Cinderella
Level 4 · World Tales · 世界童话 · 87 vocabulary words
Source: 格林童话 · Grimms' Fairy Tales
灰姑娘的妈妈死了,爸爸娶了一个带着两个女儿的妻子。两个姐姐欺负她,让她睡灶灰边,天天干活。
Her mother dead, her father remarried, two stepsisters made her a drudge sleeping in the ashes.
王子举行三天的舞会挑选新娘。灰姑娘想去,后妈把一盆豆子倒进灰里说:捡完就去。她叫鸟儿们帮忙捡完了。
At the king's three-day ball her stepmother dumped lentils in the cinders, pick them up to come; the birds did it.
榛树上落下的仙女给了她金裙子和水晶鞋。第三天夜里她跑掉了一只鞋,王子拿着鞋找遍全城。
The hazel tree gave gold dresses and glass slippers; fleeing the third night she lost a shoe and the prince searched the city.
两个姐姐削了脚后跟也穿不进鞋里。轮到灰姑娘,鞋正好。王子认出她,两人结了婚。
The sisters cut off part of a heel and still could not fit the shoe. When Cinderella's turn came it fit perfectly; the prince recognised her and they married.