英语童话原著

《丑小鸭》是一本含有童话和寓言的 儿童 作品。这本书写了一只天鹅蛋在鸭群中破壳后，因相貌怪异，让同类鄙弃，历经千辛万苦、重重磨难之后长成了白天鹅。下面是我整理的英语 童话 故事 丑小鸭，欢迎大家阅读!

英语童话故事丑小鸭The Ugly Duckling

Long ago, in a farmyard many miles away, a Mother Duck sat on her nest. She was waiting for her eggs to hatch. Each day she proudly looked at them. There were six eggs, which meant six little ducklings to teach to swim.

One sunny spring morning, the first egg began to crack..

'Tap, tap, tap,' went the duckling inside, trying to get out. Mother Duck watched as the egg cracked open and out popped a fluffy duckling.

"One," said Mother Duck proudly.

The next day, the second egg hatched and out popped another fluffy duckling.

"Two," said Mother Duck proudly.

On the third day, duckling number three hatched.

"That leaves just three," said Mother Duck.

On the fourth and fifth day, ducklings number four and five hatched.

"That leaves just one," said Mother Duck, as she settled on her nest. Her ducklings gathered around her.

But on the sixth day nothing happened. Nor on the seventh.

"How strange," said Mother Duck on the seventh day. "It should have hatched by now."

One of the farmyard chickens wandered by.

"Oh," she said. "You're still there I thought you'd be on the pond by now."

"It's this last egg," said Mother Duck. "It hasn't hatched yet."

"Let me see," said the chicken. "Well no wonder. It looks like a goose egg to me. You'll be here for a long time."

"Oh dear," said Mother Duck. "I have my five little ducklings to teach to swim. What shall I do? I can't leave it."

"Aah well," said the chicken, and she wandered off.

The goose heard that one of her eggs was in Mother Duck's nest.

"Is it true?" she asked, as she puffed up to the nest. "Do you have one of my eggs?"

"I think so," said Mother Duck. They both looked in the nest.

"Huh," said the goose. "That's not mine. It looks more like that absent-minded turkey's egg."

As they looked, they suddenly heard the faint tapping. The shell was breaking.

"We'll soon see," said the goose.

They watched and waited.

"Oh," said the goose.

"Oh, dear," said Mother Duck, as she looked at the sixth duckling. It looked most strange, it was straggly and grey where its brothers and sisters were fluffy and yellow. It was also bigger than them.

It quacked as it saw its mother.

"Well, if it's a turkey," said the goose, "it won't swim."

Mother Duck hurried her ducklings to the pond. She waddled in and listened. Splash! Splish! Splosh! Splash! Splish! She turned and looked. All six ducklings followed her in the water.

"Oh, well," she said. "He can swim. He is definitely not a turkey."

The sixth duckling was very good at swimming, and was soon swimming better than his brothers and sisters.

Back at the farmyard, things did not go well for the little duckling. Everyone called him an ugly duckling. The chickens laughed at him, the turkeys chased him and the geese hissed at him.

Soon even his brothers and sisters would not talk to him, but when his mother turned away, he was very sad. He decided to leave the farmyard.

One sunny morning, he walked out of the farmyard and didn't look back. He wandered away, looking for somewhere new to live.

When he'd been walking a while he came to a large lake. There were some ducks swimming on it.

He swam up to them.

"May I stay on this lake?" he asked.

"Of course," said the ducks. "We'll be moving on soon. Why don't you join us, if you're on your own?"

"Thank you," said the duckling.

The duckling stayed on the lake and day by day he grew bigger. One day he looked up to see some large white birds flying gracefully over the lake.

"They're beautiful," he whispered, and then sighed. "I wonder who they are?"

One day the ducks came to see him.

"It's autumn, and we're going now," they told him, "join us if you want to."

Some ducks began to fly up to leave, but suddenly loud bangs were heard. Two of the ducks fell from the sky. Others flew up in fright, and more fell as more bangs were heard.

The duckling ran and hid. He found a bush and stayed there until the noise had died down. When it was quiet he sadly left the lake and headed away over the fields.

He came to another lake and there he stayed. Winter was coming and he was alone. As the days grew colder, he found that it was harder to find food.

The one morning he woke and found that he couldn't move. The lake had frozen and he was stuck in the ice. The day passed and the duckling was giving up hope of being found. But late in the afternoon a man walking his dog saw him. He broke the ice, and the duckling was free. He ran across the ice and hid. He didn't dare to go on the ice again.

