英语寓言故事

英语寓言故事

　　在日常的学习、工作、生活中，说到寓言故事，大家肯定都不陌生吧，好的寓言的寓意，会随着读者的阅读进程而逐渐明晰，这是寓言独立作为一种文学体裁的魅力所在。你还记得哪些寓言故事呢？以下是小编整理的英语寓言故事，供大家参考借鉴，希望可以帮助到有需要的朋友。

英语寓言故事1

　　Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarrelling among themselves。 When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations，he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion；and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks。 When they had done so，he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession，and ordered them to break it in pieces。 They each tried with all their strength，and were not able to do it。

　　He next unclosed the faggot，and took the sticks separately，one by one，and again put them into their hands，on which they broke them easily。 He then addressed them in these words："My sons，if you are of one mind，and unite to assist each other，you will be as this faggot，uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies；but if you are divided among yourselves，you will be broken as easily as these sticks。"

英语寓言故事2

　　To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

　　原谅就是释放囚徒，然后发现那囚徒不是别人，正是自己。

　　Once upon a time there lived a woman who had a bad temper. She screamed at and scolded everyone around her. For most of her life she believed the fiery rage inside her was everyone else’s fault.

　　从前有个脾气很坏的女人，她总是对着身边的人大嚷大叫，认为她生气都是因为别人的错。

　　She went to see a well respected Buddhist monk to ask for advice. The monk told her to take a large clay jug from his kitchen, fill it with water, and stand outside on the sidewalk in front of his house. “It’s hot outside, and that’s a busy sidewalk with lots of pedestrians,” the monk told her as he pointed out the front window of his house. “When a pedestrian passes, you must offer them a glass of water. Do this until there is no rage left inside you.”

　　于是，她去向一个德高望重的高僧寻求建议。高僧让她从厨房取了一个很大的装满水的陶壶，提着站在外面的人行道上。“外面很热，行人很多。”高僧指着窗户外说，“每一个行人经过你身边时，你都要给他们一杯水，直到你心中没有怒火为止。”

　　So she stood outside with a water jug and served water to pedestrians every day for the next several weeks. And every morning she asked herself if rage still pulsed through her veins. And every morning the answer was, “yes.” So she continued serving water. Until this afternoon when a burly man walked up, snatched the water jug out of her hand, drank directly out of it, and then tossed the jug on the ground as he continued on his way.

　　所以在接下来的几周里，她都拿着陶壶站在外面，给过往行人提供水。每天，她都问自己：自己是否还有怒气，而每天她的回答都是肯定的。于是她继续这样做着，直到有一天下午，一个粗鲁的男人走过来，一把从她手里抢过陶壶，一口气喝完了里面的水，把壶扔再地上，径直离开。

　　The rage within the woman skyrocketed into an irrepressible fit. Unable to contain herself, she picked-up the clay jug off the ground and, with all her might, threw it at the burly man as he walked away. It was a direct hit. The jug shattered into pieces over the back of his head and he fell to the ground, unconscious and bleeding.

　　女人怒火中烧，终于抑制不住怒气发作起来。她捡起地上的陶壶，用尽全力掷向那个男人。陶壶直接命中了男人的头部，碎成一片一片，男人也倒地昏迷流血不止。

　　As the woman’s rage subsided, she realized the magnitude of what she had done and began to cry. She used a payphone to call 911 and report the incident. An ambulance and two police cars arrived at the scene moments later. As the EMTs strapped the burly man into a stretcher, the police handcuffed his arms and legs to the stretcher. Then one of the police officers walked over to the woman, who was still crying, and said, “The city owes you a big‘thank you.’ That man has been on our most wanted list for over a year now. He is a primary suspect in multiple murder cases and violent robberies.”

　　女人怒气平息了，同时也意识到自己犯了一个多么大的错，于是哭了起来。她用公用电话叫了911，报告了这起事故。不久，一辆救护车和两个警察来到现场。救护车把男人抬上了担架，同时警察也拷上了那名男子的手脚。然后其中一个警察走到哭泣的女人身边说：“这个城市欠你一声谢谢。”那个男人是一年多来我们最想抓到的'罪犯。他犯了很多抢劫杀人的勾当。

　　The moral of the story is that we simply don’t know. We want to believe that if we completely rid ourselves of our inner darkness then we will always make the right choices, and be of service to ourselves and those around us. But life isn’t so linear and predicable. Sometimes our darkness inadvertently leads us to do things that impact the world in a positive way, just as our unconditional love sometimes forces us to overlook the criminal standing before us.

　　这个故事的寓意是我们无法简单得知的。我们总是愿意相信当我们完全摆脱内心的黑暗后我们能做出对的选择，对我们自己和身边的人都有好处。但是生活并不是这么线性及可预测的。有时我们内心的黑暗会毫无预警地指引我们去做一些影响世界的积极的事，就像我们无条件的爱时常会让我们忽略那些发生在我们面前的罪恶。

英语寓言故事3

　　A labourer's little son was bitten by a snake and died of the wound.

　　The father was beside himself with grief, and in his anger against the snake the caught up an axe and went and stood close to the snake's hole, and watched for a chance of killing it.

