引導語：《聰明的農家女》，格林童話故事之一。講述了貧苦農民的女兒憑著自己的智慧，不但拯救了父親，還獲得 了國王最真誠的愛情，下文是這篇童話故事的中英文版本，與大家分享學習。
從前有一個貧窮的農民。他沒有農田可耕，但是他有一所小房子和一個女兒。一天，女兒說："我們應當求國王給咱們一塊荒地。"當國王得知他們的貧窮狀況后，他就給了他們一塊土地。然后，她和她父親就進行翻耕，想在地里種些糧食什么的。當他們快翻完整塊地的時候，在土里發現了一個純金的臼。"聽我說，"父親對女兒講："咱們的國王很仁慈，送給了我們這塊土地。作為回報，我們該把這個金臼獻給他。"然而，女兒卻不同意，回答說："爸爸，咱有臼卻沒有杵，必須找到杵才行。所以您還是別吭聲。"但父親不聽她的，拿著臼就去見國王，說他在翻地時發現了這個臼，并希望國王接受這個禮物。國王拿過金臼問，是不是沒揀到別的什么呢?"沒有。"農民回答說。于是，國王說，他現在應該把杵也去找來。農民回答說，他們沒有發現杵呀。但他的話只被國王當了耳旁風，結果農民被關進監獄，國王說一直要到他找來杵才會被釋放。獄卒們每天給他送來牢飯，那只不過是清水和面包而已，他們總是聽到他大聲哭嚎："唉，要是我聽了女兒的話就好了!唉，要是我聽了女兒的話就好了!"于是，獄卒們去報告國王："農民總是大叫：'唉，要是我聽了女兒的話就好了!'并且既不吃也不喝。"國王就命獄卒去把農民帶來。農民被帶來后，國王問為什么他總是叫喊："唉，要是我聽了女兒的話就好了!"并問他女兒究竟說了什么。"她說我不該把那金臼送來，因為您一定會要我再去找到杵。""要是你的女兒這么聰明，讓她到我這兒來一趟。"
農民的女兒奉命去見國王。國王說如果她真是這么聰明，他要給她出個謎語，如果她能猜到，國王就會娶她。農民女兒馬上說行，她愿意猜謎。然后，國王說："你上我這兒來，既不穿衣，也不光身子，既不騎馬，也不走路，既不走在路上，也不走在路外。要是你能辦到，我就娶你為妻。"于是農民的女兒就回去了。她脫光了衣服，這樣她就沒穿衣服啦;然后她拿來一張大魚網，鉆進魚網，并一圈一圈地用網裹滿全身，這樣她就不是光著身子啦;然后她租來一頭驢，并把魚網拴在驢尾上，這樣驢就得拖著她走，所以她既不騎馬也不走路啦;而且，驢只能沿著車轍拖她，使她只能用大腳趾頭點地，這樣就既不在路上，也不在路外啦。當她這樣來到國王面前時，國王說猜中了，并滿足了所有條件。國王命令釋放了她的父親，讓她做了自己的妻子，并把王室的全部財產交給她掌管。
幾年過去了。國王要去檢閱軍隊，這時出現了一件事：一些農民賣完木材后把車停在了皇宮前面，其中一些車由牛拉著，一些車是馬拉著。有個農民的車是三匹馬拉的，其中一匹馬產了只小馬駒，小馬駒下地后跑了，并臥在了另一輛車的兩頭牛中間。這些農民為爭馬駒聚到一起爭吵起來，而且打鬧在一起，一片混亂。趕牛車的農民想把小馬駒留下，說是他的牛生下了這小東西，而趕馬車的農民說是他的馬生下了小馬駒，所以小馬駒是他的。爭吵被報到了國王面前，國王判決說：現在小東西在哪里就該留在哪里。這樣趕牛車的農民就得到了不屬于他的小馬駒。另一個農民只好哭著離開，為失去他的小馬駒而感到冤枉。后來他聽說王后非常仁慈，因為她也出身貧苦，就來求她，希望能幫他要回小馬駒。王后說："好的，如果你能保證不講出是我的主意，我就會告訴你怎么做。明天一早，國王去檢閱衛兵時，你站在他必須經過的路中間，拿一張大網裝作打魚的樣子，一邊拉網一邊還要往外倒，好像網里真的裝滿了魚。"然后她告訴農民如果國王問他，他該說些什么。第二天，農民果然站在那里，在大路上打魚。國王經過時看見了，就派他的傳令兵去問這傻子在干什么。農民回答說："打魚唄。"傳令兵問："水都沒有，怎么打魚?"農民回答："好打，就像牛能生小馬駒一樣，我在干地上也能打魚。"傳令兵跑回去向國王報告了傻子的回答。國王命令把農民帶到他跟前，并對農民說，這樣的主意他肯定想不出來，國王想知道是誰的主意，并要他馬上坦白。可是農民不肯照辦，只是講：上帝保佑，就是他自己想出來的。他們把他推倒在一捆麥草上，長時間地拷打，威逼，最后農民承認了，這是王后的主意。
國王回到家中，就問他的妻子："為什么你對我虛偽?我不再要你做我的妻子了。你的好日子已經到頭，回到你原來的地方--你的小農屋去吧。"不過他容許王后帶走一樣她認為最心愛、最珍貴的東西。她說："好吧，親愛的丈夫，如果你這樣命令，我照辦就是了。"說著她撲進了國王的懷里，吻了他，向他告別。然后她叫人送來烈性的安眠水，當作告別酒。國王喝了一大口，而她卻只喝了一點點。國王一會兒就睡得死死的了，她讓侍從拿來一塊白凈漂亮的麻布，把國王包在里面。然后，侍從們奉命把國王抬到停在門前的車上，她駕著馬車把他運回了自己的小屋。接著，她讓國王躺在她的床上。國王一覺睡了一天一夜，他醒來時，環顧四周說："上帝呀，我在哪里呀?"他喊他的侍從，可一個也不在。終于，他妻子走到床前說："親愛的國王，您告訴我可以從宮中拿走一樣我認為是最心愛和最珍貴的東西，我覺得沒有任何東西比您更可親，更珍貴了，所以我把您帶了回來。"國王感動得滿臉是淚，說："親愛的妻子，你應該屬于我，我也應該屬于你。"然后，國王就把她帶回王宮，并與她重新成為夫妻。也許至今，他們還活著呢。
聰明的農家女英文版：
The peasant's wise daughter
There was once a poor peasant who had no land, but only a small house, and one daughter. Then said the daughter, "We ought to ask our lord the King for a bit of newly-cleared land." When the King heard of their poverty, he presented them with a piece of land, which she and her father dug up, and intended to sow with a little corn and grain of that kind. When they had dug nearly the whole of the field, they found in the earth a mortar made of pure