英文寓言小故事大全

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英文寓言小故事大全1：The Goat and The Vine

A goat was straying in a vineyard, and began to browse on the tender shoots of a vine which bore several fine bunches of grapes.

"What have I done to you," said the vine, "that you should harm me thus? Isn't there grass enough for you to feed on? All the same, even if you eat up every leaf I have, and leave me quite bare, I shall produce wine enough to pour over you when you are led to the altar(祭坛，圣坛) to be sacrificed."

英文寓言小故事大全2:The Lark and the Farmer

A lark nested in a field of corn, and was rearing her brood(一窝) under cover of theripening grain.

One day, before the young were fully fledged(羽翼丰满), the farmer came to look at the crop, and, finding it yellowing fast, he said, "I must send round word to my neighbours to come and help me reap this field."

One of the young Larks overheard him, and was very much frightened, and asked her mother whether they hadn't better move house at once.

"There's no hurry," replied she; "a man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing."

In a few days the out of the ears upon the ground. "I must put it off no longer,' he said; "This very day I'll hire the men and set them to work at once." The lark heard him and said to her young, "Come, my children, we must be off: he talks no more of his friends now, but is going to take things in hand himself."

Self-help is the best help.

英文寓言小故事大全3:The soldier and his horse

A soldier gave his horse a plentiful supply of oats(燕麦) in time of war, and tended him with the utmost care, for he wished him to be strong to endure the hardships of the field, and swift to bear his master, when need arose, out of the reach of danger.

But when the war was over he employed him on all sorts of drudgery(苦工), bestowing(使用，授予) but little attention upon him, and giving him, moreover, nothing but chaff to eat.

The time came when war broke out again, and the soldier saddled and bridled his horse, and, having put on his heavy coat of mail, mounted him to ride off and take the field. But the poor half-starved beast sank down under his weight, and said to his rider, "You will have to go into battle on foot this time.

Thanks to hard work and bad food, you have turned me from a horse into an ass, and you cannot in a moment turn me back again into a horse."