们就是你救活的三只乌鸦。我们长大了之后，听说你在寻找金苹果，便飞过大海，到了长着生命之树的世界尽头，给你把苹果摘来了。 "年轻人万分高兴地踏上归途，带着金苹果回到了美丽的公主那里，这下公主再也没有什么可说的了。他俩把生命之果切成两半，吃了下去，她的心便充满了对他的爱，他们从此过着幸福安宁的生活。

C1 There was once on a time a poor man, who could no longer support his only son. Then said the son, "Dear father, things go so badly with us that I am a burden to you. I would rather go away and see how I can earn my bread." So the father gave him his blessing, and with great sorrow took leave of him. At this time the King of a mighty empire was at war, and the youth took service with him, and with him went out to fight. And when he came before the enemy, there was a battle, and great danger, and it rained shot until his comrades fell on all sides, and when the leader also was killed, those left were about to take flight, but the youth stepped forth, spoke boldly to them, and cried, "We will not let our fatherland be ruined!" Then the others followed him, and he pressed on and conquered the enemy. When the King heard that he owed the victory to him alone, he raised him above all the others, gave him great treasures, and made him the first in the kingdom. 从前有个穷人，穷得连自己的儿子都养不活。 儿子便对他说："好爸爸，我们现在的日子过得太糟了，而我又是你的一个负担。我现在想离开家，看能不能挣到饭吃。"父亲祝福了他，然后悲痛欲绝地送他出了家门。 这时候，一个强大帝国的国王正和人打仗，于是他便参加了国王的部队，上前线去打仗。他到达前线时正好赶上激烈的战斗，而且情况非常危急，他的战友们纷纷倒在敌人的弹雨中。当指挥官也牺牲时，剩下的人打算逃跑，可是这位年轻人站出来大着胆子对他们叫道："我们决不能让自己的祖国灭亡！"于是其他人跟在他的后面，在他的带领下打败了敌人。当国王得知这场胜利全靠他一个人时，就把他提升到最高的位置，给了他许多财富，使他一下子成了全国最显赫的人物。 C2 The King had a daughter who was very beautiful, but she was also very strange. She had made a vow to take no one as her lord and husband who did not promise to let himself be buried alive with her if she died first. "If he loves me with all his heart," said she, "of what use will life be to him afterwards?" On her side she would do the same, and if he died first, would go down to the grave with him. This strange oath had up to this time frightened away all wooers, but the youth became so charmed with her beauty that he cared for nothing, but asked her father for her. "But dost thou know what thou must promise?" said the King. "I must be buried with her," he replied, "if I outlive her, but my love is so great that I do not mind the danger." Then the King consented, and the wedding was solemnized with great splendour. 国王有一个女儿，虽长得非常美丽，脾气却非常古怪，她只答应嫁给一个保证在她死后愿意被活埋在她身边的人。 "如果这个人真心实意地爱我，"她说，"我死了之后他活着还有什么用？"反过来，她也是一样。如果她丈夫先死，她愿意和他一起被埋进坟墓。她这古怪的誓言吓得人一直不敢向她求婚，可是这位年轻人被公主的美貌迷住了，不顾一切地请求国王把女儿嫁给他。 "你知道你要作出什么样的承诺吗？"国王问。 "要是我活得比她长，就得为她做陪葬，"他回答，"可是我非常爱她，根本不在乎这种危险。"国王于是便答应了，他们举行了盛大的婚礼。 C3 They lived now for a while happy and contented with each other, and then it befell that the young Queen was attacked by a severe illness, and no physician could save her. And as she lay there dead, the young King remembered what he had been obliged to promise, and was horrified at having to lie down alive in the grave, but there was no escape. The King had placed sentries at all the gates, and it was not possible to avoid his fate. When the day came when the corpse was to be buried, he was taken down into the royal vault with it and then the door was shut and bolted. Near the coffin stood a table on which were four candles, four loaves of bread, and four bottles of wine, and when this provision came to an end, he would have to die of hunger. And now he sat there full of pain and grief, ate every day only a little piece of bread, drank only a mouthful of wine, and nevertheless saw death daily drawing nearer. Whilst he thus gazed before him, he saw a snake creep out of a corner of the vault and approach the dead body. 这对年轻人幸福美满地生活了一段时间，妻子便突然得了重病，医生们没有一个能治好她。她死了之后，年轻的丈夫想起了自己的诺言，知道自己得活生生地被关在坟墓里，不由得惊恐万状，可也没有什么别的办法。国王在王宫的各个大门口都派了岗哨，所以他根本不可能逃避这厄运。安葬尸体的那一天，他也被带进了王室的陵墓，然后墓门就被关上了，而且还上了插销。 棺材旁有张桌子，上面放着四支蜡烛、四条面包和四瓶酒。等这些东西消耗完后，他就会饿死。他万分痛苦、万分伤心地坐在那里，每天只吃一丁点面包，只喝一口酒，可死神还是一天天地在向他逼近。正当他出神地坐在那里时，他看到一条蛇从墓穴的角落里钻了出来，向死尸爬去。 C4 And as he thought it came to gnaw at it, he drew his sword and said, "As long as I live, thou shalt not touch her," and hewed the snake in three pieces. After a time a second snake crept out of the hole, and when it saw the other lying dead and cut in pieces, it went back, but soon came again with three green leaves in its mouth. Then it took the three pieces of the snake, laid them together, as they ought to go, and placed one of the leaves on each wound. Immediately the severed parts joined themselves together, the snake moved, and became alive again, and both of them hastened away together. The leaves were left lying on the ground, and a desire came into the mind of the unhappy man who had been watching all this, to know if the wondrous power of the leaves which had brought the snake to life again, could not likewise be of service to a human being. 他以为蛇是去咬她的肉，便拔出宝剑说："只要我还活着，你就休想碰她一下。"说完就把蛇砍成了三段。过了一会儿，又一条蛇从洞里爬了出来。当它看到第一条蛇被砍成了三段，已经死了，它便爬了回去。可不一会儿它又爬了出来，嘴里衔着三片绿色的叶子。然后，它把死蛇的三段拼在一起，在每一处伤口上盖上一片叶子。顷刻之间，那条断蛇的的几个部分又长在了一起。蛇动了几下便活了过来，然后和第二条蛇一起逃走了，而那三片叶子却留在了地上。这位目睹了这一切的不幸青年突然产生了一个想法：不知道这些把死蛇重新救活的叶子的魔力能不能把人也救活。 C5 So he picked up the leaves and laid one of them on the mouth of his dead wife, and the two others on her eyes. And hardly had he done this than the blood stirred in her veins, rose into her pale face, and coloured it again. Then she drew breath, opened her eyes, and said, "Ah, God, where am I?" - "Thou art with me, dear wife," he answered, and told her how everything had happened, and how he had brought her back again to life. Then he gave her some wine and bread, and when she had regained her strength, he raised her up and they went to the door and knocked, and called so loudly that the sentries heard it, and told the King. The King came down himself and opened the door, and there he found both strong and well, and rejoiced with them that now all sorrow was over. The young King, however, took the three snake-leaves with him, gave them to a servant and said, "Keep them for me carefully, and carry them constantly about thee; who knows in what trouble they may yet be of service to us!" 于是，他捡起叶子，在他亡妻的嘴上放了一片，又把另外两片放在她的眼睛上。他刚把叶子放好，血液便开始在她的血管里流动，慢慢涌上了她苍白的脸颊，使它重新变得绯红。接着，她吸了口气，睁开眼睛，说："啊，上帝，我这是在哪里呀？""你和我在一起，亲爱的妻子，"他回答，然后把所发生的一切，以及他救活她的经过告诉了她。他给她喝了点酒，又给她吃了点面包。等她重新恢复精力后，他扶她站起来走到墓门口，又是敲门又是叫喊。卫兵们听到后便去报告国王。