There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children. One day she wanted to go into the forest and fetch some food. So she called all seven to her and said: ‘Dear children, I have to go into the forest, be on your guard against the wolf; if he comes in, he will devour you all--skin, hair, and everything. The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet.’ The kids said: ‘Dear mother, we will take good care of ourselves; you may go away without any anxiety.’ Then the old one bleated, and went on her way with an easy mind.
从前有一只老山羊，她生了七只小羊羔，像所有母亲爱孩子一样深爱着它们。有一天，她打算去森林里找些食物，于是把七只小羊都叫到身边说：‘亲爱的孩子们，我得去森林了，你们要当心狼；如果它来了，会把你们全都吃掉——连皮带毛都不剩。那坏蛋常常乔装打扮，但你们能立刻认出它，因为它的声音粗哑，脚是黑色的。’小羊们回答说：‘亲爱的妈妈，我们会好好照顾自己的，您放心去吧。’于是老山羊咩咩叫了几声，便安心地踏上了旅程。
It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: ‘Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back with her for each of you.’ But the little kids knew that it was the wolf, by the rough voice. ‘We will not open the door,’ cried they, ‘you are not our mother. She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough; you are the wolf!’ Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it. Then he came back, knocked at the door of the house, and called: ‘Open the door, dear children, your mother is here and has brought something back with her for each of you.’ But the wolf had laid his black paws against the window, and the children saw them and cried: ‘We will not open the door, our mother has not black feet like you: you are the wolf!’ Then the wolf ran to a baker and said: ‘I have hurt my feet, rub some dough over them for me.’ And when the baker had rubbed his feet over, he ran to the miller and said: ‘Strew some white meal over my feet for me.’ The miller thought to himself: ‘The wolf wants to deceive someone,’ and refused; but the wolf said: ‘If you will not do it, I will devour you.’ Then the miller was afraid, and made his paws white for him. Truly, this is the way of mankind.
没过多久，就有人敲了房子的门并喊道：‘开门吧，亲爱的孩子们；你们的妈妈回来了，还给你们每人带了些东西回来。’但小孩子们听出那是狼的声音，因为那声音粗哑。他们喊道：‘我们不开门！你不是我们的妈妈。她说话声音轻柔悦耳，可你的声音粗哑；你是狼！’于是狼走开，去面包店买了一大块白垩，吞下后把声音变得柔和。接着他回来敲了房子的门，喊道：‘开门吧，亲爱的孩子们，你们的妈妈回来了，还给你们每人带了些东西回来。’但狼把黑色的爪子贴在窗户上，孩子们看见了，便喊道：‘我们不开门！我们的妈妈没有像你这样黑黑的脚；你是狼！’于是狼跑去对面包师说：‘我弄伤了脚，请帮我涂些面团在上面。’面包师照做后，他又跑到磨坊主那里说：‘请在我脚上撒些白面粉。’磨坊主心想：‘这狼是想骗人，’便拒绝了；但狼威胁道：‘如果你不照做，我就把你吃掉。’磨坊主害怕了，便帮他把爪子弄白。唉，这正是世人的做法。
So now the wretch went for the third time to the house-door, knocked at it and said: ‘Open the door for me, children, your dear little mother has come home, and has brought every one of you something back from the forest with her.’ The little kids cried: ‘First show us your paws that we may know if you are our dear little mother.’ Then he put his paws in through the window and when the kids saw that they were white, they believed that all he said was true, and opened the door. But who should come in but the wolf! They were terrified and wanted to hide themselves. One sprang under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the sixth under the washing-bowl, and the seventh into the clock-case. But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat. The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find. When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep. Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest. Ah! what a sight she saw there! The house-door stood wide open. The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed. She sought her children, but they were nowhere to be found. She called them one after another by name, but no one answered. At last, when she came to the youngest, a soft voice cried: ‘Dear mother, I am in the clock-case.’ She took the kid out, and it told her that the wolf had come and had eaten all the others. Then you may imagine how she wept over her poor children.
