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1、天籁音乐影视追踪英语演讲有声读物英文广播剧我爱英语网 影音中心 英文广播剧 勃莱门镇的乐队(The Bremen Town-Musicians)勃莱门镇的乐队(The Bremen Town-Musicians) 我爱英语网http:/【本文语音RM下载链接】在线收听：错误！嵌入对象无效。有一户人家养了一头驴子，驴子老了，主人想要杀了驴子。驴子知道后便从主人家逃了出来，他想到不来梅镇去当个音乐家。在前往不来梅镇的路上，驴子碰到了许多和他相同命运的动物（猎狗、猫和公鸡），因此他们就结伴同行，一起要到不来梅镇去当音乐家。路上他们发现一群强盗在一个屋子里吃喝，他们想出一个妙计，吓得那群强盗还没搞清楚
2、状况就落荒而逃，于是他们占据了这个房子，吃著强盗留下来的大餐。后来强盗们派了一个人回来屋子侦查，这次被吓得更惨，从此强盗不敢再回来了。他们四个“音乐家”就在这个屋子住了下来。certain man had a donkey, which had carried the corn-sacks to the mill indefatigably for many a long year; but his strength was going, and he was growing more and more unfit for work. Then his master began to cons
3、ider how he might best save his keep; but the donkey, seeing that no good wind was blowing, ran away and set out on the road to Bremen. “There,” he thought, “I can surely be a town-musician.” When he had walked some distance, he found a hound lying on the road, gasping like one who had run till he w
4、as tired. “What are you gasping so for, you big fellow?” asked the donkey. “Ah,” replied the hound, “as I am old, and daily grow weaker, and no longer can hunt, my master wanted to kill me, so I took to flight; but now how am I to earn my bread?” “I tell you what,” said the donkey, “I am going to Br
5、emen, and shall be town-musician there; go with me and engage yourself also as a musician. I will play the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrum.” The hound agreed, and on they went. Before long they came to a cat, sitting on the path, with a face like three rainy days! “Now then, old shaver, what
6、 has gone askew with you?” asked the donkey. “Who can be merry when his neck is in danger?” answered the cat. “Because I am now getting old, and my teeth are worn to stumps, and I prefer to sit by the fire and spin, rather than hunt about after mice, my mistress wanted to drown me, so I ran away. Bu
7、t now good advice is scarce. Where am I to go?” “Go with us to Bremen. You understand night-music, so you can be a town-musician.” The cat thought well of it, and went with them. Then the three fugitives came to a farm-yard, where the cock was sitting on the gate, crowing with all his might. “Your c
8、row goes through one,” said the donkey. “What is the matter?” “I have been foretelling fine weather, because it is the day on which Our Lady washes the Christ-childs little shirts, and wants to dry them,” said the cock; “but guests are coming for Sunday, so the housewife has no pity, and has told th
9、e cook that she intends to eat me in the soup to-morrow, and this evening I am to have my head cut off. Now I am crowing at full pitch while I can.” “Ah, but red-comb,” said the donkey, “you had better come away with us. We are going to Bremen; you can find something better than death everywhere: yo
10、u have a good voice, and if we make music together it must have some quality!” The cock agreed to this plan, and all four went on together. They could not, however, reach the city of Bremen in one day, and in the evening they came to a forest where they meant to pass the night. The donkey and the ho
11、und laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cock settled themselves in the branches; but the cock flew right to the top, where he was most safe. Before he went to sleep he looked round on all four sides, and thought he saw in the distance a little spark burning; so he called out to
12、his companions that there must be a house not far off, for he saw a light. The donkey said, “If so, we had better get up and go on, for the shelter here is bad.” The hound thought too that a few bones with some meat on would do him good too! So they made their way to the place where the light was, a
13、nd soon saw it shine brighter and grow larger, until they came to a well-lighted robbers house. The donkey, as the biggest, went to the window and looked in. “What do you see, my gray-horse?” asked the cock. “What do I see?” answered the donkey; “a table covered with good things to eat and drink, an
14、d robbers sitting at it enjoying themselves.” “That would be the sort of thing for us,” said the cock. “Yes, yes; ah, how I wish we were there!” said the donkey. Then the animals took counsel together how they should manage to drive away the robbers, and at last they thought of a plan. The donkey wa
15、s to place himself with his fore-feet upon the window-ledge; the hound was to jump on the donkeys back; the cat was to climb upon the dog, and lastly the cock was to fly up and perch upon the head of the cat. When this was done, at a given signal, they began to perform their music together: the donkey brayed, the hound barked, the cat mewed, and the cock crowed; then they burst through the window into the room, so that the glass clattered! At this horrible din, the robbers sprang up, thinking that a ghost had come in, and fled in a great frig
