英语寓言故事大全15篇
在日常的学习、工作、生活中，大家一定都接触过寓言故事吧，寓言多用借喻手法，使富有教训意义的主题或深刻的道理在简单的故事中体现，还苦于找不到优秀的寓言故事？以下是小编收集整理的英语寓言故事，欢迎大家分享。
英语寓言故事1
The Literary Astronomer故事
THE Director of an Observatory, who, with a thirty-six-inch refractor, had discovered the moon, hastened to an Editor, with a four-column account of the event.
"How much?" said the Editor, sententiously, without looking up from s essay on the circularity of the political horizon.
"One hundred and sixty dollars," replied the man who had discovered the moon.
"Not half enough," was the Editor's comment.
"Generous man!" cried the Astronomer, glowing with warm and elevated sentiments, "pay me, then, what you will."
"Great and good friend," said the Editor, blandly, looking up from his work, "we are far asunder, it seems. The paying is to be done by you."
The Director of the Observatory gathered up the manuscript and went away, explaining that it needed correction; he had neglected to dotan m.
英语寓言故事2
A man walking in the night slipped from a rock. Afraid that he would fall down thousands of feet, because he knew that place was a very deep valley, he took hold of a branch that was hanging over the rock. In the night all he couls see was a bottomless abyss. He shouted, his own shout reflected back——there was nobody to hear. You can imagine that man and his whole night of scare. Every moment there
was death, his hands were becoming cold, he was losing his grip...... and as the sun came out he looked down and he laughed. There was no abyss. Just six inches
down there was a rock. He could have rested the whole night, slept well——the rock was big enough——but the whole night was a nightmare.
Fear is only six inches deep. Now it is up to you whether you want to go on
cling to the branch and turn your life into a nightmare, or whether you would love to leave the branch and stand on your feet. There is nothing to fear.
英语寓言故事3
James and John were good friends. For many years, James has had complete trust in John.
At the beginning, James invited John to manage his housekeeping, and when he was serving as a governor, he invited John to assist him with his business. Because James trusted John completely, he kept nothing from him.
James did not realize how despicable John was until John usurped all his property, which James dared not disclose, considering that John had gotten told of his demerits. Thedepressed James came to the Cheng Huang Temple, having no alternative, to vent his anger, and accused John for his wrongdoing.
At night, James dreamed that Cheng Huang asked him why he trusted John so much he thought for a long time, and replied, "Because he can make everything go as I have wished." Cheng Huang said, "Such a man is the most dangerous! You do not fear him but like him, making you the best choice for him to deceive?"
甲和乙是好朋友多年以来，甲对乙一直很信任。
开始是请乙管理家务。当甲官任巡抚时，又请乙协理公务，由于以对乙格外放心。
甲诸事都不提防。当自己的全部家产都被乙侵吞时，甲发现乙是一个卑鄙的小人，考虑到自己有把柄被乙捏住，甲还不敢声张，郁闷难申的甲为了发泄心中的怒气，万般无奈的来到城隍庙，告了乙一状。
晚上，甲梦见城隍问自己为什么如此信任乙，甲思索半天，回答说。：“因为他事事都能如我意。”城隍说：“这种人最可怕，你不怕他而喜欢他?他不骗你又能骗谁呢?”
英语寓言故事带翻译简短3:方舟济河
There were two boats sailing on the river. If an empty boat clashed into them at this time, the people on the boats would not be angry even they were narrow-minded.
But, under another circumstance, if that boat carried one or more people instead of being empty, the people on those two proceeding boats would definitely ask that boat to give way to them. Once not answered, they would call and ask again. At the third time, there would be some abusive words. Know why? They were angry and utter out such words because they knew there must be some people on that boat.
