有關兒童英語故事

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　　：亞瑟稱王

　　How Arthur Become King

　　Arthur's father was King Uther Pendragon, who fell in love with Igrayne, the wife of the Duke ofCornwall. With the aid of Merlin, a powerful magician, Uther took the form of the duke and soIgrayne became pregnant with Arthur. After Arthur was born, the magician Merlin gave him to aman named Hector to be raised as Hector's own son. Arthur grew up without knowing that hewas the son of the king. When Arthur was a young man, his father, Uther Pendragon, died.People were worring about who whould be the next king, when a strange stone was discovered.Firmly fixed in the stone was a sword with these words on its handle: "I am great Excalibur,and at the King's side I am to hang." All the nobles agreed that whoever should be able to drawout the sword from the stone should be the next king. Many people tried, but nobodysucceeded. Finally Arthur came and quite easily pulled the sword from the stone. Now peoplewere convinced that Authur was pointed out by Heaven as their king.

　　Then with the help of the great magician Merlin and his powerful sword Excalibur, Arthur led hisarmies to many victories over Britain's enemies. After that, Britain had a long period of peaceand security. Arthur married the beautiful Princess Guenevere. Later, he set up the RoundTable as a meeting place for his knighgts. Arthur had several places for living. His favorite wasCamelot, a castle in southern English.

　　亞瑟的父親是個國王，叫尤瑟·潘德拉貢。尤瑟看上了康沃爾公爵的妻子伊倫，於是靠魔法師墨林的幫助，化做公爵的模樣接近伊倫，生下亞瑟。亞瑟出生後，墨林把他交給一個叫赫克託的人，要他把亞瑟當做自己的兒子撫養。亞瑟長大後並不知道自己的身世。他的父親尤瑟去世時，人們為何人繼位一事發愁。此時，有人發現一塊巨石，巨石中插著一把寶劍，劍柄上刻有銘文：“我叫埃克斯卡利伯，將懸於國王身邊。”貴族們商定，能將劍從石中取出者為王。許多人嘗試拔劍，但劍死死地卡在石頭裡，沒有人成功。最後輪到亞瑟，他稍一用力，就把劍抽了出來。這時人們相信亞瑟稱王是天意。

　　靠著魔法師墨林的協助，加上手裡握著威力巨大的神劍埃克斯卡利伯，亞瑟多次打敗不列顛的敵人，使自己的人民一度過上安寧的生活。亞瑟王娶了一個美貌的公主叫圭內維爾。他還造了一個巨大的圓桌，作為與眾騎士聚會之處。亞瑟有幾處居所，但他的宮廷設在英格蘭南部一個叫做卡米洛的地方。

　　：King Arthur

　　The story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table has been one of the mostpopular stories in world literature. Writers have told of Arthur's brave deeds and theadventures of his knights for hundreds of years.

　　There probably was a real King Arthur, who led the British People in battles against the Anglo-Saxon invaders in the late 5th century and early 6th century, though historians know littleabout him. The real King Arthur probably won some victories over the Anglo-Saxons, but hewas not nearly as great as the King Arthur of the stories. In the Middle Ages people loved tohear stories of great warriors told by storytellers who travelled around. These storytellerspassed on the earliest tales about Arthur by word of mouth. They told the stories of Authurand his knights as though they were knights of the Middle Ages, wearing the kind of armourthat was worn by knights of the Middle Ages and following the set of rules of behaviour calledchivalry.

　　亞瑟王的故事

　　亞瑟王與圓桌騎士的故事在世界文學中名氣很大。幾百年來，很多作家和詩人都曾從這個故事系列中汲取題材。

　　亞瑟王可能確有其人，雖然歷史學家對他知之不多。他曾在五世紀末和六世紀初率領不列顛人反抗盎格魯克遜人的入侵，取得過一些小規模的勝利，但決不可能像亞瑟王故事中所描寫的那樣了不起。中世紀的老百姓喜歡聽遊呤詩人講武士的歷險故事。亞瑟王的故事就是通過這些遊呤詩人的口述流傳下來的。在這些故事裡，亞瑟王和他的騎士們被描述成了中世紀的人物，身披中世紀武士的鎧甲、講求中世紀的騎士道.

　　：烏鴉和天鵝

　　A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.

　　Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

　　烏鴉非常羨慕天鵝潔白的羽毛。他猜想天鵝一定是經常洗澡，羽毛才變得如此潔白無 瑕。於是，他毅然離開了他賴以生存的祭壇，來到江湖邊。他天天洗刷自己的羽毛，不但一點都沒洗白，反而因缺少食物飢餓而死。

　　這故事是說，人的本性不會隨著生活方式的改變而改變。