經典英文寓言故事

　　寓言故事是文學體裁的一種，含有諷喻或明顯教訓意義的故事。通常用借喻手法，使富有教訓意義的主題或深刻的道理在簡單短小的故事中體現。下面小編為大家帶來，歡迎大家閱讀!

　　：猴子與螃蟹

　　Once upon a time, there was a monkey that met a crab and they travelled together in the jungle.

　　很久很久以前，有一隻猴子和一隻螃蟹相遇了，它們結伴到 森林裡去遊玩。

　　The active monkey found a fruit seed and the crab found a rice ball.

　　蹦蹦跳跳的猴子忽然撿到一顆果實的種子，而螃 蟹則撿到一隻飯糰子。

　　The monkey was greedy and said to the crab, 'Dear crab, let us exchange what we have! "

　　猴子因為貪吃，便對螃蟹說：¨螃蟹老弟，咱們倆換一換吧"

　　The crab agreed, so the monkey exchanged his seed for the crab's rice ball. He quickly swallowed the rice ball.

　　螃蟹同意了。於是，猴子用自己的種子換了螃蟹的飯糰子.馬上張開大嘴把飯糰子給吃了。

　　As for the crab, he went back home and sowed the seed in the open field in front of his house.

　　而螃蟹呢，回到家後把那顆種子種在屋前的空地上。

　　Every day, he watered the plant carefully. The plant grew day by day. When summer came, the crab took shelter under the tree that was now filled with branches and leaves.

　　它每天 都很細心地澆水、施肥。 樹一天天長,大夏天來了，螃蟹在枝葉茂盛的樹下乘涼到了秋天

　　When autumn came, the tree was fully grown with fruit. The crab was able to enjoy the fruit every year.

　　樹上結滿了豐碩的果實。從此以後，螃蟹年年都 有果子吃。

　　：守財奴

　　A Miser, to make sure of his property, sold all that he had had converted it into a great lump of gold, which he hid in a hole in the ground, and went continually to visit and inspect it.

　　一個守財奴,為了確保他的財產,賣掉所有家當換成了一大塊金子,埋在一個地洞裡,並且不時地去檢視.

　　This roused the curiosity of one of his workmen, who, suspecting that there was a treasure, when his master's back was turned went to the spot and stole it away.

　　這引起了手下一個僱工的好奇。僱工猜測那裡肯定有寶貝,趁主人離開之際,他來到埋藏地點,把金子偷走了。

　　When the Miser returned and found the place empty, he wept and tore his hair. But a neighbor who saw him in this extravagant grief, and learned the cause of it,

　　當守財奴回來發現金子不翼而飛,便痛哭流涕,亂撮頭髮。一個鄰人見狀問明原由後說

　　said: "Fret thyself no longer, but take a stone and put it in the same place, and think that it is your lump of gold; for, as you never meant to use it, the one will do you as much gold as the other."

　　“你也別太痛苦了,拿一塊石頭再埋在原地,就當是那塊金子好了,因為既然你永遠不想用它,那麼兩者不是一回事嗎”。