英語童話故事大全
① 英語童話故事
英語童話故事如下：
1、the wind and the sun
One day the wind said to the sun, 「Look at that man walking along the road. I can get his cloak off more quickly than you can.」
「We will see about that,」 said the sun. 「I will let you try first.」
So the wind tried to make the man take off his cloak. He blew and blew, but the man only pulled his cloak more closely around himself.
「I give up,」 said the wind at last. 「I cannot get his cloak off.」 Then the sun tried. He shone as hard as he could. The man soonbecame hot and took off his cloak.
漢語翻譯：有一天風跟太陽說: 「看看那個沿著路上走的人，我可以比你快讓他把披風脫下來。」
「我們等著看吧，」太陽說，「我讓你先試。」
因此風嘗試讓那個人把披風脫下來，他用力地吹，可是那個人把披風拉得更緊。
「我放棄了,」風最後說，「我無法讓他把披風脫下來。」然後由太陽試試看，他盡可能地曬他，不久，那個人很熱就把披風脫下來了。
2、Ajax
Ajax was a man of giant stature,daring but slow.When the Trojan War was about to break out he led his forces from Salamis to join the Greek army at Aulis.
As one of the trustiest champions of the Greek cause,he was given thejob of guarding one end of the Greek camp near Troy.He was noted in the battlefield for his bravery and courage.After Achilles' death he became one of the two hot contestants for the dead hero's
shield and armour,the other being Odysseus.When the weapons were finally judged to his rival,Ajax went mad for grief.Unable to get over the hardships,he took his own life.
When,in order to seek the advice of,Odysseus came to visit the lower world,the shade of Ajax frowned uponhim.In the lower world Ajax chose to be a lion,guided clearly by the bitter recollection of his former life.
漢語翻譯：埃傑克斯是位身材魁梧、驍勇善戰、但頭腦遲鈍的人。當特洛伊戰爭即將爆發時,他率領軍隊從薩拉米斯到達奧爾墨斯加入了希臘軍隊。
作為一名為希臘事業奮斗的最可信賴的鬥士,他被派去保衛靠近特洛伊的希臘軍營邊界。戰場上,他因作戰勇猛而出名。阿基里斯死後,他成為兩個最有可能獲得阿基里斯的盾甲的有力競爭對手之一。另一名對手是奧德修斯。最後，他的對手勝利了，並得到了盾甲。
埃傑克斯悲傷至極,無法自拔,最終結束了自己的生命。奧德修斯為了得到盲人底比斯的忠告而來到陰間;埃傑克斯的幽靈沖著他直皺眉頭。在陰間,由於受到前世痛苦記憶的折磨,埃傑克斯選擇了做一頭獅子。
3、袋鼠和籠子
One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem--how to deal with the kangaroos that were found out of the cage. They came to the conclusion that the cage was placed too low and decided to raise it from one to two meters high.
But the next day the kangaroos were still at large and they again raised the cage to three meters.Quite beyond their expectation the next morning they saw the kangaroos still free to go about.
They were alarmed and determined to go to all the length by raising the cage to the height of ten meters.Later a giraffe, while chatting with some kangaroos, asked them, 「Do you think they will go on raising your cage?」
「Hard to say,」 said a kangaroo, 「if they continue forgetting to fasten the cage door.」
漢語翻譯：有一天，動物園的管理員們發現袋鼠從籠子里跑出來了， 於是開會討論，一致認為是籠子的高度過低，所以他們決定將籠子的高度由原來的1米加高到2米。結果第二天他們發現，袋鼠還是跑到外面來，所以他們又決定再將高度加高到3米。
沒想到隔天居然又看到袋鼠全跑到外面，於是管理 員們大為緊張，決定一不做二不休，將籠子的高度加高到10米。
一天，長頸鹿和幾只袋鼠在閑聊，「你們看，這些人 會不會再繼續加高你們的籠子?」長頸鹿問。
「很難說。」袋鼠說，「如果他們再繼續忘記關門的話!」
4、小豬嚕嚕搬西瓜
In spring, the mother pig took the little pig LuLu to the foot of the mountain. They planted some watermelon.When summer came, there were many big round watermelons in the field.
One day, the sun was burning like a fire, it was terribly hot on the ground. The mother pig said to the little pig:"Lulu, go to the field to pick a watermelon back,ok?" Lulu said happily:"Ok! No problem."Then he ran to the watermelon field. When he got to the field,
he was happy to find so many big green watermelons. He chose one of the biggest watermelon and picked it from the vine. Then he held it with his hands trying to lift is on his shoulder to carry it home."Wow!It's so heavy!" Lulu tried several times, but he failed.
And he was socked with sweat. He wiped his sweat off and decided to have a rest.Suddenly he saw the monkey Pipi. He was playing with a hoop. Lulu patted his head and said:"I've got it." He thought,the round hoop can roll, the watermelon round too,then it can roll too.
He then put the big melon on the ground and rolled it forward quickly.At last he got home with the watermelon.The mother pig knew the story, she exclaimed:"My child, you're really clever!"
漢語翻譯：春天的時候，豬媽媽帶著小豬嚕嚕，在山坡下種了一大片西瓜。到了夏天，西瓜地里結滿了又圓又大的西瓜。有一天，太陽光火辣辣地照著大地，天啊，可熱了。豬媽媽對小豬說：「嚕嚕，你到咱們的地里摘個大西瓜回來解解渴吧！」小豬嚕嚕高興地說：「好吧！」
說完就往西瓜地里跑。到了地里一看。呵，到處躺著大西瓜，水靈靈的，真惹人喜愛！嚕嚕挑了個最大的摘了下來。它雙手摟著西瓜，想抱起來放在肩上扛回家。「喲，好重呀！」嚕嚕試著抱了幾次都沒有抱起來，還累得滿頭大汗。 它直起身來，擦了擦臉上的汗水想休息一下，再去試試抱西瓜。
突然，它看到小猴皮皮在山下邊的馬路上滾鐵環玩呢。小豬嚕嚕一拍後腦勺高興地說：「有了，我有辦法了。」什麼辦法呢？小豬嚕嚕心想：鐵環是圓的，可以滾動。西瓜也是圓的，不也可以滾動嗎？想到這兒啊，小豬嚕嚕顧不上休息，把大西瓜放在地上。
咕嚕嚕，咕嚕嚕地向前滾，一直把西瓜滾到家裡。豬媽媽看到小豬嚕嚕把又圓又大的西瓜搬回家，誇獎嚕嚕是個愛動腦筋的豬娃娃！
5、The Crow and The Pitcher
A crow felt very thirsty. He looked for water everywhere. Finally, he found a pitcher.
But there was not a lot of water in the pitcher. His beak could not reach it. He tried again and again, but still could not touch the water.
When he was about to give up, an idea came to him. He took a pebble and dropped it into the pitcher. Then he took another and dropped it in.Graally, the water rose, and the crow was able to drink the water.
漢語翻譯：口渴的烏鴉
一隻烏鴉口渴了，到處找水喝。終於，他找到了一個大水罐。然而，水罐裡面的水並不多，他的尖嘴夠不到水面，他試了一次又一次，都沒有成功。就在他想放棄的時候，他突然想到一個主意。
烏鴉叼來了一塊小石子投到水罐里，接著又叼了一塊又一塊石頭放進去。漸漸地，水面升高了。烏鴉高興地喝到了水。
寓意：有些東西雖然看起來微不足道，但如果積少成多，便會帶來很大變化。