There was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and was so beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face of the earth. But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt that her end drew near she called the king to her and said, ‘Promise me that you will never marry again, unless you meet with a wife who is as beautiful as I am, and who has golden hair like mine.’ Then when the king in his grief promised all she asked, she shut her eyes and died. But the king was not to be comforted, and for a long time never thought of taking another wife. At last, however, his wise men said, ‘this will not do; the king must marry again, that we may have a queen.’ So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen. But there was no princess in the world so beautiful; and if there had been, still there was not one to be found who had golden hair. So the messengers came home, and had had all their trouble for nothing.
从前有一个国王，他的王后有着最纯金的头发，非常美丽，以至于在整个地球上都找不到她的配偶。但是这位美丽的王后病倒了，当她觉得她的末日临近时，她打电话给国王对她说： “答应我，除非你遇到一个和我一样漂亮、和我一样金发的妻子，否则你永远不会再结婚了。”然后，当国王在悲伤中答应了她所要求的一切时，她闭上了眼睛，死了。但国王没有得到安慰，很长一段时间从未想过再娶一个妻子。然而，最后，他的智者们说： “这不行；国王必须再次结婚，这样我们才能有一个王后。“因此，使者们被派往四面八方，寻找像已故女王一样美丽的新娘。但是世界上没有一个公主这么漂亮；如果有的话，仍然没有一个人有金色的头发。于是那些使者回到家里，无缘无故地遇到了所有的麻烦。
Now the king had a daughter, who was just as beautiful as her mother, and had the same golden hair. And when she was grown up, the king looked at her and saw that she was just like this late queen: then he said to his courtiers, ‘May I not marry my daughter? She is the very image of my dead wife: unless I have her, I shall not find any bride upon the whole earth, and you say there must be a queen.’ When the courtiers heard this they were shocked, and said, ‘Heaven forbid that a father should marry his daughter! Out of so great a sin no good can come.’ And his daughter was also shocked, but hoped the king would soon give up such thoughts; so she said to him, ‘Before I marry anyone I must have three dresses: one must be of gold, like the sun; another must be of shining silver, like the moon; and a third must be dazzling as the stars: besides this, I want a mantle of a thousand different kinds of fur put together, to which every beast in the kingdom must give a part of his skin.’ And thus she thought he would think of the matter no more. But the king made the most skilful workmen in his kingdom weave the three dresses: one golden, like the sun; another silvery, like the moon; and a third sparkling, like the stars: and his hunters were told to hunt out all the beasts in his kingdom, and to take the finest fur out of their skins: and thus a mantle of a thousand furs was made.
现在国王有一个女儿，和她母亲一样漂亮，金色的头发也一样。当她长大后，国王看着她，看到她就像这位已故的王后：然后他对他的臣仆说： “我可以不娶我的女儿吗？她是我死去的妻子的形象：除非我有她，否则我不会在整个地球上找到任何新娘，而你说一定有一个女王。”当朝臣们听到这个消息时，他们感到震惊，说： “上天禁止父亲娶女儿！从如此巨大的罪恶中，没有任何好处可以带来。”他的女儿也很震惊，但希望国王很快就会放弃这样的想法；所以她对他说， “在我嫁给任何人之前，我必须有三件衣服：一件必须是金色的，像太阳一样；另一件必须是闪闪发光的银色，像月亮一样；第三件必须像星星一样耀眼：除此之外，我想要一件一千种不同毛皮的披风，王国里的每只野兽都必须给他一部分皮肤。”因此，她认为他不会再想这件事了。但国王使他王国中最娴熟的工人编织了三件衣服：一件金色的，像太阳；另一件银色的，像月亮；第三件闪闪发光的，像星星：他的猎人被告知要猎取他王国中所有的野兽，并从他们的皮肤中取出最好的皮毛：因此制作了一千件皮毛的斗篷。
When all were ready, the king sent them to her; but she got up in the night when all were asleep, and took three of her trinkets, a golden ring, a golden necklace, and a golden brooch, and packed the three dresses--of the sun, the moon, and the stars--up in a nutshell, and wrapped herself up in the mantle made of all sorts of fur, and besmeared her face and hands with soot. Then she threw herself upon Heaven for help in her need, and went away, and journeyed on the whole night, till at last she came to a large wood. As she was very tired, she sat herself down in the hollow of a tree and soon fell asleep: and there she slept on till it was midday.
