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1 英汉委婉语中体现的文化异同
2 浅谈《旧约》中女性的形象和地位
3 《老人与海》和《白鲸》的个人主义比较
4 对《老人与海》中突显的生态意识的探讨
5 以《喜福会》中的母女关系为例试析跨文化交际中的“失语”现象
6 浅谈《认真的重要性》里现实主义和唯美主义的冲突
7 Olympic Economy
8 从电影片名翻译窥探中美文化差异
9 从《竞选州长》看马克.吐温的幽默艺术
10 中餐菜谱翻译的错误分析
11 不同国家的商务谈判风格及其对策
12 英汉恭维语语用对比研究
13 浅析《爱玛》中女主人公的女性意识
14 中西面子观的比较研究
15 On Dual Personality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the Perspective of Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
16 《红楼梦》两英译版本中姓名翻译的对比研究
17 网络语言风格的性别差异
18 从礼貌原则分析美国总统就职演说辞的语用特色
19 跨文化广告传播中的语用失误研究
20 The Features of Classic-literature-based Movies Showed in Pride and Prejudice
21 论凯特肖班《觉醒》中的超验思想
22 体育专有名词的翻译研究
23 浅析远大前程中皮普转向成熟的过程
24 从《儿子与情人》谈家庭失和与失衡
25 情感范畴在转喻中的认知体现
26 The Study of English Film Title Translation Methods and Some Requirements to the Translators
27 试析《哈克贝利费恩历险记》中主人公冲破种族主义桎梏追求自由的精神
28 群体隐私和个体隐私——中美家庭中隐私观念的对比研究
29 浅析电视口译的特点及其译文质量评价
30 国际商务中的跨文化沟通
31 合作原则在电影《暮光之城》人物心理分析中的应用
32 对《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻观重新解读
33 美狄亚的女性主义分析
34 An Analysis of Catherine in A Farewell to Arms
35 活动教学法在农村初中英语教学中的应用——以新安中学为例
36 英汉基本颜色词的文化内涵对比及其翻译
37 网络环境下英语专业学生学习策略研究
38 中国与日本茶文化的比较
39 旅游资料翻译中文化因素的处理
40 模糊语在国际商务谈判中的语用功能研究
英语专业全英原创毕业论文，是近期写作，公布的题目可以用于免费参考（贡献者ID 有提示） 41 Application of Foregrounding Theory to Translation of Simile and Metaphor
42 女性形象下的女权主义思想——浅析汤亭亭小说《女勇士》
43 商务英语翻译中的隐喻研究
44 中式英语的潜在价值
45 中西谚语的文化比较研究
46 从文化角度对比中美两国谈判风格
47 The Tragic Fate of Tess
48 海明威“冰山原理”在《永别了，武器》中的应用及对写作的指导意义
49 The Analysis of Surreal Symbolism in Shelley’s Poetry
50 On the Translation of Communicative Rhetoric in Literature—Analysis of the two Chinese versions of Jane Eyre
51 汉语政治话语中的隐喻研究
52 Characteristics of Interpretation and Roles of Interpreters
53 爱伦坡侦探小说中恐怖气氛的营造方法
54 广告英语中委婉语的语言特征研究
55 英语课堂中的口语纠错策略
56 海明威作品中女性意识的研究
57 《游泳者》中的艺术特色
58 浅谈英语教学中的”合作学习法”
59 重新诠释玛格丽特的人生悲剧根源
60 从写作方法分析《宠儿》的主题
61 《达芬奇密码》中的女性主义
62 英文征婚广告和中文征婚广告所体现的文化差异
63 论《第二十二条军规》的写作手法
64 A Study on Intercultural Communication of American TV Series
65 A Comparative Study on Chinese and American Education
66 从大学校训看中西方大学文化差异
67 浅谈高中英语教师课堂提问与课堂互动
68 外语学习中的个体差异
69 中西方茶文化映衬的文化差异
70 论《织工马南》中的象征意义
71 英语中的性别歧视
72 中英爱情隐喻的对比研究
73 《乱世佳人》中的清教主义思想解析
74 《儿子与情人》恋母情结分析
75 论欧.亨利的写作风格
76 命运与社会的牺牲品—苔丝的悲剧根源探析
77 威廉.福克纳《喧哗与骚动》中的现代主义
78 从翻译角度浅析英语写作中的中式英语问题
79 Cultural Issues in Interpreting
80 理性主义与理想主义的结合——从“灰姑娘情结”看简奥斯汀的作品
81 顺应论视角下的电影片名翻译（开题报告+论）
82 The Pursuit of Freedom and Love in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View
83 从意象看《喜福会》的主题
英语专业全英原创毕业论文，是近期写作，公布的题目可以用于免费参考（贡献者ID 有提示） 84 探析《奥赛罗》的三大悲剧起因
85 中西方酒店文化比较与探讨
