Jack and the Beanstalk
/ˌdʒæk ən ðə ˈbiːnstɔːk/
/ˌdʒæk ən ðə ˈbiːnstɔːk/
- a traditional story often told to children and used as a pantomime. Jack is a boy who sells a cow for three magic beans. He plants these and they grow into a very tall beanstalk. He climbs up the beanstalk into the clouds where a giant (= a very large person) lives, and steals a hen that lays golden eggs, some bags of money and a magic harp (= musical instrument). Jack escapes down the beanstalk and then cuts it down, so that the giant, who is climbing down after him, falls to the ground and is killed. The details in the story are sometimes mixed with those of another old story, Jack the Giant Killer. In it a boy called Jack travels around the country killing giants with his magic sword and wearing a coat that makes him invisible (= unable to be seen). In both stories the giants, trying to find Jack, repeat the rhyme:
“Fee, fi, fo, fum,I smell the blood of an Englishman.Be he alive or be he dead,I'll grind his bones to make my bread.”杰克与魔豆:一个传统的故事,经常告诉孩子们,并被用作哑剧。杰克是一个男孩,他卖一头母牛来换三个魔豆。他种下了这些,然后长成了很高的豆茎。他爬上了豆茎,爬进了一个巨大的人居住的云层中,并偷走了一只产金蛋,几袋钱和一把魔法竖琴的母鸡。杰克逃脱了豆茎,然后将其砍倒,使正在追随他的巨人跌倒在地并被杀死。故事中的细节有时会与另一个古老故事《巨人杀手杰克》混合在一起。里面有一个叫杰克的男孩在全国各地旅行,用魔剑杀死了巨人,并穿了一件使他不可见的外套(看不见)。在这两个故事中,巨人试图找到杰克,重复押韵: