用英语简介美人鱼的内容
The movie Pirates of Carribean is very popular around the world the latest series presents the audience the beautiful creature of mermaid.
In people’s eyes the image of mermaid presents beauty and kindness because we have read the story Little Mermaid. The heroine sacrifices herself to save her love. But in modern movie mermaid presents the evil thing who will sing a song to seduce people and then eat them.
It is so differen from what we have learned from the fairy tales. The meaning of this word is the monster in the water so mermaid actually is not something beautiful but evil. It is indeed has the attractive appearance while with bad heart.
传说美人鱼是以腰部为界，大多数为上半身是美丽的女人，下半身是披着鳞片的漂亮鱼尾，整个躯体，既富有诱惑力，又便于迅速逃遁。有雌雄公母之分，它们没有灵魂，像海水一样无情；声音通常像其外表一样，具有欺骗性；一身兼有诱惑、虚荣、美丽、残忍和绝望的爱情等多种特性。
既能在水底中生活，也能短暂待在干燥的陆地上生存，加上由于近代人的设想，还能水陆两栖，甚至拥有魔法能力。现代有众多电影、动画片、歌曲等形式都以此为名。
相关传说：
很多民间传说中都提到美人鱼与人类结婚的故事。大多数情况下，男子偷走了人鱼的帽子或腰带，或是梳子和镜子。这样东西被妥善藏好的时候，人鱼会跟他一起生活，一旦被她找到自己的失物，她就会回到海里。
一般情况下，人鱼对人类而言是很危险的。他们赠与的礼物会带来不幸，比如引发洪水之类的灾难。在旅途中看到人鱼是沉船的恶兆。他们有时渴望看到凡人被淹死，举一个有名的例子：莱茵河的萝莱莉[Lorelei]。
有的时候，他们引诱年轻人跟他们一同到水下生活，在康沃尔和英格兰的一些教堂的长椅上就雕刻着这样的故事。
西南太平洋群岛上的美拉尼西亚人也有类似的神话传说，他们的美人鱼名为“阿达拉”（adaro），上半身为人形，下半身为鱼形，居住在太阳里，经由彩虹来到地球，平时隐匿于海上的龙卷风之中。
不同于其它美人鱼的是，阿达拉在美拉尼西亚人眼里是一种危险的生物，他们会用飞鱼袭击人类，使他们昏迷不醒甚至死亡。
The movie Pirates of Carribean is very popular around the world the latest series presents the audience the beautiful creature of mermaid.
In people’s eyes the image of mermaid presents beauty and kindness because we have read the story Little Mermaid. The heroine sacrifices herself to save her love. But in modern movie mermaid presents the evil thing who will sing a song to seduce people and then eat them.
It is so differen from what we have learned from the fairy tales. The meaning of this word is the monster in the water so mermaid actually is not something beautiful but evil. It is indeed has the attractive appearance while with bad heart.
传说美人鱼是以腰部为界，大多数为上半身是美丽的女人，下半身是披着鳞片的漂亮鱼尾，整个躯体，既富有诱惑力，又便于迅速逃遁。有雌雄公母之分，它们没有灵魂，像海水一样无情；声音通常像其外表一样，具有欺骗性；一身兼有诱惑、虚荣、美丽、残忍和绝望的爱情等多种特性。
既能在水底中生活，也能短暂待在干燥的陆地上生存，加上由于近代人的设想，还能水陆两栖，甚至拥有魔法能力。现代有众多电影、动画片、歌曲等形式都以此为名。
The Little Mermaid lives at the sea bottom with her father the Sea King, her grandmother, and her five older sisters, born one year apart. When a mermaid turns 15, she may swim to the surface to watch the world above, and as the sisters become old enough one of them visits the surface every year. As each of them returns the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their descriptions of the surface and human beings.
When the Little Mermaid turns 15 she ventures to the surface. She sees a ship with a handsome prince, and falls in love with him. There comes a great storm, and the prince almost drowns, but the Little Mermaid saves him and she
delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here she waits until he is found by a young girl from the temple. But the prince never sees the Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid asks her grandmother whether humans can live forever if they do not drown. She is told that no, humans have an even shorter lifespan than mermaids. Mermaids live for 300 years, but when they die they turn to sea foam and cease to exist. Humans, on the other hand, have a short lifespan on earth, but they have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven even after they die. The Little Mermaid spends her days longing for the prince and for an eternal soul. At last she goes to the Sea Witch, who sells her a potion that gives her legs, in exchange for her tongue, because the Little Mermaid has the prettiest voice in the world. But drinking the potion will feel like a sword being passed through her, and walking on her feet will feel like walking on knives. And she will only get a soul if the prince loves her and marries her, for then a part of his soul will flow into her. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries another woman, the Little Mermaid will die broken-hearted and turn to sea foam.
是周星驰拍的美人鱼
