关于白雪公主的童话故事

关于白雪公主的童话故事

白雪公主

就下面提供的内容用英语写一篇文章：

①很久以前，有位皇后有一个漂亮的女儿，叫白雪公主。在白雪公主还很小的时候皇后就去世了。

②国王又娶了一个皇后，这个皇后是一个女巫装扮的。她常问魔镜："女人里谁最漂亮?"魔镜总是回答："你最漂亮。"公主小的时候，一切平安无事。

③白雪公主长大后，有一天皇后问魔镜谁最漂亮，魔镜答道："白雪公主最美。"皇后气得命令猎人把白雪公主杀了。

④猎人可怜公主。他把一颗鹿的心交给皇后，说已经把公主杀死了。

⑤白雪公主在森林里发现了一座小房子，她把里面的小床拼在一起，睡在上面。一会儿，小房子的主人小矮人们回家了。

⑥白雪公主把自己的遭遇告诉了小矮人，小矮人们决定保护她。

⑦皇后知道了森林里的事情，气得要死。她发誓要让白雪公主死掉。

⑧皇后装扮的老农妇让白雪公主吃下一个一半有毒的苹果，毒死了白雪公主。

⑨小矮人们发现白雪公主的尸体后，把她装进一口玻璃棺材。

⑩一个骑白马的王子看见后非常喜爱白雪公主，于是他把苹果从白雪公主的嘴里掏出，白雪公主睁开了眼睛。王子和公主举行了婚礼。皇后病死了。

White-snow

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A very long time ago there lived a queen who had a beautiful daughter named White-snow. When the girl was very young, her mother died. Then the king married another queen who was a witch① in fact.

The queen often asked the magic mirror② "Which is the most beautiful woman?" The magic mirror used to answer, "You're the prettiest." When White-snow was still in her childhood, everything went well.

Then White-snow grew up. One day, the queen asked the magic mirror once more, "Who is the most beautiful?" The magic mirror answered,

"White-snow is the most beautiful girl."The queen got very angry and ordered a hunter to kill White-snow. The hunter felt such pity for the girl that he gave a deer heart to the queen and told her that he had killed the princess.

White-snow found a small house in the forest. She put seven small beds together and slept on them. Later, the owners of the house., the lilliputians ③ came home. After the princess told the lilliputians about her experience, the lilliputians decided to protect her.

The queen got to know what had happened in the forest and was extremely angry. She vowed ④ to put the princess to death. She was dressed up as an old farmer's wife and wanted the princess to eat an apple, half of which was poisonous. And White-snow Princess died.

When the lilliputians found the princess dead, they put her body into a glass coffin ⑤. No sooner had a prince who rode a white horse seen White-snow than he began to love her. He pulled the apple out of the girl's mouth. The princess opened her eyes. The prince and the princess had their wedding⑥, but the queen died of illness.

①witch [witM]n. 女巫

②magic ['m$dNik] mirror 魔镜

③lilliputian[lili'pju:Mj n] n. 小矮人;lilliput['lilip)t] n. 小人国(英国作家斯威夫特所著小说《格列佛游记》中的假想国)

④vow[vau] v. 发誓;起誓

⑤glass coffin ['k&fin] 玻璃棺材

⑥wedding['wediR]n. 婚礼;结婚

这篇文章是童话故事(fairy tale)。童话故事属于民间文学(folk literature)或儿童文学(children's literature)，也是口头文学(oral tradition) 的一部分。它的书面形式多为记叙性散文，讲的是男主人公或女主人公好的命运或不幸遭遇。主人公常常要遇到多少有些超自然的危难，历尽千难万险后终究要过上幸福的生活。魔法、巫术、伪装、符咒等是这类故事的主要成分，这些成分在理解人的本质和心理方面往往很微妙。因为这类故事大多是讲给儿童听的，所以语言浅近，情节较简单。