国王亲自来打开墓门，发现他俩健康而富有活力，不禁为悲伤的事情终于结束而欣喜万分。年轻人把那三片蛇叶带了出来，把它们交给一个侍从，说："给我小心保管好，要时刻带在身边。天知道我们还会遇到什么麻烦呢？说不定我们还用得着它们呢！" C6 A change had, however, taken place in his wife; after she had been restored to life, it seemed as if all love for her husband had gone out of her heart. After some time, when he wanted to make a voyage over the sea, to visit his old father, and they had gone on board a ship, she forgot the great love and fidelity which he had shown her, and which had been the means of rescuing her from death, and conceived a wicked inclination for the skipper. And once when the young King lay there asleep, she called in the skipper and seized the sleeper by the head, and the skipper took him by the feet, and thus they threw him down into the sea. When the shameful deed was done, she said, "Now let us return home, and say that he died on the way. I will extol and praise thee so to my father that he will marry me to thee, and make thee the heir to his crown." 可他的妻子发生了变化，她死而复生之后好像完全失去了对丈夫的爱。过了一段时间，年轻人想过海去看看他的老父亲。他们上船之后，她就忘记了她丈夫对她所表现出的深深的爱和忠诚，也忘记了他对她的救命之恩，可恶地迷上了船长。一天，当年轻人睡着时，她叫来船长，自己抱住丈夫的头，船长抓住他的脚，两个人一起把他扔进了大海。干完了这可耻的勾当之后，她说："我们现在回去，就说他死在路上了。我会在我父亲的面前大大地夸奖你，赞扬你，使他同意把我嫁给你，并且让你做王位的继承人。" C7 But the faithful servant who had seen all that they did, unseen by them, unfastened a little boat from the ship, got into it, sailed after his master, and let the traitors go on their way. He fished up the dead body, and by the help of the three snake-leaves which he carried about with him, and laid on the eyes and mouth, he fortunately brought the young King back to life. They both rowed with all their strength day and night, and their little boat flew so swiftly that they reached the old King before the others did. He was astonished when he saw them come alone, and asked what had happened to them. When he learnt the wickedness of his daughter he said, "I cannot believe that she has behaved so ill, but the truth will soon come to light," and bade both go into a secret chamber and keep themselves hidden from every one. 可是那位忠心耿耿的侍从在暗中目睹了一切。他从大船上解下一只小船，坐上去寻找他的主人，不再管那两个坏家伙驶向哪里。他从水里捞起年轻人的尸体，把身上带着的三片蛇叶分别放在他的眼睛和嘴巴上，幸运地救活了他。 他俩日夜奋力地划船，小船行驶如飞，结果他们比其他人先回到老国王的王宫。老国王看到他俩独自回来自然感到很惊讶，便问发生了什么事。他听说自己女儿的可恶行径后说："我不相信她会干出这样卑鄙的事情，但是很快就会真相大白的。"他命令他俩躲进一间密室，不要让任何人看见。 C8 Soon afterwards the great ship came sailing in, and the godless woman appeared before her father with a troubled countenance. He said, "Why dost thou come back alone? Where is thy husband?" - "Ah, dear father," she replied, "I come home again in great grief; during the voyage, my husband became suddenly ill and died, and if the good skipper had not given me his help, it would have gone ill with me. He was present at his death, and can tell you all." The King said, "I will make the dead alive again," and opened the chamber, and bade the two come out. When the woman saw her husband, she was thunderstruck, and fell on her knees and begged for mercy. The King said, "There is no mercy. He was ready to die with thee and restored thee to life again, but thou hast murdered him in his sleep, and shalt receive the reward that thou deservest." Then she was placed with her accomplice in a ship which had been pierced with holes, and sent out to sea, where they soon sank amid the waves. 不久，大船驶了回来，那个不知羞耻的女人满脸愁容地来见父亲。老国王问："你怎么独自回来了？你丈夫呢？""唉，亲爱的父亲，"她回答，"我的心都要碎了。我丈夫在途中突然得病死了，要不是这位好心的船长帮助我，我就惨喽！我丈夫死的时候他也在场，他可以把一切告诉你。"国王说："我要让死去的人复活！"说着就打开了密室，叫那主仆二人出来。那女人一看见自己的丈夫，就像被雷打了一样跪了下去，请求饶恕。国王说："绝不能饶恕！他愿意和你一起去死，而且把你救活，可你却趁他睡着时害死他，你是罪有应得。"接着，她和她的帮凶被放在一条凿了洞的船上。船被推到海上，很快就在汹涌的浪涛中沉没了。

C9 About noon they saw a pretty snow-white bird sitting on a bough, and singing so sweetly that they stopped to listen. And when he had finished the bird spread his wings and flew before them, and they followed after him until they came to a little house, and the bird perched on the roof, and when they came nearer they saw that the house was built of bread, and roofed with cakes; and the window was of transparent sugar. "We will have some of this," said Hansel, "and make a fine meal. I will eat a piece of the roof, Grethel, and you can have some of the window-that will taste sweet." So Hansel reached up and broke off a bit of the roof, just to see how it tasted, and Grethel stood by the window and gnawed at it. Then they heard a thin voice call out from inside, "Nibble, nibble, like a mouse, Who is nibbling at my house?" And the children answered, "Never mind, It is the wind." 就在这时，他们看到了一只通体雪白的、极其美丽的鸟儿站在一根树枝上引吭高歌，它唱得动听极了，他们兄妹俩不由自主地停了下来，听它唱。 它唱完了歌，就张开翅膀，飞到了他们的面前，好像示意他们跟它走。 他们于是就跟着它往前走，一直走到了一幢小屋的前面，小鸟停到小屋的房顶上。他俩这时才发现小屋居然是用香喷喷的面包做的，房顶上是厚厚的蛋糕，窗户却是明亮的糖块。 "让我们放开肚皮吧，"汉赛尔说："这下我们该美美地吃上一顿了。我要吃一小块房顶，格莱特，你可以吃窗户，它的味道肯定美极了、甜极了。" 说着，汉赛尔爬上去掰了一小块房顶下来，尝着味道。格莱特却站在窗前，用嘴去啃那个甜窗户。这时，突然从屋子里传出一个声音： "啃啊！啃啊！啃啊啃！ 谁在啃我的小房子？ " 孩子们回答道： "是风啊，是风。” C10 And they went on eating, never disturbing themselves. Hansel, who found that the roof tasted very nice, took down a great piece of it, and Grethel pulled out a large round window-pane, and sat her down and began upon it. Then the door opened, and an aged woman came out, leaning upon a crutch. Hansel and Grethel felt very frightened, and let fall what they had in their hands. The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said, "Ah, my dear children, how come you here? you must come indoors and stay with me, you will be no trouble." So she took them each by the hand, and led them into her little house. And there they found a good meal laid out, of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts. After that she showed them two little white beds, and Hansel and Grethel laid themselves down on them, and thought they were in heaven. 他们边吃边回答，一点也不受干扰。 汉赛尔觉得房顶的味道特别美，便又拆下一大块来；格莱特也干脆抠下一扇小圆窗，坐在地上慢慢享用。突然，房子的门打开了，一个老婆婆拄着拐杖颤颤巍巍的走了出来。汉赛尔和格莱特吓得双腿打颤，拿在手里的食物也掉到了地上。 那个老婆婆晃着她颤颤巍巍的头说："好孩子，是谁带你们到这儿来的？来，跟我进屋去吧，这儿没人会伤害你们！" 她说着就拉着兄妹俩的手，把他们领进了她的小屋，并给他们准备了一顿丰盛的晚餐，有牛奶、糖饼、苹果，还有坚果。等孩子们吃完了，她又给孩子们铺了两张白色的小床，汉赛尔和格莱特往床上一躺，马上觉得是进了天堂。 