美国小学英语教材3:第10课 不会哭的公主(1)

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　　If you wanted to make someone³ cry without hurting him, how would⁴ you do it?  如果你想要一个人哭而又不想伤害他，那你应该怎么做呢？

　　A little girl in this story thought⁵ of a very funny way. 这则故事里的小姑娘想到了一个十分有趣的方法。

　　What The Wise⁶ Men Did⁷ 智者的做法

　　There was⁸ once a young princess who could not cry. 从前，有位年轻的公主不知道怎么哭。

　　That would have been all right if she had⁹ not laughed at everything. 却遇到任何事情都会笑，遇到什么事都笑。

　　And this was not a nice thing for any young girl to do. 这对于任何一个年轻的女孩来说肯定不是件好事。

　　The mother and father of the princess were so unhappy¹⁰ about her laughing that they asked a wise fairy¹¹ to help them. 公主的妈妈和爸爸对她的笑很是苦恼，于是，请求一个聪明的小仙女来帮助他们。

　　The fairy thought and thought and thought. 小仙女想啊想、想啊想。

　　At last she said¹², "If the princess can only be made¹³ to cry once, she will be just like other people." 最后她说，“如果公主能哭一次的话，她就会和其他人一样了”。

　　Soon everyone in the king¹⁴'s palace¹⁵ was trying to think of some way to make the princess cry. 于是，皇宫里的每个人都想尽办法想让公主哭出来。

　　This was a very hard thing to do. 但这是一件非常难办的事。

　　No one wanted the young girl to be really unhappy, but she must be a little sad or she would not cry. 没人想让这个小姑娘真的不开心，但是她必须得伤心才能哭出来。

　　At last the king said that he would give a bag of gold to anyone¹⁶ who could make the princess cry without hurting her. 最后国王说，谁能让公主哭而又不伤害到她，他就给谁一袋金子。

　　From all over the country wise men came¹⁷, to see what they could do. 于是，全国的智者都来了，他们都想看看自己能做些什么。

　　They were all sure that they could make the princess cry. 他们都确信自己能让公主哭出来。

　　The first wise man said, "The princess must be shut¹⁸ up in a room by herself¹⁹ for a week. 第一个智者说，“必须把公主自己一人关在屋里，关她一周的时间。

　　While²⁰ she is in this room, she must be given²¹ nothing to eat but bread and water." 她在屋里的期间除了面包和水，别的什么也不要给她吃”。

　　To the queen²² this seemed²³ very unkind²⁴,  在王后看来这有些不近人情，

　　but she said that it would be all right if the princess could have bread and milk instead²⁵ of just bread and water. 但她说，要是公主能吃到面包、喝到牛奶而不只是只有面包和水的话，这应该没有什么问题。

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