五篇英语寓言小故事带中文
  　
  　【英语寓言小故事一：三个好朋友】
  　Story 1 Three Good Friends
  　One day, a monkey rides his bike near the river. This time he sees a lion under a tree. The lion runs at him. He is afraid and falls into the river. He can’t swim. He shouts. The rabbit hears him. He jumps into the river. The rabbit swims to the monkey, but he can’t help him. Luckily, an elephant comes along. He is very strong. He helps the rabbit and monkey. Three friends are very happy. They go to the elephant’s home. Then, three of them become good friends.
  　中文： 三个好朋友
  　一天，一只猴子在河边骑车。这时他看见树下有一只狮子，狮子向他跑来。他非常的害
怕，掉进河里。他不会游泳，大叫起来。兔子听见了，跳进水里，但他却没有办法救猴子。幸运的是，一只大象过来了。大象非常强壮，救出了兔子和猴子。他们来到大象的家，在那里吃了一顿大餐。从此他们成了好朋友。
  　【英语寓言小故事二：病人和船主】
  　He turned to the patient：“But you were in the wrong when you took the boat without asking the owner's permission.You were in the right because you were not so lazy as he was and you did not want to let the moonlit night go by without making some use of it.”
  　中文：他又转向那位病人说：“但是，你未征得船主的许可便动用了他的船，在这点上你是不对的。你也有对的一面，因为你不像他那样懒惰，你不想让这月夜白白溜走而不去利用它。”
  　Dr.Schweitzer divided the catch among the fisherman, the boat owner, and the hospital.
  　施韦策博士把捕来的鱼分给了渔夫、病人和医院三方。
  　【英语寓言小故事三：我与河马】
  　Story1 The Hippo and I
  　A hippo lives in the zoo. I like him very much. I often go to see him. He often thinks of me, too. Today is Sunday. It is fine day. I go to see him again. After I leave the zoo, he follows me to my house. I give him lettuce, cabbages, bananas, apples and other food. He eats them up. When I sing songs, he stays in the pool. He is as quite as a rabbit.
  　In the evening, he jumps onto my bed with me. My mum tells him to go home. He has to pack his bag and go back to the zoo. My mum lets me see him every week.
  　中文：我与河马
  　河马住在动物园里，我很喜欢他。他经常去看它，他也经常想我。
  　今天是星期日，是个好天气，我又一次去看望它。在我离开动物园之后，他跟随到我的家。我给他莴苣、生菜、香蕉、苹果和其他食物。他都吃了。
刻舟求剑故事
  　当我唱歌是，它待在水池里，像兔子一样安静。
  　晚上，他跳到床上同我睡觉在一起睡。
  　妈妈要它回家。它不得不背起包回到动物园。妈妈允许我每周去看它。
  　【英语寓言小故事四：刻舟求剑】
  　Making His Mark 刻舟求剑
  　A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn't this a very foolish way to look for a sword?
  　中文：楚国有个人坐船渡江时，他不小心把自己的一把宝剑掉落江中。他马上掏出一把
小刀，在宝剑落水的船舷上刻上一个记号。船靠岸后，那楚人立即从船上刻记号的地方跳下水去捞取掉落的宝剑。他怎么得到宝剑呢?船继续行驶，而宝剑却不会再移动。像他这样去剑，真是太愚蠢可笑了。
  　【英语寓言小故事五：画蛇添足】
  　Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It 画蛇添足
  　Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has ever seen a snake with feet?" The story of "Draw a snake and add feet to It." tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
  　中文：古时几个人分一壶酒。他们都想独自喝完那壶酒，所以就定了一个规矩：每人在地上画一条蛇，谁画得最快，这壶酒就归谁。有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时，看见别人都还在忙着画，就决定给蛇再画上几只脚。结果，他的蛇脚还没加完，另一个人已经把蛇画好了。那人一下把酒壶夺了过去，说："有谁见过长脚的蛇?"。这个故事告诉我们这样的道理：做得过度和做得不够都是不对的。