安徒生童话英文篇一
欢乐家庭the HAPPY FAMILY
Really， the largest GREen leaf in this country is a dockleaf; if one holds it before one， it is like a whole apron， and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather， it is almost as good as an umbrella， for it is so immensely large. The burdock never grows alone， but where there grows one there always grow several： it is a great delight， and all this delightfulness is snails' food. The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made fricassees of， ate， and said， "Hem， hem! how delicious!" for they thought it tasted so delicate——lived on dockleaves， and therefore burdock seeds were sown.
Now， there was an old manor-house， where they no longer ate snails， they were quite extinct; but the burdocks were not extinct， they GREw and grew all over the walks and all the beds; they could not get the mastery over them——it was a whole forest of burdocks. Here and there stood an apple and a plum-tree， or else one never would have thought that it was a garden; all was burdocks， and there lived the two last venerable old snails.
they themselves knew not how old they were， but they could remember very well that there had been many more; that they were of a family from foreign lands， and that for them and theirs the whole forest was planted. They had never been outside it， but they knew that there was still something more in the world， which was called the manor-house， and that there they were boiled， and then they became black， and were then placed on a silver dish; but what happened further they knew not; or， in fact， what it was to be boiled， and to lie on a silver dish， they could not possibly imagine; but it was said to be delightful， and particularly genteel. Neither the chafers， the toads， nor the earth-worms， whom they asked about it could give them any information——none of them had been boiled or laid on a silver dish.
the old white snails were the first persons of distinction in the world， that they knew; the forest was planted for their sake， and the manor-house was there that they might be boiled and laid on a silver dish.
Now they lived a very lonely and happy life; and as they had no children themselves， they had adopted a little common snail， which they brought up as their own; but the little one would not grow， for he was of a common family; but the old ones， especially Dame Mother Snail， thought they could observe how he increased in size， and she begged father， if he could not see it， that he would at least feel the little snail's shell; and then he felt it， and found the good dame was right.
One day there was a heavy storm of rain.
"Hear how it beats like a drum on the dock-leaves!" said Father Snail.
"there are also rain-drops!" said Mother Snail. "And now the rain pours right down the stalk! You will see that it will be wet here! I am very happy to think that we have our good house， and the little one has his also! There is more done for us than for all other creatures， sure enough; but can you not see that we are folks of quality in the world? We are provided with a house from our birth， and the burdock forest is planted for our sakes! I should like to know how far it extends， and what there is outside!"
"there is nothing at all，" said Father Snail. "No place can be better than ours， and I have nothing to wish for!"
"Yes，" said the dame. "I would willingly go to the manorhouse， be boiled， and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it， you may be sure!"
"the manor-house has most likely fallen to ruin!" said Father Snail. "Or the burdocks have grown up over it， so that they cannot come out. There need not， however， be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry， and the little one is beginning to be the same. Has he not been creeping up that stalk these three days? It gives me a headache when I look up to him!"
"You must not scold him，" said Mother Snail. "He creeps so carefully; he will afford us much pleasure——and we have nothing but him to live for! But have you not thought of it? Where shall we get a wife for him? Do you not think that there are some of our species at a GREat distance in the interior of the burdock forest?"
"Black snails， I dare say， there are enough of，" said the old one. "Black snails without a house——but they are so common， and so conceited. But we might give the ants a commission to look out for us; they run to and fro as if they had something to do， and they certainly know of a wife for our little snail!"
"I know one， sure enough——the most charming one!" said one of the ants. "But I am afraid we shall hardly succeed， for she is a queen!"
"That is nothing!" said the old folks. "Has she a house?"
"She has a palace!" said the ant. "The finest ant's palace， with seven hundred passages!"
"I thank you!" said Mother Snail. "Our son shall not go into an ant-hill; if you know nothing better than that， we shall give the commission to the white gnats. They fly far and wide， in rain and sunshine; they know the whole forest here， both within and without."
"We have a wife for him，" said the gnats. "At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her house， on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely， and old enough to be married. It is only a hundred human paces!"
"Well， then， let her come to him!" said the old ones. "He has a whole forest of burdocks， she has only a bush!"
And so they went and fetched little Miss Snail. It was a whole week before she arrived; but therein was just the very best of it， for one could thus see that she was of the same species.