于是，那恶棍第三次来到屋门前，敲了敲门说道：‘孩子们，快给我开门吧，你们亲爱的妈妈回来了，还从森林里给每个人都带回了礼物。’小羊羔们喊道：‘先让我们看看你的爪子，好确认你是不是我们亲爱的妈妈。’于是他把爪子伸进窗户里，小羊羔们看到他的爪子是白色的，便相信了他所说的话，打开了门。可进来的却是那只狼！他们吓得魂飞魄散，想要躲藏起来。一只跳到了桌子底下，第二只钻进了床里，第三只躲进了炉灶中，第四只跑进了厨房，第五只藏进了碗柜，第六只躲在了洗脸盆下，第七只则躲进了钟壳里。可是狼把他们都找了出来，毫不留情地一个接一个吞进了肚子里。最小的一只躲在钟壳里，是唯一没被找到的那只。狼吃饱后便离开了，走到屋外绿草如茵的草地上，在一棵树下躺下，开始睡觉。不久之后，老山羊从森林里回来了。啊！她看到了多么悲惨的景象！屋门大开着，桌子、椅子和长凳都被掀翻在地，洗脸盆摔得粉碎，床上的被褥和枕头也被扯落下来。她四处寻找孩子们，却一个也找不到。她一个个呼唤他们的名字，却无人应答。最后，当她叫到最小的那只时，一个轻柔的声音说道：‘亲爱的妈妈，我在钟壳里。’她把小羊羔抱了出来，它告诉妈妈狼来过，并且吃掉了所有的兄弟姐妹。这时，你可以想象她为可怜的孩子们是多么伤心地哭泣啊。
At length in her grief she went out, and the youngest kid ran with her. When they came to the meadow, there lay the wolf by the tree and snored so loud that the branches shook. She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly. ‘Ah, heavens,’ she said, ‘is it possible that my poor children whom he has swallowed down for his supper, can be still alive?’ Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster’s stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole. What rejoicing there was! They embraced their dear mother, and jumped like a tailor at his wedding. The mother, however, said: ‘Now go and look for some big stones, and we will fill the wicked beast’s stomach with them while he is still asleep.’ Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred.
她悲痛之余终于起身外出，最小的孩子也紧随其后。来到草地时，只见狼躺在树下鼾声如雷，震得树枝摇晃。她环顾四周，发现那鼓胀的腹中似有动静在挣扎。‘天哪，’她说，‘难道我可怜的孩子被他吞下当晚餐后，竟然还活着？’于是孩子跑回家拿来剪刀、针和线，山羊便剖开怪物的肚子。刚剪一刀，一只小羊羔就探出头来；再剪几刀，六只小羊羔接连跳出，全都安然无恙，毫发未损——只因那怪物贪得无厌，将它们整个吞下。大家欣喜若狂！它们紧紧拥抱亲爱的母亲，高兴得像裁缝在婚礼上那样跳跃。母亲却说：‘现在去找些大石头来，趁它还在熟睡，我们把石头塞进这恶兽的肚子里。’于是七只小羊羔飞快地搬来石头，尽可能多地将石头填入它的腹中；随后母亲迅速将伤口缝合，那怪物对此毫无察觉，连动都没动一下。
When the wolf at length had had his fill of sleep, he got on his legs, and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well to drink. But when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled. Then cried he:
狼终于睡饱了，便站起身来。由于胃里的石头让他感到极度口渴，他想去井边喝水。可是当他开始走动时，胃里的石头相互碰撞，发出哗啦哗啦的响声。于是，他喊道：
‘What rumbles and tumbles Against my poor bones? I thought ‘twas six kids, But it feels like big stones.’
“什么在轰隆翻滚，撞击我瘦弱的骨头？我原以为是六个孩子，却感觉像大石头。”
And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably. When the seven kids saw that, they came running to the spot and cried aloud: ‘The wolf is dead! The wolf is dead!’ and danced for joy round about the well with their mother.
当他走到井边俯身喝水时，沉重的石头使他跌入井中，最终悲惨地淹死了。七个孩子看到这一幕后，立刻跑过来大声喊道：‘狼死了！狼死了！’随后围着井口和母亲一起欢快地跳舞庆祝。