初學者愛上英語童話故事02：回聲和那喀索斯（中英）
Echo and Narcissus
回聲和那喀索斯
Narcissus was a handsome youth. His lovely face and graceful form were the admiration of all who looked upon him. And he knew it. He was proud that he thought no one but himself was worthy to see his youthful beauty. Thus given up to sweet thoughts of self, Narcissus avoided all company. He roamed the wooded little valleys every day,madly in love with himself.
那喀索斯是位英俊的青年，面容可愛，體形優美，每個見到他的人都羨慕不已。他驕傲地認為，除了自己之外，沒有人配欣賞他那充滿青春氣息的美貌。因而，他沉溺于甜美的自我欣賞之中，遠離所有人。每天他在蒼翠蓊郁的小山谷中閑逛，瘋狂地愛著自己。
When he was delightfully wandering through the woods one day, a wood fairy maiden, Echo by name, caught sight of him. She was excited at once. Joyfully coming down towards Narcissus, she stretched out her loving arms. To her dismay, however, the young man roughly brushed her aside and went by without so much as a glance at her. The poor fairy maiden's face turned red and quickly withdrew to a shady spot, following the object of her love with her longing eyes.
一天，那喀索斯在樹林中愉快地游蕩。一位名叫回聲的林中仙女看見了他，她立刻興奮不已。她高興地走向那喀索斯，伸出愛的雙臂。然而，令她吃驚的是，這位青年粗暴地將她推開，連看都不看她一眼就走開了。可憐的仙女羞紅了臉，迅速退到遮陰處，含情脈脈地凝望著心上人。
Presently Narcissus stopped to drink from a little stream. Kneeling down on the bank,he saw a lovely face in the clear water. His heart gave a beat. lie smiled and was smiled back to. Thinking that it must be a maiden in love with him, he bent down to kiss her. But as soon as he touched the clear surface the lovely face disappeared. The angry youth was
now desperate. Never had he been looked down upon like that before. Day and night,he stayed at the stream without drinking and eating. Before long he died, never suspecting that his maiden was just his own image in the stream. The gods took pity on the fair dead body and turned it into a flower bearing his name. This flower was the first narcissus. All the flowers of this family, when they grow by the side of a pond or a stream, still bend their beautiful heads and look at the reflection of their ovm faces in the water.
不久，那喀索斯在一條小溪邊停下飲水。當他跪在岸邊時，他發現清澈的溪水中有一張可愛的面龐。他的心撲通跳著，他對著水中的人微笑，水中人也給了他一個微笑。他認為，一定是一位仙女愛上了他。于是，他俯下身子去吻她。但是，當他的嘴唇一接觸清澈的溪水，水中可愛的面容就消失了。這位惱怒的青年人此時變得絕望了，他從未受過如此的鄙視。他日夜待在溪邊，不吃不喝，不久就死了，但他從未懷疑過水中的女子只是自已的影子罷了。眾神非常憐憫他那優美的軀體，將之變成了一朵花，和青年同名，這朵花就是第一朵水仙花，當它們生長在池塘或溪流旁時，仍然低下它們美麗的頭看著水里自已的影子。
The intoxicated Echo saw all this. Slowly she became weak, until at last nothing remained of her except her voice.
那位陶醉于愛河的回聲親眼日睹了這一切她日斬憔悴，最后，除了聲音之外，她化為了烏有。
課堂筆記：
1."Narcissus”在這個神話中為人名，該詞在英語中又有“水仙花”的含義。因為這個故事，"Narcissus”成為“孤芳自賞者’.“自我陶醉者”的代名詞。
2."so much as”與“as much as”意思相同，前者常用于否定句中。此處的“without so much as a glance at her”表示“連看都不看她一眼”搭配“without so much as/with no so much as”表示“甚至連……都沒……”。
3."as soon as”用作連詞，表示“一……就……”，在句子中的位置比較靈活，而且可以用于各種時態。
4.英語中的否定副詞(如“never, rarely, seldom, barely, scarcely”等)或具有否定作用的副詞(如“little, on no account, by no means”等)置于句首時，句子部分倒裝。
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