Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty. Retold by Katherine E. White. Copyright. Black Cat Publishing.

《睡美人》，凯瑟琳·E·怀特 改写，版权所有 黑猫出版社

The people from a small town in France are outside the king's summer castle. The king goes out onto the balcony. We are very happy to tell you that we have a baby daughter. Her name is Aurora. Everyone is invited to a party here at the castle tomorrow. He says. The king goes back into the castle. The queen is singing to the baby. The party tomorrow is going to be wonderful, says the king. All the people from the town are coming, and of course we must invite the flower fairies.

法国一座小镇的居民都聚在国王的夏宫外面 国王走到了阳台上 我们非常开心地告诉大家，我们有了一个小女儿 她的名字叫奥罗拉 明天所有人都可以来城堡参加派对 他说道 国王走回了城堡里 王后正对着小宝宝唱歌 明天的派对肯定会特别棒，国王说 镇上所有的人都会来，当然啦，我们还要邀请花仙子们

Everyone in the castle is very busy. The cooks are cooking delicious roast meats with vegetables. And they are making delicious cakes too. The cleaners are sweeping and dusting. The Queen's friends are picking flowers in the garden and putting flowers in all the rooms. Mmm, the food smells delicious, says the King. And the castle is very pretty with all these flowers. Little Princess Aurora is sleeping happily. She doesn't know there is going to be a party tomorrow.

城堡里的每个人都忙得团团转 厨师们正在做美味的蔬菜烤肉 他们还在做香甜的蛋糕呢 清洁工们忙着扫地、擦灰尘 王后的朋友们正在花园里摘花 还把花摆到了所有房间里 嗯，食物闻起来好香呀，国王说 摆了这么多花，城堡真好看 小奥罗拉公主正睡得香香的 她还不知道明天要举办派对啦

The next day the sun shines and all the men, women and children from the town come to the party. The children like the new baby and want to pick her up. You can pick her up later when she wakes up, says the Queen. Yes, says the King. Come and sit down now. The food is ready and we're all hungry. Look, look! Over there by the trees, says a little boy. Everyone turns and looks at the trees. Oh! says a little girl. Are they? Yes, they are, says the Queen. They're the flower fairies.

第二天阳光明媚，镇上所有男女老少都来参加派对了 小朋友们都很喜欢这个小宝宝，想要抱抱她 等她醒过来你们就可以抱她啦，王后说 对呀，国王说，现在快过来坐吧，食物都做好了，大家都饿啦 看呀！看那边！树那边！一个小男孩叫道 所有人都转过头看向那些树 哇！一个小女孩叫出了声 是她们吗？ 对，就是她们，王后说，她们就是花仙子呀

Hello, say the flower fairies. We've got some very special presents for Princess Aurora. She's going to be beautiful, says Fairy Daisy. She's going to be happy, says Fairy Iris. She's going to be healthy, says Fairy Sunflower. And, says Fairy Poppy. Stop, says another fairy. Who's this? asks the Queen. It's Fairy Weed, say the flower fairies. She's a bad fairy. She must leave the party. No, I'm not going to leave, says Fairy Weed. I've got a present for Princess Aurora too. When she's 16, she's going to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.

你们好呀，花仙子们说 我们给奥罗拉公主准备了特别的礼物哦 她会长得非常漂亮，雏菊仙子说 她会一直开开心心的，鸢尾仙子说 她会健健康康的，向日葵仙子说 还有呀，罂粟仙子开口说 停！另一个仙子喊道 这是谁呀？王后问道 是杂草仙子，花仙子们回答 她是坏仙子，不能待在派对上 我才不要走，杂草仙子说 我也给奥罗拉公主准备了一份礼物 等她满16岁的时候，她会被纺车扎破手指，然后死掉

Wait! I've got to give Princess Aurora my present now, says Fairy Poppy. I can't change Fairy Weed's present. Princess Aurora is going to prick her finger on a spinning wheel when she's 16. But she isn't going to die. She's going to sleep for a hundred years. She isn't going to prick her finger on a spinning wheel or sleep for a hundred years, says the King. We must destroy all the spinning wheels in the town. Tomorrow everyone must take their spinning wheels to the town square. We're going to destroy them all.

等一下！我还没给奥罗拉公主送我的礼物呢，罂粟仙子说 我没法改变杂草仙子的诅咒 奥罗拉公主16岁的时候确实会被纺车扎破手指 但是她不会死，她只会睡上一百年 奥罗拉公主绝对不能被纺车扎破手指，也不能睡一百年，国王说 我们要把镇上所有的纺车都毁掉 明天所有人都要把家里的纺车交到镇广场来 我们要把它们全部毁掉