Question

给我5个英语小故事,越短越好.

Answer 1

（一）Making His Mark “刻舟求剑”
A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn’t this a very foolish way to look for a sword?
楚国有个人坐船渡江时，他不小心把自己的一把宝剑掉落江中。他马上掏出一把小刀，在宝剑落水的船舷上刻上一个记号。船靠岸后，那楚人立即从船上刻记号的地方跳下水去捞取掉落的宝剑。他怎么找得到宝剑呢？船继续行驶，而宝剑却不会再移动。像他这样去找剑，真是太愚蠢可笑了。
（二）The Fox and the Crow “狐狸和乌鸦”
One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crow’s beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took the meat and went into his hole.
有一天,一只乌鸦站在窝旁的树枝上嘴里叼着一片肉，心里非常高兴。这时候，一只狐狸看见了乌鸦，馋得直流口水，非常想得到那片肉。但是，无论狐狸说什么，乌鸦就是不理睬狐狸。最后，狐狸赞美乌鸦的嗓音最优美，并要求乌鸦唱几句让他欣赏欣赏。乌鸦听了狐狸赞美的话，得意极了，就唱起歌来。没想到，肉一掉下来，狐狸就叼起肉，钻回了洞

（三）Plugging One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell “掩耳盗铃”
Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal his neighbor’s doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bell would ring and catch the other people’s attention as long as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever “idea”. He plugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole the bell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he was caught on the spot as a thief.
从前，有一个人想偷邻居门上的铃，但是他知道一碰到铃，铃就会响起来，被人发现。他想啊想，终于他想出一个“妙极”，他把自己的耳朵用东西塞起来，就听不见铃声了。但是当他去偷铃时，铃声仍旧响起来，他被别人当场抓住

（四）Fox is with the grape “狐狸和葡萄”

Hungry of the fox see the grape to up hang the radiant and extremely keen grape of a string, saliva direct current, and want to pick to eat, but again
Can not take off.See in a short while, helplessly walked, and his side walk the side oneself to comfort to by oneself say:" this grape have noes familiar, affirmative
Is sour."
This is to say, and the some person's ability is small, and do to not accomplish anything, borrow to say the opportune moment immaturity.
饥饿的狐狸看见葡萄架上挂着一串串晶莹剔透的葡萄，口水直流，想要摘下来吃，但又
摘不到。看了一会儿，无可奈何地走了，他边走边自己安慰自己说：“这葡萄没有熟，肯定
是酸的。”
这就是说，有些人能力小，做不成事，就借口说时机未成熟。

（五）
Little boy and scorpion son “小男孩与蝎子”
There is a child in front of city wall to catch the grasshopper, and in a short while caught the lots of.Suddenly see a scorpion son, he to think is also grasshopper,
Then two go to catch him.The scorpion son raises his poison to stab, say:" come, if you really dare to do like this, connect your grasshopper that catch to also would entirely lose."
This story warns people, and want to distinguish the pure good man with the bad person, and distinct to treat them.

有个小孩在城墙前捉蚱蜢，一会儿就捉了许多。忽然看见一只蝎子，他以为也是蚱蜢，
便着两手去捕捉他。蝎子举起他的毒刺，说道：“来吧，如果你真敢这样做，就连你捉的蚱蜢也会统统失掉。”
这故事告诫人们，要分辨清好人和坏人，区别对待他们。

追问

字太多

追答

没啦，喜欢就采纳，不喜欢下面还有

追问

我写下面那个,但是采纳你,因为你第一个回答的.

Answer 2

Always Thirsty

"I had an operation," said a man to his friend, "and the doctor left a sponge in me."
"That's terrible!" said the friend. "Got any pain?"
"No, but I am always thirsty!"

总感到口渴

一个男人对他的朋友说：“我动了一次手术，手术后医生把一块海绵忘在我的身体里了。”
“真是太糟糕了！”朋友说道：“你觉得疼吗？”
“不疼，可是我总感到口渴。”

A Useful Way

Father: Jack, why do you drink so much water?
Jack: I have just had an apple, Dad.
Father: What's that got to do with it?
Jack: I forgot to wash the apple.

一个有效的方法

爸爸：杰克，你干嘛喝这么多水呀？
杰克：我刚才吃了个苹果，爸爸。
爸爸：可是这跟喝水有什么关系呢？
杰克：我忘了洗苹果呀。

A Present

Kate: Mom, do you know what I'm going to give you for your birthday?
Mom: No, Honey, what?
Kate: A nice teapot.
Mom: But I've got a nice teapot.
Kate: No, you haven't. I've just dropped it.

凯特的礼物

凯特：妈妈，你知道我要给你一件什么生日礼物吗？
妈妈：不知道，宝贝，是什么呀？
凯特：一把漂亮的茶壶。
妈妈：可是我已经有一把漂亮的茶壶了呀。
凯特：不，你没有了。我刚刚把它给摔了。

The Doctor Knows Better

A man was hit by a cab in the street. He was brought to the hospital.
His wife who was standing up by his bed, said to the doctor: "I think that he is very ill."
"I am afraid that he is dead." said the doctor.
Hearing this, the man moved his head and said: "I'm not dead. I'm still alive."
"Be quiet, " said the wife. "the doctor knows better than you!"