86 Angel and Devil：A Comparison Between The Two Heroes In Tess of the D’Urbervilles 87 分析《野性的呼唤》的生存原则—从美国自然主义观的视角
88 《儿子与情人》中女性形象的圣经原型解读
89 英语委婉语的语用分析
90 浅谈公示语的翻译
91 简爱性格研究
92 埃德加.爱伦.坡恐怖小说的哥特式特征分析
93 中美婚姻价值观对比
94 浅析《呼啸山庄》希斯克利夫人物形象及其悲剧意义
95 论《红字》中的象征
96 A Comparison between Jane Eyre and Elizabeth—Two Female characters in Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice
97 接受美学指导下的电影字幕翻译——以《冰河世纪II》为例
98 交际教学法在初中口语教学中的应用
99 中文标语翻译的语用学视角
100 国际商务谈判及其谈判风格
101 论《兔子，跑吧》中兔子逃跑的原因
102 英语电影片名的翻译策略与方法
103
104 浅析《最蓝的眼睛》中主流审美观对美国黑人的影响
105 从《京华烟云》探析林语堂的女性观
106 《夜色温柔》中主人公迪克人格分析
107 浅析英语颜色词的语义特征
108 论英语专业八级口语测试的内容效度
109 简.奥斯汀《诺桑觉寺》中人物对爱情和婚姻的不同态度
110 On the Chinese Loanwords from English
111 论中美两国的现代中年女性观念之差——以美剧《欲望都市》为例
112 大学生上网调查
113 美国拓荒运动中的新女性形象－－读威拉凯瑟《我的安东妮娅》
114 英语谚语重复修辞格的翻译
115 英汉文化差异对英语俚语汉译的影响
116 教师对学生英语学习动机的作用及相对应的培养策略
117 论合作语言学习在英语精读课上的应用
118 英文商业广告的语言特点
119 《愤怒的葡萄》里人性的光辉
120 国际贸易中付款方式的比较分析及发展趋势
121 浅谈古希腊罗马神话对《哈利波特》系列小说(前四部)的影响
122 第二语言习得中语用迁移现象的分析
123 比较《百万英镑》和《阿Q正传》
124 A Comparative Study of the Auspicious Culture in Wedding Custom between China and the West
125 六种颜色词语的英汉互译探索
英语专业全英原创毕业论文，是近期写作，公布的题目可以用于免费参考（贡献者ID 有提示） 126 浅析《远大前程》中皮普的个人抱负与自我完善
127 软文中的隐喻研究
128 浅析合作原则在汉英广告语翻译中的运用
129 索尔贝娄《挂起来的人》的存在主义解读
130 An Analysis of Conflict Images in Invisible Man
131 从童话看中西方儿童教育的差异
132 中国和英国传统婚俗差异研究
133 商标翻译的本土化研究
134 《老人与海》中的系列意象探究
135 A Study of Cultural Differences Reflected in Chinese and English Proverbs
136 论劳伦斯《儿子与情人》中的“爱”
137 浅析《老人与海》中的悲剧色彩
138 英文电影对英语专业学生词汇附带习得的影响
139 与身体器官有关的中英文习语对比研究
140 《林湖重游》中的静态美分析
141 解析《宠儿》的象征意义
142 互动在高中英语阅读课的应用
143 从苔丝的悲剧到托马斯.哈代的宿命论
144 中学英语教育中的情感教育
145 从《洛丽塔》看美国世纪中期的消费文化
146 英汉语言中颜色隐喻的认知差异研究
147 中英文数字文化对比及其翻译
148 Analysis on Heathcliff's Personality in Wuthering Heights
149 A Study of Pragmatic Failure in Politeness between Chinese and English
150 从文化角度看品牌名称翻译
151 双关语在日常生活中的应用
152 《简爱》中罗切斯特性格与命运研究
153 “红”的中英对比及其翻译
154 浅析唐诗翻译的难点和策略（开题报告+论）
155 An Analysis of Cultural Differences between China and English-Speaking Countries through Idioms
156 《小妇人》中教养方式的分析
157 华裔美国文学中的幽灵叙事探析
158 论中西方时间观念差异对日常生活的影响
159 英汉称谓的文化差异研究
160 从生态批评的视角看《远离尘嚣》的生态悖论
161 A Comparison of Chinese and Western Taboos of Social Communication
162 英汉习语文化差异浅析
163 英汉恭维语及其应答对比研究
164 英语新闻标题的汉译方法——以英国《金融时报》中文网为例
165 论英语文学教学中的影视欣赏
166 《奥罗拉.李》中的女性形象解读
167 麦当劳成功之道
168 论《野性的呼唤》中的自然主义
英语专业全英原创毕业论文，是近期写作，公布的题目可以用于免费参考（贡献者ID 有提示） 169 Translation of Gududeqiu from the Perspective of Qian Zhongshu’s Realm of Sublimation 170 论哥特式手法在《呼啸山庄》中的应用
171 论《傲慢与偏见》中的女性意识
172 从涉外婚姻分析中西方文化差异
173 文化差异对中美商务谈判的影响
174 试论盖茨比对其梦想生活的追求
175 从西方讽刺剧看品特的威胁喜剧
176 海明威小说硬汉形象的悲剧色彩
