英語寓言故事3則

　　英語寓言故事一：The one-eyed doe一隻眼睛的母鹿

　　A doe had lost one of her eyes, and could not see anyone approaching her from one side.

　　In order to avoid any danger, she always ate on a high cliff near the sea, and looked at the land with her good eye when she was eating.

　　By this means she could see whenever the hunters approached her on land.

　　But one hunter found out that she was blind in one eye. He rowed a boat under the cliff, and shot her from the sea.

　　一隻眼睛的母鹿

　　有頭瞎了一隻眼睛的母鹿，沒有辦法看到從瞎了的那隻眼的方向靠近她的東西。

　　為了躲避危險，

　　她總是在海邊的一處高崖上吃草。在她吃東西的時候，她用那隻好的眼睛注視着陸地。

　　用這種方法，她防備來自陸地上的獵人的襲擊。

　　但是一個獵人發現她的一隻眼睛是瞎的，就划著船從海上將她射殺了。

　　寓意： 人們常常對容易預見的危險嚴加防範，卻忽視自認為很安全的方面。

　　英語寓言故事二：鴿子和螞蟻

　　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.

　　鴿子和螞蟻

　　一隻螞蟻到河邊飲水，卻不幸掉入河中。

　　一隻鴿子看見，扔下一段樹枝，將他救起。

　　過了不久，螞蟻看見獵人正在拿槍瞄準鴿子，就狠狠地朝他腳上咬了一口，沒讓他打中。

　　鴿子非常感激螞蟻。從此，他們成了好朋友。

　　這個寓言故事告訴我們：有些朋友也許平時看似微不足道，但卻有可能在我們身處困境的時候提供巨大的幫助。聽完小故事，小朋友們也應該多多學會講故事。

　　英語寓言故事三：一顆小蘋果樹

　　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.

　　一個人在趕夜路時，突然從岩石上跌了下去，嚇得他趕緊抓住了岩石上的樹枝，因為他知道這一帶有個深谷，一不小心就會跌入上千英尺的深淵。一晚上，他唯一能看到的就是深不見底的峽谷。他大呼救命，但只聽到了自己的迴音---沒有人能聽到他呼救。

　　你可以想象一下他的處境和整晚的恐懼。死神隨時都可能降臨。他的手開始發涼，漸漸地抓不住了…當太陽升起的時候，他朝下看了看，笑了。下面壓根就沒有什麼深淵。在他下方六英尺的地方有一塊大石頭。岩石那麼大，他本可以在那兒休息一個晚上，美美的睡上一覺，但昨晚他卻在夢魘中度過。

　　恐懼只是六英尺的距離而已。接下來，到了你做決定的時候了：你是想要繼續抓着樹枝過夢魘一般的生活，還是更喜歡把手從樹枝上鬆開，雙腳着地？

　　真的沒有什麼好害怕的。