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夜晚night[英][naɪt] [美][naɪt] 中英文小故事：夜晚的由来 在地球很年轻的时候，没有夜晚，也没有动物，只有树木、植物和人类。在这个时期，太阳照耀着大地，格外明亮。由于睡不好觉，人们总是很疲倦。由于天气炎热，树木都枯萎了。 只有叫做“大蛇”的女巫能让黑夜降临。她先把黑夜装在椰果中，藏在河底。 大蛇以目睹人们疲乏和困倦样子为乐。印第安人恳求她赐予他们黑夜，但总是徒劳无功。 一天，大蛇美丽的印第安女儿出嫁了。和她的母亲一样，她也不需要夜晚来休息。可她的丈夫和村子里的其他人总是很疲倦。新娘不想看着他们痛苦下去。所以她告诉丈夫她会请求母亲把黑夜给她。她母亲从没有拒绝过她的请求。 丈夫派遣三名忠实的仆人把夜晚从女巫那里取回来。女巫并不想把夜晚给他们，可自己又不能拒绝女儿的请求。 女巫将装有黑夜的椰果交给了仆人，并告诉他们打开椰果人的只能是她的女儿。如果其他人打开了椰果，黑暗将会永远笼罩着大地。三个仆人都答应不打开椰果。在返程途中，他们听到椰果中发出阵阵奇怪的声响。好奇心使他们迫不及待地打开了这颗果子。椰果一打开，顿时漆黑一片。人们什么也看不到。在那遥远的村庄，女巫的女儿告诉丈夫三个仆人已经打开了那椰果。在黑暗中人们将怎么生存呢？ 幸好妻子有解决的办法。她剪下了自己的一缕头发，把天空划成两半。顷刻间黎明来临了。从此便有了白天和黑夜。 三个愚蠢的仆人试图为自己的行为辩解，但是巳经没用了。女巫的女儿把他们变成了三只猴子。 The Creation of the Night When the earth was very young, the night and the an- imals didn’t exist. There were only trees, plants and people. During this time, the sun shone very brightly. The people were always very tired because they didn’t sleep well. The trees were faded because of the hot weather. Only the Big Snake who was a witch could make the night appear. She kept night on the bottom of the river， inside a coconut. The witch enjoyed seeing the people very tired and a- sleep. The Indians begged her to give them night，hut it was useless. One day，the snake’s beautiful Indian daughter married. Like her mother, she didn’t need the night to rest. But her husband and the other people of the village were always tired. She didn’t like to see them suffer. So she told her husband that she would ask her mother to give her the night. Her mother never refused her requests. Her husband sent three faithful servants to take the night from the witch. The witch didn't like the idea about giving them night, but she couldn’t refuse her daughter s request. She gave them the coconut with the night inside and told them that only her daughter might open it. If another person opened the coconut，the darkness would cover the earth forever. The servants agreed. During their return they heard strange noises from inside the coconut. They became very curious and could wait no longer and opened the coconut. When they did it, all became very dark. No one could see anything. Far away at the village，the witch’s daughter told her husband that his three servants had opened the coconut. How could the people live in the dark? But his wife had powers and thought of a solution. She took a string of her hair and cut the sky with it. Soon the dawn appeared. Now there would be both day and night. The three foolish servants tried to explain what they had done but it was useless. The witch s daughter turned them into three monkeys. 中英文例句 1. Prepare the night before. 在前一天晚上做好准备。 2. Gunfire pierced the night quiet. 炮火声打破了夜晚的安宁。 3. The night was bitterly cold. 那是个极其寒冷的夜晚。 4. Choose them the night before. 在前一晚进行选择。 5. But what happens after that night? 但过了这晚之后呢？ |