177 从弗洛伊德解读《好人难寻》
178 以迪士尼为例分析美国文化在全球扩展这一趋势对其本身影响
179 中美幼儿教育对比研究
180 中西方礼貌用语对比分析
181 从原型批评理论来看<<哈利波特>>系列小说中的人物原型
182 浅析《飘》中斯嘉丽的三次婚姻
183 从服饰看中西方文化差异与融合
184 聊天室中网络英语缩略词浅析
185 从心理学角度谈中国学生英语学习中典型语法错误的产生原因及其应对策略 186 论《海上扁舟》中的美国自然主义
187 Sexism in English and Its Causes
188 中西方鬼怪比较研究
189 “本我，自我，超我”—《飘》中玫兰妮性格分析
190 美国英语与英国英语在词汇上的差异
191 从《阿甘正传》看个人主义对美国文化的影响
192 浅析阿里巴巴的创新盈利模式
193 归化和异化翻译策略的研究
194 中英习语文化异同及其翻译
195 The Dilemma of Career Woman in The Millstone
196 论男权主义在圣经语言中的体现
197 论商务名片英译——以功能对等为指导
198 商务英语信函中名词化结构的翻译
199 扼杀在萌芽中的期许— “一小时里故事”中的女权渴望
200 中外青年婚姻观念差异——从《柳堡的故事》和《傲慢与偏见》中进行对比
第二篇：100个英语童话文本
000 The Hen and the Little Girl
In a country home, a mother hen and her cute chicks were living happily. A little girl came to visit the country home, but was very bored. One night, the girl went into the chicken house. As soon as she went in, there was disorder.
Here and there cries of the chickens could be heard. The father, who was inside, woke up.
"What's going on? Why are you bothering the chickens?" "Because I'm bored." "You have to sleep now, go inside."
The girl went into the chicken house, again, the next day. There was a racket again, as the chickens were frightened. The moon in the night sky was worried. This time, the little girl's father will not be forgiving.
Finally, the sleeping father woke up. "Why are the chickens crying? By chance" The father was angry and came out to the yard.
"What's wrong with you? Is it okay to bother animals that can't talk? You need to be punished." When the little girl saw her father's angry face, she began to cry.
"It is true that I bothered the chickens, but I was bored yesterday. But today I went in to apologize to the chickens. I was going to hug the chickens."
When the father heard what his daughter said, a smile quickly appeared on his face. "You are truly my daughter." The father praised his daughter. He was proud of his daughter that knew how to apologize. The moon in the sky gave a big laugh, too.
001 The Mermaid Princess
In the deep, sea palace, there lived a mermaid princess. Whenever she sang a song with her beautiful voice, everyone envied her. However, the mermaid princess wanted to go to the outside world.
"I would like to hear the beautiful sound of birds. "The king promised her. "When you turn 15 years old, you can go and see the life above the sea." "Oh, I can't wait!
Finally, it was the mermaid princess' 15th birthday. She went up to the sea. The princess saw a great ship. And she saw a handsome prince standing on the ship. The princess fell in love with him at first sight.