河面上并行着两支船。这时，如果有一只空船撞过来，即使是心胸狭窄之人，也不会有丝毫怒气。
但是，如果这次船上有人，那么，前行的两条船上的.人一定会打招呼，要来人将船撑开。假如喊的一次对方不听，他们肯定会再喊一次，待到喊第三次，其中必定会有辱骂声相伴了，他们之所以前一次不生气而现在生气，是因为原来是空船而现在船上有人。
英语寓言故事4
A man was going to the house of some rich person。 As he went along the road，he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road。 He said，"I do not want to eat those apples；for the rich man will give me much food；
he will give me very nice food to eat。" Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust。
He went on and came to a river。 The river had become very big；so he could not go over it。 He waited for some time；then he said，"I cannot go to the rich mans house today，for I cannot get over the river。"
He began to go home。 He had eaten no food that day。 He began to want food。 He came to the apples，and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them。
Do not throw good things away；you may be glad to have them at some other time。
英语寓言故事5
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country;the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse;he said,"Do come and see me at my house in the country."
So the City mouse went. The City mouse said,"This food is not good,and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field?You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone.
You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city."
The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried," Run!Run!The cat is coming!" They ran away quickly and hid.
After some time they came out. When they came out,the Country mouse said,"I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy,than to be rich and afraid."
英语寓言故事6
A wolf was almost dead with hunger. A house-dog saw him, and asked, "Friend, your irregular life will soon ruin you. "Why don't you work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly?"
"I would have no objection," said the wolf, "if I could only get a place." "I will help you," said the dog. "Come with me to my master, and you shall share my work."
So the wolf and the dog went to the town together.On the way the wolf saw that there was no hair around the dog's neck.He felt quite surprised, and asked him why it was like that?
"Oh, it is nothing," said the dog. "Every night my master puts a collar around my neck and chains me up. You will soon get used to it."
"Is that the only reason?" said the wolf. "Then good-bye to you, my friend. I would rather be free."
翻译：
一只狼快要饿死了，一只狗看见后问他：“你现在的无规律的生活一定会毁掉你，为什么不像我一样稳定地干活并有规律地获得食物呢?”
狼说：“如果我有个地方住，我没有意见。”狗回答说：“跟我到主人那里去，我们一起工作。”于是狼和狗一起回到了村子。
在路上，狼注意到狗的`脖子上有一圈没有毛，他很奇怪地问为什么会那样。
“噢，没有什么，”狗说，“我的主人每天晚上都用一条铁链子拴住我，你很快就会习惯的。”“就是因为这个原因吗?”狼说道，“那么，再见了，我的朋友，我宁愿选择自由。”
寓意：自由比安乐更重要。
英语寓言故事7
A Woodman came into a forest to ask the Trees to give him a handle for Ax. It seemed so modest a request that the principal tree at once aGREed to it, and it was settled among them that the plain, homely Ash should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the Woodman fitted the staff to his purpose ,than he began laying about him on all side. felling the whole matter too late, whispered to the Cedar: "the first concession has lost all ;if we has not a sacrificed our humble neighbor, we might have yet stood for ages ourselves."
有一个樵夫来到森林里，要求树给他一跟斧柄，看来他的请求非常谦虚，立刻得到了树的首领的同意。他们决定由平凡而朴素的白杨树来提供所需要的东西。樵夫刚按好斧柄，就开始到处乱砍，森林里最高的树都砍倒了，树林现在察觉大势已去，就小声对衫树说："第一次的让步已失去了一切。如果我们不牺牲我们的'小小的邻居，我们自己还可以活无数年呢。"
英语寓言故事8
In a primeval forest, a boa constrictor and a leopard at the same time stare at an antelope. The leopard looks at the python, the boa constrictor looks at the leopard, each takes the abacus".
The leopard thought, "if I want to eat the antelope, I must destroy the python first.".
Python thought: "if I want to eat antelope, we must first destroy the leopard.".
So, almost at the same time, the leopard jumped on the python, and the python jumped on the leopard.
The leopard bit the Python's neck and thought, "if I don't bite, I'll be bitten by a python.".
The python wrapped around the leopard's body and thought, "if it doesn't work hard, I'll be killed by a leopard.".
So both sides fought desperately.
