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。”

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。

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。"

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。

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！"

"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。

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。”

"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。"

"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。"

"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。 "

"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

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。

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。"

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。"

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。

C1 

There once lived a man and his wife, who had long wished for a child, but in vain. Now there was at the back of their house a little window which overlooked a beautiful garden full of the finest vegetables and flowers; but there was a high wall all round it, and no one ventured into it, for it belonged to a witch of great might, and of whom all the world was afraid.

One day that the wife was standing at the window, and looking into the garden, she saw a bed filled with the finest rampion; and it looked so fresh and green that she began to wish for some; and at length she longed for it greatly. This went on for days, and as she knew she could not get the rampion, she pined away, and grew pale and miserable. Then the man was uneasy, and asked, "What is the matter, dear wife?"

从前有一个男人和一个女人，他俩一直想要个孩子，可总也得不到。 最后，女人只好希望上帝能赐给她一个孩子。他们家的屋子后面有个小窗户，从那里可以看到一个美丽的花园，里面长满了奇花异草。可是，花园的周围有一道高墙，谁也不敢进去，因为那个花园属于一个女巫。这个女巫的法力非常大，世界上人人都怕她。一天，妻子站在窗口向花园望去，看到一块菜地上长着非常漂亮的莴苣。这些莴苣绿油油、水灵灵的，立刻就勾起了她的食欲，非常想吃它们。这种欲望与日俱增，而当知道自己无论如何也吃不到的时候，她变得非常憔悴，脸色苍白，痛苦不堪。她丈夫吓坏了，问她："亲爱的，你哪里不舒服呀？"

"Oh," answered she, "I shall die unless I can have some of that rampion to eat that grows in the garden at the back of our house." The man, who loved her very much, thought to himself, "Rather than lose my wife I will get some rampion, cost what it will." So in the twilight he climbed over the wall into the witch's garden, plucked hastily a handful of rampion and brought it to his wife. She made a salad of it at once, and ate of it to her heart's content. But she liked it so much, and it tasted so good, that the next day she longed for it thrice as much as she had done before; if she was to have any rest the man must climb over the wall once more. So he went in the twilight again; and as he was climbing back, he saw, all at once, the witch standing before him, and was terribly frightened, as she cried, with angry eyes, "How dare you climb over into my garden like a thief, and steal my rampion! it shall be the worse for you!"

"啊，"她回答，"我要是吃不到我们家后面那个园子里的莴苣，我就会死掉的。"丈夫因为非常爱她，便想："与其说让妻子去死，不如给她弄些莴苣来，管它会发生什么事情呢。"黄昏时分，他翻过围墙，溜进了女巫的花园，飞快地拔了一把莴苣，带回来给她妻子吃。妻子立刻把莴苣做成色拉，狼吞虎咽地吃了下去。这莴苣的味道真是太好了，第二天她想吃的莴苣居然比前一天多了两倍。为了满足妻子，丈夫只好决定再次翻进女巫的园子。于是，黄昏时分，他偷偷地溜进了园子，可他刚从墙上爬下来，就吓了一跳，因为他看到女巫就站在他的面前。 "你好大的胆子，"她怒气冲冲地说，"竟敢溜进我的园子来，像个贼一样偷我的莴苣！"

"Oh," answered he, "be merciful rather than just, I have only done it through necessity; for my wife saw your rampion out of the window, and became possessed with so great a longing that she would have died if she could not have had some to eat." Then the witch said,
"If it is all as you say you may have as much rampion as you like, on one condition - the child that will come into the world must be given to me. It shall go well with the child, and I will care for it like a mother."

In his distress of mind the man promised everything; and when the time came when the child was born the witch appeared, and, giving the child the name of Rapunzel (which is the same as rampion), she took it away with her.

Rapunzel was the most beautiful child in the world. When she was twelve years old the witch shut her up in a tower in the midst of a wood, and it had neither steps nor door, only a small window above. When the witch wished to be let in, she would stand below and would cry,

"唉，"他回答，"可怜可怜我，饶了我吧。我是没办法才这样做的。我妻子从窗口看到了你园子中的莴苣，想吃得要命，吃不到就会死掉的。"女巫听了之后气慢慢消了一些，对他说："如果事情真像你说的这样，我可以让你随便采多少莴苣，但我有一个条件：你必须把你妻子将要生的孩子交给我。我会让她过得很好的，而且会像妈妈一样对待她。"丈夫由于害怕，只好答应女巫的一切条件。妻子刚刚生下孩子，女巫就来了，给孩子取了个名字叫"莴苣"，然后就把孩子带走了。
"莴苣"慢慢长成了天底下最漂亮的女孩。孩子十二岁那年，女巫把她关进了一座高塔。这座高塔在森林里，既没有楼梯也没有门，只是在塔顶上有一个小小的窗户。每当女巫想进去，她就站在塔下叫道：

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Let down your hair!"

Rapunzel had beautiful long hair that shone like gold. When she. heard the voice of the witch she would undo the fastening of the upper window, unbind the plaits of her hair, and let it down twenty ells below, and the witch would climb up by it.

After they had lived thus a few years it happened that as the King's son was riding through the wood, he came to the tower; and as he drew near he heard a voice singing so sweetly that he stood still and listened. It was Rapunzel in her loneliness trying to pass away the time with sweet songs. The King's son wished to go in to her, and sought to find a door in the tower, but there was none. So he rode home, but the song had entered into his heart, and every day he went into the wood and listened to it. Once, as he was standing there under a tree, he saw the witch come up, and listened while she called out,

"O Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Let down your hair."