当一切都准备好了，国王把它们送给她；但是当所有人都睡着的时候，她在晚上起床，拿走了她的三个小饰品，一个金戒指，一条金项链和一个金胸针，简而言之，把太阳、月亮和星星的三件衣服打包起来，把自己裹在用各种毛皮制成的地幔里，用烟灰把她的脸和手包起来。然后她向天堂寻求帮助，然后离开了，整夜旅行，直到最后她来到一个大树林。她很累，在一棵树的洞里坐下，很快就睡着了：她在那里睡到中午。
Now as the king to whom the wood belonged was hunting in it, his dogs came to the tree, and began to snuff about, and run round and round, and bark. ‘Look sharp!’ said the king to the huntsmen, ‘and see what sort of game lies there.’ And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a most wonderful beast, such as we never saw before; its skin seems to be of a thousand kinds of fur, but there it lies fast asleep.’ ‘See,’ said the king, ‘if you can catch it alive, and we will take it with us.’ So the huntsmen took it up, and the maiden awoke and was greatly frightened, and said, ‘I am a poor child that has neither father nor mother left; have pity on me and take me with you.’ Then they said, ‘Yes, Miss Cat-skin, you will do for the kitchen; you can sweep up the ashes, and do things of that sort.’ So they put her into the coach, and took her home to the king’s palace. Then they showed her a little corner under the staircase, where no light of day ever peeped in, and said, ‘Cat-skin, you may lie and sleep there.’ And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
现在，当森林所属的国王在树上打猎时，他的狗来到树前，开始四处嗅吸，四处奔跑，吠叫。“仔细看！”国王对猎人说， “看看那里有什么样的游戏。”猎人们走到树前，当他们再次回来时说： “在空心树上有一种我们从未见过的最奇妙的野兽；它的皮肤似乎是一千种皮毛，但它躺在那里睡着了。“看， ”国王说，“如果你能活捉它，我们就把它带走。”于是猎人们拿起它，少女醒来，非常害怕，说： “我是一个没有父母的穷孩子，可怜我吧，带我和你一起去。“然后他们说， ‘是的，猫皮小姐，你会为厨房做的；你可以清理灰烬，做那种事情。“于是他们把她放进马车里，带她回家去国王的宫殿。然后他们向她展示了楼梯下的一个小角落，那里从来没有白天窥视过，并说： “猫皮，你可以躺在那里睡觉。“她被送进厨房，被要求去取木头和水，吹火，采摘家禽，采摘草药，筛灰烬，做所有的脏活。
Thus Cat-skin lived for a long time very sorrowfully. ‘Ah! pretty princess!’ thought she, ‘what will now become of thee?’ But it happened one day that a feast was to be held in the king’s castle, so she said to the cook, ‘May I go up a little while and see what is going on? I will take care and stand behind the door.’ And the cook said, ‘Yes, you may go, but be back again in half an hour’s time, to rake out the ashes.’ Then she took her little lamp, and went into her cabin, and took off the fur skin, and washed the soot from off her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth like the sun from behind the clouds. She next opened her nutshell, and brought out of it the dress that shone like the sun, and so went to the feast. Everyone made way for her, for nobody knew her, and they thought she could be no less than a king’s daughter. But the king came up to her, and held out his hand and danced with her; and he thought in his heart, ‘I never saw any one half so beautiful.’
因此，猫皮生活了很长一段时间，非常悲伤。“啊！漂亮的公主！”她想， “你现在怎么办？“但是有一天，国王的城堡里要举行一场盛宴，所以她对厨师说， ‘我可以上去看看发生了什么吗？我会保重，站在门后。“厨师说，‘是的，你可以去，但半小时后再回来，把灰烬耙出来。’然后她拿起她的小灯，走进她的小屋，脱下毛皮，洗去脸上和手上的烟灰，让她的美丽从云层后面像太阳一样闪耀。接下来，她打开坚果壳，从里面拿出像太阳一样闪闪发光的衣服，然后去参加宴会。每个人都为她让路，因为没有人认识她，他们认为她可能不亚于国王的女儿。但国王走到她面前，伸出手和她跳舞；他心里想， “我从来没有见过这么漂亮的一半。”
When the dance was at an end she curtsied; and when the king looked round for her, she was gone, no one knew wither. The guards that stood at the castle gate were called in: but they had seen no one. The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again. When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, ‘Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.’
