12.The Valiant Little Tailor勇敢的小裁縫-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《格林童话精选Grimms'FairyTales》

The Valiant Little Tailot One summer's morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window: he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might. Then came a peasant woman down the street crving. "Good jams, cheap! Good iams, cheap!" This rang pleasantly in the tailor's ears: he stretched his delicate{①} head out of the window, and called “Come up here, dear woman: here you will get rid of your goods." The woman came up the three steps to the tailor with her heavy basket, and he made her unpack the whole of the pots for him. He inspected all of them, lifted them up, put his nose to them, and at length said. "The jam seems to me to be good. so weigh me out four ounces②, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence." The woman who had hoped to find a good sale. gave him what he desired. but went away quite angry and grumbling③."Now, God bless the jam to my use." cried the little tailor, "and give me health and strength:"so he brought the bread out of the cupboard. cut himself a piece right across the loaf and spread the jam over it. "This won't taste bitter."said he, "but I will just finish the jacket before I take a bite." He laid the bread near him, sewed on, and in his joy, made bigger and bigger stitches④ In the meantime the smell of the sweet iam ascended so to the wall. where the flies were sitting in great numbers, that they were attracted and descended on it in hosts "Hola! who invited you?" said the little tailor, and drove the unbidden guests away. The flies, however, who understood no German. would not be turned away, but came ·138. 勇敢的小裁缝 一个夏天的早晨,小裁缝坐在窗边的桌前。他心情 不错,起劲地缝着东西。这时街上走来一个农妇,边走 边吆喝道:“香甜的果酱,便宜卖咯!香甜的果酱,便 宜卖咯!”小裁缝听到这声音觉得很悦耳,他把梳得纹 ① delicate ['delikst] a. 精美 的,雅致的 丝不乱的头伸出窗户叫道:“请上这里来,亲爱的农妇, 到这里你可以卖掉你的东西。”农妇拎着沉甸甸的篮子 爬了三个台阶来到小裁缝面前,他让她把所有果酱瓶都 拿出来,他一个个地看了一遍,举起来放到鼻子前挨个 闻了闻,最后他说:“我觉得这果酱不错,亲爱的农妇, ② ounce fauns]n.盎司 请给我称四盎司,不要多也不要少。”那个农妇本想做 笔大买卖,给他称了他想要的那一点点果酱,心里非常 ) grumbling f'aramblinla ③ 生气,嘴里哪哪嚷嚷地走了。“好了,上帝保佑这甜美 哪哪囊的,抱怨的 的果酱,”小裁缝说道,“给我健康,给我力量。”他从 里取出面包,切了一片,把果酱涂在上面。“这果酱 味道不会差,”他说,“不过还是等我把这件夹克衫做好 再来吃。”他把面包放在边上,继续缝衣服,因为心里 ④stitch[stitf]n.-针,针 胸 高兴,他的针脚越来越大。这时,果酱香甜的味道飘到 了墙上,那里停着一大堆苍蝇,它们闻到了果酱的味道 就飞过来叮在面包上。“喂!谁请你们来的?”小裁缝 一边说一边要把这些不速之客赶走。可是这些苍蝇听不 懂德语,不但没被赶走,反而飞来更多。小裁缝终于失 .139· The Vafant Cittfe Taifor back again in ever-increasing companies. The little tailor at last lost all patience, and got a bit of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and saying, "Wait, and I will give it to you," struck it mercilessly{} on them. When he drew it away and counted there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out. "Art thou a fellow of that sort?" said he, and could not help admiring his own bravery. “The whole town shall know of this!"And the little tailor hastened{②} to cut himself a girdle③}, stitched it, and embroidered on it in large letters, "Seven at one stroke!" “What, the town!" he continued, "The whole world shall hear of it!" and his hear wagged{ with joy like a lamb's tail. The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valour Before he went away, he sought about in the house to see if there was anything which he could take with him: however, he found nothing but an old cheese, and that he put in his pocket. In front of the door he observed a bird which had caught itself in the thicket. It had to go into his pocket with the cheese. Now he took to the road boldly, and as he was light and nimble, he felt no fatigue. The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it. there sat a powerful giant looking about him quite comfortably. The little tailor went bravely up, spoke tc him, and said. "Good day, comrade{②. so thou art sitting there overlooking the wide spread world! I am just on my way thither, and want to try my luck. Hast thou any inclination{} to go with me?" The giant looked contemptuously{③}at the tailor, and said."Thou ragamuffin{}! Thou miserable creature!" "Oh. indeed?" answered the little tailor, and unbuttoned his coat, and showed the giant the girdle, "There mayst thou read what kind of a man I am!" The gian read. "Seven at one stroke." and thought that they had been men whom the tailor had killed, and began to feel a little respect for the tiny fellow. Nevertheless, he wished to try him first. and took a stone in his hand and saueezed it together so that water dropped out of it. "Do that likewise." said the giant. "if thou hast strength?" "Is that all?" said the tailor, "that is child's play with us!" and put his hand into his pocket. brought out the soft cheese, and pressed it until the liquid ran out of it “Faith." said he, "that was a little better, wasn't it?"The giant did not know wha .140: 勇的小默缝] 去了耐心,他从工作台的抽屉里抽出一块布,说道:“等 着,看我怎么收拾你们。”说着,就毫不留情地朝苍蝈 ① mercilessly I'mxsilisli] 拍上去。他把布拿开,数了数面包上的苍蝇,竟然有七 ad.冷酷无情地 只,直挺挺的,全死了。“你怎么这么厉害呢?”他自 言自语道,对自己的勇敢行为感到钦佩不己。“应该让 ② hasten [heisan]v. 催促, 全镇的人都知道这件事!”他赶紧给自已裁剪了根腰带, 使赶快 缝好,然后用大大的字在上面绣了一句话:“一下子打 ③ girdle I'oxdlln. 腰带 死七个!”“哦不,光全镇还不够!”他继续自言自语地 ④ wag[weqlv摇摆,摆 说,“应该让全世界都知道!”他太开心了,心里就像 有只羊羔的尾巴在摇摆一样骚动不安。他戴上腰带,决 valour lvela]n. 勇气 定从此去闯世界,因为他觉得对于他这么勇敢的人来 说,他的小裁缝店实在是太小了。临出门之前,他在家 里找了一圈,看看有没有什么东西可以带走的,可是除 了一块放了很久的奶醉,什么也没找到,他把奶略放在 口袋里。走到门口,他发现有只小鸟被困在灌木丛里飞 不出来,他把它和奶略一起放在口袋里。现在,他勇敢 地上路了,因为身材轻盈,动作灵活,他一点没觉得累。 沿着路他走到了一座山上,到了山顶,他看到那里坐着 一个力大无比的巨人,非常悠然自得地四处环顾。小裁 comrade ['komridln. 同 伴,伙伴 缝毫无惧色地走过去,对他说;“你好呀,朋友,你坐 inclination linkli'neifon] 在这里俯广阔的世界呀!我正要去闯闯世界呢,想碰 n.意愿,意向 ⑧ contemptuously 碰运气。你想不想和我一起去?”巨人很不屑地看了看 [kan'temptjuasli]ad. 轻 小裁缝说:“你这个流浪汉!你这个可怜虫!” 蔑地 “哦,是吗?”小裁缝回答说,他解开外套的扣子, { ragamuffin I'reqemAfinl 露出腰带给巨人看。“你读一读这个就知道我是什么人 n.衣衫襟的人 了!”巨人读出声来:“一下子打死七个。”他以为小裁 缝打死的是人,开始对这个小个子有了一丝敬意。但是 他还是想先试试他的身手,他捡起一块石头,用手一捏 从里面挤出了水。“你也来试试,”巨人说,“看看你有 没有这个力气?”“就这个?”小裁缝说,“这不过是小 孩子的把戏!”他把手伸进口袋,拿出那块软软的奶略, 用手轻轻一捏,里面也挤出了水。“你看,我比你还轻 ·141· The Vaiant Cittfe Tailor to say, and could not believe it of the little man. Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it so high that the eye could scarcely follow it. "Now, little mite{ of a man, do that likewise."