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有没有简单的英语短文,大概1分半的时间
有没有简单的英语短文,大概1分半的时间
The Princess and the Pea
Once upon a time there was a prince
who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real
princess.He travelled all over the world to find one,but nowhere
could he get what he wanted.There were princesses enough,but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones.There was always something about them that was not as it should be.So he came home again and was sad,for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and
lightning,and the rain poured down in torrents.Suddenly a knocking
was heard at the city gate,and the old king went to open it.It was
a princess standing out there in front of the gate.But,good
gracious!what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look.The
water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels.And yet she said that she was a real princess.Well,we'll soon find that out,thought the old queen.But she said nothing,went into the bed-room,took all the bedding off the bedstead,and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea,and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.On this the princess had to lie all night.In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
"Oh,very badly!" said she."I have scarcely closed my eyes all
night.Heaven only knows what was in the bed,but I was lying on something hard,so that I am black and blue all over my body.It's horrible!" Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.