And then the marriage was celebrated. Six earth-worms shone as well as they could. In other respects the whole went off very quietly， for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech. Father Snail could not speak， he was too much affected; and so they gave them as a dowry and inheritance， the whole forest of burdocks， and said——what they had always said——that it was the best in the world; and if they lived honestly and decently， and increased and multiplied， they and their children would once in the course of time come to the manor-house， be boiled black， and laid on silver dishes. After this speech was made， the old ones crept into their shells， and never more came out. They slept; the young couple governed in the forest， and had a numerous progeny， but they were never boiled， and never came on the silver dishes; so from this they concluded that the manor-house had fallen to ruins， and that all the men in the world were extinct; and as no one contradicted them， so， of course it was so. And the rain beat on the dock-leaves to make drum-music for their sake， and the sun shone in order to give the burdock forest a color for their sakes; and they were very happy， and the whole family was happy; for they， indeed were so.
安徒生童话英文篇二
A CHEERFUL TEMPER
by Hans Christian Andersen
英文早安心语
一、Nothing in the world is accomplished without passion. 没有热情,无法成就任何事。
二、昨天很重要，它构建了我们的记忆；明天很重要，它让我们有了憧憬和梦想。
三、Knowledge crowns those who seek her.知识只为追求者加冕。_雪城大学宣言
四、You know that maybe it's time for miracles 'Cos I ain't giving up on love. 你知道也许已是奇迹来临的时刻，因为我不能对爱放弃。
五、Eat a piece of candy every day and tell yourself the day is sweet again.—— 每天吃一颗糖，然后告诉自己、今天的日子，果然又是甜的。
六、Liking someone doesn't mean you have to be lovers. Sometimes you just have to be friends.喜欢某人，并不一定要成为恋人，有时候，能做朋友就已足够。
七、As long as we're happy, that's all that matters. 只要现在是开心的，这就足够了！
八、Never put your happiness in someone else's hands. 永远不要把自己的幸福放到别人的手中。
九、If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. 如果把我们能做到的都做了，最终连我们自己都会被吓到。
十、我们的回忆总是凄凉的，我明白，这世上其实有很多人，曾为自己的不安于世如此那般的骄傲过，曾认为自己对世界有更深刻的同情与同理心，曾强烈地感受到使命的压迫与幸福感。然而，你又见到多少人一直在沉沦。
十一、No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up. 不管你的感觉如何，你都要起床，打扮好自己然后开始新的一天。
十二、Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.爱情就像一只蝴蝶，它喜欢飞到哪里，就把欢乐带到哪里。为了我们的情人节转发！
十三、If winter comes,can spring be far behind? 冬天来了，春天还会远吗？
十四、Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.在遇到真命天子之前，上天也许会安排我们先错误地遇到其他一些人，所以当我们终于遇见心仪的人时，我们便能够心存感激。
十五、We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. 欺骗我们自己的时候，我们总是喊的最大声的。
十六、Things have a way of working out when you least expect it. 山重水复疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。《绯闻女孩》
十七、有时候，错过了现在，就永远永远的没机会了。花开一春，人活一世，有时候，心里会莫名难受，却不知道为什么。总是会觉得异常寂寞和孤独。有时候，静静地看着窗外，觉得自己是个很容易被遗忘的人。觉得这个世界真的很假、很虚伪。有的时候，就真想这样从这个世界上消失。
十八、Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past. 回忆是美好的，只要你能让过去的都过去。
十九、Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. 生命是首美丽的曲子，虽然歌词有些纠结。----安徒生
二十、要学会独立思考，人生如花美眷，终究躲不过似水流年的侵袭，有多少的爱的回忆值得珍藏，有多少爱的人值得珍惜，往日的那甜蜜如歌的爱情岁月，陪伴着我去度过这些年四海漂泊的春夏秋冬，仿佛就是像发生在昨日一样的。
二十一、Do you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone? 难道你不想冒一次险么？难道你想等你老了，再后悔莫及孤老而终么？《盗梦空间》
二十二、An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.目标是生活中唯一值得去寻找的财富。
二十三、如果你还可以努力、可以付出，就不要轻言停止和放弃。在你停止努力的那一刻之前，一切都还没有什么真正的结果。生气，就是拿别人的过错来惩罚自己。原谅别人，是放过自己。
