The Wild Swans
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
There once lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter.
曾经有一个国王,他有11个儿子和一个女儿。
He married a wicked queen, and soon after the wedding she turned the princes into eleven wild swans.
他娶了一位邪恶的皇后,婚礼后不久她就把王子们变成了十一只野生天鹅.
With a strange cry, they flew up into the clouds and away.
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The king asked the queen if she knew where the princes were.
王问王后知不知道王子们在哪里.
She merely smiled and shook her head.
她只是微笑并摇头。
At dusk the swans returned.
黄昏时分,天鹅回来了。
They flew through the open bedroom window of the princess, Eliza.
他们飞过公主伊丽莎的露天卧室窗户.
As the Sun set, their feathers fell off, and Eliza’s eleven brothers stood before her.
太阳一来,他们的羽毛就掉了,伊丽莎的十一个兄弟就站在她面前。
“By day, we fly about as wild swans,” said the oldest brother.
年长的哥哥说,
“Each night when the Sun sinks, we become human again.”
“每当太阳下沉的夜晚,我们又变成人类。 “
That night, Eliza dreamed that a fairy came to her.
当晚,伊丽莎梦到一个仙子来到她身边.
“Your brothers can be released,” she said.
她说,“你的兄弟们可以被释放。”
“You must gather nettles from the forest and use them to knit eleven shirts.
“你们必须从森林中取出蚊帐,用来织出11件衬衫。
If the shirts are thrown over the eleven swans, the spell will be broken.”
若将上衣掷入十一天鹅上会出咒. “
“Be warned, though,” the fairy added.
仙子又说:“你应当被警告”。
“From the moment you start your task until it is finished, you must not speak.
“从你开始工作到完成任务,你绝不能说话。
The first word you speak will kill your brothers.”
你讲的第一个词会杀了你的兄弟 “
The princess set out for the forest to begin her work.
公主出发去森林开始她的工作.
She gathered many nettles, which burned great blisters on her hands.
她收集了多条网状物,将巨大的水泡放入她手上.
With the nettles, she made yarn for the first shirt.
有了内衣,她为第一件衬衫做了纱线.
Her brothers returned at sunset, and when they saw her hands, the youngest brother wept.
她的哥哥们在日出后返回了,当他们看到她的手时,最小的弟弟也哭了.
Where his tears fell, the pain stopped and the blisters vanished.
他的眼泪落下,疼痛就停止了,水泡也消失了.
Each day, Eliza knit another shirt.
伊丽莎每天再织一件衬衫
When she needed more burning nettles, she gathered them and hurried back to the castle.
当她需要更多燃烧的地铁时,她把地铁收集起来并赶回了城堡.
Each day at dusk, the brothers returned to her.
每天黄昏时分,兄弟俩回到她身边.
Each dawn, they again became wild swans and flew away.
每到黎明,他们又变成野生天鹅并飞走.
But one morning the queen saw them leaving Eliza’s open window and grew worried.
但有一天早上,女王看见他们离开伊丽莎的开窗后,变得忧心忡忡.
The next dawn, before they could fly away, the queen threw a giant net over the swans.
第二天黎明,在他们飞走之前,女王将一出巨网倒向了天鹅.
She had men haul the swans to a dark cell deep in the castle’s dungeon.
她派人把天鹅拖到城堡地牢深处的一个黑暗牢房去。
Eliza found them there and continued to knit through the dark nights outside their cell door.
Eliza在那里找到他们,并继续在牢房门外的黑暗夜晚进行编织。
Then the queen announced that there would be a grand feast: roast bird for everyone in the castle.
后女王宣布将举行盛大盛宴:为城堡中的每一个人做烤鸟.
Only Eliza knew the truth about the feast, and she could not speak it.
只有伊丽莎知道宴会的真相,她不能说.
She continued her task instead.
她继续执行任务。
The morning of the feast, ten shirts lay beside her at her brothers’ cell.
宴会当天早晨,十件衬衫被放在她兄弟的牢房里。
She was working hard on the last shirt when the men came to haul the swans away.
男人们来把天鹅拖走时 她一直在努力做最后一件衬衫
As the queen unlocked the cell door, Eliza threw the eleven shirts over the swans.
当女王打开牢房门时,伊丽莎把11件衬衫扔到天鹅上.
They turned into eleven handsome princes, but the youngest brother’s shirt was not quite done.
他们变成了11个英俊的王子,但弟弟最年幼的衬衫并没有完成。
He was left with a swan’s wing instead of an arm.
他留下一只天鹅的翅膀,而不是一只手臂。
When the king learned the truth about his new wife, he sent guards to arrest her.
当国王得知他新妻子的真相后,他派出了守卫来逮捕她.
On her throne they found a vulture—the queen was never seen again.
在她的宝座上,他们发现一只秃鹫,而后人再也没有见她。