Winter passed, spring came, and the ice melted.

The duckling stretched his wings and found that they were strong enough to carry him. He flew upon and over the lake, high above the trees and fields. He should have been very happy, but he was not because he felt so lonely.

A few days later, he looked up to see the large white birds he had seen in the autumn. They looked beautiful as they landed on the lake. The duckling admired their glossy white feathers and long necks. He swan over to take a closer look at them.

"Please," he said shyly. "Will you tell me who you are. You are so beautiful and I am so ugly. I've never seen anybody like you."

"Ugly," cried one of the white birds. "How silly!"

"We're swans," said another. "Why do you think you're ugly? Look at yourself in the water."

The duckling looked and caught sight of his own reflection. He gasped in surprise, for instead of seeing a fat, grey duckling he saw a swan with a long elegant neck and a bright orange bill. "I'm like you," he cried. "I'm a swan, too."

"Definitely," said the swan, with a smile.

"Does that mean I can stay with you, and not live alone?"

"Of course," said the swans.

At that moment two children ran down to the lake. "Ooh, look!" they cried. "The swans are back and there's a new one, too. Isn't he beautiful!"

The ugly duckling stretched his neck and ruffled his feathers with pride.

Then it was time to go flying with all of the other swans and, as the duckling took off from the lake, he could see his new beautiful reflection in the water.

英语童话故事如下：

1、the wind and the sun

One day the wind said to the sun, “Look at that man walking along the road. I can get his cloak off more quickly than you can.”

“We will see about that,” said the sun. “I will let you try first.”

So the wind tried to make the man take off his cloak. He blew and blew, but the man only pulled his cloak more closely around himself.

“I give up,” said the wind at last. “I cannot get his cloak off.” Then the sun tried. He shone as hard as he could. The man soon became hot and took off his cloak.

汉语翻译：有一天风跟太阳说: “看看那个沿着路上走的人，我可以比你快让他把披风脱下来。”

“我们等着看吧，”太阳说，“我让你先试。”

因此风尝试让那个人把披风脱下来，他用力地吹，可是那个人把披风拉得更紧。

“我放弃了,”风最后说，“我无法让他把披风脱下来。”然后由太阳试试看，他尽可能地晒他，不久，那个人很热就把披风脱下来了。

2、Ajax

Ajax was a man of giant stature,daring but slow.When the Trojan War was about to break out he led his forces from Salamis to join the Greek army at Aulis.

As one of the trustiest champions of the Greek cause,he was given thejob of guarding one end of the Greek camp near Troy.He was noted in the battlefield for his bravery and courage.After Achilles' death he became one of the two hot contestants for the dead hero's

shield and armour,the other being Odysseus.When the weapons were finally judged to his rival,Ajax went mad for grief.Unable to get over the hardships,he took his own life.

When,in order to seek the advice of,Odysseus came to visit the lower world,the shade of Ajax frowned uponhim.In the lower world Ajax chose to be a lion,guided clearly by the bitter recollection of his former life.

汉语翻译：埃杰克斯是位身材魁梧、骁勇善战、但头脑迟钝的人。当特洛伊战争即将爆发时,他率领军队从萨拉米斯到达奥尔墨斯加入了希腊军队。

作为一名为希腊事业奋斗的最可信赖的斗士,他被派去保卫靠近特洛伊的希腊军营边界。战场上,他因作战勇猛而出名。阿基里斯死后,他成为两个最有可能获得阿基里斯的盾甲的有力竞争对手之一。另一名对手是奥德修斯。最后，他的对手胜利了，并得到了盾甲。

埃杰克斯悲伤至极,无法自拔,最终结束了自己的生命。奥德修斯为了得到盲人底比斯的忠告而来到阴间;埃杰克斯的幽灵冲着他直皱眉头。在阴间,由于受到前世痛苦记忆的折磨,埃杰克斯选择了做一头狮子。

3、袋鼠和笼子

One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem--how to deal with the kangaroos that were found out of the cage. They came to the conclusion that the cage was placed too low and decided to raise it from one to two meters high.

But the next day the kangaroos were still at large and they again raised the cage to three meters.Quite beyond their expectation the next morning they saw the kangaroos still free to go about.

