阿拉丁和神灯-1

英语分级阅读 2014年01月24日 14:59:53

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Many years ago ,in a city in Arabia, there was1 a boy called Aladdin. He lived with his mother in a little house near the marker, and they were very poor. Aladdin's mother worked all day, and sometimes half the night, but Aladdin never helped her.

He was a lazy2 boy and he did3 not like to work. He only wanted to play all the time. Every morning he ran4 through the streets to the market5. There, he talked and laughed and played with his friends all day. Then in the evening he went home for his dinner. And every night his mother said6 to him: ‘Oh, Aladdin, Aladdin! You are a lazy boy － a good － for-nothing! When are you going7 to do some work, my son?'

But Aladdin never listened to his mother.

One day in the market there was an old man in a long black coat. Aladdin did not see him, but the old man watched Aladdin very carefully8. After some minutes he went up to an orange-seller and asked:

‘That boy in the green coat — who is he?'

‘Aladdin, son of Mustafa,' was the answer.

The old man moved away. ‘Yes,' he said quietly9. ‘Yes, that is the boy. The right name and the right father.'

Then he called out to Aladdin: ‘Boy! Come here for a minute. Is your name Aladdin? Aladdin, son of Mustafa?'

Aladdin left his friends and came10 to the old man. ‘Yes,' he said, ‘I am Aladdin, son of Mustafa. But my father is dead11. He died12 five years ago.'

‘Dead!' said the old man. ‘ Oh, no!' He put his face in his hands and began to cry.

‘Why are you crying?' asked Aladdin. ‘Did you know my father?'

很多年以前，在一个阿拉伯城市里，有一个男孩儿叫阿拉丁。他和他的母亲住在市场附近一个很小的屋子里，过着穷苦的日子。阿拉丁的母亲整天都在辛勤地劳作，有时甚至忙碌到深夜，但阿拉丁从来都不帮助她。

他很懒惰，不喜欢劳动，只想整天玩耍。每天早晨他都穿过街道跑到市场上，一整天都和伙伴们在那儿说笑嬉戏，傍晚时分才回家吃饭。

每天晚上他的母亲都对他说：“唉，阿拉丁，阿拉丁！你这个懒惰的孩子——真是没用！你什么时候才能做点儿事呢？儿子？”

但阿拉丁从来都不听母亲的话。

一天，市场上来了一个身穿黑色长袍的老头儿。阿拉丁并没有注意到他，老头儿却在仔细地观察着阿拉丁。过了好一会儿他走到一个卖橘子的摊贩前问道：

“那个穿绿衣服的男孩子——他是谁啊？”

“阿拉丁，穆斯塔法的儿子。”摊贩答道。

老头儿随即走开了。“是的，”他低声地自言自语道，“是的，就是这个男孩儿。就是这个名字，他父亲的名字也对。”

然后他冲阿拉丁喊道：“孩子！过来一下。你是叫阿拉丁吗？阿拉丁，穆斯塔法的儿子？”

阿拉丁离开他的伙伴们来到老头儿面前。“是的，”他说，“我是阿拉丁，穆斯塔法的儿子。但我父亲已经死了，他五年前就死了。”