五年级英语小故事

1、五年级英语小故事1.To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them GrowOnce upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday hewent to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thoughtthey were growing too slowly. He got imp

2、atient with the young plants."How could the plants grow faster?" He tossed 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 seedl

3、ings. 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 himself, "What a wonderful idea! Look, how much taller the plants have grown one night!" With great satisfaction, he went back home. He told

4、 his son what he had done in a triumphant tone. His son was shocked. Now the sun had risen.The young man was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.People now use " Ba Miao Zhu Zhang" to describe the behavior of those who are too eager to get something done only to make i

5、t worse. The idiom is a bit like the English proverb "Haste makeswaste" to spoil things by excessive enthusiasm.拨苗助长从前，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。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。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”哪知，他跑到

6、稻田时，却看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了2.Sunday SevenLong ago there were two hunchbacks. One was kind but the other was mean and spiteful. The two hunchbacks cold not work in the village because 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 mea

7、n and spiteful one was very lazy and was always telling his companion;"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 hom

8、e as usual, the good woodcutter worked very hard and was very tired. Since his house 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 re

9、alized that the voices he heard were not human.Very cautiously he arose and silently walked to the place where the singing came from. Imagine his surprise 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

10、three.That was all the fairies sang, they repeated the same line over and over again. It seemed that it was the only song they knew. The woodcutter then decided that he would talk to them. Naturally, as soon as he heard them singing again, he went near the fire and the fairies saw him at once."

11、What do you want, oh mortal?" asked the fairies. "Why do you come to bother us?""Because I can help you. Listen tome and you will see that your song will sound better this way." Then he sang:Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday three,Thursday and Friday and Saturday six.Oh! The

12、fairies were filled with joy. They noticed then that the good woodcutter was a hunchback. They told him to kneel down and with a magic wand touched his hump. Immediately it disappeared, leaving him strong and strong3Magic change神奇变化Gaga is a little duck. He is small, dirty and ugly. His friends don&

13、#39; t like to play with him.One day, Gaga walked behind his friends quietly（ 静悄悄 地 ）.But his friends did not want him. Gaga was very sad and ran to the river and cried loudly（ 大声地 ） 。Just then, a big beautiful bird heard（听见）him crying and flew down （飞下来，落下来 ）. She said,“Please don't cry. Tell m

14、e, what do you want? I can help you.”Gaga told the truth（真相）.The beautiful bird said, “OK, I ca n help you to become a good-looking duck.” Then she took out a blanket and put it on the duck's body. She said something which the little duck didn 't understand. Then she took away the blanket. T

15、here stood （站立）a good-looki ng duck.Gaga was very happy. He thanked the big bird and quickly went to play with his friends.4The Dog And The Shadow 狗和它的影子A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for that of another Dog, wi

16、th a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.一条狗嘴里叼块肉 ,来到一座桥上 .它看见水里有自己的影

17、子 以为是另一条嘴里也叼着一块比自己那块肉大一倍的狗 .它忙丢下自己嘴里的那块肉 ,猛力地攻击 水里的狗 .试图去抢它的肉 .结果 ,它两块肉都得不到 . 因为那只是 一个影子 ,它自己的影子而已 .真正的肉也被水冲走了 .5The Nice Wedding GiftWe attended the wedding of an acquaintance's son. Because we did not know the young man or his bride, we decided to send them a practical household gift, a fire e

18、xtinguisher. Apparently, the couple mass-produced their thank-you notes because we received a card saying: Thank you very much for the nice wedding gift. We look forward to using it soon.漂亮的结婚礼物我们参加了一个熟人的儿子的婚礼。 由于我们都不认识那个 年轻人和他的新娘，所以我们决定送给他们一个实用的全家礼一个灭火器。很明显，这对新人大批量制作了他们的感谢信， 因为我们收到了一张卡片，上面写着： “非常感谢

19、您的漂亮的结 婚礼物，我们期待着不久就用到它。 ”6The Dog And The Shadow 狗和它的影子A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his own, and fiercely attacked the

20、other Dog, to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.一条狗嘴里叼块肉 ,来到一座桥上 .它看见水里有自己的影子 以为是另一条嘴里也叼着一块比自己那块肉大一倍的狗.它忙丢下自己嘴里的那块肉 ,猛力地攻击水里的狗 . 试图去抢它的肉 .结 果,它两块肉都得不到 . 因为那只是一个影子 ,它自己的影子而已 .

