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After a year or so had passed, the Queen brought a son into the world. Thereupon the Virgin Mary appeared to her in the night when she lay in her bed alone, and said: "If thou wilt tell the truth and confess that thou didst unlock the forbidden door, I will open thy mouth and give thee back thy speech, but if thou perseverest in thy sin, and deniest obstinately, I will take thy new-born child away with me." Then the queen was permitted to answer, but she remained hard, and said: "No, I did not open the forbidden door," and the Virgin Mary took the new-born child from her arms, and vanished with it. Next morning when the child was not to be found, it was whispered among the people that the Queen was a man-eater, and had killed her own child. She heard all this and could say nothing to the contrary, but the King would not believe it, for he loved her so much.

When a year had gone by the Queen again bore a son, and in the night the Virgin Mary again came to her, and said: "If thou wilt confess that thou openedst the forbidden door, I will give thee thy child back and untie thy tongue; but if you continuest in sin and deniest it, I will take away with me this new child also." Then the Queen again said: "No, I did not open the forbidden door;" and the Virgin took the child out of her arms, and away with her to heaven. Next morning, when this child also had disappeared, the people declared quite loudly that the Queen had devoured it, and the King's councillors demanded that she should be brought to justice. The King, however, loved her so dearly that he would not believe it, and commanded the councillors under pain of death not to say any more about it. 

大约过了一年，这位王后生下了一个儿子。 当天夜里，当她一个人躺在床上时，圣母玛利亚出现在她的面前，并且对她说："要是你说实话，承认自己打开过那扇禁止打开的门，我就打开你的嘴，让你能开口说话；可要是你顽固不化，继续否认自己的罪孽，我就把你的初生婴儿带走。"圣母这时允许王后说话，可王后固执地说："不，我没有打开那扇禁止打开的门。"圣母玛利亚便从她怀里夺过初生的婴儿，带着他消失了。 第二天早晨，看到孩子不见了，人们便在私下里议论，说王后是吃人的恶魔，竟然杀死了自己的孩子。 这些话她全听到了，却没法说什么。 好在国王非常爱她，所以也不相信大家所说的话。
一年过后，王后又生了一个儿子。 夜里圣母玛利亚又来到了她的面前，对她说："要是你承认打开过那扇禁止打开的门，我就把你的孩子还给你，并且让你开口说话；可要是你继续否认，我就把你这个初生的孩子也带走。"王后仍然回答："没有，我没有打开那扇门。"圣母只好又从她怀里夺过孩子，带着他回天国去了。 第二天早晨，人们看到这个孩子又不见了，便公开地说孩子肯定是被王后吞吃掉了。 国王的大臣们要求审判她，但国王因为深爱着王后，不但不肯相信别人的话，而且还禁止大臣们谈及这件事，违者一律处死。

Then the girl fell into a deep sleep, and when she awoke she lay on the earth below, and in the midst of a wilderness. She wanted to cry out, but she could bring forth no sound. She sprang up and wanted to run away, but whithersoever she turned herself, she was continually held back by thick hedges of thorns through which she could not break. In the desert, in which she was imprisoned, there stood an old hollow tree, and this had to be her dwelling-place. Into this she crept when night came, and here she slept. Here, too, she found a shelter from storm and rain, but it was a miserable life, and bitterly did she weep when she remembered how happy she had been in heaven, and how the angels had played with her. Roots and wild berries were her only food, and for these she sought as far as she could go. In the autumn she picked up the fallen nuts and leaves, and carried them into the hole. The nuts were her food in winter, and when snow and ice came, she crept amongst the leaves like a poor little animal that she might not freeze. Before long her clothes were all torn, and one bit of them after another fell off her. As soon, however, as the sun shone warm again, she went out and sat in front of the tree, and her long hair covered her on all sides like a mantle. Thus she sat year after year, and felt the pain and the misery of the world.

One day, when the trees were once more clothed in fresh green, the King of the country was hunting in the forest, and followed a roe, and as it had fled into the thicket which shut in this part of the forest, he got off his horse, tore the bushes asunder, and cut himself a path with his sword. When he had at last forced his way through, he saw a wonderfully beautiful maiden sitting under the tree; and she sat there and was entirely covered with her golden hair down to her very feet. He stood still and looked at her full of surprise, then he spoke to her and said: "Who art thou? Why art thou sitting here in the wilderness?" But she gave no answer, for she could not open her mouth. The King continued: "Wilt thou go with me to my castle?" Then she just nodded her head a little. The King took her in his arms, carried her to his horse, and rode home with her, and when he reached the royal castle he caused her to be dressed in beautiful garments, and gave her all things in abundance. Although she could not speak, she was still so beautiful and charming that he began to love her with all his heart, and it was not long before he married her.

