五年级英语小故事
1.To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow
Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he
went to the field to watch the edlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought
they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants.
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"How could the plants grow faster?" He tosd in bed during the night and could not sleep. Suddenly he hit upon an idea. He had an idea not wait for daybreak. He jumped out of the bed and dashed to the field. By the moonlight, he began working on the rice edlings. One by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was already morning. Straightening his back, he said to himlf, "What a wonderful idea! Look,
how much taller the plants have grown one night!" With great satisfaction, he went back home. He told his son what he had done in a triumphant tone. His son was shocked. Now the sun had rin.
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The young man was heart-broken to e all the pulled-up young plants dying.
People now u " Ba Miao Zhu Zhang" to describe the behavior of tho who are too eager to get something done only to make it wor. The idiom is a bit like the English proverb "Haste makes waste" ------to spoil things by excessive enthusiasm.
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siliconerubber
从前，有个农夫，种了稻苗后，便希望能早早收成。每天他到稻田时，发觉那些稻
苗长得非常慢。 六级英语作文范文
13一15younggir1
goto他等得不耐烦，心想：“怎么样才能使稻苗长得高，长很快呢?
想了又想，他终了想到一个“最佳方法”，就是将稻苗拨高几分。
lipin
经过一番辛劳后，他满意地扛锄头回家休息。心想：明天稻苗长得一定更高了。
隔天早晨．一早起身，他迫不及待地起去稻田看他的“成果”。小语种
哪知，他跑到稻田时，却看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了。
钱英文
2.Sunday Seven
Long ago there were two hunchbacks. One was kind but the other was mean and spiteful. The two hunchbacks cold not work in the village becau everybody made fun of them; therefore they went into the hills to cut wood. That is, the kind one cut all the wood since the mean and spiteful one was very lazy and was always telling his companion;
致辞英文"Ay!, how sick I am today. It is better if you go and cut the wood this week." His partner, being kind-hearted, would go into the mountains and do all the work week after week.
One day, when the mean one had stayed at home as usual, the good woodcutter worked
very hard and was very tired. Since his hou was far away, he decided to camp near a small spring. About midnight, the woodcutter heard someone singing. At first he thought that somebody had camped near by but when he had listened to what was being sung, he realized that the voices he heard were not human.
Very cautiously he aro and silently walked to the place where the singing came from. Imagine his surpri when he saw a group of fairies singing and dancing around a blazing fire.
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday three,
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday three.
