English Night｜The Little Mermaid（Excerpt）
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The Little Mermaid
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The Little Mermaid （Excerpt）
小美人鱼（选段）
By Hans Christian Andersen
作者：汉斯·克里斯汀·安徒生
When in the evenings the sisters thus rose, arm in arm, high up through the water, their little sister would stand all alone looking after them, feeling as if she could cry; but a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffered all the more.
到了晚上，姐妹们就这样手挽着手地站在水面上，她们的小妹妹孤零零地站在那里看着她们，仿佛要哭出来似的。但是人鱼没有眼泪，因此她更加痛苦。
“Oh, if I were only fifteen!” she said. “I know I shall love the world up above, and all the people who live and dwell there.”
“啊，要是我能有十五岁就好了!” 她说。“我知道我会爱上面的世界，爱所有住在上面的人。”
At last she was fifteen years old.
她终于十五岁了。
“Well, now you are off our hands,” said her grandmother, the old queen-dowager. “Come here, let me deck you like your other sisters.” And she put a wreath of white lilies in her hair; every leaf in the flowers was half a pearl. The old lady ordered eight large oysters to hang on to the princess’ tail, to show her high rank.
“好啦，现在你可以不受我们管了。”她的祖母老太后说。“过来，让我把你打扮得像其他姐妹一样。”她在头上戴了一个白色百合花的花环;花中的每一片叶子都是半颗珍珠。老太太在公主的尾巴上挂了八个大牡蛎，以显示她的高贵地位。
“But it hurts so!” said the little mermaid.
“可疼死了!”小美人鱼说。
“Well, one has to suffer for appearances,” said the old lady.
“咳，人总得为外表付出代价，"老太太说。
Oh, how gladly would she have shaken off all this finery and put aside the heavy wreath! The red flowers in her garden would have suited her much better, but she dared not make any change now. “Farewell!” she said, and rose through the water as light and bright as a bubble.
哦，如果她能甩掉这些华丽的衣服，把沉重的花环放在一边，那该多好啊！她花园里红色的花儿更适合她，但她现在不敢做任何改变。“再会吧!“ 她说着，从水里浮了起来，又轻又亮，像个泡泡。
The sun had just set as she lifted her head above the sea, but all the clouds still gleamed like roses and gold, and in the middle of the pale red sky the evening star shone bright and beautiful. The air was mild and fresh and the sea calm.
当她抬起头来的时候，太阳已经落山了，但是所有的云彩仍然像玫瑰和金子一样闪烁着光芒。在淡红色的天空中间，一颗晚星发出明亮而美丽的光芒。空气温和清新，海面平静如镜。
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字词解析：
dowager/dadr/ 气度不凡的老年贵妇
finery/fanri/华服
作者
汉斯·克里斯汀·安徒生，19世纪丹麦童话作家，被誉为“世界儿童文学的太阳”。代表作有《海的女儿》、《卖火柴的小女孩》、《丑小鸭》、《皇帝的新装》等。
朗读者
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