The three wishes三个愿望
A couple wishes for good luck. A fairy comes to them and says,”You may have three wishes.” The wife is very happy. She doesn’t think much and says, “I wish I had a delicious sausage.” So she has it.
“Silly!” shouts the husband. “How can you just wish for a sausage?” I wish it were on your no!” After that, the sausage grows on the wife’s no.
“How stupid you are! What can we do now?” cries the wife. “We have only one wish.” The husband is also very sad, and says, “We must wish this sausage off.” So the sausage goes away. They have three wishes, but they get nothing in the end.
Stir/美[stɚ/ the grass and startle the snake打草惊蛇
物联中国
Long long ago, a county magistrate named Wang Lu worked in prent Anhui Province , east China . Wang Lu was very greedy and took many bribes. One of his cretaries was equally corrupt, and often schemed for Wang Lu's deeds.
鹦鹉学舌的意思>效果图制作教程
One day a man went to the magistrate to lodge a complaint against the cretary. The cretary's crimes were almost the same as the crimes the magistrate himlf committed. Wang Lu was so frightened that he forgot his proper role in handling the ca. Instead of issuing a judgment, he couldn't help writing the words concerning the complaint: "By stirring the grass, you have startled me who am like a snake under the grass!"
The above story provided the idiom "Stir the grass and startle the snake". The original meaning is that punishment for someone can rve as a warning to others. But people now u the idiom to indicate that premature actions which put the enemy on guard.
月亮和妈妈The moon and her mother
The Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown. "How can I?" replied she; "there's no fitting your figure. At one time you're a New Moon, and at another you're a Full Moon; and between whiles you're neither one nor the other."
The shy turtle/[ˈtɜ:rtl]/害羞的乌龟
飞雪迎春
Tilly is a shy trutle. She hao no friends. If anyone came by to talk or play, she would duck in her shell and wait until they went away.
Then one day,Freddy the frog came swimming by.
"Tilly,don't hide in your shell. I just want to play. But Tilly was too shy."
"No. No. Just go away."
Freddy the frog had many friends.He knew all the fish,he liked the dragonflies.He joked with the ladybugs,and he hung out with the bees,but his best friend was Betty the Butterfly.
深圳宝安公园
"Hi,Betty. How are you?"
"Hi,Freddy,I'm fine. How are you?"
"I don't think Tilly the turtle likes me. Whenever I ask her to come out and play, she hides in her shell and won't come out until I go away."
Betty says," I think Tilly likes you,but she is very shy. and she is very lonely. I think you should keep asking her to come out and play. One day she will come out of her shell."
Freddy liked Betty best becau Betty was smart, and Freddy kept asking Tilly to come out and play.
One day when he was just swimming by,he said to Tilly,
"You can't have any friends if you hide in your shell.I think you should come on out and give it a try."
数传电台Tilly was lonely and she knew that Freddy was right.怎样做春饼
She had no friends becau she always hid in her shell.
So,Tilly poked her head out and looked all around, and she was amazed at how many new friends she found.
THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN北风与太阳
A dispute aro between the North Wind and the Sun, each claiming that he was stronger than the other. At last they agreed to try their powers upon a traveller, to e which could soonest strip him of his
cloak. The North Wind had the first try; and, gathering up all his force for the attack, he came whirling furiously down upon the man, and caught up his cloak as though he would wrest it from him by one
single effort: but the harder he blew, the more cloly the man wrapped it round himlf. Then came the turn of the Sun. At first he beamed gently upon the traveller, who soon unclasped his cloak and
walked on with it hanging looly about his shoulders: then he shone forth in his full strength, and the man, before he had gone many steps, was glad to throw his cloak right off and complete his journey
more lightly clad.
夏天穿棉袄我爱你,儿子love you, son
As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a vere stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal (肠道) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very riously . But the boy died suddenly that night.
Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the riousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters wor, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al
became an alcoholic.
