伊索寓言英文故事
在寓言故事中常常寄寓了一种意味深长的哲理,下面这些是小编为大家推荐的几篇伊索寓言英文故事。
伊索寓言英文故事1：豹和狐狸
A Leopard and a fox had a contest which was the finer creature of the two ,the leopard putforward the beauty of its numberless spots ,but the fox replied: "It is better to have a versatilemind than a variegated body.
一只豹和一只狐狸在争论谁好谁不好，豹提出他有数不尽的美丽斑点，而狐狸回答说："有多方面的智力比有多种颜色的身体强。
伊索寓言英文故事2:狼和绵羊
A wolf met a lamb that had walked away from the other sheep in the fold. He told the lamb that he wouldn’t hurt him. Secretly though, he planned to eat the lamb! But first he needed to find a good reason for eating the lamb.
So he said to the lamb, "Sir, last year you rudely insulted me."
"I don’t think that’s possible," bleated the lamb in a sad voice, "I was not even born then."
So the wolf then said, "You eat the grass in my field."
"No, good sir," replied the lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass."
the wolf tried again. "You drink the water in my well," he growled.
"No!" exclaimed the lamb, "I never drank your water because my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me."
Suddenly the wolf jumped on the lamb and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won’t be hungry even though you argue against every one of my reasons for eating you."
Moral: the tyrant will always find a reason for his tyranny.
伊索寓言英文故事3:老猫
An old woman had a cat. the cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could notbite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught themouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, becausethe cat could not bite it.
then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. Shebegan to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for manyyears, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, butremember what good work the old did when they were young."
一位老妇有只猫，这只猫很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了东西，因为它年纪太大了。一天，老猫发现一只老鼠，它跳过去抓这只老鼠，然而，它咬不住这只老鼠。因此，老鼠从它的嘴边溜掉了，因为老猫咬不了它。
于是，老妇很生气，因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫，猫说：“不要打你的老仆人，我已经为你服务了很多年，而且还愿意为你效劳，但是，我实在太老了，对年纪大的不要这么无情，要记住老年人在年青时所做过的有益的事情。”