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Once upon a time… these are the magical words most traditional tales start with,
曾几何时……这些是大多数传统故事开头的神奇词汇，
full of castles, prince charmings, fairies and evil stepmothers..
城堡林立、王子魅力、仙女和邪恶的继母。
We are gonna tell you a story today.
今天我们要给你讲个故事。
Hansel and Gretel’s story, one of the most popular tales collected by the Grimm brothers.
汉塞尔和格雷特的故事，格林兄弟收集的最流行的故事之一。
You probably all know this tale already,
你们可能都已经知道这个故事了，
and even tho the story of the chocolate house is quite macabre itself, the real story behind it is even creepier.
尽管这个糖果屋的故事本身相当恐怖，但它背后的真实故事却更加令人毛骨悚然。
Let’s start with one of the many versions of the fable there is out there, and at the end, we will explain the real story.
让我们从传说中的一个版本开始，最后，我们将解释这个故事。
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, in a far off land,
很久很久以前，在一个遥远的地方，
there was a woodcutter who lived with his two kids, Hansel and Gretel, and their step mother.
一个樵夫和他的两个孩子，汉塞尔和格雷特，以及他们的继母住在一起。
It was a very poor family who barely earned money to feed themselves.
那是一个非常贫穷的家庭，几乎无以为生。
The day came when they didn't have anything to eat, not even to buy a bit of flour to make bread,
有一天，他们什么也没吃，甚至连做面包的一点面粉都买不起，
so they started worrying because they thought the kids were gonna starve to death.
所以他们开始担心，因为他们认为孩子们会饿死。
The stepmother thought there was only one solution,
继母认为只有一个解决办法，
leaving them in the middle of the wood near the kings palace so that somebody would find them and take care of them.
把两个孩子留在国王宫附近的树林中间，以便有人能找到他们并照顾他们。
Hansel and Gretel couldn't sleep, listening to this whole conversation.
汉塞尔和格雷特听着这段谈话，睡不着觉。
The girl started crying, but her brother told her there was a way for them to go back home,
女孩哭了起来，但是她哥哥告诉她有办法让他们回家，
since they’d rather starve with their parents, than live without them.
因为他们宁愿和父母一起挨饿，也不愿没有父母。
The following day, their parents woke them up to go and collect wood.
第二天，他们的父母叫醒他们去捡木头。
They knew what was coming, so they took with them a piece of hard bread and on the way they left a trail of breadcrumbs.
他们知道将要发生什么，所以他们带着一块硬面包，在路上留下了面包屑的痕迹。
They had been walking for a long time, and they were very far from their house already.
他们已经走了很长时间了，而且已经离他们的房子很远了。
Their parents told them they were gonna get some water from a nearby stream, and to wait for them.
他们的父母告诉他们，他们要从附近的一条小溪里取水，然后等着他们。
But they never came back, so Hansel and Gretel decided to follow the trail of breadcrumbs back home.
但是父母再也没有回来，所以汉塞尔和格雷特决定沿着面包屑的踪迹回家。
They searched and searched, but they couldnt find it - the birds had eaten it all.
他们找了又找，但找不到，因为鸟儿把面包屑全吃光了。
They were walking for a long time, lost in the woods,
他们走了很长一段时间，在树林里迷了路，
until they found a house made of ginger bread, cookies, chocolate and sweets.
直到他们发现了一所用姜面包、饼干、巧克力和糖果做的房子。
They were soo hungry that they couldn't help getting close to it to eat a bit of this yummy house.
他们太饿了，忍不住靠近并吃了一点这间美味的房子。
Suddenly, an old woman invited them to go inside and offered them some food.
突然，一位老妇人邀请他们进去，给他们提供了一些食物。
She then got the bed ready for them to sleep in.
然后她把床准备好让他们睡。
Obviously, they accepted,
显然，他们接受了，
as they didnt know this house was a trap from an old and evil witch to lock them up and eat them.