医生懂得多

一个男人在街上被出租车撞倒送进了医院。他的妻子站在他的床前对医生说：“我想他伤得很厉害。”
医生说：“恐怕他已经死了。”
听到医生的话，这个男人转动着头说：“我没死，我还活着。”
妻子说：“安静，医生比你懂得多。”

Waste or Save?

Father: Oh, Jack, you have slept away the whole morning. Don't you know you are wasting time?
Jack: Yes, Dad. But I've saved you a meal, haven' I?

浪费还是节约
父亲：噢，杰克，你又睡了一上午。难道你不知道你这是在浪费时间吗？
杰克：我知道，爸爸。可我还给您节省了一顿饭呢，是不是？

Why Is He Howling

Dentist: Please stop howling. I haven't even touched your tooth yet.
Patient: I know, but you are standing on my foot!

他为什么喊

牙医：请你不要再喊了！我还没碰你的牙呢。
病人：我知道，可是你正踩着我的脚呀！

Answer 3

1.Wise Counting.
Emperor Akbar was in the habit of putting
riddles and puzzles to his courtiers. He often asked questions which
were strange and witty. It took much wisdom to answer these questions.
Once he asked a very strange question. The courtiers were dumb folded by his question.
Akbar
glanced at his courtiers. As he looked, one by one the heads began to
hang low in search of an answer. It was at this moment that Birbal
entered the courtyard. Birbal who knew the nature of the emperor quickly
grasped the situation and asked, "May I know the question so that I can
try for an answer".
Akbar said, "How many crows are there in this city?"
Without even a moment's thought, Birbal replied "There are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty nine crows, my lord".
"How can you be so sure?” asked Akbar.
Birbal
said, "Make you men count, My lord. If you find more crows it means
some have come to visit their relatives here. If you find less number of
crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives elsewhere".
Akbar was pleased very much by Birbal's wit.

2.Belling The Cat
There was a grocery shop in a town. Plenty of mice lived in that grocery
shop. Food was in plenty for them. They ate everything and spoiled all
the bags. They also wasted the bread, biscuits and fruits of the shop.
The grocer got really worried. So, he thought "I should buy a cat and
let it stay at the grocery. Only then I can save my things."
He
bought a nice, big fat cat and let him stay there. The cat had a nice
time hunting the mice and killing them. The mice could not move freely
now. They were afraid that anytime the cat would eat them up.

The mice wanted to do something. They held a meeting and all of them
tweeted "We must get rid of the cat. Can someone give a suggestion"?
All the mice sat and brooded. A smart looking mouse stood up and said,
"The cat moves softly. That is the problem. If we can tie a bell around
her neck, then things will be fine. We can know the movements of the
cat".
“Yes, that is answer,” stated all the mice. An old mouse
slowly stood up and asked, "Who would tie the bell?" After some moments
there was no one there to answer this question.

3.Clever Thief
Let us enjoy reading this story of Clever Thief.
Devan was
a clever thief. He robbed the rich and gave all to the sick and the
needy. The other thieves were jealous of him. They planned to get rid of
him. They challenged to steal the King’s Pyjamas.
Deven
accepted the challenge. After that he prepared to execute the new
challenge. He charted out a plan to steal the King. He prepared himself
mentally to carry out a plan.
He went to the King’s Palace. He
found the King sleeping. He opened a bottle of red ants on the bed. The
King was badly bitten. He cried for help. The servants rushed in. They
pretended to look for ants. Deven removed the King’s Pyjamas and
escaped. Other thieves were dump founded.
They accepted Deven their leader.

4.Dick An Actor

Dick was an actor. He was brilliant. He had a strange character. He
insisted on realism. He was a head ache to his manager. A drama was
played.
The first was drinking scene. Water was provided in a cup. Dick insisted on liquor. The manager had brought a bottle of liquor.
The second scene was a fighting scene. He insisted on real swords. Steel swords were provided.
The third scene was the one in which the hero was drinking poison. The manager had real poison. The actor was in fix.
He realised his mistakes. He realised the importance of practicality in life. He promised to be sensible in future.

5.Haste makes Waste
A woman had a pet mongoose. It was very faithful. One day she went to
the market, leaving her baby in the care of the mongoose. At that time a
big cobra entered the house. The mongoose killed it after a long and
fierce fight. When the woman came back she saw the mongoose lying at the
entrance. She noticed its blood-covered mouth. In her haste the woman
thought that the mongoose had killed her baby. In a moment of sudden
fury, the woman threw the water pot on the mongoose and killed it. Alas!
When she entered the house she was filled with remorse. Her baby was
playing cheerfully. Nearby a big cobra lay dead. The woman shed tears of
grief fondling the carcass of the mongoose.