自考英语综合一上册 lesson 2

　　[00:00.00]Text  ans Christian 1 Andersen's Own Fairy Tale(1)

[00:05.98]Once upon a time there was a poor boy who lived in Denmark.

[00:11.34]His father,a shoemaker,had died,and his mother had married again.

[00:18.31]One day the boy went to ask a favor 2 of the Prince of Denmark.

[00:23.88]When the Prince asked him what he wanted,the boy said,

[00:28.73]"I want to write plays in poetry and to act at the Royal Theater."

[00:34.80]The Prince looked at the boy,at his big hands and feet,

[00:40.25]at his big nose and large serious eyes,and gave a sensible 3 answer.

[00:47.33]"It is one thing to act in plays,another to write them.

[00:53.19]I tell you this for your own good;learn a useful trade like shoemaking."

[01:00.32]So the boy,who was not sensible at all,went home.

[01:06.19]There he took what little money he had,

[01:10.16]said good-bye to his mother and his stepfather

[01:15.02]and started out to seek his fortune.

[01:19.07]He was sure that some day the same Hans Christian Andersen

[01:24.74]would be known 4 all over Denmark.

[01:28.58]To believe such a story one would have to believe in fairy tales!

[01:34.46]Hans Christian knew many such tales.

[01:38.51]He had heard some of them from his father,who had worked hard at his trade,

[01:44.44]but liked to read better than to make shoes.

[01:49.11]In the evenings,he had read aloud from The Arabian Nights.

[01:54.57]His wife understood very little of the book,

[01:58.65]but the boy,pretending to sleep,understood every word.

[02:04.89]By day,Hans Christian went to a house where did women worked as weavers 5.

[02:11.74]There he listened to the tales that the women told

[02:16.70]as they worked at their weaving 6.

[02:20.36]In those days,there were almost as many tales in Denmark

[02:26.91]as there were people to tell them.

[02:30.44]Among the tales told in the town of Odense,where Andersen was born in 1805,

[02:37.57]was one about a fairy who brought death to those who denced with her.

[02:43.63]To this tale,Hans Christian later added 7 a story from his own life.

[02:49.56]Once,when his father was still alive,a young lady ordered a pair of red shoes.

[02:57.21]When she refused to pay for them,unhappiness filled the poor shoemaker's house.

[03:03.98]From that small tragedy 8 and the story of the dancing fairy,

[03:09.65]the shoemaker's son years later wrote the story that millions of people

[03:15.58]now know as The Red Shoes.

[03:19.52]The genius of Andersen is that he put so much of everyday life

[03:25.40]into the wonder of his fairy tales.

[03:29.06]When Hans Christian's mother was a little girl,

[03:33.50]she was sent out on the streets to beg.

[03:37.26]She did not want to beg,so she sat out of sight under one of the city bridges.

[03:44.24]She warmed her cold feet in her hands,for she had no shoes.

[03:50.30]She was afraid to go home.Years later,her son,in his pity for her

[03:57.84]and his anger at the world,wrote the angry story

[04:03.10]She's No Good and the famous tale The Little Match Girl.

[04:09.26]Through his genius,he changed every early experience,

[04:14.85]even his father's death,into a fairy tale.

[04:19.50]One cold day the boy had stood looking at the white patterns

[04:24.57]formed on the window by the frost 9.

[04:28.33]His father showed him a white,woman-like figure among the frost patterns.

[04:34.39]That is the Snow Queen,"said the shoemaker.

[04:39.25]"Soon she will be coming for me."A few months later he was dead.

[04:45.20]And years later,Andersen turned that sad experience into a fairy tale,

[04:51.55]The Snow Queen.

[04:54.43]After the Prince told him to learn a trade,Hans Christian went to Copenhagen.

[05:00.90]He was just fourteen years old at the time.

[05:05.27]When he arrived in the city,

[05:08.74]he went to see as many important people as he could find

[05:13.89]dancers,writers and theater people of Copenhagen.

[05:19.66]But none of them lent a helping 10 hand to the boy with the big hands,

[05:25.02]the big feet and the big nose.Finally,he had just seven pennies 11 left.

[05:32.88]The boy had a beautiful high,clear voice.

　　[05:37.53]One day a music teacher heard him singing and decided 12 to help him.

[05:42.70]He collected money from his friends and gave it to the boy

[05:47.98]so that he could buy food and clothing while he studied singing.

[05:53.31]Hans Christian was happier than he had ever been in his life.

[05:58.87]But soon his boy's voice broke.

[06:03.23]The beautiful high voice was gone forever.

[06:07.49]The boy soon found new friends who admired his genius.

[06:12.53]There was even a princess who gave him a little money from time to time

[06:17.99]for food and clothes.

[06:21.26]But Hans Christian bought little food and no clothes.