小学英语寓言故事三篇.docx

1、小学英语寓言故事三篇小学英语寓言故事【三篇】 Once the King made a great feast4 and invited thereto, from far and near, all the young men likely to marry. They were all marshalled in a row according to their rank and standing; first came the kings, then the grand-dukes, then the princes, the earls, the barons, and the gen

2、try. Then the Kings daughter5 was led through the ranks, but to every one she had some objection6 to make; one was too fat, The wine-cask, she said. Another was too tall, Long and thin has little in. 7 The third was too short, Short and thick is never quick. 8 The fourth was too pale, As pale as dea

3、th. The fifth too red, A fighting-cock. The sixth was not straight enough, A green log dried behind the stove. So she had something to say against every one, but she made herself especially merry over a good king who stood quite high up in the row, and whose chin had grown a little crooked. Well, sh

4、e cried and laughed, he has a chin like a thrushs beak! 9 and from that time he got the name of King Thrushbeard.10But the old King, when he saw that his daugher did nothing but mock the people, and despised all the suitors who were gathered there, was very angry, and swore that she should have for

5、her husband the very first beggar11 that came to his doors.A few days afterwards a fiddler12 came and sang beneath the windows, trying to earn a small alms. When the King heard him he said, Let him come up. So the fiddler came in, in his dirty, ragged clothes, and sang before the King and his daught

6、er, and when he had ended he asked for a trifling gift. The King said, Your song has pleased me so well that I will give you my daughter there, to wife. The Kings daughter shuddered, but the King said, I have taken an oath to give you to the very first beggar-man, and I will keep it. All she could s

7、ay was in vain; the priest was brought, and she had to let herself be wedded to the fiddler on the spot. When that was done the King said, Now it is not proper for you, a beggar-woman, to stay any longer in my palace, you may just go away with your husband. 13The beggar-man led her out by the hand,

8、and she was obliged to walk away on foot with him. When they came to a large forest14 she asked, To whom does that beautiful forest belong? It belongs to King Thrushbeard;15 if you had taken him, it would have been yours. Ah, unhappy girl that I am,16 if I had but taken King Thrushbeard! Afterwards

9、they came to a meadow,17 and she asked again, To whom does this beautiful green meadow belong? It belongs to King Thrushbeard; if you had taken him, it would have been yours. Ah, unhappy girl that I am, if I had but taken King Thrushbeard! Then they came to a large town,18 and she asked again, To wh

10、om does this fine large town belong? It belongs to King Thrushbeard; if you had taken him, it would have been yours. Ah, unhappy girl that I am, if I had but taken King Thrushbeard! It does not please me, said the fiddler, to hear you always wishing for another husband; am I not good enough for you?

11、 At last they came to a very little hut, and she said, Oh goodness! what a small house; to whom does this miserable, mean hovel19 belong? The fiddler answered, That is my house and yours, where we shall live together. 20She had to stoop in order to go in at the low door. Where are the servants? said

12、 the Kings daughter. What servants? 21 answered the beggar-man; you must yourself do what you wish to have done. Just make a fire at once, and set on water to cook my supper, I am quite tired. But the Kings daughter knew nothing about lighting fires or cooking,22 and the beggar-man had to lend a han

13、d himself to get anything fairly done. When they had finished their scanty meal they went to bed; but he forced her to get up quite early in the morning in order to look after the house.For a few days they lived in this way as well as might be, and came to the end of all their provisions. Then the m

14、an said, Wife, we cannot go on any longer eating and drinking here and earning nothing. You weave23 baskets. He went out, cut some willows, and brought them home. Then she began to weave, but the tough willows24 wounded her delicate hands. I see that this will not do, said the man; you had better sp

15、in,25 perhaps you can do that better. She sat down and tried to spin, but the hard thread soon cut her soft fingers so that the blood ran down. See, said the man, you are fit for no sort of work; I have made a bad bargain with you. Now I will try to make a business with pots and earthenware; you mus

16、t sit in the market-place26 and sell the ware. Alas, thought she, if any of the people from my fathers kingdom come to the market and see me sitting there, selling, how they will mock me? But it was of no use, she had to yield unless she chose to die of hunger.For the first time she succeeded well,

17、for the people were glad to buy the womans wares27 because she was good-looking, and they paid her what she asked; many even gave her the money and left the pots with her as well. So they lived on what she had earned as long as it lasted, then the husband bought a lot of new crockery. With this she

18、sat down at the corner of the market-place, and set it out round about her ready for sale. But suddenly there came a drunken hussar28 galloping along, and he rode right amongst the pots so that they were all broken into a thousand bits. She began to weep, and did now know what to do for fear. Alas!