因为他们不知道这房子是一个老巫婆的陷阱，她要把他们关起来吃掉。
She made Gretel take care of all the cooking and cleaning, while Hansel was locked inside a cage to fatten him up and eat him afterwards.
她让格雷特负责所有的烹饪和清洁工作，而汉塞尔则被关在笼子里养肥，等待被吃掉。
The boy ate and ate and got fatter and fatter,
男孩吃了又吃，越来越胖，
but as the witch was nearly blind, when she asked him to show her a finger and check if he had gained weight,
但由于女巫几乎失明，当她让男孩给自己看一跟手指，看看他是否增加了体重时，
Hansel always stuck out a chicken bone.
汉塞尔总是伸出一根鸡骨头。
A loong time went by, the witch got tired, and decided to eat him anyway.
很长一段时间过去了，巫婆累了，决定无论如何都要吃掉他。
She asked Gretel to turn on the oven to cook the kid, but the little girl told her she didnt know how to do it.
她让格雷特打开烤箱要烹饪那个男孩，但小女孩告诉她自己不知道怎么做。
And then, when the witch got close to the oven, the girl pushed her inside it,
然后，当女巫靠近烤箱时，女孩把她推到烤箱里，
so both kids were finally set free.
两个孩子终于得救了。
They decided to go back home,
他们决定回家，
but before doing so, they found a lot of gold and gem stones they collected to take home to their parents.
但在回家之前，他们找到了大量的黄金和宝石，他们收集起来带回家给他们的父母。
On their way back, suddenly they found their dad cutting wood and showed him alll they had found,
在回家的路上，他们突然发现他们的父亲正在砍柴，他们向父亲展示了自己找的东西，
so they went home together and lived happily ever after.
于是他们一起回家，从此幸福地生活在一起。
The End.
故事结束了。
The origin of Hansel and Gretel’s tale comes from the Middle Ages.
汉塞尔和格雷特的故事起源于中世纪。
According to different analysis of the original story, the main focus of the Grimm’s tale is the hunger that reigned during that historical period full of shortage.
根据对原著的不同分析，格林兄弟讲述的这则故事的主要焦点在于统治这一历史时期的饥饿问题。
Hansel and Gretel’s parents didnt just abandon them,
汉塞尔和格雷特的父母并没有抛弃他们，
they found themselves forced to separate their kids from them, to avoid the temptation of eating them.
他们被迫将孩子和自己分离，是为了克制诱惑，避免吃掉他们。
During the Medieval Times, hunger was so intense that cannibalism turned into an actual possibility.
在中世纪，饥饿问题是如此艰巨，以至于食人变成了现实。
The witch that lives inside the house made of candy doesnt really exist,
住在糖果屋里的女巫其实并不存在，
it’s an invention to soften the real story and hide the figure of the mother wanting to eat them.
女巫的存在是为弱化真实的故事，隐藏母亲想要吃掉他们的事实。
She also turns into an evil stepmother - a mother abandoning their kids is too hard to do.
母亲也变成了一个邪恶的继母形象——一个母亲很难抛弃自己的孩子。
During those times, it wasnt weird at all to take kids to the woods, taking them away from their family to make them grow up, where they were forced to survive, stealing whatever they found.
在那段时间里，带孩子到树林里，让孩子们离家成长，并被迫生存，偷窃找到的任何东西，一点也不奇怪。
In the story, Hansel and Gretel loot the chocolat house.
故事中，汉塞尔和格雷特抢劫了巧克力屋。
Classical tales are not always what they seem to be,
经典故事并不总是表面上的样子，
and most of the times they hide the harsh reality of the time period they are original from.
大多数时候，它们都隐藏着它们所处时代的残酷现实。
We are done for today, that’s all folks!
今天我们的故事讲完了，以上是今天的全部内容！
Leave a comment letting us know which story you would like us to tell in the next videos.
请留下评论，让我们知道您希望我们在接下来的视频中讲述的故事。
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谢谢您！！！
