優秀經典的英語故事

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　英語童話故事：最後一天

Charlotte and Wilbur were alone. Wilbur lay resting after the excitement and strain of the ceremony. His medal still hung from his neck; by looking out of the corner of his eye he could see it.

夏洛和威爾伯單獨待着。經過頒獎典禮上一番興奮和緊張後，威爾伯躺下來休息。他的獎章仍然掛在脖子上，通過眼角的餘光就能看到它。

"Charlotte," said Wilbur after a while, "why are you so quiet?"

“夏洛，”過了一會兒威爾伯說，“你爲什麼這麼安靜?”

"I like to sit still," she said."I've always been rather quiet."

“我喜歡靜靜地坐着，”她說。“我一直都十分安靜?”

"Yes, but you seem specially so today. Do you feel all right?"

“是的，但今天你似乎出奇地安靜。你感覺還好嗎?”

"A little tired, perhaps. But I feel peaceful. Your success in the ring this morning was to a small degree, my future is assured. You will live, secure and safe, Wilbur. Nothing can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall. Christmas will come, then the snows of winter. You will live to enjoy the beauty of the frozen world, for you mean a great deal to Zuckerman and he will not harm you, ever. Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy, Wilbur--this lovely world, these precious days...”

也許有點兒累吧。但我覺得很平靜。今天早上你在圍欄裏的成功，在小小的程度上也是我的成功。你的未來有保證了。你將生活得十分安全，威爾伯。現在沒有什麼能傷害你。秋天的白晝會縮短，天氣會變冷。葉子將從樹上鬆動落下。聖誕節即將來臨，之後是冬天的飄雪。你將活着享受冰天雪地的美景，因爲對於朱克曼先生來說，你意義重大，他不會傷害你的，永遠不會。冬天會過去，白晝會延長，牧場池塘上的冰將融化。籬雀將飛回來歌唱，青蛙要甦醒，溫暖的風會再次吹起。所有這些景象、聲音和香氣都將供你享受，威爾伯—這個美好的世界，這些珍貴的日子……”

Charlotte stopped. A moment later a tear came to Wilbur's eye. "Oh, Charlotte," he said. "To think that when I first met you I thought you were cruel and bloodthirsty!"

夏洛停了下來。不一會兒，眼淚涌入了威爾伯的眼眶。“哦，夏洛，”他說，“想當初第一次見到你，我還以爲你很殘忍，嗜血成性呢!”

When he recovered from his emotion, he spoke again.

等他從情緒中恢復過來，他又說話了。

"Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you."

“你爲什麼要爲我做這一切?”他問，“我不值得。我從來沒有爲你做過任何事情。”

"You have been my friend," replied Charlotte.

“你一直是我的朋友，”夏洛答道。

"That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked r all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyones life can stand a little of that."

“這本身就是一件了不起的事。我爲你結網，因爲我喜歡你。畢竟，生命到底是什麼啊?我們出生，活一陣子，之後死去。蜘蛛的生命無非就是一團糟，全忙着捕食和吃蒼蠅。但是，通過幫助你，或許我可以提升一點我生活的價值。毫無疑問，人活着該做一點有意義的事情。”

"Well," said Wilbur. "I'm no good at making speeches. I haven't got your gift for words. But you have saved me, Charlotte, and I would gladly give my life for you-I really would."

“嗯，”威爾伯說。“我不善於演講。我沒有你能說會道的天賦。但你救了我，夏洛，我很樂意爲你獻出我的生命—我真的願意。”

"I'm sure you would. And I thank you for your generous sentiments."

“我相信你會的。我感謝你的慷慨情懷。”

"Charlotte," said Wilbur. "We're all going home today. The Fair is almost over. Won't it be wonderful to be back home in the barn cellar again with the sheep and the geese?Aren't you anxious to get home?"

“夏洛，”威爾伯說。“我們今天都要回家了。集市差不多結束了。重新回到穀倉，與那些羊和鵝團聚不是很美嗎?你不急着回家嗎?”

For a moment Charlotte said nothing. Then she spoke in a voice so low Wilbur could hardly hear the words.

有一陣子夏洛什麼話也沒說。之後，她用一個威爾伯幾乎無法聽到的很低的聲音說:

"I will not be going back to the barn," she said. Wilhur leapt to his feet. "Not going back?" he cried. "Charlotte, what are you talking about?"

“我不會回到穀倉了，”她說。威爾伯跳了起來。“不回去?”他哭着.“夏洛，你在說什麼?”

