简单的英语小故事(短篇带翻译)合集 【1】

简单的英语小故事(短篇带翻译)合集 【1】 1/22 简单的英语小故事短篇带翻译合集 【1】目录英语成语故事:画蛇添足The Wolf and the Crane 狼与鹭鸶小学生英语寓言故事:The Lion and the Mouse英语成语故事: 破釜沉舟英语成语故事画饼充饥英语寓言故事:孩子与苎麻英语成语故事:骑虎难下 英语故事阅读:蛇的三片叶子The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller 烧炭人与漂布人英 语成语故事:狼狈为奸英语成语故事:天花乱坠格林童话聪明的老兄相信自己追 随梦想英语成语故事:名落孙山驴和买驴的人The ass and his purchaser2/22 英语成 语故事:画蛇添足战国时代有个楚国人祭他的祖先仪式结束后他拿出一壶酒赏 给手下的几个人。大家商量说我们都来画蛇谁先画好谁就喝这壶酒”。其中有 一个人先画好了。但他看到同伴还没有画完就又给蛇添上了脚。这时另一个人 也画好了夺过酒壶把酒喝了并且说蛇本来是没有脚的你怎么能给它添上 脚呢画蛇添足”这个成语比喻作了多余而不恰当的事反而把事情弄糟 了。 ?? ?? Drawing a Snake and Adding Feet?? In the Warring States Period a man in the state of Chu was offering a sacrifice tohis ancestors. After the ceremony the man gave a beaker of wine to his servants. Theservants thought that there was not enought wine for all of them and decided to eachdraw a piecture of snake the one who finished the piecture first would get the wine.One of them drew very rapidly. Seeing that the others were still busy drawing headded feet to the snake. At this moment another man finished snatched the beakerand drank the wine sayingquotA snake doesnt have feet. How can you add feet to asnakequot This idiom refers to ruining a venture by doing unnecessary and surplus things.3/22 The Wolf and the Crane 狼与鹭鸶The Wolf and the Crane狼与鹭鸶??A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane for a large sum to puther head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted thebone and demanded the promised payment the Wolf grinning and grinding his teethexclaimed: quotWhy you have surely already had a sufficient recompense in havingbeen permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of awolf.quot??In serving the wicked expect no reward and be thankful if you escape injury foryour pains. 狼误吞下 了一块骨头十分难受四处奔走寻访医生。他遇见了鹭鸶谈定酬金请他取出 骨头鹭鸶把自己的头伸进狼的喉咙里叼出了骨头便向狼要定好的酬金。狼回 答说喂朋友你能从狼嘴里平安无事地收回头来难道还不满足怎么还要 讲报酬这故事说明对坏人行善的报酬就是认识坏人不讲信用的本 质。??4/22 小学生英语寓言故事:The Lion and theMouse??A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrilyhe caught him and was about to kill him when the Mouse piteously entreated saying:quotIf you would only spare my life I would be sure to repay your kindness.quot The Lionlaughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught bysome hunters who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse recognizing hisroar came and gnawed the rope with his teeth and set him free exclaiming: ?????? quotYou ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you expecting toreceive from me any repayment of your favor now you know that it is possible foreven a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.quot ?????? 狮子 睡着了有只老鼠跳到了他身上。狮子猛然站起来把他抓住准备吃掉。老鼠请 求饶命 并说如果保住性命必将报恩狮子轻蔑地笑了笑便把他放走了。不久狮子真 的被老鼠 救了性命。原来狮子被一个猎人抓获并用绳索把他捆在一棵树上。老鼠听到了他 的 哀嚎走过去咬断绳索放走了狮子并说: ?????? “你当时嘲笑我不相信能得到我的报答 现在可清楚了老鼠也能报恩。” 这故事说明时运交替变更强者也会有需要弱者的时 候。5/22 英语成语故事:破釜沉舟破釜沉舟??秦朝公元前221-前206年末年楚 霸王项羽率领部队与秦军作战。部队渡过漳河以后项羽命令士兵把所有的船只都 毁掉沉到河底把行军的饭锅全部打碎每人只发给三天的干粮。项羽这样做的目 的是向大家 表 关于同志近三年现实表现材料材料类招标技术评分表图表与交易pdf视力表打印pdf用图表说话 pdf 示只能胜利前进不能失败后退的决心。果然部队经过九次激烈的 战斗终于打垮了秦军。“破釜沉舟”这个成语比喻下定最后的决心不顾一切干到 底。???? Smasking the Canldrons and Sinking the Boats ?? During the late years of the Qi Dynasty221-206BCXiang Yu led a rebellion. Aftercrossing the Zhang River Xiang Yu ordered his men to sink all their boats and breaktheir cooking pots. He issued each soldier three days rations and warned them thatthere was no way to retreat the only thing they could do to survive was to advanceand fight. After mine fierce battles the Qin army was finally defeated. ?? This idiom is used to indicate ones firm determination to achieve ones goal at anycost.6/22 英语成语故事画饼充饥三国时代魏国的皇帝曹睿准备选拔 一个有才能的人到朝廷来做官。