当舞会结束时，她屈膝；当国王环顾四周寻找她时，她走了，没有人知道她会枯萎。站在城门口的卫兵被叫了进来，但他们没有见到任何人。事实是，她撞上了她的小木屋，脱下了她的衣服，把她的脸和手都弄黑了，穿上了毛皮斗篷，又变成了猫皮。当她走进厨房去上班，开始耙骨灰时，厨师说： “别管它了，直到早上，给国王的汤加热；我现在想跑去偷看一下：但要小心，不要让一根头发掉进去，否则你就有机会再也不吃东西了。”
As soon as the cook went away, Cat-skin heated the king’s soup, and toasted a slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could; and when it was ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring, and put it into the dish in which the soup was. When the dance was over, the king ordered his soup to be brought in; and it pleased him so well, that he thought he had never tasted any so good before. At the bottom he saw a gold ring lying; and as he could not make out how it had got there, he ordered the cook to be sent for. The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-skin, ‘You must have let a hair fall into the soup; if it be so, you will have a good beating.’ Then he went before the king, and he asked him who had cooked the soup. ‘I did,’ answered the cook. But the king said, ‘That is not true; it was better done than you could do it.’ Then he answered, ‘To tell the truth I did not cook it, but Cat-skin did.’ ‘Then let Cat-skin come up,’ said the king: and when she came he said to her, ‘Who are you?’ ‘I am a poor child,’ said she, ‘that has lost both father and mother.’ ‘How came you in my palace?’ asked he. ‘I am good for nothing,’ said she, ‘but to be scullion-girl, and to have boots and shoes thrown at my head.’ ‘But how did you get the ring that was in the soup?’ asked the king. Then she would not own that she knew anything about the ring; so the king sent her away again about her business.
厨师一走，猫皮就把国王的汤加热了，先烤了一片面包，尽她所能地烤得很好；当它准备好了，她就去小屋里寻找她的小金戒指，把它放进汤的盘子里。舞蹈结束后，国王下令将他的汤带进来；这使他非常高兴，他认为他以前从未尝过这么好喝的味道。在底部，他看到一枚金戒指躺着；由于他不知道它是如何到达那里的，他命令把厨师叫来。厨师听到命令吓了一跳，对猫皮说： “你一定是把一根头发掉进了汤里，如果是这样，你会打得很好的。“然后他走到国王面前，问是谁煮的汤。“是的，”厨师回答。但国王说： “这不是真的，做得比你做得好。“然后他回答说： ‘说实话，我没有煮，但猫皮煮了。“那就让猫皮上来吧，”国王说，当她来的时候，他对她说， “你是谁？“我是一个可怜的孩子， ”她说，“我失去了父亲和母亲。“你怎么进了我的宫殿？”他问。“我无所事事，”她说， “但做一个帆布姑娘，把靴子和鞋子扔在我的头上。“但是你是怎么得到汤里的戒指的？ ”国王问道。然后她不会承认她对戒指一无所知；所以国王又把她送走了。
After a time there was another feast, and Cat-skin asked the cook to let her go up and see it as before. ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘but come again in half an hour, and cook the king the soup that he likes so much.’ Then she ran to her little cabin, washed herself quickly, and took her dress out which was silvery as the moon, and put it on; and when she went in, looking like a king’s daughter, the king went up to her, and rejoiced at seeing her again, and when the dance began he danced with her. After the dance was at an end she managed to slip out, so slyly that the king did not see where she was gone; but she sprang into her little cabin, and made herself into Cat-skin again, and went into the kitchen to cook the soup. Whilst the cook was above stairs, she got the golden necklace and dropped it into the soup; then it was brought to the king, who ate it, and it pleased him as well as before; so he sent for the cook, who was again forced to tell him that Cat-skin had cooked it. Cat-skin was brought again before the king, but she still told him that she was only fit to have boots and shoes thrown at her head.
