狼和小羊英语小故事

狼和小羊

Aesop’s Fables

The Wolf and the Lamb

Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a l ittle lower down. ‘There’s my supper,’ thought he, ‘if only I can find some excuse to seize it.’ Then he called out to the Lamb, ‘How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?’

‘Nay, master, nay,’ said Lambikin; ‘if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.’

‘Well, then,’ said the Wolf, ‘why did you call me bad names this t ime last year?’

‘That cannot be,’ said the Lamb; ‘I am only six months old.’

‘I don’t care,’ snarled the Wolf; ‘if it was not you it was your father;’ and with that he rushed upon the poo r little Lamb and .WARR A WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA .ate her all up. But before she died she ga sped out .’Any excuse will serve a tyrant.’

see her every year.

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狼来到小溪边，看见小羊在那儿喝水。

狼想吃小羊，就故意找碴儿，说：“你把我喝的水弄脏了！你安地什么心？”

小羊吃了一惊，温和地说：“我怎么会把您喝的水弄脏呢？您站在上游，水是从您那儿流到我这儿来的，不是从我这儿流到您那儿去的。”

狼气冲冲地说：“就算这样吧，你总是个坏家伙！我听说，去年你在背地里说我的坏话！”

可怜的小羊喊道：“啊，亲爱的狼先生，那是不可能的，去年我还没有生下来哪！”

狼不想再争辩了，龇着牙，逼近小羊，大声嚷道：“你这个小坏蛋！说我坏话的不是你就是你爸爸，反正都一样。”说着就往小羊身上扑去。

狼和人

Once upon a time the fox was talking to the wolf about the strength of man, how no animal could withstand him, and how all were obliged to employ cunning in or der to protect themselves from him.

The wolf answered, "If I could see a man just once, I would attack him nonet heless."

"I can help you to do that," said the fox. "Come to me early tomorrow morni ng, and I will show you one."

The wolf arrived on time, and the fox took him out to the path which the hunt sman used every day. First an old discharged soldier came by.

"Is that a man?" asked the wolf.

"No," answered the fox. "He has been one."

Afterwards came a little boy on his way to school.

"Is that a man?"

"No, he will yet become one."

Finally a huntsman came by with his double-barreled gun on his back, and a s word at his side.

The fox said to the wolf, "Look, there comes a man. He is the one you must attack, but I am going back to my den."

The wolf then charged at the man.

When the huntsman saw him he said, "Too bad that I have not loaded with a bullet." Then he aimed and fired a load of shot into his face.

The wolf pulled an awful face, but did not let himself be frightened, and attack ed him again, on which the huntsman gave him the second barrel. The wolf swallo wed his pain and charged at the huntsman again, who in turn drew out his naked sword, and gave him a few blows with it left and right, so that, bleeding all over, he ran howling back to the fox.

"Well," Brother Wolf, said the fox, "how did you get along with man?"

"Oh," replied the wolf, "I never imagined the strength of man to be what it is. First, he took a stick from his shoulder, and blew into it, and then something flew into my face which tickled me terribly. Then he breathed once more into the stick, and it flew up my nose like lightning and hail. Then when I got next to him, he drew a naked rib out of his body, and he beat me so with it that he almost killed me."

"See what a braggart you are," said the fox. "You throw your hatchet so far th at you cannot get it back again."

从前有只狐狸向狼谈起人的力量，说没有动物能抵挡得了，所以他认为所有动物都必须施展计谋才能保护自己。可狼回答说：“假如我有机会碰到一个人，我就扑上去让他无法抵挡。”狐狸说：“我可以帮你碰到人啊。明早你早点来我家，我把他指给你看。”

第二天，狼很早就来了，狐狸带它来到猎人每天的必经之路。

他们碰到的第一个人是个退役老兵，狼问：“那是个人吗？”

“不是，”狐狸回答，“他以前是。”

接着他们遇到一个去上学的小男孩。“那是个人吗？”狼又问。“不是。”

狐狸回答说，“他将来是。”最后一个猎人朝它们走来，他肩上扛着双筒猎鎗，腰间还插着一把猎刀，狐狸对狼说：“那个就是人，你该朝他扑过去，我可是要回我洞里去了。”

於是狼朝猎人冲了过去。猎人一看说：“真可惜我没装上子弹，而是散弹。”他瞄准狼的脸开了一枪。狼疼得一阵痉挛，可还是没被吓倒，又朝猎人冲了过去。猎人又开了一枪。狼