小姑娘昏昏沉沉地睡着了。 当她醒来时，她发现自己躺在人间的一片荒野中。 她想喊叫，可是她发不出任何声音。 她站起来想逃走，却发现自己无论走哪个方向，总有密密的荆棘丛挡住她的去路，怎么也越不过去。 在包围她的荒地上立着一棵空心的老树，这便成了她的家。 夜晚来临时，她就爬进树洞，睡在里面。 刮风下雨的时候，她也躲在里面。 这种生活非常凄惨。 每当她想起天堂里的幸福生活，想起和小天使们玩耍的情景，她都会伤心痛哭。 草根和野果是她唯一的食物，而这些她还得努力寻找。 秋天到来的时候，她捡起掉在地上的核桃和树叶，把它们搬进洞。 这些核桃是她冬天的食粮，而在雪花纷飞、天寒地冻的日子里，她只能像可怜的小动物一样爬进那些树叶里，免得被冻死。 不久，她的衣服就破了，一片一片地掉了下来。 当太阳重新暖洋洋地照耀大地时，她便爬出来坐在树前。 她的长头发像一件斗篷，把她全身遮得严严实实。 她就这样一年一年地坐在那里，感受着世间的凄苦与不幸。
冬去春来，树木重新换上了新绿。 一天，国王在森林里打猎，追赶一头狍子，可狍子钻进了包围着这片树林的灌木丛。 国王下了马 ，拨开灌木，用剑为自己砍出了一条路。 等他终于穿过灌木丛时，他看到树下坐着一位非常美丽的姑娘。 只见她坐在那里，金色的长发一直垂到脚跟，把她全身上下遮得严严实实。 国王呆呆地站在那里，无比惊讶地看着她，然后才问她："你是谁？怎么坐在这荒野里？"可是她无法说话，因为她张不了嘴。 国王又问："你愿意跟我回王宫吗？"她只是稍稍点了点头。 国王抱起她，把她放到马背上，带着她骑马回宫。 到了王宫后，他让人给她穿上最美的衣服，还给了她各种各样的东西。 她虽然不会说话，却非常美丽温柔，国王真心实意地爱上了她，没过多久就娶她做了妻子。

Then she was silent, but the desire in her heart was not stilled, but gnawed there and tormented her, and let her have no rest. And once when the angels had all gone out, she thought: "Now I am quite alone, and I could peep in. If I do it, no one will ever know." She sought out the key, and when she had got it in her hand, she put it in the lock, and when she had put it in, she turned it round as well. Then the door sprang open, and she saw there the Trinity sitting in fire and splendour. She stayed there awhile, and looked at everything in amazement; then she touched the light a little with her finger, and her finger became quite golden. Immediately a great fear fell on her. She shut the door violently, and ran away. Her terror too would not quit her, let her do what she might, and her heart beat continually and would not be still; the gold too stayed on her finger, and would not go away, let her rub it and wash it never so much.

It was not long before the Virgin Mary came back from her journey. She called the girl before her, and asked to have the keys of heaven back. When the maiden gave her the bunch, the Virgin looked into her eyes and said: "Hast thou not opened the thirteenth door also?" - "No," she replied. Then she laid her hand on the girl's heart, and felt how it beat and beat, and saw right well that she had disobeyed her order and had opened the door. Then she said once again: "Art thou certain that thou hast not done it?" - "Yes," said the girl, for the second time. Then she perceived the finger which had become golden from touching the fire of heaven, and saw well that the child had sinned, and said for the third time: "Hast thou not done it?" - "No," said the girl for the third time. Then said the Virgin Mary: "Thou hast not obeyed me, and besides that thou hast lied, thou art no longer worthy to be in heaven."

她听到这话便不吭声了，可她心中的愿望并没有就此消失，而是在不停地折磨着她，让她得不到片刻的安宁。 一次，天使们全都出去了，她便想："现在只有我一个人，可以进去看一眼。我想谁也不会知道的。"她找出钥匙，一拿在手里就把它插进了锁孔，一插进锁孔就转动了一下，门一下子就开了。 她看到里面在火与光之中坐着"三位一体"（基督教认为圣父、圣子、圣灵原为一体，故称"三位一体"--译者注）。 她站在那里，惊讶地望着一切，然后用手指碰了碰火光，她的手指立刻变成了金的。 她顿时害怕极了，猛地关上门，逃走了。 可是无论她想什么办法，她都无法消除她的恐惧。 她的心总是怦怦直跳，怎么也静不下来，而且手指上的金子怎么也去不掉，无论是擦呀还是洗呀，那金子还在那里。
圣母玛利亚不久就旅行回来了。 她把小女孩叫到跟前，向她要回天国的钥匙。 当她把钥匙递过去时，圣母玛利亚盯着她的眼睛问："你没有打开第十三扇门吧？""没有。"小女孩回答。 圣母把手放在小女孩的心口，感觉到她的心跳得很厉害，立刻明白她没有听话，知道她打开过那扇门。 于是圣母又问："你真的没有打开过那扇门吗？""没有。"小女孩第二次回答。 这时，圣母看到了小女孩因为碰了天火而变成了金子的手指，知道她犯了罪，便第三次问她："你真的没有？""没有。"小女孩第三次说。 圣母玛利亚说："你没有听我的话，而且你还撒谎。你不配再在天堂住下去了。"

