2024年2月17日发(作者:3月12日植树节)
常春藤 赖世雄英语
儿童童话故事中级
The Happy Prince
Winter is almost here. A bird is flying
to a warm place far away.
"Whew! I'm tired," says the bird. "I
need to rest for the night."
The bird looks for a place to sleep.
Down below him, there is a city.
"Where should I sleep?" thinks the
bird.
The bird es a statue of a smiling
prince is standing on a tall
column.
"I will sleep on that staue's foot ,"
thinks the bird. "It will be safe and
clean there."
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The bird feels happy to find such a
nice place to sleep. It looks at the smiling
prince.
"What a pretty statue," it thinks. "The eyes on his face are both jewels.
The buttons on his coat are jewels, too. And look at tho clothes! They
are made of gold!"
The bird clos its eyes. Just then, a
drop of water falls on its head. Then, a
cond later, another drop falls on its tail.
"Oh, no. It's raining," thinks the bird. "I
will find a dry place to sleep."
But it is not raining. The drops of water
come from the prince's eyes. He is
crying."Who are you?" asks the bird.
"I am the Happy Prince," says the
statue.
"Then why are you crying?" asks the
bird. "You are making me wet!"
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The prince tells the bird why he's crying.
"Before I was a happy prince. My family
was rich, and I lived in a big palace. Every
day I played with my friends. The palace
had a big wall. I never saw the world on the
other side of the wall."
"You were so lucky," says the bird. "I
would like to be rich and happy, too."
The prince finishes his story.
"When I died, they put me up here. I can
e many bad things. People are not happy.
They are poor. Their lives are very hard."
The prince tells the bird what he can e.
"I can e a hou on a small street.
One of the windows is open. A poor woman
is making a nice dress for a rich woman. Her
little boy is very sick. He is crying, but there
is no money to buy medicine."
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The prince asks the bird to help him.
"I am a statue, so I can't walk. Plea
take a jewel from my shirt and fly to the
hou. With the jewel the woman can buy
medicine for the boy."
The bird wants to help the prince, but it
can't.
"My friends are waiting for me in a warm
place. I must not stay here long," it says.
The prince looks very sad, so the little
bird agrees to help him.
"It is very cold here, but I will help you
tonight," says the bird.
The bird takes a jewel from the prince's
coat. It flies over the city to the hou. Inside,
the woman is asleep. She has worked all day
to finish the dress. It puts the jewel on the
table.
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The bird returns to the prince.
"Strange," it says. "It is so cold, but I feel
warm inside."
"That is becau you have done a good
thing," says the prince.
The next morning, the bird flies to the
river. It wants to take a bath. After that it will
fly south.
"Tonight I will leave," thinks the bird.
"But before I go, I want to say good-bye to
the prince."
The bird flies back to the prince. The
prince is sad again.
"Little bird. Can you stay with me one
more day?" asks the prince. "I e a poor
man. He is sitting all alone in his hou. He
is writing a play. There is no fire, so he is
very cold. Give him one of my jewel eyes.
Then he can buy some wood."
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The bird doesn't want to take the
prince's eye. It begins to cry.
"How can I take your eye?" says the bird.
"You won't e well without it."
"Plea do it," says the prince. "I still
have one more eye."
"All right. I will help you one more time,"
says the bird.
The bird takes the jewel to the man's
hou. It flies into a hole in the roof. Quickly,
it puts the jewel on the man's desk. The man
is working and doesn't e the bird.
The bird is ready to fly away again. It
goes back to the prince to say
prince asks the bird to stay a little longer.
"I need your help again, little bird," says
the prince. "A poor girl is lling matches in
the square below us. She has no socks or
shoes, so her feet are cold. Plea take my
other eye to her."
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The bird feels very bad.
"You won't e anything without your
other eye," says the bird.
"That is not so important," says the
prince. "Plea do it."
Sadly, the bird takes the jewel to the girl.
It puts it into her hand. She is very happy to
e it.
The bird once again returns to the
prince.
"You can't e anything now, so I will
stay with you forever," says the bird.
"You can't do that. It is too cold for you
to live here," says the prince.
"I really can't go," says the bird.
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So the bird helps the prince. It flies over
the city and looks for poor people. Many
people are cold and hungry. It gives them
each a leaf of gold from the prince's clothes.
This makes the poor men and women happy.
The poor children laugh and play in the
street. Now they will have coats to wear.
Now they will have bread to eat.
Soon, all of the prince's clothes are gone.
He is just a gray, metal statue. The weather
is getting colder. Snow begins to fall. All the
people in the city have a coat to wear, even
the poor people.
The bird is very cold. It has no coat. It
knows that it will die soon. It flies up to the
prince to say good-bye for the last time.
"Good-bye, dear prince," says the bird.
"I'm happy you don't need a coat it is very
cold."
"You really should fly away now, little
bird," says the prince." If you don't, you will get sick."
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The bird kiss the prince on his hand
and falls down dead. A loud sound comes
from inside the statue. The prince's heart is
broken.
The next morning, the mayor of the city
is walking near the statue. He looks up at it.
"Oh, my!" says the mayor. "Our prince
doesn't look so beautiful anymore. He looks
like a beggar."
So the statue of the prince is pulled
down.
"Beautiful statues are not uful
statues," says the mayor.
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The statue is melted down. What will
the people do with the metal?
"I think a new statue should be made of
mylf," says the mayor.
There is one problem. The broken heart
of the statue will not melt. Someone throws
it into the garbage can. Inside the garbage
can, the heart and the dead bird lie
together.
In Heaven, God is talking to his angels.
"Bring me the heart and the bird," says
God. "In Heaven the bird will sing its songs
and the prince will live in my city of gold
forever."
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