周二三四下午2点视频直播：【一直播】英语PK台 微信公众号：【英语PK台】看全文本 京晶抖音：1604401542 趣味英语学习小视频 B站官方：英语PK台 直播视频精华剪辑 The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 1. Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. The birds sat on the trees and sang. One day the Giant came back after visiting his friend the Cornish ogre. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden. “What are you doing here?" he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away. 2. "My own garden is my own garden," said the Giant; "I will allow nobody to play in it but myself." So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a noticeboard.TRESPASSERSWILL BEPROSECUTED. He was a very selfish Giant. 3. The poor children had now nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it. Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom. 4. The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost. "Spring has forgotten this garden," they cried, "so we will live here all the year round." The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver. "I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming," said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden. 5. The Spring never came, nor the Summer. It was always Winter there, and the Frost and the Snow danced about through the trees.One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music. It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King's musicians passing by. It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world. "I believe the Spring has come at last," said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and to have a look outside. 6. He saw a most wonderful sight. Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees. In every tree that he could see there was a little child. And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms. The birds were flying about and twittering with delight, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. 7. Only in one corner it was still winter. It was the farthest corner of the garden, and in it was standing a little boy. He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was crying bitterly. 8. And the Giant's heart melted as he looked out. "How selfish I have been!" he said; "now I know why the Spring would not come here. I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children's playground for ever and ever." He was really very sorry for what he had done. 9. When he stepped into the garden the children were so afraid of him that they all ran away, so the garden became winter again. Only the little boy did not run, for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the Giant coming. The Giant took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree. 10. The tree broke at once intoblossom, and the birds came and sang. The other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the Spring. "It is your garden now, little children," said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. 11. Since then, every afternoon the children came and played in the garden. But the little boy was never seen again. Years passed, and the Giant grew very old and feeble. He usually sat in a huge armchair, and watched the children at their games, admiring his garden. One winter morning he looked out of his window. Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in wonder, for he saw in the farthest corner of the garden a tree covered with lovely white blossoms. Underneath it stood the little boy. 12. Downstairs ran the Giant out into the gardento greet the little boy. The child smiled whenseeing the Giant, and said to him, "You let me play once in your garden, today you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise."When the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms. ​