Hard by a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife, who had an only child, a little girl three years old. They were so poor, however, that they no longer had daily bread, and did not know how to get food for her. One morning the wood-cutter went out sorrowfully to his work in the forest, and while he was cutting wood, suddenly there stood before him a tall and beautiful woman with a crown of shining stars on her head, who said to him: "I am the Virgin Mary, mother of the child Jesus. Thou art poor and needy, bring thy child to me, I will take her with me and be her mother, and care for her." The wood-cutter obeyed, brought his child, and gave her to the Virgin Mary, who took her up to heaven with her. There the child fared well, ate sugar-cakes, and drank sweet milk, and her clothes were of gold, and the little angels played with her. And when she was fourteen years of age, the Virgin Mary called her one day and said: "Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself." The girl promised to be obedient, and when the Virgin Mary was gone, she began to examine the dwellings of the kingdom of heaven. Each day she opened one of them, until she had made the round of the twelve. In each of them sat one of the Apostles in the midst of a great light, and she rejoiced in all the magnificence and splendour, and the little angels who always accompanied her rejoiced with her. Then the forbidden door alone remained, and she felt a great desire to know what could be hidden behind it, and said to the angels: "I will not quite open it, and I will not go inside it, but I will unlock it so that we can just see a little through the opening." - "Oh no," said the little angels, "that would be a sin. The Virgin Mary has forbidden it, and it might easily cause thy unhappiness." 

大森林边住着一位樵夫和他的妻子。 他们只有一个孩子，是个三岁的女孩。 可是他们非常穷，连每天要吃的面包都没有，更不知道该拿什么东西喂孩子。 一天早晨，樵夫愁眉苦脸地到森林里去砍柴，他的面前突然出现了一位高大、美丽的女人，她的头上还戴着一顶饰满了闪烁的星星的宝冠。 她对樵夫说："我是耶稣的母亲，圣母玛利亚。你很穷，需要帮助。把你的孩子给我吧。我愿意把她带走，做她的母亲，好好照料她。"樵夫听从她的话，把孩子带来，交给了圣母玛利亚。 圣母玛利亚把孩子带到了天堂。 孩子在天堂里过得很舒服，吃的是糖饼，喝的是甜牛奶，穿的是金衣服，陪她玩的是小天使。 她长到十四岁时，圣母玛利亚有一天把她叫到面前，对她说："亲爱的孩子，我要出一趟远门。这是天国十三座门的钥匙，由你保管。你可以打开其中十二扇门，看看里面的美景。这把小钥匙是开第十三扇门的，但是你千万不要把那扇门打开，不然你会遭到不幸的。"小女孩答应一定听圣母玛利亚的话。 等圣母玛利亚走了之后，她开始参观天国的住房。 她每天打开一扇门，直到十二扇门被她一一打开。 她看到每一扇门里都坐着一位耶稣的门徒，周围一片光辉灿烂。 这辉煌的景象让她万分欢喜，也让昼夜陪伴她的小天使们非常高兴。 现在只剩下那扇禁止被打开的门了。 她非常想知道这扇门的后面藏的是什么，便对天使们说："我不把门全打开，也不进去。我只想打开一条缝，好让我们大家看看里面有什么。""啊，不行，"小天使们说，"那样做是罪过。圣母玛利亚禁止你打开它，你要是不听话，可能很容易遭到不幸。"她听到这话便不吭声了，可她心中的愿望并没有就此消失，而是在不停地折磨着她，让她得不到片刻的安宁。

