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Level 4 · World Tales · 世界童话 · 72 vocabulary words
Source: 安徒生童话 · Hans Christian Andersen
一个女人在大麦粒里种出一朵花,花里坐着一个拇指大的小姑娘。
From a barleycorn grew a flower holding a thumb-sized girl.
癞蛤蟆把她偷去给儿子做媳妇,鱼儿咬断莲叶梗救了她,金龟子抓了她又丢下她。
A toad stole her for his son; fish freed her leaf; a beetle caught and dropped her.
冬天拇指姑娘住在田鼠家,被迫要嫁讨厌的鼹鼠。她救过的一只燕子回来,把她驮到了温暖的南方。
Wintering at the field-mouse's, promised to the hated mole, a swallow she'd rescued carried her south.
南方的花里有拇指大的王子,他们结了婚,拇指姑娘成了花朵的王后。
In the warm lands the flower-prince was her size, married, she became queen of the flowers.