苏教数字版《初中英语阅读》八上Chapter8译文和答案.docx

最新数字版《初中英语阅读》八上译文和答案 PAGE PAGE 1 8上Chapter 8 诵读1 The Happy Prince 快乐王子 The eyes or the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks. His face was so beautiful in the moonlight that the little Swallow was filled with pity. "Who are you?" he said. "l am the Happy Prince." "Why are you weeping then?" asked the Swallow. "You have quite drenched me." "When I was alive and had a human heart," answered the statue, "I did not know what teary were, for I lived in the Palace where sorrow is not allowed to enter. In the daytime l played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall. Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it,everything about me was so beautiful. My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived, and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that ! can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep." 快乐王子的眼里充满了泪水，泪水顺着他金色的脸颊流下。他的脸在月光下是那么美丽，小燕子心里充满了怜悯。 “你是谁？”他说。 “我是快乐王子。” “那你为什么哭？”燕子问，“你把我弄得浑身湿透了。” “我活着的时候有一颗人类的心，”雕像回答说，“我不知道眼泪是什么，因为我住在不允许悲伤进入的宫殿里。白天我和伙伴们在花园里玩，晚上我在大厅里领舞。花园的四周有一道很高的墙，但我从来不问墙外是什么。我的一切都是那么美丽。我的侍臣们称我为快乐王子，如果愉快就是快乐的话，我确实是快乐的。所以我还活着，我也死了。现在我死了，他们把我抬到这么高的地方！我能看到我的城市所有的丑陋和所有的不幸，虽然我的心是铅做的，但我只能选择哭泣。” 诵读2 Across the Moor 穿过沼泽地 A wind was rising and making a wild, low, rushing sound. "It's-it's not the sea, is it?"said Mary. "No, not it." answered Mrs.Medlock,"It's just miles and miles and miles of wild land that nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom, and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep." "I feel as if it might be the sea, if there were water on it," said Mary. "lt sounds like the sea just now." "That's the wind blowing through the bushes," Mrs. Medlock said. On and on they drove through the darkness, and though the rain stop