《格林童话（英文版）》书评

小时候的人生观

不知道自己有没有长大到可以重新看童话的年岁。因为童话镇要回归了在学校图书馆借了老版的格林童话。好多名字都和现在的不一样比如灰姑娘不叫Cinderella而是Ashputtel. 而且kid和ass也有新用法。she gave me a kid着实吓了我一跳。令我印象深刻的是中西价值观。格林童话里有很多故事我觉得有些问题。比如Rumplestiltskin，既然Rumple帮助磨坊主的女儿将稻草纺成了金子，他理所应当收取报酬。前两次磨坊主的女儿用戒指和项链来偿还，第三次Rumple提出要她的孩子，她不想给，大可以拒绝。买卖就是讨价还价嘛。但是她答应了。既然答应就应该言出必行，生完孩子她又后悔了。等于Rumple白白帮她度过劫难，自己什么都没拿到，还被大家嘲笑。长大后看童话果然有耳目一新的感觉。

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9　The Pack of Ragamuffins　　he cock once said to the hen, "It is now the time when our nuts are ripe, so let us go to the hill together and for once eat our fill before the squirrel takes them all away." "Yes," replied the en, "come, we will have some pleasure together." Then they went away to the hill, and on it was a bright day they stayed till evening.Now I do not know whether it was that they had eaten till they were too fat, or whether they had become proud, but they would not go home on foot, and the cock had to build a little carriage of nut-shells.When it was ready, the little hen seated herself in it and said to the cock, "You can just harness yourself to it." "I like that!" said the cock,"I would rather go home on foot than let myself be harnessed to it;no, that is not our bargain. I do not mind being coachman and sitting on the box, but drag it myself I will not."　As they were thus disputing, a duck quacked to them, "You thievingfolks, who bade you go to my nut-hill? Well, you shall suffer for it!"and ran with open beak at the cock. But the cock also was not idle, and fell boldly on the duck, and at last wounded her so with his spurs that she also begged for mercy, and willingly let herself be harnessed to the carriage as a punishment. The little cock now seated himself on the box and was coachman, and thereupon they went off in a gallop,with the cock crying, "Duck, go as fast as you can." When they had driven a part of the way they met two foot-passengers, a pin and aneedle. They cried, "Stop! stop!" and said that it would soon be as dark as pitch, and then they could not go a step further, and that it was so dirty on the road, and asked if. they could not get into the carriage for a while. They had been at the tailor's public-house by the gate, and had stayed too long over the beer. As they were thin people, who did no take up much room, the cock let them both get in, but they had to promise him and his little hen not to step on their feet.　　……