英语故事:一只特立独行的青蛙

   

      
The  very first animal Wanda bumped into was Charley, a little green frog who sat in a pond by the side of the road catching  bugs with his long, sticky tongue and croaking “Baroomp! Baroomp!”
                   
When  Charley saw Wanda he jumped onto a lily pad. “Hi,”  he cried. “Witch way are you going? Ha, ha. That’s a joke, Wanda. ‘Witch way are you going?’ Get it?”
                   
“I get it, Charley,” replied Wanda, “but it’s not much of a joke. Anyway, I'm glad you’re here. I have a surprise for you. You’ll be so happy.“ Then, without even an“if you please,” Wanda waved  her wand, said a magic word, and poof! Charley, the little green frog, turned into a prince!

He was a handsome prince but a wet one. The lily pad had collapsed  under his weight and dumped him into the water. Charley-turned-prince stood up and looked at his reflection in the water. “Hey!” he cried. “You turned me into a prince! It’s a  surprise all right, but I don’t want to be a prince. I want to be a frog! Change me back right now!”
                   
“Oh,  dear,” Wanda said. “You know I don’t like  to be yelled at, Charley. Now you’ve made me forget  the reverse spell. But who wouldn’t rather be a prince than a frog?”

旺达遇到的第一只动物正好是查理，一只绿色的小青蛙，它正坐在路边的池塘里，一边伸出长长的舌头粘住虫子卷进嘴里，一边唱着歌：呱呱呱，呱呱呱

查理看见了旺达，它跳到一片荷叶上，跟她打招呼：“嗨！你要去巫婆家吗①？哈哈哈，开玩笑的，旺达，‘你准备去哪里？’听明白了吧！”

“我明白你的意思，查理，”旺达回答道，“但是这并不怎么好笑，不管怎么样，我很高兴遇到你，我有一个惊喜要送给你，你会更开心的。”也不问查理是否愿意接受，旺达已经挥动手中的魔法棒，念了一句咒语，然后只听“噗”的一声，查理，那只绿色的小青蛙，竟然变成了一位王子。

这是一位英俊的王子，只是全身都湿漉漉的，因为他的身体太重了，压垮了荷叶，掉到了池塘的水中。“查理王子”站起来，看着自己在水中的倒影，他大叫起来：“嘿！你把我变成了王子，没错，这是一个惊喜，但是我根本不想做王子，我只想做一只青蛙。快把我变回去！”

“噢！亲爱的，”旺达温和地说，“你知道我不喜欢别人在我面前大喊大叫，你瞧，现在你让我忘记了变回去的咒语。还有，查理，我一点也不明白，有谁不愿意成为王子，而甘心做一只青蛙呢？