Teeny-Tiny
A free A2-level English story for language learners, readable online in 7 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
A teeny-tiny woman finds a bone in a graveyard and takes it home for supper — but a teeny-tiny voice from the cupboard wants it back.
Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk. And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard.
从前,有一个小不点儿的老婆婆,住在一个小不点儿的村子里的一间小不点儿的房子里。有一天,这个小不点儿的老婆婆戴上她那顶小不点儿的软帽,走出她那间小不点儿的房子,去散一段小不点儿的步。这个小不点儿的老婆婆走了小不点儿的一段路后,来到了一扇小不点儿的门前;于是这个小不点儿的老婆婆打开了这扇小不点儿的门,走进了一个小不点儿的教堂墓地。
And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.” So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket, and went home to her teeny-tiny house.
这个小不点儿的老婆婆走进这个小不点儿的教堂墓地后,看见一座小不点儿的坟墓上放着一根小不点儿的骨头,于是这个小不点儿的老婆婆便自言自语道:“这根小不点儿的骨头,正好可以给我做一小锅小不点儿的汤,当我小不点儿的晚饭。”于是这个小不点儿的老婆婆把这根小不点儿的骨头放进了她那个小不点儿的口袋里,回到了她那间小不点儿的房子。
Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house she was a teeny-tiny bit tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep a teeny-tiny time, she was awakened by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard, which said:
这时,这个小不点儿的老婆婆回到她那间小不点儿的房子后,觉得有那么一丁点儿累了;于是她走上她那道小不点儿的楼梯,来到她那张小不点儿的床边,把那根小不点儿的骨头放进了一个小不点儿的碗柜里。这个小不点儿的老婆婆睡了小不点儿的一会儿之后,被一个从那个小不点儿的碗柜里传出来的小不点儿的声音吵醒了,那声音说道:
“Give me my bone!”
“把我的骨头还给我!”
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again. And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!”
这个小不点儿的老婆婆吓了小不点儿的一跳,于是她把她那颗小不点儿的脑袋藏进了小不点儿的被子底下,又睡着了。她又睡了小不点儿的一会儿之后,那个小不点儿的声音又从那个小不点儿的碗柜里传了出来,声音比刚才大了那么小不点儿的一点儿,说道:“把我的骨头还给我!”
This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes. And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder,
这下这个小不点儿的老婆婆吓得更加厉害了那么小不点儿的一些,于是她把她那颗小不点儿的脑袋往小不点儿的被子里藏得更深了那么小不点儿的一点。这个小不点儿的老婆婆又睡了小不点儿的一会儿之后,那个从小不点儿的碗柜里传出来的声音又说了一遍,声音又大了那么小不点儿的一点,
“Give me my bone!”
“把我的骨头还给我!”
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!”
这个小不点儿的老婆婆吓得又厉害了那么小不点儿的一丁点儿,可她还是把她那颗小不点儿的脑袋从小不点儿的被子里探了出来,用她那小不点儿的嗓门里最大的声音说道:“拿去吧!”