Part 3 Old Tales
第三部分 古老的傳說(shuō)
In Make-Believe Land
夢(mèng)幻大陸
The stories you are now going to read have been enjoyed by boys and girls ever since they were first written.
你即將要閱讀的是一些自問(wèn)世以來(lái)就廣受男孩和女孩喜愛(ài)的故事。
Very surprising things happen in these stories.
這些故事中都出現(xiàn)了令人十分驚奇的事情。
But that is not strange, for they are stories from the land of make-believe, and in this land almost anything can happen.
這并不奇怪,因?yàn)樗鼈兪莵?lái)自夢(mèng)幻大陸的故事,在那片大陸幾乎任何事情都可能發(fā)生。
In the days when the story-tellers went from town to town,
在說(shuō)書(shū)人穿梭于城鎮(zhèn)之間的年代里,
some of the tales the people loved best were about this wonderful land, and children of today love them, too.
人們最喜愛(ài)的故事便是關(guān)于這神奇大陸的,而如今的孩子仍舊喜愛(ài)它們。
Did you ever hear of animals playing jokes on each other?
你聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)動(dòng)物之間互相逗趣嗎?
In these stories you will read about some of their jokes,
在這些故事中你會(huì)讀到關(guān)于它們的一些笑話,
You will read also about giants who did wonderful things, and about an old woman and a little old man who did magic tricks.
你也會(huì)讀到做了了不起的事情的巨人們的故事,你還會(huì)讀到會(huì)使用魔法的老婦人和小老頭的故事。