3 Stone Soup

Stone Soup retold by Pam Holden illustrated by Kelvin Hawley

《石头汤》由帕姆·霍尔顿重述，开尔文·霍利配图

Once upon a time, a young man was lost in a thick forest. He walked along the forest path, trying to find the way home. He felt very hungry and thirsty. Suddenly he saw a small house through the trees. He hurried to the door and knocked loudly.

从前，有个年轻人在茂密的森林里迷了路。 他沿着森林里的小路走，试图找到回家的路。 他感到又饿又渴。 突然，他透过树林看到一座小房子。 他急忙走到门口，大声敲门。

An old woman answered his knock. "What do you want, young man?" she asked. When he told her that he was lost and hungry, she said that she didn't have enough food for herself. The young man was very surprised because he could see plenty of vegetables in her garden.

一位老妇人应门。 “你想要什么，年轻人?”她问。 当他告诉她他迷路了，饿了，她说她没有足够的食物给自己吃。 年轻人非常惊讶，因为他看到她的花园里有很多蔬菜。

"Would you like me to make you some soup?" he asked. "I love soup! How can you make soup for me?" she said. The young man showed her something that he carried in his pocket. "I will use this," he told her. "But that's just a stone!" she said in surprise. "No, it's a special stone called a soup stone," he told her. "If you put a pot of water on your stove, I'll cook you some delicious soup."

“要不要我给你煮点汤?”他问。 “我爱喝汤!”你怎么能给我做汤?”她说。 年轻人给她看了他口袋里的东西。 “我要用这个，”他告诉她。 “但那只是一块石头!”她惊讶地说。 “不，这是一种特殊的石头，叫做汤石，”他告诉她。 “如果你在炉子上放一壶水，我就给你煮一些美味的汤。”

As soon as the stone was rattling in the pot of boiling water, the young man got a spoon to taste the soup. "Is it ready yet?" asked the old woman. "It's very nice, but I wish I had a carrot to put in it," he said. "I have a few carrots," said the old woman, and she hurried to the garden to get them. Soon they were boiling in the pot with the stone.

当石头在沸水锅里发出嘎嘎声时，年轻人拿起勺子尝了尝汤。 “好了吗?”老妇人问。 “这很好，但我希望我能在里面放一根胡萝卜，”他说。 “我有一些胡萝卜，”老妇人说，她急忙跑到花园去摘。 很快，它们就在锅里用石头煮开了。

When the young man tasted the soup again, he said, "It's delicious, but it would be even better if only we had a little bit of meat to put in it." "I've got a tasty piece of meat in the kitchen," said the old woman. Soon the meat was boiling in the pot. After trying the soup again, he told her, "It tastes very nice, but some milk would make it nicer still." The old woman gave him a jug full of milk. "Here's some milk, and here's a little bit of salt, too," she said.

当年轻人再次品尝汤时，他说:“汤很好吃，但如果我们能在里面放一点肉就更好了。” “我厨房里有一块好吃的肉，”老妇人说。 很快肉在锅里沸腾了。 他又尝了一遍汤，对她说:“汤很好喝，不过加点牛奶会更好喝。” 老妇人给了他一罐牛奶。 “这里有一些牛奶，这里也有一点盐，”她说。