　　Presently the snake come out, and the man aimed a blow at it, but only succeeded in cutting of the tip of its tail before itwriggled in again. He then tried to get it to come out a second time, pretending that he wished to make up the quarrel.

　　But the snake said, “I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child.”

　　Injuries are never forgotten in the presence of those who caused them.

英语寓言故事4

　　狮子和小老鼠

　　Once upon a time there lived a lion in a forest。 One day after a heavy meal， it was sleeping under a tree。 After a while， there came a mouse and it started to play on the lion。

　　从前，有一只狮子住在森林里。有一天，它在饱餐一顿之后，在一棵树下休息。过了一会儿，来了一只小老鼠，它跑到了狮子身上玩耍。

　　Suddenly the lion got up with anger and looked for those who disturbed its nice sleep。 Then it saw a small mouse standing， trembling with fear。 The lion jumped on it and started to kill it。

　　突然，狮子醒了，它非常生气地看着这个打扰了自己美梦的小老鼠。它看到这个小老鼠害怕得站在那里颤抖着。狮子跳了起来，想要吃掉它。

　　The mouse requested the lion to forgive it。 The lion felt pity and left it。 The mouse ran away。

　　小老鼠请求狮子原谅它，狮子起了怜悯之心，于是就走了。小老鼠跑走了。

　　On another day， the lion was caught in a net by a hunter。 The mouse came there and cut the net。 Thus it escaped。

　　又是一天，狮子被一个猎人用网抓住了。老鼠过去帮它把网弄开了。狮子逃了出来。

　　There after， the mouse and the lion became friends。 They lived happily in the forest afterwards。

　　从此以后，狮子和老鼠成了好朋友，它们快乐地一起生活在森林里。

　　Moral： A friend in need is a friend indeed。

　　俗语：患难见真情。

英语寓言故事5

　　原文：

　　In days of yore, a mighty runmbling was heard in a mountain. It was said to be in labor, and multitudes flocked together, from far and near, to see what it would produce. After long expectation and many wise conjectures from the by-standers -- out popped a Mouse!

　　The story applies those magnificent promises end in a paltry performance.

　　译文：

　　古时候，在一座山里发出了一阵隆隆巨响，据说这是大山要临产了。人群从四面八方聚集起来，观看大山会生出什么后代。大家企盼了许久，并且作了许多聪明的推测，结果从那里跳出一只老鼠。

　　这个故事说的是，雷声大，雨点小。

　　词汇：

　　In days of yore 古时候

　　in labor 临产

　　multitudes flocked together 人群聚集

　　by-standers 旁观者

　　out popped 跳出

　　paltry 微不足道的'

英语寓言故事6

　　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. 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? 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. 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.

英语寓言故事7

　　In days of yore, a mighty runmbling was heard in a mountain. It was said to be in labor, and multitudes flocked together, from far and near, to see what it would produce. After long expectation and many wise conjectures from the by-standers -- out popped a Mouse! The story applies those magnificent promises end in a paltry performance.

英语寓言故事8

　　Once, the King of the State of Wu wanted to invade the State of Chu.

　　The King of Wu warned his ministers: "If anyone should dare to dissuade1 me from invading Chu again, I will put him to death."

　　One young hanger-on of his wanted to dissuade him but didn't dare. He carried a slingshot, and for three consecutive2 days paced up and down in the King's back garden. The dew wetted his clothes all through.

　　One day, the King of Wu called him: "The dew has wetted your clothes to such a state. Why should you bear such hardship?"

　　The young man replied: "There is a cicada on a tree in this garden. The cicada is high above, chirping3 leisurely4 and taking in the dew freely, not knowing that a mantis5 is right behind it. The mantis, pressing its body close in a concealed6 place, is intent on catching7 the cicada, not knowing that a siskin is hiding right behind it. The siskin is stretching out its neck to peck at the mantis, not knowing that a man carrying a slingshot is under it. These three small creatures make every effort only to get the benefit before them but ignore entirely8 the disaster behind."

　　Having heard the young man's words, the King of Wu suddenly saw the light and said: "What you said is right!"

　　Consequently, the King of Wu dropped his plan to invade the State of Chu.

　　一次，吴王要进攻楚国。

　　吴王警告他的大臣们说：“有谁再敢来劝阻我进攻楚国，我就处死他。”

　　吴王的门客中有一个年青人，想去劝阻但又不敢。他怀里揣着弹弓，一连三个早晨在吴工的后花园里徘徊，露水湿透了他的衣服。

　　一天，吴王叫住他：“露水把你的衣服湿成这个样子，你何必吃这个苦呢?”

　　年青人回答说：“这个园子里，有一棵树，树上有一只蝉。蝉高高在上，悠闲地叫着，自由自在地吸着露水，却不知道有一只蝗螂在它身后呢!蝗螂把身子紧紧地贴在隐蔽的.地方，只想去捕蝉，却不知道有一只黄雀早已躲在它的身后呢!黄雀正伸长了脖子想去啄蝗螂，却不知道在它下面正有人拿着弹弓呢!这三只小生物，只是力求得到它们眼前的利益，却全不管它们身后隐伏着祸患啊!”

