The two children loved one another dearly, and always walked hand in hand when they went out together; and when they talked of it they agreed that they would never separate from each other, and that whatever one had the other should share.
两个孩子极为相亲相爱，一起外出时，总是手牵着手，当她们谈到未来时，她们约定将来彼此永不分开，而且大家分享彼此的所有。
Once there was a poor widow who lived alone in her hut with her two little children, who were called Snow-White and Rose-Red, because they were like the flowers which bloomed on two rose-bushes which grew before the cottage.
从前有个贫穷的寡妇，她和两个女儿一起住在一间小茅屋里。 那两个女儿就像她们家门前两株玫瑰花树上开的花一样，所以她们一个叫白玫瑰，另一个叫红玫瑰。
But they were as pious, good, industrious, and amiable children as any that were in the world, only Snow-White was more quiet and gentle than Rose-Red. For Rose-Red would run and jump about the meadows, seeking flowers and catching butterflies, while Snow-White sat at home helping her mother to keep house, or reading to her if there were nothing else to do.
但她们也像世界上其他的孩子一样，孝顺，善良，勤劳而又和善，只是白玫瑰比红玫瑰更娴静，更温柔。 因为红玫瑰常常在草原上又跑又跳，采花捕蝶，而白玫瑰总是在家帮助妈妈做家务，或者，如果没有其它事情做时，她就读书给妈妈听。
Often they ran deep into the forest and gathered wild berries; but no beast ever harmed them. For the hare would eat cauliflowers out of their hands, the fawn would graze at their side, the goats would frisk about them in play, and the birds remained perched on the boughs singing as if nobody were near.
她们常常深入森林采摘野生浆果，但是从来没有野兽会来伤害她们，因为野兔会从她们的手中吃花椰菜，小鹿会在她们身边吃草，山羊会在她们前后欢乐地跳跃，而在她们附近的树枝上，小鸟们会像旁若无人似地欢唱。
Snow-White and Rose-Red kept their mother's cottage so clean that it was a pleasure to enter it. Every morning in the summer-time Rose-Red would first put the house in order, and then gather a nose gay for her mother, in which she always placed a bud from each rose tree. Every winter's morning Snow-White would light the fire and put the kettle on to boil, and although the kettle was made of copper it yet shone like gold, because it was scoured so well. In the evening, when the flakes of snow were falling, the mother would say;"Go, Snow White, and bolt the door"; and then they used to sit down on the hearth, and the mother would put on her spectacles and read out of a great book while her children sat spinning. By their side, too, lay a little lamb, and on a perch behind them a little white dove reposed with her head under her wing.
白玫瑰和红玫瑰每天都把妈妈的小屋打扫得非常干净，使人一走进小屋，就感到愉快。 夏季里，每天早晨红玫瑰所做的第一件事就是打扫房间，然后她会给妈妈采集一束花，在花束中间，总有从门前的那两株玫瑰树上分别摘下来一红一白的两朵玫瑰花苞。 冬天时，每日清晨白玫瑰就会把火生起来，然后放上水壶烧水。 虽然水壶是铜制的，但是它却闪耀如金，这是因为水壶总是擦得很亮。 到了晚上，当雪片纷飞时，母亲就会说，“白玫瑰，去把门闩上。 ”然后，她们全家坐在壁炉前，妈妈会戴起眼镜，念一册大书中的故事，这时小姑娘们就在一边坐着纺纱。 在她们的身旁还躺着一头小羊羔，并且在她们后面的栖木上，一只小白鸽把头藏在翅膀下，安然入睡了。
No accident ever befell them; and if they stayed late in the forest, and night came upon them, they used to lie down on the moss and sleep till morning; and because their mother knew they would do so, she felt no concern about them.
