经典英语民间故事:孟姜女哭长城
民间故事是从远古时代起就在人们口头流传的一种以奇异的语言和象征的形式讲述人与人之间的种种关系,题材广泛而又充满幻想的叙事体故事。它们往往包含着自然的、异想天开的成分。下面店铺为大家带来英语经典民间故事:孟姜女哭长城,欢迎大家阅读!
A little over two hundred years before our era, the first
emperor of the Chin dynasty ascended the throne under the
name of Shih Huang. This emperor was very cruel towards his
subjects, forcing people from every part of the country to come
and build the Great Wall to protect his empire. Work never
stopped, day or night, with the people carrying heavy loads of
earth and bricks under the overseers' whips, lashes, and curses.
They received very little food; the clothes they wore were
threadbare. So it was scarcely to be wondered at that large
numbers of them died every day.
There was a young man, named Wan Hsi-liang, among those
who had been pressed into the service of building Emperor Shih