C11 The old woman, although her behaviour was so kind, was a wicked witch, who lay in wait for children, and had built the little house on purpose to entice them. When they were once inside she used to kill them, cook them, and eat them, and then it was a feast day with her. The witch's eyes were red, and she could not see very far, but she had a keen scent, like the beasts, and knew very well when human creatures were near. When she knew that Hansel and Grethel were coming, she gave a spiteful laugh, and said triumphantly, "I have them, and they shall not escape me!" 其实这个老婆婆是笑里藏刀，她的友善只是伪装给他们看的，她事实上是一个专门引诱孩子上当的邪恶的巫婆，她那幢用美食建造的房子就是为了让孩子们落入她的圈套。一旦哪个孩子落入她的魔掌，她就杀死他，把他煮来吃掉。这个巫婆的红眼睛视力不好，看不远，但是她的嗅觉却像野兽一样灵敏，老远老远她就能嗅到人的味道。汉赛尔和格莱特刚刚走近她的房子她就知道了，高兴得一阵狂笑，然后就冷笑着打定了主意："我要牢牢地抓住他们，决不让他们跑掉。" C12 Early in the morning, before the children were awake, she got up to look at them, and as they lay sleeping so peacefully with round rosy cheeks, she said to herself, "What a fine feast I shall have!" Then she grasped Hansel with her withered hand, and led him into a little stable, and shut him up behind a grating; and call and scream as he might, it was no good. Then she went back to Grethel and shook her, crying, "Get up, lazy bones; fetch water, and cook something nice for your brother; he is outside in the stable, and must be fattened up. And when he is fat enough I will eat him." Grethel began to weep bitterly, but it was of no use, she had to do what the wicked witch bade her. And so the best kind of victuals was cooked for poor Hansel, while Grethel got nothing but crab-shells. 第二天一早，还不等孩子们醒来，她就起床了。看着两个小家伙那红扑扑、圆滚滚的脸蛋，她忍不住口水直流："好一顿美餐呐！"说着便抓住汉赛尔的小胳膊，把他扛进了一间小马厩，并用栅栏把他锁了起来。汉赛尔在里面大喊大叫，可是毫无用处。然后，老巫婆走过去把格莱特摇醒，冲着她吼道："起来，懒丫头！快去打水来替你哥哥煮点好吃的。他关在外面的马厩里，我要把他养得白白胖胖的，然后吃掉他。" 格莱特听了伤心得大哭起来，可她还是不得不按照那个老巫婆的吩咐去干活。于是，汉赛尔每天都能吃到许多好吃的，而可怜的格莱特每天却只有螃蟹壳吃。 C13 Each morning the old woman visited the little stable, and cried, "Hansel, stretch out your finger, that I may tell if you will soon be fat enough." Hansel, however, used to hold out a little bone, and the old woman, who had weak eyes, could not see what it was, and supposing it to be Hansel's finger, wondered very much that it was not getting fatter. When four weeks had passed and Hansel seemed to remain so thin, she lost patience and could wait no longer. "Now then, Grethel," cried she to the little girl; "be quick and draw water; be Hansel fat or be he lean, tomorrow I must kill and cook him." Oh what a grief for the poor little sister to have to fetch water, and how the tears flowed down over her cheeks! "Dear God, pray help us!" cried she; "if we had been devoured by wild beasts in the wood at least we should have died together." 每天早晨，老巫婆都要颤颤巍巍的走到小马厩去喊汉赛尔："汉赛尔，把你的手指头伸出来，让我摸摸你长胖了没有！"可是汉赛尔每次都是伸给她一根啃过的小骨头，老眼昏花的老巫婆，根本就看不清楚，她还真以为是汉赛尔的手指头呢！她心里感到非常纳闷，怎么汉赛尔还没有长胖一点呢？ 又过了四个星期，汉赛尔还是很瘦的样子。老巫婆失去了耐心，便扬言她不想再等了。 "过来，格莱特，"她对小女孩吼道，"快点去打水来！管他是胖还是瘦，明天我一定要杀死汉赛尔，把他煮来吃了。" 可怜的小妹妹被逼着去打水来准备煮她的哥哥，一路上她伤心万分，眼泪顺着脸颊一串一串地往下掉！ "亲爱的上帝，请帮帮我们吧！"她呼喊道，"还不如当初在森林里就被野兽吃掉，那我们总还是死在一起的呵！" C14 "Spare me your lamentations," said the old woman; "they are of no avail." Early next morning Grethel had to get up, make the fire, and fill the kettle. "First we will do the baking," said the old woman; "I have heated the oven already, and kneaded the dough." She pushed poor Grethel towards the oven, out of which the flames were already shining. "Creep in," said the witch, "and see if it is properly hot, so that the bread may be baked." And Grethel once in, she meant to shut the door upon her and let her be baked, and then she would have eaten her. But Grethel perceived her intention, and said, "I don't know how to do it: how shall I get in?" "Stupid goose," said the old woman, "the opening is big enough, do you see? I could get in myself!" and she stooped down and put her head in the oven's mouth. Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she went in farther, and she shut the iron door upon her, and put up the bar. Oh how frightfully she howled! but Grethel ran away, and left the wicked witch to burn miserably. “收起你的难过吧”老巫婆说到“这可没什么用。”第二天早上，格莱特得早起生火，而且要把炉子装满。“首先我们得做点烘焙”老巫婆说到。“烤箱已经预热好了，面团也已经揉搓好了。”她一把把格莱特推向了烤炉，这时的火焰已经烧起来了。 “进去看看！”老巫婆说到。“给我看看是不是够热了，这样我就能烤面包了。”格莱特刚进去，她本打算把烤箱门给关上，这样就能烤了格莱特然后吃了她。但格莱特看穿了她的意图，说到：“可是我不知道该怎么做，我怎样才能进去呢？” “你这个傻子。”老巫婆说到。“开口已经够大了，你看不见吗？我都可以进去！”于是她走过去，把自己的头放入了烤箱的入口。格莱特这时推了她一把，然后她进去的更深了。格莱特立马把铁门关上，然后把门闩给扣上。老巫婆叫的多惨啊！但格莱特跑开了，让老巫婆在里面悲惨的被烧死。 C15 Grethel went straight to Hansel, opened the stable-door, and cried, "Hansel, we are free! the old witch is dead!" Then out flew Hansel like a bird from its cage as soon as the door is opened. How rejoiced they both were! how they fell each on the other's neck! and danced about, and kissed each other! And as they had nothing more to fear they went over all the old witch's house, and in every corner there stood chests of pearls and precious stones. "This is something better than flint stones," said Hansel, as he filled his pockets, and Grethel, thinking she also would like to carry something home with her, filled her apron full. “ Now, away we go," said Hansel, "if we only can get out of the witch's wood." When they had journeyed a few hours they came to a great piece of water. "We can never get across this," said Hansel, "I see no stepping-stones and no bridge." 格莱特径直跑向汉赛尔，打开了门，喊道：“汉赛尔，我们自由了！老巫婆死了！”门一开，汉赛尔像小鸟飞出笼子一样飞了出来。他们俩多开心啊，他们紧紧的抱在一起，又是亲又是跳。他们再也不用担心了，所以他们逛完了整个老巫婆的房子，在各个角落都找到了装满珠宝和宝石的箱子。“这可比闪光小石头好多了。”汉赛尔边说，边把宝石塞进了口袋。格莱特也觉得，她应该带点什么来装满她的小围裙。“该出发了！“汉赛尔说道。”只要我们能出巫婆的森林就好了。“他们旅行了几个小时，到了一片水域。“我们过不去了，”汉赛尔说，“我没看到能跨过去用的石头或者桥。” C16 "And there is no boat either," said Grethel; "but here comes a white duck; if I ask her she will help us over." So she cried, "Duck, duck, here we stand, Hansel and Grethel, on the land, Stepping-stones and bridge we lack, Carry us over on your nice white back." And the duck came accordingly, and Hansel got upon her and told his sister to come too. "No," answered Grethel, "that would be too hard upon the duck; we can go separately, one after the other." And that was how it was managed, and after that they went on happily, until they came to the wood, and the way grew more and more familiar, till at last they saw in the distance their father's house. Then they ran till they came up to it, rushed in at the door, and fell on their father's neck. The man had not had a quiet hour since he left his children in the wood; but the wife was dead. And when Grethel opened her apron the pearls and precious stones were scattered all over the room, and Hansel took one handful after another out of his pocket. Then was all care at an end, and they lived in great joy together. “也没有船。”格莱特说道。“不过，来了只白色的鸭子。让我问问她能不能帮我们。”于是，她喊道： “鸭子，鸭子，我们在这儿。汉赛尔和格莱特，在陆地边。我们找不到石头和桥，好心的你能帮帮我们，载我们过河吗？” 于是，鸭子边过来了，汉赛尔先上去了，然后叫他的妹妹一起上来。“不。”格莱特说，“这对她来说太累了，我们分开走，一个接一个的。”于是，他们就这样跨过了河。他们高兴的走着，直到到了树林，他们越来越熟悉了，最终他们终于看到了父亲的房子。他们一路小跑到了家，冲过门，跃上了父亲的脖子。父亲在留他们在森林后，已经很久没有看到他们了。继母已经去世了。当格莱特打开她的围裙时，珠宝和宝石洒满了整个房间，汉赛尔也一个接一个的把他口袋里的宝贝掏了出来。最后，他们再次，一起开心的生活了。