21、 真正的肉也被水冲走了 .177.THE ANT AND THE DOVE 蚂蚁和鸽子One hot day, an ant was searching for some water. After walking around for some time, she came to a spring （小溪）To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell into the water.She could have drowned if

22、a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly plucked off a leaf and dropped it into the water near the struggling ant. The<a> ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it <开 carried her safely to dry ground.Just at that time, a h

23、unter nearby was throwing out his net towards the dove, hoping to trap it.Guessing what he was about to do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net. The dove was quick to fly away to safety.MORAL: One good turn deserves another.8A Simple Gesture 举手之劳Mark was

24、 walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the sa

25、me way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked Mark discovered the boy's name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history, and that he was having lots of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend. They arrived at Bill's ho

26、me first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then Mark went home. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then both graduated from junior high school.

27、They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited senior year came and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. "Did you ever wonder why I was carr

28、ying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn't want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mothers sleeping pills and I was going home to commit suicide. But after we spent some time together talking and laughin

29、g, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more, you saved my life."-John W. Schlatter (true story)9The Miser 守财奴A MISER sold all that he had and bought a

30、 lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gol

31、d, and stole it. The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the go

32、ld is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."有个守财奴变卖了他所有的家产， 换回了金块， 并秘密地埋 在一个地方。他每天走去看 看他的宝藏。有个在附近放羊的牧 人留心观察，知道了真情，趁他走后，挖出金块拿走了。 守财 奴再来时，发现洞中的金块没有了，便捶胸痛哭。有个人见他如 此悲痛，问明原因后， 说道：“喂，朋友，别再难过了

33、，那块金 子虽是你买来的，但并不是你真正拥有的。去拿一 块石头来， 代替金块放在洞里， 只要你心里想着那是块金子， 你就会很高兴。 这样与你拥有 真正的金块效果没什么不同。依我之见，你拥有 那金块时，也从没用过。 ”这故事说明，一切财物如不使用等于没有。10The Wolf and the Lamb 狼与小羊WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf&#

34、39;s right to eat him. He thus addressed him:"Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf , "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb,

35、"I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I

36、won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.一只小羊在河边喝水， 狼见到后， 便想找一个名正言顺的借 口吃掉他。于是他跑到上游，恶狠狠地说小羊把河水搅浑浊了， 使他喝不到清水。小羊回答说，他仅仅站在河边喝水，并且又在 下游，根本不可能把上游的水搅浑。 狼见此计不成， 又说道：“我 父亲去年被你骂过。 ”小羊说，那时他还没有出生。狼对他说：不管你怎样辩解，反正我不

37、会放过 你这说明，对恶人做任何正当的辩解也是无效的。1仃he Bat and the WeaselS蝙蝠与黄鼠狼A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Sh

38、ortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped.It is wise to turn circumstan

39、ces to good account.蝙蝠掉落在地上，被黄鼠狼叼去，他请求饶命。黄鼠狼说绝 不会放过他，自己生来痛恨鸟类。蝙蝠说他是老鼠，不是鸟，便 被放了。后来蝙蝠又掉落了下来，被另一只黄鼠狼叼住，他再三 请求不要吃他。 这只黄鼠狼说他恨一切鼠类。 蝙蝠改口说自己是 鸟类，并非老 鼠，又被放了。这样，蝙蝠两次改变了自己的名 字，终于死里逃生。这故事说明，我们遇事要随机应变方能避免危险。12The Ass and the Grasshopper 驴子与蚱蜢AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted;

40、 and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, "The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.驴子听见蚱蜢唱歌， 被美妙动听的歌声所打动， 自己也想能 发出同样悦耳动听的声音，便 羡慕地问他们

41、吃些什么，才能发 出如此美妙的声音来。 蚱蜢答道：“吃露水。”驴子便也只吃露水， 没多久就饿死了。这个故事告诉人们不要企望非份之物。13The Lion and the Mouse 狮子与报恩的老鼠A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope