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
我給你們讀一段灰姑娘 下一次我們會專門討論這個話題 這次只是給你們看看其中的差異
The point of this is again to tie in this whole idea of lore
我要說的是 所有的知識都是融會貫通的
And if you read the assignment for today,one of the things we were finding,
如果你今天讀了這個作業 我們會發現
when the boys were retelling the story of their family, how they kept trying to change it
當男孩子們重新講訴家里的故事時 他們會對它做何改善故事
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
這就是為什么隨著故事代代相傳 康沃爾郡的伯爵怎么會在突然之間變成另一個人
Because they change it, it little ways to make Uther more evil or make the Earl a better person
他們逐漸地改變著故事 烏瑟越來越邪惡或者把額爾越說越好
And so what happens as we pass these stories down
那么我們在傳遞這些故事時 會發生什么呢
Listen up
聽著
The rich man's wife fell sick and feeling that her end was near,
有一個富人的妻子得了重病覺得自己不久于人世
she called her only daughter to her bedside and said,
她把自己的獨生女兒叫到身邊說
"Dear child, be good and say your prayers"
乖女兒 要聽話 經常祈禱
God will help you and I shall look down on you from Heaven and always be with you"
上帝會保佑你的我會在天上一直看著你 陪著你"
In a lot of tales of this nature, God is very important
在很多故事里都是這樣 上帝很重要
With that, she closed her eyes and died
說完她就閉上眼睛死了
Every day the little girl went out to her mother's grave and wept
小女孩兒每天都到她母親的墳前去哭泣
And she went on being good and saying her prayers
她善良虔誠 每天祈禱
When winter came, the snow spread a white cloth over the grave
冬天來了 大雪為她母親的墳蓋上了白色的毛毯
and when spring took it off the man remarried What a scuz, huh
春風吹來使墳墓恢復了原樣 她爸爸再婚了 真可恥 對吧