"莴苣，莴苣，
把你的头发垂下来。 "
莴苣姑娘长着一头金丝般浓密的长发。一听到女巫的叫声，她便松开她的发辫，把顶端绕在一个窗钩上，然后放下来二十公尺。女巫便顺着这长发爬上去。
一两年过去了。有一天，王子骑马路过森林，刚好经过这座塔。这时，他突然听到美妙的歌声，不由得停下来静静地听着。唱歌的正是莴苣姑娘，她在寂寞中只好靠唱歌来打发时光。王子想爬到塔顶上去见她，便四处找门，可怎么也没有找到。他回到了宫中，那歌声已经深深地打动了他，他每天都要骑马去森林里听。一天，他站在一棵树后，看到女巫来了，而且听到她冲着塔顶叫道：
"莴苣，莴苣，
把你的头发垂下来。 "

Then he saw how Rapunzel let down her long tresses, and how the witch climbed up by it and went in to her, and he said to himself, "Since that is the ladder I will climb it, and seek my fortune." And the next day, as soon as it began to grow dusk, he went to the tower and cried,

"O Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Let down your hair."

And she let down her hair, and the King's son climbed up by it. Rapunzel was greatly terrified when she saw that a man had come in to her, for she had never seen one before; but the King's son began speaking so kindly to her, and told how her singing had entered into his heart, so that he could have no peace until he had seen her herself. Then Rapunzel forgot her terror, and when he asked her to take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and beautiful, she thought to herself, "I certainly like him much better than old mother Gothel," and she put her hand into his hand.

莴苣姑娘立刻垂下她的发辫，女巫顺着它爬了上去。王子想："如果那就是让人爬上去的梯子，我也可以试试我的运气。"第二天傍晚，他来到塔下叫道：
"莴苣，莴苣，
把你的头发垂下来。 "
头发立刻垂了下来，王子便顺着爬了上去。
莴苣姑娘看到爬上来的是一个男人时，真的大吃一惊，因为她还从来没有看到过男人。但是王子和蔼地跟她说话，说他的心如何如何被她的歌声打动，一刻也得不到安宁，非要来见她。莴苣姑娘慢慢地不再感到害怕，而当他问她愿不愿意嫁给他时，她见王子又年轻又英俊，便想："这个人肯定会比那教母更喜欢我。"她于是就答应了，并把手伸给王子。

She said: "I would willingly go with thee, but I do not know how I shall get out. When thou comest, bring each time a silken rope, and I will make a ladder, and when it is quite ready I will get down by it out of the tower, and thou shalt take me away on thy horse." They agreed that he should come to her every evening, as the old woman came in the day-time.

So the witch knew nothing of all this until once Rapunzel said to her unwittingly, "Mother Gothel, how is it that you climb up here so slowly, and the King's son is with me in a moment?"

她说："我非常愿意跟你一起走，可我不知道怎么下去。你每次来的时候都给我带一根丝线吧，我要用丝线编一个梯子。等到梯子编好了，我就爬下来，你就把我抱到你的马背上。"因为老女巫总是在白天来，所以他俩商定让王子每天傍晚时来。女巫什么也没有发现，直到有一天莴苣姑娘问她："我问你，教母，我拉你的时候怎么总觉得你比那个年轻的王子重得多？他可是一下子就上来了。"

"O wicked child," cried the witch, "what is this I hear! I thought I had hidden thee from all the world, and thou hast betrayed me!" In her anger she seized Rapunzel by her beautiful hair, struck her several times with her left hand, and then grasping a pair of shears in her right - snip, snap - the beautiful locks lay on the ground. And she was so hard-hearted that she took Rapunzel and put her in a waste and desert place, where she lived in great woe and misery.
The same day on which she took Rapunzel away she went back to the tower in the evening and made fast the severed locks of hair to the window-hasp, and the King's son came and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Let down your hair."

Then she let the hair down, and the King's son climbed up, but instead of his dearest Rapunzel he found the witch looking at him with wicked glittering eyes.

"啊！你这坏孩子！"女巫嚷道，"你在说什么？我还以为你与世隔绝了呢，却不想你竟然骗了我！"她怒气冲冲地一把抓住莴苣姑娘漂亮的辫子，在左手上缠了两道，又用右手操起一把剪刀，喳喳喳几下，美丽的辫子便落在了地上。然后，她又狠心地把莴苣姑娘送到一片荒野中，让她凄惨痛苦地生活在那里。
莴苣姑娘被送走的当天，女巫把剪下来的辫子绑在塔顶的窗钩上。王子走来喊道：
"莴苣，莴苣，
把你的头发垂下来。 "
女巫放下头发，王子便顺着爬了上去。然而，他没有见到心爱的莴苣姑娘，却看到女巫正恶狠狠地瞪着他。

"Aha!" cried she, mocking him, "you came for your darling, but the sweet bird sits no longer in the nest, and sings no more; the cat has got her, and will scratch out your eyes as well! Rapunzel is lost to you; you will see her no more." The King's son was beside himself with grief, and in his agony he sprang from the tower: he escaped with life, but the thorns on which he fell put out his eyes. Then he wandered blind through the wood, eating nothing but roots and berries, and doing nothing but lament and weep for the loss of his dearest wife.

So he wandered several years in misery until at last he came to the desert place where Rapunzel lived with her twin-children that she had borne, a boy and a girl. At first he heard a voice that he thought he knew, and when he reached the place from which it seemed to come Rapunzel knew him, and fell on his neck and wept. And when her tears touched his eyes they became clear again, and he could see with them as well as ever. Then he took her to his kingdom, where he was received with great joy, and there they lived long and happily.

