神话故事英语

《后羿射日》用英语视频讲中国神话故事

1、女娲补天

英文：

It is said that there was no man when the sky andthe earth were separated by Pangu. It was Nuwawho made human beings after her own model withyellow clay.From then on, man began to live in peace andhappiness on the earth.

nexpectedly, one year, the fourpillars supportingthe heaven suddenly collapsed and the earthcracked. A great fire raged； torrential water flooded all the lands;fierce animals preyed on men. ThenNuwa melted fivecolored stones, using them to mend the cracks in the sky.

To replace the broken pillars, she cut off the four legs of a huge turtle and used them tosupport the fallensky.Thus the sky was patched up, its four corners were lifted, the flood was tamed, harmful animalswere killed, and the innocent people were able to restore their happy lives.

中文：

盘古开天辟地后，世上本没有人，是女蜗按照自己的样子用黄 泥塑出了人类。此后，人们便开始在大地上幸福的生活着。天有不测风云，一年， 忽然天崩地裂，大火肆虐，洪水滔天,野兽横行伤人。

女蜗把五彩石融化，再用这些熔化了的液体把天上的洞补好。然后，她又将一只万年巨龟的四足斩下，把它们用作擎天柱，支撑住了天地的四方。

就这样，天补好了，四个角撑住了，洪水被驯服， 猛兽被消灭，人类的生活又恢复到往日的幸福祥

和之中。

2、玉兔捣药

英文：

Legend has it that there are three gods into three of the elderly poor, to foxes, monkeys, rabbits for food, the fox and the monkey had food to relief, only rabbit be at a loss what to do. Then the rabbit said: "you eat my flesh!" it into the fire, will he cooked, fairy touched, put the rabbit to the palace of the moon, the moon. Company E, and ramming ever-young medicine.

中文：

相传有三位神仙变成三个可怜的老人，向狐狸、猴子、兔子求食，狐狸与猴子都有食物可以济助，唯有兔子束手无策。后来兔子说：“你们吃我的肉吧!”就跃入烈火中，将自己烧熟，神仙大受感动，把兔子送到月宫内，成了玉兔。陪伴嫦娥,并捣制长生不老药。

3、精卫填海

英文：

Once upon a time, Yan has a small daughter, Her name is baby girl, he loved his little daughter, Yan often play with the girls, but the terrible thing happened, girls playing in the sea, unfortunately, dead water, and then She turned into a bird, named Jingwei, Yan sad day Jade Bird watching it, and finally decided to make this Jingwei filled the sea, so that he no longer claimed more lives!

中文：

从前，有1个女孩叫做精卫，她很爱自己的父亲炎帝，他们经常在一起玩，每天都很开心。有一天，精卫去划船，不小心掉进了海里，后来她变成了1只鸟。她经常去看她的父亲，她的父亲为此很伤心。后来精卫决定用石子把那个海填起来。

4、夸父追日

英文：

Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River.

In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rivers. Though he drank up two rivers, he still felt thirsty, and he decided to go to the large lake in the north for a good drink. On the way to the north, Kua Fu eventually died of thirst.

The walking stick thrown down by him, being nurtured by the nourishment converted from his dead body, unexpectedly bloomed and fructified, and it grew into peach woods, which stretched for thousands of miles.

中文：

夸父竭尽全力追赶太阳。当他追赶太阳降落的地方时， 由于忍受不了干渴，只好掉转头，回到黄河、渭河所在的地方，一口气便将这两条河里的水喝得精光。

虽然喝光了两条大河，但夸父还是感到不解渴,又打算到北方的大湖里去痛饮一番。北去的途中，夸父终因干渴而死。

扔下的手杖，被他的尸体所化成的养料滋润，竟然开花结果，长成一片连绵千里的桃林。

5、牛郎织女

英文：

On the east bank of the heavenly river lived a girl weaver, daughter of the emperor of heaven. She worked hard year in and year out, weaving colorful clothes for gods and goddesses.