"I'm done for ," she replied. "In a day or two I'll be dead. I haven't even strength enough to climb down into the crate. I doubt if I have enough silk in my spinnerets to lower me to the ground."

“我的生命要終止了，”她答道。“一兩天後我就會死去。我甚至沒有足夠的力氣爬到下面板條箱裏。我懷疑我的吐絲器裏是否有足夠的絲把我吊到地面。”

Hearing this, Wilbur threw himself down in an agony of pain and t sobs racked his body. "Charlotte," he moaned. "Charlotte! My true friend!"

聽到這話，威爾伯癱坐下來，極度痛苦和悲傷。他大聲抽泣，渾身哆嗦。“夏洛，”他呻吟着。“夏洛!我真正的明友!”

"Come now, let's not make a scene," said the spider. "Be quiet, Wilbur. Stop thrashing about!"

“別這樣，我們不要婆婆媽媽了”蜘蛛說。“安靜點，威爾伯。不要折騰自已了!”

But I can't stand it," shouted Wilbur. "I won't leave you here alone to die. If you're going to stay here I shall stay, too."

“但我控制不住，”威爾伯喊道。“我不會留下你獨自等死。如果你要留在這裏，我也要留下。”

"Don't be ridiculous," said Charlotte. "You can't stay here.”

“別傻丁，”夏洛說。“你不能留在這裏。”

Wilbur was in a panic. He raced round and round the pen. Suddenly he had an idea he thought of the egg sac and the five hundred and fourteen little spiders that would hatch in the spring. If Charlotte herself was unable to go home to the barn, at least he must take her children along.

威爾伯驚慌不已。他在豬圈裏飛奔了一圈又一圈。突然他有了一個想法——他想起了那個卵袋和五百十四隻將在春季孵化的小蜘蛛。萬一夏洛自已無法回到吞倉，至少他必須把她的孩子們帶走。

英語童話故事：皮皮搬進維拉維洛古拉

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking. She was nine years old, and she lived there all alone. She had no mother and no father, and that was of course very nice because there was no one to tell her to go to bed just when she was having the most fun, and no one who could make her take cod liver oil when she much preferred caramel candy.

在一座小鎮的盡頭有一座古老的花園，花園裏有一座老房子，房子裏住着長襪子皮皮。她九歲，獨自一個人住在那裏。她沒有媽媽，也沒有爸爸.這當然很好，因爲在她玩得最高興的時候，不會有人來叫她睡覺，當她更喜歡奶油糖果時，沒有人會讓她吃魚肝油。

Once upon a time Pippi had had a father of whom she was extremely fond. Naturally she had had a mother too, but that was so long ago that Pippi didn't remember her at all. Her mother had died when Pippi was just a tiny baby and lay in a cradle and howled so that nobody could go anywhere near her. Pippi was sure that her mother was now up in Heaven, watching her little girl through a peephole in the sky, and Pippi often waved up at her and called, "Don't you worry about me. I'1l always come out on top."

很久以前，皮皮有過爸爸，她極其喜歡自己的爸爸。當然她也有過媽媽，但是這是許久以前了，皮皮一點也不記得了。當皮皮還是一個小嬰兒躺在搖藍裏的時候，她的媽媽就去世了。她號啕大哭，誰都不敢靠近她。皮皮相信她的媽媽正在天堂裏，通過天上的一個小孔看着她的小女兒，皮皮經常對她揮揮手，呼喊着:“不用擔心我，我會過得很好。”

Pippi had not forgotten her father. He was a sea captain who sailed on the great ocean,and Pippi had sailed with him in his ship until one day her father was blown overboard in a storm and disappeared. But Pippi was absolutely certain that he would come would never believe that he had drowned; she was sure he had floated until he landed on an island inhabited by cannibals. And she thought he had become the king of all the cannibals and went around with a golden crown on his head all day along.

皮皮沒有忘記她的爸爸。他是一個海上的船長，航行在無邊無際的大海上，皮皮曾經和他一起在他的船上航行，直到有一天爸爸在一場風暴中被刮下了船，消失了。但是，皮皮完全相信他會回來的。她絕不相信他會溺水而死，她相信他在海上漂流，漂到一個黑人居住的島嶼上。她想他當上了黑人國王，頭上戴着一頂金冠整日四處走動。

"My papa is a cannibal king; it certainly isn't every child who has such a stylish papa," Pippi used to say with satisfaction. "And as soon as my papa has built himself a boat he will come and get me, and I'll be a cannibal princess. Heigh-ho, won't that be exciting?"