二十四、No one indebted for others,while many people don't know how to cherish others.没有谁对不起谁，只有谁不懂得珍惜谁。
二十五、The easiest thing in life is to love someone. The hardest part is finding someone who loves you back.找个人爱很简单，难的的是你爱的那个人回应你的爱。
二十六、人生的两种状态是、谋生，乐生。大事难事，看担当；逆境顺境，看胸襟；凡事顺其自然；遇事处之泰然；得意之时淡然；失意之时坦然；人生要结良师，交益友，与损友保持一定距离，狐朋狗 友也是人生的重要旅伴。
二十七、"Honestly, if you're not willing to sound stupid, you don't deserve to be in love."——坦白说，如果你不打算为爱做点傻事，你就不配拥有爱。——《相见恨早》
二十八、Don't be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better. 别害怕改变，最终你也许会失去一些好的东西，但是你很有可能会得到更好的。
二十九、谁都有不想面对的过去，谁身上都会有伤痕。很多人寻找伴侣时，总害怕对方知道后便不再爱自己。当然会有这种风险。但真正爱你的人，并不会只爱你现在的光鲜亮丽，他同样能爱你的过去、缺点和伤痕。因为，包容是爱情的一部分。
三十、I will start fresh, be someone new. 我要重新开始，做不一样的自己。
三十一、Life is too short for us to wake up in the morning with regrets.人生苦短，所以每天不要带着遗憾醒来。
三十二、There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox .一颗坚定的心不会被任何的命运所阻挠。
三十三、世上最奢侈的人，是肯花时间陪你的人。谁的时间都有价值，把时间分给了你，就等于把自己的世界分给了你。世界那么大，有人肯陪你，是多大的情分！人们总给＂爱＂添加各种含义，其实这个字的解释也很简单，就是、有个人，直到最后也没走.....
三十四、Remember the best love is to love others unconditionally rather than make demands on them. 记住、最好的`爱存在于对别人的爱胜于对别人的索求之上。
三十五、All of life is an act of letting go,but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. 人生就是不断地放下，但令人痛心的是，没来得及好好与他们道别。
三十六、Don’t regret anything that ever made you smile.——那些曾经让你快乐过的事，没有什么好后悔的。
三十七、The sensible man is not influenced by what other people think. 明智的人不为别人的想法所影响。
三十八、The Diaoyu Islands are an integral part of Chinese territory. 钓鱼 岛是中国的！
三十九、那些时时刻刻都随在你后面的男人，心里真的有你。他让你走在前面，是为了时刻看你在眼里。一个男人，眼里有你，心里才能有你。往往在转身的一瞬间才忽而发现、爱，就是因为回头看了一眼。
四十、I like people who make me laugh in spite of myself. 我喜欢那些让我笑起来的人，就算是我不想笑的时候。
四十一、Sculpting in time of memories， years precipitate the feelings， because once touched， so unforgettable.————时光雕刻着回忆，岁月沉淀了情感，因为曾经感动，所以难以忘怀。
四十二、Try and fail, but don't fail to try.尝试后可能会放弃，但千万不能放弃尝试。
四十三、有一种温柔，我们听说很久；有一种感觉，我们曾经拥有；有一种失落，我们寻找已久；只有一种伤痛，我们未曾尝过。假如，我们彼此懂得对方的心，为何分手时一个眼神也不留；也许，宽容自己这一点软弱，我们就能坚持；接受人生这一点遗憾，我们就能平静。
四十四、铭记昨天，梦想明天，活在今天。人生难免与痛苦相遇，生活难免与压力同行。面对痛苦和压力，重要的是要学会调整自己。无论如何，路要自己走，苦要自己吃，任何人无法给予全部依赖。
四十五、Travel the greatest benefit, not to see how many people, see more beautiful scenery, but walked, in a fate, suddenly find themselves.旅行最大的好处，不是见到多少人，见过多美的风景，而是走着走着，在一个际遇下，突然重新认识了自己。
四十六、If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.我们如果尽全力去做任何事情，连自己都会被惊讶到的。
四十七、You got a dream.You gotta protect it. 如果你有梦想的话，就要去捍卫它。《当幸福来敲门》
四十八、The only thing I can do now is to hope that maybe someday we will see each other again——我现在唯一能做的，是期待着有一天，也许我们还能再见面。
四十九、Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit. —— 赢家不是那些从不失败的人，而是那些从不放弃的人。
五十、Take the chance while you still have the choice. 当你还有得机会选择时，不妨冒险一试。
五十一、世上本无事，庸人自扰之。不要让生活改变你的目标，不要祈祷生活的舒适，祈祷自己变的更坚强。生命有无数种形式，活法不止一种。在这个世界上，过自己喜欢过的日子，就是最好的日子，活自己喜欢的活法，就是最好的活法。
五十二、A placid parent makes a placid home. 平和的父母创造温馨的家。
五十三、One who frequently looks back can't go far. 频频回头的人，是走不了远路的。
五十四、It is wise father that knows his own child. 了解自己孩子的父亲是睿智的父亲。
五十五、Be with you, even homeless is a kind of happiness.跟着你，就算流浪，也是一种幸福。
《安徒生童话》共由163篇故事组成，其中的《小人鱼》、《丑小鸭》、《卖火柴的'小女孩》、《拇指姑娘》都是我们爱看的童话。
安徒生童话英文版篇一
THE ELFIN HILL
A FEW large lizards were running nimbly about in the clefts of an old tree. They could understand one another very well, for they spoke the lizard language. "What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill," said one of the lizards.
