Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales
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图书: | Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales |
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日期: | 2024年11月25日 星期一 07:21 |
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个人作业:张馨月
1. The Little Match-Girl
Verse Two
1.1. Verse One
“Grandmother!” exclaimed the child, “oh, take mewith you! I know thou1 wilt2leave me as soon as thematch goes out, thou wilt vanish like warm fire inthe stove, like the splendid New Year's feast, likethe beautiful large Christmas tree!” and she hastilylighted all the remaining matches in the bundle, lasther grandmother should disappear. And the matchesburned with such a blaze of splendor, that noonday could scarcely have been brighter. Never had thegood old grandmother looked so tall and stately, sobeautiful and kind; she took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew together-higher, tillthey were in that place where neither cold, nor hunger, nor pain, is ever known, they were inparadise.
“奶奶!”小姑娘叫了起来,“啊!把我带走吧!我知道这火柴一熄灭,你就会象炉中温暖的火焰,丰盛的新年饭食,美丽的大圣诞树一样地不见了!”她急忙把剩下的一束火柴都擦着了,生怕祖母走了,这束火柴发出强烈的光芒,照得比白天还要亮。祖母从来没有象现在这样显得高大、美丽和亲切。她把小姑娘抱起来,搂在怀里。她们俩在光明和快乐飞走了,越飞越高,飞到既没有寒冷,又没有饥饿和忧愁的地方——那就是极乐世界。
1.2. Verse Two
But in the cold morning hour, crouching in the corner of the wall, the poor little girl was found:her cheeks glowing, her lips smiling, frozen to death on the last night of the old Year. TheNew Year's sun shone on the lifeless child; motionless she sat there with the matches in herlap, one bundle of them quite burnt out.
“She has been trying to warm herself, poor thing!” the people said, but no one knew of thesweet visions she had beheld, or how gloriously she and her grandmother were celebrating theirNew Year's festival.
直到寒冷的早晨,人们发现一个可怜的小姑娘蜷缩在墙角里,她双颊通红,嘴唇上带着微笑,她已经在旧年的除夕冻死了。新年的太阳升起来了,照在她那小小的身体上!她一动也不动地坐在那里,手中还捏着火柴,其中一捆已经完全烧光了。
“可怜的孩子!她是想把自己暖一下呀!”然而却没有人知道,她曾看到过多么美妙的东西,她曾多么快乐地跟祖母在一起欢度新年佳节!
2. ROSE FROM HOMER'S GRAVE
Verse Two
Verse Three
Verse Four
2.1. Verse One
ALL the songs of the east speak of the love of thenightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night. The winged songster serenades the fragrant flowers.
2.2. Verse Two
Not far from Smyrna, where the merchant driveshis loaded camels, proudly arching their long necksas they journey beneath the lofty pines over holyground, I saw a hedge of roses. The turtle-doveflew among the branches of the tall trees, and as the sunbeams fell upon her wings, theyglistened as if they were mother-of-pearl. On the rose-bush GREw a flower, more beautifulthan them all, and to her the nightingale sung of his woes; but the rose remained silent, noteven a dewdrop lay like a tear of sympathy on her leaves. At last she bowed her head over aheap of stones, and said, "Here rests the greatest singer in the world; over his tomb will Ispread my fragrance, and on it I will let my leaves fall when the storm scatters them. He whosung of Troy became earth, and from that earth I have sprung. I, a rose from the grave ofHomer, am too lofty to bloom for a nightingale." Then the nightingale sung himself to death. Acamel-driver came by, with his loaded camels and his black slaves; his little son found the deadbird, and buried the lovely songster in the grave of the great Homer, while the rose trembled inthe wind.
2.3. Verse Three
he evening came, and the rose wrapped her leaves more closely round her, and dreamed: andthis was her dream.
2.4. Verse Four
It was a fair sunshiny day; a crowd of strangers drew near who had undertaken a pilgrimageto the grave of Homer. Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of theclouds and the brilliant lights of the aurora borealis. He plucked the rose and placed it in abook, and carried it away into a distant part of the world, his fatherland. The rose faded withgrief, and lay between the leaves of the book, which he opened in his own home, saying,"Hereis a rose from the grave of Homer Then the flower awoke from her dream, and trembled in the wind. A drop of dew fell from theleaves upon the singer's grave. The sun rose, and the flower bloomed more beautiful thanever. The day was hot, and she was still in her own warm Asia. Then footsteps approached, strangers, such as the rose had seen in her dream, came by, and among them was a poet fromthe north; he plucked the rose, pressed a kiss upon her fresh mouth, and carried her away tothe home of the clouds and the northern lights. Like a mummy, the flower now rests in his"Iliad," and, as in her dream, she hears him say, as he opens the book, "Here is a rose from thegrave of Homer."