安徒生童話(huà)13THE FALSE COLLAR襯衫領(lǐng)子

<p>[00:34.16]THE FALSE COLLAR<br /> [00:36.17]<br /> [00:36.43]There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a<br /> [00:43.05]hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world; and it is about<br /> [00:49.40]one of these collars that we are now to hear a story.<br /> [00:54.19]<br /> [00:54.40]It was so old, that it began to think of marriage; and it happened that it<br /> [01:00.64]came to be washed in company with a garter.<br /> [01:04.35]<br /> [01:04.57]"Nay!" said the collar. "I never did see anything so slender and so fine, so<br /> [01:13.95]soft and so neat. May I not ask your name?"<br /> [01:19.50]<br /> [01:19.76]"That I shall not tell you!" said the garter.<br /> [01:23.07]<br /> [01:23.16]"Where do you live?" asked the collar.<br /> [01:27.67]<br /> [01:27.85]But the garter was so bashful, so modest, and thought it was a strange<br /> [01:33.57]question to answer.<br /> [01:35.38]<br /> [01:35.59]"You are certainly a girdle," said the collar; "that is to say an inside<br /> [01:41.54]girdle. I see well that you are both for use and ornament, my dear young<br /> [01:47.51]lady."<br /> [01:49.00]<br /> [01:49.24]"I will thank you not to speak to me," said the garter. "I think I have not<br /> [01:55.21]given the least occasion for it."<br /> [01:58.36]<br /> [01:58.58]"Yes! When one is as handsome as you," said the collar, "that is occasion<br /> [02:06.04]enough."<br /> [02:07.54]<br /> [02:07.77]"Don't come so near me, I beg of you!" said the garter. "You look so much like<br /> [02:15.03]those men-folks."<br /> [02:18.04]<br /> [02:18.28]"I am also a fine gentleman," said the collar. "I have a bootjack and a<br /> [02:26.37]hair-comb."<br /> [02:28.28]<br /> [02:28.47]But that was not true, for it was his master who had them: but he boasted.<br /> [02:35.38]<br /> [02:36.71]"Don't come so near me," said the garter: "I am not accustomed to it."<br /> [02:42.42]<br /> [02:42.63]"Prude!" exclaimed the collar; and then it was taken out of the washing-tub.<br /> [02:48.64]It was starched, hung over the back of a chair in the sunshine, and was then<br /> [02:54.64]laid on the ironing-blanket; then came the warm box-iron. "Dear lady!" said<br /> [03:02.22]the collar. "Dear widow-lady! I feel quite hot. I am quite changed. I begin to<br /> [03:12.40]unfold myself. You will burn a hole in me. Oh! I offer you my hand."<br /> [03:21.79]<br /> [03:22.02]"Rag!" said the box-iron; and went proudly over the collar: for she fancied<br /> [03:29.41]she was a steam-engine, that would go on the railroad and draw the waggons.<br /> [03:36.27]"Rag!" said the box-iron.<br /> [03:39.52]<br /> [03:39.76]The collar was a little jagged at the edge, and so came the long scissors to<br /> [03:45.57]cut off the jagged part. "Oh!" said the collar. "You are certainly the first<br /> [03:52.75]opera dancer. How well you can stretch your legs out! It is the most graceful<br /> [04:00.61]performance I have ever seen. No one can imitate you."<br /> [04:08.24]<br /> [04:08.43]"I know it," said the scissors.<br /> [04:11.28]<br /> [04:11.50]"You deserve to be a baroness," said the collar. "All that I have is a fine<br /> [04:18.70]gentleman, a boot-jack, and a hair-comb. If I only had the barony!"<br /> [04:25.79]<br /> [04:26.01]"Do you seek my hand?" said the scissors; for she was angry; and without more<br /> [04:34.30]ado, she CUT HIM, and then he was condemned.<br /> [04:39.57]<br /> [04:39.79]"I shall now be obliged to ask the hair-comb. It is surprising how well you<br /> [04:47.34]preserve your teeth, Miss," said the collar. "Have you never thought of being<br /> [04:52.62]betrothed?"<br /> [04:54.37]<br /> [04:54.59]"Yes, of course! you may be sure of that," said the hair-comb. "I AM<br /> [05:00.74]betrothed--to the boot-jack!"<br /> [05:03.65]<br /> [05:03.87]"Betrothed!" exclaimed the collar. Now there was no other to court, and so he<br /> [05:12.49]despised it.<br /> [05:15.05]<br /> [05:15.29]A long time passed away, then the collar came into the rag chest at the paper<br /> [05:20.45]mill; there was a large company of rags, the fine by themselves, and the<br /> [05:26.85]coarse by themselves, just as it should be. They all had much to say, but the<br /> [05:35.58]collar the most; for he was a real boaster.<br /> [05:39.60]<br /> [05:39.84]"I have had such an immense number of sweethearts!" said the collar. "I could<br /> [05:46.93]not be in peace! It is true, I was always a fine starched-up gentleman! I had<br /> [05:53.76]both a boot-jack and a hair-comb, which I never used! You should have seen me<br /> [06:01.79]then, you should have seen me when I lay down! I shall never forget MY FIRST<br /> [06:08.56]LOVE--she was a girdle, so fine, so soft, and so charming, she threw herself<br /> [06:19.39]into a tub of water for my sake! There was also a widow, who became glowing<br /> [06:26.56]hot, but I left her standing till she got black again; there was also the<br /> [06:33.52]first opera dancer, she gave me that cut which I now go with, she was so<br /> [06:39.73]ferocious! My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from<br /> [06:48.32]the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing;<br /> [06:57.38]but I am extremely sorry for the garter--I mean the girdle--that went into the<br /> [07:05.45]water-tub. I have much on my conscience, I want to become white paper!"<br /> [07:11.95]<br /> [07:12.19]And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the collar<br /> [07:19.34]came to be just this very piece of white paper we here see, and on which the<br /> [07:26.00]story is printed; and that was because it boasted so terribly afterwards of<br /> [07:32.22]what had never happened to it. It would be well for us to beware, that we may<br /> [07:41.01]not act in a similar manner, for we can never know if we may not, in the<br /> [07:48.01]course of time, also come into the rag chest, and be made into white paper,<br /> [07:54.51]and then have our whole life's history printed on it, even the most secret,<br /> [08:03.09]and be obliged to run about and tell it ourselves, just like this collar.<br /> [08:09.23]</p>

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