传统英语小故事

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.故事一 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。Story 2 The Old Man and the Old Cat An old man has a cat. The cat is very old, too. He runs very quickly. And his teeth are bad. One evening, the old cat sees a little mouse. He catches it, but he can’t eat it because his teeth are not strong enough. The mouse runs away. The old man is very angry. He beats his cat. He says: “You are a fool cat. I will punish you!” the cat is very sad. He thinks：“When I was young, I worked hard for you. Now you don’t like me because I’m too old to work. You should know you are old, too.”故事二 老人和老猫 一个年迈的老人养一只猫。这只猫也非常老了。她跑得很快，但是牙齿很糟糕。一天王还是那个，这只老猫看见一只小老鼠。它抓住了小老鼠，但是它却吃不了它，因为它的牙齿不够锋利了。这只小老鼠逃跑了。 老人很生气，他打了小猫，并且对它说：“你这只蠢猫！我要惩罚你！”猫非常伤心，它想：“在我还年轻的时候，我为你努力工作。现在你却因为我太老了不能工作而不喜欢我。你应该知道你也老了。”Story 3 Spring in the Green Season Spring is coming. Spring is the first season of the year. In China, spring comes in February. It is still cold, but it is getting warmer and warmer. The days get longer and longer. The leaves on the trees begin to turn green. Then they come up green leaves in the spring wind on the ground. Spring is also sowing time season.故事三 春天来了，春天是每年的第一个季节。在中国，春天二月来临，那时候还是很冷，但是会运来月暖和，白昼悦来越长。树上的叶子开始变绿，沐浴着大地春风长出了嫩芽。 春天也播种的季节。Story 4 Look for a Friend Sam is a little fish. He lives in the sea. He is very lonely. He wants to have a friend. The friend looks like him. Sam sees an ink fish. The ink fish has eight legs. He doesn’t look like Sam. So Sam goes away. Sam meets a shark. He wants to say hello to the shark. The shark opens his big mouth. Sam runs away quickly. Sam is tired and hungry. He wants to have a rest. Then he sees a round fish. She says to him. “Hello! Would you like to be my friend?” Sam answers: “Of course! But you are sound. I am flat.” The round fish days: “But we are both fishes.” Sam thinks and says, “You are right. Let’s be friends.” They become good friends.故事四： 找朋友 塞姆是一条小鱼，他在海里。他生在海里。他很孤独，想要找一个朋友，那个朋友看起来要想他。 塞姆看见一条墨鱼。墨鱼有8条腿，看上去不像塞姆。因此塞姆游走了。塞姆遇见一条鲨鱼。他想跟鲨鱼问好。鲨鱼张开大嘴，塞姆有迅速地逃走了。塞姆又累又饿，他要休息一会儿。这时他看见一条圆鱼，圆鱼对他说：“你好！你愿意做我的朋友吗？”塞姆回答：“好哇！可你是圆形的，我是扁的。”圆鱼说：“但是我们俩都是鱼啊！”塞姆思考后说：“你讲得对，让我们做朋友吧。”他们就成为好朋友了。

你没说多长，看看下面的行不。守株待兔thousands of years ago,there was a farmer in China .He did the farm work every day ,very hard.However,he gains little.the other day ,when he was on the farm,suddenly,a rabbit ran into a tree nearby,then,died.He got a rabbit for supper without any work.so he decided to wait for more and more rabbits to be died in accident.Finally,he died because there were no rabbits any more.this story tells us that no pains ,no gains.one can not own fortune all the time,if you wanna get something ,you should pay your hard work.