"That which thou hast promised must thou perform," said the King, "so go now and let him in." So she went and opened the door, and the frog hopped in, following at her heels, till she reached her chair. Then he stopped and cried: "Lift me up to sit by you." But she delayed doing so until the King ordered her. When once the frog was on the chair, he wanted to get on the table, and there he sat and said: "Now push your golden plate a little nearer, so that we may eat together." And so she did, but everybody might see how unwilling she was, and the frog feasted heartily, but every morsel seemed to stick in her throat. "I have had enough now," said the frog at last, "and as I am tired, you must carry me to your room, and make ready your silken bed, and we will lie down and go to sleep." Then the King's daughter began to weep, and was afraid of the cold frog, that nothing would satisfy him but he must sleep in her pretty clean bed. Now the King grew angry with her, saying: "That which thou hast promised in thy time of necessity, must thou now perform." So she picked up the frog with her finger and thumb, carried him upstairs and put him in a corner, and when she had lain down to sleep, he came creeping up, saying: "I am tired and want sleep as much as you; take me up, or I will tell your father." Then she felt beside herself with rage, and picking him up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, crying: "Now will you be quiet, you horrid frog!"

But as he fell, he ceased to be a frog, and became all at once a prince with beautiful kind eyes. And it came to pass that, with her father's consent, they became bride and bridegroom. And he told her how a wicked witch had bound him by her spells, and how no one but she alone could have released him, and that they two would go together to his father's kingdom. And there came to the door a carriage drawn by eight white horses, with white plumes on their heads, and with golden harness, and behind the carriage was standing faithful Henry, the servant of the young prince. Now, faithful Henry had suffered such care and pain when his master was turned into a frog, that he had been obliged to wear three iron bands over his heart, to keep it from breaking with trouble and anxiety. When the carriage started to take the prince to his kingdom, and faithful Henry had helped them both in, he got up behind, and was full of joy at his master's deliverance.

And when they had gone a part of the way, the prince heard a sound at the back of the carriage, as if something had broken, and he turned round and cried:

"Henry, the wheel must be breaking!"
"The wheel does not break,
'Tis the band round my heart
That, to lessen its ache,
When I grieved for your sake,
I bound round my heart."

Again, and yet once again there was the same sound, and the prince thought it must be the wheel breaking, but it was the breaking of the other bands from faithful Henry's heart, because it was now so relieved and happy.

国王听了之后对小公主说，"你决不能言而无信，快去开门让他进来。"小公主走过去把门打开，青蛙蹦蹦跳跳地进了门，然后跟着小公主来到座位前，接着大声叫道，"把我抱到你身旁呀！"

小公主听了吓得发抖，国王却吩咐她照青蛙说的去做。 青蛙被放在了椅子上，可心里不太高兴，想到桌子上去。 上了桌子之后又说，"把您的小金碟子推过来一点儿好吗？这样我们就可以一快儿吃啦。"很显然，小公主很不情愿这么做，可她还是把金碟子推了过去。 青蛙吃得津津有味，可小公主却一点儿胃口都没有。 终于，青蛙开口说，"我已经吃饱了。现在我有点累了，请把我抱到您的小卧室去，铺好您的缎子被盖，然后我们就寝吧。"

小公主害怕这只冷冰冰的青蛙，连碰都不敢碰一下。 一听他要在自己整洁漂亮的小床上睡觉，就哭了起来。

国王见小公主这个样子，就生气地对她说，"在我们困难的时候帮助过我们的人，不论他是谁，过后都不应当受到鄙视。"

于是，小公主用两只纤秀的手指把青蛙挟起来，带着他上了楼，把他放在卧室的一个角落里。 可是她刚刚在床上躺下，青蛙就爬到床边对她说，"我累了，我也想在床上睡觉。

请把我抱上来，要不然我就告诉您父亲。 "

一听这话，小公主勃然大怒，一把抓起青蛙，朝墙上死劲儿摔去。

"现在你想睡就去睡吧，你这个丑陋的讨厌鬼！"

谁知他一落地，已不再是什么青蛙，却一下子变成了一位王子：一位两眼炯炯有神、满面笑容的王子。 直到这时候，王子才告诉小公主，原来他被一个狠毒的巫婆施了魔法，除了小公主以外，谁也不能把他从水潭里解救出来。 于是，遵照国王的旨意，他成为小公主亲密的朋友和伴侣，明天，他们将一道返回他的王国。 第二天早上，太阳爬上山的时候，一辆八匹马拉的大马车已停在了门前，马头上都插着洁白的羽毛，一晃一晃的，马身上套着金光闪闪的马具。 车后边站着王子的仆人--忠心耿耿的亨利。 亨利的主人被变成一只青蛙之后，他悲痛欲绝，于是他在自己的胸口套上了三个铁箍，免得他的心因为悲伤而破碎了。

马车来接年轻的王子回他的王国去。 忠心耿耿的亨利扶着他的主人和王妃上了车厢，然后自己又站到了车后边去。 他们上路后刚走了不远，突然听见噼噼啦啦的响声，好像有什么东西断裂了。 路上，噼噼啦啦声响了一次又一次，每次王子和王妃听见响声，都以为是车上的什么东西坏了。 其实不然，忠心耿耿的亨利见主人是那么地幸福，因而感到欣喜若狂，于是那几个铁箍就从他的胸口上一个接一个地崩掉了。