However, as thunder and lightning struck, the ship sank on its side. The prince lost his consciousness and fell deep into the sea. "Oh, no! The prince fell into the water. Let me hurry and save him."
The princess saved the prince and laid him on the sand. The princess took care of him all night. When the prince opened his eyes, the mermaid princess hid from him. She thought he might get scared by her tail. Just then, a princess from a neighbor land came out to see the sea and she saw the prince.
The princess watched from a far the prince who always came out to the sea at night. The princess was very sad. She wanted to become a human so that she could be with the prince.
She asked the witch. "Okay, I will make you into a human, but you must give me your beautiful voice. If the prince marries someone else, you will become a water bubble. You must marry the prince."
On the sand, she drank the medicine that the witch had given her. With the big sudden pain, she turned into a human. Just then, the prince who came out to the sea saw the princess.
The prince took the princess who could not speak, to his palace. Although she could not speak, she was happy to be living near the prince. The prince was going to be married to a princess from a neighbor land.
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voice could not be heard.
At night, the mermaid princess' older sisters came up to the sea. They gave the mermaid princess a knife and said, "If you stab the prince with this knife, you can be a mermaid again. If you don't, you will become a water bubble."
On the night of the wedding, the mermaid princess was going to stab the sleeping prince with the knife. But, she could not kill the loving prince. "It's best that I just turn into a water bubble. "When morning came, the mermaid turned into a water bubble and went up to heaven.
002 The Naked King
Long, long time ago, there lived a very fancy king. The king changed his clothes 12 times a day. He really liked to show off to his subjects. "My clothes are the best in the world."
One day, two tailors planned a trick. "Why don't we teach that stupid and extravagant king a lesson. He doesn't even worry about his starving people." "That's right! He thinks he's the best."
The two men went to see the king. "Oh, the world's most marvelous king! We have brought the most beautiful cloth in the whole world." "However, not everyone is able to see the cloth. Those that tell lies and have bad hearts are not able to see this fine cloth."
After the king heard those words, he became very interested. "Could there really be such a cloth? If I can make clothes out of those cloths, my clothes will be the best in the whole world. Hurry and show me the cloth." The king began to get more and more greedy.
The tailors pretended that the cloth was real, as they showed it to the king. The king and the fine-spoken subjects could not see anything before them. But, none of them could show that they could not see it.
The king and his fine-spoken subjects just looked at each other. Then, the tailor quickly spoke in a arrogant manner. "Well, is there no honest man here? How can you look at this beautiful cloth and not praise it."
Among the subjects, one of them made a flattering comment out loud. "Wow! This is the first time that I have seen such a wonderful cloth." All the subjects tried to be the first to praise the cloth. Then, the king was amazed with the beauty of the cloth, too.
The king gave the money and ordered them to make his clothes. For several days, the tailors pretended to be making the clothes. The king became worried and told one of his subjects to go and see how the clothes was coming along.
The subject could not say how much the clothes had been completed. As hard as he looked, he could not see it. But, he could not say that he was unable to see it. Instead, he pretended to be amazed at how beautiful it was coming along.
A few days later, the tailors came back with the King's clothes. "Here you are, try on this clothes." The king was not able to honestly say that he could not see the clothes. He, too, pretended to look over it.
One man said, "Your majesty, lets go and show off this finest clothes in the world." The subjects all agreed at the same time. "Yes, that is a good idea."
The king walked out to the street very proudly and walked with pride. All the people in the land came out to see the king's new clothes. They were all surprised, though.
Just then, a little girl shouted out, "Our king is naked!" Then everyone said,"He's naked, he's naked!"
The king now realized the truth. However, with only his undergarments on, he still walked in a dignified manner. Even though he was embarrassed, he could not stop walking. Why not? Because he was 2
the king.
003 The Elf of the Rose
There once was a rose bush in full bloom in a big garden. An elf was living in the most beautiful rose in the garden, and she was so small that people could not see her. She had long blond hair to her toes and beautiful wings.
One day, it got dark before she got home. She had been dancing and flying around so she didn't have time to get back to the rose bush. Suddenly, the weather got cold, evening dew started to fall, and a strong wind began to blow. She could not stay in the other flowers because they were all closed up.
"What am I going to do now? It's too cold." She got scared because she had never stayed outside at night. There was a twinkling light from the other side of the garden. "It's too cold, and I am scared. Maybe I should spend tonight there."
