第4章 卖火柴的小女孩 The Little Match－Seller (第1/9页)

《卖火柴的小女孩》，1846 年

the Little match-Seller, 1846

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《卖火柴的小女孩》（在奥古斯滕堡公爵处逗留长达一个月期间创作）的灵感源于安徒生从一本历书编辑那里收到的插图，编辑请求他根据其中一幅写一个故事。

\"the Little match Girl\" (written during a month - long stay with the duke of Augustenborg) was inspired by illustrations Andersen received from the editor of an almanac, with the request that he write a story about one of them.

有一幅由丹麦画家约翰?托马斯?伦德比所画的图像，画的是一个卖火柴的女孩。

one image, painted by the danish artist Johan thomas Lundbye, showed a girl selling matches.

这幅画通过出现在 1843 年的一本日历上而广为人知，日历上的标题是 “施予时请行善”。

It had been popularized through its appearance in an 1843 calendar with the caption, “do good when you give.”

“当我在格洛鲁普的时候，” 安徒生后来在他的旅行日记中回忆道，“在这个奢华富足的时期，一个出版商寄来了三幅木刻画，让我挑出一幅并围绕它写一个小故事。

“while I was at Glorup,“ Andersen later recalled in his travel diaries, “in this time of luxury and plenty, a publisher sent three woodcuts asking me to pick out one and write a little story around it.

我选择了一个描绘贫穷和匮乏的场景，一个衣衫褴褛、手拿几根火柴的小女孩 ——《卖火柴的小女孩》—— 奥古斯滕堡的我们的生活和她的世界之间的反差。”

I chose a scene that depicted poverty and deprivation, a ragged little girl with a handful of matches—‘the Little match - girl’—the contrast between our life at Augustenborg and her world”.

很少有儿童故事像《卖火柴的小女孩》这样饱含激情地展现苦难，一代又一代的孩子都钦佩她，并为她的死亡而哭泣。

Few children’s stories celebrate suffering with the kind of passion brought to the tale of the match - seller, and generations of children have admired her and wept ov