But the frog, as soon as he heard her promise, drew his head under the water and sank down out of sight, but after a while he came to the surface again with the ball in his mouth, and he threw it on the grass. The King's daughter was overjoyed to see her pretty plaything again, and she caught it up and ran off with it. "Stop, stop!" cried the frog, "take me up too. I cannot run as fast as you!" But it was of no use, for croak, croak after her as he might, she would not listen to him, but made haste home, and very soon forgot all about the poor frog, who had to betake himself to his well again.

The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with the King and all the court, and eating from her golden plate, there came something pitter patter up the marble stairs, and then there came a knocking at the door, and a voice crying: "Youngest King's daughter, let me in!" And she got up and ran to see who it could be, but when she opened the door, there was the frog sitting outside. Then she shut the door hastily and went back to her seat, feeling very uneasy. The King noticed how quickly her heart was beating, and said: "My child, what are you afraid of? Is there a giant standing at the door ready to carry you away?" - "Oh no," answered she, "no giant, but a horrid frog." - "And what does the frog want?" asked the King. "O dear father," answered she, "when I was sitting by the well yesterday, and playing with my golden ball, it fell into the water, and while I was crying for the loss of it, the frog came and got it again for me on condition I would let him be my companion, but I never thought that he could leave the water and come after me; but now there he is outside the door, and he wants to come in to me." And then they all heard him knocking the second time and crying:

"Youngest King's daughter,
Open to me!
By the well water
What promised
you me?
Youngest King's daughter
Now open to me!"

青蛙得到了小公主的许诺之后，把脑袋往水里一扎，就潜入了水潭。 过了不大一会儿，青蛙嘴里衔着金球，浮出了水面，然后把金球吐在草地上。 小公主重又见到了自己心爱的玩具，心里别提有多高兴了。 她把金球拣了起来，撒腿就跑。

"别跑！别跑！"青蛙大声叫道，"带上我呀！我可跑不了您那么快。"

尽管青蛙扯着嗓子拼命叫喊，可是没有一点儿用。 小公主对青蛙的喊叫根本不予理睬，而是径直跑回了家，并且很快就把可怜的青蛙忘记得一干二净。 青蛙只好蹦蹦跳跳地又回到水潭里去。

第二天，小公主跟国王和大臣们刚刚坐上餐桌，才开始用她的小金碟进餐，突然听见啪啦啪啦的声音。 随着声响，有个什么东西顺着大理石台阶往上跳，到了门口时，便一边敲门一边大声嚷嚷："小公主，快开门！"听到喊声，小公主急忙跑到门口，想看看是谁在门外喊叫。 打开门一看，原来是那只青蛙，正蹲在门前。 小公主见是青蛙，猛然把门关上，转身赶紧回到座位，心里害怕极了。 国王发现小公主一副心慌意乱的样子，就问她：

"孩子，你怎么会吓成这个样子？该不是门外有个巨人要把你抓走吧？"

"啊，不是的，"小公主回答说，"不是什么巨人，而是一只讨厌的青蛙。""青蛙想找你做什么呢？"

"唉！我的好爸爸，昨天，我到森林里去了。坐在水潭边上玩的时候，金球掉到水潭里去了，于是我就哭了。我哭得很伤心，青蛙就替我把金球捞了上来。因为青蛙请求我做他的朋友，我就答应了，可是我压根儿没有想到，他会从水潭里爬出来，爬这么远的路到这儿来。现在他就在门外呢，想要上咱这儿来。"正说着话的当儿，又听见了敲门声，接着是大声的喊叫：

"小公主啊我的爱，

快点儿把门打开！

爱你的人已到来，

快点儿把门打开！

你不会忘记昨天，

老椴树下水潭边，

潭水深深球不见，

是你亲口许诺言。 "

In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a King whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun himself, who has seen so much, wondered each time he shone over her because of her beauty. Near the royal castle there was a great dark wood, and in the wood under an old linden-tree was a well; and when the day was hot, the King's daughter used to go forth into the wood and sit by the brink of the cool well, and if the time seemed long, she would take out a golden ball, and throw it up and catch it again, and this was her favourite pastime.

