英语寓言小故事5则中英文对照.doc

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Making His Mark“ 守株待兔”
A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat acht on the spot as a thief.
以前，有一个人想偷街坊门上的铃，可是他知道一碰到铃，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。可是当他去偷铃时，铃声依旧
响起来，他被他人就地抓住
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
英语寓言小故事5则中英文比较
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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，内心特别快乐。
这时候，一只狐狸看见了乌鸦，馋得直流口水，特别想获得那片肉。
可是，不论狐狸说什么，乌鸦就是不搭理狐狸。最后，狐狸赞叹乌鸦
的嗓音最优美， 并要求乌鸦唱几句让他赏识赏识。乌鸦听了狐狸赞叹
的话，喜悦极了，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 “多此一举”
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,
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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。 他们都想单独喝完那壶酒， 因此就定了一个规矩：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，看见他人都还在忙着画，就决定给蛇再画上几个脚。
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郭氏之墟
On a vacation trip, Duke Huan of the state of Qi came to the ruin of the cap