2013中考英语阅读素材:TheFrogPrince

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2013中考英语阅读素材：TheFrogPrince

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青蛙王子 The Frog Prince

The Frog Prince

英汉对照

In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a

king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was

so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was

astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the king's

castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree in the

forest was a well, and when the day was very warm, the king's

child went out into the forest and sat down by the side of the

cool fountain, and when she was bored she took a golden ball,

and threw it up on high and caught it, and this ball was her

favorite play thing.

Now it so happened that on one occasion the princess's

golden ball did not fall into the little hand which she was holding

up for it, but on to the ground beyond, and rolled straight into

the water. The king's daughter followed it with her eyes, but it

vanished, and the well was deep, so deep that the bottom could

not be seen. At this she began to cry, and cried louder and louder,

and could not be comforted. And as she thus lamented someone

said to her, "What ails you, king's daughter? You weep so that

even a stone would show pity."

She looked round to the side from whence the voice came,

and saw a frog stretching forth its big, ugly head from the water.

"Ah, old water-splashier, is it you," she said, "I am weeping for my

golden ball, which has fallen into the well." "Be quiet, and do not

weep," answered the frog, "I can help you, but what will you give

me if I bring your play thing up again?" "Whatever you will have,

dear frog," said she, "My clothes, my pearls and jewels, and even

the golden crown which I am wearing." The frog answered, "I do

not care for your clothes, your pearls and jewels, nor for your

golden crown, but if you will love me and let me be your

companion and play-fellow, and sit by you at your little table, and

eat off your little golden plate, and drink out of your little cup,

and sleep in your little bed - if you will promise me this I will go

down below, and bring you your golden ball up again."

"Oh yes," said she, "I promise you all you wish, if you will but

bring me my ball back again." But she thought, "How the silly

frog does talk. All he does is to sit in the water with the other

frogs, and croak. He can be no companion to any human being."

But the frog when he had received this promise, put his head

into the water and sank down; and in a short while came

swimming up again with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on

the grass. The king's daughter was delighted to see her pretty

play thing once more, and picked it up, and ran away with it.

"Wait, wait," said the frog. "Take me with you. I can't run as you

can." But what did it avail him to scream his croak, croak, after

her, as loudly as he could. She did not listen to it, but ran home

and soon forgot the poor frog, who was forced to go back into

his well again.

The next day when she had seated herself at table with the

king and all the courtiers, and was eating from her little golden

plate, something came creeping splish splash, splish splash, up

the marble staircase, and when it had got to the top, it knocked

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