趣味英语故事

　　趣味英语故事狐狸和公鸡

One Morning a fox sees a cock. He thinks,"This is my breakfast.''

一天早上，一只狐狸看到了一只公鸡。他想：这是我的早餐。

He comes up to the cock and says, "I know you can sing very well. Can you sing for me?'' The cock is glad[①]. He closes his eyes and begins to sing. The fox sees that and caches him in his mouth and carries him away[②].

他走上前对公鸡说：“我知道，你唱歌唱得非常好听，你能唱给我唱一首吗?”公鸡很高兴，闭上眼睛就唱了起来。狐狸看到这些一口咬住公鸡就叼走了。

The people in the field see the cry, "Look, look! The fox is carrying the cock away.'' The cock says to the fox, "Mr Fox, do you understand? The people say you are carrying their cock away. Tell them it is yours. Not theirs.''

在田地里的人们看到了狐狸，大声喊道：“看，看!狐狸把公鸡叼走了。”公鸡对狐狸说：“狐狸先生，你能理解么?人们认为你叼走了他们的公鸡。告诉他们这是你的，不是他们的。”

The fox opens his mouth and says, "The cock is mine, not yours.'' Just then the cock runs away[③] from the fox and flies into the tree.

狐狸张开她的嘴说：“公鸡是我的，不是你们的。” 就在那时，公鸡从狐狸的嘴里逃了出来飞进了树林里。

寓意：这个故事体现了中国的一句古话“以其人之道还至其人之身”，所以那些自以为很聪明的人一定要时刻保持警惕，不然就会被别人用同样的办法来对付自己。

　　趣味英语故事海盗的宝藏

Pirate's Treasure--Written by Carol Moore

"Ten steps from the porch and twenty steps from the rose bushes," growled Bluebeard in Jimmy's dream one night. "There be treasure there! Aawrgh."

So the next day Jimmy began to dig. He dug until the hole was deep and the dirt pile was high.

He kept digging. The hole got deeper and the dirt pile got higher.

“距离走廊十步，玫瑰花丛20步的地方，”一天夜里蓝胡子在吉米的梦里咆哮道，“那里有珍宝!”

所以第二天，吉米开始挖。他一直挖，直到坑很深了，挖出的土堆得很高了。

他不停地挖。坑越来越深，土越堆越高。

He dug until the hole was deepest and the dirt pile was at its highest. He sighed. "I'm too tired. I can't dig anymore." Then he spied something...

it was only one of Woofy's bones. Instead of treasure, all Jimmy had was a dog bone, a hole, and a big pile of dirt to fill it in with. He thought "That pirate lied to me!"

But when Jimmy's mother saw what he had done, she clasped her hands and smiled a smile from here to Sunday. "Oh, thank you, Jimmy. I always wanted a rhododendron bush planted just there. Here's $5.00 for digging that hole."

他一直挖，直到坑已经非常深，土堆得非常高。他叹了口气：“我太累了。我不能再挖了。”然后他开始搜索。

但是除了一块伍菲的骨头，他什么也没找到。吉米所得到的仅仅是一块狗啃的骨头，一个坑还有一大堆土，而不是财宝。他想：“那个海盗欺骗了我!”

但当吉米的妈妈看到他所做的一切，她高兴得拍手。从那时一直拍到星期天。“哦，谢谢你，吉米。我一直以来都想在那里栽一丛杜鹃花。这5美元奖励你挖那个坑。”