Thumb Girl
拇指姑娘
Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted a small, lovely child. She went to consult the witch, who gave her a grain of kernel and planted her in a flowerpot. When the flower bloomed, the thumb girl was born, and she was very happy.
从前有一个妇人想要一个小巧又可爱的孩子。她去请教女巫，女巫给她一粒麦粒，让她种在花盆里。当这个花朵绽开时，拇指姑娘便出生了，她生活得非常幸福。
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But one day, an ugly toad took her away and let her live on top of the lotus. The fish in the water was very sympathetic to the thumb girl, and bit the lotus stem. The thumb girl drifted along the lotus leaf to the foreign country.
可是有一天，一只丑陋的癞蛤蟆把她抢走了，让她住在荷叶上面。水里的鱼儿很同情拇指姑娘，便把荷叶的茎咬断。拇指姑娘顺着荷叶飘到了外国。
Summer and autumn were over, the cold winter came, and the thumb girl went to the voles' home. But a few days later, the vole introduced a mole who was the richest man in the region to the thumb girl. The mole fell in love with her, and proposed a marriage.
夏天和秋天过去了，寒冷漫长的冬天来临了，拇指姑娘来到了田鼠家生活。但过了几天，田鼠介绍了当地最富有的鼹鼠先生给拇指姑娘做丈夫。鼹鼠因为拇指姑娘的歌声爱上了她，并提了亲。
The thumb girl didn't love the mole because the mole didn't like the sun and flowers, but she ended up reluctantly marrying the mole. The girl once saved a swallow and the swallow flew to another country to ask the thumb girl: "Would you like to go to another country with me?" The girl said yes.
拇指姑娘不喜欢鼹鼠，因为鼹鼠不喜欢阳光和鲜花，但她最后还是不情愿地嫁给了鼹鼠。拇指姑娘曾经救过一只燕子，燕子要飞去另外一个国家之前问拇指姑娘：“你愿意和我一起到另外一个国家去吗？”拇指姑娘答应了。
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So the swallow went to the country with thumb girl, and put the girl on the most beautiful flower, and there was a beautiful man on the flower, who was the king of all flowers, and they were married. The girl was the queen of this place. And they lived happily ever after.
于是燕子背着拇指姑娘飞到了那个国度，把拇指姑娘放到了一朵最美丽的花上，上面有一个和自己一样大的美男子，他就是所有花朵的王，他们俩结婚了，拇指姑娘便成了这的皇后。从此过上了幸福的生活。
