锡士兵的心

It was so dark inside the fish that the small tin soldier couldn't see anything. He thought of his home and the pretty dancer, but he was brave and did not cry. He held his gun in his hand and lay very straight.
　　The fish swam along the drain. After a long time it got out of the drain and reached the sea.

　　A fisherman was fishing there. He caught the fish with a hook and tried to pull it out of the water. The fish jumped about and the tin soldier fell on one side and then on the other. He was quite tired. At last the fish was quiet. It was dead.
　　The fisherman took it to a fish shop and sold it.

　　"Where am I going?" the tin soldier thought in the dark. He lay still in the fish all day. Then somebody bought the fish and took it home.
　　The fish was put on the kitchen table, and a servant cut it open with a knife. "Look!" she shouted. "It's the missing tin soldier." The tin soldier looked at her face and knew her at once. The small tin soldier looked around and found that he was in the same house again.

　　The servant took him upstairs to the children's room. When the children saw him, they were all surprised and shouted, "The small tin soldier's come back! The small tin soldier's come back!" The small boy was especially glad to see his tin soldier again.
　　The small tin soldier was also very happy to see the children again. The children put him on the table together with his twenty-four brothers. They were very glad that their brother had come back safe and sound. The black dog was there, too, but the small tin soldier looked straight at the pretty paper house and at the beautiful dancer.

　　She was dancing in front of her house. She did not stop dancing. She did not look at him, either. But the small tin soldier loved her more than before. "She's never looked at me," he said, "but I love her very much.
　　Two of the children quarreled in the evening. One of them was very angry. He took the small tin soldier and threw him into the fire. The black dog was so happy that he laughed and jumped. What a cruel dog!

　　Soon the small tin soldier was very hot. His black fur cap, his red coat, and his blue trousers began to burn. But in the fire he stood very straight with his gun in his hand, and with his eyes fixed on the beautiful dancer. Then she looked at him!
　　At that moment somebody opened the door, and the wind blew in. The wind caught the beautiful dancer and took her up into the air. She flew like a small blue bird straight into the fire. She lay beside the small tin soldier, but in a second she burned up and was not there anymore.

　　The servant cleaned the fireplace the next morning. She found the tin flower from the beautiful dancer's hair in the ashes. It was quite black. She did not find the tin soldier anywhere in the fireplace. She did find a small lump of tin by the tin flower. And the lump was in the shape of a heart.
　　鱼体内很黑暗，因此小锡士兵什么也看不见。他想到他的家和那位美丽的舞蹈家，但他很勇敢没有哭泣。他手持着枪直挺挺地躺着。

　　鱼沿着排水管游下去。过了好一阵子，这条鱼游出了排水管到达海洋。
　　一名渔夫正在那里钓鱼。他用一根鱼钩钓到这条鱼，并且设法要把鱼从水中拉上来。鱼翻滚跳跃，锡士兵也跟着东倒西歪。他很疲累。最后这条鱼不再动弹，魂归西天了。

　　渔夫把这条鱼拿到鱼铺去卖。
　　『我要到哪里去呢？』锡士兵在黑暗中思索着。他在鱼体里静静躺了一整天。后来有人买了这条鱼，把它带回家。

　　这条鱼被放在厨房的桌上，一位仆人用刀把它切开。她大叫：『你们看！这就是那个遗失的锡士兵。』锡士兵看着她的脸，立刻就认出她。小锡士兵环顾四周，发现他又回到了同一户人家。
　　仆人把他拿到楼上小孩子的房间。当孩子们看到他的时候，他们都惊讶地大叫：『小锡士兵回来了！小锡士兵回来了！』小男孩再次看到他的锡士兵时显得特别地高兴。

　　小锡士兵也很高兴再见到这些孩子。这些孩子把他放在桌上跟他的廿四名弟兄在一起。他们都很高兴他们的兄弟能够安然无恙地回到家里。黑狗也在那里，但小锡士兵却目不转睛地看着漂亮的纸屋和美丽的舞蹈家。
　　她正在家门前跳舞。她不停地跳着，也没看他一眼，但小锡士兵比以前更爱她。他说：『她从来不看我一眼，但是我很爱她。』

　　晚上有两个小孩在争吵。其中一个非常生气。他抓起小锡士兵把他丢到火里。黑狗乐得又笑又跳。多么残忍的狗啊！
　　不久小锡士兵觉得非常炽热，他的黑色毛皮帽、红色上衣和蓝色的长裤开始着火。但身处大火中他仍然手持着枪很挺直地站立着，目不转睛地看着那位美丽的舞蹈家。这时她终于看着他了！