英文经典胎教故事31个

The three wishes三个愿望

A couple wishes for good luck. A fairy comes to them and says,”You may have three wishes.”The wife is very happy. She doesn’t think much and says, “I wish I had a delicious sausage.”So she has it.

“Silly!”shouts the husband. “How can you just wish for a sausage?”I wish it were on your nose!”After that, the sausage grows on the wife’s nose.

“How stupid you are! What can we do now?”cries the wife. “We have only one wish.”The husband is also very sad, and says, “We must wish this sausage off.”So the sausage goes away. They have three wishes, but they get nothing in the end.

Stir/美[stɚ/ the grass and startle the snake打草惊蛇

Long long ago, a county magistrate named Wang Lu worked in present Anhui Province , east China . Wang Lu was very greedy and took many bribes. One of his secretaries was equally corrupt, and often schemed for Wang Lu's deeds.

One day a man went to the magistrate to lodge a complaint against the secretary. The secretary's crimes were almost the same as the crimes the magistrate himself committed. Wang Lu was so frightened that he forgot his proper role in handling the case. Instead of issuing a judgment, he couldn't help writing these words concerning the complaint: "By stirring the grass, you have startled me who am like a snake under the grass!"

The above story provided the idiom "Stir the grass and startle the snake". The original meaning is that punishment for someone can serve as a warning to others. But people now use the idiom to indicate that premature actions which put the enemy on guard.

月亮和妈妈The moon and her mother

The Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown. "How can I?" replied she; "there's no fitting your figure. At one time you're a New Moon, and at another you're a Full Moon; and between whiles you're neither one nor the other."

The shy turtle/[ˈtɜ:rtl]/害羞的乌龟

Tilly is a shy trutle. She hao no friends. If anyone came by to talk or play, she would duck in her shell and wait until they went away.

Then one day,Freddy the frog came swimming by.

"Tilly,don't hide in your shell. I just want to play. But Tilly was too shy."

"No. No. Just go away."

Freddy the frog had many friends.He knew all the fish,he liked the dragonflies.He joked with the ladybugs,and he hung out with the bees,but his best friend was Betty the Butterfly.

"Hi,Betty. How are you?"

"Hi,Freddy,I'm fine. How are you?"

"I don't think Tilly the turtle likes me. Whenever I ask her to come out and play, she hides in her shell and won't come out until I go away."

Betty says," I think Tilly likes you,but she is very shy. and she is very lonely. I think you should keep asking her