英語視頻故事:The moon on the Tree樹上的月亮(雙語閱讀)
The moon on the Tree
樹上的月亮
In ancient times, no moon was in sky. The sky was black.
古時候，夜晚的天空上本來沒有月亮，到處是一片漆黑。
Once upon a time, four men went in a carriage to a trip. They reached another country when it was dark; they saw a tall tree with a ball of soft silver light hanging from it. They asked a native passing if it was a light in a tree. The native told them that it was a moon which their chief had bought with three coins.
有一次，四個小伙子趕著一輛馬車外出去旅行。當他們去到另外一個國家時，已是晚上了。他們看到在一棵高大的樹上懸掛著一個光亮的球，閃著柔和的銀光。他們問一個從樹下走過的當地人那是不是一盞燈。那個本地人告訴他們那是月亮，是他們的村長用三塊硬幣買來的。
At midnight, the four man stole the moon and put it in their carriage, covering it with a piece of clothing. They carried the moon to their country and hung it on a tall oak. Since then the night were bright and moonlit, so all the people were happy.
半夜里，四個小伙子偷偷地把月亮從樹上摘下來，放上車，用一塊布蓋好。然后神不知鬼不覺地拉回到他們的國家里，掛到一棵很高的橡樹上。夜里有了光明，全國的人都很高興。
Many years later, one of the men was ill and dying, he said that a quarter of the moon belonged to him. And he wanted to take it into the tomb. When he died, they cut a quarter of the moon to put in the coffin. The other three men also wanted to be buried with their share of the moon when they died. So it was done as they wished. When the last one died the sky was dark.
許多年之后，四個人中的一個人病了，快要死了，他說月亮的四分之一是屬于他的。所以他要把它帶到墳墓里去。后來他死了，大家爬上樹去，剪下月亮的四分之一，放進他的棺材里。當其他三個人臨死的時候，也都提出了同樣的要求。大家覺得這些要求很合理，于是就滿足了他們的心愿。在最后死去的那個人下葬時，夜里到處又是一片漆黑了。
In the heaven, the four men rose from their graves and put the moon back together. The people in heaven sang, danced, drank and enjoyed themselves. Their noise spread in throughout heaven. The guard, St. Peter, thought the people had rebelled, he took his horse and rode quickly to the place. When he got there he ordered the dead to lie in their tombs. He took away the moon to hang back in the sky. From this time on, the moon belonged to the people on earth.
在天堂里，那四個人又把月亮復原。于是生活在天堂里的人們有了光明，就整天唱歌、跳舞、酗酒、打鬧。他們的喧嘩聲傳遍了天堂。天國里的衛士——圣彼得，以為他們要造反，騎馬趕到了那里。到達以后，他命令所有的死去的人躺回到他們的墳墓里去。然后他把月亮帶走，掛在了天上。從那以后啊，月亮就屬于整個人類了。
英語單詞學習：
ancient: adj. 古代的
hang: v. 懸掛
native: n. 當地人
chief: n.酋長；首領
carriage: n. 四輪馬車
moonlit: adj. 月光照耀的
belong to: 屬于
tomb: n. 墳墓
coffin: n. 棺材
bury: v. 埋葬
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