英语小故事简短【优秀13篇】

家长想要提高孩子的英语学习能力，可以在平时给孩子阅读一些短篇的简单英语寓言小故事。书读百遍，其义自见，如下是人美心善的小编帮助大家收集的英语小故事简短【优秀13篇】，希望大家能够喜欢。

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇1

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.

"Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"

"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."

"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.

短篇英语版的.寓言小故事 篇2

The Sports Meeting in the Forest There are many animals in the forest. Today is a fine day. Animals are having a sport meeting.

Monkey, Fox, Panda, Rabbit and Bear are running. Look! Rabbit is the first. Fox and Monkey are the second. Bear is the third. The other animals are shouting, “Bear! Come on! Bear! Come on!”

And look there, Duck and Pig are doing high jump. Pig is too fat, he can’t jump very high. So Duck is the champion. Here! Cat and Squirrel are climbing a tree. Cat is ill. So he is the last, but he does his best. This sports meeting is wonderful. The animals are very happy!

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇3

One day a little ant was walking along the bank of a stream. His foot slipped and he fell into the water. “Oh, help, help!” cried the ant. A dove was sitting on a branch of a tree over the stream and heard his cry of help. “Oh, poor ant!” said the dove. “I will help the ant.”

The dove pulled off a leaf and dropped it near the ant. “Here is a leaf. Climb on it,” said the dove. The ant climbed on it at once and floated to the bank.

A few days after this a hunter found the dove and was going to shoot her. Just then the ant passed by and said to

himself, “This time I must help the dove.” The ant ran to the hunter and bit his foot hard. The hunter sprang up and missed to shoot the dove. The dove said to the ant, “Thank you very much, my little friend. You have saved my life,” and she could fly away happily.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇4

One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingy with his money. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the earth forever carrying a lantern.

Well, Irish children made Jack‘s lanterns on October 31st from a large potato or turnip, hollowed out with the sides having holes and lit by little candles inside. And Irish children would carry them as they went from house to house begging for food for the village Halloween festival that honored the Druid god Muck Olla. The Irish name for these lanterns was "Jack with the lantern" or "Jack of the lantern," abbreviated as " Jack-o‘-lantern" and now spelled "jack-o-lantern."

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇5

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.

"Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?

"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."

Precious things are for those that can prize them.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇6

The mountains in the south of Yunnan teemed1 with precious stones.

Since the mountains were high and steep. People could not climb up directly. In order to get the precious stones, the native people kept shooting at the monkeys, which were at the top of the mountains, with catapult.

Having been enraged2, the monkeys, who were irascible and vengeful, threw stones at the foot of the mountain in groups. The stones thrown down were different in size, which people took home. After they threw off the common stones, what remained were the superior precious stones.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇7

To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow

Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who planted a plot of rice. After he planted the seedlings, every day he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day, but still,

he thought they were growing too slowly. Eventually he got impatient with the young plants and suddenly he hit upon an idea that one by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. The next early morning, the young man couldn’t wait to check his “achievement”, but he was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇8

A sunny day, the small white rabbit on the grass happily playing. It is playing, suddenly, a downpour.

The little white rabbit without an umbrella, it saw a few big mushroom on the ground, so immediately picked one.

In this way, it is holding a mushroom umbrella to go home. At the door of the home, "thump thump" struck three, my mother heard the hurried to open the door, mother rabbit said: "Hey, how can you not get wet?"

The small white rabbit replied: "yes, I did not get wet, with a big mushroom!"

Mother smiled, and the small white rabbit also smiled.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇9

What Animals are the sea? There are all kinds of animals in the sea. Look! They are coming. This is an octopus. The octopus is spraying ink. This is a shark. The shark has sharp teeth. This is a whale. The whale shoots water into the air. This is a sea turtle. The sea turtle has a hard shell. These are starfishes. The starfishes have five legs. These are angelfishes. The angelfishes have beautiful colors. This is a lobster. The lobster has s

trong claws. This is a jellyfish. The jellyfish has a soft body. They are different. But all of them live in the sea.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇10

A fisherman who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a single small Fish as the result of his day's labor. The Fish, panting convulsively, thus entreated for his life: "O Sir, what can I be to you, and how little am I worth? I am not yet come to my full size. Pray spare my life, and put me back into the sea. I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of

the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome profit of me." The Fisherman replied, "I should indeed be a very simple fellow if, for the chance of a greater uncertain profit, I were to forego my present certain gain."

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇11

Chen Jingrun is a famous mathematician , he draw up a work schedule for herself every day,to make full use of every second of a day. When he walk in the road, he always read and recite words.As a result,he masters four language words easily.

Balzac ,in the twenty years of his writing career, wrote more than 90 novels, created more than 2 thousand different types of characters, many of his works have become the world masterpiece. He works from midnight to noon, that is to say, twelve hours he will sit in the round chair a day, trying to change and creation. Then, from noon to four ,he will check what he wrote and corrected.At five o'clock ,he will have dinner befor he goes to bed at 5:30, and begin work until midnight.

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇12

It happened that a dog had some meat that he wanted to eat at home. On his way home he met a river. As he looked down, he saw his shadow in the water.

"Just look!"said he to himself. "That dog down there has some meat, too. If I could get it away from him, I would really eat well tonight!"

With this thought, he made a snap at the other dog's meat. And as he did, his own meat fell into the water. So then he had nothing at all.

Then he saw that the other dog had lost his meat, too.

"That is as it should be!?thought he. "For I saw him trying to take my meat away from me."

By wanting to have everything, he has lost everything hehad!

短篇英语版的寓言小故事 篇13

TWO men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path.

One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and hid himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be killed, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his nose, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and showed the appearance of death as much as he could.

The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler climbed from the tree, and asked his friend what it was the Bear had said in his ear. "He gave me this advice," his friend answered. "Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the coming of danger. Remember: A friend in need is a friend indeed."

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.