趣味英语小故事大全

　　趣味英语小故事大全

　　Look at the Sky from the Bottom of a Well

　　趣味英语小故事坐井观天

　　There is a frog. He lives in a well and he never goes out of the well. He thinks the sky is as big as the mouth of the well。

　　有一只青蛙住在井底，他从来没有去过井外面。他以为天空就和井口一样大。

　　One day a crow comes to the well. He sees the frog and says, “Frog, let’s have a talk。”

　　一天， 一只乌鸦飞到井边，看见青蛙，就对它说：“青蛙，咱们聊聊吧。”

　　Then the frog asks, “Where are you from?”

　　青蛙就问他：“你从哪里来?”

　　“I fly from the sky,” the crow says。

　　“我从天上上来。”乌鸦说。

　　The frog feels surprised and says, “The sky is only as big as the mouth of the well. How do you fly from the sky?”

　　青蛙惊讶地说：“天空就只有这井口这么大，你怎么会从天上来? ”

　　The crow says, “The sky is very big. You always stay in the well, so you don’t know the world is big。”

　　乌鸦说：“天空很大。只不过你一直呆在井里，所有不知道世界很大。”

　　The frog says, “I don’t believe。”

　　青蛙说：“我不相信。”

　　But the crow says, “You can come out and have a look by yourself。”

　　乌鸦说：“你可以出来，自己看看嘛。”

　　So the frog comes out from the well. He is very surprised. How big the world is!

　　于是青蛙来到井外。他十分惊讶，原来世界这么大!

　　趣味英语小故事画蛇添足

　　An official of the ancient State of Chu awarded a pot of wine to his men after the ceremony of Spring Sacrifice. One man said， “We have only one pot of wine. It's not enough for all of us but sufficient for one. Let's determine who'll have the wine by drawing a snake on the ground. He who finishes first will have the wine.”

　　The others agreed. Very soon， one man finished his snake. He was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing. He said complacently，“How slowly you are! I still have enough time to add feet to my snke.” But before he finished the feet， another man finished his snke and grabbed the pot from him， saying，“Whoever has seen a snake with feet? Yours is not a snke. So the wine should be mine!” He drank the wine. The man adding the feet to the snake had to give in and could only regret his foolishness.

　　From that story comes the idiom “Draw a snake and add feet to it”。 Now people use this idiom to illustrate the truth that going too far is as bad as not going far enough.

　　楚国有一个官员，在春天祭过了祖宗之后，便将一壶酒赏给他的办事人员喝。有人提议：“我们只有一壶酒，肯定不够我们大家喝的，一个人喝倒是绰绰有余。我们每人在地上画一条蛇，谁画得最快，就把这壶酒给他。” 大家都同意了。

　　有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时，看见别人都还忙着画呢。他就得意扬扬地说：“你们画得好慢呀，等我再画上几只脚吧!” 他的蛇脚还没画完，另一个人已经把蛇画好了。那人把酒壶夺了过去说：“有谁见过长脚的蛇?你画的不是蛇，这壶酒应该是我的了。”说罢，就喝起酒来。那个给蛇画脚的人没办法，只能懊悔自己的愚蠢。

　　“画蛇添足”这个成语就是从这个故事来的。现在人们用它来说明这么个道理：做的过分和做的不够是一样有害的。

　　趣味英语小故事指鹿为马

　　In Qin dynasty, there was a powerful and evil counselor named Zhao Gao。

　　在秦朝，有个很得势的奸臣叫赵高。

　　Zhao Gao wanted to rebel, but he didn't know how many people in the court would stand by his side。

　　赵高想造反，但是又不知道群臣中有多少人会支持他。

　　So he worked out a way to test the people。

　　于是他想了个办法来测试。

　　He presented a deer as a tribute to the emperor in front of the court, and said that it was a swift horse。

　　他在群臣面前送了一头鹿给皇上，并说这是一匹千里马。

　　The emperor not accepting his statement said, "This is obviously a deer."

　　皇上不信，说:“这明明是鹿啊。”

　　Then, Zhao Gao took this opportunity to ask the court, "Is this a deer or a horse?"

　　然后赵高借机问各位大臣:“这是鹿还是马?”

　　In the court, those who didn't dare to go against Zhao Gao agreed with him and said that it was a horse, and those who dared to go against Zhao Gao said that it was a deer。

　　在大臣中，不敢反抗赵高的都赞同说是马，敢于反对赵高的说是鹿。

　　Later, Zhao Gao remembered the counselors who didn't agree with him and persecuted them to solidify his power。

　　后来，赵高记住了这些反对他的人并加以迫害，以巩固自己的势力。

　　This story is still popular even today. People use this idiom to describe someone who calls white black。

　　这个故事流传至今，人们用这个成语来形容一个人颠倒黑白。