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丑小鸭英文故事
Ugly Duckling
The countryside was lovely. It was summer. The wheat was golden and the oats were still green. The hay was stacked in the low-lying meadows. There lay great woods around the fields and meadows. There were deep lakes in the midst of the woods. In the sunniest spot stood an old mansion surrounded by a deep moat. Great leaves grew from the vines on the walls of the house right down to the water's edge. Some of the leaves were so big that a child could use them as an umbrella.
In the depths of a forest a duck was sitting in her nest. Her little ducklings were about to be hatched.
At last one egg after another began to crack." Cheep, cheep!" the ducklings said." Quack, quack!" said the duck. " How big the world is!" said all the young ones.
But the biggest egg was still there. And then she settled herself on the nest again.
"Well, how are you getting on?" said an old duck who came to pay her a visit." This egg is taking such a long time," answered the sitting duck."
The shell will not crack, but the others are the finest ducklings. They are like their father."
"let me look at the egg which won't crack," said the old duck." You may be sitting on a turkey's egg! I have been cheated like that once. Yes. it's a turkey's egg! You had better leave it alone and teach the other children to swim."
"I will sit on it a little longer."
At last the big egg cracked. How big and ugly the baby was! " That is a very big duckling." she said, " None of the others look like that. Can he be a turkey's chick? I will soon find out. I will make him go into water."
The next day the mother duck with her family went down to the moat. She said, and one duckling jumped in after another.
The big ugly one swam about with them." No, that is no turkey," she said," Quack, quack! Now come with me and I will take you into the world. Keep close to me all the time. Be careful of the cat!" The first day passed, and everything was fine.
Afterwards, matters grew worse and worse. The poor duckling was chased and harassed by all the ducklings because he was very ugly.The ducks bit him, the hens pecked him. and the girl who fed them kicked him aside. Then he ran off and soon came to a great marsh where the wild ducks lived.
He was so tired and miserable that he stayed there the whole night.
In the morning the wild ducks flew up to see their new friend." You are very ugly," said the wild ducks," but that does not matter to us." He stayed there two whole days . And then two wild geese came. Just at that moment the sound of "Bang! Bang!" was heard, and both the wild geese fell dead among the reeds.
It was a terrible shock to the poor duckling.
A big dog appeared close beside him. He showed his sharp teeth and went on without touching him.
"Oh, thank Heaven! I am so ugly that even the dog won't bite me!" sighed the duckling.
In the evening he reached a little cottage where an old woman lived with her cat and her hen. Her eyesight was not good, and she thought the duckling was a fat duck. will be rich if I have duck eggs," she said. So she took in the duckling for three weeks, but he laid no eggs.
The cat was the master of the house and the hen was the mistress.
"Can you lay eggs?" asked the hen.
"No," answered the duckling.
"Then you had better go out into the wide world," said the cat. So away went the duckling.
One evening the sun was just setting when a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes.
The duckling thought," I've never seen anything so beautiful."
They were dazzlingly white with long necks. They were swans. He did not know what the birds were.
The winter was so bitterly cold that the duckling swam about in the water to keep himself from freezing.
The sun began to shine warmly again. The larks were singing and beautiful spring had come. Then, all at once, the duckling raised his wings and they flapped with much greater strength than before. Before he knew it, he found himself in a large garden where the apple trees were in full blossom and long branches of lilacs overhung the shores of the lake.
Just in front of him he saw three beautiful white swans swimming towards him.
"I will fly to them and they will hack me to pieces because I am so ugly. But it doesn't matter. I would rather be killed by them than be bitten by the ducks or pecked by the hens." So he flew into the water and swam towards the swans. They saw him and darted towards him.
"Kill me! Oh, kill me!" said the poor duckling, and he waited for his death bowing his head towards the water.
But what did he see in the clear water? He was no longer a dark gray ugly bird. He was himself a swan!
Some children came into the garden with corn and pieces of bread, which they threw into the water.
The smallest child shouted with joy," There is a new one." The other children shouted, "Yes, a new one has come."
He said to himself, " I never dreamed that I could be so happy when I was the ugly duckling!"
拓展阅读：《丑小鸭》改编
变成天鹅后，丑小鸭和他的好帮手——甲虫朋友又踏上了新的旅途。会发生什么有趣的事呢?和我一起去看看吧!
他们背着旅行包，手拉手走在森林的小路上，丑小鸭说：“我们去寻找传说中的宝藏吧，我有藏宝图!”“虽然我不怎么相信传说，但我还是愿意陪你去找宝藏。”甲虫说。丑小鸭又得意地说：“好!现在我们去第一道关卡。”朦胧的雾气给森林增加了几分神秘的色彩。他们闻着清新的花香，看着枝头嬉戏的鸟儿，走着走着不知不觉就到了荆棘丛。丑小鸭和小甲虫从全身长满刺的“妖怪”身边小心翼翼地穿过，“嚓——”丑小鸭的脚被刺伤了!甲虫连忙从背包里拿出药水涂在它的脚上，再把衣服撕成布条绑在伤口处。然后背着丑小鸭离开了荆棘丛。
他们要去第二道关卡，可是丑小鸭的脚还没好，于是决定在附近的山洞养伤，伤好了再去寻宝藏。他们努力寻找山洞，就在这时不远处传来一阵哭声，天鹅顺着哭声走去。原来是一个小袋鼠!甲虫好奇地问：“小袋鼠，你怎么哭啦?”“我……我迷路了，肚子饿。”甲虫说：“我们把他留下来吧。”恩，好“他们从背包里拿出食物给小袋鼠吃，并让小袋鼠和他们一起住在附近的山洞里。夜晚悄悄降临了，这时一只出来肉吃的狼正向他们的山洞走去……
第二天一早醒来，他们发现地上出现了老狼的脚印，还有丑小鸭的羽毛。”看来丑小鸭已经被老狼抓走了。“甲虫郑重地说。小袋鼠慌慌张张地说：”那我们快去就丑小鸭哥哥!“”恩。“他们终于找到了丑小鸭，此时被关在笼子里的丑小鸭正在努力地挪动身子，他们迅速从包里拿出小刀割断绳子，逃了出来。老狼发现了，立刻去追天鹅。甲虫大喊一声”拉!“老狼便被天空降下的大网给网住，他们顺利从狼口中逃了出去。朋友三人继续去寻找宝藏。
就在他们路过松树林的时候，下起了大雨，甲虫拿出雨伞躲雨。一阵风吹来，把一个松鼠窝吹了下来，丑小鸭紧紧抱住窝，防止松鼠宝宝淋到雨。雨过天晴，他们用胶带把松鼠窝紧紧粘在树上。
到了飞天悬崖这一关，天鹅紧紧抱住甲虫，趴在袋鼠身上跃了过去。
到了智慧之门，走出来的山羊爷爷说：”你们三人互相帮助，乐于助人，完成了考验。这枚勇气徽章奖励给你们，希望你们鼓励更多的人团结友爱，乐于助人!“他们三人牢记山羊爷爷的话，回到天鹅湖。