I was gonna read you Ashputtle,which we talked a little bit about one other day,just to show you how what we have is different
我给你们读一段灰姑娘 下一次我们会专门讨论这个话题 这次只是给你们看看其中的差异
The point of this is again to tie in this whole idea of lore
我要说的是 所有的知识都是融会贯通的
And if you read the assignment for today,one of the things we were finding,
如果你今天读了这个作业 我们会发现
when the boys were retelling the story of their family, how they kept trying to change it
当男孩子们重新讲诉家里的故事时 他们会对它做何改善故事
And so we saw how all of a sudden the Earl of Cornwall can become somebody else other than he was by the time several generations retell the story
这就是为什么随着故事代代相传 康沃尔郡的伯爵怎么会在突然之间变成另一个人
Because they change it, it little ways to make Uther more evil or make the Earl a better person
他们逐渐地改变着故事 乌瑟越来越邪恶或者把额尔越说越好
And so what happens as we pass these stories down
那么我们在传递这些故事时 会发生什么呢
Listen up
听着
The rich man's wife fell sick and feeling that her end was near,
有一个富人的妻子得了重病觉得自己不久于人世
she called her only daughter to her bedside and said,
她把自己的独生女儿叫到身边说
"Dear child, be good and say your prayers"
乖女儿 要听话 经常祈祷
God will help you and I shall look down on you from Heaven and always be with you"
上帝会保佑你的我会在天上一直看着你 陪着你"
In a lot of tales of this nature, God is very important
在很多故事里都是这样 上帝很重要
With that, she closed her eyes and died
说完她就闭上眼睛死了
Every day the little girl went out to her mother's grave and wept
小女孩儿每天都到她母亲的坟前去哭泣
And she went on being good and saying her prayers
她善良虔诚 每天祈祷
When winter came, the snow spread a white cloth over the grave
冬天来了 大雪为她母亲的坟盖上了白色的毛毯
and when spring took it off the man remarried What a scuz, huh
春风吹来使坟墓恢复了原样 她爸爸再婚了 真可耻 对吧