Now it happened one day that the golden ball, instead of falling back into the maiden's little hand which had sent it aloft, dropped to the ground near the edge of the well and rolled in. The king's daughter followed it with her eyes as it sank, but the well was deep, so deep that the bottom could not be seen. Then she began to weep, and she wept and wept as if she could never be comforted. And in the midst of her weeping she heard a voice saying to her: "What ails thee, king's daughter? Thy tears would melt a heart of stone." And when she looked to see where the voice came from, there was nothing but a frog stretching his thick ugly head out of the water. "Oh, is it you, old waddler?" said she, "I weep because my golden ball has fallen into the well." - "Never mind, do not weep," answered the frog, "I can help you; but what will you give me if I fetch up your ball again?" - "Whatever you like, dear frog," said she, "any of my clothes, my pearls and jewels, or even the golden crown that I wear." - "Thy clothes, thy pearls and jewels, and thy golden crown are not for me," answered the frog, "but if thou wouldst love me, and have me for thy companion and play-fellow, and let me sit by thee at table, and eat from thy plate, and drink from thy cup, and sleep in thy little bed, if thou wouldst promise all this, then would I dive below the water and fetch thee thy golden ball again." - "Oh yes," she answered, "I will promise it all, whatever you want, if you will only get me my ball again." But she thought to herself: What nonsense he talks! As if he could do anything but sit in the water and croak with the other frogs, or could possibly be any one's companion.

在遥远的古代，人们心中的美好愿望往往能够变成现实。 就在那个令人神往的时代，曾经有过一位国王。 国王有好几个女儿，个个都长得非常美丽；尤其是他的小女儿，更是美如天仙，就连见多识广的太阳，每次照在她脸上时，都对她的美丽感到惊诧不已。

国王的宫殿附近，有一片幽暗的大森林。 在这片森林中的一棵老椴树下，有一个水潭，水潭很深。 在天热的时候，小公主常常来到这片森林，坐在清凉的水潭边上。 她坐在那里感到无聊的时候，就取出一只金球，把金球抛向空中，然后再用手接住。 这成了她最喜爱的游戏。

不巧的是，有一次，小公主伸出两只小手去接金球，金球却没有落进她的手里，而是掉到了地上，而且一下子就滚到了水潭里。 小公主两眼紧紧地盯着金球，可是金球忽地一下子在水潭里就没影儿了。 因为水潭里的水很深，看不见底，小公主就哭了起来，她的哭声越来越大，哭得伤心极了。 哭着哭着，小公主突然听见有人大声说："哎呀，公主，您这是怎么啦？您这样嚎啕大哭，就连石头听了都会心疼的呀。"听了这话，小公主四处张望，想弄清楚说话声是从哪儿传来的，不料却发现一只青蛙，从水里伸出他那丑陋不堪的肥嘟嘟的大脑袋。

"啊！原来是你呀，游泳健将，"小公主对青蛙说道，"我在这儿哭，是因为我的金球掉进水潭里去了。"

"好啦，不要难过，别哭了，"青蛙回答说，"我有办法帮助您。要是我帮您把您的金球捞出来，您拿什么东西来回报我呢？"

"亲爱的青蛙，你要什么东西都成呵，"小公主回答说，"我的衣服、我的珍珠和宝石、甚至我头上戴着的这顶金冠，都可以给你。"

听了这话，青蛙对小公主说："您的衣服、您的珍珠、您的宝石，还有您的金冠，我哪样都不想要。不过，要是您喜欢我，让我做您的好朋友，我们一起游戏，吃饭的时候让我和您同坐一张餐桌，用您的小金碟子吃东西，用您的小高脚杯饮酒，晚上还让我睡在您的小床上；要是您答应所有这一切的话，我就潜到水潭里去，把您的金球捞出来。"

"好的，太好了，"小公主说，"只要你愿意把我的金球捞出来，你的一切要求我都答应。"小公主虽然嘴上这么说，心里却想："这只青蛙可真够傻的，尽胡说八道！他只配蹲在水潭里，和其他青蛙一起呱呱叫，怎么可能做人的好朋友呢？"

　　Pinocchio ran to the mirror. He hardly recognized himself.

　　The bright face of a tall boy looked at him with wide-awake blue eyes,dark brown hair and happy, smiling lips.

　　Surrounded by so much splendor17, the Marionette hardlyknew what he was doing. He rubbed his eyes two or three times,wondering if he were still asleep or awake and decided18 he must be awake.

　　"And where is Father?" he cried suddenly. He raninto the next room, and there stood Geppetto, grown yearsyounger overnight, spick and span in his new clothes andgay as alark19in the morning. He was once more MastroGeppetto, the wood carver, hard at work on a lovelypicture frame, decorating it with flowers and leaves, andheads of animals.

　　"Father, Father, what has happened? Tell me if you can,"cried Pinocchio, as he ran and jumped on his Father's neck.

　　"This sudden change in our house is all your doing,my dear Pinocchio," answered Geppetto.