They were alarmed and determined to go to all the length by raising the cage to the height of ten meters.Later a giraffe, while chatting with some kangaroos, asked them, “Do you think they will go on raising your cage?”

“Hard to say,” said a kangaroo, “if they continue forgetting to fasten the cage door.”

汉语翻译：有一天，动物园的管理员们发现袋鼠从笼子里跑出来了， 于是开会讨论，一致认为是笼子的高度过低，所以他们决定将笼子的高度由原来的1米加高到2米。结果第二天他们发现，袋鼠还是跑到外面来，所以他们又决定再将高度加高到3米。

没想到隔天居然又看到袋鼠全跑到外面，于是管理 员们大为紧张，决定一不做二不休，将笼子的高度加高到10米。

一天，长颈鹿和几只袋鼠在闲聊，“你们看，这些人 会不会再继续加高你们的笼子?”长颈鹿问。

“很难说。”袋鼠说，“如果他们再继续忘记关门的话!”

4、小猪噜噜搬西瓜

In spring, the mother pig took the little pig LuLu to the foot of the mountain. They planted some watermelon.When summer came, there were many big round watermelons in the field.

One day, the sun was burning like a fire, it was terribly hot on the ground. The mother pig said to the little pig:"Lulu, go to the field to pick a watermelon back,ok?" Lulu said happily:"Ok! No problem."Then he ran to the watermelon field. When he got to the field,

he was happy to find so many big green watermelons. He chose one of the biggest watermelon and picked it from the vine. Then he held it with his hands trying to lift is on his shoulder to carry it home."Wow!It's so heavy!" Lulu tried several times, but he failed.

And he was socked with sweat. He wiped his sweat off and decided to have a rest.Suddenly he saw the monkey Pipi. He was playing with a hoop. Lulu patted his head and said:"I've got it." He thought,the round hoop can roll, the watermelon round too,then it can roll too.

He then put the big melon on the ground and rolled it forward quickly.At last he got home with the watermelon.The mother pig knew the story, she exclaimed:"My child, you're really clever!"

汉语翻译：春天的时候，猪妈妈带着小猪噜噜，在山坡下种了一大片西瓜。到了夏天，西瓜地里结满了又圆又大的西瓜。有一天，太阳光火辣辣地照着大地，天啊，可热了。猪妈妈对小猪说：“噜噜，你到咱们的地里摘个大西瓜回来解解渴吧！”小猪噜噜高兴地说：“好吧！”

说完就往西瓜地里跑。到了地里一看。呵，到处躺着大西瓜，水灵灵的，真惹人喜爱！噜噜挑了个最大的摘了下来。它双手搂着西瓜，想抱起来放在肩上扛回家。“哟，好重呀！”噜噜试着抱了几次都没有抱起来，还累得满头大汗。 它直起身来，擦了擦脸上的汗水想休息一下，再去试试抱西瓜。

突然，它看到小猴皮皮在山下边的马路上滚铁环玩呢。小猪噜噜一拍后脑勺高兴地说：“有了，我有办法了。”什么办法呢？小猪噜噜心想：铁环是圆的，可以滚动。西瓜也是圆的，不也可以滚动吗？想到这儿啊，小猪噜噜顾不上休息，把大西瓜放在地上。

咕噜噜，咕噜噜地向前滚，一直把西瓜滚到家里。猪妈妈看到小猪噜噜把又圆又大的西瓜搬回家，夸奖噜噜是个爱动脑筋的猪娃娃！

5、The Crow and The Pitcher

A crow felt very thirsty. He looked for water everywhere. Finally, he found a pitcher.But there was not a lot of water in the pitcher. His beak could not reach it. He tried again and again, but still could not touch the water.

When he was about to give up, an idea came to him. He took a pebble and dropped it into the pitcher. Then he took another and dropped it in.Gradually, the water rose, and the crow was able to drink the water.

汉语翻译：口渴的乌鸦一只乌鸦口渴了，到处找水喝。终于，他找到了一个大水罐。然而，水罐里面的水并不多，他的尖嘴够不到水面，他试了一次又一次，都没有成功。就在他想放弃的时候，他突然想到一个主意。

乌鸦叼来了一块小石子投到水罐里，接着又叼了一块又一块石头放进去。渐渐地，水面升高了。乌鸦高兴地喝到了水。

寓意：有些东西虽然看起来微不足道，但如果积少成多，便会带来很大变化。