gold. "Listen," said the father to the girl, "as our lord the King has been so gracious and presented us with the field, we ought to give him this mortar in return for it." The daughter, however, would not consent to this, and said, "Father, if we have the mortar without having the pestle as well, we shall have to get the pestle, so you had much better say nothing about it." He would, however, not obey her, but took the mortar and carried it to the King, said that he had found it in the cleared land, and asked if he would accept it as a present. The King took the mortar, and asked if he had found nothing besides that? "No," answered the countryman. Then the King said that he must now bring him the pestle. The peasant said they had not found that, but he might just as well have spoken to the wind; he was put in prison, and was to stay there until he produced the pestle. The servants had daily to carry him bread and water, which is what people get in prison, and they heard how the man cried out continually, "Ah! if I had but listened to my daughter! Alas, alas, if I had but listened to my daughter!" and would neither eat nor drink. So he commanded the servants to bring the prisoner before him, and then the King asked the peasant why he was always crying, "Ah! if I had but listened to my daughter!" and what it was that his daughter had said. "She told me that I ought not to take the mortar to you, for I should have to produce the pestle as well." - "If you have a daughter who is as wise as that, let her come here." She was therefore obliged to appear before the King, who asked her if she really was so wise, and said he would set her a riddle, and if she could guess that, he would marry her. She at once said yes, she would guess it. Then said the King, "Come to me not clothed, not naked, not riding, not walking, not in the road, and not out of the road, and if thou canst do that I will marry thee." So she went away, put off everything she had on, and then she was not clothed, and took a great fishing net, and seated herself in it and wrapped it entirely round and round her, so that she was not naked, and she hired an ass, and tied the fisherman's net to its tail, so that it was forced to drag her along, and that was neither riding nor walking. The ass had also to drag her in the ruts, so that she only touched the ground with her great toe, and that was neither being in the road nor out of the road. And when she arrived in that fashion, the King said she had guessed the riddle and fulfilled all the conditions. Then he ordered her father to be released from the prison, took her to wife, and gave into her care all the royal possessions.
