【正文】 to know about, but her sisters could not tell she went to ask her grandmother.“Do men live for ever?” she asked.“They must die like us。but their life is not so long as ours, ” answered the old grandmother.“We live for three hundred we die, our bodies bee water in the have no souls and we can never live who live on the land have souls: their bodies die and bee dust: but their souls do not go to a beautiful place in the sky.”“Why have we no souls?” asked the little sea princess.“I would not want to live for three hundred years if I had a my body died, I should be able to live for ever in that beautiful place in the sky.” 中文這座宮殿是由白色的石塊建筑的，公主們透過(guò)窗戶往大房間里張望。房間富麗堂皇，只要看看這些房間，這六個(gè)海公主就非常高興了。小海公主知道，這是她那年輕王子的宮殿，所以她每晚都到那兒去。她越游越靠近陸地，常常待在一間房子外面，瞧著那位年輕的王子。有時(shí)候，她看到王子坐著小船在河上游玩，她就躲藏在河邊的高高的草叢里。有一天晚上，她聽(tīng)到漁夫們談到王子，他們說(shuō)：“他真勇敢?！焙９骱芨吲d，因?yàn)樗貞浧鹚鯓泳攘怂拿Ｋ凉u漸越來(lái)越愛(ài)陸地上的人了。她想成為他們中的一個(gè)。他們可以到那么多的地方去，他們能做那么多的事情。他們能夠乘自己的船在海上行駛，能爬高山頂端。他們的樹(shù)林、房屋和花園又是那么宏大。她想知道的事情很多，可是她的姐姐們都不能告訴她。她又去問(wèn)她的祖母了?！叭藭?huì)永遠(yuǎn)活下去嗎？”她問(wèn)。“他們和我們一樣，也是要死的，但她們的壽命比我們還要短呢?！崩献婺富卮鸬?，“我們能活到三百歲。等我們死了，我們的身體變成海里的水。我們沒(méi)有靈魂，不能再活了。生活在陸地上的人有靈魂，他們的身體死后化成塵土，而他們的靈魂還活著，升到天上一個(gè)美麗的地方去?！盀槭裁次覀儧](méi)有靈魂？”小海公主問(wèn)，“如果我有靈魂的話，我愿意放棄我能活三百歲的生命，等我的身體死去，我可以在天上美麗的世界得到永生?！蓖挘汉５呐畠海ò耍┯⑽摹癥ou must not think of that,” her grandmother answered.“We live longer and we are far happier than people on land.”But the little sea princess said, “If I die, I can never go to the top of the sea can never hear the lovely noise of the sea, never again see the beautiful flowers and the sun!Tell me, grandmother, is there any way by which I can get a soul?”The grandmother answered, “If a person on the land loves you more than his father or he says that he will love you for his soul will go into your can get a soul from a person on the land who loves that can never be!The people on the land are not like think that feet are beautiful!”“I will go to the old woman who knows all about magic, ” said the sea princess.“I have always been afraid of her, but she can help me.”The little sea princess looked sadly of her body was like the bodies of people on the she had no her body was like the body of a the little sea princess went to the old were many ugly plants round the old woman’s house。they had long arms。they caught everything that was near little sea princess was want to go back, but she remembered the made her braveand she went by these ugly saw that the plants had dead people in their last she came to the old woman.“I know what you want to ask me,” She said to the little sea princess.“I shall give you what you want, but it will make you want me make all your body like the bodies of the land want two feet, then a young prince may love you and you makeget a will make you something to must take it to the you drink it, you will get two body will bee like the bodies of the land the change will give you GREat will be very when you walk, you will hav much feet will be very you still want to bee like the people on land?”