Later she sneakly married the cowherd who is only a mortal and raised two children with him. However, goddess found the fact that she concealed. Greatly outraged, the goddess forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year.

On the seventh day of each autumn, magpies would suddenly become bald-headed for no obvious reasons at all. According to legend, that day the cowherd and the weaver met on the east bank of the river, and magpies were made to form a bridge for them. And for this reason the down on their heads was worn out from book of plants and animals.

中文：

天河东岸住着一个女孩，她是天帝的女儿。她年复一年地辛勤工作，为众神和女神编织丰富多彩的衣服。

后来，她偷偷嫁给了一个只是凡人的牛郎，并和他一起抚养了两个孩子。然而，女神发现了她隐藏的事实。女神非常愤怒，她强迫女孩过河，让她一年只能和丈夫团聚一次。

每年秋天的第七天，喜鹊突然变得秃顶，完全没有明显的原因。传说那天牛郎和织女在河的东岸相遇，喜鹊被做成了一座桥。正因为如此，他们的头上的毛从植物和动物的书上磨损了。

神话故事 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------[拼音]：shén huà ɡù shì [解释]：mystery story; 1.a fairy tale; a fairy story ; fairy tale [参考词典]：汉英综合大词典 汉英综合科技大辞典 汉英综合大词典

英文:Once upon a time, there was a girl named Jingwei. She loved her father Yandi very much. They often played together and were very happy every day. One day, Jingwei went boating and accidentally fell into the sea. Later, she became a bird. She often visits her father, who is very sad about it. Later Jingwei decided to fill the sea with stones.中文:从前，有一个女孩叫做精卫，她很爱自己的父亲炎帝，他们经常在一起玩，每天都很开心。有一天，精卫去划船，不小心掉进了海里，后来她变成了一只鸟。她经常去看她的父亲，她的父亲为此很伤心。后来精卫决定用石子把那个海填起来。

神话是一种文化积淀,也是一种民族意识的积淀,它以潜意识的方式影响着几千年来人们的文化思维与行为习惯。那么关于英语版的神话故事有哪些呢？下面是我为您整理的简短的英语神话传说，希望对你有所帮助!

Hermes immediately after he was born，hermes was appointed godof thieves at olympus.and a thief he became when he was barely a few hours old.feeling hungry，the infant left his cradle after nightfall to hunt for food.he chanced uponapollo\'\'s oxen grazing on a meadow and drove a number ofthese animals away，tying tree branches around the feet of thecattle to make their footsteps dim.he killed two of these oxenand had a magnificent dinner.then he slipped back into his littlebed in his mother\'\'s house.when apollo came to question himhermes pretended to be innocent.the angry sungod draggedhim up to olympus，where he was accused of the stealing andmade to return the cattle to their master.in reconciliation little hermes gave apollo the lyre he had made out of a tortoise shell，and apollo was so pleased with the gift that he presented his little brother with a magic stick.the stick could pacify hostileforces. in due time hermes was appointed messenger of zeus andthe gods.the gods equipped him with a pair of winged sandalsand winged cap to enable him to travel swifter than sight.it was hermes who took the messages of zeus to the world below. hermes was a patron of travellers.his busts and statueswere set up as dividing marks at crossroads or street corners toguide passersby.the hermes，as these statues were called，were regarded as sacred，and their mutilation was sacrilegiousand punishable by death.the destruction of the numerous hermes within the city of athens caused a terrible excitement amongits citizens that it might be no exaggeration to state that itchanged the whole course of historic development of athens .

In ancient times,the four corners of the sky collapsed and the world with its nine regions spilt open.The sky couldn't cover all the things under it,nor could the earth carry all the things on it.A grea fier raged and wouldn't die out,a fierce flood raced about and couldn't be checked.Savage beasts devoured innocent people,vicious birds preyed on the weak and old.

Then Nu Wa melted rocks of five colours and used then to mend the ceasks in he sky.She supported the four corners of the sky with the legs she had cut off from a giant turtle.She killede the black dargon to save the people of Jizhou,and bloked the flood with the ashes of reeds.