曹睿对他的大臣说选拔人才不能光找有虚名的 人。虚名好比是地上画的一块饼只能看不能解决肚子饥饿的问题啊后来人 们就用“画饼充饥”这个成语比喻用空想安慰自己不能解决实际问题。 ?? ?? Allaying Hunger with Pictures of Cakes ?? In the Three Kingdom Period220-280 the king of the state of Wei Cao Rui wantedto select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers:quotwhen choosinga talented person always beware of one with a false reputatiopn. A false reputationis just like a picture of a cake it cant relieve hunger.quot Later this idiom came to be used to mean comforting oneself with unrealisticthoughts without solving practical problems.7/22 英语寓言故事:孩子与苎 麻一个小孩不小心被苎麻刺了他急忙跑回家告诉妈妈说:“我只轻轻地碰它一下它就 刺得我很痛。”妈妈说:“正因为如此它才会刺你。下次你如果再碰到苎麻要勇敢地一 把抓住它它就会在你的手中变得柔软如丝不再会刺伤你了。” A child was careless Ramie stabbed herushed home and told his mother: quotI only lightly Pengyi what it was my painfulthorns.quot Mom said: quotBecause of this it will thorn you. if the next time you metRamie to a courageous and seize it it will be in your hands become soft as silkyou will no longer be stabbed. quot ?????? 这是说许多人都是服硬不服软的。 It is said that many people are serving hardagainst soft.8/22 英语成语故事:骑虎难下北周 最后一个皇帝年龄很小大臣杨坚掌握了国家大权。杨坚的妻子劝告杨坚说北周 已经不行了。你现在就像骑在老虎背上形势逼迫着你不能下来只好干下去吧 杨坚决的很有道理后来就自己当了皇帝建立了隋朝-并且统一了 中国。“骑虎难下”这个成语用来比喻做事中途遇到很大困难但形势所迫又不能 中止。????When One Rides a Tiger It is Hard to Dismount?? Yang Jian was the regent of the last king of Northern Zhou557-581.His wife advisedhim:quotNorthern Zhou is dying. Now it is as if you are riding on the back of a tiger.It will be dangerous to dismount. You can do nothing but continue.quot Yang Jian thoughtthis quite reasonable. Later he founded the Sui Dynasty and united China once more.This idom is used as a metaphor meaning that one is in a difficult situation andcannot help but ontinue to pursue ones sourse.9/22 英语故事阅读:蛇的三片叶子??Once upon a time there was a poor man who could no longer afford to keep his onlyson. So his son said:quot Dear father you have fallen on very hard times and Im aburden to you it will be better if I go away and try to earn my living.quot His fathergave him his blessing and took leave of him with great sadness. At this time the kingof a powerful kingdom was engaged in a war the young man took service with him andjoined the fighting. And when they met the enemy a battle took place and there wasgreat peril and a great hail of bullets with his comrades falling all round him. Andwhen even the commander was killed the rest wanted to take to their heels but theyoung man stepped forward and rallied them crying:quot We must not let our fatherlandperish.quot At this the others followed him and he pressed forward and defeated theenemy. When the king heard that he owed the victory to him alone he raised him aboveall the others gave him great wealth and made him the first man in his kingdom. ?????? The king had a daughter who was very beautiful but there was also somethingvery strange about her. She had made a vow to take no man for her lord and husbandunless he promised to let himself be buried alive with her if she died before him.quotIf he truly loves mequot she said quotwhy would he want to go on livingquot In return shewas prepared to do the same for him and go down into the grave with him if he diedfirst. This strange vow had hitherto deterred all suitors but the young man was soentranced by her beauty that he was heedless of everything and asked her father forher hand. quotBut