双语安徒生童话The TinderBox 打火匣.docx

1、双语安徒生童话The TinderBox 打火匣双语安徒生童话：The Tinder-Box 打火匣There came a soldier marching along the high road - one, two! one, two! He had his knapsack on his back and a sabre by his side, for he had been in the wars, and now he wanted to go home. And on the way he met with an old witch： she was very hideous,

2、 and her under lip hung down upon her breast. She said, “Good evening, soldier.What a fine sword you have, and what a big knapsack! Youre a proper soldier! Now you shall have as much money as you like to have.”“I thank you, you old witch!” said the soldier.“Do you see that great tree?” quoth the wit

3、ch;and she pointed to a tree which stood beside them. “Its quite hollow inside. You must climb to the top, and then youll see a hole, through which you can let yourself down and get deep into the tree. Ill tie a rope round your body, so that I can pull you up again when you call me.”“What am I to do

4、 down in the tree?” asked the soldier.“Get money,” replied the witch. “Listen to me. When you come down to the earth under the tree, you will find yourself in a great hall：it is quite light, for many hundred lamps are burning there. Then you will see three doors：these you can open, for the keys are

5、in the locks. If you go into the first chamber, youll see a great chest in the middle of the floor;on this chest sits a dog, and hes got a pair of eyes as big as two tea-cups. But you need not care for that. Ill give you my blue-checked apron, and you can spread it out upon the floor;then go up quic

6、kly and take the dog, and set him on my apron;then open the chest, and take as many farthings as you like. They are of copper：if you prefer silver, you must go into the second chamber. But there sits a dog with a pair of eyes as big as mill-wheels. But do not you care for that. Set him upon my apron

7、, and take some of the money. And if you want gold, you can have that too - in fact, as much as you can carry-if you go into the third chamber. But the dog that sits on the money-chest there has two eyes as big as the round tower of Copenhagen. He is a fierce dog, you may be sure;but you neednt be a

8、fraid, for all that. Only set him on my apron, and he wont hurt you;and take out of the chest as much gold as you like.”“Thats not so bad,” said the soldier. “But what am I to give you, you old witch? for you will not do it for nothing, I fancy.”“No,” replied the witch, “not a single farthing will I

9、 have. You shall only bring me an old tinder-box which my grandmother forgot when she was down there last.”“Then tie the rope round my body,” cried the soldier.“Here it is,” said the witch, “and heres my blue-checked apron.”Then the soldier climbed up into the tree, let himself slip down into the ho

10、le, and stood, as the witch had said, in thegreat hall where the many hundred lamps were burning.Now he opened the first door. Ugh! There sat the dog with eyes as big as tea-cups, staring at him. “Youre a nice fellow!” exclaimed the soldier; and he set him on the witchs apron, and took as many coppe

11、r farthings as his pockets would hold, and then locked the chest, set the dog on it again, and went into the second chamber. Aha! There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill-wheels.“You should not stare so hard at me,” said the soldier; “you might strain your eyes.” And he set the dog up on the witch

12、s apron. When he saw the silver money in the chest, he threw away all the copper money he had, and filled hispockets and his knapsack with silver only. The he went into the third chamber. Oh, but that was horrid! The dog there had eyes as big as the round tower and they turned round and round in his

13、 head like wheels.“Good evening!” said the soldier; and he touched his cap, for he had never seen such a dog as that before. When he had looked at him a little more closely, he thought,“That will do,” and lifted him down to the floor, and opened the chest. Mercy! What a quantity of gold was there! H

14、e could buy with it the whole of Copenhagen, and the sugar pigs of the cake-woman, and all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the whole world. Yes, that was a quantity of money! Now the soldier threw away all the silver coin with which he had filledhis pockets and his knapsack, and took

15、gold instead：yes, all his pockets, his knapsack, his boots, and his cap were filled, so that he could scarcely walk. Now indeed he had plenty of money. He put the dog, on the chest, shut the door, and then called up through the tree, “Now pull me up, you old witch.”“Have you the tinder-box?” asked t

16、he witch.“Plague on it!” exclaimed the soldier.“I had clean forgotten that.”And he went and brought it.The witch drew him up, and he stood on the high road again, with pockets, boots, knapsack, and cap full of gold.“What are you going to do with the tinder-box?” asked the soldier.“Thats nothing to y

