Jack and the Beanstalk
/ˌdʒæk ən ðə ˈbiːnstɔːk/
/ˌdʒæk ən ðə ˈbiːnstɔːk/
- a traditional story often told to children and used as a pantomime. Jack is a boy who sells a cow for three magic beans. He plants these and they grow into a very tall beanstalk. He climbs up the beanstalk into the clouds where a giant (= a very large person) lives, and steals a hen that lays golden eggs, some bags of money and a magic harp (= musical instrument). Jack escapes down the beanstalk and then cuts it down, so that the giant, who is climbing down after him, falls to the ground and is killed. The details in the story are sometimes mixed with those of another old story, Jack the Giant Killer. In it a boy called Jack travels around the country killing giants with his magic sword and wearing a coat that makes him invisible (= unable to be seen). In both stories the giants, trying to find Jack, repeat the rhyme:“Fee, fi, fo, fum,I smell the blood of an Englishman.Be he alive or be he dead,I'll grind his bones to make my bread.”
经常向儿童讲述并用作哑剧的传统故事。杰克是一个男孩，他用三颗魔豆卖了一头牛。他种下这些，它们就会长成很高的豆茎。他爬上豆茎，进入巨人（=一个非常大的人）居住的云层，并偷走了一只下金蛋的母鸡、几袋钱和一把魔法竖琴（=乐器）。杰克顺着豆茎逃了出来，然后把它砍倒了，追随他而下的巨人倒在地上被杀了。故事中的细节有时会与另一个古老故事《巨人杀手杰克》的细节混合在一起。故事中，一个名叫杰克的男孩穿着一件使他隐形的外套，用他的魔法剑环游全国杀死巨人。在这两个故事中，巨人试图找到杰克，重复押韵：“Fee，fi，fo，fum，我闻到了一个英国人的血腥味。无论他活着还是死了，我都会磨碎他的骨头来做我的面包”。