爱华网寓言故事生动有趣、情节富于变化,如能巧妙运用于课堂中,能增强学生的阅读兴趣,有效提高学生听说和写作能力 ,下面这些是小编为大家推荐的几篇简单英文寓言故事。
简单英文寓言故事1：The labourer and the snake
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.
简单英文寓言故事2:The cage-bird and the bat
A singing-bird was confined in a cage which hung outside a window, and had a way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep.
One night a bat came and clung to the bars of the cage, and asked the bird why she was silent by day and sang only at night. "
I have a very good reason for doing so," said the bird: "it was once when I was singing in the daytime that a fowler was attracted by my voice, and set his nets for me and caught me.
Since then I have never sung except by night." But the bat replied, "It is no use your doing that now when you are a prisoner. If only you had done so before you were caught, you might still have been free."
Precautions are useless after the event.
简单英文寓言故事3:The two spells
There was once a boy in a village. When ever he asked people to do things, no onewould listen to him. He was sad. So he asked a wizard to solve the problem by using magic. The old wizard tried a lot of spells, but didn't work.
A young man heard about the problem. He went to the boy and said that he knew thesolution. He gave the boy two small pieces of paper.
"These are two spells, my boy. Use the first before you ask others to do something, and use the second when they have done it. A smile is also necessary, "the young man said.
The boy was happy and tried to use the spells. When he asked people to do something, he said "Please" before his words, and "Thank you" after they had done it. People were verysurprised that the boy could be polite. Soon, they became happy to do what the boy asked them to do.
The wizard was surprised, and asked the young man about the spells.
"It's not magic. When I was a child, my teacher told me that with good manners you could get anything you want. And he was right. The boy only needed good manners to get what he wanted."
