《丑小鸭》童话故事英文版

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《丑小鸭》童话故事英文版

丑小鸭历经千辛万苦、重重磨难之后变成了白天鹅，那是因为它心中有着梦想，梦想支撑着它。是金子早晚会发光。在生活中的我们也是一样。今天小编在这给大家整理了一些关于《丑小鸭》童话故事英文版，我们一起来看看吧!

《丑小鸭》童话故事英文版

Ugly Duckling

The countryside was lovely. It was summer. The wheat was

golden and the oats were still green. The hay was stacked in the

low-lying meadows. There lay great woods around the fields and

meadows. There were deep lakes in the midst of the woods. In

the sunniest spot stood an old mansion surrounded by a deep

moat. Great leaves grew from the vines on the walls of the hou

right down to the water's edge. Some of the leaves were so big

that a child could u them as an umbrella.

In the depths of a forest a duck was sitting in her nest. Her

little ducklings were about to be hatched.

At last one egg after another began to crack." Cheep, cheep!"

the ducklings said." Quack, quack!" said the duck. " How big the

world is!" said all the young ones.

But the biggest egg was still there. And then she ttled

herlf on the nest again.

"Well, how are you getting on?" said an old duck who came

to pay her a visit." This egg is taking such a long time," answered

the sitting duck."

The shell will not crack, but the others are the finest

ducklings. They are like their father."

"let me look at the egg which won't crack," said the old

duck." You may be sitting on a turkey's egg! I have been cheated

like that once. Yes. it's a turkey's egg! You had better leave it alone

and teach the other children to swim."

"I will sit on it a little longer."

At last the big egg cracked. How big and ugly the baby was!

" That is a very big duckling." she said, " None of the others look

like that. Can he be a turkey's chick? I will soon find out. I will

make him go into water."

The next day the mother duck with her family went down to

the moat. She said, and one duckling jumped in after another.

The big ugly one swam about with them." No, that is no

turkey," she said," Quack, quack! Now come with me and I will

take you into the world. Keep clo to me all the time. Be careful

of the cat!" The first day pasd, and everything was fine.

Afterwards, matters grew wor and wor. The poor

duckling was chad and harasd by all the ducklings becau

he was very ducks bit him, the hens pecked him. and the

girl who fed them kicked him aside. Then he ran off and soon

came to a great marsh where the wild ducks lived.

He was so tired and mirable that he stayed there the whole

night.

In the morning the wild ducks flew up to e their new

friend." You are very ugly," said the wild ducks," but that does not

matter to us." He stayed there two whole days . And then two

wild gee came. Just at that moment the sound of "Bang! Bang!"

was heard, and both the wild gee fell dead among the reeds.

It was a terrible shock to the poor duckling.

A big dog appeared clo beside him. He showed his sharp

teeth and went on without touching him.

"Oh, thank Heaven! I am so ugly that even the dog won't bite

me!" sighed the duckling.

In the evening he reached a little cottage where an old

woman lived with her cat and her hen. Her eyesight was not good,

and she thought the duckling was a fat duck. will be rich if I have

duck eggs," she said. So she took in the duckling for three weeks,

but he laid no eggs.

The cat was the master of the hou and the hen was the

mistress.

"Can you lay eggs?" asked the hen.

"No," answered the duckling.

"Then you had better go out into the wide world," said the

cat. So away went the duckling.

One evening the sun was just tting when a flock of

beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes.

The duckling thought," I've never en anything so

beautiful."

They were dazzlingly white with long necks. They were swans.

He did not know what the birds were.

The winter was so bitterly cold that the duckling swam about

in the water to keep himlf from freezing.

The sun began to shine warmly again. The larks were singing

and beautiful spring had come. Then, all at once, the duckling

raid his wings and they flapped with much greater strength

than before. Before he knew it, he found himlf in a large garden

where the apple trees were in full blossom and long branches of

lilacs overhung the shores of the lake.

Just in front of him he saw three beautiful white swans

swimming towards him.

"I will fly to them and they will hack me to pieces becau I

am so ugly. But it doesn't matter. I would rather be killed by them

than be bitten by the ducks or pecked by the hens." So he flew

into the water and swam towards the swans. They saw him and

darted towards him.

"Kill me! Oh, kill me!" said the poor duckling, and he waited

for his death bowing his head towards the water.

But what did he e in the clear water? He was no longer a

dark gray ugly bird. He was himlf a swan!

Some children came into the garden with corn and pieces of

bread, which they threw into the water.

The smallest child shouted with joy," There is a new one." The

other children shouted, "Yes, a new one has come."

He said to himlf, " I never dreamed that I could be so happy

when I was the ugly duckling!"