经典英语成语故事带翻译

2017-01-03

经典英语成语故事：叶公好龙

There is a young man, Lord Ye. He likes dragons vey much. He draws many dragons in his house. The house becomes a world of dragon.

A red dragon hears of Lord Ye, and is deeply moved. He wants to visit Lord Ye and makes a friend with him.

“Hi, Mr. Ye! Nice to meet you,” the real dragon comes to visit Mr. Ye runs away as fast he can. “Oh, my God! Help! Help!” he runs and shouts.”

有个年轻人，姓叶，非常喜欢龙.他在屋里里面了许多许多龙。这屋子都快成了龙的世界。

一龙真龙听说了叶公的事，很受感动，就想去拜访叶公，和他交个朋友。

“嘿。叶先生!很高兴见到你。”这条真龙拜访叶先生了。可是叶先生飞快地逃了。忒边跑边喊：“啊，我的天啊!救命!救命!”

经典英语成语故事：画龙点睛

Mr. Li is a good painter. One day he draws a beautiful dragon without eyes.

Mr. Zhou looks at the picture and says, “The dragon has no eyes. It isn’t a good picture.”

But Mr. Li smiles and says, “If I add eyes to the dragon, it will fly away.”

Mr. Zhou shakes head and says, “You are boasting. I don’t believe you.”

Mr. Li isn’t angry. He holds the paintbrush and adds eyes to the dragon. Woe! The dragon really flies.

李先生是位很好的画家。一天画了一条栩栩如生的龙，但是这只龙没有眼睛。

周先生见了说：“这条龙没有眼睛。这不算一张好画。”

可是李先生笑着说：“如果我给它加上眼睛，它就会飞走了。”

周先生摇头说：“你吹牛。我不相信。”

李先生也不生气，只是拿起笔给龙点上眼睛。哇!龙真的飞走了。

经典英语成语故事：画蛇添足

One day, Mr. Lion holds a party. Many animals come and drink a lot of wine. At last there is a pot of wine. Who can drink it? They drink out an idea and decide to have a match-Draw a snake. If you finish first, you can get it.

Soon Mr.Wolf finishes drawing. “Yeah, I’ve finished. I’m No.1,” he says. But he draws again and says, “Oh, let me add feet and my snake.” At the time, Mr. Gorilla also finishes. He takes away the pot of wine and drinks, then he says, “That isn’t a snake. Snakes have no feet. I get the wine.”

一天，狮子先生举行一场聚会，许多动物都来了，他们喝很多酒。最后只剩一壶酒了。让谁喝呢?它们想了想，有个主意。它们比赛画蛇，谁最快画好，谁就喝这壶酒。

不一会，狼先生画好了。“哈，我画好了，我是第一个。”它说。可是它又画了起来，它还说：“再给它加几只脚吧。”这是猩猩先生也画好了。它拿起那酒壶喝起来。一边喝一边说：“那不是蛇，蛇是没有脚的，我赢了这壶酒。”