"啊哈！"她嘲弄王子说，"你是来接你的心上人的吧？可美丽的鸟儿不会再在窝里唱歌了。她被猫抓走了，而且猫还要把你的眼睛挖出来。你的莴苣姑娘完蛋了，你别想再见到她。"王子痛苦极了，绝望地从塔上跳了下去。他掉进了刺丛里，虽然没有丧生，双眼却被刺扎瞎了。他漫无目的地在森林里走着，吃的只是草根和浆果，每天都为失去爱人而伤心地痛哭。他就这样痛苦地在森林里转了好几年，最后终于来到了莴苣姑娘受苦的荒野。莴苣姑娘已经生下了一对双胞胎，一个儿子，一个女儿。王子听到有说话的声音，而且觉得那声音很耳熟，便朝那里走去。当他走近时，莴苣姑娘立刻认出了他，搂着他的脖子哭了起来。她的两滴泪水润湿了他的眼睛，使它们重新恢复了光明。他又能像从前一样看东西了。他带着妻子儿女回到自己的王国，受到了人们热烈的欢迎。他们幸福美满地生活着，直到永远。

C6

The sister began to weep, and said, "I know you will be killed, and I left alone here in the forest, and forsaken of everybody. I cannot let you go!"

"Then I shall die here with longing," answered the fawn;" when I hear the sound of the horn I feel as if I should leap out of my skin."

Then the sister, seeing there was no help for it, unlocked the door with a heavy heart, and the fawn bounded away into the forest, well and merry.

When the King saw him, he said to his hunters, "Now, follow him up all day long till the night comes, and see that you do him no hurt." So as soon as the sun had gone down, the King said to the huntsmen:" Now, come and show me the little house in the wood." And when he got to the door he knocked at it, and cried, "Little sister, let me in!" Then the door opened, and the King went in, and there stood a maiden more beautiful than any he had seen before. The maiden shrieked out when she saw, instead of the fawn, a man standing there with a gold crown on his head. But the King looked kindly on her, took her by the hand, and said, "Will you go with me to my castle, and be my dear wife?"

姐姐哭着说："他们这次肯定会杀死你的，然后就剩下我一个人孤孤单单、无依无靠地在这森林里，我不能让你出去。""那我在屋里会憋死的，"小鹿说，"当我听到号角的声音时，我仿佛感到自己的心脏都要跳出来了。"做姐姐的再也没有别的办法，只好带着沉重的心情为它打开门。 小鹿快乐地朝森林跑去。
国王看到小鹿时，对报信的那个猎手说："你过来。带我到那座小屋去。"到了小屋前，他敲门叫道："我的小姐姐，让我进去吧！"门一打开，国王便走了进去，看到屋里有一位他所见过的最美丽的姑娘。 看到进来的不是小鹿，而是一个头上带着金王冠的男人，姑娘很害怕，可是国王和善地望着她，向她伸出手去说："你愿意跟我回去，做我亲爱的妻子吗？"

C7

"Oh yes," answered the maiden, "but the fawn must come too. I could not leave him." And the King said, "He shall remain with you as long as you live, and shall lack nothing." Then the fawn came bounding in, and the sister tied the cord of rushes to him, and led him by her own hand out of the little house.

The King put the beautiful maiden on his horse, and carried her to his castle, where the wedding was held with great pomp; so she became lady Queen, and they lived together happily for a long while; the fawn was well tended and cherished, and he gambolled about the castle garden. Now the wicked stepmother, whose fault it was that the children were driven out into the world, never dreamed but that the sister had been eaten up by wild beasts in the forest, and that the brother, in the likeness of a fawn, had been slain by the hunters. But when she heard that they were so happy, and that things had gone so well with them, jealousy and envy arose in her heart, and left her no peace, and her chief thought was how to bring misfortune upon them. Her own daughter, who was as ugly as sin, and had only one eye, complained to her, and said, "I never had the chance of being a Queen."

"愿意，"姑娘说，"可是小鹿得跟我一起去。我离不开它。"国王说："它可以永远呆在你的身边，而且什么也不会缺少的。"就在这时，小鹿跑了进来，姐姐给它拴上灯芯草绳，牵着它，跟着国王一起离开了林中的小屋。
国王把这可爱的姑娘放到马背上，把她带回了王宫，并且在那里举行了盛大的婚礼。她现在成了王后，和国王一起幸福地生活了许多年。小鹿受到了细心的照料，在王宫的花园里跑来跑去。
可是那个邪恶的继母，自从两个孩子因为她而离家出走之后，以为小姐姐肯定在森林中被野兽撕成了碎片，小弟弟也肯定被猎人们当做小鹿射死了，可现在听到他们生活得很幸福、很美满，嫉妒和怨恨像两把烈火在她的心中燃烧，使她片刻也不得安宁。她成天盘算着怎么再次给姐弟俩带来不幸。她自己的女儿丑得像黑夜一样，而且只有一只眼睛，这时也责怪她说："她当王后！这种好事应该属于我！"

C8

"Never mind," said the old woman, to satisfy her;" when the time comes, I shall be at hand." After a while the Queen brought a beautiful baby-boy into the world, and that day the King was out hunting. The old witch took the shape of the bedchamber woman, and went into the room where the Queen lay, and said to her, "Come, the bath is ready; it will give you refreshment and new strength. Quick, or it will be cold." Her daughter was within call, so they carried the sick Queen into the bath-room, and left her there. And in the bath-room they had made a great fire, so as to suffocate the beautiful young Queen.