C1 Near a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife, and his two children; the boy's name was Hansel and the girl's Grethel. They had very little to bite or to sup, and once, when there was great dearth in the land, the man could not even gain the daily bread. As he lay in bed one night thinking of this, and turning and tossing, he sighed heavily, and said to his wife, "What will become of us? we cannot even feed our children; there is nothing left for ourselves." "I will tell you what, husband," answered the wife; "we will take the children early in the morning into the forest, where it is thickest; we will make them a fire, and we will give each of them a piece of bread, then we will go to our work and leave them alone; they will never find the way home again, and we shall be quit of them." 在大森林的边上，住着一个贫穷的樵夫，他妻子和两个孩子与他相依为命。 他的儿子名叫汉赛尔，女儿名叫格莱特。 他们家里原本就缺吃少喝，而这一年正好遇上国内物价飞涨，樵夫一家更是吃了上顿没下顿，连每天的面包也无法保证。这天夜里，愁得辗转难眠的樵夫躺在床上大伤脑筋，他又是叹气，又是呻吟。终于他对妻子说："咱们怎么办哪！自己都没有一点吃的，又拿什么去养咱们那可怜的孩子啊？" "听我说，孩子他爹，"他老婆回答道："明天大清早咱们就把孩子们带到远远的密林中去，在那儿给他们生一堆火，再给他们每人一小块面包，然后咱们就假装去干咱们的活，把他们单独留在那儿。他们不认识路，回不了家，咱们就不用再养他们啦。" C2 "No, wife," said the man, "I cannot do that; I cannot find in my heart to take my children into the forest and to leave them there alone; the wild animals would soon come and devour them." - "O you fool," said she, "then we will all four starve; you had better get the coffins ready," and she left him no peace until he consented. "But I really pity the poor children," said the man. The two children had not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Grethel wept bitterly, and said to Hansel, "It is all over with us." "不行啊，老婆，"樵夫说："我不能这么干啊。我怎么忍心把我的孩子丢在丛林里喂野兽呢！" "哎，你这个笨蛋，"他老婆说，"不这样的话，咱们四个全都得饿死！"接着她又叽哩呱啦、没完没了地劝他，最后，他也就只好默许了。 那时两个孩子正饿得无法入睡，正好听见了继母与父亲的全部对话。听见继母对父亲的建议，格莱特伤心地哭了起来，对汉赛尔说："这下咱俩可全完了。" C3 "Do be quiet, Grethel," said Hansel, "and do not fret; 1 will manage something." And when the parents had gone to sleep he got up, put on his little coat, opened the back door, and slipped out. The moon was shining brightly, and the white flints that lay in front of the house glistened like pieces of silver. Hansel stooped and filled the little pocket of his coat as full as it would hold. Then he went back again, and said to Grethel, "Be easy, dear little sister, and go to sleep quietly; God will not forsake us," and laid himself down again in his bed. When the day was breaking, and before the sun had risen, the wife came and awakened the two children, saying, "Get up, you lazy bones; we are going into the forest to cut wood." Then she gave each of them a piece of bread, and said, "That is for dinner, and you must not eat it before then, for you will get no more." Grethel carried the bread under her apron, for Hansel had his pockets full of the flints. Then they set off all together on their way to the forest. When they had gone a little way Hansel stood still and looked back towards the house, and this he did again and again, till his father said to him, "Hansel, what are you looking at? take care not to forget your legs." "别吱声，格莱特，"汉赛尔安慰她说，"放心吧，我会有办法的。" 等两个大人睡熟后，他便穿上小外衣，打开后门偷偷溜到了房外。这时月色正明，皎洁的月光照得房前空地上的那些白色小石子闪闪发光，就像是一块块银币。汉赛尔蹲下身，尽力在外衣口袋里塞满白石子。然后他回屋对格莱特说："放心吧，小妹，只管好好睡觉就是了，上帝会与我们同在的。" 说完，他回到了他的小床上睡觉。 天刚破晓，太阳还未跃出地平线，那个女人就叫醒了两个孩子，"快起来，快起来，你们这两个懒虫！"她嚷道，"我们要进山砍柴去了。"说着，她给一个孩子一小块面包，并告诫他们说："这是你们的午饭，可别提前吃掉了，因为你们再也甭想得到任何东西了。"格莱特接过面包藏在她的围裙底下，因为汉赛尔的口袋里这时塞满了白石子。 随后，他们全家就朝着森林进发了。汉赛尔总是走一会儿便停下来回头看看自己的家，走一会儿便停下来回头看自己的家。他的父亲见了便说："汉赛尔，你老是回头瞅什么？ 专心走你的路。 " C4 "O father," said Hansel, "lam looking at my little white kitten, who is sitting up on the roof to bid me good-bye." - "You young fool," said the woman, "that is not your kitten, but the sunshine on the chimney-pot." Of course Hansel had not been looking at his kitten, but had been taking every now and then a flint from his pocket and dropping it on the road. When they reached the middle of the forest the father told the children to collect wood to make a fire to keep them, warm; and Hansel and Grethel gathered brushwood enough for a little mountain j and it was set on fire, and when the flame was burning quite high the wife said, "Now lie down by the fire and rest yourselves, you children, and we will go and cut wood; and when we are ready we will come and fetch you." So Hansel and Grethel sat by the fire, and at noon they each ate their pieces of bread. They thought their father was in the wood all the time, as they seemed to hear the strokes of the axe: but really it was only a dry branch hanging to a withered tree that the wind moved to and fro. So when they had stayed there a long time their eyelids closed with weariness, and they fell fast asleep. "哦，爸爸，"汉赛尔回答说："我在看我的白猫呢，他高高地蹲在屋顶上，想跟我说'再见'呢！" "那不是你的小猫，小笨蛋，"继母讲，"那是早晨的阳光照在烟囱上。"其实汉赛尔并不是真的在看小猫，他是悄悄地把亮亮的白石子从口袋里掏出来，一粒一粒地丢在走过的路上。 到了森林的深处，他们的父亲对他们说："嗨，孩子们，去拾些柴火来，我给你们生一堆火。" 汉赛尔和格莱特拾来许多枯枝，把它们堆得像小山一样高。当枯枝点着了，火焰升得老高后，继母就对他们说："你们两个躺到火堆边上去吧，好好呆着，我和你爸爸到林子里砍柴。等一干完活，我们就来接你们回家。" 于是汉赛尔和格莱特坐在火堆旁边，等他们的父母干完活再来接他们。到了中午时分，他们就吃掉了自己的那一小块面包。因为一直能听见斧子砍树的嘭、嘭声，他们相信自己的父亲就在近旁。其实他们听见的根本就不是斧子发出的声音，那是一根绑在一棵小树上的枯枝，在风的吹动下撞在树干上发出来的声音。兄妹俩坐了好久好久，疲倦得上眼皮和下眼皮都打起架来了。没多久，他们俩就呼呼睡着了 C5 When at last they woke it was night, and Grethel began to cry, and said, "How shall we ever get out of this wood? "But Hansel comforted her, saying, "Wait a little while longer, until the moon rises, and then we can easily find the way home." And when the full moon got up Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the way where the flint stones shone like silver, and showed them the road. They walked on the whole night through, and at the break of day they came to their father's house. They knocked at the door, and when the wife opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Grethel she said, "You naughty children, why did you sleep so long in the wood? we thought you were never coming home again!" But the father was glad, for it had gone to his heart to leave them both in the woods alone. 