【英音】皇帝的新装 | The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

Once upon a time there was an emperor. He had a big round belly,bushy eyebrows, and a very long moustache. But he was very vain. All he thoughtabout was himself.‍“I am sowonderful!” he would say. “Look at my wonderful eyebrows! Lookat my excellent moustache! I look marvellous!”‍The emperor loved to wear fancy clothes. He had four-hundred fancy shirts,three-hundred pairs of fancy pants, and one-thousand pairs of fancy socks.

The emperor also loved to say fancywords, like: ‘empirical’,  ‘cantankerous’, and ‘discombobulate’.‍(He didn’t know what the fancy words meant, but he liked to say them anyway. Heliked to sound intelligent.)‍“I am soINTELLIGENT!” he said. “I am a GENIUS!”

One day, a man arrived at thepalace. He said that he was a tailor. He said he could make the fanciestclothes in the land.(But really, this man was a dishonest man. He earned his money by fooling richpeople.)‍The tailor brought the emperor ten suitcases.‍“Yourmost majestic and intelligent majesty...” he said. “... I am here to showyou my marvellous new discovery...“Everybodyknows that you are the most intelligent man in the world. And I have createdsome amazing new clothes. These clothes are only for intelligent people. Infact, stupid people cannot even see these clothes...”

The emperor clapped his hands. “Amazing! Withthese clothes I can know who is smart and who is stupid! I will never bebothered by idiots again! Let me try these clothes!”

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The tailor undressed the emperoruntil he stood only in his underpants. He unpacked his tape measure. Hemeasured the emperor’s arms, legs, shoulders, and all around his big roundbelly.  ‍The tailor reached inside one of the suitcases.‍“No...this one is too big. No… this one is too small. Ahh! This one is perfect!”‍He pretended to lift a shirt out of the suitcase.‍“What do you think?” said the tailor.

The emperor gasped. He could not seeanything!‍“Isn’t itwonderful?” said the tailor. “And remember… only intelligent peoplewill be able to see it!”‍The tailor reached into his suitcase again. “Look at these pants! Aren’t theybeautiful? And they are completely invisible to idiots! And look at thisjacket! See the