Before long he died, never suspecting that his maiden was just his own image in the stream. The gods took pity on the fair dead body and turned it into a flower bearing his name. This flower was the first narcissus. All the flowers of this family, when they grow by the side of a pond or a stream, still bend their beautiful heads and look at the reflection of their ovm faces in the water. 不久，那喀索斯在一条小溪边停下饮水。当他跪在岸边时，他发觉澄澈的溪水中有一张得意的面庞。他的心扑通跳着，他对着水中的人微笑，水中人也给了他一个微笑。他认为，必须是一位仙女爱上了他。于是，他俯下身子去吻她。但是，当他的嘴唇一接触澄澈的溪水，水中得意的面容就消逝了。这位愤怒的青年人此时变得灰心了，他从未受过如此的鄙视。他日夜待在溪边，不吃不喝，不久就死了，但他从未疑心过水中的女子只是自已的影子罢了。众神特别怜悯他那美丽的躯体，将之变成了一朵花，和青年同名，这朵花就是第一朵水仙花，当它们生长在池塘或溪流旁时，仍旧低下它们漂亮的头看着水里自已的影子。
The intoxicated Echo saw all this. Slowly she became weak, until at last nothing remained of her except her voice. 那位沉醉于爱河的回声亲眼日睹了这一切她日斩憔悴，最终，除了声音之外，她化为了乌有。 关于英语故事：Noahs Ark 诺亚方舟 Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Now the earth was corrupt in Gods sight and full of violence. So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But with you I will make a covenant. Make yourself an ark of cypress wood, make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. You shall go into the ark,you and your sons, your wife and your sons wives with you. And you shall bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female. to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will
