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安徒生童话英文版:The Drop of Water
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  • (1848)

    OF course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass—one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is? When any one takes one of these and holds it to his eye, and looks at a drop of water from the pond yonder, he sees above a thousand wonderful creatures that are otherwise never discerned in the water. But there they are, and it is no delusion1. It almost looks like a great plateful of spiders jumping about in a crowd. And how fierce they are! They tear off each other’s legs. and arms and bodies, before and behind; and yet they are merry and joyful2 in their way.

    Now, there once was an old man whom all the people called Kribble-Krabble, for that was his name. He always wanted the best of everything, and when he could not manage it otherwise, he did it by magic.

    There he sat one day, and held his magnifying-glass to his eye, and looked at a drop of water that had been taken out of a puddle3 by the ditch. But what a kribbling and krabbling was there! All the thousands of little creatures hopped4 and sprang and tugged5 at one another, and ate each other up.

    “That is horrible!” said old Kribble-Krabble. “Can one not persuade them to live in peace and quietness, so that each one may mind his own business?”

    And he thought it over and over, but it would not do, and so he had recourse to magic.

    “I must give them color, that they may be seen more plainly,” said he; and he poured something like a little drop of red wine into the drop of water, but it was witches’ blood from the lobes6 of the ear, the finest kind, at ninepence a drop. And now the wonderful little creatures were pink all over. It looked like a whole town of naked wild men.

    “What have you there?” asked another old magician, who had no name—and that was the best thing about him.

    “Yes, if you can guess what it is,” said Kribble-Krabble, “I’ll make you a present of it.”

    But it is not so easy to find out if one does not know.

    And the magician who had no name looked through the magnifying-glass.

    It looked really like a great town reflected there, in which all the people were running about without clothes. It was terrible! But it was still more terrible to see how one beat and pushed the other, and bit and hacked7, and tugged and mauled him. Those at the top were being pulled down, and those at the bottom were struggling upwards8.

    “Look! look! his leg is longer than mine! Bah! Away with it! There is one who has a little bruise9. It hurts him, but it shall hurt him still more.”

    And they hacked away at him, and they pulled at him, and ate him up, because of the little bruise. And there was one sitting as still as any little maiden10, and wishing only for peace and quietness. But now she had to come out, and they tugged at her, and pulled her about, and ate her up.

    “That’s funny!” said the magician.

    “Yes; but what do you think it is?” said Kribble-Krabble. “Can you find that out?”

    “Why, one can see that easily enough,” said the other. “That’s Paris, or some other great city, for they’re all alike. It’s a great city!”

    “It’s a drop of puddle water!” said Kribble-Krabble.

     单词标签: delusion  joyful  puddle  hopped  tugged  lobes  hacked  upwards  bruise  maiden 


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    1 delusion [dɪˈlu:ʒn] x9uyf   第8级
    n.谬见,欺骗,幻觉,迷惑
    参考例句:
    • He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon. 他患了妄想症,认为自己是拿破仑。
    • I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me. 我误认为他要娶我。
    2 joyful [ˈdʒɔɪfl] N3Fx0   第8级
    adj.欢乐的,令人欢欣的
    参考例句:
    • She was joyful of her good result of the scientific experiments. 她为自己的科学实验取得好成果而高兴。
    • They were singing and dancing to celebrate this joyful occasion. 他们唱着、跳着庆祝这令人欢乐的时刻。
    3 puddle [ˈpʌdl] otNy9   第10级
    n.(雨)水坑,泥潭
    参考例句:
    • The boy hopped the mud puddle and ran down the walk. 这个男孩跳过泥坑,沿着人行道跑了。
    • She tripped over and landed in a puddle. 她绊了一下,跌在水坑里。
    4 hopped [hɔpt] 91b136feb9c3ae690a1c2672986faa1c   第7级
    跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花
    参考例句:
    • He hopped onto a car and wanted to drive to town. 他跳上汽车想开向市区。
    • He hopped into a car and drove to town. 他跳进汽车,向市区开去。
    5 tugged [tʌɡd] 8a37eb349f3c6615c56706726966d38e   第7级
    v.用力拉,使劲拉,猛扯( tug的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • She tugged at his sleeve to get his attention. 她拽了拽他的袖子引起他的注意。
    • A wry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. 他的嘴角带一丝苦笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    6 lobes [ləʊbz] fe8c3178c8180f03dd0fc8ae16f13e3c   第10级
    n.耳垂( lobe的名词复数 );(器官的)叶;肺叶;脑叶
    参考例句:
    • The rotor has recesses in its three faces between the lobes. 转子在其凸角之间的三个面上有凹槽。 来自辞典例句
    • The chalazal parts of the endosperm containing free nuclei forms several lobes. 包含游离核的合点端胚乳部分形成几个裂片。 来自辞典例句
    7 hacked [hækt] FrgzgZ   第9级
    生气
    参考例句:
    • I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
    • I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。
    8 upwards [ˈʌpwədz] lj5wR   第8级
    adv.向上,在更高处...以上
    参考例句:
    • The trend of prices is still upwards. 物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
    • The smoke rose straight upwards. 烟一直向上升。
    9 bruise [bru:z] kcCyw   第7级
    n.青肿,挫伤;伤痕;vt.打青;挫伤
    参考例句:
    • The bruise was caused by a kick. 这伤痕是脚踢的。
    • Jack fell down yesterday and got a big bruise on his face. 杰克昨天摔了一跤,脸上摔出老大一块淤斑。
    10 maiden [ˈmeɪdn] yRpz7   第7级
    n.少女,处女;adj.未婚的,纯洁的,无经验的
    参考例句:
    • The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden. 王子爱上了一位年轻美丽的少女。
    • The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow. 这架飞机明天首航。

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