　　"What have I to do with it?""Just this. When bad boys become good and kind,they have the power of making their homes gay and newwith happiness.""I wonder where the old Pinocchio of wood has hidden himself?""There he is," answered Geppetto. And he pointedto a large Marionette leaning against a chair, head turnedto one side, arms hanging limp, and legs twisted under him.

　　After a long, long look, Pinocchio said to himself withgreat content:

　　"How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And howhappy I am, now that I have become a real boy!"

皮诺乔去照镜子，他觉得这是另外一个人。他再看不见原来的木偶，却看见一个聪明伶俐的漂亮孩子，栗色头发，蓝色眼睛，脸快活得像过降灵节。
　　奇怪的事接二连三，皮诺乔已经给搞胡涂了，它们到底真的呢？还是他睁着眼睛在做梦。
　　“我的爸爸呢？”他忽然叫起来。他走进旁边一间房间，看见老杰佩托身体健康，精神抖擞，兴高采烈，跟早先一样，他又干起了他的雕刻老行当，正在精细地设计一个极其漂亮的画框，上面都是叶子、花朵和各种动物的头，
　　“太奇怪了，爸爸，告诉我吧！我一切突然变化，您说是怎么回事呢？”皮诺乔扑过去抱住他的脖子，亲着他问，
　　“咱家这种突然变化，全都亏了你，”杰佩托说。
　　“为什么亏了我？……”
　　“因为孩子从坏变好，还有一种力量可以使他们的家换一个样子，变得快快活活的。”
　　“原来的木偶皮诺乔他藏在哪儿呢？”
　　“在那儿，”杰佩托回答说，给他指指一个大木偶。这木偶存在一把椅子上，头歪到一边，两条胳膊搭拉下来，两条腿屈着，交叉在一起，叫人看了，觉得它能站起来倒是个奇迹。
　　皮诺乔转过脸去看它，看了好半天，极其心满意足地从心里说：
　　“当我是个木偶的时候，我是多么滑稽可笑啊！如今我变成了个真正的孩子，我又是多么高兴啊！……”

17splendor

n.光彩；壮丽，华丽；显赫，辉煌

参考例句：

Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

18decided

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。

There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

19lark

n.云雀，百灵鸟；n.嬉戏，玩笑；vi.嬉戏

参考例句：

He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。

She lived in the village with her grandparents as cheerful as a lark.她同祖父母一起住在乡间非常快活。

　　When Pinocchio returned home, his father asked him:

　　"And where is the new suit?""I couldn't find one to fit me. I shall have to look againsome other day."That night, Pinocchio, instead of going to bed at teno'clock waited until midnight, and instead of makingeight baskets, he made sixteen.

　　After that he went to bed and fell asleep. As he slept,he dreamed of his Fairy, beautiful, smiling, and happy,who kissed him and said to him, "Bravo, Pinocchio! Inreward for your kind heart, I forgive you for all youroldmischief15. Boys who love and take good care of theirparents when they are old and sick, deserve praise eventhough they may not be held up as models of obedienceand good behavior. Keep on doing so well, and you will be happy."At that very moment, Pinocchio awoke and opened wide his eyes.

　　What was his surprise and his joy when, on lookinghimself over, he saw that he was no longer a Marionette,but that he had become a real live boy! He looked allabout him and instead of the usual walls of straw,he found himself in a beautifully furnished little room,the prettiest he had ever seen. In a twinkling, he jumpeddown from his bed to look on the chairstanding16near.

　　There, he found a new suit, a new hat, and a pair of shoes.

　　As soon as he was dressed, he put his hands in hispockets and pulled out a little leather purse on which werewritten the following words:

　　The Fairy with Azure Hair returnsfifty pennies to her dear Pinocchiowith many thanks for his kind heart.

　　The Marionette opened the purse to find the money,and behold--there were fifty gold coins!

