9.The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids大灰狼和七只小山羊-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《格林童话精选Grimms'FairyTales》

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids,and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.One day she wanted to go into the forest and fetch some food.So she called all seven to her and said,"Dear children, I have to go into the forest,be on your guard against the wolf;if he come in,he will devour you all-skin,hair,and all.The wretch often disguises himself,but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet."The kids said, "Dear mother,we will take good care of ourselves;you may go away without any anxiety."Then the old one bleated2,and went on her way with an easy mind. It was not long before some one knocked at the house-door and called,"Open the door,dear children;your mother is here,and has brought something back with her for each of you."But the little kids knew that it was the wolf,by the rough voice; "We will not open the door,"cried they,"thou art not our mother.She has a soft, pleasant voice,but thy voice is rough;thou art the wolf!"Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk,ate this and made his voice soft with it.The he came back,knocked at the door of the house,and cried, "Open the door,dear children,your mother is here and has brought something back with her for each of you."But the wolf had laid his black paws against the window, and the children saw them and cried,"We will not open the door,our mother has not black feet like thee;thou art the wolf."Then the wolf ran to a baker and said,"I have ·112· 大灰狼和七只小山羊 从前有只老山羊，她生了七只小山羊，她是个好妈 妈，非常爱她的孩子们。一天，她要到森林里去找些吃 的，她把七只小羊叫到面前对它们说：“亲爱的孩子们， 我要到森林去一趟，你们要提防着大灰狼，如果他进了 门，就会把你们全吃掉一连皮带毛，一点不剩。那个 坏蛋经常伪装自己，但你们只要听到他的沙哑嗓音看 ①rough [rAf]a.粗糙的， 到他的黑爪子就会马上认出来。”小山羊们纷纷说：“亲 沙哑的 爱的好妈妈，我们会小心的，你不用担心我们，只管去 ②bleat[bli:t]v.(羊)咩咩 吧。”老山羊咩咩叫着，放心地上了路。 地叫 没过多久，有人敲门叫道：“小羊儿乖乖，把门开 开，你们的妈妈回来了，把好吃的东西带回来。”可是 小山羊们听了声音就知道是大灰狼。“我们不会开门 的，”他们齐声说道，“你不是我们的妈妈，她的声音 温柔又好听，你的声音这么沙哑，你是大灰狼！”大 灰狼赶紧走开，去了一个小店给自己买了一块滑石粉， ③lump [IAmp]n.块，团 吃了之后声音就变柔和了。他回到山羊家，敲门叫道： ④chalk[tfk]m.白垩，白 土粉 “小羊儿乖乖，把门开开，你们的妈妈回来了，把好吃 的东西带回来。”可是小山羊们看见了他贴在窗户上的 黑爪子，他们齐声叫道：“我们不会开门的，我们的妈 妈没有你这样的黑爪子，你是大灰狼。”大灰狼跑到面 包师那里说：“我的脚受伤了，给我用面团揉一揉。”面 ·113· The Wolf and the Seven Little Kid's hurt my feet,rub some dough over them for me."And when the baker had rubbed his feet over,he ran to the miller and said,"Strew some white meal over my feet for me."The miller thought to himself,"The wolf wants to deceive someone,"and refused;but the wolf said,"If thou wilt not do it,I will devour thee."Then the miller was afraid,and made his paws white for him.Truly men are like that. So now the wretch went for the third time to the house-door,knocked at it and said,"Open the door for me,children,your dear little mother has come home, and has brought every one of you something back from the forest with her."The little kids cried,"First show us thy paws that we may know if thou art our dear little mother."Then he put his paws in through the window,and when the kids saw that they were white,they believed that all he said was true,and opened the door.But who should come in but the wolf!They were terrified and wanted to hide themselves.One sprang under the table,the second into the bed,the third into the stove②，the fourth into the kitchen,.the fifth into the cupboard③，the sixth under the washing-bowl,and the seventh into the clock-case.But the wolf found them all,and used no great ceremony;one after the other he swallowed them down his throat. The youngest,who was in the clock-case,was the only one he did not find.When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off,laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside,and began to sleep.Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest.Ah!What a sight she saw there!The house-door stood wide open.The table,chairs,and benches were thrown down,the washing- bowl lay broken to pieces,and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.She sought her children,but they were nowhere to be found.She called them one after another by name,but no one answered.At last,when she came to the youngest,a soft voice cried,"Dear mother,I am in the clock-case."She took the kid out,and it told her that the wolf had come and had eaten all the others.Then you may imagine how she wept over her poor children. At length in her grief she went out,and the youngest kid ran with her.When they came to the meadow,there lay the wolf by the tree and snored so loud that the branches shook.She looked at him on every side and saw that something was ·114· 大灰使和七只小山羊 ①dough[dau]n.面团 包师把他的脚揉了个遍，他又跑到磨坊主那里说：“撒 点白面粉在我脚上。”磨坊主心想：“这只大灰狼想骗 人。”他拒绝了大灰狼的要求，可是大灰狼威胁说：“如 果你不听我的话，我就把你吃了。”磨坊主很害怕，就 把他的爪子用白面涂白了。确实，人就是这样的。 现在这个坏蛋第三次来到山羊家，他敲门叫道：“小 羊儿乖乖，把门开开，你们的妈妈回来了，从森林里 把好吃的东西带回来。”小山羊们齐声说道：“你先给我 们看看你的爪子，我们才知道你是不是我们亲爱的妈 妈。”大灰狼把爪子从窗户伸进去，小山羊一看爪子是 白色的，就相信了他说的话，把门打开了。可是，不 是大灰狼还能是谁呢？他们吓坏了，想躲起来。一只 跑到桌子底下，一只爬到床上，一只钻进了炉子，一 只逃到了厨房，一只躲在橱柜里，一只藏到洗脸盆下， ②stove[stuw】n炉 还有一只把自己塞进了钟盒里。可是大灰狼把他们一 ③cupboard[kAbad]n.碗 下子全找到了，他毫不客气地把他们一个一个全吞进 柜 1 ceremony ['serimouni]n. 了肚子里。最小的那只小山羊躲在钟盒里，是唯一没 礼节，礼貌 有被狼发现的。大灰狼大饱口福后离开了山羊家，他 躺在外面青草地的一棵树下，开始睡觉。不久，老山 羊从森林回来了。天哪！她都看见了什么呀！大门敞 开着，桌子、椅子还有凳子都被踢翻了，洗脸盆被敲 得粉碎，被子和枕头都掉在了床下。她四处找孩子， 可是哪里也找不到。她一个一个地喊着他们的名字， ⑤quilt [kwilt)n.被子 但没有人答应。最后，她叫着最小的孩子的名字，一 个稚嫩的声音应道：“亲爱的妈妈，我在钟盒里呢。”老 山羊把小羊抱出来，小羊告诉她大灰狼来过了，把其 他的小羊全吃了。唉，你可以想象老山羊为了她那些 可怜的孩子会哭得多伤心啊。 最后，她满怀悲伤地出了门，最小的孩子跟着她。 他们来到草地上，发现大灰狼躺在树边，呼嚕打得震 天响，连树枝都被震得发抖。老山羊从四面打量着 ·115· The Wolf and the Seven Little Kid's moving and struggling in his gorged belly."Ah,heavens,"said she,"is it possible that my poor children whom he has swallowed down for his supper,can be still alive?"Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors,and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster's stomach,and hardly had she make one cut,than one little kid thrust its head out,and when she cut farther,all six sprang out one after another,and were all still alive,and had suffered no injury whatever,for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.What rejoicing there was!They embraced their dear mother,and jumped like a sailor at his wedding. The mother,however,said,"Now go and look for some big stones,and we will fill the wicked beast's stomach with them while he is still asleep."Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed,and put as many of them into his stomach as they could get in;and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste,so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred. When the wolf at length had had his sleep out,he got on his legs,and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty,he wanted to go to a well to drink.But when he began to walk and move about,the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled 3.Then cried he, “What rumbles④and tumbles⑤ Against my poor bones? I thought't was six kids, But it's naught but big stones." And when he got to the well and stooped over the water and was just about to drink,the heavy stones made him fall in,and there was no help,but he had to drown miserably.When the seven kids saw that,they came running to the spot and cried aloud,"The wolf is dead!The wolf is dead!"and danced for joy round about the well with their mother. ·116· 大灰良和七只小山羊 ①gorge[gxd3]k使吃饱 狼，发现他鼓起来的肚子里有东西在不停地扭动挣扎。 “哦，天哪，”她叫起来，“难道我那几个被他吞到肚 子里当饭吃的孩子还活着吗？”小山羊赶紧跑回家， 拿来了剪刀和针线，老山羊把恶狼的肚子剪开，她刚 剪了一刀，一只小羊就把头伸了出来，她再剪了几刀， 六只小羊一个接一个全蹦了出来，他们都还活着，而 且一点没有受伤。原来那只贪婪的恶狼把他们囫图吞 枣地吞了下去。他们好开心啊！他们拥抱着亲爱的妈 妈，像婚礼上的水手一样开心地又蹦又跳。妈妈说：“现 在我们去找些大石头，我们要趁这个大坏蛋睡着的时 候把他的肚子用石头塞满。”七只小羊飞快地把石头 ②thither[δia:i-ad.到 拖过来，把尽可能多的石头放进大灰狼的肚子里，羊 那里 妈妈飞速地把他的肚子缝起来，他一点没有察觉，一 动也没动。 等到大灰狼终于睡醒了之后，他站起来，肚子里的 石头让他觉得很渴，他想到并边喝点水。可是他一开始 走路，肚子里的石头就互相碰撞起来，发出“咣当咣当” ③rattle[retl],发出嘎嘎 的声音。他叫道： 帝 ④rumble[rAmbl]k隆隆 “什么东西在晃荡， 地响 撞得我的骨头咣当响？ ⑤tumble[tambl】k跌倒 我以为吃了六只羊， 没想到却是大石头硬邦邦。” 他走到井边，弯下腰去准备喝水，沉重的石头往下 坠，他一下子掉进了井里，没有人来帮他，他只能活活 地被淹死了。七只小羊看到了这一切，他们跑到井边大 声地叫道：“大灰狼死了！大灰狼死了！”他们和妈妈一 起围着水井开心地跳起舞来。 ·117·