"What is the matter, dear wile?"
“亲爱的妻子，到底发生了什么事情？
There once lived a man and his wife, who had long wished for a child, but in vain. Now there was at the back of their house a little window which overlooked a beautiful garden full of the finest vegetables and flowers; but there was a high wall all round it, and no one ventured into it, for it belonged to a witch of great might, and of whom all the world was afraid. One day, when the wife was standing at the window, and looking into the garden, she saw a bed filled with the finest rampion; and it looked so fresh and green that she began to wish for some; and at length she longed for it greatly.
从前有一对夫妻。 他们很久就希望有个孩子，但是总不能如愿。 他们的后屋有一扇小窗，从这小窗子看到下面有一个长满了奇花异草的漂亮的花园，但是周围有高墙，没有人敢冒险进入这个花园，因为这所花园属于一个法力无边的巫婆，整个世界也都怕她。 有一天，那个妻子正站在窗前，欣赏着下面花园的景色时，突然发现花园中有一个长满了漂亮的风铃草的花床。 那些风铃草长得如此鲜嫩，如此碧绿诱人，使她开始想要得到一些，而且最后她强烈地渴望要得到它。
This went on for days, and she knew she could not get the rampion, she pined away, and grew pale and miserable. Then the man was uneasy, and asked:
这种情况持续了好几天，她知道自己无法得到对面花园中的风铃草，她日见消瘦，脸色苍白，真是其情可悯。 她的丈夫为此而感到不安，于是问道：
"Oh," answered she,"I shall die unless I can have some of that rampion to eat that grows in the garden at the back of our house.
妻子答道：“唉，如果我吃不到我们屋后花园中的风铃草，我会死去的。
The man, who loved her very much, thought to himself:
那丈夫很爱自己的妻子，他暗自思量：
"Rather than lose my wife I will get some rampion, cost what it will."
“无论花什么代价，我也要弄到一些风铃草，而不能失去我的妻子。
So in the twilight he climbed over the wall into the witch's garden, plucked hastily a handful of rampion and brought it to his wife. She made a salad of it at once, and ate of it to her heart's content. But she liked it so much, and it tasted so good, that the next day she longed for it thrice as much as she had done before; if she was to have any rest the man must climb over the wall once more. So he went in the twilight again; and as he was climbing back, he saw, all at once, the witch standing before him, and was terribly frightened, as she cried, with angry eyes:
于是，在昏暗的傍晚时分，他翻墙爬进了巫婆的花园，匆匆忙忙地摘了一把风铃草，带给他的妻子。 她把那风铃草做成沙拉，心满意足地把它吃了。 由于风铃草味道鲜美之极，第二天她比以前更想要吃。 如果要使她满意，她丈夫必须每次翻墙入园采摘风铃草。 于是，在傍晚时分，他又去了。 当他要爬出围墙时，他突然发现那巫婆正站在他面前，当她带着愤怒的目光对他吼叫时，他害怕极了。
Then the witch said:"If what you tell me is true, you may have as much rampion as you like, on one condition-the child thatwill come into the world must be given to me. I will be kind to the child, and care for it like a mother."
于是，那巫婆就说：“如果你说的是真话，那么你要多少就可摘多少。 但是有一个条件，你妻子吃了这风铃草之后，生下的孩子一定要给我，我会像母亲一样慈祥地照看那孩子。
"How dare you climb over into my garden like a thief, and steal my rampion! It shall be the worse for you!"
“你竟敢像贼一样溜进我的花园来偷摘我的风铃草，你要倒霉了！
" Oh," answered he," be merciful rather than just. I have only done it through necessity; for my wife saw your rampion out of the window, and became possessed with so great a longing that she would have died if she could not have had some to eat."
“啊！”他答道，“请你法外施恩吧！我这样做是不得已。 我太太从窗口看到了你的风铃草。 她简直被它迷住了，如果她吃不到的话，她会死的。
In his distress of mind the man promised everything; and when the time came when the child was born, the witch appeared and, giving the child the name of Rapunzel (which is the same as rampion), she took it away with her.