The elf flew to a pavilion on the other side of the garden in a hurry. But there were already two people in the pavilion. A beautiful young lady and a handsome man were praying that they would never be apart from each other. They were in love.
"But we must go far away from each other soon." "Your brother is sending me away because he does not like our marriage. Oh my bride, please wait for me until I come back to you!" She sobbed and nodded her head.
She pulled off a rose from the bush which was aside her and kissed it. Then she gave him the rose as a token of her love. At that moment, the rose opened up. The elf went into the rose secretly.
At that moment, a horrible looking man entered the pavillion. He was the brother of the young lady. "What? You want to marry my sister?" He drew his sword and cut the young man and buried him under a linden-tree.
"He is gone forever now, and he will forget my sister. How dare the poor little boy want to marry my sister? It is common to die during a trip, so nobody will suspect me of murdering him." The brother brushed up his clothes and disappeared.
The elf woke up and found she was in the middle of a dark forest. "Oh my! The forest is moving!" But it was not a forest. It was the hair of the young lady's brother. She shivered with fear and anger.
When they got in the house, the young lady from the garden was crying. The man looked at his sister and gave her a chilly smile, and went to bed. "Oh my lover, my dear fiance, please come back safely." She sobbed sadly and fell asleep.
The elf sat down quietly spreading her wings and told the young lady what she saw that day. "What I am trying to say now is not a dream. If you dig under the linden-tree in the garden, you will find your fiance. It is your brother who killed him."
The beautiful young lady woke up. She secretly went out of her room and dug under the linden-tree as the elf had said.
Her lover was lying in the ground, cold dead. She cried out sadly and killed herself right next to her fiance. After some time passed, a flower called, 'Jasmine' came into bloom at the place where the two lovers had died. The Jasmine had big white flowers on the branch and had a sweet smell.
Incidentally, the young lady's brother was walking down the road and he pulled off a branch of the jasmine and put it near his bedside. When night fell, two bees with poison stingers came out of the jasmine flowers and bit the brother's ears and mouth, and then they vanished.
004 The Ugly Duckling
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A mother duck was brooding on her eggs near the margin of a pond. A flock of lovely baby ducks was soon born, making sweet peeping sounds when the eggs were broken. But one egg remained unbroken. "It is strange. Why has this egg not broken?"
The mother duck continued her brooding. At last, the egg was broken and a baby duck was born. However that baby duck was very ugly compared to the other baby ducks.
The mother duck was worried, but still she took the baby ducks near the water and taught them how to swim. The ugly duckling also swam with his brothers and sisters, moving his legs eagerly. "It is lucky though. That baby swims well." Still his brothers pecked at the ugly duckling with their bills.
"How hideous this baby duck is. We don't want to see you. Go to a cat." His brothers gave a very hard time to the poor duckling. "Stop it, don't do that!" The mother duck sighed and said, "Ah! I wish that this baby could live happily at another place."
The baby duck heard what his mother said and dropped tears of sorrow saying, "Mom, I will leave. Good-bye." The ugly duckling left his nest beyond the pond.
When he entered the forest, other birds were frightened by the baby duck and ran away. "Why do they run away? Is it because I am so awful?" The baby duck became sadder and plodded along the field.
Near the water beside the field, two wild ducks were playing around. "Yah, what is that ugly duck? Let's make fun of him." The two wild ducks flew up in the air and threw stones at the baby duck.
"Bang! Bang!" At that time, a hunter shot his gun. The two wild ducks fell down dead to the ground. "Uh? What is this small bird?" The hunter took home the awkward little baby duck along with the two wild ducks.
"Dad, what is this poor-looking bird?" "I took it with me in order to give it to you, my son. It was trembling with fear in the water." The children gave a hard time to the baby duck by pulling its wings and tail.
"That hurts! Ow!" The baby duck spilled a jug of milk while running away from the cruel hands of the children. The dishes on the table were also broken. The angry hunter sent out the baby duck with a flourish of his broomstick. And so the after being cast out from the house of the hunter, the ugly duckling spent a long and cold winter alone.
Finally spring came. The baby duck had a good stretch and flew up in the air vigorously. "Uh! I am flying!"
Upon the lake, a flock of white and pretty swans were playing around while swimming. "They are indeed pretty birds." The baby duck became sad. "Those birds may not like me as I am so ugly."
The baby duck tried to run away from the group of beautiful swans. "Hi! Where are you going? Come and play around with us!" The baby duck approached the swans hesitatingly. At that moment, the baby duck saw his own appearance reflected to the lake. There was one more beautiful swan gliding gracefully across the water.