中文“你決不能這么想?！彼婺富卮鸬?，“我們的壽命比陸地上的人長(zhǎng)，我們的生活比他們幸福。”但小海公主說(shuō)：“要是我死了，我就再不能到海 面上去了。我再也聽(tīng)不到大?？蓯?ài)的濤聲，再也看不見(jiàn)美麗的花朵和太陽(yáng)！告訴我，祖母，有什么辦法讓我得到一個(gè)靈魂？”祖母回答道：“如果陸地上有一個(gè)有愛(ài)你，把你當(dāng)作比父母還親切的人。如果他說(shuō)，他永遠(yuǎn)愛(ài)你。那么，他的靈魂就會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)移到你的身上，你可以從陸地上愛(ài)你的人那里得到一個(gè)靈魂。但是，這種事情是永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)有的！陸地上的人們不象我們，他們認(rèn)為腿是美麗的！”小海公主悲傷地向下看著。她身體的大部是美麗的，和陸地上的人的身體一樣。但她沒(méi)有腿，她的下半身同魚的身體一樣?！拔乙侥莻€(gè)懂得所有巫術(shù)的老巫婆那里去?！焙９髡f(shuō)，“我一直怕她，但她可以幫助我?！?于是小海公主去找那個(gè)老巫婆。老巫婆信的房子周圍長(zhǎng)著很多丑陋的植物。它們?nèi)虚L(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的手臂，捕捉附近的每樣?xùn)|西。小海公主害怕了。她想轉(zhuǎn)身回去，但她想起了王子，就又有了勇氣，穿過(guò)那些難看的植物。她看到在植物手臂里的死 人。最后她來(lái)到老巫婆住的地方?！拔抑滥闶莵?lái)求我什么的?！彼龑?duì)小海公主說(shuō)，“我會(huì)給你你所要的東西，可是這會(huì)使你痛苦的。你想叫我使你全身都和陸地的人類一樣。你要兩條腿，這樣，年輕的王子就會(huì)愛(ài)你，而你可以得到一個(gè)靈 魂。我要讓你喝一點(diǎn)東西，你必須把這東西帶到陸地上去，喝下去以后，你就會(huì)有兩條腿，你的身體就會(huì) 變得跟陸地上人類的身體一樣了，但這種變化會(huì)使你非常疼。你會(huì)變得非常美，可是你一走路，就會(huì)疼，你的腳非常疼。你是不是還要變成陸地上那樣的人呢？”童話：海的女兒（九）英文“Yes, I do,” the princess remembered her prince and the soul which she might get.“You can never again bee a sea will never get back your fish’s can never go back to live with your prince must love you so much that he will go away from his father and he does not marry you, you will you will be changed to water in the sea.”“I still want to bee like the land people,” said the little sea princess.“There is one more thing,” said the old woman.“You now speak and sing very you are like the and people, you cannot speak and will not to be able to speak and sing.”“But how can I make the prince love me if I cannot speak to him?” the sea princess asked.“Your beautiful body, the way you walk, and your speaking eyes,” the old woman answered.“It will not be hard to make him love you still want me to make you like the land people?”“Yes,” said the little princess.“Here is the magic drink,” said the old little princess took it in her went away from the old woman’s looked once again at her father’s was no light in it: everyone was did not want to go was going away from her home for was very went into the garden and took a flower from each of her sister’s little she went through the blue waters, up and the sun came in the sky the sea princess went to the prince’s drank the magic drink which the old woman gave to ran through her it gave her GREat fell down and knew nothing the sun came into the sky, she was a burning pain in her arms and in her she saw the beautiful young prince standing near “是的，我愿意?！惫骰卮鸬馈Ｋ肫鹆怂耐踝?，想起了她可能得到的靈魂?！澳阍僖膊荒茏兂珊９鳎僖膊荒苡心愕聂~身體，再也不能回來(lái)和你的姐妹們一同生活了。王子一定非常愛(ài)你，不惜離開(kāi)他的父母。如果他不能和你結(jié)婚，你就會(huì)死去。然后你就會(huì)變成海里的水?！薄拔胰匀辉敢庾兊猛懙厣系娜艘粯?。”小海公主說(shuō)。“還有一件事?！袄衔灼耪f(shuō)，“你現(xiàn)在說(shuō)話和唱歌的聲音都很優(yōu)美，當(dāng)你變得和陸地上的人一樣的時(shí)候，你就不會(huì)說(shuō)話唱歌，你就不能說(shuō)話和唱歌了?！薄叭绻也荒芎屯踝诱f(shuō)話，我怎么能使他愛(ài)我呢？”海公主問(wèn)?！澳阌忻利惖纳聿难?，你走路的姿態(tài)呀，還有你富于表情能說(shuō)話的眼睛呀?！崩衔灼呕卮?，“你很容易讓他愛(ài)上你，你是不是還要讓我把你變成象陸