等他们从梦中醒来时，已是漆黑的夜晚。格莱特害怕得哭了起来，说："这下咱们找不到出森林的路了！" "别着急，"汉赛尔安慰她说，"等一会儿月亮出来了，咱们很快就会找到出森林的路。" 不久，当一轮满月升起来时，汉赛尔就拉着他妹妹的手，循着那些月光下像银币一样在地上闪闪发光的白石子指引的路往前走。他们走了整整的一夜，在天刚破晓的时候回到了他们父亲的家门口。他们敲敲门，来开门的是他们的继母。她打开门一见是汉赛尔和格莱特，就说："你们怎么在森林里睡了这么久，我们还以为你们不想回家了呐！" 看到孩子，父亲喜出望外，因为冷酷地抛弃两个孩子，他心中十分难受。 C6 Not very long after that there was again great scarcity in those parts, and the children heard their mother say at night in bed to their father, "Everything is finished up; we have only half a loaf, and after that the tale comes to an end. The children must be off; we will take them farther into the wood this time, so that they shall not be able to find the way back again; there is no other way to manage." The man felt sad at heart, and he thought, "It would better to share one's last morsel with one's children." But the wife would listen to nothing that he said, but scolded and reproached him. He who says A must say B too, and when a man has given in once he has to do it a second time. But the children were not asleep, and had heard all the talk. When the parents had gone to sleep Hansel got up to go out and get more flint stones, as he did before, but the wife had locked the door, and Hansel could not get out; but he comforted his little sister, and said, "Don't cry, Grethel, and go to sleep quietly, and God will help us." 他们一家又在一起艰难地生活了。但时隔不久，又发生了全国性的饥荒。一天夜里，两个孩子又听见继母对他们的父亲说："哎呀！能吃的都吃光了，就剩这半个面包，你看以后可怎么办啊？咱们还是得减轻负担，必须把两个孩子给扔了！这次咱们可以把他们带进更深、更远的森林中去，叫他们再也找不到路回来。只有这样才能挽救我们自己。" 听见妻子又说要抛弃孩子，樵夫心里十分难过。他心想，大家同甘共苦，共同分享最后一块面包不是更好吗？但是像天下所有的男人一样，对一个女人说个"不"字那是太难太难了，樵夫也毫不例外。就像是"谁套上了笼头，谁就必须得拉车"的道理一样，樵夫既然对妻子作过第一次让步，当然就必然有第二次让步了，他也就不再反对妻子的建议了。 然而，孩子们听到了他们的全部谈话。等父母都睡着后，汉赛尔又从床上爬了起来，想溜出门去，像上次那样，到外边去捡些小石子，但是这次他发现门让继母给锁死了。但他心里又有了新的主意，他又安慰他的小妹妹说："别哭，格莱特，不用担心，好好睡觉。上帝会帮助咱们的。" C7 Early the next morning the wife came and pulled the children out of bed. She gave them each a little piece of "bread -less than before; and on the way to the wood Hansel crumbled the bread in his pocket, and often stopped to throw a crumb on the ground. "Hansel, what are you stopping behind and staring for?" said the father. "I am looking at my little pigeon sitting on the roof, to say good-bye to me," answered Hansel. "You fool," said the wife, "that is no pigeon, but the morning sun shining on the chimney pots." Hansel went on as before, and strewed bread crumbs all along the road. The woman led the children far into the wood, where they had never been before in all their lives. And again there was a large fire made, and the mother said, "Sit still there, you children, and when you are tired you can go to sleep; we are going into the forest to cut wood, and in the evening, when we are ready to go home we will come and fetch you." 一大清早，继母就把孩子们从床上揪了下来。她给了他们每人一块面包，可是比上次那块要小多了。 在去森林的途中，汉赛尔在口袋里捏碎了他的面包，并不时地停下脚步，把碎面包屑撒在路上。 "汉赛尔，你磨磨蹭蹭地在后面看什么？"他的父亲见他老是落在后面就问他。 "我在看我的小鸽子，它正站在屋顶上'咕咕咕'地跟我说再见呢。"汉赛尔回答说。 "你这个白痴，"他继母叫道，"那不是你的鸽子，那是早晨的阳光照在烟囱上面。"但是汉赛尔还是在路上一点一点地撒下了他的面包屑。 继母领着他们走了很久很久，来到了一个他们从未到过的森林中。像上次一样，又生起了一大堆火，继母又对他们说："好好呆在这儿，孩子们，要是困了就睡一觉，我们要到远点的地方去砍柴，干完活我们就来接你们。" C8 So when noon came Grethel shared her bread with Hansel, who had strewed his along the road. Then they went to sleep, and the evening passed, and no one came for the poor children. When they awoke it was dark night, and Hansel comforted his little sister, and said, "Wait a little, Grethel, until the moon gets up, then we shall be able to see the way home by the crumbs of bread that I have scattered along it." So when the moon rose they got up, but they could find no crumbs of bread, for the birds of the woods and of the fields had come and picked them up. Hansel thought they might find the way all the same, but they could not. They went on all that night, and the next day from the morning until the evening, but they could not find the way out of the wood, and they were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but the few berries they could pick up. And when they were so tired that they could no longer drag themselves along, they lay down under a tree and fell asleep. It was now the third morning since they had left their father's house. They were always trying to get back to it, but instead of that they only found themselves farther in the wood, and if help had not soon come they would have been starved. 到了中午，格莱特把她的面包与汉赛尔分来吃了，因为汉赛尔的面包已经撒在路上了。然后，他们俩又睡着了。一直到了半夜，仍然没有人来接这两个可怜的孩子，他们醒来已是一片漆黑。汉赛尔安慰他的妹妹说："等月亮一出来，我们就看得见我撒在地上的面包屑了，它一定会指给我们回家的路。" 但是当月亮升起来时，他们在地上却怎么也找不到一点面包屑了，原来它们都被那些在树林里、田野上飞来飞去的鸟儿一点点地啄食了。 虽然汉赛尔也有些着急了，但他还是安慰妹妹说："我们一定能找到路的，格莱特。" 但他们没有能够找到路，虽然他们走了一天一夜，可就是出不了森林。他们已经饿得头昏眼花，因为除了从地上找到的几颗草霉，他们没吃什么东西。这时他们累得连脚都迈不动了，倒在一颗树下就睡着了。 这已是他们离开父亲家的第三天早晨了，他们深陷丛林，已经迷路了。如果再不能得到帮助，他们必死无疑。

C1 There was once a girl who was lazy and would not spin, and her mother could not persuade her to it, do what she would. At last the mother became angry and out of patience, and gave her a good beating, so that she cried out loudly. At that moment the Queen was going by; as she heard the crying, she stopped; and, going into the house, she asked the mother why she was beating her daughter, so that every one outside in the street could hear her cries. The woman was ashamed to tell of her daughter's laziness, so she said, "I cannot stop her from spinning; she is for ever at it, and I am poor and cannot furnish her with flax enough." 从前有个女孩，非常懒惰，怎么着都不愿意纺纱。 终于有一天，母亲感到忍无可忍，就打了她一顿，她于是嚎啕大哭起来。 正巧这时王后乘车从门前经过，听见了哭声，吩咐把车停下来，进屋问那位母亲为什么打女儿。做母亲的怎好意思说自己的女儿如何如何的懒惰，于是就回答说："我叫她不要再纺了，可她就是不听，在纺车上仍然纺个不停。 C2 Then the Queen answered, "I like nothing better than the sound of the spinning-wheel, and always feel happy when I hear its humming; let me take your daughter with me to the castle - I have plenty of flax, she shall spin there to her heart's content." The mother was only too glad of the offer, and the Queen took the girl with her. When they reached the castle the Queen showed her three rooms which were filled with the finest flax as full as they could hold. "Now you can spin me this flax," said she, "and when you can show it me all done you shall have my eldest son for bridegroom; you may be poor, but I make nothing of that - your industry is dowry enough." 