“我的爸爸是黑人國王，當然，並不是每個孩子都能有這樣與衆不同的爸爸。”皮皮’常常滿意地自言自語。“我爸爸一建好小船，他就會來接我，我將成爲黑人公主。哎呀，那難道不是很讓人興奮的事嗎?”

Her father had bought the old house in the garden many years ago. He thought he would live there with Pippi when he grew old and couldn't sail the seas any longer. And then this annoying thing had to happen, that he was blown into the ocean, and while Pippi was waiting for him to come back she went straight home to Villa Villekulla. That was the name of the house. It stood there ready and waiting for her. One lovely summer evening she had said good-by to all the sailors on her father's boat. They were all fond of Pippi, and she of them.

許多年前，她的爸爸就買下了花園裏的房子。他想等他老了，再也不能出海了，就和皮皮住在這裏。之後這件討厭的事情發生了，他被刮進了大海。而皮皮要等着爸爸回來，她直接住進了維拉維洛古拉的家。維拉維洛古拉，這就是房子的名字，它坐落在那裏，準備就緒，等待着她。一個令人愉快的夏夜，她告別了爸爸船上所有的水手，他們全都喜歡皮皮，皮皮也喜歡他們。

"So long, boys," she said and kissed each one on the forehead. "Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top."

“再見了，小夥子們。”她說，吻了每一個水手的額頭，“不要擔心我，我會一直過得很好。”

Two things she took with her from the ship: a little monkey whose name was Mr. Nilsson--he was a present from her father-and a big suitcase full of gold pieces. The sailors stood upon the deck and watched as long as they could see her. She walked straight ahead without looking back at all, with Mr. Nilsson on her shoulder and her suitcase in her hand.

她從船上帶走了兩樣東西:一隻小猴子，他叫尼爾森先生—這是爸爸送給她的禮物，以及一個裝滿金幣的大箱子。水手們站在甲板上看着，直到看不到她爲止。她頭也不回地徑直向前走着，肩上站着尼爾森先生，手裏提着大箱子。

"A remarkable child," said one of the sailors as Pippi disappeared in the distance.

“多了不起的孩子呀!”一個水手說，這時皮皮已經消失在遠方。

He was right. Pippi was indeed a remarkable child. The most remarkable thing about her was that she was so strong. She was so very strong that in the whole wide world there was not a single police officer as strong as she. Why, she could lift a whole horse if she wanted to! And she had bought with one of her many gold pieces the day she came home to Villa Villekulla. She had always longed for a horse, anct now here he was, living on the porch. When Pippi wanted to drink her afternoon coffee there, she simply lifted him down into the garden.

他是對的。皮皮確實是一個了不起的孩子。她最非同尋常的地方是她力大無窮。她力氣大極了，恐怕世界上沒有一個警察能和她一樣。爲什麼呢，如果她想的話，她能舉起一整匹馬!當她來到維拉維洛古拉這個家的時候，用一塊金幣買了一匹馬。她一直渴望能有一匹馬，現在他就住在門廊裏。當皮皮想在門廊上喝下午的咖啡時，她只要把馬舉到花園裏去。

英語童話故事：奉獻樹

Once there was a tree…and she loved a little boy. Every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would play hide-and-go-seek. And when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade. And the boy loved the tree very much… the tree was happy.

從前有一棵樹，她喜歡一個小男孩。每天男孩都會跑到這棵樹下撿落葉，做成王冠，把自已裝扮成森林之王。男孩總是爬上樹幹，在樹枝扛盪鞦韆，吃樹上的蘋果，他們還會一起玩捉迷藏的遊戲。男孩累了，就在樹蔭裏睡覺。小男孩非常喜愛這棵樹，大樹也十分開心。

But time went by. The boy grew older, and the tree was often alone.

但是時光流逝，男孩逐漸長大，大樹常常形單影隻。

Then one day the boy came to the tree and the tree said."Come, Boy, come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and eat my apples and play in my shade and be happy."

有一天男孩來到大樹旁，大樹說:“來吧，孩子，爬到我的樹幹上，在樹枝上盪鞦韆，吃幾個蘋果，再到陰涼裏玩一會兒，你會開心的!”

"I am too big to climb and play." said the boy. "1 want to buy things and have fun. I want some money. Can you give me some money?"

