有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 下金蛋的鹅

One day a countryman going to thenest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took itup it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because hethought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on secondthoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Everymorning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs.As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold theGoose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

Greed often overreaches itself.

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 大力神与车夫

A Waggoner was once driving aheavy load along a very muddy way. At last he came to a part of the road wherethe wheels sank half-way into the mire, and the more the donkey pulled, thedeeper sank the wheels. So the Waggoner threw down his whip, and knelt down andprayed to Hercules the Strong. “O Hercules, help me in this my hour ofdistress,” quoth he. But Hercules appeared to him, and said:

“Tut, man, don’t sprawl there.Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.”

The gods help them that help themselves.

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 保姆与狼

“Be quiet now,” said a Nurse to achild sitting on her lap. “If you make that noise again I will throw you to theWolf.”

Now it chanced that a Wolf waspassing close under the window as this was said. So he crouched down by theside of the house and waited. “I am in good luck to-day,” thought he. “It issure to cry soon, and a daintier morsel I haven’t had for many a long day.”

So he waited, and he waited, andhe waited, till at last the child began to cry, and the Wolf came forwardbefore the window, and looked up to the Nurse, wagging his tail. But all theNurse did was to shut down the window and call for help, and the dogs of thehouse came rushing out. “Ah,” said the Wolf as he galloped away,

“Enemies promises were made to be broken.”

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 老鼠开会

Long ago, the mice had a generalcouncil to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy,the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got upand said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. “Youwill all agree,” said he, “that our chief danger consists in the sly andtreacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receivesome signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture,therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbonround the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she wasabout, and could easily retire while she was in the /'neɪbəhʊd/.”

This proposal met with generalapplause, until an old mouse got up and said: “That is all very well, but whois to bell the Cat?” The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. Then theold mouse said:

“It is easy to propose impossible remedies.”

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 几捆棒子

An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a bundle of sticks, and said to his eldest son: “Break it.” The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the Bundle. The other sons also tried, but none of them was successful. “Untie the bundle,” said the father, “and each of you take a stick.” When they had done so, he called out to them: “Now, break,” and each stick was easily broken. “You see my meaning,” said their father.

Union gives strength.

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 挤奶女工和桶

Patty the Milkmaid was going tomarket carrying her milk in a Pail on her head. As she went along she begancalculating what she would do with the money she would get for the milk. “I’llbuy some fowls from Farmer Brown,” said she, “and they will lay eggs eachmorning, which I will sell to the parson’s wife. With the money that I get fromthe sale of these eggs I’ll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat; andwhen I go to market, won’t all the young men come up and speak to me! PollyShaw will be that jealous; but I don’t care. I shall just look at her and tossmy head like this. As she spoke she tossed her head back, the Pail fell off it,and all the milk was spilt. So she had to go home and tell her mother what hadoccurred.

“Ah, my child,” said the mother,

“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 守财奴和金子

Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a small tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and stole it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the /'neɪbə(r)s/ came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. “Did you ever take any of it out?” asked one of them.

“Nay,” said he, “I only came to look at it.”

“Then come again and look at the hole,” said a /'neɪbə(r)s/; “it will do you just as much good.”

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 猫新娘

The gods were once disputingwhether it was possible for a living being to change its nature. Jupiter said“Yes,” but Venus said “No.” So, to try the question, Jupiter turned a Cat intoa Maiden, and gave her to a young man for a wife. The wedding was dulyperformed and the young couple sat down to the wedding-feast. “See,” saidJupiter, to Venus, “how becomingly she behaves. Who could tell that yesterdayshe was but a Cat? Surely her nature is changed?”

“Wait a minute,” replied Venus,and let loose a mouse into the room. No sooner did the bride see this than shejumped up from her seat and tried to pounce upon the mouse. “Ah, you see,” saidVenus,

“True nature will come out.”

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 狐狸和葡萄

One hot summer’s day a Fox wasstrolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening ona vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing to quench mythirst,” quoth he.

Drawing back a few paces, he tooka run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One,Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he triedafter the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away withhis nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”

It is easy to despise what you cannot get.

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 狮子和老鼠

Once when a Lion was asleep alittle Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion,who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. “Pardon,O King,” cried the little Mouse: “forgive me this time, I shall never forgetit: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?” TheLion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that helifted up his paw and let him go.

Some time after the Lion wascaught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King,tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Justthen the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in whichthe Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the Kingof the Beasts. “Was I not right?” said the little Mouse.

Little friends may prove great friends.