Finally, the antelope walked serenely, while the leopard and python fell to the ground.
The hunter saw this battle is very emotion, said: "if both pounce on prey, rather than toward each other, and then divide the food, both will not die; if both go together, to give up their prey, both will not die; if a party of two side away, toward the prey, both will not die if the seriousness of each other; two problems in consciousness, they are not dead. Their sorrow is to have the courtesy into a fight at outrance struggle."
The sorrow of life often comes from this.
英语寓言故事9
A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road,he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said,"I do not want to eat those apples;for the rich man will give me much food;
he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.
He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big;so he could not go over it. He waited for some time;then he said,"I cannot go to the rich mans house today,for I cannot get over the river."
He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples,and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.
Do not throw good things away;you may be glad to have them at some other time.
英语寓言故事10
A Fisher once took his bagpipes to the bank of a river, and played upon them with the hope of making the fish rise; but never a one put his nose out of the water. So he cast his net into the river and soon drew it forth filled with fish. Then he took his bagpipes again, and, as he played, the fish leapt up in the net. "Ah, you dance now when I play," said he. "Yes," said an old Fish: "When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you."
英语寓言故事11
Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying： “If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness.” The Lion laughed and let him go.
It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar,came up, and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and setting him free,
exclaimed： “You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any
repayment of your favour； but now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.” 狮和鼠
一只老鼠从一只狮子面前跑过去，将它从梦中吵醒。
狮子生气地跳起来，捉住老鼠，要弄死它。老鼠哀求说：「只要你肯饶恕我这条小生命，我将来一定会报答你的大恩。」狮子便笑着放了它。
后来狮子被几个猎人捉住，用粗绳捆绑倒在地上。老鼠听出是狮子的吼声，走来用牙齿咬断绳索，释放了它，并大声说：「你当时嘲笑我想帮你的忙，而且也不指望我有什么机会报答。但是你现在知道了，就算是小老鼠，也能向狮子效劳的。」
The Bat and the Weaselsa
Bat falling upon the ground was caught by a Weasel, ofwhom he earnestly besought his life. The Weasel
refused,saying, that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. TheBat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, andthus saved his life.
Shortly afterwards the Bat again fellon the ground, and was carght by another Weasel, whom helikewise
entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that hehad a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him thathe was
not a mouse, but a bat; and thus a second timeescaped.It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
蝙蝠和鼠狼
一只蝙蝠坠落到地面上来，被一只鼠狼捉住了，蝙蝠哀求讨饶。鼠狼不答应，说它自己最爱和鸟类为敌。蝙蝠便证明它自己不是鸟，只是一只老鼠，因此鼠狼就放了它。
不久这只蝙蝠又坠落到地上来，被另一只鼠狼捉住，它同样地哀求讨饶。那鼠狼说它自己最恨老鼠，蝙蝠证明自己并不是老鼠，而是一只蝙蝠；因此，它第二次又安然地逃离危险了。随机应变乃聪明之举。
The miser and his gold Once upon a time there was a miser. He hid his gold under a tree. Every week he used to dig it up.
One night a robber stole all the gold. When the miser came again, he found nothing but an empty hole.
He was surprised, and then burst into tears.All the neighbors gathered around him.
He told them how he used to come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "No," he said, "I only came to look at it." "Then come again and look at the hole," said the neighbor, "it will be the same as looking at the gold."