我穷啊，哪买得起那么多的亚麻呀。 " 王后听了说道："我最爱纺纱。让你的女儿随我进宫去吧，我有的是亚麻，她愿意纺多少就纺多少。" 母亲听了这话，打心眼儿里高兴，满口答应下来，王后便带着女孩走了。 她们到了王宫之后，王后领着女孩上了楼，把三间库房指给她看，只见库房里装满了最好的亚麻。 "喏，你就为我纺这些亚麻吧，"王后说道，"你什么时候纺完了，就嫁给我的长子。" C3 The girl was inwardly terrified, for she could not have spun the flax, even if she were to live to be a hundred years old, and were to sit spinning every day of her life from morning to evening. And when she found herself alone she began to weep, and sat so for three days without putting her hand to it. On the third day the Queen came, and when she saw that nothing had been done of the spinning she was much surprised; but the girl excused herself by saying that she had not been able to begin because of the distress she was in at leaving her home and her mother. The excuse contented the Queen, who said, however, as she went away, "Tomorrow you must begin to work." When the girl found herself alone again she could not tell how to help herself or what to do, and in her perplexity she went and gazed out of the window. There she saw three women passing by, and the first of them had a broad flat foot, the second had a big under-lip that hung down over her chin, and the third had a remarkably broad thumb. 女孩听了心里一阵惊恐--即使她每天从早纺到晚，纺到她三百岁的时候，也休想把那么多的亚麻纺完。剩下女孩独自一人时，她就哭了起来。她就这样哭哭啼啼地坐着，一晃儿三天过去了，还没动手纺纱呢。第三天，女孩不知如何是好，忧心忡忡地来到窗前。恰在这时她看见有三个女人走了过来：第一个女人的一个脚板又宽又平；第二个的下嘴唇很长，耷拉到下巴上；而第三个的一只大拇指非常宽大。 C4 They all of them stopped in front of the window, and called out to know what it was that the girl wanted. She told them all her need, and they promised her their help, and said, "Then will you invite us to your wedding, and not be ashamed of us, and call us your cousins, and let us sit at your table; if you will promise this, we will finish off your flax-spinning in a very short time." "With all my heart," answered the girl; "only come in now, and begin at once." 这三个女人走到窗下停住了脚，问女孩为什么忧心忡忡，她就向她们诉说了自己的苦恼。 "只要你不嫌我们丢人，"他们对女孩说道，"请我们参加你的婚礼，说我们是你的表姐，并且让我们与你同桌喝喜酒，我们就帮你把这些亚麻纺完。" "我非常乐意。"女孩回答说。 C5 Then these same women came in, and she cleared a space in the first room for them to sit and carry on their spinning. The first one drew out the thread and moved the treddle that turned the wheel, the second moistened the thread, the third twisted it, and rapped with her finger on the table, and as often as she rapped a heap of yarn fell to the ground, and it was most beautifully spun. But the girl hid the three spinsters out of the Queen's sight, and only showed her, as often as she came, the heaps of well-spun yarn; and there was no end to the praises she received. When the first room was empty they went on to the second, and then to the third, so that at last all was finished. Then the three women took their leave, saying to the girl, "Do not forget what you have promised, and it will be all the better for you." 说罢，女孩就让这三个长相奇特的女人进屋来。她们进来后刚一坐下就开始纺纱。每次王后来，女孩生怕王后发现，便把那三个纺纱女藏起来，而让王后看已经纺好的纱。王后看了之后，对她赞不绝口。 库房里所有的亚麻都纺完了，这三个纺织女便跟女孩告别，临行前对她说道："你可千万不要忘记了对我们许下的诺言，这关系到你自己的幸福啊。" C6 So when the girl took the Queen and showed her the empty rooms, and the great heaps of yarn, the wedding was at once arranged, and the bridegroom rejoiced that he should have so clever and diligent a wife, and praised her exceedingly. "I have three cousins," said the girl, "and as they have shown me a great deal of kindness, I would not wish to forget them in my good fortune; may I be allowed to invite them to the wedding, and to ask them to sit at the table with us?" The Queen and the bridegroom said at once, "There is no reason against it." 女孩领着王后看了三间空荡荡的库房和堆得像小山似的纱线，王后于是就安排了婚礼。 "我有三位表姐，"女孩说，"她们待我非常好。在我自己幸福如意的时候，怎么也不愿意冷漠了她们。请允许我邀请她们来参加婚礼，并且让她们在婚宴上和我们坐在一起。" 王后和王子欣然同意。婚礼那天，三个纺纱女果然来了。 C7 So when the feast began in came the three spinsters in strange guise, and the bride said, "Dear cousins, you are welcome." "Oh," said the bridegroom, "how come you to have such dreadfully ugly relations?" And then he went up to the first spinster and said, "How is it that you have such a broad flat foot?" "With treading," answered she, "with treading." Then he went up to the second and said, "How is it that you have such a great hanging lip?" 她们打扮得怪模怪样的，很令人发笑。新娘马上迎上去说： "欢迎你们，亲爱的表姐们。" "你的几个表姐怎么长得这么丑？"王子问道。随后，他转身走到那个大脚板女人身边，问道："您的一只脚怎么会这样大呢？" "踏纺车踏的呗。"她回答道。 新郎又走到第二个女人身旁，问道："您的嘴唇怎么会耷拉着呢？" C8 "With licking," answered she, "with licking." Then he asked the third, "How is it that you have such a broad thumb?" "With twisting thread," answered she, "with twisting thread." Then the bridegroom said that from that time forward his beautiful bride should never touch a spinning-wheel. And so she escaped that tiresome flax-spinning. "舔麻线舔的呗。"她回答说。 然后他问第三个女人："您的大拇指怎么会这样宽呢？" "捻麻线捻的呗。"她回答说。 王子听罢三人的回答，大惊失色，于是就说："我美丽的新娘今后绝不再碰纺车一下。" 就这样，女孩从此再也用不着干纺纱这个讨厌的活儿了。

Chapter 6 The girl went into the wood and walked straight up to the little house. The three little men peeped out again, but she gave them no greeting, and without looking round or taking any notice of them she came stumping into the room, sat herself down by the oven, and began to eat her bread and butter and cakes. "Give us some of that," cried the little men, but she answered, "I've not enough for myself; how can I give away any?" Now when she had done with her eating, they said, "Here is a broom, go and sweep all clean by the back door." "Oh, go and do it yourselves," answered she; "I am not your housemaid." But when she saw that they were not going to give her anything, she went out to the door. Then the three little men said among themselves, "What shall we do to her, because she is so unpleasant, and has such a wicked jealous heart, grudging everybody everything?" The first said, "She shall grow uglier every day." The second said, "Each time she speaks a toad shall jump out of her mouth at every word." The third said, "She shall die a miserable death." 这个姑娘进了森林之后，径直向小屋走去。 三个小矮人又在屋里向外张望，可是她根本不和他们打招呼，既不看他们，也不和他们说话，大摇大摆地走进屋，一屁股坐到炉子旁，吃起自己的面包和蛋糕来。"分一点给我们吧，"小矮人们说；可是她却回答："这都不够我自己吃的，怎么能分给别人呢？"等她吃完，他们又说："这里有把扫帚，把后门的雪扫干净。"