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The Little Match-Girl ATXul0 cf0 It was dre adfully cold; it was snowing fast, and almost dark; the evening- the last evening of the old year- was drawing in. But, cold and dark as it was, a poor little girl, with bare head and feet, was still wandering about the streets. When she left her home she had slippers on, but they were much too large for her- indeed, properly, they belonged to her mother- and had dropped off her feet while she was running very fast across the road, to get out of th e way of two carriages. One of the slippers was not to be found; the other had been snatched up by a little boy, who ran off with it, thinking it might serve him as a doll's cradle. So the little girl now walked on, her bare feet red and blue with the cold. She carried a small bundle of matches in her hand, and a good many more in her tattered apron. No one had bought any of them the livelong day- no one had given her a single penny. Trembling with cold and hunger crept she on, the picture of sorrow- poor little child! The snow-flakes fell on her long fair hair, which curled in such pretty ringlets over her shoulders; but she did not think of her own beauty, or of the cold. Lights were glimmering through every window, and the savour of roast goose reached her from several houses; it was New Year's Eve, and it was of this that she t hought. | 卖火柴的小女孩。 天气非常寒冷，雪也下得非常大，天色几乎全暗了下来，旧的一年的最后一夜即将来临。 虽然天又黑又冷，但是在这个时候仍有一个可怜的小女孩，没有戴帽子，也没有穿鞋子，还流落在街头徘徊。 她从家里出来时原本有穿鞋子的，但那是她妈妈的鞋子，对她来说实在太大了。她为了躲避两辆马车而急速地穿过马路时，鞋子便从脚上脱落了！ 其中一只遗失没有找到，另外一只则被一个小男孩抢走──他拿着鞋子就跑掉了，心想这只鞋可以当洋娃娃的摇篮。 所以，现在小女孩只得赤脚继续走着，双脚已被冻得红肿发紫。 她手中握着一把火柴；而她的破围巾，里也还有好多火柴。 在漫长的一天当中，没有任何人向她买火柴，也没有人给她一个钱币。 她又冷又饿，瑟缩着身体，继续向前走，这个画面真让人觉得悲哀──可怜的小孩子！ 雪花洒落在她美丽的长发上，她的秀发披散在肩膀上且鬈曲得很漂亮，但是她丝毫没去想自己的美丽或天气的寒冷。 因为透过每个窗子可以看见灯火通明，还可以闻到烤鹅的味道，现在正是除夕夜呢！她心里想的也是这件事。 |
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