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"Grandmother!" exclaimed the child. "Oh, take me with you: I know thou wil t leave me as soon as the match goes out; thou wilt vanish like the warm fire in the stove, like the splendid New Year's feast, like the beautiful large Christmas-tree;" and she hastily lighted all the remaining matches in the bundle, lest her grandmothe r should disappear. And the matches burned with such a blaze of splendour, that noonday could scarcely have been brighter. Never had the good old grandmother looked so tall and stately, so beautif ul and kind; she took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew together. Joyfully and gloriously they flew higher and higher, till they were in that place where neither cold, nor hunger, nor pain is ever known. They were in Paradise. But in the cold morning hour, crouching in the corner of the wall, the poor little girl was found- her cheeks glowing, her lips smiling- frozen to death on the last night of the Old Year. The New Year's sun shone on the lifeless child; motionless she sat there with the matches in her lap, one bundle of them quite burned out. "She has been trying to warm herself, poor thing!" the people s aid; but no one knew of the sweet visions she beheld, or how gloriously she and her grandmother were celebrating their New Year's festival. | 「奶奶！」小女孩喊道。 「让我跟着你吧！我知道火柴一旦熄灭了，你就要离开了！你会像温暖的炉火、除夕的盛宴，以及高大而美丽的圣诞树一样不见了。」她急忙点亮手中剩下的一束火柴棒，以免祖母不见了。 火柴燃烧得明亮辉煌，即使是日正当中时也都不曾这么光亮。 祖母也从来不曾像现在这样看起来好庄严、高大，并且特别地美丽亲切。祖母把小女孩拥到怀里，一起飞向天上。 她们兴高采烈地愈飞愈高，一直飞到那个没有饥饿、没有寒冷、无忧无虑的地方──。 他们到天堂去了。 第二天清晨，人们发现可怜的小女孩瑟缩着身子蹲在墙角，她的脸颊红光焕发，嘴角扬着微笑，在寒冷的除夕夜晚就这样冻死了。 新年的阳光照着这死去孩子的身躯，她动也不动地坐在那里，脚的周围散放着许多火柴，其中一把已经烧过了。 「可怜的孩子！她想用火柴取暖。」人们说着。然而没有人知道她所见过的美景，也没人知道她和她的祖母是如何快乐地庆祝新年。 |
- vanish [´væniʃ]
vi.消失；消散；消灭 (初中英语单词) - hastily [´heistili] ad.急速地；草率地 (初中英语单词)
- bundle [´bʌndl] n.包，捆；包袱(裹) (初中英语单词)
- grandmother [´græn,mʌðə] n.(外)祖母 (初中英语单词)
- hunger [´hʌŋgə] n.饥饿；渴望 (初中英语单词)
- frozen [´frəuzn] freeze 的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
- beheld [bi´held] behold的过去式(分词) (初中英语单词)
- stately [´steitli] a.庄严的，雄伟的 (高中英语单词)
- motionless [´məuʃənləs] a.静止的；固定的 (高中英语单词)
- noonday [´nu:ndei] n.正午 (英语四级单词)
- joyfully [´dʒɔifuli] ad.高兴地，快乐地 (英语四级单词)
- lifeless [´laifləs] a.无生命的，无生气的 (英语四级单词)
- trying [´traiiŋ] a.难堪的；费劲的 (英语四级单词)
- gloriously [´glɔ:riəsli] ad.光荣地，辉煌地 (英语六级单词)
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