When that was managed, the old woman took her daughter, put a cap on her, and laid her in the bed in the Queen's place, gave her also the Queen's form and countenance, only she could not restore the lost eye. So, in order that the King might not remark it, she had to lie on the side where there was no eye. In the evening, when the King came home and heard that a little son was born to him, he rejoiced with all his heart, and was going at once to his dear wife's bedside to see how she did. Then the old woman cried hastily, "For your life, do not draw back the curtains, to let in the light upon her; she must be kept quiet." So the King went away, and never knew that a false Queen was lying in the bed.

"别闹，"
老婆子安慰她说，"等时候一到，我会让你如愿的。"
不久，王后生下了一个漂亮的男孩，而国王碰巧外出打猎去了。老巫婆便打扮成一个使女，走进王后的卧室，对她说："来吧，洗澡水已经烧好了。洗一洗对你有好处，能使你恢复精力。快点，不然水就要凉了。"
她的亲生女儿也在旁边，于是母女俩把虚弱的王后抬进洗澡间，把她放进澡盆，然后锁上门跑了。她们在洗澡间里生了一堆熊熊燃烧的旺火，不一会儿就使年轻漂亮的王后窒息而死。
然后，老婆子拉着她的女儿，给她戴上一顶睡帽，让她躺到王后的床上。她还让她的女儿有了王后一样的身材和长相，只是她无法给女儿一只眼睛。为了不让国王看出破绽，她只好侧着身子，向着没有眼睛的那一边睡。
傍晚，国王回到家中，得知王后给他生了个儿子，心中非常高兴，马上要去床边看看他亲爱的妻子。可是老婆子立刻叫道："千万不要拉开窗帘！王后还不能见光，需要好好休息！"国王走了出去，没有发觉床上躺着的是个假王后。

C9

Now, when it was midnight, and every one was asleep, the nurse, who was sitting by the cradle in the nursery and watching there alone, saw the door open, and the true Queen come in. She took the child out of the cradle, laid it in her bosom, and fed it. Then she shook out its little pillow, put the child back again, and covered it with the coverlet. She did not forget the fawn either: she went to him where he lay in the corner, and stroked his back tenderly. Then she went in perfect silence out at the door, and the nurse next morning asked the watchmen if any one had entered the castle during the night, but they said they had seen no one.

And the Queen came many nights, and never said a word; the nurse saw her always, but she did not dare speak of it to any one.

After some time had gone by in this manner, the Queen seemed to find voice, and said one night,

"My child my fawn twice more I come to see,
Twice more I come, and then the end must be."

The nurse said nothing, but as soon as the Queen had disappeared she went to the King and told him all. The King said, "Ah, heaven! what do I hear! I will myself watch by the child to-morrow night." So at evening he went into the nursery, and at midnight the Queen appeared, and said,

"My child my fawn once more I come to see,
Once more I come, and then the end must be."

可是到了半夜，当所有的人都睡着了时，坐在婴儿室摇篮旁独自守夜的保姆看到门开了，真的王后走了进来。王后从摇篮里抱起婴儿，搂在怀里给他喂奶。然后她抖一抖孩子的小枕头，把孩子重新放进摇篮，给他盖上小被子。她也没有忘记小鹿，而是走到它躺的角落，抚摸着它的背，然后才悄悄地走出房门。第二天早晨，保姆问卫兵晚上有没有人进过宫，可卫兵们都说："没有，我们谁也没有看见。"就这样，一连很多天，王后总是在夜里来到这里，但她从来不说一句话。保姆每次都看见她，可又不敢把这告诉任何人。
这样过了一些时候，王后有天夜里开口说道：
"我的孩子怎么办？我的小鹿怎么办？
我还能再来两次。以后就再也不能来了。 "
保姆没有答腔，可等王后一走，她立刻跑到国王那里，把一切都告诉了他。国王说："啊，上帝呀！这是怎么回事呀？明天晚上我要亲自守在婴儿身旁。"晚上，他进了婴儿室。到了半夜，王后真的又来了，而且说道：
"我的孩子怎么办？我的小鹿怎么办？
我还能再来一次。以后就再也不能来了。 "

C10

And she tended the child, as she was accustomed to do, before she vanished. The King dared not speak to her, but he watched again the following night, and heard her say,

"My child my fawn this once I come to see,
This once I come, and now the end must be."

Then the King could contain himself no longer, but rushed towards her, saying, "You are no other than my dear wife!"

Then she answered, "Yes, I am your dear wife," and in that moment, by the grace of heaven, her life returned to her, and she was once more well and strong. Then she told the King the snare that the wicked witch and her daughter had laid for her.

The King had them both brought to judgment, and sentence was passed upon them. The daughter was sent away into the wood, where she was devoured by the wild beasts, and the witch was burned, and ended miserably. And as soon as her body was in ashes the spell was removed from the fawn, and he took human shape again; and then the sister and brother lived happily together until the end.

她像往常一样给孩子喂了奶，然后就走了。国王不敢和她说话，可第二天晚上仍然去守夜。只听王后在说：
"我的孩子怎么办？我的小鹿怎么办？
这是我最后一次来这里，以后再也不能来了。 "
国王听到这里，再也无法克制自己。他朝她跑去，说："你肯定是我亲爱的妻子！"她回答："是的，我是你亲爱的妻子。"话刚出口，她就立刻恢复了生命，而且，靠着上帝的恩典，她变得非常健康，脸色非常红润。
她把那邪恶的巫婆和巫婆的女儿对她犯下的罪行告诉了国王。国王立刻命令审判她俩，对她们作出了判决。女儿被带到了森林里，被野兽撕成了碎片；老巫婆被投进火里可悲地烧成了灰烬。就在老巫婆被烧成灰烬的一刹那，小鹿也变了，重新恢复了人的形状。从此，姐姐和弟弟一直幸福地生活在一起，直至白发千古。

C1

The brother took his sister's hand and said to her, "Since our mother died we have had no good days; our stepmother beats us every day, and if we go near her she kicks us away; we have nothing to eat but hard crusts of bread left over; the dog under the table fares better," he gets a good piece every now and then. If our mother only knew, how she would pity us! Come, let us go together out into the wide world!" So they went, and journeyed the whole day through fields and meadows and stony places, and if it rained the sister said, "The skies and we are weeping together." In the evening they came to a great wood, and they were so weary with hunger and their long journey, that they climbed up into a high tree and fell asleep.

