傳說故事絲綢的故事-The Story of Silk
絲綢的故事
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①絲綢的故事很逗人。大約在4000年前中國人發現了蠶繭（cocoon）的秘密，但是沒有人確切知道這一重大發現的時間和由來。
②有一種說法是，一位年輕的公主在花園一邊喝茶一邊看著蠶（silkworm） 作繭。意外地有一個繭子掉進她的茶水里，熱水把繭子給軟化了。
③公主要將繭子從茶水中取出來時，繭子散開了，她抽出來一根長長的絲線。
④中國人學會了把絲線織成絲綢的技術。之后的兩千年當中，中國人是惟一知道如何制作絲綢的民族。中國商人把絲綢銷往整個亞洲和歐洲。絲綢曾經很昂貴，人們把它稱為“國王的布”。
⑤人們都想學習做絲綢，但中國人一直在保守秘密。最終秘密還是被人偷去了。
⑥六世紀時，有兩個修道士得知蠶繭的情況后在中國住了數年，最后找到一種把蠶卵帶出中國的辦法。
⑦這兩個修道士手里總拿著竹杖。有一天他們把一些蠶卵藏在竹杖的空心里帶出了中國。
⑧據說世界各國絲綢業的發展就來自那幾只蠶卵。
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The Story of Silk
明華
The story of silk is a funny one.
About 4,000 years ago the Chinese discovered the secret of the cocoon. No one knows exactly how or when this important discovery was made. One story says that a young princess was drinking tea in her garden and watching silkworms spin cocoons. By chance one dropped into her tea and the hot tea made it soft. When the girl tried to take the cocoon out of her tea, it became separated and she pulled out a long silk thread.
The Chinese learned to weave the silk thread into cloth. For 2,000 years they were the only people who knew how to make silk. The Chinese merchants sold silk cloth throughout Asia and Europe and became rich.Silk was so expensive that it was called “the cloth of kings” .
Everyone wanted to learn how to make silk, but the Chinese kept the secret carefully guarded①.
Finally the secret was stolen. In the sixth century, two monks learned about the silkworms and their cocoons. They spent several years in China and finaly found a way to take some silkworm eggs out of the country. The monks always carried bamboo canes②. One day they hid some eggs in the hollow canes, and walked out of China with them. It is said that the development of the silk industry in other countries came from those few eggs which the monks had carried out of China.
【詞語解釋】
①kept the secret carefully guarded 嚴守秘密
②bamboo canes 竹手杖
【寫法指要】
這是一篇科技故事，講的是絲綢的發現和發展的事。全文可分三部分：第一部分說的是某公主偶然發現蠶絲；第二部分是把絲織成絲綢銷往各國；第三部分講兩個外國修道士如何臥薪嘗膽，想方設法盜竊蠶卵并帶出中國。這只是一則流傳的故事，但是不管這項技術是如何外傳的，正如文章最后所言，世界絲綢工業的發展源自古老文明的中國。
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