小象巴巴的故事 The story of little elephant BaBa

在一片茂密的大森林中，大象媽媽生了一個可愛的小寶寶——小象巴巴。巴巴的出生給媽媽帶來了莫大的歡喜，媽媽對他十分疼愛。每天晚上，大象媽媽都會輕輕地哼著兒歌，哄搖籃里的巴巴進入夢鄉。

In a large dense forest, there lives a mother elephant. She gives birth to a baby elephant whose name is BaBa. The birth of BaBa brings the mother elephant a lot ofjoy. The mother elephant loves the baby so much that every night she hums songs gently to make BaBa fall asleep in his cradle.

在媽媽的精心照料下，小象巴巴一天天長大了。他不但聰明，還很和善，所以小伙伴們都喜歡和他在一起玩。

你看，現在那個用鼻子卷著貝殼在一邊挖沙子的小象不就是他嗎？

Under the considerate care of his mother, BaBa grows up day by day .He is not only smart but also kind and friendly, so he makes a lot of friends and they all like playing with BaBa.

Look, the little elephant who is digging sand with his nose rolling the shell is BaBa.

有一天，大象媽媽馱著小象巴巴出來散步，他 們悠閑地走來走去。

One day, mother elephant takes BaBa wandering around.

They walk back and forth in the forest.

就在這時，一聲槍響傳了過來，隨后大象媽媽倒了下去。小象巴巴還沒反應過來是怎么回事就被重重地 摔在了地上。原來是可惡的獵人開槍擊中了媽媽，巴巴趴在媽媽身上大哭起來。

At this time, there is a sudden gunshot passed over, and then the mother elephant falls down. Not until mother elephant heavily falls to the ground, does BaBa realize what happens. It turns out that the hateful hunter shoots his mother. BaBa leans over his mom and bursts into tears.

那些正在玩耍的猴子和歌唱的小鳥都被槍聲嚇跑了，這時獵人從灌木叢中走了出來，想捉住巴巴。 巴巴開始拼命地向前跑去，最后終于擺脫了獵人的追趕。

The monkeys who are playing and the birds who are singing are scared off by the shot. At this moment, the hunter comes out of the bushes. He wants to catch BaBa.

BaBa begins to run like hell, and finally gets rid of the hunter’s chasing.

當他停下來喘氣的時候，卻發現眼前出現了很多新奇的事物：

高高的大樓、跑得飛快的汽車、擁擠的人群，原來巴巴來到了一座城市。因為以前從來都沒有見過這些，所以巴巴感覺新鮮極了。

When he stops to take a rest, there are a lot of novel things appear before him: tall buildings, cars

which run very fast and crowded people. It turns out that BaBa comes to a big city! Because he has never met these things, so he feels very excited and curious to everything.

巴巴在大街上溜達著，忽然，他看到街上有兩個穿制服的人，巴巴想：為什么他們的衣服那么漂亮？我 也好想有一套這樣的衣服，他們的衣服是從哪里來的呢？

When BaBa strolling on the street, suddenly he sees two men in uniform. He thinks: why their clothes are so beautiful? I want to have one like that, but where do they get that?

巴巴真的很幸運，在不久之后他就遇到了一位好心的老夫人。那位老夫人見到巴巴后很是高興，因為她 一直都很喜歡小象。當老夫人知道巴巴想有一套漂亮的衣服時，就將自己手中的錢包交給了他。

Fortunately, he meets a warm-hearted lady who loves little elephants very much, and she is happy to meet BaBa. When the old lady knows that BaBa wants to have beautiful clothes, she gives her own purse to BaBa. How lucky of him!

巴巴興奮極了，不住地對老夫人說：“尊貴的夫人，真是太感謝你了！”

接過錢包之后，巴巴飛快地跑向了百貨商場。

在那里他又被另一個東西吸引了，那就是商場的電梯。當他看到一個四方盒子可以上上下下不停地走動 時，感覺好玩極了！

BaBa is so excited that he can’t help saying: “Oh,dear madam, I really appreciate your help!”

Taking the purse, BaBa runs quickly toward the department store.

There BaBa is attracted by another thing-the elevator. When he sees that the square box can go up and down constantly, he feels it is so funny.

他在電梯中一直上下進出了十幾次，玩得很開心。

他真想就這樣一直玩下去，可是卻被人阻止了，電梯管理員對巴巴說：“先生，我們這里并不是游樂場，我想你應該去購物了吧。如果你不知道自己該去哪一層，那我們的巡視員會給你提供幫助的。”

He gets up and down in the elevator many times and has a lot of fun.

