中英對照經典英語故事
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回聲和那喀索斯
Narcissus was a handsome youth. His lovely face and graceful form were the admiration of all who looked upon him. And he knew it. He was proud that he thought no one but himself was worthy to see his youthful beauty. Thus given up to sweet thoughts of self, Narcissus avoided all company. He roamed the wooded little valleys every day,madly in love with himself.
那喀索斯是位英俊的青年，面容可愛，體形優美，每個見到他的人都羨慕不已。他驕傲地認爲，除了自己之外，沒有人配欣賞他那充滿青春氣息的美貌。因而，他沉溺於甜美的自我欣賞之中，遠離所有人。每天他在蒼翠蓊鬱的小山谷中閒逛，瘋狂地愛着自己。
When he was delightfully wandering through the woods one day, a wood fairy maiden, Echo by name, caught sight of him. She was excited at once. Joyfully coming down towards Narcissus, she stretched out her loving arms. To her dismay, however, the young man roughly brushed her aside and went by without so much as a glance at her. The poor fairy maiden's face turned red and quickly withdrew to a shady spot, following the object of her love with her longing eyes.
一天，那喀索斯在樹林中愉快地遊蕩。一位名叫回聲的林中仙女看見了他，她立刻興奮不已。她高興地走向那喀索斯，伸出愛的雙臂。然而，令她吃驚的是，這位青年粗暴地將她推開，連看都不看她一眼就走開了。可憐的仙女羞紅了臉，迅速退到遮陰處，含情脈脈地凝望着心上人。
Presently Narcissus stopped to drink from a little stream. Kneeling down on the bank,he saw a lovely face in the clear water. His heart gave a beat. lie smiled and was smiled back to. Thinking that it must be a maiden in love with him, he bent down to kiss her. But as soon as he touched the clear surface the lovely face disappeared. The angry youth was now desperate. Never had he been looked down upon like that before. Day and night,he stayed at the stream without drinking and eating. Before long he died, never suspecting that his maiden was just his own image in the stream. The gods took pity on the fair dead body and turned it into a flower bearing his name. This flower was the first narcissus. All the flowers of this family, when they grow by the side of a pond or a stream, still bend their beautiful heads and look at the reflection of their own faces in the water.
不久，那喀索斯在一條小溪邊停下飲水。當他跪在岸邊時，他發現清澈的溪水中有一張可愛的面龐。他的心撲通跳着，他對着水中的人微笑，水中人也給了他 一個微笑。他認爲，一定是一位仙女愛上了他。於是，他俯下身子去吻她。但是，當他的嘴脣一接觸清澈的溪水，水中可愛的面容就消失了。這位惱怒的青年人此時 變得絕望了，他從未受過如此的鄙視。他日夜待在溪邊，不吃不喝，不久就死了，但他從未懷疑過水中的女子只是自己的影子罷了。衆神非常憐憫他那優美的軀體， 將之變成了一朵花，和青年同名，這朵花就是第一朵水仙花，當它們生長在池塘或溪流旁時，仍然低下它們美麗的頭看着水裏自己的影子。
The intoxicated Echo saw all this. Slowly she became weak, until at last nothing remained of her except her voice.
那位陶醉於愛河的回聲親眼目睹了這一切她日斬憔悴，最後，除了聲音之外，她化爲了烏有。
中英對照經典英語故事：北風和太陽The North Wind and the Sun had a contest of strength. They decided to allot the palm ofvictory to whichever of them could strip the clothes off a traveler.
北風和太陽較量誰的威力大。他們決定誰能剝去一個行人的衣服，誰就是勝利者。
The North Wind first tried his power. He blew with all his might. As the man clung on to hisclothes, the North Wind attacked him with greater force. But the man,uncomfortable from thecold, put on more clothes. So, disheartened, the North Wind left him to the Sun.
北風第一個施展威力，他使盡全力刮起來。當行人把一衣服裹緊時，北風更猛烈地吹着他，行人卻冷得難受，又穿上了更多的衣裳。最後，北風心灰意冷地把那人交給了太陽。
The Sun shone moderately, and the man removed his extra cloak. Then the Sun darted lightwhich was more scorching until the man, not being able to stand the heat,took off his clothesand went to take a dip in a nearby river.
太陽溫和地照着，行人脫掉了添加的斗篷。然後，太陽射出的光更強烈了，行人難耐高溫，脫下衣服，跳到附近的河裏洗澡去了。
This fable shows that persuasion is often more effective than force.
這則寓言說明，勸說往往比暴力更有效。
中英對照經典英語故事：諾亞方舟Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and full of violence. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But with you I will make a covenant. Make yourself an ark of cypress wood, make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. You shall go into the ark,you and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. And you shall bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female. to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take and store every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.'
諾亞是一個正直的人，在當時所有人中無可挑剔。上帝看見整個世界腐朽了，到處充斥着暴力。於是上帝對諾亞說："我要毀滅所有的人類，世上因爲他們而 充滿着暴力。我一定要毀掉他們以及這個世界。我要讓洪水在全世界氾濫，消滅天下所有活着的生命，以及地上有氣息的萬物。世上的一切都將消亡。但我要與你立 約，你要用柏木爲自己造一艘方舟，分一間一間地造，再把船的裏裏外外塗上松脂。你到時帶着你的兒子們、妻子和兒媳一起進入方舟。你還要帶上各種生物上船， 每種兩隻，一雌一雄，在船上把它們餵養好。每種飛禽兩隻、每種走獸兩隻、每種爬蟲兩隻。你還要帶上各種吃的東西，儲存在船上，作爲你們和動物的食糧。"
Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
諾亞遵照上帝的話，一一照辦了。
Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. And into the ark with Noah went one pair, male and female, of all beasts, clean and unclean, of birds and of everything that crawls on the ground, two by two, as God had rds the end of seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
當洪水襲擊地面時，諾亞已經六百歲了。諾亞和他的兒子們、妻子和兒媳們都上了方舟。和他一起登上方舟的還有每種一對的動物，所有的走獸，潔淨的和不 潔淨的，都是一雌一雄;所有的鳥類和地上的爬蟲，也是一對一對的。按照上帝的吩咐它們都上了船。第七天結束的時候，洪水降臨到大地。
On the seventeenth day of the second month, all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. find rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. The flood kept coming on the earth for forty days, and as the waters increased they lifted up the ark high above the waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing that moved on the earth perished-birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
第二個月的十七日那天，大深淵的所有泉源一齊噴發，天穹擴開， 大雨傾盆，不停地下了四十個晝夜。洪水氾濫了四十天，大水漲起來，把方舟托起;高高地升離地面。地面的水越漲越高，方舟在水面上漂流。水漲得淹沒了天下所 有的高山，一直漲到浸沒高山二十英尺之深。陸地上一切有氣息的生物都消亡了--鳥類、家禽、野獸、地面上的所有爬蟲、所有人類。地面上每一個有生氣的事物 都被清除乾淨，唯獨諾亞和在方舟上的妻兒、鳥獸爬蟲活了下來。
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
洪水氾濫達一百五十天之久。
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