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乐天派故事:嘉泰和洛尼娅

武太白 武太白英语 2023-06-08

昨天吃晚饭时乐天的派严肃地说,最近已经几天没讲故事了,今晚如果再不讲,我就要起义了!山人笑问:你准备怎么起义呢?乐天派说,天机不可泄露,你就等着吧!……我颤抖了。。。


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由于酷爱足球,乐天的派成天缠着山人,要我讲足球及相关的知识。昨晚他要求我谈谈巴塞罗那这个地方,说是在网上看到消息,巴萨足球俱乐部可能被开除出西班牙足球甲级联赛,转而加入法国足球甲级联赛!山人听此,稍一沉吟,介绍道:巴萨俱乐部处于巴塞罗那市,这是西班牙的一个大港口,是西班牙加泰罗尼自治区的首府。由于地处西班牙东北地区,这里和法国西南部接壤。加泰罗尼亚地区一向有毒立倾向,听说最近准备搞公民投票,如果公投通过的话这个地区就准备脱离西班牙了,当然巴萨就得从西班牙联赛除名。那么,巴萨去哪儿?只好去最近、最方便的法国甲级联赛了。

说到这里,山人感慨道:唉,其实古老的嘉泰和洛尼娅的故事,大家都已经慢慢淡忘了!乐天派听此,甚是好奇,爬过来问:什么故事,说说看!山人笑道:

Long long ago, there was a beautiful girl living in the south of Spain. Her family was poor because her parents were both badly ill over a long time, but she took very good care of them by selling flower circles -- we call such circles "wreaths", or "flower crowns" -- at the market. People loved her very much. They bought her wreaths, and they called her Lunya, and that means pure beauty in the heart. One day, she met a boy named Cata from the northern shores, who was not a handsome one, but very strong and kind-hearted. Cata's doctor father and nurse mother had died long before that, and he was making a living by cutting woods and making furniture. They soon became friends, and Cata would bring her the flowers he cut from the woods he felled every day.

Lunya's beauty soon attracted the attention of bad guys, and one of them, a high official in the central government, wanted to take her as concubine, one married to him but a lot lower and weaker than his wife. After several attempts failed, the high-official bad guy used a poison in Lunya's food. This kind of poison would take effect over a long period of time, and only the bad guy had the antidote, medicine with which the illness caused by this poison could be cured. The poor girl became very ill like her parents. What should she do?

At this time Cata came to Lunya's aid. He told her that the soft sea breeze along the northeastern coast of Spain and the salt in the sea water there was a natural antidote to the long-time poison, and they could try that. So the two moved there with the old couple and built wooden huts on the northeastern coast of the country. The place was far from the central government, and the bad guy could not find them any more.

Cata and Lunya lived in the place for over a century as a happy family, and they had several healthy and smart children. Later their children established a new country, and they named the country by combining their parents name into one -- Catalunya, the place of which the capital is now Barcelona.

听完故事,乐天派“且”了一声,笑道:你这肯定是假的,我怎么没听过这个故事呢?山人感慨道:你没听过的可多了,也不一定就是假的呀!对了,告诉你哦,加泰地区有自己的语言,和西班牙语不一样的哦!乐天派被我这一打岔,顿时忘记了再追问故事真假,转而问道:有什么不一样呢?山人笑道:就好比闽南语和我们汉语普通话的区别,还是不小的呢!说着山人唱了一句“AI BIA A QIA WEI I YA”……乐天派猜测说:难道是“欲知后事如何,且听下回分解
?山人哈哈大笑,让乐天派妈揭晓答案,就听乐天妈用中文唱道:“爱拼才会赢!”

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