英语版寓言故事简介

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英语版寓言故事简介。

英语版寓言故事简介1：Curing Baldness

Once, there was a man who was bothered by total baldness.

In winter, he felt particularly cold, while in summer, the heat scorched his head, bitten by mosquitoes and gadflies, he had no peace day or night.

It came to his knowledge that there was a doctor who knew many cures. So the bald man called on him at his residence and implored him, "Master, please cure my illness."

But the doctor was bald too.

He removed his turban(头巾，无檐帽) and told his patient, "You see? I am also bothered by baldness. If I could cure the disease, I ought first to rid myself of it."

英语版寓言故事简介2:The Trees and the Ax

Once upon a time a man came into a forest. He said to the trees, "Will you give me a piece of hard wood ?" The tree said, "Yes, we'll give you a good price of hard wood." He was very glad to get a good piece of wood.

He hurried home with it. At once he made a new handle of his ax. Then he went to the forest again and began to cut down all the best trees in the forest.

The trees were very sad. They said to one another, "We suffer for our own foolishness."

英语版寓言故事简介3:The Man,his Son and their Donkey

A man and his son were driving their donkey along a country road. They saw some girls drawing water at a well.

One of the girls said, "oh, look! How silly they are! A man and a boy are walking along beside their donkey, and nobody is riding it."

The man heard this and said to his son, "You had better ride our donkey. You are light, so you will not tire our donkey."

In a little while they met three old men. One of them said, "See here! The boy is riding a donkey and his old father is walking by his side.

The young boy does of take care of his old father." And the man got on the donkey and his son walked along beside it. Now they were very happy.

But soon afterward they met three women. Fastened it to a pole. They lifted it to their shoulders and carried it along to the town.

When they came to a bridge, everyone laughed at them.

And the donkey did not like the noise and began to kick. It broke the rope, fell into the water and was drowned.

So the old man had to take his son and go home. The man said to his son, "He who tries to please everybody pleases nobody after all."