过了一会儿，又有一场盛宴，猫皮让厨师让她像以前一样上去看看。“是的，”他说， “但是半小时后再来，给国王煮他非常喜欢的汤。”然后她跑到她的小木屋，很快洗了身，拿出银色的衣服，就像月亮一样，把它穿上；当她进去的时候，看起来像国王的女儿，国王走到她身边，很高兴再次见到她，当舞蹈开始时，他和她跳舞。舞会结束后，她设法溜走了，国王狡猾地看不见她去了哪里；但她跳进她的小木屋，又把自己变成了猫皮，然后走进厨房煮汤。当厨师在楼上时，她拿起金项链，把它扔进汤里；然后它被带到国王面前，谁吃了它，它和以前一样让他高兴；所以他派人去找厨师，谁又被迫告诉他，猫皮已经煮熟了。猫皮又被带到国王面前，但她仍然告诉他，她只适合把靴子和鞋子扔在她的头上。
But when the king had ordered a feast to be got ready for the third time, it happened just the same as before. ‘You must be a witch, Cat-skin,’ said the cook; ‘for you always put something into your soup, so that it pleases the king better than mine.’ However, he let her go up as before. Then she put on her dress which sparkled like the stars, and went into the ball-room in it; and the king danced with her again, and thought she had never looked so beautiful as she did then. So whilst he was dancing with her, he put a gold ring on her finger without her seeing it, and ordered that the dance should be kept up a long time. When it was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand, but she slipped away, and sprang so quickly through the crowd that he lost sight of her: and she ran as fast as she could into her little cabin under the stairs. But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.
但当国王第三次下令准备盛宴时，事情还是和以前一样。“你一定是个巫婆，猫皮，”厨师说， “因为你总是往汤里放点东西，这样国王会比我的国王更高兴。“不过，他还是让她上去了。然后她穿上像星星一样闪闪发光的裙子，走进舞厅；国王又和她一起跳舞，觉得她从来没有像那时那样漂亮过。所以当他和她跳舞的时候，他把一枚金戒指戴在她的手指上，她看不到它，并命令舞蹈应该保持很长一段时间。当它结束时，他会紧紧抓住她的手，但她溜走了，如此迅速地穿过人群，以至于他看不见她：她尽可能快地跑进楼梯下的小木屋。但这一次，她离开的时间太长了，超过了半个小时；所以她没有时间脱下她漂亮的衣服，把她的毛皮披风扔在上面，在她的匆忙中，她没有用烟灰把自己弄黑，但她的一个手指是白色的。
Then she ran into the kitchen, and cooked the king’s soup; and as soon as the cook was gone, she put the golden brooch into the dish. When the king got to the bottom, he ordered Cat-skin to be called once more, and soon saw the white finger, and the ring that he had put on it whilst they were dancing: so he seized her hand, and kept fast hold of it, and when she wanted to loose herself and spring away, the fur cloak fell off a little on one side, and the starry dress sparkled underneath it.
然后她跑进厨房，煮了国王的汤；厨师一走，她就把金胸针放进盘子里。当国王到达底部时，他命令猫皮再次被召唤，很快就看到了白色的手指，以及他在他们跳舞时戴上的戒指：所以他抓住她的手，紧紧抓住它，当她想放松自己并弹开时，毛皮斗篷的一侧掉了一点，星光熠熠的衣服在它下面闪闪发光。
Then he got hold of the fur and tore it off, and her golden hair and beautiful form were seen, and she could no longer hide herself: so she washed the soot and ashes from her face, and showed herself to be the most beautiful princess upon the face of the earth. But the king said, ‘You are my beloved bride, and we will never more be parted from each other.’ And the wedding feast was held, and a merry day it was, as ever was heard of or seen in that country, or indeed in any other.
然后他抓住毛皮，撕掉它，看到她的金色头发和美丽的外形，她再也无法隐藏自己：所以她洗了脸上的烟灰和灰烬，并展示了自己是地球上最美丽的公主。但国王说： “你是我心爱的新娘，我们再也不会分开了。”婚宴举行了，这是一个快乐的日子，在那个国家或任何其他地方都听说过或看到过。