海的女儿原版英文

Far out in the sea the water is very, very blue. You can see through it like glass. Far down in the water there are beautiful trees and plants. These trees and plants are so far from the top of the water that no one can see them. Fishes go in and out of the trees just like birds. This is the place where the Sea Kings city is. The Sea Kings wife died many years before, so his old mother looked after him. She loved the Sea Kings six children very much, and they loved their grandmother, too. These six children were beautiful princesses. The youngest princess was the most beautiful: her eyes were as blue as the sea and her body was white like a rose. But, like all her sisters, she had no feet. The top of her body was like a girls body; and the rest of her body was like the body of a fish. The six princesses often played all day in the big rooms inside the Sea Kings house. Beautiful flowers grew out of the walls on all sides of them. When the windows were opened, fishes would go into the rooms just like birds come into our rooms. But the fishes were braver than birds They went up to the little princesses to eat food from their hands. In front of the Sea Kings house there was a large garden full of red plants and blue plants. The flowers of these plants were like the burning sun. There was a blue light over the garden; you would think that you were up in the sky — not down in the sea. Each of the little princesses had her own little garden inside the large garden. They could plant the flowers, which they themselves liked the most. The youngest princess planted red flowers in the garden, and she planted a red tree near the flowers. She was not at all like her sisters. The little princess loved to hear about people who were not the same as she was. These people have feet and did not live in the sea: they lived on land. She made her grandmother tell her everything she knew about ships, cities, and men. She was very pleased when she heard that the flowers on land had a lovely smell: the flowers in the sea had no smell at all. She was very pleased, too, when she heard that the small fishes in the sky could sing. The old lady was speaking about birds, but she called them fishes because the little princesses did not know about birds. "When you are fifteen years old, you can go to the top of the sea, " their grandmother said. "You will then sit at night and see the ships go by. And you will know about cities and men. " The next year the oldest of the sisters would be fifteen. She was very happy, but the other sisters were unhappy. They could not go to the top of the sea. The oldest sister said that she would tell them about everything that she saw. But none of the sisters wanted to go so much as the youngest sister wanted to go. On many nights she stood by the open window, looking up through the blue water. She could see the sun and it looked very big to her. If a ship went by up there, above her, she thought that it must be a very big fish. The day now came when the oldest of the princess was fifteen and could go to the top of the sea.

《海的女儿》英语故事：

In order to pursue the noble and immortal soul of a person, the sea Princess Mermaid abandons the free life of the seabed and the life of 300 years, abandons the beautiful singing voice in the hands of the vicious witch, endures the great pain brought by turning the fish tail into human leg, and uses her love, her heart and her young life.

To pursue the soul of the eternal and noble person, and to share all eternal happiness through "good work". The writer eulogizes the mermaid's pursuit of love, soul and ideal, and shows her good and pure character, strong perseverance and sacrifice spirit.

《海的女儿》中文故事：

该作讲述海公主小人鱼为了追求到一个人的高洁的不死的灵魂，放弃了海底自由自在的生活和300年长寿的生命，把美妙的歌喉丢弃在恶毒的巫婆手里，忍受住把鱼尾变成人腿后所带来的巨大痛苦，用她的爱、她的心和她年轻的生命。

去追求那永生而崇高的人的灵魂，并通过“善良的工作”去分享人的一切永恒的幸福。作家讴歌了小人鱼对爱情、灵魂、理想的追求，表现了她的善良纯洁的品格、坚强的毅力和牺牲精神。

扩展资料：

海的女儿创作背景：

一次，安徒生想起自己过去一段失败的爱情经历，想起《亚格涅格》这部小说的女主人公的遭遇，她在龙宫里度过了多年，后来扔下丈夫龙王和6个幼女，回到了人间。她的几个女儿怎样呢？

安徒生的脑海里又浮现出一个个画面。6个小人鱼由祖母教养，正在成长中，6个小人鱼都那么美丽，而那个最小的是最美丽的。她的皮肤又光又嫩，像玫瑰的花瓣，她的眼睛是蔚蓝色的，像晶莹的湖水。她把自己的花坛布置成圆形，像一轮太阳似的。她最愉快的事情是听人讲人世间的故事，对此她充满了美好的幻想。

于是，安徒生写信给伊艾达·伍尔芙，她很欣赏他的构思。童话可以像小说一样描绘森林、河流、海洋、天上、地下的种种侧面和场景。表现现实的、幻想的各种人物的心态和变化，情节可以灵活安排，把写长篇小说的题材写成一篇童话，那韵味一定会很浓。

于是，安徒生不再犹豫，提起笔来，一气呵成，写成了一篇题为《海的女儿》的童话。

参考资料来源：百度百科—海的女儿