"I have not been able to close my eyes for two nights on account of the noise; I might just as well have had the toothache, for that always keeps me awake."
"There is something going on within there," said the other lizard; "they propped up the top of the hill with four red posts, till cock-crowthis morning, so that it is thoroughly aired, and the elfin girls have learnt new dances; there is something."
"I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance," said a third lizard; "the earth-worm had just come from the elfin hill, where he has been groping about in the earth day and night. He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to wriggle and lurk about. They expect friends in the elfin hill, grand company, too; but who they are the earth-worm would not say, or, perhaps, he really did not know. All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch dance, as it is called. The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight."
"Who can the strangers be?" asked the lizards; "what can the matter be? Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!"
Just at this moment the elfin hill opened, and an old elfin maiden, hollow behind, came tripping out; she was the old elf king's housekeeper, and a distant relative of the family; therefore she wore an amber heart on the middle of her forehead. Her feet moved very fast, "trip, trip;" good gracious, how she could trip right down to the sea to the night-raven.
"You are invited to the elf hill for this evening," said she; "but will you do me a great favor and undertake the invitations? you oughtto do something, for you have no housekeeping to attend to as I have. We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display."
"Who is to be invited?" asked the raven.
"All the world may come to the great ball, even human beings, if they can only talk in their sleep, or do something after our fashion. But for the feast the company must be carefully selected; we can only admit persons of high rank; I have had a dispute myself with the elf king, as he thought we could not admit ghosts. The merman and his daughter must be invited first, although it may not be agreeable to them to remain so long on dry land, but they shall have a wet stone to sit on, or perhaps something better; so I think they will not refuse this time. We must have all the old demons of the first class, with tails, and the hobgoblins and imps; and then I think we ought not to leave out the death-horse, or the grave-pig, or even the church dwarf, although they do belong to the clergy, and are not reckoned among our people; but that is merely their office, they are nearly related to us, and visit us very frequently."
"Croak," said the night-raven as he flew away with the invitations.
The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things. The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the floor had been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the light. In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing of snail skins, with children's fingers in them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling salt-petre wine from the grave cellars. These were all substantial food. Rusty nails and church-window glass formed the dessert. The old elf king had his gold crown polished up with powdered slate-pencil; it was like that used by the first form, and very difficult for an elf king to obtain. In the bedrooms, curtains were hung up and fastened with the slime of snails; there was, indeed, a buzzing and humming everywhere.
"Now we must fumigate the place with burnt horse-hair and pig's bristles, and then I think I shall have done my part," said the elf man-servant.
"Father, dear," said the youngest daughter, "may I now hear who our high-born visitors are?"
"Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of my daughters must prepare themselves to be married, for the marriages certainly will take place. The old goblin from Norway, who lives in the ancient Dovre mountains, and who possesses many castles built of rock and freestone, besides a gold mine, which is better than all, so it is thought, is coming with his two sons, who are both seeking a wife. The old goblin is a true-hearted, honest, old Norwegian graybeard; cheerful and straightforward. I knew him formerly, when we used to drink together to our good fellowship: he came here once to fetch his wife, she is dead now. She was the daughter of the king of the chalk-hills at Moen. They say he took his wife from chalk; I shall be delighted to see him again. It is said that the boys are ill-bred, forward lads, but perhaps that is not quite correct, and they will become better as they grow older. Let me see that you know how to teach them good manners."
"And when are they coming?" asked the daughter.