The ugly duckling who overcame all suffering had finally become a beautiful swan. And so he lived happily ever after.
005 Nightingale
A long time ago in China there lived an emperor. The emperor loved to read books. One day, in the book he was reading, it wrote, "The most beautiful precious treasure is the bird nightingale."
The emperor had never seen or heard of nightingale. "What is nightingale?" No one has ever seen or 4
heard of it.
The emperor was very curious as to what nightingale was. "Bring nightingale to me at once". The servants were worried by the emperor's command. They looked here and there.
One day a little girl said that she knew of nightingale. She said that the bird she had was nightingale. It was a small cute bird. At once nightingale was brought to the emperor.
The emperor was very happy. "Ah ~ is this bird called nightingale?" For the first time in his life, he heard the beautiful voice and was impressed and deeply moved.
"Please give me nightingale and I will reward you handsomely." So nightingale came to live in the palace. Everyday Nightingale sang for the emperor.
Emperor was happy every time he heard Nightingale sing. He was so proud of Nightingale that he allowed the servants to hear it too. However, Nightingale was not happy. Nightingale felt trapped and had no freedom.
One day the neighboring country sent a gift to the emperor. It was a nightingale doll made of jewels and gold. Every time the doll was wound up it sang beautifully. Furthermore, the emperor if wanted could hear it everyday.
"It's really amazing. It's beauty is the finest in the world." The real Nightingale was sad. The real Nightingale decided to leave. It flew off into the forest of freedom.
The Nightingale doll kept on singing. One day the doll broke. No body was able to fix it. The emperor was heart broken.
The emperor became ill. He just laid there waiting to die. Just then, from the window, a beautiful song came flowing in. Everyone looked.
Sitting by the window, Nightingale began singing. Shortly after, the emperor became better. Nightingale was happy. Soon, the emperor's face was filled with happiness once again.
006 The Wild Swans
Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there were eleven Princes and a single Princess, by the name of Elisa. One day, their mother died of a disease.
Eventually the King married again. The new Queen hated the twelve children.
She said craftily, "Elisa is weak, and it would be good for her to go to the country for recuperation." The King was grateful to the Queen, as she seemed to care for the health of his daughter. Therefore, the Princess was sent off to the remotest corner of the country.
The Queen then changed the eleven Princes into swans through her magic power, and sent them away from the royal palace. The Princes flew away crying sadly. "Oh! I feel good. It is my world now."
After some time, the King missed Princess Elisa and sent for her. The Queen had Princess Elisa wear a dirty and worn-out dress. The King was very surprised to see the dirty Princess Elisa. "Elisa, how do you dress yourself?" Then the Queen said quickly, "Dear Lord, it seems that Princess Elisa has gone mad." The King was furious and sent the Princess away from him.
"Ah! Where are my brothers?" The Princess asked a man passing by, "Have you ever seen eleven Princes?" The man said, "I have not seen eleven Princes but I have seen eleven swans. Strangely the swans wore golden crowns. You may find them near the river."
Princess Elisa waited for her brothers near the river hoping to find them. At night, eleven swans swooped down to the ground and were turned into the form of Princes. "My brothers!" "Elisa!" They cried and embraced each other.
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and fly around to look for something to eat during the day. Elisa prayed earnestly, "Dear God, please release the magic curse from my brothers." In her dreams that night, a fairy appeared and said, "Make mantles for your brothers with hemp and have them wear the mantles. However, you should not speak at all until those mantles are made completely."
The Princes thought that Elisa, who did not speak and merely kept knitting, had become strange. One day, a Prince from a neighboring kingdom saw the knitting Princess when he was out hunting. The Prince took Elisa to his palace saying to himself, "She is a really beautiful lady. I am going to make her happy."
But Elisa did not say anything, and only kept knitting eagerly. At nightfall of the next day, the hemp was all used up. Elisa picked some more hemp near a grave but was caught by the Prince. The Prince said, "You dared to go to a grave at night? You must be a witch. Take this witch and burn her at the stake!"
Princess Elisa was unable to say anything and was imprisoned. Princess Elisa continued knitting without taking rest even in the prison. Princess Elisa was finally knitting the eleventh mantle, while being carried on a cart going to the burning place. The villagers threw stones at her while shouting, "That witch is still knitting. Burn her at the stake!"
