Tales From The Thousand And One Nights 词汇提示 1.Arabian 阿拉伯的 2.mistrustful 不信任 3.betrayed 背叛 4.brutality 暴行 5.compassionate 有同情心 6.Hunchback 驼背的人 7.choked 噎住 8.wrapped 包起来 9.sheet 床单 10.tripped 绊倒 11.alley 小巷 12.broker 掮客 13.confession 坦白 14.revealed 揭露 原文 Story 1: Arabian Nights Arabian Nights is a collection of stories, and it is also known as One Thousand and One Nights. The King is mistrustful because he was betrayed by his previous wife. She had an affair with a kitchen servant. After this, the King started to sleep with one girl every night and then killed them. To stop this brutality, the Wazir's daughter volunteered herself to marry him. She became Queen Scheherazade. She told King Shah Shahryar a story every night. These elaborate stories never ended the same night. To stay alive, she finished the story the next night and started a new story. The King was entertained and didn't kill her. After 3 years, she ran out of stories, but they were married for 3 years and they had had children so The King didn't kill her. Story2: In the Name of Allah the Compassionating the Compassionate Once long ago, there were two royal brothers, Shahryar and Shah Zaman. They ruled over separate lands. Shahryar ruled India/Indo-China and Shah Zaman ruled Samarkand. They were very close brothers, but couldn't rule together because of certain laws. After being apart for 20 years, Shahryar sent a quest to his brother Shah Zaman to come and see each other. Before leaving to visit his brother, Shah Shahryar found out that his wife was cheating on him with the cook. He was very upset. He could not eat or sleep. King Shahryar ordered his queen to be killed, and swore to marry a young girl each night. After sleeping with them, he killed them the next morning. He wanted to make sure there was no chance for the new wife to be unfaithful. He said, "There never was and never will be a faithful woman!" Story 3: The Hunchback's Tale Along time ago, in a city in China, a tailor and his wife invited a hunchback to their home for dinner. They wanted to be entertained. While the hunchback was eating and joking, he choked on a sharp fishbone. The two wrapped the dead man up in a sheet and took him to a doctor in the middle of the night. They did not want anyone to see them, so they left the hunchback at the doctor's house and ran away. The doctor was eager to see his patient, and he tripped over the body. The body of the hunchback fell down the stairs. Believing he killed the patient, the doctor put the dead body in his neighbor's yard. The neighbor thought he was a thief and beat him. He thought that he killed him. The neighbor took the body to an alley where he was beaten again. In this way, the hunchback's body was passed around until the King's broker was found with the dead body. Just as the broker was about to be executed, confessions came one by one from all the assumed murderers. He was never dead at all. The King questioned everyone involved. It was revealed that the fishbone was removed from his throat by the barber, andthe hunchback was fine. The King laughed and enjoyed hearing about the crazy events. He said to everyone there, "Did you ever hear a more wonderful story thanthat of my Hunchback?" 翻译 故事一:天方夜谭《天方夜谭》是一部故事集，也被称为《一千零一夜》。国王不信任他的前妻，因为他被她背叛了。她和一个厨房佣人有染。从那以后，国王开始每天晚上和一个女孩睡觉，然后杀了她们。为了制止这种暴行，瓦齐尔的女儿自愿嫁给他。她成了舍赫拉扎德王后。她每天晚上给国王沙·沙赫拉尔讲一个故事。这些精巧的故事不会在同一个晚上结束。为了活下去，她在第二天晚上结束了这个故事，并且开始了一个新的故事。国王很高兴，没有杀她。三年后，她的故事说完了，但他们结婚三年了