英语故事会出现学生认识或是不认识的单词，而这个单词的重复不断出现，会加深同学们对单词的记忆，这种记忆不同于一般的死记硬背，而是在潜移默化中，让学生记住单词，并且不枯燥。下面小编给大家介绍关于英文寓言故事，方便大家学习。
英文寓言故事1
Adding Feet to a Snake
One day, Mr. Lion holds a party. Many animals come and drink a lot of wine.At last there is a pot of wine. Who can drink it? They think out an idea anddecide to have a match-Draw a snake. If you finish first, you can get it.
Soon Mr. Wolf finishes drawing. “Yeah, I’ve finished. I’m No.1,” he says.But he draws again and says, “Oh, let me add feet to my snake.” At the time, Mr.Gorilla also finishes. He takes away the pot of wine and drinks, and then hesays, “That isn’t a snake. Snakes have no feet. I get the wine.”
画蛇添足
一天，狮子先生举行一场聚会，许多动物都来了，他们喝很多酒。最后只剩一壶酒了。让谁喝呢?它们想了想，有个主意。它们比赛画蛇，谁最快画好，谁就喝这壶酒。
不一会，狼先生画好了。“哈，我画好了，我是第一个。”它说。可是它又画了起来，它还说：“再给它加几只脚吧。”这是猩猩先生也画好了。它拿起那酒壶喝起来。一边喝一边说：“那不是蛇，蛇是没有脚的，我赢了这壶酒。”
英文寓言故事2
【百喻经之十二煮黑石蜜浆喻】
THE BOILED BLACK ROCK - HONEY SYRUP
昔有愚人煮黑石蜜，有一富人来至其家。时此愚人便作是念：“我今当取黑石蜜浆，与此富人。”即著少水，用置火中，即于火上，以扇扇之，望得使冷。
Once upon a time, a man was boiling black rock-honey syrup, when a rich mancame to his house. He thought he would give the syrup to the rich man. He poureda little water into it and put it on a slow fire. He then fanned it with a fanin the hope of cooling it.
傍人语言：“下不止火，扇之不已，云何得冷?”
A bystander addressed to him, "If you don't put out the fire below, how canyou cool it even though you keep on fanning?"
尔时人众，悉皆嗤笑。
People began to laugh at him.
其犹外道，不灭烦恼炽燃之火，少作苦行，卧棘刺上，五热炙身，而望清凉寂静之道，终无是处。徒为智者之所怪笑。受苦现在，殃流来劫。
This is like the heretics who will practice a little mortification bysleeping on thorny brambles without putting out the flames of annoyance. As thefive passions are still blazing within them, there is no way for such people tobecome cool and quiet. As a result, they sardonically laughed at by the wise.Moreover, they will suffer affliction in their present lives and transmigrationin the future.
白话：
从前有一个愚蠢的人正在家里烧制黑石蜜的蜂糖。这时有一个富人来到他家中。愚人心里便想：“我应当取蜂糖来招待富人。”于是在熬的蜂糖里加上一些水，放到火上，用扇子去扇蜜糖，希望使糖很快冷却。旁边的人说：“蜜糖下面不把火熄灭，再扇又怎能使糖冷却呢?”人们听到这件事后，都觉得十分可笑。
这就好比不信佛教的其他教派，不能够消除人生欲望的火焰，只是通过修苦行，躺在荆棘丛中。还有的在烈焰中熬煎苦炼而希望得到清静凉爽的超凡脱俗境界，这是绝对做不到的，只能让得到人生真谛的人们耻笑。不仅在现在的生活中承受苦难，还会使灾难延续到未来的岁月中。
英文寓言故事3
【百喻经之四妇诈称死喻】
THE WIFE PRETENDS TO BE DEAD
时有愚人，其妇端正，情甚爱重。妇无直信，后于中间共他交往，邪淫心盛，欲逐旁夫，舍离己婿。於是密语一老母言：“我去之后，汝可赍一死妇女尸，安著屋中。语我夫言，云我已死。”
Once upon a time there was a stupid man who loved very much his beautifulwife. However, she had no true love for him. In the meantime, she associatedherself surreptitiously with another man. Burning with lecherous passions, shewanted to leave her husband to be with her lover. She secretly told an oldwoman, "After my departure, I would like you to place a woman's corpse in myhouse. You then tell my husband that I'm dead."