At that precise moment, the eleven swans flew in. Princess Elisa threw the finished mantles to the swans. Only then, Princess Elisa opened her mouth. "I now can speak. I am not a witch."
They donned the knitted hoods they were turned back into Princes. The Princess told the Prince what had happened up to that time. Thereafter, the Prince and Princess Elisa lived happily together in their kingdom.
007 The Unwise Hans
In the countryside, there lived three brothers. The first and second brothers were very wise. But the third was not very wise. People called him unwise Hans. All three of the brothers wanted to marry the princess. The princess had said that she wanted to marry the wisest man on the land. "We only have one week."
So in order to marry the princess, they hurried off on their way. The father of the three brothers gave horses to only two of the sons. The first brother got a brown horse and the second brother got a white horse. But, no horse was given to Hans. The unwise Hans left on a goat, instead of a horse.
The older brothers laughed at Hans. Still, Hans left with his brothers. After sometime, Hans picked up a dead crow on the road. "Brothers, look at this." "What are you going to do with that?" "I'm going to give it to the princess." The brothers continued to laugh at Hans.
As Hans was going along the road, besides the crow, he picked up an old wooden clog and good quality mud. The older brothers no longer paid attention to Hans' strange behavior and hurried off on their horses reaching the castle before Hans.
In front of the castle there stood the princess and many people who wanted to marry her. However, all the people who went inside of the princess' room came out stuttering and muttering quietly to themselves. Finally the first brother went in. "You're not right. Please go."
The first brother had forgotten everything that he had memorized. So, he could not say one word. Next the second brother went in. The princess told him to leave, as well. The second brother could not understand the princess’ question. Hans was the last person to go in.
"The room is hot." "The rooster is being roasted." "Then roast my crow, as well, please." "What should we do? There is no plate." "Here it is."
Hans showed the old wooden clog that he had hidden. The princess made a smile on her face. "Then 6
where can we get the sauce?"
Hans showed her the mud that he had picked up on the road, too. "Ha, Ha, Ha- this is really fun." The unwise Hans gave the princess the wisest answers. That's how the princess and the unwise Hans got married. The unwise Hans became the king of that land.
008 Thumbelina
Once upon a time, there lived a woman who had no children. The woman went to a sorcerer and begged, "I want to raise a pretty baby." The sorcerer then gave her a flower seed. As soon as the seed was planted, a tulip blossomed forth. From the floral leaf, a lovely baby girl who was as short as a thumb was born.
"Mother, how are you?" The baby girl who came out from the flower said hello to her mother with a beautiful voice. The woman was very happy and wanted to give her a pretty name. "A baby who is as short as a thumb...I will name her as Thumbelina."
Thumbelina led a happy life sailing her ship across a pond filled with flowers. But one night, there appeared a horrible-looking toad when Thumbelina was asleep. "She is really a pretty girl. I am going to make her my bride." The toad carried the sleeping girl on his warty back and went to his pond. Thumbelina woke up in the morning, and was so surprised that she could do nothing but weep silently.
She thought that she would rather die than become the wife of a toad. The fish who saw this unhappy event were sympathetic towards the poor girl, and said, "Thumbelina is pitiful. Let's help her." The fish cut the leaf of a lotus flower on which Thumbelina was riding, so that she could run away from the toad. She was roaming around the riverside riding on the leaf of a lotus flower. At that time, a beetle came flying about and spied the top of the head of Thumbelina.
"Uh! She is a very pretty girl. Okay, I am going to make her my friend." The beetle grabbed Thumbelina and flew into the forest. "How about that? She is my friend. Isn't she very pretty?" The beetle bragged about her to his other beetle friends, but they all thought that she was an odd creature. "What? She only has two legs but has no wings like we do. It is really strange."
With his friends making fun of him, the beetle began to dislike Thumbelina. He went away with his friends, leaving the girl alone in the branches. She spent many lonely days eating tree fruits and flowers. "Dear God, please send me to my mother." Thumbelina wandered around the forest shivering from cold and hunger.
After some time, it began to snow. Thumbelina was looking for a place to take shelter when she finally saw a twinkling light. "I am Thumbelina. Please allow me to take a rest in your house." A field mouse woman greeted the girl warmly saying, "Oh my dear, please come in."