怀着痛苦的心情，那男子完全答应了。 后来，当他的妻子生产时，女巫出现了，她为孩子取名拉庞翠儿（意即“风铃草”），并把孩子带走了。
Rapunzel had beautiful long hair that shone like gold. When she heard the voice of the witch she would undo the fastening of the upper window, unbind the plaits of her hair, and let it down twenty ells below, and the witch would climb up by it.
拉庞翠儿长着一头金色的美丽长发。 她一听到女巫的喊声，就会把窗子打开，松开辫子，把它垂下20厄而，（厄而——为英国古代的长度单位，相当于现在的45寸——译者注。）于是女巫就会顺着她的长发爬上塔楼。
Rapunzel was the most beautiful child in the world. When she was twelve years old the witch shut her up in a tower in the midst of a wood, and it had neither steps nor door, only a small window above. When the witch wished to be let in, she would stand below and would cry:
拉庞翠儿是世界上最美丽的孩子。 当她十二岁时，女巫就把她关在森林中间的一座塔楼之上。 那座塔楼既无楼梯又无门，只有顶层的一扇小窗。 当女巫想要上塔楼时，她就在下面叫道：
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!"
“拉庞翠儿！拉庞翠儿！把你的头发放下来！
After they had lived thus a few years it happened that as the King's son was riding through the wood, he came to the tower; and as he drew near he heard a voice singing so sweetly that he stood still and listened. It was Rapunzel in her loneliness trying to pass away the time with sweet songs. The King's son wished to go in to her, and sought to find a door in the tower, but there was none. So he rode home, but the song had entered into his heart, and every day he went into the wood and listened to it. Once, as he was standing there under a tree, he saw the witch come up, and listened while she called out:
他们就这样生活了几年之后，碰巧有位王子骑马走进那森林，他来到那座塔楼，当他走近时，他听到美丽动听的歌声，他驻足倾听。 原来那是拉庞翠儿在寂寞中用歌唱来消磨时光。 王子想走进塔楼找她，他设法找门，但却根本没有门，他无奈骑马回家，但那美妙的歌声已深入他心中，他每天都来到森林里听拉庞翠儿的歌声。 有一次，当他正站在一棵树下时，他看到女巫来了，并且注意听到她喊道：
"Since that is the ladder, I will climb it, and seek my fortune." And the next day, as soon as it began to grow dusk, he went to the tower and cried:
既然那就是“楼梯”，那么我也要爬上去，试一试我的运气。 第二天，一到傍晚，他就来到塔下叫道：
Then he saw how Rapunzel let down her long tresses, and how the witch climbed up by it and went in to her, and he said to himself:
于是，他看到拉庞翠儿放下了她的长发，以及女巫如何利用头发爬上塔楼去到她那里。 他自言自语道：
"Oh Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair."
“拉庞翠儿，拉庞翠儿，快放下你的长发！
And she let down her hair, and the King's son climbed up by it.
接着拉庞翠儿就垂下了她的头发，而王子也顺着头发，爬进了塔楼。
and she put her hand into his hand, saying:
于是，她拉着王子的手说：
"O Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair."
“拉庞翠儿，拉庞翠儿，放下你的头发！
Rapunzel was greatly terrified when she saw that a man had come in to her, for she had never seen one before; but the King's son began speaking so kindly to her, and told how her singing had entered into his heart, so that he could have no peace until he had seen her herself. Then Rapunzel forgot her terror, and when he asked her to take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and beautiful, she thought to herself:
看到爬进塔中的是个男子，拉庞翠儿大吃一惊，因为她从来没有看见过男子，但是王子开始很和善地向她倾诉他对于她的歌声是如何地难以忘怀，因此他觉得一定要和她见面，否则心情就不得安宁。 这时拉庞翠儿忘了恐惧。 她也看到王子既年轻，又英俊，当王子向她求婚时，她暗自思量：
"I would willingly go with you, but I do not know how I shall get out. When you come, bring each time a silken rope, and I will make a ladder, and when it is quite ready I will get down by it out of the tower, and you shall take me away on your horse."They agreed that be should come to her every evening, as the old woman came in the daytime. So the witch knew nothing of all this until once Rapunzel said to her unwittingly:
“我很愿意跟你走，但是我不知道如何才能离开这里。 以后每次你来时，请带一段丝质的绳子，我会把它们编成一架绳梯，当我把绳梯编好后，我就顺着绳梯下来走出塔楼，然后你用你的马带我离开。 ”由于那巫婆总是白天来的，他们约好王子晚上来，所以那巫婆对他们的往来一无所知，直到有一天拉庞翠儿无意中说出：
"I certainly like him much better than the old mother Gothel,"
“比起老妈妈戈什儿来，我当然喜欢他得多罗！
"Oh wicked child," cried the witch,"What is this I hear! I thought I had hidden you from all the world, and you have betrayed me!"