她们从来没有遇到过任何意外事故。 如果她们在森林里玩得太晚了，当夜幕低垂时，她们就会躺在青苔上，一觉睡到天亮。 她们的母亲知道她们会在森林里安睡，所以对她们一点也不感到担忧。
One time when they had thus passed the night in the forest, and the dawn of morning awoke them, they saw a beautiful child dressed in shining white sitting near their couch. She got up and looked at them kindly, but without saying anything went into the forest. The children saw they had slept close to the edge of a pit, into which they would have certainly fallen had they walked farther in the dark. Their mother told them the figure was doubtless the good angel who watches over children.
有一次，红玫瑰和白玫瑰就像这样在森林中过了一夜，当她们在黎明醒来时，发现靠近她们睡的地方，坐着一个身穿闪闪发亮白衣裳的美丽小孩。 接着她站了起来，和霭地看看她们就一言不发地走进了森林，事后，她们发现，她们睡觉的地方紧靠着一个大坑，如果那天晚上她们在黑暗中只要再向前跨出一步，就一定会跌进坑里。 她们的妈妈告诉她们，那小人无疑是保护小孩的善良的天使。
Rose-Red shrieked out and ran back, the little lamb bleated, the dove fluttered on her perch, and Snow-White hid herself behind her mother's bed. The bear, however, began to speak, and said."Be not afraid, I will do you no harm; but I am half frozen, and wish to come in and warm myself."
红玫瑰惊叫起来，赶紧逃回屋里。 小羊羔也咩咩地叫，小白鸽在栖木上吓得直拍翅膀，白玫瑰则把自己藏在妈妈的床后。 这时大熊却口吐人言，说道：“别怕，我不会伤害你们的。 但是我几乎冻僵了，只是希望进来暖暖身子。
One evening, when they were thus sitting comfortably together, there came a knock at the door as if somebody wished to come in."Make haste, Rose-Red," cried her mother;"make haste and open the door; perhaps there is some traveler outside who needs shelter."So Rose-Red went and drew the bolt and opened the door, expecting to see some poor man outside, but instead, a great fat Bear poked his black head in.
一天晚上，正当她们像这样舒适地坐在一起时，忽然传来了敲门声，好像有人想要进来。 “赶快，红玫瑰。 ”妈妈大声说道，“快开门，门外可能有个旅客想找地方过夜。 ”于是，红玫瑰就去取下门闩，把门打开。 她原来指望门外是个可怜人，但是把黑黑的头伸进来的，却是一头又大又胖的大黑熊。
"Poor Bear!"cried the mother."Come in and lie down before the fire; but take care you do not burn your skin"; and then she continued:"Come here, Rose-Red and Snow-White, the Bear will not harm you, he means honorably." So they both came back, and by degrees the lamb, too, and thedove overcame their fears and welcomed the rough visitor.
“可怜的熊呀，”妈妈叫道，“快进来躺在炉火前，不过可要小心，别把自己的毛皮烤焦了。 ”然后，她继续说道，“红玫瑰，白玫瑰，快到这边来，大熊不会伤害你们的，他很规矩。 ”就这样，红玫瑰和白玫瑰都回到了火炉旁。 渐渐地，小羊羔和白鸽也克服了害怕心理，欢迎那位粗鲁的不速之客。
As soon as day broke the two children let the Bear out again, and he trotted away over the snow, and ever afterwards he came every evening at a certain hour. He would lie down on the hearth and allow the children to play with him as much as they liked, till by degrees they became so accustomed to him that the door was left unbolted till their black friend arrived.
天一亮，两个小孩放大熊出了门，大熊也就从雪地上很快地跑开了，从此以后，大熊每天晚上定时归来，他总是躺在壁炉前，让孩子们尽情地和他玩耍，渐渐地，她们变得很习惯于他了，所以每天总要等到她们的黑朋友回来后，才把大门闩上。
"You children,"said the Bear, before he entered, "come and knock the snow off my coat." And they fetched their brooms and swept him clean. Then he stretched himself before the fire and grumbled out his satisfaction; and in a little while the children became familiar enough to play tricks with the unwildly animal. They pulled his long, shaggy skin, set their feet upon his back and rolled him to and fro, and even ventured to beat him with a hazel stick, laughing when he grumbled.
