初中基础 可以看懂的英文小说,有注释 睡美人 (2)
初中基础 可以看懂的英文小说，有注释 睡美人
Sleeping Beauty
CHAPTER 1
The Curse
There once lived a brave King and his fair Queen.
For years they wanted to have children.
Finally, the Queen had a baby girl.
Her birth was celebrated庆典 throughout 遍及 the kingdom.
There were seven magical fairies in the land.
The and Queen asked them to be the baby’s godmothers
The fairies’ gifts would make any baby perfect.
They would provide给某人„„the baby with grace优雅and goodness美德. The King gave a party for the fairies.
There was a table with seven place.
The fairies all sat down to eat.
Then, an old, old fairy walked into the room.
No one had invited her because they thought she died.
The old, old fairy said angrily,
“Insult me, will they?
I ’ll teach them something!”
A younger fairy heard her.
She wanted to prevent it when the old fairy did anything awful.
(形容词修饰something, anything, nothing等不定代词时，放在不定代词后。）The youngest fairy gave the baby beauty.
The next gave her wit.
The third gave her grace.优雅
The fourth made her an excellent卓越的dancer.
The fifth made he a wonderful singer.
The sixth gave her musical 音乐的talent 天赋.
It was now the old, old fairy’s turn.
Angrily, she said,
“The princess will cut her finger on a spindle and die.”
Everyone was shocked.
The younger fairy stepped up to走到跟前the baby.o
She said, “Do not fear, Your Majesties.（majesty 威严的皇权）
I can’t undo解除this wicked course.
But I can change it.
When the princess cuts her finger, she will not die.
She ’ll be awakened(awaken 唤醒）by a handsome prince.”
The King wanted to protect her.
He made a law.
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There should be no spindles in the kingdom.
Fifteen years later, the princess grew into a beautiful young lady.
One day she decided to explore the castle.
She found a tiny room high up in the castle.
In the room, she saw an old woman.
In her hand she held a spindle.
The princess had never seen it before.
“Please, what is that?”
“This is a spindle, my dear,” said the old woman.
“How beautiful!
May I see it?” asked the princess.
As the princess reached out伸出, she cut here finger on t he spindle.
She fell on the floor.
She came to sleep.
The King ran to the young princess.
He knew that the curse had came true实现.
The King placed Sleeping Beauty in a beautiful room.
The magic sleep increased her beauty.
Her cheeks and lips became rosy.
There was a soft sound of her breathing呼吸.
The good fairy who saved the .life came to the palace and said,
“The princess might be ssad if she wakes in an empty castle.
I ’ll give her company and servants.”
The fairy then put many servants to sleep. （put somebody to sleep 使某人睡着）Even the princess’ little dog was put to beside Sleeping Beauty.
The King and Queen went off to live in another place.
The fairy made a forest of trees grow around the castle.
(make+n.+动词原形，表示让某人/某物„„做某事）
The trees were very thick.
Sleeping Beauty was safe from the outside world.
CHAPTER 2
The Handsome Prince
A hundred years passed.
There was a new King of the land.
He had a son who always went hunting.（go+-ing:表示“去做某事”
One day the prince saw the castle towers in the forest.
The prince went into the thick forest.
As he came near the castle, the vines and trees majically separated分开.
He could pass through the forest.
Everything was silent in the courtyard.
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People were sleeping everywhere.
Finally, the prince came to a golden room.
There on a high bed was the most beautiful lady he had ever seen.
The prince touched her hand, and the lovely princess woke.
She looked at the prince as if she had always known him.
“Is that you, my prince?” she whispered.
“I ’ve wited a long time for you.”
The prince’s heart jumped for joy.
“I have fallen in love with you,” answered the prince.
He asked the princess to marry him, and sher agreed.
After two years, the prince and princess had two children.
The eldest was a girl named Dawn曙光.
The second was a boy, and they called him Day.
After Day’s birth, the old King passed away.
The prince then became King.
The new King had to go fight in a war.
“Please rule in my place(in one’s place 代替某人）, ” he asked his mother. She was originally原来an ogress食人女妖.
She had a bad temper.
After he left, his mother ordered the the King’s wife and children to live in a country house.
The King’s mother called the cook and said,
“I want to eat little Dawn for dinner tomorrow!”
The poor man knew that he could not argue with an ogress.
So he got his knife and went to Dawn’s room.
However, the man could not hurt the smiling child.
Instead, he chose a young lamb from the barn.
He prepared it for dinner the next day.
The ogress Queen greedily ate up 吃光all the lamp.
“She ’s even tastier(tasty 好吃的）than I’d imagined,” she said.
The next Sunday, the King’s mother said to the cook,
“I want to eat little Day for lunch!”
The cook hid Day in a barn with Dawn.
Then he prepared a tender young goat fo r lunch.
“He is delicious. You prepared a fine meal,” said the ogress.
“Now I shall eat the Queen!”
So the cook hid the Queen in the barn with the children, and then cooked a young deer.
The ogress ate all of it.
She was very pleased.
She planned on lying to her son.(plan on doing 计划做某事）
She would tell him that wolves(wolf 狼wolves pl.) had eaten his family.
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One day, the ogress went walking.
She walked past the barn and heard children laughing.
She herd a mother’s voice hushing(hush 使安静）them.
It was the young Queen wit her children.e
The ogress was angry because she had been tricked.
“Get the biggest pot in the kingdom!
Put it in courtyard.
Fill it with snakes, toaks, and some spiders,”she said.(fill...with用„„装满） “I ’ll throw the Queen, the children, and the cook in it to die.
And I’ll love watching!”
The next day, the ogress’ servants prepared everything.
They were ready to throw the young Queen into the pot.
Suddenly, the King rode through the gate.
“What on earth 到底is going on here?” he demanded.
No one dared to speak.
The ogress was furious.
She knew that she couldn’t always have he own way.(have one’s own way 为）
So she jumped into the pot.
The snakes and spiders instantly ate her.
The King was upset for a while.
However, his sadness gradually disappeared.
He was happy to be with his beautiful wife and his two pretty children.
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