英文经典胎教故事31个.docx

1、英文经典胎教故事31个The three wishes三个愿望A couple wishes for good luck. A fairy comes to them and says,”You may have three wishes.” The wife is very happy. She doesnt think much and says, “I wish I had a delicious sausage.” So she has it.“Silly!” shouts the husband. “How can you just wish for a sausage?” I wi

2、sh it were on your nose!” After that, the sausage grows on the wifes nose.“How stupid you are! What can we do now?” cries the wife. “We have only one wish.” The husband is also very sad, and says, “We must wish this sausage off.” So the sausage goes away. They have three wishes, but they get nothing

3、 in the end.Stir/美st/ the grass and startle the snake打草惊蛇Long long ago, a county magistrate named Wang Lu worked in present Anhui Province , east China . Wang Lu was very greedy and took many bribes. One of his secretaries was equally corrupt, and often schemed for Wang Lus deeds.One day a man went

4、to the magistrate to lodge a complaint against the secretary. The secretarys crimes were almost the same as the crimes the magistrate himself committed. Wang Lu was so frightened that he forgot his proper role in handling the case. Instead of issuing a judgment, he couldnt help writing these words c

5、oncerning the complaint: By stirring the grass, you have startled me who am like a snake under the grass!The above story provided the idiom Stir the grass and startle the snake. The original meaning is that punishment for someone can serve as a warning to others. But people now use the idiom to indi

6、cate that premature actions which put the enemy on guard.月亮和妈妈The moon and her motherThe Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown. How can I? replied she; theres no fitting your figure. At one time youre a New Moon, and at another youre a Full Moon; and between whiles youre neither one nor the

7、 other.The shy turtle/t:rtl/害羞的乌龟Tilly is a shy trutle. She hao no friends. If anyone came by to talk or play, she would duck in her shell and wait until they went away. Then one day,Freddy the frog came swimming by.Tilly,dont hide in your shell. I just want to play. But Tilly was too shy.No. No. Ju

8、st go away.Freddy the frog had many friends.He knew all the fish,he liked the dragonflies.He joked with the ladybugs,and he hung out with the bees,but his best friend was Betty the Butterfly. Hi,Betty. How are you? Hi,Freddy,Im fine. How are you? I dont think Tilly the turtle likes me. Whenever I as

9、k her to come out and play, she hides in her shell and wont come out until I go away. Betty says, I think Tilly likes you,but she is very shy. and she is very lonely. I think you should keep asking her to come out and play. One day she will come out of her shell. Freddy liked Betty best because Bett

10、y was smart, and Freddy kept asking Tilly to come out and play. One day when he was just swimming by,he said to Tilly,You cant have any friends if you hide in your shell.I think you should come on out and give it a try.Tilly was lonely and she knew that Freddy was She had no friends because she alwa

11、ys hid in her shell.So,Tilly poked her head out and looked all around, and she was amazed at how many new friends she found.THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN北风与太阳A dispute arose between the North Wind and the Sun, each claiming that he was stronger than the other. At last they agreed to try their powers up

12、on a traveller, to see which could soonest strip him of his cloak. The North Wind had the first try; and, gathering up all his force for the attack, he came whirling furiously down upon the man, and caught up his cloak as though he would wrest it from him by one single effort: but the harder he blew

13、, the more closely the man wrapped it round himself. Then came the turn of the Sun. At first he beamed gently upon the traveller, who soon unclasped his cloak and walked on with it hanging loosely about his shoulders: then he shone forth in his full strength, and the man, before he had gone many ste

14、ps, was glad to throw his cloak right off and complete his journey more lightly clad.我爱你,儿子love you, sonAs a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal (肠道) disorder,

15、 neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him

16、 alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic. As the alcoholism progressed, AL began to lose everything he possessed-his land, house, etc. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Als de