The next morning, when they awoke, the sun was high in heaven, and shone brightly through the leaves. Then said the brother, "Sister, I am thirsty; if I only knew where to find a brook, that I might go and drink! I almost think that I hear one rushing."

So the brother got down and led his sister by the hand, and they went to seek the brook. But their wicked stepmother was a witch, and had known quite well that the two children had run away, and had sneaked after them, as only witches can, and had laid a spell on all the brooks in the forest.

小弟弟拉着小姐姐的手说："自从妈妈死了之后，我们没有过过幸福的日子。继母天天打我们，而且只要我们走到她的跟前，她就用脚把我们踢开。我们每天吃的都是硬梆梆的剩面包皮，连桌子下面的小狗吃的都比我们好，因为她常常丢一些好吃的东西给它。愿上帝可怜我们，让我们的妈妈知道就好了！走，我们一起逃出去吧。"
他们在草地、田野和石岩中整整走了一天。 突然天下起了雨，小姐姐便说："看哪，天在和我们的心一起哭泣呢。"傍晚，他们来到了一片大森林，由于伤心和饥饿，再加上走了这么长的路，他们累坏了，便钻进一棵空心大树，躺在里面睡着了。
当他们第二天醒来时，太阳早已高高地挂在了天上，温暖地照进了这棵空心大树。 小弟弟说："姐姐，我口渴。要是知道哪里有条小溪，我就去喝点水。我好像听到小溪的流水声了。"弟弟站起来，拉着小姐姐的手，走过去找那条小溪。 可是他们那坏心肠的继母是个女巫，知道两个孩子逃跑了，便和所有的女巫一样，偷偷地跟在他们的后面，把森林里所有的小溪都使了妖术。

C2

So when they found a little stream flowing smoothly over its pebbles, the brother was going to drink of it; but the sister heard how it said in its rushing, "He a tiger will be who drinks of me, Who drinks of me a tiger will be!"

Then the sister cried, "Pray, dear brother, do not drink, or you will become a wild beast, and will tear me in pieces."

So the brother refrained from drinking, though his thirst was great, and he said he would wait till he came to the next brook. When they came to a second brook the sister heard it say, "He a wolf will be who drinks of me, Who drinks of me a wolf will be!"

Then the sister cried, "Pray, dear brother, do not drink, or you will be turned into a wolf, and will eat me up!"

So the brother refrained from drinking, and said, "I will wait until we come to the next brook, and then I must drink, whatever you say; my thirst is so great."

And when they came to the third brook the sister heard how in its rushing it said, "Who drinks of me a fawn will be, He a fawn will be who drinks of me!"

看到有条清亮的小溪正在岩石间流淌，小弟弟便想过去喝水，可是小姐姐听到小溪的流水在说话："谁喝我就会变成老虎！谁喝我就会变成老虎！"小姐姐赶紧叫道："好弟弟，我求你千万不要喝这水，要不你会变成一只野兽，把我撕碎的。 "小弟弟便忍着口渴，不去喝那水，但是他说："我忍着等找到第二条小溪的时候再喝。 "
当他们来到第二条小溪前时，小姐姐又听到这条小溪在说："谁要是喝了我，就会变成一头狼！谁要是喝了我，就会变成一头狼！"小姐姐于是便叫道："好弟弟，我求你千万不要喝这水，不然你会变成一头狼，把我吃掉的。"小弟弟没有喝，说："我忍着等找到下一条小溪。到时候不管你说什么，我都是要喝的，因为我实在是渴坏了。"
当他们来到第三条小溪前时，小姐姐听到小溪在说："谁要喝我就会变成一头鹿！谁要喝我就会变成一头鹿！"

C3

Then the sister said, "O my brother, I pray drink not, or you will be turned into a fawn, and run away far from me."

But he had already kneeled by the side of the brook and stooped and drunk of the water, and as the first drops passed his lips he became a fawn.

And the sister wept over her poor lost brother, and the fawn wept also, and stayed sadly beside her. At last the maiden said, "Be comforted, dear fawn, indeed I will never leave you." Then she untied her golden girdle and bound it round the fawn's neck, and went and gathered rushes to make a soft cord, which she fastened to him; and then she led him on, and they went deeper into the forest. And when they had gone a long long way, they came at last to a little house, and the maiden looked inside, and as it was empty she thought, "We might as well live here." And she fetched leaves and moss to make a soft bed for the fawn, and every morning she went out and gathered roots and berries and nuts for herself, and fresh grass for the fawn, who ate out of her hand with joy, frolicking round her. At night, when the sister was tired, and had said her prayers, she laid her head on the fawn's back, which served her for a pillow, and softly fell asleep. And if only the brother could have got back his own shape again, it would have been a charming life.