守财奴
从前，有个守财奴将他的'金块埋到一棵树下，每周他都去把他挖出来看看。
一天晚上，一个小偷挖走了所有的金块。 守财奴再来查看时，发现除了一个空洞什么都没有了。
守财奴便捶胸痛哭。哭声引来了邻居
他告诉他们这里原来有他的金块。
问明了原因后，一个邻居问：“你使用过这些金块吗？” “没用过，” 他说，“我只是时常来看看。”“那么，以后再来看这个洞，”邻居说，“就像以前有金块时一样。”
英语寓言故事12
狮子和小老鼠
Once upon a time there lived a lion in a forest。 One day after a heavy meal， it was sleeping under a tree。 After a while， there came a mouse and it started to play on the lion。
从前，有一只狮子住在森林里。有一天，它在饱餐一顿之后，在一棵树下休息。过了一会儿，来了一只小老鼠，它跑到了狮子身上玩耍。
Suddenly the lion got up with anger and looked for those who disturbed its nice sleep。 Then it saw a small mouse standing， trembling with fear。 The lion jumped on it and started to kill it。
突然，狮子醒了，它非常生气地看着这个打扰了自己美梦的小老鼠。它看到这个小老鼠害怕得站在那里颤抖着。狮子跳了起来，想要吃掉它。
The mouse requested the lion to forgive it。 The lion felt pity and left it。 The mouse ran away。
小老鼠请求狮子原谅它，狮子起了怜悯之心，于是就走了。小老鼠跑走了。
On another day， the lion was caught in a net by a hunter。 The mouse came there and cut the net。 Thus it escaped。
又是一天，狮子被一个猎人用网抓住了。老鼠过去帮它把网弄开了。狮子逃了出来。
There after， the mouse and the lion became friends。 They lived happily in the forest afterwards。
从此以后，狮子和老鼠成了好朋友，它们快乐地一起生活在森林里。
Moral： A friend in need is a friend indeed。
俗语：患难见真情。
英语寓言故事13
An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.
Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."
翻译：
一位老妇有只猫，这只猫很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了东西，因为它年纪太大了。一天，老猫发现一只老鼠，它跳过去抓这只老鼠，不过，它咬不住这只老鼠。所以，老鼠从它的`嘴边溜掉了，因为老猫咬不了它。
于是，老妇很生气，因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫，猫说：“不要打你的老仆人，我已经为你服务了很多年，而且还愿意为你效劳，但是，我实在太老了，对年纪大的不要这么无情，要记住老年人在年轻时所做过的有益的事情。”
英语寓言故事14
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.
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?
One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crow's beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took the meat and went into his hole.
Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal his neighbor's doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bell would ring and catch the other people's attention as long as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever "idea". He plugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole the bell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he was caught on the spot as a thief.
英语寓言故事15
英语寓言故事：一颗小苹果树(中英对照)
A man walking in the night slipped from a rock. Afraid that he would fall down thousands of feet, because he knew that place was a very deep valley, he took hold of a branch that was hanging over the rock. In the night all he couls see was a bottomless abyss. He shouted, his own shout reflected back--there was nobody to hear.
You can imagine that man and his whole night of scare. Every moment there was death, his hands were becoming cold, he was losing his grip...... and as the sun came out he looked down and he laughed. There was no abyss. Just six inches down there was a rock. He could have rested the whole night, slept well---the rock was big enough---but the whole night was a nightmare.
Fear is only six inches deep. Now it is up to you whether you want to go on cling to the branch and turn your life into a nightmare, or whether you would love to leave the branch and stand on your feet.
There is nothing to fear.
一个人在赶夜路时，突然从岩石上跌了下去，吓得他赶紧抓住了岩石上的树枝，因为他知道这一带有个深谷，一不小心就会跌入上千英尺的深渊。一晚上，他唯一能看到的就是深不见底的峡谷。他大呼救命，但只听到了自己的回音---没有人能听到他呼救。
你可以想象一下他的处境和整晚的恐惧。死神随时都可能降临。他的手开始发凉，渐渐地抓不住了...当太阳升起的时候，他朝下看了看，笑了。下面压根就没有什么深渊。在他下方六英尺的地方有一块大石头。岩石那么大，他本可以在那儿休息一个晚上，美美的睡上一觉，但昨晚他却在梦魇中度过。
恐惧只是六英尺的`距离而已。接下来，到了你做决定的时候了：你是想要继续抓着树枝过梦魇一般的生活，还是更喜欢把手从树枝上松开，双脚着地？
真的没有什么好害怕的。
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