她回答："我又不是你们的佣人。"看到他们不会给她任何礼物了，她便自己冲出了屋子。 三个小矮人商量道："像她这种坏心肠的小懒鬼，又不肯施舍给别人东西，我们该送她什么呢？"第一个矮人说："我让她长得一天比一天丑！"第二个矮人说："我让她一开口说话就从嘴里跳出一只癞蛤蟆！"第三个矮人说："我让她不得好死！" Chapter 7 The girl was looking outside for strawberries, but as she found none, she went sulkily home. And directly she opened her mouth to tell her mother what had happened to her in the wood a toad sprang out of her mouth at each word, so that every one who came near her was quite disgusted. The stepmother became more and more set against the man's daughter, whose beauty increased day by day, and her only thought was how to do her some injury. So at last she took a kettle, set it on the fire, and scalded some yarn in it. When it was ready she hung it over the poor girl's shoulder, and gave her an axe, and she was to go to the frozen river and break a hole in the ice, and there to rinse the yarn. She obeyed, and went and hewed a hole in the ice, and as she was about it there came by a splendid coach, in which the King sat. The coach stood still, and the King said, "My child, who art thou, and what art thou doing there?" 姑娘在屋外找草莓，可一个也找不到，只好气鼓鼓地回家去了。她开口给母亲讲自己在森林里的遭遇，可是，她每讲一句话，嘴里就跳出来一只癞蛤蟆，把大家都吓坏了。 这一来继母更是气坏了，千方百计地盘算着怎么折磨丈夫的女儿，可是这姑娘却长得一天比一天更美。终于，继母取出一只锅子，架在火堆上，在里面煮线团。线团煮过之后，她把它捞出来，搭在姑娘的肩膀上，然后又给姑娘一把斧头，让她去结冰的小河，在冰面上凿一个洞，在洞里漂洗线团。姑娘顺从地来到河边，走到河中央凿冰。她正凿着，岸上驶来了一辆华丽的马车，里面坐着国王。马车停了下来，国王问："姑娘，你是谁？在这里干什么？" Chapter 8 She answered, "I am a poor girl, and am rinsing yarn." Then the King felt pity for her, and as he saw that she was very beautiful, he said, "Will you go with me?" "Oh yes, with all my heart," answered she; and she felt very glad to be out of the way of her mother and sister. So she stepped into the coach and went off with the King; and when they reached his castle the wedding was celebrated with great splendour, as the little men in the wood had foretold. At the end of a year the young Queen had a son; and as the stepmother had heard of her great good fortune she came with her daughter to the castle, as if merely to pay the King and Queen a visit. One day, when the King had gone out, and when nobody was about, the bad woman took the Queen by the head, and her daughter took her by the heels, and dragged her out of bed, and threw her out of the window into a stream that flowed beneath it. Then the old woman put her ugly daughter in the bed, and covered her up to her chin. "我是个可怜的女孩，在这里漂洗线团。"国王很同情她，而且又看到她长得这么美丽，便对她说："你愿意和我一起走吗？""当然愿意啦。"她回答，因为她非常高兴能离开继母和继母的女儿。姑娘坐到国王的马车上，和国王一起回到宫中。他俩立刻就举行了婚礼，正像三个小矮人许诺过的一样。一年后，年轻的王后生下了一个儿子。她的继母早已听说她交上了好运，这时也带着亲生女儿来到王宫，假装是来看王后的。可是看到国王刚出去，而且旁边又没有别人，这坏心肠的女人就抓住王后的头，她的女儿抓住王后的脚，把她从床上抬下来，从窗口把她扔进了外面的大河里。然后，继母的丑女儿躺在床上，老婆子从头到脚把她盖了起来。 Chapter 9 When the King came back, and wanted to talk to his wife a little, the old woman cried, "Stop, stop! she is sleeping nicely; she must be kept quiet to day." The King dreamt of nothing wrong, and came again the next morning; and as he spoke to his wife, and she answered him, there jumped each time out of her mouth a toad instead of the piece of gold as heretofore. Then he asked why that should be, and the old woman said it was because of her great weakness, and that it would pass away. But in the night, the boy who slept in the kitchen saw how something in the likeness of a duck swam up the gutter, and said, "My King, what mak'st thou? Sleepest thou, or wak'st thou?" But there was no answer. Then it said, "What cheer my two guests keep they?" So the kitchen-boy answered, "In bed all soundly sleep they." It asked again, "And my little baby, how does he?" And he answered, "He sleeps in his cradle quietly." 当国王回到房间，想和他的妻子说话的时候，老婆子叫了起来："嘘，唬，不要打搅她，她现在正在发汗。今天不要打搅她。"国王丝毫没有怀疑，一直等到第二天早晨才过来。他和妻子说话，谁知她刚开口，嘴里就跳出来一只癞蛤蟆，而不像从前那样掉出金子来。国王问这是怎么回事，老婆子便说这是发汗发出来的，很快就会好的。但是当天夜里，王宫里的小帮工看见一只鸭子从下水道里游了出来，而且听见它说： "国王，你在做什么？ 你是睡着了还是醒着？ " 看到小帮工没有回答，它又说： "我的两位客人在做什么？" 小帮工说： "她们睡熟了。" 鸭子又问： "我的小宝宝在做什么？" 小帮工回答： "他在摇篮里睡得好好的。" Chapter 10 Then the duck took the shape of the Queen and went to the child, and gave him to drink, smoothed his little bed, covered him up again, and then, in the likeness of a duck, swam back down the gutter. In this way she came two nights, and on the third she said to the kitchen-boy, "Go and tell the King to brandish his sword three times over me on the threshold!" Then the kitchen-boy ran and told the King, and he came with his sword and brandished it three times over the duck, and at the third time his wife stood before him living, and hearty, and sound, as she had been before. The King was greatly rejoiced, but he hid the Queen in a chamber until the Sunday came when the child was to be baptized. And after the baptism he said, "What does that person deserve who drags another out of; bed and throws him in the water?" And the old woman answered, "No better than to be put into a cask with iron nails in it, and to be rolled in it down the hill into the water." Then said the King, "You have spoken your own sentence;"and he ordered a cask to be fetched, and the old woman and her daughter were put into it, and the top hammered down, and the cask was rolled down the hill into the river. 鸭子变成了王后的模样，上去给孩子喂奶，摇着他的小床，给他盖好被子，然后又变成鸭子，从下水道游走了。她这样一连来了两个晚上，第三天晚上，她对小帮工说："你去告诉国王，让他带上他的宝剑，站在门槛上，在我的头上挥舞三下。"小帮工赶紧跑去告诉国王，国王提着宝剑来了，在那幽灵的头顶上挥舞了三下。他刚舞到第三下，她的妻子就站在了他的面前，像以前一样健康强壮。国王高兴极了，可他仍然把王后藏进密室，等着礼拜天婴儿受洗的日子到来。洗礼结束之后，他说："要是有人把别人从床上拖下来，并且扔进河里，这个人该受到什么样的惩罚？"老婆子说："对这样坏心肠的人，最好的惩罚是把他装进里面插满了钉子的木桶，从山坡上滚到河里去。""那么，"国王说，"你已经为自己做出了判决。"国王命令搬来一只这样的木桶，把老婆子和她的女儿装进去，并且把桶盖钉死，把桶从山坡上滚了下去，一直滚到河心。

