Once upon（ 在…上面） a time, in a kingdom（王国） very far away, there lived a king and a queen. The king was handsome and kind（ 善良的）. Everybody loved him. But the real ruler of the kingdom was his wife, the queen. Before she became queen, she worked in the castle kitchen. She was very poor.

  But she was also very beautiful and funny and very good at scrabble. So the king fell in love with her and married her. The king loved the queen very much. But the queen was always afraid that the king would meet someone more beautiful. Luckily, the queen had a magic（魔法） mirror. The mirror saw everything and knew everything.

  Every day, the queen looked at herself in the mirror and asked, "Magic mirror on the wall. Who is the most beautiful of all?" And the mirror replied, "You are, my queen. You are the most beautiful woman in the whole world." The queen was happy. She knew there was nobody in the world as beautiful as her. But one day, everything changed. The queen stood（站立） in front of the mirror and asked her usual question, "Magic mirror on the wall. Who is the most beautiful of all?" And the mirror replied, "You are very beautiful, my queen. But the most beautiful woman in the world is Snow White." The queen was shocked（震惊的）.

  "Who is this Snow White?" she asked the mirror. "Snow White works in the castle kitchen. She has hair black as night, lips（嘴唇） as red as roses（玫瑰）, and skin as white as snow. As of eight a.m. this morning, she is a wee（极小的） bitty bit more beautiful than you." "Argh!" yelled（大叫） the queen.

  She stomped her feet. She pulled her hair. Then she sat down and sobbed. "I will lose everything." The queen was afraid, and that fear turned her heart cold and hard. She called a trusted（相信） hunter to her room.

  "Find（找到） the girl, Snow White," she ordered. "Take her far, far away. Take her deep（ 深深地） into the woods." And then the queen looked deep into the hunter's eyes. "She must never come back." The hunter found Snow White and took her into the forest. When they reached the deepest, darkest part of the forest, the hunter stopped.

  "Go," he whispered（低声地讲）. "Run fast and far and don't ever go home." Snow White watched the hunter disappear. "Well, I can't go home now," she muttered（轻声低语）. She looked around at the dark and silent（沉默的） forest. It started to rain.

  "But I can't stay here either. Okay（好）, feet, let's go!" Snow White ran and ran. She ran across a stream（溪流）, up a hill, and down into a dark valley. She ran all morning. By midday, her pale（（肤色）苍白的） skin and rosy（美好的） cheeks（面颊） were covered in mud and scratches. By early afternoon, her long black hair was full of sticks（ 木棒） and leaves（许可）.

  By night, she was not beautiful anymore. She was tired, hungry, and shivering（颤抖） with cold. But then Snow White smelled wood smoke in the air. She followed the smell and found a cottage（村舍） in the woods. There was a warm, golden（金色的） glow（白热光） from the windows. She knocked on the door.