The field mouse woman loved Thumbelina as if she were her own daughter. One day, a rich mole from a neighboring burrow came to the house for a holiday. He said, "She is a really pretty girl. It would be good if she became the wife of my son." The field mouse woman was very happy about what the rich mole said. But Thumbelina did not like that haughty fellow. Yet she was unable to reject what the field mouse woman wanted.
Thumbelina was taking a walk sadly in an underground passage, which was actually the house of the mole. At that time, she found a swallow that had fallen on the ground. "Ah, poor swallow. Please gain your strength." Thumbelina nursed the swallow earnestly. Finally, spring came, and the swallow gained strength and was about to leave the underground passage. He said, "Dear Thumbelina, come with me to the flower country where there is nothing but sun and flowers."
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She agreed and rode on the back of the swallow to the flower land, where the Prince of the country greeted her saying, "Welcome, Thumbelina! I was waiting for you." There began a great party to welcome the happy girl. The Prince said, "Dear Thumbelina, would you please marry me and become the Queen of the flower country?"
She said, "Yes, I will!" The Prince then gave his royal crown and wings to Thumbelina. To her bird companion she said, "Dear swallow, please deliver this news to my mother." Thereafter, the Prince and Thumbelina led a very happy life in the flower country.
009 The Terrible King
A long time ago, there lived a terrible king. The terrible king's wish was that all the people would shake in fear at the sound of his name. The terrible king made the lives of the people in the neighbor land horrible. "Here! Take everything!"
The Terrible King
The terrible king viciously took away all the belongings of the neighbor land. He even scared the poor women and children. The king was not even sorry to the children and women. The terrible king bothered the people of the neighbor land worse and worse everyday. The palace became more and more magnificent.
"Put up a statue in the church!" Now the terrible king was ordering the church to place a statue of himself there. However, the ministers could not do that." Your majesty may be great, but God is even greater."
The terrible king was becoming angry. It was because he thought that he was the greatest in the whole world. Then the king was angry. "What! He is greater? Then I will defeat God."
In a loud voice, the terrible king said that he would win against God. That's why he ordered that a magnificent ship be built in order to go to the heaven. He said he would ride the ship to go and defeat God. The terrible king rode the ship up to heaven.
From the sky, an angel was sent. However, the terrible king shot over a thousand bullets at the angel. "Ahhhhhh" Being shot, the angel was bleeding. The blood dropped unto the terrible king's ship. The angel's blood was so heavy that the king's ship sank.
The terrible king became angry, again. "Build a more stronger ship." The terrible king wanted a better ship, so he ordered all the workers in his kingdom to build it. "I will defeat God for sure!"
The terrible king went up to heaven, once more. God sent mosquitoes to the terrible king. The terrible king just laughed at the mosquitoes. "Go and bring me the best carpet."
The king made another command. He thought that if he wrapped the carpet around his body the mosquitoes would not be able to bite him. But one mosquito went inside of the carpet. Because of that one mosquito, the terrible king was rolling around screaming. The terrible king that couldn't even catch one mosquito was a laughingstock for his troops.
010 Last Dream for an Old Oak Tree
Once upon a time, there was a large oak tree in the forest. This oak tree was very old. One day during the hot summer, a mayfly flew by and alighted on a leaf of the oak tree.
"Mayfly, you must be so sad." "Why?" "You get to live only one day." The oak tree felt sorry for the mayfly. Mayfly asked, "Don't you live for one day?" "No. I live much longer than you do."
The mayfly nodded and asked, "Really? Then, are you happy now?" "Yes, I am very happy," replied 8
the oak tree.
Then the mayfly smiled and said, "I am very happy, too. Although I get to live only one day, it doesn't matter. You get to live much longer than I do, but we are both happy, aren't we?" The oak tree and the mayfly kept on talking to each other.
Eventually, the mayfly leaned on the oak tree and fell asleep. "Mayfly!" The oak tree called the mayfly, but the mayfly did not respond.
It had died. "Mayfly, have a happy dream." The oak tree blessed the mayfly for the last time.
Many weeks then passed. Spring, summer and fall went by, and winter came. Finally, the long-awaited day of Christmas came. The oak tree wanted to rest now.
The oak tree had a dream on Christmas day. In it, pretty flowers were abundant and butterflies were flying in a green forest. In this dream, the oak tree met the mayfly. The mayfly said, "Come play here. It is such a happy place." The oak tree was very pleased indeed to see the mayfly.
While the oak tree was sleeping, its roots were cut. It was time for the oak tree to die. The oak tree went to a happy world, dreaming.
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