Chapter 1 There was once a man, whose wife was dead, and a woman, whose husband was dead; and the man had a daughter, and so had the woman. The girls were acquainted with each other, and used to play together sometimes in the woman's house. So the woman said to the man's daughter, "Listen to me, tell your father that I will marry him, and then you shall have milk to wash in every morning and wine to drink, and my daughter shall have water to wash in and water to drink." The girl went home and told her father what the woman had said. The man said, "What shall I do! Marriage is a joy, and also a torment." At last, as he could come to no conclusion, he took off his boot, and said to his daughter, "Take this boot, it has a hole in the sole; go up with it into the loft, hang it on the big nail and pour water in it. If it holds water, I will once more take to me a wife; if it lets out the water, so will I not." 从前，有个男人死了妻子，有个女人死了丈夫。 这个男人有个女儿，这个女人也有个女儿。 两个小姑娘互相认识，经常一起出去散步。有一天，她们散完步后一起来到女人的家里，女人对男人的女儿说："听着，告诉你爸爸，说我愿意嫁给他，从此你天天早晨都能用牛奶洗脸，还能喝上葡萄酒，而我自己的女儿只能用水洗脸，也只能喝清水。"小姑娘回到家中，把女人的话告诉了她爸爸。男人说："我该怎么办呢？结婚是喜事，可也会带来痛苦。"他迟迟拿不定主意，最后脱下一只靴子，说："这只靴子的底上有个洞。你把它拎到阁楼上去，把它挂在一根大钉子上，然后往里面灌些水。要是水没有漏出来，我就再娶个妻子；可要是水漏了出来，我就不娶。" Chapter 2 The girl did as she was told, but the water held the hole together, and the boot was full up to the top. So she went and told her father how it was. And he went up to see with his own eyes, and as there was no mistake about it, he went to the widow and courted her, and then they had the wedding. The next morning, when the two girls awoke, there stood by the bedside of the man's daughter milk to wash in and wine to drink, and by the bedside of the woman's daughter there stood water to wash in and water to drink. On the second morning there stood water to wash in and water to drink for both of them alike. On the third morning there stood water to wash in and water to drink for the man's daughter, and milk to wash in and wine to drink for the woman's daughter; and so it remained ever after. The woman hated her stepdaughter, and never knew how to treat her badly enough from one day to another. And she was jealous because her stepdaughter was pleasant and pretty, and her real daughter was ugly and hateful. 姑娘按她父亲所说的办了。可是水使得洞胀拢了，靴子里灌满了水也没有漏出来。她把结果告诉了她父亲，父亲又亲自上来察看，看到情况果然如此，便去向那寡妇求婚，然后举行了婚礼。 第一天早晨，两个姑娘起来后，在男人的女儿的面前果然放着洗脸的牛奶和喝的葡萄酒，而在女人的女儿的面前放着的只有洗脸的清水和喝的清水。第二天早晨，男人的女儿和女人的女儿的面前都放着洗脸的清水和喝的清水。到了第三天早晨，男人的女儿的面前放着洗脸用的清水和喝的清水，而女人的女儿的面前却放着洗脸用的牛奶和喝的葡萄酒。以后天天都是这样。那女人成了她继女的死敌，对她一天坏似一天，她还万分嫉妒她的继女，因为她的继女美丽可爱，而她自己的女儿又丑又令人讨厌。 Chapter 3 Once in winter, when it was freezing hard, and snow lay deep on hill and valley, the woman made a frock out of paper, called her stepdaughter, and said, "Here, put on this frock, go out into the wood and fetch me a basket of strawberries; I have a great wish for some." "Oh dear," said the girl, "there are no strawberries to be found in winter; the ground is frozen, and the snow covers everything. And why should I go in the paper frock? it is so cold out of doors that one's breath is frozen; the wind will blow through it, and the thorns will tear it off my back!" "How dare you contradict me!" cried the stepmother, "be off, and don't let me see you again till you bring me a basket of strawberries." Then she gave her a little piece of hard bread, and said, "That will do for you to eat during the day," and she thought to herself, "She is sure to be frozen or starved to death out of doors, and I shall never set eyes on her again." 冬天到了，一切都冻得像石头一样硬，山顶和山谷都被大雪覆盖着。一天，女人用纸做了件衣服，把她的继女叫过来，说："听着，你穿上这件衣服，到森林里去给我采一篮草莓，我很想吃。""天哪！"姑娘说，"冬天怎么会有草莓呢？地上都结了冰，大雪把一切都盖住了，再说，我怎么能穿着这身纸衣服出去呢？外面冷得连呼出的气都能冻起来。风会往这衣服里面吹，荆棘也会把它挂破的。""你敢跟我顶嘴？"继母说，"你快给我去！要是没有采到一篮草莓，你就别想回来！"然后她又给姑娘一小块硬梆梆的面包，说："这是你一天的口粮，"心里却在想："你在外面不会冻死也会饿死的，别想再回来烦我。" Chapter 4 So the girl went obediently, put on the paper frock, and started out with the basket. The snow was lying everywhere, far and wide, and there was not a blade of green to be seen. When she entered the wood she saw a little house with three little men peeping out of it. She wished them good day, and knocked modestly at the door. They called her in, and she came into the room and sat down by the side of the oven to warm herself and eat her breakfast. The little men said, "Give us some of it." "Willingly," answered she, breaking her little piece of bread in two, and giving them half. They then said, "What are you doing here in the wood this winter time in your little thin frock?" "Oh," answered she, "I have to get a basket of strawberries, and I must not go home without them." When she had eaten her bread they gave her a broom, and told her to go and sweep the snow away from the back door. When she had gone outside to do it the little men talked among themselves about what they should do for her, as she was so good and pretty, and had shared her bread with them. Then the first one said, "She shall grow prettier every day." The second said, "Each time she speaks a piece of gold shall fall from her mouth." The third said, "A king shall come and take her for his wife." 姑娘只好顺从地穿上纸衣服，提着篮子走了出去。外面一片冰天雪地，连一棵绿草都找不到。她来到森林里后，看到一座小房子，里面有三个小矮人在向外张望。她向他们问好，然后轻轻地敲了敲门。他们叫"进来"，她便走进屋，坐在炉子旁的长凳上烤火，吃她的早饭。小矮人们说："也分一点给我们吧。""好的，"她说着便把面包掰成两半，给了他们一半。他们问："你大冬天穿着这身薄薄的衣服到森林里来干吗？""唉，"她回答，"我得采一篮草莓，否则我就回不了家了。"等她吃完面包后，他们递给她一把扫帚，说："去帮我们把后门的雪扫掉吧。"可等她出去后，三个小矮人却商量了起来："她这么可爱，又把面包分给了我们，我们送她什么好呢？"第一个矮人说："我送给她的礼物是：她一天比一天更美丽。"第二个矮人说："我送给她的礼物是：她一开口说话就吐出金子来。"第三个矮人说："我送给她的礼物是：一个国王娶她当王后。" Chapter 5 In the meanwhile the girl was doing as the little men had told her, and had cleared the snow from the back of the little house, and what do you suppose she found? fine ripe strawberries, showing dark red against the snow! Then she joyfully filled her little basket full, thanked the little men, shook hands with them all, and ran home in haste to bring her stepmother the thing she longed for. As she went in and said, "Good evening," a piece of gold fell from her mouth at once. Then she related all that had happened to her in the wood, and at each word that she spoke gold pieces fell out of her mouth, so that soon they were scattered all over the room. "Just look at her pride and conceit!" cried the stepsister, "throwing money about in this way!" but in her heart she was jealous because of it, and wanted to go too into the wood to fetch strawberries. But the mother said, "No, my dear little daughter, it is too cold, you will be frozen to death." But she left her no peace, so at last the mother gave in, got her a splendid fur coat to put on, and gave her bread and butter and cakes to eat on the way. 姑娘这时正按照他们的吩咐，用扫帚把小屋后面的雪扫掉。她看到了什么？雪下面露出了红彤彤的草莓！她高兴极了，赶紧装了满满一篮子，谢了小矮人，还和他们一一握手道别，然后带着她继母垂涎的东西跑回家去了。谁知，她进门刚说了声"晚上好"，嘴里就掉出来一块金子！于是，她把自己在森林里遇到的事情讲了出来，而且每讲一句，嘴里就掉出来一块金子，弄得家里很快就堆满了金子。 "瞧她那副德行！"继母的女儿嚷道，"就这样乱扔金子！"她心里嫉妒得要命，也渴望着到森林里去采草莓。她母亲却说："不行，我的好女儿，外面太冷了，你会冻死的。"可是她女儿缠着不放，她最后只好让步。她给女儿缝了件皮袄，硬要她穿上；然后又给她抹了黄油的面包和蛋糕，让她带着路上吃。