英语寓言故事三十则
1.Making His Mark
A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a riverwhen he dropped his sword into the water carelessly.Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where thesword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stoppedmoving, he went into the water to arch for his sword at theplace where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat hadmoved but the sword had not. Isn’t this a very foolish way tolook for a sword?
打电话英语2. To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow
第一次干什么作文Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who planted a plotof rice. After he planted the edlings, every day he went tothe field to watch the edlings grow. He saw the young shootsbreak through the soil and grow taller each day, but still, hethought they were growing too slowly. Eventually he gotimpatient with the young plants and suddenly he hit upon an ideathat one by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch.The next early
辛苦的英语morning, the young man couldn’t wait to checkhis “achievement”, but he was heart-broken to e all thepulled-up young plants dying.
3. Plugging One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell
Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal hisneighbor’s doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bellwould ring and catch the other people’s attention as long ashe touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on aclever “idea”. He plugged his ears with something, thinkingthat everything would go well when he stole the bell.Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudlyand he was caught on the spot as a thief.
4. The Fox and the Crow
One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt veryhappy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw thecrow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of aplan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow,the crow just
海鲜豆腐汤的做法kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of thecrow’s beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened hismouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, thefox took the meat and went into his hole.
5. Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It
Long long ago, veral people had a jar of wine among them andall of them wanted to drink it by himlf. So they t a rulethat every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man whofinished first would have the wine. One man finished his snakevery soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw theothers were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feetto the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, anotherman finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has everen a snake with feet?” The story of "Draw a snake and addfeet to It.” tells us going too far is as bad as not going farenough.
6.On a vacation trip, Duke Huan of the state of Qi came to theruin of the capital of GuoShi , which perished long ago.Seeing the desolate and bleak prospects of broken tile
s,collapd walls, and clusters of weeds, he could not help askingthe local people about the reason of the ruin of Guo Shi.They replied,"Guo Shi was fond of doing good deeds, andaver to evildoing, which led to the perdition."When the Duke could not understand the answer, peopleexplained ," Though he liked doing good, he had never been ableto do so; though he hated evildoing, never could he help notparticipating. That caud the ruin of his capital."
7.A mou once took a bite out of a bull's tail as he lay dozing.The bull jumped up in
a rage and, with his head low to the ground,chad the mou right across the yard. The mou was too quickfor him, however, and slipped easily into a hole in the wall.The bull charged the wall furiously again and again, butalthough he bruid his head and chipped his horns, the moustayed safely inside his hole. After a time the bull gave upand sank down to rest again.As soon as the bull was asleep, the little mou crept to themouth of the hole, pattered across the yard, bit the bull again-- this time on the no -- and rushed back to safety. As thebull roared helplessly the mou squeaked:"It's not always the big people who come off best. Sometimesthe small ones win, you know."
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断的组词8.A boy was playing in the fields when he was stung by a nettle .He ran home to tell his mother what had happened."I only touched it lightly," he said, "and the nasty thingstung me.""It stung you becau you only touched it lightly," his mothertold him." Next time you touch a nettle grasp it as tightly asyou can. Then it won't sting you at all."Face danger boldly.马架
9.A man once bought a brilliantly-coloured parrot. Instead oflocking it up in a cage or chaining it to a perch, he allowedit to fly free all over the hou. The parrot was delighted atthis and flapped from room to room, shrieking and screaming withhappiness. At last he ttled on the edge of a rich curtain."Who on earth are you ?" said a cross voice from below. "Stopthat terrible noi at once."The parrot saw a cat staring up at him from the carpet."I 'm a parrot. I 've just arrived and I 'm to make as muchnoi as I can," he said."Well, I 've lived here all my life," replied the cat ."Iwas born in this very hou and I learned from my mother thatit is best to keep quiet here.""Keep quiet then, "said the parrot cheerfully. "I don'tknow what you do around here, but I know my job. My master boughtme for my voice and I'm going to make sure he hears it."Different people are value
d for different things.
