内森黑尔经典英文安徒生童话故事：全家人讲的话

2021年1月11日发(作者：郝执斋)
经典英文安徒生童话故事：全家人讲的话

What did the whole family say? Well listen first to what
little Marie said.

It was little Marie's birthday, the most wonderful of all
days, she imagined. All her little boy friends and girl
friends came to play with her, and she wore her prettiest
dress, the one Grandmother, who was now with God, had sewn
for her before she went up into the bright, beautiful heaven.
The table in little Marie's room was loaded with presents;
there was the prettiest little kitchen, with everything that
belongs to a kitchen, and a doll that could close its eyes
and say
was also a picture book, with the most wonderful stories, to
be read when one could read! But to have many birthdays was
more wonderful than all the stories in the book.


her godfather added that it was the most beautiful of all
fairy tales.

In the next room were both her brothers; they were big
boys, one of them nine years old, the other eleven. They
thought it was wonderful to be alive, too; that is, to live
in their own way, not to be a baby like Marie, but to be real
smart schoolboys, to get A's on their report cards, to have
friendly fights with their comrades, to go skating in the
winter and bicycling in the summer, to read about the days of
knighthood, with its castles, its drawbridges, and its
dungeons, and to hear about new discoveries in Central Africa.
On the latter subject, however, one of the boys felt very sad