《賣火柴的小女孩》，1846 年

the Little match-Seller, 1846

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《賣火柴的小女孩》（在奧古斯滕堡公爵處逗留長達一個月期間創作）的靈感源於安徒生從一本曆書編輯那裡收到的插圖，編輯請求他根據其中一幅寫一個故事。

\"the Little match Girl\" (written during a month - long stay with the duke of Augustenborg) was inspired by illustrations Andersen received from the editor of an almanac, with the request that he write a story about one of them.

有一幅由丹麥畫家約翰?托馬斯?倫德比所畫的影象，畫的是一個賣火柴的女孩。

one image, painted by the danish artist Johan thomas Lundbye, showed a girl selling matches.

這幅畫透過出現在 1843 年的一本日曆上而廣為人知，日曆上的標題是 “施予時請行善”。

It had been popularized through its appearance in an 1843 calendar with the caption, “do good when you give.”

“當我在格洛魯普的時候，” 安徒生後來在他的旅行日記中回憶道，“在這個奢華富足的時期，一個出版商寄來了三幅木刻畫，讓我挑出一幅並圍繞它寫一個小故事。

“while I was at Glorup,“ Andersen later recalled in his travel diaries, “in this time of luxury and plenty, a publisher sent three woodcuts asking me to pick out one and write a little story around it.

我選擇了一個描繪貧窮和匱乏的場景，一個衣衫襤褸、手拿幾根火柴的小女孩 ——《賣火柴的小女孩》—— 奧古斯滕堡的我們的生活和她的世界之間的反差。”

I chose a scene that depicted poverty and deprivation, a ragged little girl with a handful of matches—‘the Little match - girl’—the contrast between our life at Augustenborg and her world”.

很少有兒童故事像《賣火柴的小女孩》這樣飽含激情地展現苦難，一代又一代的孩子都欽佩她，併為她的死亡而哭泣。

Few children’s stories celebrate suffering with the kind of passion brought to the tale of the match - seller, and generations of children have admired her and wept ov