在他要进门之前，大熊说，“孩子们，快来把我外衣上的雪拍掉。 ”于是她们拿起扫帚，把大熊身上的雪扫干净。 随后，大熊在火炉前伸了伸腿，一边哼声表示很满意，没多久，孩子们就跟大熊混熟了，并且熟得和这头温顺的野兽开起玩笑来。 她们拉拉他那长长毛茸茸的毛皮，踩在他的背上，把他翻来翻去，甚至胆敢用榛木棍来打他。 当大熊哼叫抱怨时，她们就大笑。
The bear bore all their tricks good-temperedly, and if they hit him too hard he cried out:
大熊脾气很好地忍受了她们的玩笑。 如果她们打得太重了一些，大熊就喊道：
"Leave me my life, you children, Snow-White and Rose-Red, Or you'll never wed."
“孩子们，红玫瑰，白玫瑰，快饶命， 否则你们会永远嫁不出去。
When bedtime came and others were gone, the mother said to the Bear:"You may sleep here on the hearth if you like, and you will be safely protected from the cold and bad weather."
在睡觉时刻到了，大家都去睡觉后，妈妈就对大熊说，“如果你愿意的话，你可以睡在火炉前，这样你就安稳地不会受到寒冷和恶劣天气的苦了。
But as soon as spring returned, and everything out of doors was green gagin, the Bear one morning told Snow-White that he must leave her, and could not return during the whole summer."Where are you going, then, dear Bear" asked Snow-White. " I am obliged to go into the forest and guard my treasures from the evil Dwarfs; for in winter, when ground is hard, they are obliged to keep in their holes, and cannot work through; but now, since the sun has thawed the earth and warmed it, the Dwarfspierce through, and steal all they can find; and what has once passed into their hands, and gets concealed by them in their caves, is not easily brought to light." Snow-White, however, was very sad at the departure of the Bear, and opened the door so hesitatingly that when he pressed through it he left behind on the latch a piece of his hairy coat; and through the hole which was made in his coat SnowWhite fancied she saw the glittering of gold; but she was not quite certain of it. The Bear, however, ran hastily away, and was soon hidden behind the trees.
当春天一来临，门外大地又绿时，一天早晨，大熊告诉白玫瑰说，他必须告辞了。 而且整个夏天都不能回来，“亲爱的大熊，那么你会去哪儿呢？”白玫瑰问道。 “我必须去森林中看守我的金银财宝，防备那可恶的小矮人来偷。 ”因为在冬天，地面是硬梆梆的，小矮人只得呆在洞里，弄不穿地面搞鬼。 现在太阳已将泥土解冻，把泥土晒得暖暖的，小矮人就能钻穿地面，凡找得到的东西，他们都会偷，而且无论什么东西，一到他们手中被他们藏进他们的山洞之后，再要找回来就很困难了。 ”看到大熊要离去，白玫瑰感到非常伤心，很勉强地把门打开。 当大熊挤出大门时，在门闩上留下了他那毛外衣的一小片。 通过那外衣上被钩破的小洞，白玫瑰似乎看见里面有金子在闪亮，但她不能肯定，是不是。 大熊一出门就急急忙忙地跑开了，很快消失在树林中。
"What have you done, little man" asked Rose-Red.
“小人儿，发生了什么事情？红玫瑰问道。
Some time afterwards the mother sent the children into the wood to gather sticks; and while doing so, they came to a tree which was lying across the path, on the trunk of which something kept bobbing up and down from the grass, and they could not imagine what it was.
过了些时，母亲叫孩子们去森林里拾柴。 在拾柴时，她们发现林中小径上横着一棵倒下的大树，大树的树干上似乎有什么东西在跳上跳下。 但她们想像不出那是什么东西。
"You stupid, gaping goose. " exclaimed he.