　　吴王听了年青人的话后，恍然大悟说：“你说得好啊!”

　　于是，吴王就不再进攻楚国了。

英语寓言故事9

　　The City Mouse and the Country Mouse

　　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."

英语寓言故事10

　　A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf." In serving the wicked, expect no the reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

英语寓言故事11

　　ONE day an Opossum who had gone to sleep hanging from the highest branch of a tree by the tail, awoke and saw a large Snake wound about the limb, between him and the trunk of the tree.

　　"If I hold on," he said to himself, "I shall be swallowed; if I let go I shall break my neck."

　　But suddenly he bethought himself to dissemble. "My perfected friend," he said, "my parental instinct recognises in you a noble evidence and illustration of the theory of development. You are the Opossum of the Future, the ultimate Fittest Survivor of our species, the ripe result of progressive prehensility - all tail!"

　　But the Snake, proud of his ancient eminence in Scriptural history, was strictly orthodox, and did not accept the scientific view.

英语寓言故事12

　　SEVENTY-FIVE Men presented themselves before the President of the Humane Society and demanded the great gold medal for life-saving.

　　"Why, yes," said the President; "by diligent effort so many men must have saved a considerable number of lives. How many did you save?"

　　"Seventy-five, sir," replied their Spokesman."Ah, yes, that is one each - very good work - very good work,indeed," the President said. "You shall not only have the Society's great gold medal, but its recommendation for employment at the various life-boat stations along the coast. But how did you save so many lives?"

　　The Spokesman of the Men replied:

　　"We are officers of the law, and have just returned from the pursuit of two murderous outlaws."

英语寓言故事13

　　英语寓言故事：一颗小苹果树(中英对照)

　　A man walking in the night slipped from a rock. Afraid that he would fall down thousands of feet, because he knew that place was a very deep valley, he took hold of a branch that was hanging over the rock. In the night all he couls see was a bottomless abyss. He shouted, his own shout reflected back--there was nobody to hear.

　　You can imagine that man and his whole night of scare. Every moment there was death, his hands were becoming cold, he was losing his grip...... and as the sun came out he looked down and he laughed. There was no abyss. Just six inches down there was a rock. He could have rested the whole night, slept well---the rock was big enough---but the whole night was a nightmare.

　　Fear is only six inches deep. Now it is up to you whether you want to go on cling to the branch and turn your life into a nightmare, or whether you would love to leave the branch and stand on your feet.

　　There is nothing to fear.

　　一个人在赶夜路时，突然从岩石上跌了下去，吓得他赶紧抓住了岩石上的树枝，因为他知道这一带有个深谷，一不小心就会跌入上千英尺的深渊。一晚上，他唯一能看到的就是深不见底的峡谷。他大呼救命，但只听到了自己的回音---没有人能听到他呼救。

　　你可以想象一下他的处境和整晚的`恐惧。死神随时都可能降临。他的手开始发凉，渐渐地抓不住了...当太阳升起的时候，他朝下看了看，笑了。下面压根就没有什么深渊。在他下方六英尺的地方有一块大石头。岩石那么大，他本可以在那儿休息一个晚上，美美的睡上一觉，但昨晚他却在梦魇中度过。

　　恐惧只是六英尺的距离而已。接下来，到了你做决定的时候了：你是想要继续抓着树枝过梦魇一般的生活，还是更喜欢把手从树枝上松开，双脚着地？

　　真的没有什么好害怕的。

英语寓言故事14

　　The swallows and sparrows are very pleased to find a place on the roof of the hall for their nests.

　　The mother birds are feeding their babies with pleasure, which assumes a scene of peace and harmony.

　　But they have never thought of the following scene: the chimney at the top of the kitchen might break, the fire might leap up to the roof and the burning purling might destroy their nests.

　　But those swallows and sparrows are unmindful of the coming disaster.

　　They go on with their superficial happiness brought by peace and calm.

英语寓言故事15

　　英语寓言故事Themilkmaidandherpail

　　Themilkmaidandherpail

　　The milkmaid and her pail

　　A milkmaid was going to the market. She carried her milk in a pail on her head.

　　As she went along she began calculating what she would buy after she had sold the milk.

　　"I'll buy a new dress, and when I go to the ball, all the young men will dance with me!"

　　As she spoke she tossed her head back. The pail immediately fell off her head, and all the milk was spilt.

　　The girl went back without anything. She felt very sad. "Ah, my child," said her mother. "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."

　　挤牛奶的姑娘

　　●一个农家挤奶姑娘头顶着一桶牛奶,前往集市。

　　●走了一会儿,她开始算计起卖完牛奶后要买的东西:“我要买一身新衣服,好去参加舞会,年轻的'小伙子都会邀请我跳舞。”

　　●想到这里,她真地摇起头来,牛奶桶随之倾倒在地,牛奶都流了出去。

　　●女孩很伤心,两手空空地回到家里,母亲对她说:“我的孩子,不要过早地打如意算盘。”

　　寓意: 不要过早地打如意算盘。

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