英语寓言小故事

1、英语寓言小故事Making His Mark 刻“舟求剑 ”A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped hissword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat wherethe sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into thewater to se

2、arch for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, theboat had moved but the sword had not. Isn very foolish way to look for a sword?楚国有个人坐船渡江时，他不小心把自己的一把宝剑掉落江中。他马上掏 出一把小刀，在宝剑落水的船舷上刻上一个记号。船靠岸后，那楚人立即从船 上刻记号的地方跳下水去捞取掉落的宝剑。他怎么找得到宝剑呢？船继续行 驶，而宝剑却不会再移动。像他这样去找剑，真是太愚蠢可笑了。To Pull up th

3、e Seedlings to Help Them Grow拔苗助长 ” Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who planted a plot of rice. After he plantedthe seedlings, every day he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw theyoung shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day, but still, he thought they were

4、growing too slowly. Eventually he got impatient with the young plants and suddenly he hitupon an idea that one by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. The next earlymorning, the young man couldnt wait to check his“achievementheart-brokento see all the pulled-up young plants dying.从前，有

5、个农夫，种了稻苗（seedli ng9后，便希望能早早收成。每天他到 稻田时，都发觉那些稻苗长得非常慢。他等得很不耐烦。想了又想，他终于想 到一个 “最佳方法 ”，他将稻苗全都拔高了几分。第二天，一早起身，他迫不及 待地去稻田看他的 “成果”。哪知，却看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了。Plugging Ones Ears While Steali ng aOnce upon a time, there was a man who wantedto steal his negi hbor s doorbell.However, he knew clearly that the bell would rin

6、g and catch the other people s attention aslong as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever “idea ” . Heplugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole thebell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he wa

7、s caught on thespot as a thief.从前，有一个人想偷邻居门上的铃，但是他知道一碰到铃，铃就会响起 来，被人发现。他想啊想，终于他想出一个 “妙极 ”，他把自己的耳朵用东西塞 起来，就听不见铃声了。但是当他去偷铃时，铃声仍旧响起来，他被别人当场 抓住The Fox and the Crow 狐“狸和乌鸦 ”One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat inhis mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with t

8、he meat, so he swallowed and eagerlythought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow justkept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crow voice, the crow felt flatteredand opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took

9、themeat and went into his hole.有一天 ,一只乌鸦站在窝旁的树枝上嘴里叼着一片肉，心里非常高兴。这时 候，一只狐狸看见了乌鸦，馋得直流口水，非常想得到那片肉。但是，无论狐 狸说什么，乌鸦就是不理睬狐狸。最后，狐狸赞美乌鸦的嗓音最优美，并要求 乌鸦唱几句让他欣赏欣赏。乌鸦听了狐狸赞美的话，得意极了，就唱起歌来。 没想到，肉一掉下来，狐狸就叼起肉，钻回了洞Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It画蛇添足”Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of th

10、em wantedto drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the groundand the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soonand he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so hedecided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, anotherman finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, Who has ever seen a snake with feet?” The story of Drawa snake and add feet toIt. ” tells us going tooisfaar s bad as not goingfar enough.古时几个人分一壶酒。他们都想独