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THE GOLDEN TOUCH
點金術
Nathaniel Hawthorne
作者：納撒尼爾·霍桑
Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of our first great American story-tellers, was born and lived in the old town of Salem, Massachusetts. He loved boys and girls and liked to tell them stories. One summer he wrote a book in which he retold some old stories. Even before the book was printed, his three children knew the stories by heart. “The Golden Touch,” which you will now read, is taken from this book.
納撒尼爾·霍桑是最早的偉大的美國小說家之一，他出生在馬薩諸塞州的塞勒姆老城區。他喜歡男孩和女孩，喜歡給他們講故事。有一年夏天，他寫了一本書，在書中他講述了一些古老的故事。甚至在這本書出版之前，他的三個孩子就已經把這些故事背熟了。你們現在要讀的《點金術》，是從這本書里摘錄的。
KING MIDAS AND HIS LOVE FOR GOLD
邁達斯國王和他對黃金的熱愛
Once upon a time there lived a very rich king whose name was Midas. He had a little daughter, whom nobody but myself ever heard of, and whose name I either never knew, or have entirely forgotten. So, because I love odd names for little girls, I shall choose to call her Marygold.
從前，有一位非常富有的國王，他的名字叫邁達斯。他有一個小女兒，除了我自己，誰也沒有聽說過她的名字，我不知道她的名字，或者完全忘記了她的名字。所以，因為我喜歡給小女孩起奇怪的名字，我將選擇叫她瑪麗戈爾德。
