After leaving college my friends could tell you the symbolic meaning behind the Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales, but they couldn't tell you the difference between a balance sheet and income statement.

离开学校后，我的朋友们能说出格林童话背后隐藏的象征意义，却说不出资产负债表和收益表的区别。

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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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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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While the heroes and heroines of most traditional Anderson and Grimm fairy tales are simply born somewhere, both Dorothy and the Wizard are immigrants who travel to a wondrous land.

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The time slot was terrible (Friday nights), it had no major stars attached to it and the premise -- Grimm fairy tales set in modern times around the banner of a police procedural -- sounds like it could be the cheesiest thing ever.

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