Thus the sky was mended,its four corners lifted,the flood tamed,Jizhou pacified,and harmful birds and beasts killed,and the innocent people were able to live on the square earth under the dome of the sky.It was the time when birds,beasts,insects and snakes no longer used their claws or teeth or poisonous stings,for they didn't want to catch or eat weaker things.

Nu Wa's deeds benefited the heavents above and the earth below.Her name was remembered by later generations and her light shone on every creation.

Legend a long time ago, a pair of rabbit practice Millennium became immortal. They have four lovely daughters, all born to pure cute.

One day, the emperor summoned the rabbits in heaven, it left his wife and children to be reluctant to part, stepping on the cloud temple. When it came to the south gate, see too white Venus day will lead the moon from the side walk. Rabbit fairy know what had happened, he asked a guard's door god beside. After hearing her encounter, rabbit fairy feel the innocent suffer, sympathize with her. But his meager strength, can be of any help? Think of the man in the moon, how lonely sad, if someone with good, suddenly thought of their four daughters, it immediately ran home.

The Moon Fairy rabbit tell the female rabbit, and a child to say with the goddess of the moon. The female rabbit though deeply sympathize with the moon, but loathe to give up their baby daughter, this is tantamount to the heart of flesh cut it! Daughters also reluctant to leave their parents, with tears in her eyes. The male rabbit sincere words and earnest wishes to say: "if I were alone, shut up, you are willing to accompany me? The moon in order to save the people, compromised, we can sympathize with her? The children, we can't think only about yourself!"

The children understand the father's heart, all wants to go. Two rabbits with tears in his eyes, smiled. They decided to let the youngest daughter.

The little moon farewell parents and sisters, flying to the moon to live!

Legend has it that there are three gods into three of the elderly poor, to foxes, monkeys, rabbits for food, the fox and the monkey had food to relief, only rabbit be at a loss what to do. Then the rabbit said: "you eat my flesh!" it into the fire, will he cooked, fairy touched, put the rabbit to the palace of the moon, the moon. Company E, and ramming ever-young medicine.

Legend says that there were once ten suns in the sky, which made plants wither, water in rivers and lakes run dry. It’s too hot to live on the sun.

Houyi, a young man who was good at archery was sympathetic with people’s torture so he decided to save them. He took out his bow, ascended up to the peak of the Kunlun Mountain and shot down nine of the ten suns one by one, and he might have shot the last one if it was not called off by others. Thus the severe drought was gone.

Houyi thus was respected and honored by people as a hero. Young men who were fond of archery flocked to him to learn shooting.

Houyi later married a pretty lady called Chang’er and lived a happy life with her.

One day on his way to a friend’ home in the Kunlun Mountain, Houyi came across the Heavenly Empress. Houyi was enamored of the happy life with his wife and wanted to be with her forever so he asked the Heavely Empress to give him some elixir. The elixir was strictly controlled off normal people. The Heavely Empress, however, moved by Houyi’s contribution and affection to love and gave him one. The drug was said very powerful and people who took it can fly to the heaven and became a immortal immediately. However, the content was only enough for one person and Houyi was reluctant to leave his beloved wife alone on the earth so he gave the elixir to Chang’er to preserve and wanted to seek another one for his wife. Chang’er carefully stored it in a wooden box while her action was peeked by the evil Fengmeng-one of his husband’s adherents.

Three days afterward, Houyi lead his disciples to go out for hunting but Fengmeng who wanted to steal the elixir while Houyi was way, stayed at home deliberately.

No sooner as Houyi left his house, Fengmeng knocked into the courtyard where Chang’er was working. He wielded his glitter sword and threatened Chang’er to give him the elixir.

Chang’e had no better idea than swallowed the elixir herself.

As soon as she took it, chang’er flew from her house toward the heave and finally landed on the moon.

Houyi was told what was happening in the evening when he returned home from bumper hunting. He was astonished, anguished and then very anger so he decided to kill the evil man. But Fengmeng had fled away. Chang’er was transferred to the moon and has lived there since ever.