姐姐便说："好弟弟，我求求你，千万不要喝这水，不然你会变成一头鹿，从我的身边跑走的。"可是弟弟一见小溪就跪了下去，弯下腰去喝水了。嘴唇刚碰到几滴水，趴在那里的他就变成了一头小鹿。

看到可怜的弟弟中了魔法，小姐姐哭了起来，小鹿也坐在她的身边伤心地哭着。终于，小姑娘说道："亲爱的小鹿，别哭了，我永远不会离开你的。 "
她解下一根金袜带，系在小鹿的脖子上，然后又拔了一些灯芯草，编了一根软绳。她给小鹿拴上这根绳子，牵着它向森林的深处走去。
他们走呀走，终于来到了一座小屋前。小姑娘朝里面望了望，看到里面是空的，便想："我们可以留下来，住在这里。"于是，她找来许多树叶和青苔，给小鹿铺了一张柔软的床。她每天早晨出去，为自己采集草根、浆果和坚果，还给小鹿带回来一些嫩草。小鹿吃着她手里的草，总是高兴地围着她跳来跳去。到了晚上，累了一天的小姐姐做完祈祷后，便把头靠在小鹿的背上，像靠着枕头一样安静地睡觉。要是她的弟弟还保持着人的形状，这种生活倒也挺美！

C4

So they lived a long while in the wilderness alone. Now it happened that the King of that country held a great hunt in the forest. The blowing of the horns, the barking of the dogs, and the lusty shouts of the huntsmen sounded through the wood, and the fawn heard them and was eager to be among them.

"Oh," said he to his sister," do let me go to the hunt; I cannot stay behind any longer," and begged so long that at last she consented.

"But mind," said she to him," come back to me at night. I must lock my door against the wild hunters, so, in order that I may know you, you must knock and say, ' Little sister, let me in,' and unless I hear that I shall not unlock the door." Then the fawn sprang out, and felt glad and merry in the open air. The King and his huntsmen saw the beautiful animal, and began at once to pursue him, but they could not come within reach of him, for when they thought they were certain of him he sprang away over the bushes and disappeared. As soon as it was dark he went back to the little house, knocked at the door, and said, "Little sister, let me in." Then the door was opened to him, and he went in, and rested the whole night long on his soft bed.

他们就这样孤单寂寞地在野外生活了一段时间。一天，这个国家的国王来到这片森林里打猎。森林里到处都是号角声、狗吠声和猎手们的欢笑声。小鹿听到了这些，非常想去看一看。 "哦，"它对姐姐说："让我去那里吧。我实在忍不住了！"它左请求右请求，姐姐终于答应了。她对它说："可是你晚上要回到我的身边来。我很怕那些粗野的猎人，所以会把门关上，你回来时只要敲门说：'我的小姐姐，让我进去吧！ '，我就知道是你回来了。要是你不说这句话，我就不开门。 "小鹿蹦蹦跳跳地离开了家，来到屋外的世界，它感到真是又舒服又开心。
国王和猎手们看到这头美丽的小鹿，便追了过来，可他们怎么也抓不住它。每当他们以为一定能抓到它时，它总是跃进树丛不见了。天黑后，它跑到小屋那里，敲了敲门，说："我的小姐姐，让我进去吧！"门立刻便开了，它跳进去，在柔软的床上好好睡了一晚。

C5

The next morning the hunt began anew, and when the fawn heard the hunting-horns and the tally-ho of the huntsmen he could rest no longer, and said, "Little sister, let me out, I must go"

The sister opened the door and said, "Now, mind you must come back at night and say the same words." When the King and his hunters saw the fawn with the golden collar again, they chased him closely, but he was too nimble and swift for them. This lasted the whole day, and at last the hunters surrounded him, and one of them wounded his foot a little, so that he was obliged to limp and to go slowly. Then a hunter slipped after him to the little house, and heard how he called out," Little sister, let me in," and saw the door open and shut again after him directly., The hunter noticed all this carefully, went to the King, and told him all he had seen and heard. Then said the King, "To-morrow we will hunt again."

But the sister was very terrified when she saw that her fawn was wounded. She washed his foot, laid cooling leaves round it, and said," Lie down on your bed, dear fawn, and rest, that you may be soon well." The wound was very slight, so that the fawn felt nothing of it the next morning. And when he heard the noise of the hunting outside, he said, "I cannot stay in, I must go after them; I shall not be taken easily again!"

第二天，围猎又开始了。当小鹿再次听到号角声以及猎手们发出的"嗬嗬嗬"的喊叫声时，它再也安静不下来了。它说："姐姐，让我出去吧！我一定要出去！"它的姐姐给它开了门，对它说："但是你晚上一定要回来，而且还要讲那句暗语！"
当国王和猎手们再次看到这头带着金项圈的小鹿时，他们又一起朝它追去，只是它对他们来说太快、太机灵了。他们追了一整天，终于在黄昏时把它围住了。一个猎手还把它的脚射伤了一点，它只好一瘸一拐地慢慢向前跑。一个猎手悄悄跟着它来到了小屋前，听到它说："我的小姐姐，让我进去吧！"猎手看到小屋的门开了一下，小鹿进去后便立刻又关上了。猎手把这一切看在眼里，回去后把自己的所见所闻告诉了国王。国王说："我们明天再去打猎。"
小姐姐看到小鹿受伤后害怕极了，她给它洗去了身上的血迹，在它的伤口敷上药草，说："亲爱的小鹿，快去床上躺下，好好养伤。"但是那伤口很轻，小鹿第二天早上就没有任何感觉了。当它又听到外面打猎的叫喊声时，它说："我再也忍不住了。我一定要去那里。我不会让他们轻而易举地抓住我的。"

C1

The cock once said to the hen, "It is now the time when our nuts are ripe, so let us go to the hill together and for once eat our fill before the squirrel takes them all away." - "Yes," replied the hen, "come, we will have some pleasure together." Then they went away to the hill, and on it was a bright day they stayed till evening. Now I do not know whether it was that they had eaten till they were too fat, or whether they had become proud, but they would not go home on foot, and the cock had to build a little carriage of nut-shells. When it was ready, the little hen seated herself in it and said to the cock, "Thou canst just harness thyself to it." - "I like that!" said the cock, "I would rather go home on foot than let myself be harnessed to it; no, that is not our bargain. I do not mind being coachman and sitting on the box, but drag it myself I will not."

有一次，公鸡对母鸡说："现在正是核桃成熟的时候，我们要趁着松鼠还没有把核桃全部吃完，赶紧进山去吃个够。""对呀，"母鸡答道，"走吧，我们可以好好地享受享受。"它们于是就上了山，而且因为天气晴朗，一直在山上呆到天黑。 不知道它们究竟是因为吃多了撑着呢，还是因为它们突然变得心高气傲起来，它们竟然不愿意步行回家。 公鸡用核桃壳做了一辆小车。车子做好后，小母鸡坐了上去对公鸡说："你只管在前面拉车吧。""让我拉车？"公鸡嚷了起来，"我宁愿步行回家也不愿意拉车。不行，我决不答应！要我坐在车上当个车夫还可以，可要我拉车，这根本不可能。"

As they were thus disputing, a duck quacked to them, "You thieving folks, who bade you go to my nut-hill? Well, you shall suffer for it!" and ran with open beak at the cock. But the cock also was not idle, and fell boldly on the duck, and at last wounded her so with his spurs that she also begged for mercy, and willingly let herself be harnessed to the carriage as a punishment. The little cock now seated himself on the box and was coachman, and thereupon they went off in a gallop, with "Duck, go as fast as thou canst." When they had driven a part of the way they met two foot-passengers, a pin and a needle. They cried, "Stop! stop!" and said that it would soon be as dark as pitch, and then they could not go a step further, and that it was so dirty on the road, and asked if they could not get into the carriage for a while.

就在它们这样争论的时候，一只鸭子嘎嘎嘎地叫着对它们说："你们这两个小偷，是谁同意你们上我的核桃山的？等着，我要让你们吃点苦头！"它说着便张开阔嘴，向公鸡扑过去。但是公鸡并非等闲之辈，毫不示弱地向鸭子反击，对着鸭子猛踢猛蹬，弄得鸭子只好低头求饶，并且愿意接受惩罚，给它们拉车。小公鸡坐在车夫的位子上，高高地叫了一声："鸭子，尽量给我跑快点！"小车便飞快地向前驶去。他们走了一程后，遇到了两个赶路的，一个是大头针，一个是缝衣针。 "停一停，停一停！"它俩喊道。然后又说，天快要黑了，它们寸步难行，而且路上又脏得要命，所以问能不能搭一会儿车。

They had been at the tailor's public- house by the gate, and had stayed too long over the beer. As they were thin people, who did not take up much room, the cock let them both get in, but they had to promise him and his little hen not to step on their feet. Late in the evening they came to an inn, and as they did not like to go further by night, and as the duck also was not strong on her feet, and fell from one side to the other, they went in. The host at first made many objections, his house was already full, besides he thought they could not be very distinguished persons; but at last, as they made pleasant speeches, and told him that he should have the egg which the little hen has laid on the way, and should likewise keep the duck, which laid one every day, he at length said that they might stay the night.

它俩还说，它们在城门口裁缝们常去的酒店里喝啤酒，结果呆得太晚了。由于它俩都骨瘦如柴，占不了多少位子，公鸡便让它们上了车，条件是要它们保证不踩到它和母鸡的脚。天黑了很久以后，它们来到了一家旅店前。它们不愿意在黑夜里继续赶路，再加上鸭子的脚力又不行，跑起来已经是左摇右摆，它们便进了店里。店主人起初提出了许多异议，说什么店已经住满了，而且他觉得它们不是什么高贵的客人。可它们说了很多好话，说要把小母鸡在路上生的鸡蛋给他，还把每天能生一只蛋的鸭子留给他，他终于答应让它们在店里过夜。

And now they had themselves well served, and feasted and rioted. Early in the morning, when day was breaking, and every one was asleep, the cock awoke the hen, brought the egg, pecked it open, and they ate it together, but they threw the shell on the hearth. Then they went to the needle which was still asleep, took it by the head and stuck it into the cushion of the landlord's chair, and put the pin in his towel, and at the last without more ado they flew away over the heath. The duck who liked to sleep in the open air and had stayed in the yard, heard them going away, made herself merry and found a stream, down which she swam, which was a much quicker way of travelling than being harnessed to a carriage

第二天清早，天刚蒙蒙亮，大家都还在睡梦中，公鸡却叫醒了母鸡，取出那只鸡蛋，把它啄破，和母鸡一起把蛋吃进了肚子，再把蛋壳扔进火炉。然后，它们来到还在沉睡的缝衣针旁，抓住它的脑袋，把它插进店老板椅子的坐垫中，又把大头针插在店老板的毛巾里。做完这些后，公鸡和母鸡便飞快地逃走了。鸭子因为喜欢睡在露天，所以晚上一直呆在院子里，没有进屋。它听到公鸡和母鸡逃跑了，心里万分高兴。它找到一条小溪，顺着它游了下去--这种旅行的方法当然要比拉车快多了。

The host did not get out of bed for two hours after this; he washed himself and wanted to dry himself, then the pin went over his face and made a red streak from one ear to the other. After this he went into the kitchen and wanted to light a pipe, but when he came to the hearth the egg-shell darted into his eyes. "This morning everything attacks my head, " said he, and angrily sat down on his grandfather's chair, but he quickly started up again and cried, "Woe is me, " for the needle had pricked him still worse than the pin, and not in the head. Now he was thoroughly angry, and suspected the guests who had come so late the night before, and when he went and looked about for them, they were gone. Then he made a vow to take no more ragamuffins into his house, for they consume much, pay for nothing, and play mischievous tricks into the bargain by way of gratitude.