A farmer from the state of song every day in the field work. All the year round, the morning get up at dawn, walk into the field with hoes on their shoulders, The evening sun quickly after sunset, again with hoes on their shoulders back home. He was very hard. One day, the farmer working in the fields, suddenly a rabbit from the bushes out of nowhere. The hare see someone and frightened. He desperately run, but suddenly hit a cut tree farmer turnrow onto them, he broke his neck died. The farmer put down his farm work, walk over to pick up dead rabbits. He was very thankful for their own good luck. Coming back home in the evening, the farmer died rabbit to his wife. Wife made savoury meat, the couple talking and laughing rabbits ate a meal. The next day the earth in the fields, but he didn't like the former so devotion. Tracing his dry soon toward the brushwood take aim, listen and hope to have a rabbit out of nowhere crashed on the stump. In this way, he absent-mindedly dry day live, this hoe land also didn't finish hoe. Until dark also did not see any rabbit came out, he was unwilling to go home. The third day, the farmer came to DeBian, has fully centerless tillage. He put aside, farm tools is sitting on the stump beside the weevils on, specialized waiting hare out of nowhere. But he waited in vain day. Later, the farmer every day so keep the stump edge, hope again pick up to rabbit, but he didn't get. But the farmer field weed but are getting taller, putting his crops were covered. The farmer therefore become song about the laughingstock of the countrymen.守株待兔宋国有一个农民，每天在田地里劳动。一年四季，早上天一亮就起床，扛着锄头往田野走；傍晚太阳快落山了，又扛着锄头回家。他实在是很辛苦。 有一天，这个农夫正在地里干活，突然一只野兔从草丛中窜出来。野兔见到有人而受了惊吓。它拼命地奔跑，不料一下子撞到农夫地头的一截树桩子上，折断脖子死了。农夫放下手中的农活，走过去捡起死兔子。他非常庆幸自己的好运气。 晚上回到家，农夫把死兔交给妻子。妻子做了香喷喷的野兔肉，两口子有说有笑美美地吃了一顿。 第二天，农夫照旧到地里干活，可是他再不像以往那么专心了。守株待兔他干一会儿就朝草丛里瞄一瞄、听一听，希望再有一只兔子窜出来撞在树桩上。就这样，他心不在焉地干了一天活，该锄的地也没锄完。直到天黑也没见到有兔子出来，他很不甘心地回家了。 第三天，农夫来到地边，已完全无心锄地。他把农具放在一边，自己则坐在树桩旁边的田埂上，专门等待野兔子窜出来。可是又白白地等了一天。 后来，农夫每天就这样守在树桩边，希望再捡到兔子，然而他始终没有再得到。而农夫地里的野草却越长越高，把他的庄稼都淹没了。农夫因此成了宋国人议论的笑柄。

Chinese New Year (中国农历新年)The Chinese New Year has a great history. In other traditions, by this time in the year, most resolutions - made on December 31 - have been subtly forgotten and placed in a cupboard marked "maybe next year." However, all hope is not lost, as there's a second chance to start afresh with the celebration of Chinese New Year on February 12th.The Chinese New Year is very similar to the Western one, swathed in traditions and rituals.The origin of the Chinese New Year is itself centuries old - in fact, too old to actually be traced. It is popularly recognised as the Spring Festival and celebrations last 15 days. Preparations tend to begin a month from the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to a Western Christmas), when people start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, and doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red. The doors and windows are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters (or ho xi), for all things good, raw fish salad or yu sheng to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-hai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lost good wish for a family. It's usual to wear something red as this colour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning. After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programmes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.On the day itself, an ancient custom called Hong Bao, meaning Red Packet, takes place. This involves married couples giving children and unmarried adults money in red envelopes. Then the family begins to say greetings from door to door, first to their relatives and then their neighbours. Like the Western saying "let bygones be bygones," at Chinese New Year, grudges are very easily cast aside.The end of the New Year is marked by the Festival of Lanterns, which is a celebration with singing, dancing and lantern shows. Although celebrations of the Chinese New Year vary, the underlying message is one of peace and happiness for family members and friends.(chinese.new-year.co.uk)-----------------------------------Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节)The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival, the third and last festival for the living, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". In the Western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurred sometime between the second week of September and the second week ofOctober.This day was also considered a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. With delinquent accounts settled prior to the festival , it was a time for relaxation and celebration. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates , melons, oranges and pomelos might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro, edible snails from the taro patches or rice paddies cooked with sweet basil, and water caltrope, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary moon.(chinavoc.com)