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格林童话故事:森林里的小屋

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  格林童话产生于十九世纪初,是由德国著名语言学家,雅可布·格林和威廉·格林兄弟收集、整理、加工完成的德国民间文学。它是世界童话的经典之作,自问世以来,在世界各地影响十分广泛。下面学习啦小编为大家带来经典格林童话故事学习啦在线学习网:森林里的小屋,欢迎大家阅读!

格林童话故事:森林里的小屋

  A poor wood-cutter lived with his wife and three daughters in

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  never get my work done, and in order that she may not miss her

  way," he added, "I will take a bag of millet with me and strew

  the seeds on the path." When, therefore, the sun was just above

  the center of the forest, the girl set out on her way with a bowl of

  soup, but the field-sparrows, and wood-sparrows, larks and finches,

  blackbirds and siskins had picked up the millet long before, and the

  girl could not find the track. Then trusting to chance, she went on

  and on, until the sun sank and night began to fall. The trees rustled

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  in the distance she perceived a light which glimmered between the

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  not long before she came to a house the windows of which were all

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  of the room. "Just come in," cried the voice, and when she opened the

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学习啦在线学习网   shelter for the night. The man said,

  "Pretty little hen,

学习啦在线学习网   Pretty little cock,

  And pretty brindled cow,

  What say ye to that?"

  "Duks," answered the animals, and that must have meant, "We are

学习啦在线学习网   willing," for the old man said, "Here you shall have shelter and food,

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  abundance of everything, and cooked a good supper, but had no thought

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  the gray-haired man, ate and satisfied her hunger. When she had had

学习啦在线学习网   enough, she said, "But now I am tired, where is there a bed in which I

  can lie down, and sleep?" The animals replied,

  "Thou hast eaten with him,

  Thou hast drunk with him,

学习啦在线学习网   Thou hast had no thought for us,

学习啦在线学习网   So find out for thyself where thou canst pass the night."

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  room with two beds, shake them up, and put white linen on them,

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  saw that she had fallen into a sound sleep, he opened a trap-door,

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  Late at night the wood-cutter came home, and reproached his

  wife for leaving him to hunger all day. "It is not my fault," she

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  however, arose before dawn to go into the forest, and requested

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  will take a bag with lentils," said he; "the seeds are larger than millet,

学习啦在线学习网   the girl will see them better, and can't lose her way." At dinner-time,

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  The birds of the forest had picked them up as they had done the day

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  until night, and then she too reached the house of the old man,

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  "Pretty little hen,

  Pretty little cock,

  And pretty brindled cow,

  What say ye to that?"

学习啦在线学习网   The animals again replied "Duks," and everything happened just

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  Thou hast had no thought for us,

  To find out for thyself where thou canst pass the night."

  When she was asleep the old man came, looked at her, shook his

学习啦在线学习网   head, and let her down into the cellar.

学习啦在线学习网   On the third morning the wood-cutter said to his wife, "Send our

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  strew them about. They are still larger than lentils, and will show

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  arm, the wood-pigeons had already got all the peas in their crops,

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  At length when it grew dark, she saw the light and came to the house

学习啦在线学习网   in the forest. She begged quite prettily to be allowed to spend the night

  there, and the man with the white beard once more asked his animals,

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