He really wants to keep playing like that, but it stopped by the elevator manager.

He says to BaBa: “Excuse me sir, this is not playground. I think you should go shopping now, and if you don’t know which floor to go, you can ask the inspector for help.”

無奈之下，巴巴只好離開了電梯。

在商場里，巴巴為自己挑選了一件襯衣、一個領結、一套西裝，再加一個禮帽，還有一雙皮鞋呢。就這樣，一個帥氣的小象就出現了。

There is no choice, so BaBa has to leave the elevator.

In the department store, BaBa buys himself a shirt, a bow tie, a suit, a top hat and a pair of shoes. After that, there appears a handsome little elephant.

當巴巴在鏡子中看到自己的時候，高興得不得了，所以他決定去照相館，為自己照一張照片，作為留念。

When he looks at himself in the mirror, he is extremely happy that he decides to go to a studio to take a picture, and keeps it as a souvenir.

瞧瞧吧，這就是巴巴的照片。

在照完相后，巴巴想再回到老夫人那里當面向她道謝。

Take a look, this is the beautiful picture of BaBa.

After taking the picture, BaBa wants to go back to that old lady and thanks her again.

巴巴穿著新衣服去了老夫人家中，老夫人不住地夸他英俊，巴巴心里美滋滋的。老夫人為巴巴準備了豐盛的晚餐，讓巴巴飽飽地吃了一頓。

Wearing his new cloth, BaBa goes the old lady’s home. When the old lady sees him, she can’t help praising his handsome, so BaBa is very happy. And then the old lady prepares a great dinner for BaBa, and he really enjoys it.

晚飯之后，累了一天的巴巴爬上了床，很快就進入了甜美的夢鄉。

After dinner, because of the busy day, BaBa goes to bed and quickly falls asleep.

后來，巴巴就在老夫人家住了下來。每天早晨，老夫人都會帶著巴巴做健身操。

每次鍛煉完了之后，巴巴都會洗上一個舒服的熱水澡。

From then on, BaBa stays at the old lady’s home. Every morning, the old lady will take BaBa to do exercise. After the exercise BaBa always takes a comfortable hot bath.

老夫人對巴巴十分疼愛，巴巴要什么她都會給。老夫人送給巴巴一輛汽車，這樣他就可以每天開車出去游玩了。

The old lady loves BaBa so much that she gives whatever he wants. She gives BaBa a lovely car so he can drive out to have fun everyday.

老夫人還專門為巴巴請了一位知識淵博的老師。巴巴聽起課來十分認真，每天都會按時完成老師布置的 作業，所以巴巴進步很快，常常得到老師的表揚。

The old lady also hires a knowledgeable teacher for him. Because BaBa listens to the teacher very carefully and finishes his homework on time everyday, he makes progress everyday and often gets praise from the teacher.

每天晚上，老夫人都會和她的朋友們坐在一 起，聽巴巴講大森林中的故事。

Every night ,the old lady and her friends will get together and listen BaBa to tell them the story of the forest.

巴巴和老夫人相處得很好，所以每天都過得很高興。

可是，巴巴并沒有忘記在大森林中那段快樂的時光，他也常常想起他的表弟、表妹和那些調皮的小猴子。他多想回到以前的那種生活：每天和媽媽一起散步、聊天、吃飯，和小伙伴們一起玩耍嬉戲。每次巴巴 在想到媽媽的時候都會傷心地流下眼淚。

BaBa and the old lady get along well with each other and live happily everyday.

But BaBa has never forgotten the happy life when he lived in the forest, he also misses his cousins and those lovely monkeys. How much does BaBa wish to go back to his forest life: He wandered, chatted, and had dinner with his mother and played with his friends. Every time when BaBa thinks of his mother, tears will fill into his eyes.

轉眼間，巴巴已經在這里待了兩年了。

有一天，老夫人和巴巴在大街上散步，看到兩頭小象朝他們這邊跑來。巴巴看見他們后，高興地沖老夫人大叫起來：“天啊！你看他們，那是我的表弟亞瑟和表妹賽斯。”

As time flies, BaBa has stayed here for two years.

One day, while the old lady and BaBa walking on the street, there are two little elephants run towards them. “Oh my God, look at them, they are my cousins Arthur and Seth.”BaBa cries to the old lady excitedly.