女巫一听，大叫道：“你这个坏孩子，你讲什么话啊！我以为已把你藏得远离人世，而你却背叛了我。
"You are much heavier to draw up, Mother Gothel, than the King's son, who has just left me!"
“戈什儿妈妈，拉你上来比刚刚离开的王子要重得多！
The same day on which she took Rapunzel away she went back to the tower in the evening and made fast the severed locks of hair to the window hasp, and the King's son came and cried:
在她放逐拉庞翠儿的同一天晚上，女巫回到了塔楼，将切断的发束系在窗框上，这时王子来到窗下叫喊道：
In her anger she seized Rapunzel by her beautiful hair, struck her several times with her left hand, and then grasping a pair of shears in her right-snip, snip－the beautiful locks lay on the ground. And she was so hard-hearted that she took Rapunzel and put her in a waste and desert place, where she lived in great woe and misery.
一怒之下，她一把抓住了拉庞翠儿美丽的头发，用左手狠狠地打了她几下，然后用右手抓起一把大剪刀，咔嚓，咔嚓几下就把她的金发剪落地上。 接着，那巫婆是如此的铁石心肠竟把拉庞翠儿放逐到一处荒无人烟的沙漠，让她生活在悲哀苦难中。
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair"
“拉庞翠儿，拉庞翠儿！把头发放下！
Then she let the hair down, and the King's son climbed up, but instead of his dearest Rapunzel he found the witch looking at him with wicked, glistening eyes.
于是，女巫把头发放下，让王子爬了上来。 但是，他看到的不是亲爱的拉庞翠儿，而是那个眼神恶狠瞪着他的女巫。
" Aha!" cried she, mocking him," you came foryour darling, but the sweet bird sits no longer in the nest, and sings no more; the cat has got her, and will scratch out your eyes as well! Rapunzel is lost to you; you will see her no more."
“啊哈！”她戏弄地大声说道，“你来看你可爱的人儿，但是小鸟不再呆在鸟巢里了，她也不再唱歌了。 猫把她抓走了。 它还要把你的眼珠也抓出来哩！你已经失去了拉庞翠儿，你再也看不到她了。
So he wandered several years in misery until at last he came to the desert place where Rapunzel lived with her twin-children that she had borne, a boy and a girl.
就这样王子悲惨地流浪了好几年，最后终于来到了拉庞翠儿被放逐的沙漠。 在那里，拉庞翠儿正和她所生的一对双胞胎——一男一女一起苦度时光。
The King's son was beside himself with grief, and in his agony he sprang from the tower: he escaped with life, but the thorns on which he fell put out his eyes. Then he wandered blind through the wood, eating nothing but roots and berries, and doing nothing but lament and weep for the loss of his dearest wife.
王子听后悲痛欲绝，在极度痛苦中，他纵身跳下了塔搂。 虽然他侥幸没有送命，但是他跌落在荆棘丛中，眼睛被刺瞎了，从此，他在森林中盲然地徘徊流浪，终日为失去亲爱的妻子而哭泣悲伤，只靠食用植物的根和浆果维生。
At first he heard a voice that he thought he knew, and when he reached the place from which it seemed to come Rapunzel knew him, and fell on his neck and wept. And when her tears touched his eyes they became clear again, and he could see with them as well as ever.
起初，他听到一种自己认为很熟悉的声音。 后来当他一路摸索到似乎是声音所来之处时，拉庞翠儿认出了他，就抱着他的头大哭起来。 当她的眼泪流过王子的眼睛时，王子的眼睛又再变得像以往一样重见光明了。
Then he took her to his kingdom, where he was received with great joy, and there they lived long and happily.
于是，王子就将她带回他自己的王国，全国也欢欣鼓舞地迎接她，从此他们就长久幸福地生活在一起了。