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。
The children were happy, but then their father married a wicked queen who did not love the children at all.
孩子们很快乐,但后来他们的父亲嫁给了一个不爱孩子们的邪恶女王.
Soon after the wedding, she turned the princes into eleven wild swans.
婚礼后不久,她将王子们变成了11只野生天鹅.
With a strange cry, they flew through the windows of the palace, high up into the clouds, and away.
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When the king asked the queen if she knew where the princes were, she merely smiled and shook her head.
当国王问王后是否知道王子们在哪里时,她只是微笑并摇头.
As for the princess, Eliza, all that day she looked for her brothers but did not find them.
至于公主以利莎,她整天寻找她的兄弟,但没有找到.
Then at dusk, she saw eleven white swans flying toward her bedroom window.
黄昏时分,她看到有十一只白天鹅朝她卧室的窗户飞去.
They flew one behind the other, like a long white ribbon, through the open window and into her room.
他们把一个飞到另一个后面,就像一条长的白色丝带,穿过开着的窗户并进入她的房间.
As the Sun set, the feathers of the swans fell off, and Eliza’s eleven brothers stood before her.
太阳一来,天鹅的羽毛就掉下来了,伊丽莎的十一个兄弟站在她面前.
“ As long as the Sun is in the sky, we brothers fly about as wild swans,” said the oldest.
“...... 只要太阳在天上,我们的兄弟们就飞来飞去,就像野生的天鹅一样。”
“Each night when the Sun sinks, we regain our human form.”
“每当太阳下沉的夜晚,我们都会重新恢复人类形态。 “
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, “if you have courage and perseverance.
她说,“你的兄弟们可以被释放”,“如果你们有勇气和毅力。
Do you see the nettle which I hold in my hand?
你看见我手上的内裤了吗?
Many grow in the nearby forest.
许多人在附近的森林里生长。
These you must gather and spin into yarn.
这些你必须收集 并旋转成纱线。
From this yarn you must knit eleven shirts with long sleeves.
从这个线上你必须用长袖子织出十一件衬衫.
If they are thrown over the eleven swans, the spell will be broken.”
如果被扔到十一只天鹅上,咒语就会被打破. “
“Be warned, though,” the fairy added.
仙子又说:“你应当被警告”。
“ From the moment you commence your task until it is finished, you must not speak.
“...... 从你开始任务到任务完成,你不得说话。
The first word you utter will kill your brothers.
你所说的第一个词会杀了你的兄弟
Their lives hang upon your tongue.”
他们的生命挂在你的舌头上 “
Then she touched Eliza’s hand lightly with the nettle, and a pain like that of burning fire awoke the princess.
然后她轻轻地用网状物触摸了伊丽莎的手,并痛得像烧起火来唤醒了公主.
Close by her lay a nettle like the one she had seen in her dream.
紧挨着她铺起一副像她梦中所见的被子.
It was broad daylight, Eliza’s brothers had flown away, and Eliza went forth to begin her work.
Eliza的兄弟们飞走, Eliza出门开始工作。
She went to the forest and gathered many nettles, which burned great blisters on her hands.
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She spun the yarn.
她弹出纱线。
At sunset her brothers returned, and when they saw her hands they understood what she was doing on their behalf.
日落时分,她的兄弟们返回了,当他们看到她双手时,他们理解她替他们做什么。
The youngest brother wept, and where his tears fell the pain ceased, and the burning blisters vanished.
最小的弟弟会哭 他的眼泪落下 疼痛就停止了 燃烧的水泡消失了
Eliza kept to her work each day.
伊丽莎每天都在工作
She patiently knit one shirt after another.
她耐心地织了一件又一件的衬衫。
When she needed more yarn, she gathered more burning nettles and hastened back to the castle.
当她需要更多的纱线时,她收集了更多的被烧毁的被子并赶回了城堡.
Each day at dusk, the brothers would return to visit their sister.
每天黄昏时分,兄弟俩会回来探望妹妹.
The next day when the Sun rose, her brothers would again become wild swans and fly away.
第二天太阳升起后,她的兄弟们会再次变成野生天鹅并飞走.
But one morning the queen spied eleven swans flying from Eliza’s window and grew worried.
但有一天早上,女王从伊利莎的窗口监视了11只天鹅并开始担心.
The next morning, she crept to Eliza’s room.
第二天早上,她跑到Eliza的房间。
Just at dawn, before the swans could fly away, she threw a giant net over them.
就在黎明时分,在天鹅飞走之前,她向它们扔了个巨大的网.
She had men haul the swans to a dark, dreary cell deep in the castle’s dungeon.
她让男人把天鹅拖到城堡地牢深处一个黑暗而沉闷的牢房去。
When the Sun set that day, no one could hear their human cries.
当太阳落下那天,没有人能听到他们的人类叫喊.
Eliza found them, though, and continued to knit through the dark nights outside their cell door.
Eliza发现了他们, 并继续织接 通过黑暗的夜晚 他们的牢房门外。
Then the queen announced that there would be a marvelous and giant feast: roast bird for everyone in the castle.
之后王后宣布将举行一个奇妙而巨大的盛宴:为城堡中的每一个人提供烤鸟.
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.
Instead, she continued her task, knowing she must finish quickly or all her work would be in vain.
相反,她继续执行任务,知道她必须迅速完成工作,否则她的所有工作都将是徒劳的。
The morning of the feast, her fingers still knit the green yarn.
宴会的早上 她的手指仍然编织着绿线
Ten shirts lay in a pile at her feet outside her brothers’ prison cell.
十件衬衫被放入她脚下的一个堆子里,
She was working hard on the eleventh shirt when the men came to haul the swans away.
当他们来把天鹅拖走时 她正在努力修第十一件衬衫
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.
他们变成了11个英俊的王子
The youngest brother’s shirt was not quite finished, however.
但是,最小的兄弟的衬衫没有完全完成。
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。
The king was overjoyed to see his missing sons returned.
国王很高兴见到他失踪的儿子们回来
When he learned the truth about his new wife, he sent out guards to arrest her.
当他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。