“Well thrown." said the tailor, "but after all the stone came down to earth again: I will throw you one which shall never come back at all."And he put his hand into his pocket. took out the bird. and threw it into the air. The bird delighted with its liberty, rose, flew away and did not come back. "How does tha shot please you. comrade?" asked the tailor. "Thou canst certainly throw."said the giant, "but now we will see if thou art able to carry anything properly."He took the little tailor to a mighty oak tree which lay there felled on the ground, and said "If thou art strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the forest.""Readily," answered the little man: "take thou the trunk② on thy shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs: after all. they are the heaviest." The giant took the trunk on his shoulder, but the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant who could no look round, had to carry away the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain he behind, was quite merry and happy, and whistled the song, "Three tailors rode forth from the gate," as if carrying the tree were child's play. The giant, after he had dragged the heavy burden part of the way, could go no further, and cried, "Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!" The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant. "Thou art such great fellow, and yet canst not even carry the tree!" They went on together, and as they passed a cherry-tree, the giant laid hold of the top of the tree where the ripest}fruit was hanging, bent it down, gave it intc the tailor's hand. and bade him eat. But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was hurried into the air with it. When he had fallen down again without injury, the giant said “What is this? Hast thou not strength enough to hold the weak twig?""There is no lack of strength." answered the little tailor. "Dost thou think that could be anything to a man who has struck down seven at one blow? I leapt over the tree because the huntsmen are shooting down there in the thicket. Jump as I did, if thou canst do it." The giant made the attempt, but could not get over the tree, and remained hanging .142: 勇的小默缝1 松呢,是不是?”他问巨人。巨人不知道说什么好,可 ① mite maitln.小东西 还是不相信这个小个子能有这么大力气。他捡起一块石 头,朝空中扔去,石头消失得无影无踪。“来,你这个 小矮子,你也来扔扔看。”“扔得好,”小裁缝说,“不过, 你这石头还是掉在了地上。我来给你扔一个,扔出去就 不会再回来。”他把手伸进口袋,拘出了小鸟,把它朝 空中扔去。那只小鸟好不容易有了自由,高兴得赶紧飞 走了,再也没有飞回来。“你觉得我扔得怎么样,朋友?” 小裁缝问道。“你确实扔得很远,”巨人说,“不过现在 我们来看看你能不能搬动东西。”他把小裁缝带到一棵 巨大的橡树面前,那棵树已经倒在地上了。巨人说:“如 ② trunk [trank]n.树干 果你力气足够大,你就帮我把这棵树抬出森林。”“我很 愿意,”小裁缝说,“你来扛树干,我来抬树枝,你看, 树枝是最重的。”巨人把树干扛在肩上,小裁缝坐在树 枝上,巨人没法转过头来看,只能把整棵树打着,上面 还坐着个小裁缝。小裁缝坐在树枝上,非常快活地吹着 口哨,还唱着“三个裁缝骑马出了门”,就好像打树这 种事就是小孩子的游戏。巨人扛着沉重的橡树走了一大 截路,再也走不动了,他叫道:“当心,我要把树放下 来了!”小裁缝灵活地跳起来,用两条胳膊抓住树,就 好像他一直在打着树似的,他嘲笑巨人说:“你这么个 大块头,可是连一棵树也扛不动!” 他们继续一起往前走,发现路上有棵樱桃树,树梢 ③ ripest [ripstla.(ripe 的 最高级)熟透的 的樱桃已经完全成熟了。巨人抓住树梢,把树枝弯下来 放到小裁缝的手里让他吃樱桃。可是小裁缝力气太小, 根本拉不住树枝,巨人把树枝一放,树枝又弹了回去 小裁缝也跟着一起被弹到了空中。小裁缝摔回到地上 没有受伤,巨人说:“这是怎么回事,难道你连抓住一 根细枝条的力气也没有吗?”“这不是有没有力气的问 题,”小裁缝回答说,“你以为一个能一下子打死七个的 人会没有力气?我刚才跳到树上,是因为下面灌木丛里 有个猎人在朝我开枪。