Now when some years had passed, the King was once drawing up his troops on parade, when it happened that some peasants who had been selling wood stopped with their waggons before the palace; some of them had oxen yoked to them, and some horses. There was one peasant who had three horses, one of which was delivered of a young foal, and it ran away and lay down between two oxen which were in front of the waggon. When the peasants came together, they began to dispute, to beat each other and make a disturbance, and the peasant with the oxen wanted to keep the foal, and said one of the oxen had given birth to it, and the other said his horse had had it, and that it was his. The quarrel came before the King, and he give the verdict that the foal should stay where it had been found, and so the peasant with the oxen, to whom it did not belong, got it. Then the other went away, and wept and lamented over his foal. Now he had heard how gracious his lady the Queen was because she herself had sprung from poor peasant folks, so he went to her and begged her to see if she could not help him to get his foal back again. Said she, "Yes, I will tell you what to do, if thou wilt promise me not to betray me. Early to-morrow morning, when the King parades the guard, place thyself there in the middle of the road by which he must pass, take a great fishing-net and pretend to be fishing; go on fishing, too, and empty out the net as if thou hadst got it full" and then she told him also what he was to say if he was questioned by the King. The next day, therefore, the peasant stood there, and fished on dry ground. When the King passed by, and saw that, he sent his messenger to ask what the stupid man was about? He answered, "I am fishing." The messenger asked how he could fish when there was no water there? The peasant said, "It is as easy for me to fish on dry land as it is for an ox to have a foal." The messenger went back and took the answer to the King, who ordered the peasant to be brought to him and told him that this was not his own idea, and he wanted to know whose it was? The peasant must confess this at once. The peasant, however, would not do so, and said always, God forbid he should! the idea was his own. They laid him, however, on a heap of straw, and beat him and tormented him so long that at last he admitted that he had got the idea from the Queen.
When the King reached home again, he said to his wife, "Why hast thou behaved so falsely to me? I will not have thee any longer for a wife; thy time is up, go back to the place from whence thou camest to thy peasant's hut." One favour, however, he granted her; she might take with her the one thing that was dearest and best in her eyes; and thus was she dismissed. She said, "Yes, my dear husband, if you command this, I will do it," and she embraced him and kissed him, and said she would take leave of him. Then she ordered a powerful sleeping draught to be brought, to drink farewell to him; the King took a long draught, but she took only a little. He soon fell into a deep sleep, and when she perceived that, she called a servant and took a fair white linen cloth and wrapped the King in it, and the servant was forced to carry him into a carriage that stood before the door, and she drove with him to her own little house. She laid him in her own little bed, and he slept one day and one night without awakening, and when he awoke he looked round and said, "Good God! where am I?" He called his attendants, but none of them were there. At length his wife came to his bedside and said, "My dear lord and King, you told me I might bring away with me from the palace that which was dearest and most precious in my eyes I have nothing more precious and dear than yourself, so I have brought you with me." Tears rose to the King's eyes and he said, "Dear wife, thou shalt be mine and I will be thine," and he took her back with him to the royal palace and was married again to her, and at the present time they are very likely still living.
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