老母于后伺其夫主不在之时，以一死尸置其家中。及其夫还，老母语言：“汝妇已死。”夫即往视，信是己妇。哀哭懊恼。大积薪油，烧取其骨，以囊盛之，昼夜怀挟。
The old woman did what she was told. She told the husband shortly after hisreturn that his wife passed away. He went to see the corpse and believed it wasthat of his own wife. He grieved and wept bitterly. He gathered a great deal ofwood and oil together for the cremation. Then he put the ashes into a bag andhad it with him day and night.
妇于后时，心厌旁夫，便还妇家，语其夫言：“我是汝妻。”
Shortly after, the wife got tired of her lover. She came back and told herhusband, "I'm your wife."
夫答之言：“我妇已死，汝是阿谁?妄言我妇。”乃至二三，犹故不信。
The husband answered, "My wife died a long time ago. Who are you to lie tome that you are my wife?" The husband refused to believe her, in spite of herrepeated explanations.
如彼外道，闻他邪说，心生惑著，谓为真实，永不可改。虽闻正教，不信受持。
So are the heretics who, having learned the heretical doctrine, confusedlystick to it with all their soul and take the doctrine to be the right onewithout altering their mind forever. Thus they will be unable to believe, acceptor keep any other creed even it is an orthodox one.
白话：
从前有一位愚蠢的人，他的妻子长得端庄大方，他很喜爱和敬重她。但妻子不坦白诚实，在以后和别的男子有来往，欲火中烧，急欲追随情夫，抛弃自己的丈夫。在离家前，她偷偷地托付一位老太婆说：“我走后，你送去一具妇女的尸体放在我屋里，告诉我丈夫，说我已经死了。”老太婆后来趁她丈夫不在时，把一具女尸放在屋里。那丈夫回来后，老太婆就对他说：“你妻子已经死了。”他过去看了后，认为是自己的妻子，哀伤哭泣，十分痛苦。他堆起木材，浇上油，将尸体烧成骨灰，用袋子盛起来，日夜都揣在怀里。后来这个妻子厌倦了她的情夫，便回家对丈夫说：“我是你的妻子啊!”丈夫回答说：“我妻子已死去很久了，你是什么人，竟胡说是我妻子。”尽管她再三说明，她丈夫都不信。
这就像接受了其他教派一样，听到了异端邪说，心中产生了疑惑，并认为是真理，永远也不改变。虽然以后听到正确的东西，也不能相信并从内心把握和接受它。
英文寓言故事4
A singing-bird was confined1 in a cage which hung outside a window, and hada way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep. One night a bat cameand clung2 to the bars of the cage, and asked the bird why she was silent by dayand sang only at night. "I have a very good reason for doing so," said the bird:"it was once when I was singing in the daytime that a fowler was attracted by myvoice, and set his nets for me and caught me. Since then I have never sungexcept by night." But the bat replied, "It is no use your doing that now whenyou are a prisoner. If only you had done so before you were caught, you mightstill have been free."
Precautions3 are useless after the event.
一只画眉鸟被囚禁在窗外挂着的一个笼子里，当其他鸟儿都酣睡时，她却在夜里唱歌。有一个夜晚，蝙蝠飞过来，抓住鸟笼的.栅栏，问她为什么白天默默无声，却在夜里放声歌唱。小鸟回答说：“我这样做是有道理的，曾经有一次，当我在白天唱歌时，一个捕鸟人被我的歌声吸引，就用鸟笼子捉住了我。从此我只在夜里歌唱。”可是，蝙蝠却说：“你现在这样做根本没用了，因为你已经成为阶下囚。若是在被捉住之前这样做就好了，那样或许你依然是自由之身!”
待事情发生之后再预防，为时已晚。
英文寓言故事5
According to legend, there was a kind of birds called "dais" (swallow) onthe East China Sea.
The Yidais were slow in reaction. They could not fly very high and seemedclumsy andincapable1.
But when they moved about, they always moved in groups, depended on oneanother for survival, and flew and landed together.
When they advanced, no one dared to advance rashly. When they retreated, noone dared to fall behind at will. When they fed, no one dared to scramble2 to bethe first. All their activities were orderly.
When they went into action,万 dais always acted uniformly without anydisorder3. They depended upon the collective efforts to avoid any harm from theoutside world.
传说，东海上有一种叫做“意怠”的鸟。
意怠反应比较迟钝，不能高飞，似乎笨拙无能。
但是，它们行动的时候，总是成群结队，相依为命，一起飞翔，一起降落。
它们前进的时候，没有一只敢擅自冒进;后退的时候，没有一只敢随便掉队;吃食的时候，也没有一只敢抢先。一切活动，都很有秩序。
意怠行动起来总是这样一致而不散乱，它们就是靠着集体的力量来避免外界对自己的伤害。
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