你也像我一样跳跳看,看看你行 ·143· The Vafant Cittfe Taifor in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand The giant said. "If thou art such a valiant^{} fellow, come with me into our cavern{②} and spend the night with us." The little tailor was willing, and followed him. When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roasted sheep in his hand and was eating it. The little tailor looked round and thought, "It is much more spacious{③} here than in my workshop." The giant showed him a bed, and said he was to lie down in it and sleep. The bed. however, was too big for the little tailor: he did not lie down in it. but crept into a corner. When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow and thought he had given the grasshopper*} his finishing stroke. With the earlies dawn the giants went into the forest, and had quite forgotten the little tailor. wher all at once he walked up to them quite merrily and boldly. The giants were terrified they were afraid that he would strike them all dead, and ran away in a great hurry. The little tailor went onwards, always following his own pointed nose. After he had walked for a long time, he came to the courtyard of a royal palace, and as he felt weary, he lay down on the grass and fell asleep. Whilst he lay there, the people came and inspected him on all sides, and read on his girdle,"Seven at one stroke." "Ah," said they, "What does the great warrior here in the midst of peace? He must be a mighty lord."They went and announced him to the King, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart. The counsel pleased the King, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke. The ambassador remained standing by the sleeper, waited until he stretched his limbs and opened his eyes, and then conveved} to him this proposal. "For this very reason have I come here,"the tailor replied, "I am ready to enter the King's service." He was therefore honorably received and a special dwelling was assigned him. The soldiers, however, were set against the little tailor, and wished him a thousand miles away. "What is to be the end of this?" they said amongst themselves. .144: 勇的小默缝] 不行?”巨人想试试,可是怎么也跳不上树, 只能悬空 ① valiant I'veljont] n. 英勇 挂在树枝上,这下子又让小裁缝占了上风。 的 巨人说:“如果你真的是个勇敢的人,就和我一起 ② cavern [kaevanln. 洞穴 山洞 去我们的洞穴,晚上和我们住一起。”小裁缝很愿意; 就跟着他。他们进到洞里后,看到其他巨人都围坐在火 ③ 堆边,每个人手上拿着一只烤羊在吃。小裁缝看了看四 spacious I'speifas]a. 宽 敞的 周,心想:“这里比我的裁缝店宽敞多了。”巨人指给他 一张床,说他今晚就睡在那里。那张床对于小裁缝来说 实在是太大了,他没有躺在上面,而是爬到一个角落里。 到了半夜,巨人以为小裁缝已经睡熟了,爬起来拿了一 根大铁棒,对着床中间就狠狠地打下去,他以为这下子 ④ ) grasshopper I'qrrshopa: 'qres-]n.蚱 那只小蚱猛肯定一命鸣呼了。第二天一大早,巨人们到 森林里去,早已经把小裁缝抛在了脑后,可是突然,小 裁缝欢快地朝他们走过来,看不出一点害怕的样子。巨 人们吓坏了,他们担心小裁缝要把他们全都打死,惊慌 失措地全逃走了。 小裁缝继续往前走,他总是根据直觉来作出判断。 他走了很久以后,来到了一个王宫的院子里,因为实在 是太累了,他就躺在草地上睡着了。他躺在那里的时候 很多人过来把他上上下下打量了个遍,他们发现了他腰 带上写着“一下子打死七个”。“姨,”他们说,“现在是 和平年代,这个大勇士为什么会来这里呢?他一定是个 力大无比的英雄。”他们去向国王禀报了情况,并且说如 果战争爆发,这个人可以大派用场,所以千万不能让他 走掉。国王听了这个建议很高兴,派了一个信使去找小 裁缝,等他醒了以后要给他在军队中委以重任。信使站 convey kan'veilv 传达 在睡着的小裁缝边上等着,一直等到他伸伸懒腰睁开眼 传递 睛,然后告诉了他这个消息。“我就是为了这个使命才来 这里的,”小裁缝回答说,“我很愿意为国王效劳。”于是 他得到了隆重的接待,并且得到了一个特殊的住处。 但是,士兵们对小裁缝很敌视,他们都希望他滚 得远远的。