第22章 踩麵包的姑娘 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf(第2/14 頁)

owed up in a mud puddle.

18 世紀末，這首歌以單面大活頁的形式出版，儘管它有著生硬的說教和拖沓的韻律（“哦，人類的靈魂要記住，\/ 摒棄驕傲的誘惑，\/ 把其他罪惡都拋在身後，\/ 它們是她的毀滅之源……”），但它因激發了漢斯?克里斯蒂安?安徒生（hans christian Andersen）的同名故事而被人們記住。

toward the end of the eighteenth century the song was published as a broadside and despite its heavy - handed morality and plodding rhymes (\"o human soul keep this in mind, \/ Abandon pride’s temptations, \/ And leave all other sins behind, \/ they were her ruination...\") it’s remembered for having inspired hans christian Andersen’s story of the same name.

“英格” 這個名字是安徒生創造的，他可能是受到了斯拉格爾斯（Slagelse）那個令人厭惡的校長的妻子英格?邁斯林（Inger meisling）的啟發。

the name “Inger” was Andersen’s invention, and he may have been inspired by Inger meisling, the wife of the detested schoolmaster in Slagelse.

安徒生坦然承認在創作故事時有報復心理：“很多時候，當人們做出惱人的舉動而我又無法回擊時，我就會寫一個故事，把他們寫進故事裡。”

Andersen freely admitted the role of revenge in his construction of narratives: “many times when people have behaved in an irritating way and I have been unable to hit back, I have written a story and put them into it”.

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從前有個姑娘，為了不弄髒鞋子而踩在麵包上，她因此遭遇的不幸是眾所周知的。

there was once a girl who trod on a loaf to avoid soiling her shoes, and the misfortunes that happened to her in consequence are well known.

她叫英格；她是個窮苦的孩子，但是很驕傲、任性，而且性情惡劣、殘忍。在她還很小的時候，她就喜歡捉蒼蠅，扯掉它們的翅膀，讓它們只能爬行。再大一點的時候，她會捉金龜子和甲蟲，然後用大頭針把它們穿起來。

her name was Inge; she was a poor child, but proud and presuming, and with a bad and cruel disposition.