19、what will happen to me? cried she; what will my husband say to this? She ran home and told him of the misfortune. Who would seat herself at a corner of the market-place with crockery? said the man; leave off crying, I see very well that you cannot do any ordinary work, so I have been to our Kings pa

20、lace and have asked whether they cannot find a place for a kitchen-maid, and they have promised me to take you; in that way you will get your food for nothing. The Kings daughter was now a kitchen-maid,29 and had to be at the cooks beck and call, and do the dirtiest work. In both her pockets she fas

21、tened a little jar, in which she took home her share of the leavings, and upon this they lived.It happened that the wedding of the Kings eldest son was to be celebrated, so the poor woman went up and placed herself by the door of the hall to look on.30 When all the candles were lit, and people, each

22、 more beautiful than the other, entered, and all was full of pomp and splendour, she thought of her lot with a sad heart, and cursed the pride and haughtiness31 which had humbled her and brought her to so great poverty.The smell of the delicious dishes which were being taken in and out reached her,

23、and now and then the servants threw her a few morsels of them： these she put in her jars to take home.All at once the Kings son entered, clothed in velvet and silk,32 with gold chains about his neck. And when he saw the beautiful woman standing by the door he seized her by the hand, and would have d

24、anced with her; but she refused and shrank with fear, for she saw that it was King Thrushbeard, her suitor whom she had driven away with scorn. Her struggles were of no avail, he drew her into the hall; but the string by which her pockets were hung broke, the pots fell down,33 the soup ran out, and

25、the scraps were scattered all about. And when the people saw it, there arose general laughter and derision,34 and she was so ashamed that she would rather have been a thousand fathoms below the ground. She sprang to the door and would have run away, but on the stairs a man caught her and brought her

26、 back; and when she looked at him it was King Thrushbeard again. He said to her kindly, Do not be afraid, I and the fiddler who has been living with you in that wretched hovel are one. For love of you I disguised myself so; and I also was the hussar who rode through your crockery. This was all done

27、to humble your proud spirit, and to punish you for the insolence with which you mocked me. Then she wept bitterly and said, I have done great wrong, and am not worthy to be your wife. But he said, Be comforted, the evil days are past; now we will celebrate our wedding. 35 Then the maids-in-waiting c

28、ame and put on her the most splendid clothing, and her father and his whole court came and wished her happiness in her marriage with King Thrushbeard, and the joy now began in earnest. I wish you and I had been there too.【第二篇：Niels and the Giants】Once upon a time. On one of the great moors over in J

29、utland, where trees wont grow because the soil is so sandy and the wind so strong, there once lived a man and his wife, who had a little house and some sheep, and two sons who helped them to herd them. The elder of the two was called Rasmus, and the younger Niels. Rasmus was quite content to look af

30、ter sheep, as his father had done before him, but Niels had a fancy to be a hunter, and was not happy till he got hold of a gun and learned to shoot. It was only an old muzzle-loading flint-lock after all, but Niels thought it a great prize, and went about shooting at everything he could see. So muc

31、h did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful shot, and was heard of even where he had never been seen. Some people said there was very little in him beyond this, but that was an idea they found reason to change in the course of time. The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholic

32、s, and when they were getting old the mother took it into her head that she would like to go to Rome and see the Pope. The others didnt see much use in this, but she had her way in the end： they sold all the sheep, shut up the house, and set out for Rome on foot. Niels took his gun with him. What do

33、 you want with that? said Rasmus; we have plenty to carry without it. But Niels could not be happy without his gun, and took it all the same. It was in the hottest part of summer that they began their journey, so hot that they could not travel at all in the middle of the day, and they were afraid to do it by night lest they might lose their way