Aladdin's lamp is a famous lamp in one of the stories in The Thousand and One Nights.
The story is about a poor young man named Aladdin, who helps a magician get a wonderful oil lamp from a dangerous magic cave. The magician tries to cheat Aladdin, so Aladdin keeps the lamp himself. He soon finds that a bad-tempered genie lives inside the lamp and must obey whoever holds the lamp. With the genie's help, Aladdin becomes a rich and powerful man and is able to marry the beautiful Princess Badroulbadour.
The magician finally gets the lamp back by tricking the princess, who does not know how important the lamp is. Aladdin discovers that a ring left by the magician when he was cheating Aladdin controls a less powerful but more polite genie. With the help of this genie, Aladdin is able to get his wife and the lamp back.
阿拉丁和神燈的故事取自童話集《一千零一夜》(又稱《天方夜譚》)。
阿拉丁是一個貧窮的少年。有一天,一個魔法師雇用阿拉丁到一個山洞去取一盞油燈,那實際上一盞神燈,一旦擁有了它,就會要什么有什么。在這個過程中,魔法師欺騙了阿拉丁,并企圖置他于死地,阿拉丁成功地死里逃生,并得到了神燈。借助于神燈的魔力,阿拉丁戰(zhàn)勝了艱險,和美麗的公主白狄奴·卜多魯結(jié)了婚。魔法師得知阿拉丁還活著,就從不知道神燈秘密的卜多魯公主手里把神燈騙走。后來,經(jīng)過曲折的過程,阿拉丁又把神燈收回,并從此和妻子一起過上了幸福的生活。