英语版童话故事[精品范文，共4页].docxVIP

本文部分内容来源于网络，本人不为其真实性负责，如有异议请及时和我联系，予以删除！ 文章写作艰辛，希望读者喜欢，您的下载是对我的最大支持，谢谢！ 英语童话故事 1872 FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN THE DROP OF WATER by Hans Christian Andersen 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 delusion. It almost looks like a great plateful of spiders jumping about in a crowd. And how fierce they are! They tear off each others legs. and arms and bodies, before and behind; and yet they are merry and joyful 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 puddle by the ditch. But what a kribbling and krabbling was there! All the thousands of little creatures hopped and sprang and tugged 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 lobes 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 i