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 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? 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 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.

从前，有个农夫，种了稻苗（seedlings）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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

古时几个人分一壶酒。他们都想独自喝完那壶酒，所以就定了一个规矩：每人在地上画

一条蛇，谁画得最快，这壶酒就归谁。有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时，看见别人都还在忙着画，就决定给蛇再画上几只脚。结果，他的蛇脚还没加完，另一个人已经把蛇画好了。那人一下把酒壶夺了过去，说：“有谁见过长脚的蛇？”。这个故事告诉我们这样的道理：做得过分和做得不够都是不对的

第二篇：英语寓言小故事与情境对话

一、Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse; he said, "Do come and see me at my house in the country." So the City mouse went. The City mouse said, "This food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city." The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried, " Run! Run! The cat is coming!" They ran away quickly and hid. After some time they came out. When they came out, the Country mouse said, "I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich and afraid." 二、The Fox and the Crow

A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree. ‘That’s for me, as I am a Fox,’ said Master Reynard, and he walked up to the foot of the tree. ‘Good-day, Mistress Crow,’ he cried. ‘How well you are looking to-day: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds, just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from

you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds.’ The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox. ‘That will do,’ said he. ‘That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future .’Do not trust flatterers.’

三、A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it. He tried, and he tried, but at last had to give up in despair. Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. At last, at last, he saw the water mount up near him, and after casting in a few more pebbles he was able to quench his thirst and save his life. 寓意：Little by little does the trick.

1.介绍新同学：

A: Hi, Tom. Who’s the boy over there? B: He’s my friend, Jim. A: Is he a new student? B: Yes, he is. Come here, Jim. This is Mike.

C: How do you do, Mike. A: How do you do? How old are you? C: I’m eleven. A: Me, too. Oh, it’s time for school (It’s time to go to school.).

C: Can I go with you? A: Sure. Let’s go.

2.在课堂上：

T: Who’s on duty today? S1: I am.

T: Is everyone here? (Are you all here?)

S1: No, Jim is not. T: Where’s he?

S1: He’s in the teachers’ office.

T: Go and get him, please. S1: OK/ All right.

S2: May I come in, Miss Gao? T: Come in, please. Now look at the blackboard. Read the numbers from ten to twenty.

Ss: All right/Yes. T: Jim, it’s your turn to read. Read these words. S2: All right.

3.购物：

A: Can I help you? B: Yes, please. A: What do you want? B: I want a dress for my daughter. A: How about this red one? B: It’s very nice. How much is it? A: It’s fifty Yuan. B: I take it. Here you are. A: Thank you. Goodbye.

A：:What attracted you to our university?B：:I like your sports facilities,especially the swimming poo.。A::Do you play many sports? B::Yes,I like basketball and baseball.

A::Good,we have great teams here and you'll be able to try out for

them.Where did you go to school before? B：:Hongqi High School. A::What did you take before? B：:English,Math,Biology,Chemistry and Computer.

A::Do you have your last report card?（最近的成绩表）B：:Yes,here it is. A::I see you got a "D" in Biology.How come?（是什么原因）

B：:Well,I found that subject hard. I think I'll drop it for history.我想读历史科。 B::You could do that. I'll show you around the school now. The lion and the mouse

When a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down beside him. This soon wakened the lion. He was very angry, and caught the mouse in his paws.

"Forgive me, please." cried the little mouse. "I may be able to help you someday." The lion was tickled at these words.

He thought, "How could this little mouse help me?" However he lifted up his paws and let him go.

A few days later, the lion was caught in a trap.

The hunters wanted to take him alive to the king, so they tied him to a tree, and went away to look for a wagon.

Just then the little mouse passed by, and saw the sad lion.

He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes. "Was I not right?" asked the little mouse.

寓意：do not judge someone by their size .And kindness is never wasted.