“你这只张着嘴的笨鹅，”他喊道。
"I wanted to have the tree split, in order to get a little wood for my kitchen, for the little wood which we use is soon burned up with great fagots, not like what you rough, greedy people devour! I had driven the wedge in properly, and everything was going on well, when the smooth wood flew upward, and the tree closed so suddenly together that I could not draw my beautiful beard out, and here it sticks and I cannot get away, There, don't laugh, you milk-faced things! Are you dumbfounded"
“我原是要劈开这棵树，捡拾点厨房用的柴，因为我们所用的小柴是一大捆一大捆地烧，很快就烧完了。 那一捆捆的柴，可不像你们粗野贪婪的人所吞食的东西哟！我本来已经好好地把楔敲进了树干，一切进行得很顺利，就在那时滑溜的木头向上跳了起来，裂缝顿时合拢了，以致我漂亮的胡子来不及躲开，就这样夹住了。 我也在这里动弹不得。 喂，别笑呀，你们这两个白脸蛋的东西，你们还发甚么呆呀？
When they came nearer they saw a Dwarf, with an old wrinkled face and a Snow-White beard a yard long. The end of this beard was fixed on a split of the tree, and the little man kept jumping about like a dog tied by a chain, for he did not know how to free himself.
当他们走近后才发现，那是一个满脸绉纹的小矮人，但是他那雪白的胡须却有一码长。 他的胡子的一端被树缝夹住了，使他只能像一条被锁链锁住的狗一样跳上跳下，不知如何才能使自己得以脱身。
He glared at the maidens with his red fiery eyes, and exclaimed, "Why do you stand there Are you going to pass without offering me any assistance"
他用他大红暴戾的眼睛瞪了瞪小姑娘，并且吼道，“你们站在那儿干什么？难道你们不打算帮我一把想一走了之了吗？
The children took all the pains they could to pull the Dwarf's beard out; but without success. "I will run and fetch some help, "cried Rose-Red at length. "Crack-brained sheepshead that you are!" snarled the Dwarf. "What are you going to call other people for You are too many now for me; can you think of nothing else"
两个姑娘拼命用力，想把小老头的胡子从夹缝里拔出来，但是没有成功，最后，红玫瑰说，“我跑回去找些帮手吧！”“你这个昏了头的傻瓜，”小矮人骂道，“对我来说，你们两人已太多了，你为什么还要叫别人？难道你们就想不出别的办法了吗？
"Don't be impatient," replied Snow-White; "I have thought of something "; and pulling her scissors out of her pocket she cut off the end of the beard. As soon as the Dwarf found himself at liberty, he snatched up his sack, which lay between the roots of the tree, filled with gold, and throwing it over his shoulder marched off, grumbling and groaning and crying:" Stupid people! to cut off a piece of my beautiful beard. Plague take you. " and away he went without once looking at the children.
“别不耐烦，”白玫瑰回答说，“我想出了个办法。 ”说着，她从她口袋里拿出一把剪刀，一下子就把胡子末端剪断了。 小矮人一获得自由就抓起放在树根旁装满了黄金的麻袋，把它一摔地背上了后背，一边走，一边喃喃地抱怨，“笨蛋，把我漂亮的胡子也剪断了！但愿你发瘟！”他连看也不看救了他的小姑娘们就扬长而去。
Some time afterwards Snow-White and Rose-Red went fishing, and as they neared the pond they saw something like a great locust hopping about on the bank, as if going to jump into the water. They ran up and recognized the Dwarf.
又过了些时，白玫瑰和红玫瑰去池边钓鱼。 当她们走近池塘时，看见有样东西，很像只大蝗虫，在池边跳来跳去，好像要跳入池中似的。 她们跑上前才认出，又是那个小矮人。
The little man had been sitting there angling, and unfortunately the wind had entangled his beard with the fishing line;
原来，小矮人在钓鱼。 不幸的是，风把他的胡子和钓鱼的线绞地一起了。
When the Dwarf saw this done he was in a great rage, and exclaimed : " You donkey. That is the way to disfigure my face. Was it not enough to cut itonce, but you must now take away the best part of my fine beard I dare not show myself again now to my own people. I wish you had run the soles off your boots before you had come here. "
小矮人一看到胡子又被剪了，勃然大怒，喊道，“你这个笨驴！你们就这样把我的脸弄得不成形了。 你们剪了一次还不够吗？难道你们非把我最漂亮的一束胡子剪去才甘心？现在我已经不敢在我的同类前露脸了。 我多么希望你们在到这里之前已经把鞋底跑穿了！
So the maiden pulled out her scissors again and cut off another piece of the beard.
