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名师导读
燕子最终被快乐王子的悲伤所触动,决定留下来帮助他完成那颗红宝石的使命。它将剑柄上的红宝石赠予了一位贫穷的女裁缝,她的孩子正因病卧床。完成使命后,燕子飞回到快乐王子身边,向他倾诉了自己所做的一切。
畅读经典
“Swallow, swallow, little swallow,” said the prince, “will you not stay with me for one night, and be my messenger (信使)? The boy is so thirsty, and the mother so sad.”
“I don’t think I like boys,” answered the swallow. “Last summer, when I was staying on the river there were two rude (无礼的) boys, the miller’s (磨坊主的) sons, who were always throwing stones at me. They never hit me, of course; we swallows fly far too well for that, and besides, I come of a family famous for its agility (敏捷); but still, it was a mark of disrespect (是真正的无礼).”
But the Happy Prince looked so sad that the little swallow was sorry. “It is very cold here,” he said, “but I will stay with you for one night, and be your messenger.”
“Thank you, little swallow,” said the prince.
So the swallow picked out the great ruby from the prince’s sword, and flew away with it in his beak (喙) over the roofs of the town.
He passed by the palace and heard the sound of dancing. A beautiful girl came out on the balcony (阳台) with her lover. “How wonderful the stars are,” he said to her, “and how wonderful is the power of love!”
“I hope my dress will be ready in time for the state ball,” she answered; “I have ordered passionflowers to be embroidered on it: but the seamstresses are so lazy.”
He passed over the river, and saw the lanterns hanging from the masts (船桅) of the ships. At last he came to the poor house and looked in. The boy was tossing (翻来覆去) feverishly (发烧地) on his bed, and the mother had fallen asleep. She was so tired. In he hopped (跳跃), and laid (放置) the great ruby on the table beside the woman’s thimble (顶针). Then he flew gently round the bed, fanning (扇) the boy’s forehead (前额) with his wings. “How cool I feel!” said the boy. “I must be getting better,” and he sank into a delicious slumber (睡眠).
Then the swallow flew back to the Happy Prince, and told him what he had done. “It is curious,” he remarked, “but I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold.”
“That is because you have done a good action,” said the prince. And the little swallow began to think, and then he fell asleep. Thinking always made him sleepy.
When day broke (破晓) he flew down to the river and had a bath. “What a remarkable (不寻常的) phenomenon (现象)!” said the professor of ornithology (鸟类学) as he was passing over the bridge. “A swallow in winter!” And he wrote a long letter about it to the local (当地的) newspaper. Everyone quoted (引用) it; it was full of so many words that they could not understand.
“Tonight I go to Egypt,” said the swallow, and he was in high spirits (兴高采烈) at the prospect (前景). He visited all the public monuments (纪念塔). Wherever (无论去哪里) he went the sparrows (麻雀) chirruped (吱喳叫), and said to each other, “What a distinguished (气度不凡的) stranger!” so he enjoyed himself very much.
Adapted from *The Happy Prince* by Oscar Wilde
读有所思
Why did the swallow feel quite warm in cold winter?Because it had done a good action.
佳句摘录- “How wonderful the stars are,” he said to her, “and how wonderful is the power of love!”
- “I hope my dress will be ready in time for the state ball,” she answered; “I have ordered passionflowers to be embroidered on it: but the seamstresses are so lazy.”

答案： 读有所思
Because it had done a good action.
佳句摘录
- “How wonderful the stars are,” he said to her, “and how wonderful is the power of love!”
- “I hope my dress will be ready in time for the state ball,” she answered; “I have ordered passionflowers to be embroidered on it: but the seamstresses are so lazy.”