Once Upon a Story
从前的故事
【本课的单词】
culture,n. 文化,文明;修养;栽培,培养(物)v. 培养
fairy,n. 仙女,仙子;小精灵adj. 仙女的,神仙的;美丽的,可爱的;仙女似的
folktale,n. 民间故事
hero,n. 英雄;男主角,男主人公
heroine,n. 女英雄,女杰;女主角
People have listened to storytellers for thousands of years. Today, people still enjoy listening to stories.
人们听人讲故事已经有几千年的历史了。现在的人们仍喜爱听故事。
A folktale is one kind of story. Folktales are told again and again.
民间传说是一种被反复流传了的故事。
Folktales are a way of passing on the customs and ideas of a group of people. These stories tell about a group's culture.
民间传说是一种传递一群人的习惯和思想的一种方式。这些故事都说出了一群人的文化。
Some tales tell about magic and things that cannot happen in real life. They may have a fairy as a character. These stories are sometimes called fairy tales.
一些故事讲述的是现实中不可能有的魔力和事物。可能故事中还有精灵。有时这些故事被叫做神话故事。
Fairy tales take place long ago and far away. They always have happy endings.
神话故事都发生在很久以前的远方,它们总有着快乐的结局。
Sometimes the heroine of a story has a problem. Her fairy godmother may come and help her.
有时故事里的女主人公遇到困难时她的精灵妈妈就可能过来帮助她。
The fairy godmother uses magic to fix the problem. That way, the story can end happily.
精灵会用魔法来解决问题。那样,故事就能有个快乐的结局。
Whenever people traveled to new places, they would tell their tales to people they met. If the new people liked the tales, they would tell them, too.
无论人们走到哪个新地方,他们都会告诉所遇见的人们他们带来的故事。如果那些所遇见的人喜欢这些故事,他们也会告诉对方自己的故事。
Over time, the stories changed. One tale might have had a farmer's son as the main male character, or hero. As the story was told over and over again, it changed. The farmer's son might become a fisherman's son, or even a prince.
随着时间变迁,故事会发生变化。一个故事中的男主人公可能本来是一个农民的儿子。因为被叙述了一遍又一遍,故事发生了变化。农民的儿子可能变成了渔人的儿子或者甚至变成了一个公主。
Fairy tales will be with us for a long time. Heroes will go off to fight dragons. Fairies will cast magic spells. And all of the stories will have happy endings!
神话故事将会陪伴我们很久,男主人公将会和龙战斗,精灵们则将施展魔法咒语。所有的故事都会有一个快乐结局
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完成下面的句子:民间传说很有趣因为_____。
魔法是如何使得一个神话故事的结尾变得很愉快的?
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