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The brothers in later life. Jacob (standing) and Wilhelm Grimm in a daguerreotype from circa 1850.格林兄弟的晚年生活。雅各布（站立）和威廉·格林約1850年的銀版影像。

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Brothers Grimm fairy tales were never meant for kids

格林童話從來就不是寫給孩子們的

02:07①The brothers Grimm published what would become one of the most influential and famous collections of folklore in the world. 

格林兄弟出版了一本故事集，它后來成為世界上最有影響力、最著名的民間故事集之一。

04:25②However, they had curated the collection as an academic anthology for scholars of German culture, not as a collection of bedtime stories for young readers.

然而，這本故事集原本是面向德國文化學者的學術文集，而不是為少兒讀者準備的睡前故事集。

06:17③The brothers asserted that they collected the stories with "exactness and truth," without adding embellishment or details of their own. 

這對兄弟聲稱，他們所收集的故事均“準確且真實”，没有自行添加任何修飾或細節。

08:14④In later editions, Wilhelm expanded the originally shorter, sparser prose and modified plots to make parts of the dark, tragic stories more accessible to children. 

在后來的版本中，威廉擴寫了原版簡短、鬆散的散文，修改了原版黑暗、慘痛的故事，使其更好地適合兒童閱讀。

10:09⑤Though the brothers became a household name because of it, Children's and Household Tales was part of a bigger pursuit, to excavate and preserve the oral and written forms of German culture, to restore this treasure to the people.

儘管兄弟二人因此家喻戶曉，但是《格林童話》僅僅只是他們偉大藍圖的一小步，他們追求的是發掘和保存口頭以及書面形式中的德國文化，並將這一寶藏重新展現給人民。

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Dorothea Viehmann shares her stories with the Grimms. 19th-century oil painting by Louis Katzenstein
德洛特亞.維曼（Dorothea Viehmann）與格林兄弟分享她的故事。該油畫是路易斯·卡讚斯坦（Louis Katzenstein）十九世紀的作品

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As their collection of stories gained popularity, the brothers Grimm drastically edited or even deleted more than 40 tales in subsequent editions to appeal to a wider—and younger—audience. The world-famous collection has been translated into more than 160 languages.
隨著他們的故事集人氣逐漸高漲，格林兄弟為了吸引年輕讀者，在隨后的版本中刪減了40多個故事。這本舉世聞名的故事集已被翻譯成160多種語言。

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The Evil Queen is a guest at Snow White’s wedding, as shown in a 1910 illustration by Franz Juttner. In the Grimm version of the tale, the queen is punished for her crimes agaist the princess by being forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and to dance until she drops down dead.
巫后是白雪公主婚禮上的客人，如弗朗茨·賈特納（Franz Juttner）1910年畫的插圖所示。在格林兄弟的故事版本中，巫后因為對公主犯下的罪行而受到懲罰，她被強迫穿著燒紅的鐵鞋跳舞，直至倒地而死。

PHOTOGRAPH BY AKG/ALBUM
The brothers in later life. Jacob (standing) and Wilhelm Grimm in a daguerreotype from circa 1850.
格林兄弟的晚年生活。雅各布（站立）和威廉·格林約1850年的銀版影像。

精選語言點 

1. 詞彙

1）mean /miːn/ v. 打算，意欲

meant /ment/ v. （mean 的過去式和過去分詞）打算，意欲

I'm sorry if I offended you - I didn't mean any harm. 

如果冒犯了你我很抱歉——我並無惡意。

2）folklore /ˈfəʊklɔː(r)/ n. 民間傳說，民俗

folk n. 民間；民俗

folk art 民俗故事

folk dance 民間舞蹈

lore n. 知識，傳說

3）curate /kjʊˈreɪt/ v. 整理，安排

curate an exhibition

籌備一場展覽

curate a ceremony

組織一場典禮

4）anthology /ænˈθɒlədʒi/ n. (文化藝術作品的)文集，精選集

5）assert /əˈsɜːt/ v. 斷言，聲稱

She asserts that this man stole money from her. 

她聲稱這男的偷了她的錢

6）exactness /ɪɡˈzæktnəs/ n. 精確性

exact adj. 精確，確切

7）embellishment /ɪmˈbelɪʃmənt/ n. 裝飾，潤色

8）sparse /spɑːs/ adj. 稀少的，稀疏的

The movie got a sparse audience. 

這個電影上座率不高。

9）prose /prəʊz/ n. 散文，文本

10）modify /ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/ v. 修改，更改

modify the answers 修改答案

modify one's behaviors 改正行為

11）accessible /əkˈsesəb(ə)l/ adj. 可以理解的，易懂的

The book is accessible to all readers. 

這本書對於所有讀者來說都淺顯易懂。

12）household /ˈhaʊshəʊld/ n. 一家，一戶人

household chores 家務活

household expense 家庭開支

household name 家喻戶曉的名字

13）preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ v. 保存

14）oral /ˈɔːrəl/ adj. 口頭的

2. 詞組

1）fairy tale 童話

fairy n. 小仙子，小精靈

原文鏈接

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/brothers-grimm-fairy-tales