于是，小姑娘再一次拿出了剪刀，又剪下了小矮人的一撮胡子。
and so a great fish bit at the bait, the strength of the weak little fellow was not able to draw it out, and the fish had the best of struggle.
一条大鱼上钓后，小矮人的力量不够，不能把鱼拖出水面，而鱼却占了上风。
"You will fall into the water."
“你这样会掉进池子里去的。
"but do you not see this fish will pull me in?"
“难道你没有看见，那条鱼正想把我拉进水里吗？
but both were too closely entangled for it to be done.
但是它们缠绕得太紧了，没法解开。
Luckily just then the two maidens arrived, and tried to release the beard of the Dwarf from the fishing line;
幸好是，两个小姑娘赶来了。 她们想把小矮人的胡子跟钓鱼线分开，
The Dwarf held on by the reeds and rushes which grew near; but to no purpose, for the fish pulled him where it liked, and he must soon have been drawn into the pond.
小矮人抓住长在附近的芦苇和灯蕊草，但仍然没有用，大鱼想把他拉向哪里就拉到哪里，如果两个姑娘没有及时来到，小矮人很快就会被拖入池中。
"I am not quite such a simpleton as that," replied the Dwarf;
“我才不那么笨蛋。 ”小矮人答道。
"What are you after" asked Rose-Red.
“你要干什么？”红玫瑰问道，
Immediately afterwards they heard a piercing shriek, and running up they saw with affright that the eagle had caught their old acquaintance, the Dwarf, and was trying to carry him off. The compassionate children thereupon laid hold of the little man, and held him fast till the bird gave up the struggle and flew off. As soon then as the Dwarf had recovered from his fright, he exclaimed in his sqeaking voice: "Could you not hold me more gently You have seized my fine brown coat in such a manner that it is ail torn and full of holes, meddling and interfering rubbish that you are!"With these words he shoul -- dered a bag filled with precious stones, and slipped away to his cave among the rocks.
紧接着，她们听到了一声尖锐的叫声。她们惊恐万状地跑近一看，原来老鹰抓住了她们的老相识——小矮人，而且正要腾空而去。 充满同情心的小姑娘，马上就抓住了小矮人，紧紧地抱住了他，一直到老鹰扭不过而放弃飞走为止。 小矮人刚从惊恐中恢复过来，就尖声尖气地叫喊道，“难道你们就不能轻一点抓我吗？你们这样抓住我那件讲究的棕色大衣，把它撕得千疮百孔。 你们真是一对多管闲事的废物！说完这席话，他扛起了一袋装满宝石的口袋，溜进了岩石中的洞穴。
So saying, he took up a bag of pearls which lay among the rushes, and without speaking another word, slipped off and disappeared behind a stone.
他一边叫嚷，一边就把在灯蕊草中间的一袋珍珠拾了起来，什么别的话也没说就溜了，接着就在岩石后面消失了。
Not many days after this adventure, it chanced that the mother sent the two maidens to the next town to buy thread, needles and pins, laces and ribbons. Their road passed over a common, on which here and there great pieces of rock were lying about. Just over their heads they saw a great bird flying round and round, and every now and then dropping lower and lower, till at last it flew down behind a rock.
