　英语小故事多篇

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　　四年级英语小故事：披着狮皮的驴

　英语小故事多篇

　　The assin the lion's skin

　　An Ass found a Lion's Skin, and dressed himself up in it. Then he went about frightening every one he met, for they all took him to be a lion, men and beasts alike, and took to their heels when they saw him coming. Elated by the success of his trick, he loudly brayed in triumph. The Fox heard him, and recognised www.xiaogushi8.com him at once for the Ass he was, and said to him, "Oho, my friend, it's you, is it? I, too, should have been afraid if I hadn't heard your voice."

　　【译文】

　　披着狮皮的驴

　　一头驴发现了一张狮子的皮，于是就披到身上。他走出去吓唬其它动物，所有见到他的人和动物都把他当成狮子，吓得四处逃跑。驴见自己的诡计得逞了。兴奋地大叫起来。狐狸听到他的声音，立刻认出这是一头驴，于是就对他说：“哦，朋友，这才是真正的你，是吗?要不是听到了你的声音，我也被你吓着了。”突然一阵风刮来，把驴身上披着的狮子皮吹走了，驴子原形毕露。这时，动物们见此情形，又都跑回来，用木板和棍棒狠狠地打他。

　　四年级英语小故事：猴子捞月

　　Monkeys fishing month

　　One day,a little monkey is playing by the well.

　　He looks in the well and shouts :

　　“Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!”

　　An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says,

　　“Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!”

　　And olderly monkey comes over.

　　He is very surprised as well and cries out:

　　“The moon is in the well.”

　　A group of monkeys run over to the well .

　　They look at the moon in the well and shout:

　　“The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let’get it out!”

　　Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch .

　　And he pulls the next monkey’s feet with his hands.

　　All the other monkeys follow his suit,

　　And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.

　　Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and

　　happens to see the moon in the sky,

　　He yells excitedly “Don’t be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!”

　　【译文】

　　猴子捞月

　　一天，有只小猴子在井边玩儿。

　　它往井里一瞧，高喊道：噢!我的天!月亮掉到井里头啦!

　　一只大猴子跑来一看，说，

　　“糟啦!月亮掉在井里头啦!” 老猴子也跑过来。

　　他也非常惊奇，喊道：

　　“糟了，月亮掉在井里头了!” 一群猴子跑到井边来，

　　他们看到井里的月亮，喊道：

　　月亮掉在井里头啦!快来!让我们把它捞起来

　　然后，老猴子倒挂在大树上，拉住大猴子的脚，

　　其他的猴子一个个跟着，它们一只连着一只直到井里。

　　它兴奋地大叫：“别蠢了!月亮还好好地挂在天上呢!”

　　正好他们摸到月亮的时候，老猴子抬头发现月亮挂在天上呢

　　四年级英语小故事：拔苗助长

　　To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow

　　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.

　　【译文】

　　拔苗助长

　　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。

　　四年级英语小故事：画蛇添足

　　Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It

　　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.

　　【译文】

　　画蛇添足

　　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

　　四年级英语小故事：刻舟求剑

　　Making His Mark

　　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?

　　【译文】

　　刻舟求剑

　　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。

　　四年级英语小故事：鸽子和蚂蚁

　　Pigeons and ants

　　An ant was drinking at a river. Suddenly he slipped, and fell into the water.

　　A dove took pity on him. She threw a small branch into the river. The ant seized the bough, and swam back to the shore.

　　A few days later, the ant saw a hunter aiming a gun at the dove. He bit the man in the foot sharply.The man missed the shot, and the dove's life was saved. The dove felt very grateful. She made good friends with the ant.

　　【译文】

　　鸽子和蚂蚁

　　一只蚂蚁到河边饮水，却不幸掉入河中。

　　一只鸽子看见，扔下一段树枝，将他救起。

　　过了不久，蚂蚁看见猎人正在拿枪瞄准鸽子，就狠狠地朝他脚上咬了一口，没让他打中。鸽子非常感激蚂蚁。从此，他们成了好朋友。

　　寓意: 有些朋友也许平时看似微不足道，但却有可能在我们身处困境的时候提供巨大的帮助

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