　　皮诺乔回到家，他爸爸问道：
　　“你的新衣服呢？”
　　“我找不到一件合身的。没法子！……下回再买吧。”
　　这天晚上皮诺乔不是十点上床，而是半夜敲了十二点才上床。他不是编八个篮子，而是编了十六个篮子。
　　他一上床就睡着，他睡着了好像梦见仙女。她是那么漂亮，微微笑着，吻了吻他，对他说：
　　“好样儿，皮诺乔！为了报答你的好心，我原谅了你到今天为止所做的一切淘气事。孩子充满爱心帮助遭到不幸的生病父母，都应当受到称赞，得到疼爱，哪怕他们不能成为听话和品行优良的模范孩子，以后一直这样小心谨慎地做人吧，你会幸福的。”
　　梦做到这里完了，皮诺乔醒来，睁大了眼睛。
　　现在各位想象一下，他这时候是多么地惊奇，因为他醒来一看，他已经不是一个木偶，却变成一个孩子，跟所有的孩子一模一样！他向四周一看，看到的已经不是原来那座小房子的干草墙壁，而是一个漂亮的小房间，装饰摆设得十分优雅。他连忙跳下床，看见已经放着一套漂亮的新衣服、一顶新帽子和一双皮靴子，对他再合适也没有了。
　　他一穿上衣服，手自然而然地插进口袋，却掏出了一个小小的象牙钱包。钱包上写着这么一句话：“天蓝色头发的仙女还给她亲爱的皮诺乔四十个铜币，并多谢他的好心。”他打开钱包一看，里面可不是四十个铜币，而是四十个金币，崭新的四十个金币，一闪一闪地发着亮光。

15mischief

n.损害，伤害，危害；恶作剧，捣蛋，胡闹

参考例句：

Nobody took notice of the mischief of the matter. 没有人注意到这件事情所带来的危害。

He seems to intend mischief.看来他想捣蛋。

16standing

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。

They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

　　"Don't you recognize me?" said the Snail.

　　"Yes and no.""Do you remember the Snail that lived with the Fairywith Azure13Hair? Do you not remember how she openedthe door for you one night and gave you something to eat?""I remember everything," cried Pinocchio. "Answerme quickly, pretty Snail, where have you left my Fairy?

　　What is she doing? Has she forgiven me? Does sheremember me? Does she still love me? Is she very far awayfrom here? May I see her?"At all these questions, tumbling out one after another,the Snail answered, calm as ever:

　　"My dear Pinocchio, the Fairy is lying ill in a hospital.""In a hospital?""Yes, indeed. She has been stricken with trouble and illness,and she hasn't a penny left with which to buy a bite of bread.""Really? Oh, how sorry I am! My poor, dear little Fairy!

　　If I had a million I should run to her with it! But Ihave only fifty pennies. Here they are. I was just going tobuy some clothes. Here, take them, little Snail, and givethem to my good Fairy.""What about the new clothes?""What does that matter? I should like to sell these ragsI have on to help her more. Go, and hurry. Come backhere within a couple of days and I hope to have moremoney for you! Until today I have worked for my father.

　　Now I shall have to work for my mother also. Good-by,and I hope to see you soon."The Snail, much against her usual habit, began to runlike alizard14under a summer sun.

“你不认识我了吗？”蜗牛说。
　　“又像认识又像不认识……”
　　“住在天蓝色头发仙女家的那只蜗牛，你不记得了吗？那一回我下来给你照亮，你把一只脚插在门上了，你不记得了吗？”
　　“我都记得我都记得，”皮诺乔叫道，“你快回答我，美丽的蜗牛，你把我的那好心的仙女留在哪儿了？她在做什么？她原谅我了吗？她还记得我吗？她还爱我吗？她离这儿远吗？我可以去看她吗？”
　　皮诺乔像开连珠炮似的，一口气说出了这一连串问话。可蜗牛还是老样子，慢吞吞地回答说：
　　“我的皮诺乔！可怜的仙女躺在医院里了！……”
　　“躺在医院里？！……”
　　“太不幸了！她遭了那么多扫击，生了重病，而且穷得连一口面包也买不起。”
　　“真的，……噢！我听了你的消息，多么难受啊！噢！可怜的好仙女！可怜的好仙女！……如果我有一百万块钱，我就跑去给她了……可我只有四十个子儿……都在这儿了。我们正好要去给自己买一件新衣服。把它们拿去吧，蜗牛，马上把它们拿去给我好心的仙女。”
　　“那你的新衣服呢？……”
　　“新衣服有什么要紧？为了能够帮助她，我还要卖掉我身上的破衣服呢！……去吧，蜗牛，快一点。过两天你再到这儿来，我希望能够再给你几个子儿。到现在为止，我干活为了养活我的爸爸。从今以后，我每天要多干五个钟头活，为了也能养活我的好妈妈，再见，蜗牛，过两天我在这儿等你。”
　　蜗牛一反它的老脾气，跑得飞快，像八月大太阳底下的一条大蜥蜴。

13azure

adj.天蓝色的，蔚蓝色的

参考例句：

His eyes are azure.他的眼睛是天蓝色的。

The sun shone out of a clear azure sky.清朗蔚蓝的天空中阳光明媚。

14lizard

n.蜥蜴，壁虎

参考例句：

A chameleon is a kind of lizard.变色龙是一种蜥蜴。

The lizard darted out its tongue at the insect.蜥蜴伸出舌头去吃小昆虫。