17、ou,” retorted the witch. “Youve had your money-just give me the tinder-box.”“Nonsense!” said the soldier.“Tell me directly what youre going to do with it, or Ill draw my sword and cut off your head.”“No!” cried the witch.So the soldier cut off her head. There she lay! But he tied up all his money in

18、 her apron, took it on his back like a bundle, put the tinder-box in his pocket, and went straight off towards the town.That was a splendid town! He put up at the very best inn, asked for the finest rooms, and ordered his favourite dishes, for now he was rich, having got so much money. The servant w

19、ho had to clean his boots certainly thought them a remarkably old pair for such a rich gentleman; but he had not bought any new ones yet. The next day he procured proper boots and handsome clothes. Now our soldier had become a fine gentleman; and the people told him of all the splendid things which

20、were in their city, and about the king, and what a pretty princess the kings daughter was.“Where can one get to see her?” asked the soldier.“She is not be seen at all, ” said they all together; “she lives in a great copper castle, with a great many walls and towers round about it ; no one but the ki

21、ng may go in and out there, for it has been prophesied that she shall marry a common soldier, and the king cant bear that.”“I should like to see her,” thought the solider; but he could not get leave to do so. Now he lived merrily, went to the theatre, drove in the kings garden, and gave much money t

22、o the poor; and this was very kind of him, for he knew from old times how hard it is when one has not a shilling. Now he was rich, had fine clothes, and gained many friends, who all said he was a rare one, a true cavalier; and that pleased the soldier well. But as he spent money every day and never

23、earned any, he had at last only two shillings left; and he was obliged to turn out of the fine rooms in which he had dwelt, and had to live in a little garret under the roof, and clean his boots for himself, and mend them with a darning-needle. None of his friends came to see him, for there were too

24、 many stairs to climb.It was quite dark one evening, and he could not even buyhimself a candle, when it occurred to him that there was a candle-end in the tinder-box which he had taken out of the hollow tree into which the witch had helped him. He brought out the tinder-box and the candle-end; but a

25、s soon as he struck fire and the sparks rose up from the flint, the doorflew open, and the dog who had eyes as a couple of tea-cups, and whom he had seen in the tree, stood before him, and said：“What are my lords commands?”“What is this?” said the soldier. “Thata famous tinder-box, if I can get ever

26、y-thing with it that I want! Bring me some money, ” said he to the dog; and whisk! the dog was gone, and whisk! he was back again, with a great bag full of shillings in his mouth.Now the soldier knew what a capital tinder-box this was. If he struck it once, the dog came who sat upon the chest of cop

27、per money; if he struck it twice, the dog came who had the silver; and if he struck it three times, then appeared the dog who had the gold. Now the soldier moved back into the fine rooms, and appeared again in handsome clothes; and all his friends knew him again, and cared very much for him indeed.O

28、nce he thought to himself, “It is a very strange thing that one cannot get to see the princess. They all say she is very beautiful; but what is the use of that, if she has always to sit in the great copper castle with the many towers? Can I not get to see her at all? Where is my tinder box? ” And so

29、 he struck a light, and whisk! came the dog with eyes as big as tea cups.“It is midnight, certainly, ” said the soldier, “but I should very much like to see the princess, only for one little moment.”The dog was outside the door directly, and, before the soldier thought it, came back with the princes

30、s. She sat upon the dogs back and slept; and every one could see she was a real princess, for she was so lovely. The soldier could not refrain from kissing her, for he was a thorough soldier.Then the dog ran back again with the princess. But when morning came, and the King and Queen were drinking te

31、a, the princess said she had had a strange dream the night before, about a dog and a soldier-that she had ridden upon the dog, and the soldier had kissed her. “That would be a fine history! ” said the Queen.So one of the old court ladies had to watch the next light by the princesss bed, to see if th

32、is was really a dream, or what it might be.The soldier had a great longing to see the lovely princess again; so the dog came in the night, took her away, and ran as fast as he could. But the old lady put on waterboots, and ran just as fast after him. When she saw that they both entered a great house, she thought; “Now I know where it is; ” and with a bit of chalk she drew a great cross on thedoor. Then she went home and lay down, and the dog came up with the princess; but when he saw that there was a cross drawn on the door whe