这次惊险之后没过几天，碰巧母亲又派她们到邻近的小镇子上去买些针线，别针，花边缎带等。 到那小镇的路上要经过一片公用地。 公用地上到处可看到一些大岩石。 在她们的头上，他们看到有只好大的鸟在盘旋，而且不时地俯冲，越飞越低，最后那鸟往下飞到一块岩石后面。
"What are you standing there gaping for"asked the Dwarf, while his face grew as red as copper with rage; he was continuing to abuse the poor maidens, when a loud roaring noise was heard, and presently a great black Bear came rolling out of the forest. The Dwarf jumped up terrified, but he could not gain his retreat before the Bear overtook him. Thereupon, he cried out: "Spare me, my dear Lord Bear. I will give you all my treasures. See these beautiful precious stones which lie here; only give me my life. for what have you to fear from a little weak fellow like me You could not touch me with your big teeth. There are two wicked girls, take them; they would make nice meals, as fat as young quails; eat them for heaven's sake. "
“你们瞪大了眼睛站在那里呆看什么？小矮人问道，他的脸色因发怒而涨得像赤铜般的通红。 他继续斥责着那两个可怜的姑娘，这时她们听到了一声响亮吼叫，不久，一头大黑熊像滚球似地冲出了森林。 小矮人吓得跳了起来，但是，他已无退路，大熊追上了他，因此，他大喊道，“饶了我吧，熊大爷！我愿意把我所有的财宝都给你，你看这儿的这些漂亮的宝石。 只要你饶命。 像我这样一个软弱的小家伙，你又有什么好害怕的？你不要用你的大牙齿来咬我，那里有两个坏孩子，把她们吃了可真是一顿美餐，她们像嫩鹌鹑一样的肥。 看在老天的份上，把她们吃了吧！
The maidens were now accustomed to his ingratitude, and so they walked on to the town and transacted their business there. Coming home, theyreturned over the same common, and unawares walked up to a certain clean spot on which the Dwarf had shaken out his bag of precious stones, thinking nobody was near. The sun was shining, and the bright stones gilttered in its beams and displayed such a variety of colors that the two maidens stopped to admire them.
现在，姑娘们对小矮人不知感激的表现已习以为常。 所以，她们还是继续往城里去买东西。 在回家的路上，她们又走过了同一块公用地。 不知不觉中，她们来到了一处比较洁净的地方，在那里，小矮人倒出了自己的一袋宝石，当时它还以为附近没有人。 阳光普照着，在阳光下，宝石发出各种光彩，使得两位姑娘也不禁驻足观赏起来。
Then they went home, and Snow-White was married to the prince, and Rose-Red to his brother, with whom they shared the immense treasure which the Dwarf had collected. The old mother also lived for many years happily with her two children, and the rose trees which had stood before the cottage were planted now before the palace, and produced every year beautiful red and white rosses.
于是，他们就一起回家。 白玫瑰和王子结了婚，而红玫瑰则嫁给了王子的弟弟。 他们共同享受小矮人收集的巨额财富，她们的老母亲也和两个女儿一起幸福地生活了许多年。 原先生长在她们茅屋前的两株玫瑰树，现在已经移植到了王宫前，每年都长满了美丽的红玫瑰和白玫瑰。
The maidens were then going to run away, but the Bear called after them: "Snow-White and RoseRed, fear not. Wait a bit and I will accompany you. " They recognized his voice and stopped; and when the Bear came, his rough coat suddenly fell off, and he stood up a tall man, dressed entirely in gold. "I am a king's son, "he said, "And I was condemned by the wicked Dwarf, who stole all my treasures, to wander about in this forest, in the form of a bear, till his death released me. Now he has received his well deserved punishment. "
那时，姑娘们正想要逃跑，但是大熊在后面叫住了她们，“白玫瑰，红玫瑰，别害怕。 等一下，我会来陪伴你们。 ”她们听出了他的声音，停住脚步。 大熊走到跟前，突然间他的粗毛皮外衣脱落下来了，他竟然是一位穿着金衣身材高大的年青人。 “我是位王子，”他说，“我受到那个偷我财宝坏矮人的诅咒，把我变成一头熊，在森林里到处流浪，一直到他死后我才能恢复人形，现在他已恶贯满盈，罪有应得。
The Bear, however, without troubling himself to speak, gave the bad-hearted Dwarf a single blow with his paw, and he never stirred after.
但是那头熊连说也懒得说，就用他的前掌给了那坏心肠的小矮人一巴掌。 于是小矮人永远再也动弹不了。