“如果我们和他争吵起来,他大打出手,他 ·145· The Vafant Cittfe Taifor "If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow: not one of us can stand against him." They came therefore to a decision betook themselves in a body to the King, and begged for their dismissal{. "We are not prepared," said they, "to stay with a man who kills seven at one stroke." The King was sorry that for the sake of one he should lose all his faithful servants. wished that he had never set eyes on the tailor, and would willingly have been rid of him again. But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the roval throne He thought about it for a long time, and at last found good counsel②. He sent to the little tailor and caused him to be informed that as he was such a great warrior he had one reauest to make to him. In a forest of his country lived two giants whe caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging③, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death. If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give him his only daughter to wife, and half of his kingdom as a dowry④, likewise one hundred horsemen should go with him to assist him. "That would indeed be a fine thing for a man like me!" thought the little tailor. "One is not offered a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day of one's life!""Oh, yes," he replied,"I will soon subdue the giants, and do not reauire the help of the hundred horsemen to do it: he who can hit seven with one blow has no need to be afraid of two." The little tailor went forth, and the hundred horsemen followed him, When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers, "Just stay waiting here. I alone will soon finish off the giants." Then he bounded into the forest and looked about right and left. After a while he perceived both giants. They lay sleeping under a tree, and snored so that the branches waved up and down. The little tailor not idle{}, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree When he was half-way up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants For a long time the giant felt nothing, but at last he awoke, pushed his comrade and said,"Why art thou knocking me?""Thou must be dreaming," said the other ·146: 勇的小默缝1 一下子就能打死七个人,我们谁都不是他的对手,”他 们悄悄地在背后议论,“到时候可怎么办呀?”最后; ① dismissal [dis'misaln. 他们决定一起去找国王,要求集体辞职。他们说:“我 免职,撒职 们可没法和一个能一下子打死七个人的人待在一起。” 国王想到为了一个人他要失去所有忠诚的仆人,心里 觉得很难过,他真希望自已从来没有见过这个小裁缝, 很想把他从眼前除掉。但是,他又不敢赶他走,生怕 他会把他和他的臣民都打死,然后自己篡取王位。他 想了很久,最后终于想到了个好主意。他派人去找小 ② counsel [kaunsoll n. 建 议,劝告 裁缝,告诉他,既然他是一位这么了不起的勇士,他 对他有一事相求。在这个国家的一个森林里住着两个 巨人,他们烧杀抢掠,无恶不作,给人们造成很大的 ③ ravaging I'revid3in] n. 伤害,没有人能靠近他们,因为只要一靠近就可能有 蹂,破坏 丢掉性命的危险。如果小裁缝能征服并且杀掉这两个 巨人,他愿意把自已的独生女儿嫁给他,而且把一半 ④ dowryf'dausril n. 嫁妆 的王国给他做嫁妆。另外,他还答应派一百个骑兵去 帮助小裁缝对付巨人。“这对我这样的人来说真是件大 好事!”小裁缝心想,“并不是每个人这辈子都可以得 subdue [sob'diu:l: 征服 到美丽的公主和半个王国的!”“哦,好的,”他回答说 “我会很快征服那两个巨人,根本不需要一百个骑兵来 帮我,一个能一下子打死七个的人哪里会害怕两个人。” 小裁缝出发了,那一百个骑兵跟着他。到了森林 边缘时,他对那些跟随的骑兵说;“你们就在这里等着 我一个人就可以很快收拾掉那两个巨人。”于是,他朝 森林深处走去,一边走一边左右观望。过了一会儿,他 看到了那两个巨人,他们正躺在树下睡觉,呼噜打得震 天响,连树枝都上下颤动。小裁缝可没闲着,他捡了两 idle laidl]a. 懒散的 口袋的石头,然后爬上了树。他爬到一半高的地方,跳 无所事事的 到一根树枝上,正好蹲在那两个睡着的巨人上方。他把 石头一个接一个地朝其中一个巨人的胸口上扔,那个巨 人起初好久都没有感觉,最后他被打醒了,他推推他的 同伴说:“你为什么一直在打我?”“你肯定是在做梦,” ·147·