那兩頭小象也看見了巴巴，他們走到一起高興地親吻起來。

Those two littles see BaBa too, they hug and kiss each other.

巴巴帶著他們去了百貨商店，為他們挑選了合適的衣服，穿上衣服的小象比以前更漂亮了。

Then BaBa takes Arthur and Seth to the department and chooses perfect clothes for them. Wearing the new clothes they look more beautiful.

他們又一起去了蛋糕店，在那里品嘗了世上最美味的蛋糕。

And then they go to the bakery, there they eat the most delicious cake in the world.

可是，此時的大森林卻亂作了一團，所有的動物都在尋找亞瑟和賽斯，他們喊得嗓子都快啞了。他們的媽媽更是急得不得了。

后來，一只禿鷲飛回來了，對亞瑟和賽斯的媽媽說：“我在一個城市里看見了亞瑟和賽斯，他們正和巴巴在一起呢。”

But at the same time, the forest is being a great mass. Because all the animals are looking for Arthur and Seth, they shouted themselves almost hoarse and Arthur’s and Seth’s mother are extremely anxious.

Afterward, a vulture flies to their mothers and says : “I have seen them in the city ,they are being with BaBa.”

兩位媽媽決定去找自己的孩子。

當她們見到自己的孩子之后，才真正放心了。但是兩位媽媽還是責備了他們，說他們不懂事，不應該這樣跑出來，讓家人都擔心死了。

Knowing this, the mothers decide to go and find them.

After finding their children, the mothers finally relieved. While they still blame them that it is thoughtless of them to run away like that and it makes everyone in the forest really worry about them.

亞瑟和賽斯要回去了，巴巴也很想跟他們回到大森林中去，于是他就對老夫人說出了自己的想法。老夫人雖然舍不得，但還是答應了，因為小象巴巴本來就應該生活在森林中。

于是，老夫人開始幫著巴巴收拾行李。

Arthur and Seth will go home with their mothers and BaBa also hopes to go back with them. So he tells the old lady about his thought. Although the old lady take BaBa’s leaving sort of hard, she still agrees to let him go. Because she knows BaBa is supposed to live in the forest.

So the old lady begins to help BaBa with his package.

臨走之前，巴巴擁抱了老夫人很長時間，他真的很舍不得離開這里，但是又不能不回到自己的家鄉。于是，他告訴老夫人，有時間的話肯定會再來看她的。

Before his leaving, BaBa hugs the old lady for a long time, he has to go back to his hometown even though he is really unwilling to leave. So he tells the old lady that if he has any chance he would come back to visit her.

巴巴坐上了自己的汽車，可是由于汽車太小，實在無法裝下兩位大象媽媽，所以她倆就只好跟在后邊跑了。車子跑過的地方飛起了很多塵土，所以大象不得不揚起自己的鼻子，否則灰塵不灌滿鼻孔才怪呢。

老夫人站在陽臺上望著巴巴消失在遠處，她心里很難過，不知道什么時候才能再見到巴巴。

BaBa sits in his car but it’s too small to carry them all. So the mothers have to follow the car and run behind. Where the car goes leaves a lot of dust. So the mother elephants have to raise their nose up, otherwise it will be full of dust.

The old lady stands on the balcony seeing their leaving and feels sad. Because she doesn’t know when will she meet BaBa again.

就在巴巴離開老夫人的那一天，森林中又發生了一件大事：大象國王因為吃了有毒的蘑菇死去了。

On the same day that BaBa leaves for home, there is another event happening in the forest: the king elephant dies because of eating poison mushrooms.

失去了自己的國王，大象王國的所有子民都傷心極了。在為國王舉行了隆重的葬禮之后，三位最年長的大象開始商議，到底下一任國王該選誰呢？

Losing their king, all the citizens of the elephant kingdom are extremely suffered. After the funeral, three eldest elephants begin to discuss who can be the next leader of their kingdom.

這時，一陣喧鬧聲從背后傳來，三頭大象轉頭望去，原來是巴巴回來了。他開著汽車從遠處過來。所有的大象都來觀看，并向他們打著招呼：“巴巴，你好！”“亞瑟，你好！”“賽斯，你好！”“你們的衣服真漂亮！”“這輛汽車也很漂亮！”

At this point, there is a high pitched roar passing over from their back. The three elders turn around and find out that BaBa is coming back. Look, he is driving from a distance.