几个小时之后，店老板才起来。他洗了洗脸，准备用毛巾擦一擦，结果大头针从他的脸上划过，在他的脸上留下了一道直至耳根的长长的血印。他走进厨房，想点燃烟斗，可当他走到火炉旁时，鸡蛋壳从火炉里蹦了出来，碰到了他的眼睛。 "今天早晨好像什么都跟我过不去。"他说，同时气呼呼地在他爷爷留给他的椅子上坐了下来。可他立刻又跳了起来，而且叫着："哎哟！哎哟！"那缝衣针虽然没有扎着他的脸，却比大头针扎得更厉害。他现在真的气坏了，不由得怀疑起昨天很晚才住进店来的那帮客人。他去找它们，结果发现它们早已逃得无影无踪了。他于是发誓说，他的店里今后决不再接待任何二流子，因为这帮家伙吃得多，不付一分钱，而且还忘恩负义地对你做恶作剧。

C1

An old woman lived in a village. She had gathered a serving of beans and wanted to cook them, so she prepared a fire in her fireplace. To make it burn faster she lit it with a handful of straw. While she was pouring the beans into the pot, one of them fell unnoticed to the floor, coming to rest next to a piece of straw. Soon afterward a glowing coal jumped out of the fireplace and landed next to them. The straw said, "Dear friends, where do you come from?" The coal answered, "I jumped from the fireplace, to my good fortune. If I had not forced my way out, I surely would have died. I would have burned to ash." The bean said, "I too saved my skin. If the old woman had gotten me into the pot I would have been cooked to mush without mercy, just like my comrades." - "Would my fate have been any better?" said the straw. 

一座村子里住着一位贫穷的老太太，她摘了一盘豆子，准备煮熟了吃。 她在炉子里点上火，为了让炉子烧得快一点，她生炉子的时候用了一把麦草。 当把豆子倒进锅里时，她没有注意到一粒豆子掉了出来，落在地上的一根麦草旁。不一会儿，一块燃烧的煤炭也从炉子中跳了出来，落在它俩的旁边。于是，麦草开口说："亲爱的朋友们，你们从哪里来呀？"煤块答道："我总算幸运地从火里跳出来了。要是我没有使劲跳出来，我必死无疑，一定会被烧成灰烬。"豆子说："我也成功地逃了出来，可要是那老太太把我倒进了锅子，我肯定会像我的伙伴们一样，被她毫不留情地煮成浓汤。"

C2

"The old woman sent all my brothers up in fire and smoke. She grabbed sixty at once and killed them. Fortunately I slipped through her fingers." - "What should we do now?" asked the coal. "Because we have so fortunately escaped death," answered the bean, "I think that we should join together as comrades. To prevent some new misfortune from befalling us here, let us together make our way to another land."

This proposal pleased the other two, and they set forth all together. They soon came to a small brook, and because there was neither a bridge nor a walkway there, they did not know how they would get across it. Then the straw had a good idea, and said, "I will lay myself across it, and you can walk across me like on a bridge."

"难道我不是不幸中之万幸吗？"麦草问，"那个老太太把我所有的兄弟塞进炉火里，变成了轻烟。她一把就抓住了六十根，要了它们的命。幸好我从她的指缝里溜掉了。"
"可我们现在怎么办呢？"煤块问。
"我觉得，"豆子回答，"既然我们都幸运地死里逃生，我们就应该像好伙伴一样团结在一起。为了避免在这地方再遭到厄运，我们应该离开这里，到别的地方去。"
另外两位都觉得这是一个好主意，于是它们便结伴而行。没过多久，它们来到了一条小溪边，小溪上既没有桥，也没有跳磴，它们不知道该怎么过去。麦草灵机一动，说："让我横躺在小溪上，你们可以像过桥一样从我身上走过去。"

C3

So the straw stretched himself from one bank to the other. The coal, who was a hot-headed fellow, stepped brashly onto the newly constructed bridge, but when he got to the middle and heard the water rushing beneath him, he took fright, stopped, and did not dare to go any further. Then the straw caught fire, broke into two pieces, and fell into the brook. The coal slid after him, hissed as he fell into the water, and gave up the ghost. The bean who had cautiously stayed behind on the bank had to laugh at the event. He could not stop, and he laughed so fiercely that he burst. Now he too would have died, but fortunately a wandering tailor was there, resting near the brook. Having a compassionate heart, he got out a needle and thread and sewed the bean back together. The bean thanked him most kindly. However, because he had used black thread, since that time all beans have had a black seam.

麦草说着便把自己的身子从小溪的这一边伸到了另一边。煤块性子比较急，立刻大着胆子走上了这座刚刚搭好的桥。可是它走到桥中间时，听到溪水在脚下哗哗地流淌，不由得害怕起来，站在那里不敢往前走。这下麦草燃了起来，断成两截掉进了小溪。煤块跟着掉了下去，碰到水发出咝的一声，就送了命。豆子一直谨慎地呆在岸上，看到这情景不由得放声哈哈大笑。它笑呀笑，笑得裂开了自己的肚皮。它本来也许就这样完蛋了，但幸运的是，一个外出找活干的裁缝正好坐在小溪旁休息。这位裁缝心肠很好，取出针线把它的肚子缝在了一起。豆子好好地谢了裁缝，可由于裁缝用的是黑线，所以豆子的身上至今还留有一条黑缝。