Going South by Driving the Chariot North

Once a man wanted to go to the south， but his carriage was heading north. A passer-by asked him： 'If you are going to the south， why is your chariot heading north? ' The man answered， 'My horse is good at running， my driver is highly skilled at driving a carriage， and I have enough money. ' The man didn't consider that the direction might be wrong; the better his conditions were， the further he was away from his destination

寓意：The idiom derived from this story indicates that one's action was the opposite effect to one's intention.

The Ant and the Dove（鸽子）

An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.

A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.

The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the bird catcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.

The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller烧炭人和漂布人

A Charcoal-Burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their

housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, "The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I

should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal." 寓意：不同类的人难相处。Like will draw like.

The Cock and the Jewel

A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a

precious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee(you), and not I, he would have taken thee(you) up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee(you) for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn（麦子） than all the jewels in the world."

寓意：自己需要的东西才是真正珍贵的。

青蛙和牛

An ox, grazing in a swampy meadow（一头牛在一块泥泞的草地上吃草）, chanced to set his foot among a parcel of（一群） young frogs, and crushed nearly the whole brood to death .One that escaped ran off to his mother with the dreadful（可怕的） news."and ,oh ,mother !"said he ,"it was a beast（野兽） -such a big four footed beast!-that did it （只有四只脚的大野兽-踩的）.""Big?" quoth the old frog , "How big? Was it as big" -- and she puffed

herself out to a great degree（股足了气把自己胀得大大）-"as big as this ?""oh!"said the little one ,"a great deal bigger than that .""well, was it so big ?"and she swelled herself out yet mere ."Indeed ,mother ,but it was ,and of you were to burst yourself you would never reach half its size."provoked at such a disparagement of her powers,（老青蛙看到自己的力气受到轻视很是激怒） the old frog made one more trial ,and burst herself

indeed.（果然这次胀破了自己）

寓意： So men are ruined by attempting greatness to which they have

no claim. 妄自尊大的人必将自取灭亡的。

Donkeys and his shadow

A tourist hired a donkey, to Jizhaota to distant. That weather is very

hot, Chiri hothead.

He stopped to rest, refuge in the shadow of the donkey, and a shade to avoid exposure. Donkeys barely enough to cover the shadow of a person, then the owner of passengers and donkeys to shade fierce fighting, no one think they have this right. Donkey owner insisted that he only letting donkeys themselves, not the shadow of letting donkeys. The visitors said that he employed the donkeys themselves, including donkeys and shadow. They debate, and even fight each other up.When they fight, donkeys

away.

It is said that people often trivial bickering, thus losing the most important things. 这是说,人们往往为小事争吵不休,从而失去了最重要的东西。

Catch stone fisherman捕石头的渔夫

Fisherman who dragnet, feel very heavy, they danced for joy,

thinking that this suddenly catch a lot of fish.

the network pulled the shore, net full of stones and other things, not a fish.

They are very Yusang（懊丧）, did not catch fish inverted worth mentioning at all uncomfortable with the fact that they expected the opposite is true.

One of them elderly fisherman said: "friends, not sadness, joy and pain together total, they like a sister. Advance happy we have, and now had to endure the pain a little bit."

The story is that life is happening, as sometimes sunny skies will suddenly turmoil, not because of setbacks and frustration. 这故事是说,人生变化万千,正如有时晴朗的天空会突然发生风暴,不要因挫折而苦恼。 牛粪中的小鸟

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold,the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field.While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy and soon began to sing A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to

investigate.Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung and promptly dug him out and ate him!

该篇故事的寓意是:

1)不是所有说你坏话的人都是你的敌人。(不是所有往你身上拉牛粪的人都是你的敌人) not everyone who drops dung on you is your enemy.

2)不是所有帮你解围的人都是你的朋友。(不是所有将你从牛粪里拉出来的人都是你的 朋友)Not everyone who gets you out of dung is your friend.

3)在你还没有完全摆脱困境时,别得意忘形。(当你还没有从粪堆里出来时,把嘴闭上) And when you're in deep dung, keep your mouth shut.