In all the bad weather, she would say to her fellows, "Be a rosy rose!" They heard her, but still withered, wilted, gasped or lay muffled. They do how she could overcome all the trouble, smiling, but they respected her with great admiration, regarding her as a real rose—their Queen.
But one stormy day a man came with a camera. He had heard about the smiling rose and decided to come and see her, deliberately, in bad weather. The smiling rose stood in the storm, smiling, the other roses were beaten to the ground. The man' s mind was filled with wonder, what an inspired photo he would get!
But just the next moment a prejudice came up in his mind, and he said to the weather-beaten roses, "Do you know why she' s always in such high spirit, why she' s always smiling?" The other roses rose slightly from the ground, shaking their heads with eyes wide open. "Because—" the man announced,"She is a flirt! And she lures me here in such weather simply to praise her and scorn you!" The roses bounced up on their feet, shaking with the greatest astonishment they' d ever encountered. Suddenly they turned their heads towards the smiling rose, their Queen, staring at her with an imposing mixture of anger, surprise and some contempt. The smile of the smiling rose had frozen, and instead all the roses saw on her face the anguish of a broken heart. "Look at how her smile has changed!" The man ordered, "Look at what she hides under the rose!" The smiling rose fainted.
After that, the smiling rose never smiled even on sunny, warm days when other roses displayed their beauty. Instead, she sobbed bitterly every so often, and people later on called her "the crying rose". But her real grief was never cared about. People only came, stopped to appreciate her saddened beauty, and left.
A spring morning, a little boy came. He found the rose sobbing, so he asked her, "Why are you crying?" Finally there being someone caring, the rose tried to answer the first inquirer with a smile, but was too sad to say a single word. The little boy pitied her so much that he later on went to visit her every day. It' s difficult to tell what it is that made the little boy talk to the smiling rose, but he liked her the moment he saw her. He was also perplexed why the adults treated her the same way as the other roses. He couldn' t tell why but he just felt she was different from the other roses, although the others seemed happy but she wasn' t.
The little boy didn' t tell his mother he went to visit a rose every day. He simply told her he was with his playmate. But the loving mother wouldn' t be satisfied with her boy' s answer, and one day followed him. She was touched, and decided to do something for her son. And so, several days later, the little boy was shocked to see his mother planting a rose in a vase, smiling gently. The boy recognized the crying rose at once, and he saw her crying with the greatest grief he' d ever seen. He shouted at his mom, impatient to wait for her to ask him for recognition of her deed. "I thought you' d like that. It saves you from running all the way there." She said later.
But there was no way back. The little boy decided to look after the crying rose. He filled the vase with earth from her home and collected rain to water her. He did all these things with such delicacy. But it didn' t save the rose from declining, and several days later, the crying rose rested in God' s hands.
The boy woke up with the vase he' d been embracing the whole night, and paid the last glance at the rose-she was smiling! Then the smile was embedded in the little boy' s mind forever, never washed away by time—he was taken over by it, not knowing that she used to be called "the smiling rose".
从前，有一枝自出生起就始终带着微笑的玫瑰。
冬天，当凛冽的寒风吹来时，其他玫瑰都已冻得发抖或是凋零了，只有她仍带着自信的微笑，尽情地绽放着。
秋天，当大雨倾盆而泻时，其他玫瑰都因心情糟糕而枯萎，只有她依旧带着骄傲的微笑，尽情绽放着。
夏天，当烈日在炽热的天空中高悬时，其他玫瑰都无精打采地喘息着，甚至昏倒，只有她仍带着坚定的微笑，尽情绽放着。
春天，当无情的沙尘暴横扫大地，其他玫瑰全都伏倒在地时，只有她仍然带着淡然的微笑，尽情绽放着。
“做一枝乐观的玫瑰！”在恶劣的天气里，她会这样对她的伙伴说。他们听到了，但仍会凋谢、枯萎、喘息、伏倒。至于她是如何克服所有困难并一直微笑的原因，他们始终难以明白。他们无比钦佩地尊敬她，并将她尊为真正的玫瑰皇后。
但是，一个带着相机的男人在风雨交加的天气来到了这里。他听说了关于微笑玫瑰的一切，便故意挑了一个坏天气来看她。其他玫瑰都已被暴风雨打倒在地，只有微笑玫瑰仍面带笑容地站立在那里。这个男人因将要得到这张激励人心的照片而惊喜不已！
很快，他的脑子里就产生了偏见。于是，他对那些被击倒的玫瑰说：“你们知道她为什么总是这样热情洋溢、面带微笑吗？”那些玫瑰稍稍挺了挺身子，瞪大双眼并摇了摇头。男人宣告说：“因为，她是个坏蛋，她在这种天气将我引诱来，仅仅是为了让我赞美她而贬低你们。”听到这些，玫瑰们都一跃而起，万分震惊地颤抖着。他们突然转向微笑玫瑰——他们的皇后，目不转睛地盯着她，目光中夹杂着愤恨、吃惊和些许鄙视。微笑玫瑰的笑容瞬间冻结了，相反那些玫瑰从她脸上看到的是心碎的极度悲伤。男人又说道：“瞧，她的微笑是如何的多变！看她微笑的背后隐藏着什么？”微笑玫瑰昏了过去。
从此，即便是温暖的晴天，当其他玫瑰都在展示着自己的美丽时，微笑玫瑰再也没有笑过。相反，她常常悲痛地哭泣，于是人们就叫她“哭泣的玫瑰”。她真正的不幸却从未有人关心。人们只会停下来欣赏她那忧伤的美丽，然后就离开了。
在一个春天的早晨，来了一个小男孩。他发现玫瑰在哭泣，便问道：“你为什么哭呢？”总算有人关心她了，于是，她竭力想给第一个关心她的人一个微笑，但过于悲伤的她无法说出一个字。小男孩很同情她，于是天天都去看她。他不清楚是什么促使自己和微笑玫瑰说话的，但从见她的第一眼起，他就喜欢上了她。他也不明白，为什么人们和其他玫瑰都对她不好。尽管她不像其他玫瑰看起来那样开心，但他就是觉得她与众不同，至于为什么，他也说不出来。
小男孩没有把每天去看玫瑰的事告诉妈妈，而只是跟她说自己和小伙伴在一起。但对于他的回答，亲爱的妈妈并不满意，于是有一天便暗暗地跟着他。知道一切后，她非常感动，并决定为儿子做点儿什么。几天后，当看到妈妈温柔地笑着正把一枝玫瑰种在花盆里时，小男孩非常震惊。他立刻就认出了哭泣玫瑰，看到她哭得无比伤心，没等妈妈问他是否赞赏这样的举动，小男孩就不耐烦地冲着她大吼大叫。后来，小男孩的妈妈说：“我以为你会喜欢……这样，你就不用跑那么远了。”
但事情已经无法挽回。小男孩决定好好照顾哭泣的玫瑰。他用玫瑰家乡的土装满花盆，并用收集来的雨水为她浇灌。他做得如此细致，但这一切还是没能挽回玫瑰的衰落。几天后，哭泣的玫瑰终于永远地安息了。
整整一夜，小男孩都紧紧抱着玫瑰花盆，当他醒来准备看她最后一眼时，竟然发现她在微笑。这个微笑从此便永远地印在了小男孩的脑海里，时间也无法将其冲淡——他一直珍藏着，却从不知道她曾被誉为“微笑玫瑰”。
