簡單英語寓言故事

寓言故事是文學體裁的一種。含有諷喻或明顯教訓意義的故事。它的結構簡短，多用借喻手法，使富有教訓意義的主題或深刻的道理在簡單的故事中體現。寓言的故事情節設定的好壞關係到寓言的未來。

一、Sun the Ice

Once a simpleton's wife told him to buy some ice.

Two hours later, he didn't come back. She wanted to know why he didn't come back and went out to have a look. She saw he was standing in the sun at the gate and watching the ice melting.

"What's the matter?" She asked him. "Why don't you bring it in?"

"I saw the ice was wet and I was afraid that you would scold me so I'm running it dry." The simpleton answered.

曬冰

從前有一個笨人的妻子讓她的丈夫買幾塊冰。

兩個小時後，他還沒回來。

她想知道他爲什麼沒回來，就出去看了看，發現她的丈夫在門口站着，在太陽下曬冰，看着冰融化。

她問他："怎麼啦?你爲什麼不把它拿進來?"

"我看見冰是溼的，恐怕你會訓斥我，因此，我正在把它曬乾。"笨人回答道。

二、Mike and the Pot

One day, Mike's mother needed a pot. She asked Mike to borrow one from her friend. So Mike went to the friend's house. She gave him a big pot. On the way home Mike put it down on the road and looked at it. It was made of clay and had three legs.

Then he said to the pot, "You have three legs and I have only two. You can carry me for a few minutes." Then Mike sat down inside the pot. But the pot didn't move.

Mike got angry and broke it then carried the broke pot home. His mother was angry. "You are stupid." She said. But Mike thought, "I'm not stupid. Only a stupid person carried something with three legs."

邁克和鍋

一天，邁克的媽媽需要一口鍋，她讓邁克向她朋友借一口鍋。於是，邁克去了她的朋友家，她的朋友借個他一口大鍋。在回家的.路上，邁克把鍋放在路上看了看它，它是一口粘土製成的三條腿的鍋。

然後他對鍋說："你有三條腿而我只有兩條腿。 你應該揹我一會兒。"然後，邁克坐在鍋裏，但是鍋一動也不動。

邁克很生氣地把鍋打破了，但後拿着破鍋向家裏走去。到家後他的媽媽很生氣地說："你真笨。"但邁克認爲："我不笨，只有愚蠢的人才會帶回三條腿的鍋。"

三、The King and His Stories

Once there was a king. He likes to write stories, but his stories were not good. As people were afraid of him, they all said his stories were good.

One day the king showed his stories to a famous writer. He waited the writer to praise these stories. But the writer said his stories were so bad that he should throw them into fire. The king got very angry with him and sent him to prison.

After some time, the king set him free. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked what he thought of them.

After reading them, the writer at once turned to the soldiers and said: " Take me back to prison, please."

國王和他的故事

從前有一個國王，他喜歡寫故事，但是他寫的故事很不好。人們怕他，都說他的故事好。有一天國王把他的故事給一名作家看，他想要作家讚揚他的這些故事，而作家說他的故事是如此的差以至於該扔進火裏。國王很生氣，把他送到監獄。

過了些日子，國王給了作家自由。國王重新將自己的一些新故事給作家看並問他感覺怎麼樣。

作家看了之後立刻轉身對士兵說着;"請把我送回監獄吧。"

四、The Bathing Boy

One day, Tom is bathing in a river. He doesn't swim well and will be drown. He calls out loud for help. A man is just passing by. He doesn't help the boy, but stands by and says to him. "How imprudent you are! It is dangerous to bath in the river." "Oh, yes sir," cries the boy, " Please help me out and scold me afterward."

Counsel without help is useless.

洗澡的男孩

有一天，湯姆在河裏洗澡。他不太會游泳。眼看就要被淹死，他大聲呼喊救命。有個人正好從旁邊經過，他沒有幫助小男孩，卻是站在旁邊對小孩子說道：" 你怎麼這麼草率!在河裏洗澡很危險。""哦，先生，"小男孩喊叫：" 請你還是先把我救起來後再責備我吧。"

只有忠告而不給予幫助是無濟於事的。

五、naughty Monkey

It's very hot.. An old man is asleep on the chair. A fly comes and sits on the end of the man's nose.

The old man has a naughty monkey. He chases the fly.

The fly comes back again and sits on the old man's nose again. The monkey chases it away again and again.

This happens five or six times. The monkey is very angry. He jumps up, runs to the garden and picks up a large stone.

When the fly sits on the old man's nose again, the monkey hits it hard with the stone.

He kills the fly and breaks the old man's nose.

調皮的猴子

天氣很熱。一位老人在椅子上睡着了。

一隻蒼蠅飛來落在老人的鼻子上。

老人有一隻頑皮的猴子。猴子在追打蒼蠅。

蒼蠅再次飛落在老人的鼻子上，猴子一再追打蒼蠅。

這樣往返了五六次，猴子很生氣。

他跳着跑到花園，撿起一塊大石頭。

當蒼蠅再次落在老人的鼻子上時，猴子用石頭擊中老人的鼻子上的蒼蠅。

他砸死了蒼蠅也打破了老人的鼻子。