All the elephants come to see him and greet to them: “Hello BaBa!” “Hi Arthur!” “Hello Seth!” “How beautiful are your clothes!” “What a beautiful car!”

所有的象都將目光聚集在他們身上，突然，一個聲音響起：“親愛的朋友們，我們現在不是 正好缺少一位國王嗎？我覺得巴巴就非常合適。巴巴在大城市待過，一定增長了很多見識，并學了很多知識，所以我覺得他當國王最合適不過了。”這是一位年長的老象科爾斯說的話。

只聽象群中開始發出歡呼聲：“對，科爾斯說得非常對。”

巴巴從象群中走出來，面對著大家，說：“非常感謝你們對我的信任。不過我還有另一個好消息要告訴你們：在我們回來的路上，我和表妹賽斯已經訂婚了。所以在我當上國王以后，她就是你們的王后了。”

The gaze of all the elephants concentrated on them. At this time, one elder elephant whose name is Carls says:“My dear friends, don’t we need a new king now? I think BaBa is a perfect choice, for his rich experience from the city which we have never had.”

“Yes, Carls is right.” someone in the group begins to greet.

At this time, BaBa walks out from the group and says: “I really appreciate for your trust! What’s more, I have the good news to share with you: Seth and I have been engaged on our way back. Therefore when I become the king, she will be your queen.”

所有的大象都開始歡呼起來：“巴巴國王萬歲！”“賽斯王后萬歲！”

從此，巴巴就成為了大象王國的國王。

All the elephants begin to cheer: “Long live the King BaBa!”

“ Oh, hooray, the Queen Seth!”

From then on, BaBa becomes the king of the elephant kingdom.

巴巴將科爾斯叫到跟前說：“謝謝你讓我坐上了王位。我決定將我的禮帽送給你，作為對你的獎勵。我還要封你為大象王國的大將軍，以后咱們要一起治理國家。我決定一周之后和賽斯舉行婚禮，你下去安排一 下吧！”

BaBa says to Carls: “Thanks for your letting me be the king. So I decide to give you my top hat as reward and to confer you the title of general-in-chief of our kingdom. From now on, we will govern our country together. What’s more, I need you to prepare my wedding and I hope it will be hold next week.”

隨后，巴巴轉頭對樹上的鳥兒說：“鳥兒們，麻煩你們給大森林中所有的動物送個信，讓他們來參加我的婚禮吧！”

當巴巴國王看見駱駝時，說：“駱駝先生，麻煩你去城里為我買幾件漂亮的禮服吧！”

After that, BaBa turns to the birds on the tree and says:

“Dear birds, please send my invitation to all the animals in the forest and tell them to come to my wedding!”

When the King BaBa sees the camel, he says: “Mr. camel, I would like to trouble you to go to the town and buy some beautiful dresses for me!”

大森林中一下子就熱鬧起來了。

在規定的日期內，所有的動物都到齊了，駱駝運送的禮服也已經到了。

當國王巴巴和王后賽斯穿上漂亮的禮服后，婚禮就在大家的祝福聲中開始了。

Suddenly, all the animals are beginning to liven up.

Within the specified date, all the animals turn up, so are the dresses.

After King BaBa and Queen Seth wearing the beautiful clothes, the wedding starts with the best wishes.

隨后就是熱鬧的舞會，動物們都開始展現自己美麗的舞姿和高超的舞技。你看他們跳得多起勁。

Then follows a great party, all the animals begin to show their beautiful dance and excellent dancing skills. Look, how excited they are.

當天慢慢黑下來的時候，舞會結束了。天上的小星星們開始一顆顆地跳了出來。國王和王后幸福地坐在一起，雖然有些疲憊，但心里卻無比歡喜。

It is getting dark, so the party is over. Stars are jumping out from the black sky. The king and the queen sit together happily, although a little bit tired, their inner heart is unspeakable happy.

夜深了，所有的動物都陷入沉睡之中，因為他們今天玩得太累了。婚禮過后很久，人們在回想起的時候，依然很興奮。

Deep into the night, all the animals are falling asleep, because they played too much today and very tired. Long after the wedding, when people remind of it, they are still excited.

第二天，國王巴巴宣布要和王后去度蜜月。他們找了一個黃色的熱氣球，開始了他們具有特殊意義的蜜月旅行。

The next day, the king declares that they will leave for the honeymoon. They prepare a yellow hot-air balloon and then begin their journey which means so much to them.