do you know what promise you will have to makequot said the king. quotIshall have to go to her grave with her if I outlive herquot he replied quotbut my love isso great that I care not for this danger.quot Then the king consented and the marriagewas celebrated with great magnificence. ?????? They now lived happily and contentedly for a time and then it happened thatthe young queen fell seriously ill and no doctor could help her. And when she laythere dead the young king remembered what he had had to promise and he was filledwith horror at the thought of being buried alive but there was no help for it: theking had ordered all the gates to be watched and there was no way of escaping hisfate. When the day came for the queens dead body to be laid to rest in the royalvault he was taken down into it with her and then the door was locked and bolted. ?????? Beside the coffin stood a table on which there were four candles four loavesof bread and four bottles of wine. As soon as these pro ns gave out he wouldvisiohave to die of hunger. So there he sat full of grief and sorrow eating only a morselof bread each day and drinking only a mouthful of wine and yet he realized that hisdeath was coming closer and closer. Now as he sat there staring in front of him hesaw a snake crawl out of one corner of the vault and approach the coffin. Thinking itwas going to gnaw at the dead body he drew his sword and exclaimed:quot You shanttouch her so long as I am alivequot And he hacked the snake into three pieces. A fewmoments later a second snake came crawling out of the corner but when it saw theother one lying dead and dismembered it turned back and presently approached againcarrying three green leaves in its mouth. Then it took the three pieces of the snakeput them together the way they belonged and laid one of the leaves on each of thewounds. At once the dismembered parts joined the snake stirred and came to lifeagain and both snakes crawled quickly away leaving the leaves behind them. ?????? The unfortunate prince had watched all this and he now began to wonderwhether the miraculous power of the leaves which had restored the snake to life mightalso help a human being. So he picked up the leaves and laid one of them on the deadwomans mouth and the other two on her eyes. and scarcely had he done so when herblood stirred in her veins rose into her pallid countenance and gave it the flush of10/22 life again. She drew breath opened her eyes and said:quot Alas where am Iquot quotYou arewith me my dear wifequot he answered and told her all that had happened and how he hadrevived her. Then he gave her some wine and bread and when she had recovered herstrength she stood up and they went to the door and knocked on it and shouted soloudly that the guards heard them and reported it to the king. The king himself camedown and opened the door he found both of them in full health and vigor andrejoiced with them that now all their troubles were over. But the young king took thethree snake-leaves with him gave them to a servant and said:quot Keep them carefullyfor me and carry them on you wherever you go who knows what trouble they may yethelp us out of.quot ?????? But since being brought back to life his wife had undergone a change: it wasas if all her love for husband had been drained out of her heart. Some time later hedecided to make a voyage across the sea to visit his old father and after they hadboarded the ship she forgot the great love and grace he had shown her and how