"That depends upon wind and weather," said the elf king; "they travel economically. They will come when there is the chance of a ship. I wanted them to come over to Sweden, but the old man was not inclined to take my advice. He does not go forward with the times, and that I do not like."
Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than the other, so of course, one arrived first. "They are coming! they are coming!" he cried.
"Give me my crown," said the elf king, "and let me stand in the moonshine."
The daughters drew on their shawls and bowed down to the ground. There stood the old goblin from the Dovre mountains, with his crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones. Besides this, he wore a bear-skin, and great, warm boots, while his sons went with their throats bare and wore no braces, for they were strong men.
"Is that a hill?" said the youngest of the boys, pointing to the elf hill, "we should call it a hole in Norway."
"Boys," said the old man, "a hole goes in, and a hill stands out; have you no eyes in your heads?"
Another thing they wondered at was, that they were able without trouble to understand the language.
"Take care," said the old man, "or people will think you have not been well brought up."
Then they entered the elfin hill, where the select and grand company were assembled, and so quickly had they appeared that they seemed to have been blown together. But for each guest the neatest and pleasantest arrangement had been made. The sea folks sat at table in great water-tubs, and they said it was just like being at home. All behaved themselves properly excepting the two young northern goblins; they put their legs on the table and thought they were all right.
"Feet off the table-cloth!" said the old goblin. They obeyed, but not immediately. Then they tickled the ladies who waited at table, with the fir-cones, which they carried in their pockets. They took off their boots, that they might be more at ease, and gave them to the ladies to hold. But their father, the old goblin, was very different; he talked pleasantly about the stately Norwegian rocks, and told fine tales of the waterfalls which dashed over them with a clattering noise like thunder or the sound of an organ, spreading their white foam on every side. He told of the salmon that leaps in the rushing waters, while the water-god plays on his golden harp. He spoke of the bright winter nights, when the sledge bells are ringing, and the boys run with burning torches across the smooth ice, which is so transparent that they can see the fishes dart forward beneath their feet. He described everything so clearly, that those who listened could see it all; they could see the saw-mills going, the men-servants and the maidens singing songs, and dancing a rattling dance,- when all at once the old goblin gave the old elfin maiden a kiss, such a tremendous kiss, and yet they were almost strangers to each other.
Then the elfin girls had to dance, first in the usual way, and then with stamping feet, which they performed very well; then followed the artistic and solo dance. Dear me, how they did throw their legs about! No one could tell where the dance begun, or where it ended, nor indeed which were legs and which were arms, for they were all flying about together, like the shavings in a saw-pit! And then they spun round so quickly that the death-horse and the grave-pig became sick and giddy, and were obliged to leave the table.
"Stop!" cried the old goblin," is that the only house-keeping they can perform? Can they do anything more than dance and throw about their legs, and make a whirlwind?"
"You shall soon see what they can do," said the elf king. And then he called his youngest daughter to him. She was slender and fair as moonlight, and the most graceful of all the sisters. She took a white chip in her mouth, and vanished instantly; this was her accomplishment. But the old goblin said he should not like his wife to have such an accomplishment, and thought his boys would have the same objection. Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin folk ever had. The third was of quite a different sort; she had learnt in the brew-house of the moor witch how to lard elfin puddings with glow-worms.
"She will make a good housewife," said the old goblin, and then saluted her with his eyes instead of drinking her health; for he did not drink much.
Now came the fourth daughter, with a large harp to play upon; and when she struck the first chord, every one lifted up the left leg (for the goblins are left-legged), and at the second chord they found they must all do just what she wanted.
"That is a dangerous woman," said the old goblin; and the two sons walked out of the hill; they had had enough of it. "And what can the next daughter do?" asked the old goblin.
"I have learnt everything that is Norwegian," said she; "and I will never marry, unless I can go to Norway."
Then her youngest sister whispered to the old goblin, "That is only because she has heard, in a Norwegian song, that when the world shall decay, the cliffs of Norway will remain standing like monuments; and she wants to get there, that she may be safe; for she is so afraid of sinking."
"Ho! ho!" said the old goblin, "is that what she means? Well, what can the seventh and last do?"
"The sixth comes before the seventh," said the elf king, for he could reckon; but the sixth would not come forward.
"I can only tell people the truth," said she. "No one cares for me, nor troubles himself about me; and I have enough to do to sew my grave clothes."
So the seventh and last came; and what could she do? Why, she could tell stories, as many as you liked, on any subject.