“我已經大了，不愛爬樹玩兒了，”男孩說，“我想買些東西，想找些樂子。我需要錢，你能給我些錢嗎?”

"I'm sorry," said the tree, "but I have no money. I have only leaves and apples. Take my apples, Boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy."

“很抱歉，”大樹說，“我沒有錢，我只有樹葉和蘋果。把我的蘋果拿去，孩子，把它們拿到城裏賣掉，你就會有錢，就會快活了。”

And so the boy climbed up the tree and gathered her apples and carried them away.

於是男孩爬上樹，摘下蘋果，把蘋果帶走了。

And the tree was happy.

大樹很快樂。

But the boy stayed away for a long time…and the tree was sad.

但是男孩離開了很久，大樹很難過。

And then one day the boy came back and the tree shook with joy and she said, "Come,Boy, climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and be happy."

後來有一天，男孩回來了，大樹高興地搖晃着肢體，說道:“來吧，孩子，爬到我的樹幹上，在樹枝上盪鞦韆，你會很快活的!”

I am too busy to climb trees," said the boy. "I want a house to keep me warm," he said. "I want a wife and I want children, and so I need a house. C an you give me a house?"

“我太忙了，沒有時間爬樹”男孩說，“我需要一幢房子保暖。”他接着說，“我要娶個妻子，還要生些孩子，所以我需要一幢房子。你能給我一幢房子嗎?”

"I have no house," said the tree. "The forest is my house, but you may cut my branches and build a house. Then you will be happy."

“我沒有房子，”大樹說，“森林就是我的房子。但是你可以砍下我的樹枝去蓋房，那樣你就會開心了。

And so the boy cut off her branches and carried them away to build his house. And the tree was happy. But the boy stayed away for a long time.

於是男孩把大樹的樹枝砍了下來，把它們帶走蓋了一幢房子。大樹很快樂，但是男孩很久都沒有再來。

And when he came back, the tree was so happy that she could hardly speak. "Come,Boy," she whispered, "come and play."

當他又回來的時候，大樹非常高興，高興得幾乎說不出話來。“來吧，孩子，”她低聲說，“來和我玩吧!”

"I am too old and sad to play," said the boy. "I want a boat that will take me far away from here. Can you give me a boat?"

“我年紀已經大了，心情也不好，不願意玩。”男孩說，“我需要一條船，離開這裏，去遙遠的地方。你能給我一條船嗎?”

"Cut down my trunk and make a boat," said the tree. "Then you can sail away and be happy.”

“把我的樹幹砍斷，用它造船吧。”大樹說，“這樣你就可以遠航，你就會快樂了。”於是男孩砍斷樹幹，造了一艘船，乘船離開了。

And so the boy cut down her trunk and made a boat and sailed away.

大樹很快樂……但並不是真的快樂。

And the tree was not really.

又過了很長時間，男孩又回來了。“非常抱歉，孩子，”大樹說，“我沒有什麼可以給你—我沒有蘋果了。”

And after a long time the boy came back again, "I am sorry, Boy," said the tree,‘but I have nothing left to give you-my apples are gone."

“我的牙齒已經老化，吃不動蘋果了。”男孩說。

“My teeth are too weak for apples," said the boy.

“我沒有枝條了，”大樹說，“你沒法兒在上面盪鞦韆了—”

"My branches are gone," said the tree. "You cannot swing on them -”

“我年紀太大了，蕩不了鞦韆。”男孩說。

"I am too old to swing on branches," said the boy.

“我沒有樹幹了，”大樹說，“你不能往上爬了—”

“My trunk is gone," said the tree. "You cannot climb-"

“我很累，爬不動了。”男孩說。

"I am too tired to climb," said the boy.

“真是抱歉，”大樹嘆了口氣，“我多麼希望能給你點什麼呀……但是我什麼也沒有留下，我現在只是個老樹墩，抱歉……”

"I am sorry," sighed the tree. "I wish that I could give you something…but I have nothing left. I am just an old stump. I am sorry…"

“我現在不需要太多，”男孩說，“只想找個安靜的地方坐坐，好好休息。我很累。”

"I don't need very much now," said the boy,"just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired."

“那好。”大樹說，她儘量把身子挺直，“那好，我這個老樹墩正好可以讓你坐着休息來吧，孩子，坐下吧，坐在我身上休息吧。”

"Well," said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "Well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest."

於是男孩坐下了。

And the boy did.

大樹很快樂。

And the tree was happy.