One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crow's beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took the meat and went into his hole.
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has ever seen a snake with feet?" The story of "Draw a snake and add feet to It." tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
短篇寓言故事英文版 3Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell 掩耳盗铃
Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal his neighbor's doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bell would ring and catch the other people's attention as long as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever "idea". He plugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole the bell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he was caught on the spot as a thief.
A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn't this a very foolish way to look for a sword?
短篇寓言故事英文版 5To Pull up the 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 planted the seedlings, every day he went 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 thought they were growing too slowly. Eventually he got impatient with the young plants and suddenly he hit upon an idea that one by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. The next early morning, the young man couldn't wait to check his "achievement", but he was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.
在 寓言 故事 中我们总能找寻出无穷无尽的智慧,下面这些是我为大家推荐的几篇伊索寓言英文版故事。伊索寓言英文版故事1:蚂蚁和蚱蜢 On a cold, frosty day an ant was dragging out some of the corn which he had laid up in the summertime, to dry it . A grasshopper, half perished with hunger, besought the ant to give him a morsel of to preserve his life. " What were you doing, "said the ant, "this last summer ?""Oh,"said the grasshopper,"I was not idle .I kept singing all the summer long ." said the ant, laughing and shutting up his granary ."Since you could sing all summer, you may dance all winter." Winter finds out what summer lays by. 伊索寓言英文版故事2:雌狐与母狮 One morning when a vixen was taking her babies out of the lair, she saw a lioness and hercub. "Why do you have only one child, dear dame?" asked the vixen. "Look at my healthy and numerous children here, and imagine, if you are able, how a proudmother should feel." the lioness said calmly, "Yes, just look at that beautiful collection. What are they? Foxes!I've only one, but remember, that one is a lion." 伊索寓言英文版故事3:狮子和牛 Three bulls fed in a field together in the GREatest peace and amity . A lion had long watchedthem in the hope of making prize of them, but found that there was little chance for him so longas they kept all together . He therefore began secretly to spread evil and slanderous reports ofone against the other ,till he had formented a jealousy and distrust amongst them . Nosooner did the lion see that they avoided one another ,and fed each by himself apart ,than hefell upon them ,and so made an easy prey of them all. the quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.