烧炭人和漂布人
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller
A Charcoal-Burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, "The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal."
烧炭人在一所房子里干活,看见有一个漂布人搬迁到他的旁边来住时,满怀高兴地走上 去劝他与自己同住,并解释说这样彼此更亲密,更方便,还更省钱.漂布人却回答说:“也 许你说的是真话,但完全不可能办到,因为凡我所漂白的,都将被你弄黑.”
这故事说明:
不同类的人难相处.Like will draw like.
大力神和车夫
Hercules and the Wagoner
A carter was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: "Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain."
一名车夫赶着货车沿着乡间小路行进.途中车轮陷入了很深的车辙中,再也无法前进.这时,愚蠢的车夫吓得茫然失措,一筹莫展,痴呆呆地站在那里,凝视着货车,不断地高声喊叫,求大力神来助他一把.大力神来到后,对他说:“朋友,用你的肩膀扛起车轮,再抽 打拉车的马.你自己不自力更生,尽力解决,仅靠祈求我,怎么行呢?”
寓言告诉我们:
自力更生,自助自立是克服困难的最好办法.
母狮子
The Lioness.
There was a great stir made among all the Beasts, which could boast of largest family. So they came to the Lioness. "And how many," said , "do you have at a birth?" "One," said she, grimly, "but that one is a lion."
Quality comes before quantity.
译文:
一场大比拼在所有野兽中展开了,看看谁敢夸耀自己的家族最大.众野兽来到母狮子跟前,问道:“你一胎能生产几个?”“一个”,狮子凶横地说,“但那是一头狮子”.
质量重于数量.
词汇:
stir 轰动,骚动
boast of 自夸
at a birth 一胎
grimly 冷酷地,可怕地
孩子与苎麻
Children and Ramie
A child was careless Ramie stabbed, he rushed home and told his mother: "I only lightly Pengyi what, it was my painful thorns." Mom said: "Because of this, it will thorn you. if the next time you met Ramie, to a courageous and seize it, it will be in your hands become soft as silk, you will no longer be stabbed. "
一个小孩不小心被苎麻刺了,他急忙跑回家,告诉妈妈说:“我只轻轻地碰它一下,它就刺得我很痛.”妈妈说:“正因为如此,它才会刺你.下次你如果再碰到苎麻,要勇敢地一把抓住它,它就会在你的手中变得柔软如丝,不再会刺伤你了.”
这是说,许多人都是服硬不服软的. It is said that many people are serving hard against soft
风和太阳
The wind and the sun
The wind and the sun were disputing who was the stronger.
Suddenly they saw a traveler coming down the road. The sun said, "Whoever can make the traveler take off his coat will be the stronger."
So the sun hid behind a cloud, and the wind began to blow as hard as it could. As the wind blew harder, the traveler wrapped his coat more closely around himself.
Then the sun came out. He shone on the traveler. The traveler soon felt quite hot, and took off his coat.
风和太阳两方为谁的能量大相互争论不休.
突然,他们看到一个行人走在路上,太阳说:“谁能使行人脱下衣服,谁就更强大.”
太阳藏在乌云后面,风开始拼命地吹,风刮得越猛烈,行人越是裹紧自己的衣服.
太阳出来了,暖暖地晒着行人,行人感到很热,很快就把外套脱了下来.
寓意: 劝说往往比强迫更为有效.
旅客和驴
Donkeys and his shadow
A tourist hired a donkey, to Jizhaota to distant.That weather is very hot, Chiri hothead.He stopped to rest, refuge in the shadow of the donkey, and a shade to avoid exposure.Donkeys barely enough to cover the shadow of a person, then the owner of passengers and donkeys to shade fierce fighting, no one think they have this right.Donkey owner insisted that he only letting donkeys themselves, not the shadow of letting donkeys.The visitors said that he employed the donkeys themselves, including donkeys and shadow.They debate, and even fight each other up.When they fight, donkeys away.
It is said that people often trivial bickering, thus losing the most important things.
一个旅客雇了一头驴,骑着它到远处去.那天天气很热,赤日炎炎.他停下来休息,躲避在驴子的影子下,求个荫凉,避免暴晒.驴子的影子仅够遮蔽一个人,于是旅客和驴子的主人为了遮荫激烈地争起来,谁都认为自己才有这个权利.驴子的主人坚持说他仅出租驴子本身,不出租驴子的影子.那旅客说他雇的驴子包括驴子本身和影子.他们争论不休,以至互相打了起来.当他们打架时,驴子逃跑了.这是说,人们往往为小事争吵不休,从而失去了最重要的东西.