he hadsaved her from death and conceived a guilty passion for the ships captain. One daywhen the young king was lying there asleep she called the captain and seized hersleeping husband by the head and made the captain take him by the feet and thus theythrew him into the sea. When this shameful deed had been done she said to thecaptain:quot Now lets go home and well say he died at sea. You can leave it to me tokeep singing your praises to my father till he marries me to you and makes you heirto his crown.quot But the faithful servant who had witnessed the whole thing secretlylowered a small boat from the ship and set out in it following his master andletting the traitors sail away. He fished up the drowned man and by putting thethree snake-leaves which he had with him on the young kings eyes and mouth hesuccessfully restored him to life. ?????? Then they both rowed day and night with might and main and their boat spedalong so quickly that they got home to the old king before the others. He wasastonished to see them arriving alone and asked what had happened to them. When heheard of his daughters wickedness he said:quot I cant believe that she did so evil athing but the truth will soon come to light.quot He told them both to go into a secretroom and let no one know of their presence. Soon after this the big ship came sailingin and the princes godless wife appeared before her father with a sorrowful air. Hesaid:quot Why have you returned alone Where is your husbandquot quotOh dear fatherquot shereplied quotI have come home in great grief: during the voyage my husband suddenly fellsick and died and if the kind ships captain had not helped me it would have goneill with me. But he was present at my husbands death and can tell you all thathappened.quot The king said:quot I will bring this dead man back to life.quot And he openedthe door of the room and told the two men to come out. When the woman saw her husbandshe stood as if thunderstruck then fell to her knees and begged for mercy. The kingsaid:quot There can be no mercy for you: he was ready to die with you and he gave youyour life back again but you murdered him in his sleep and you shall have your justreward.quot Then she and her accomplice were put on board a ship full of holes and sentout to sea where they soon perished in the waves. ?????? I. Reference Version 参考译文 ?????? 蛇的三片叶 子 ?????? 从前有个穷人。他穷得连自己的独生儿子都养不起。于是他儿子说:“爸爸 您的处境太困难了我也是您的负担。这样倒不如让我出去闯一闯挣口饭吃。”父亲为 儿子祈祷祝福非常难过地和儿子分手了。恰在这个时候有个强国的国王正在作战这 个年轻人就跟随着国王上了战场。他们遇到敌人开始战斗了。在枪林弹雨中身边的 战友都倒下了甚至有的军官也战死了活着的都想逃跑。这时候年轻人走上前来为大 家鼓气他大声喊道:“不能让我们的祖国灭亡”于是人们都跟随他向前冲打垮了敌军。 国王听说多亏了这个年轻人才取得胜利的消息就把他提升到很高的位置并给了他很多财宝。他在王宫里是一人之下万人之上。 ?????? 国王有个公主非常美丽只是性情有些古怪。她选择丈夫的条件是:如果公主先死活着的丈夫必须和她一起埋葬否则就不能成为她的丈夫。公主说:“如果他真心爱我我死了他为什么还要活着呢”同样如果丈夫先死了她也准备跟着一起进坟墓。这个古怪的誓约吓退了所有的求婚人。可是公主的美貌让这个年轻人陶醉。他义无返顾地向国王 要求 对教师党员的评价套管和固井爆破片与爆破装置仓库管理基本要求三甲医院都需要复审吗 娶公主为妻。国王说:“你知道应该答应她些什么吗”“如果公主死了而我还活着我就会和她一起进坟墓。”年轻人回答说:“我爱她爱得那么强烈深沉就顾不得什么危险了。”于是国王同意了。他们举行了非常隆11/22 重的婚礼。 ?????? 他们一起幸福快乐地过了一些日子。突然年轻的王后患了重病医生们都认为不可救药了。王后死了年轻的国王回想起从前的誓约想到就要被活埋不由得直打哆嗦。老国王派了卫兵看住了所有的城门。看来这悲惨的命运是不能逃避了。在年轻的王后遗体装进王家墓穴的那一天那年轻的国王也被一同带进墓穴。墓穴的门关上了还上了锁。 ?????? 在棺材的旁边放着一张桌子上面有四支蜡烛四个面包和四瓶葡萄酒。这些东西用完了他也就要饿死了。他在无限痛苦和悲伤中每天只吃一点面包喝一小口酒。可是他依然意识到死期越来越近了。正当他一动不动向前看着的时候突然见到墓穴的一角爬出一条蛇直向棺材爬去。他想蛇是来咬公主尸体的。于是他拔出宝剑说:“只要我还活着你就别想碰她。”他把这条蛇砍成四段。不一会儿又一条蛇爬了过来看见这条蛇死了并被分了尸就立刻退回去了。随后那条蛇叼着三张绿叶又出现了。然后那条蛇把死去的蛇按原样摆好在每个伤口处放上一张绿叶。不大一会那断开的地方又接到了一起。死了的蛇又复活了动弹了。接着两条蛇很快地爬走了。可绿叶还留在那儿。这不幸的国王看到这一切开始考虑:这绿色的叶子具有能使死蛇复活的神奇效力不知会不会让死人复活。于是他拣起三片叶子一片放在妻子的嘴上另两片放在眼睛上。刚放好王后的血就在血管里流动起来。她.