Most modern versions of fairy tales come from two sources: the Grimm Brothers from Germany, and Frenchman Charles Perrault, the collector of the "Mother Goose" tales.

最现代版本的童话有两个出处：德国的格林兄弟，法国的查尔斯·贝洛，他创造了“鹅妈妈”等故事。

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By 1812, the Grimm brothers had assembled their famous collection of stories in Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

到1812年，格林兄弟经过搜集整理后出版了著名的“格林童话”。

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Before the Grimm Brothers gathered their collection of well-known German folk fairy tales, these stories followed an oral tradition, being passed on from grandmother to mother to children.

在格林兄弟时代，当这两个兄弟在搜集整理德国民间童话故事之前，这些古老的民间故事的都是口口相传的，一般由祖辈传给父辈，再由父辈传给孩子。

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In 1812 the brothers Grimm started to publish their fairy tales, among them the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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