英語寓言故事帶啟迪

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英語寓言故事帶啟迪1：The cage-bird and the bat

A singing-bird was confined in a cage which hung outside a window, and had a way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep. One night a bat came and clung to the bars of the cage, and asked the bird why she was silent by day and 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 my voice, and set his nets for me and caught me. Since then I have never sung except by night." But the bat replied, "It is no use your doing that now when you are a prisoner. If only you had done so before you were caught, you might still have been free."

Precautions are useless after the event.

一隻畫眉鳥被囚禁在窗外掛着的一個籠子裏，當其他鳥兒都酣睡時，她卻在夜裏唱歌。有一個夜晚，蝙蝠飛過來，抓住鳥籠的柵欄，問她為什麼白天默默無聲，卻在夜裏放聲歌唱。小鳥回答説：“我這樣做是有道理的，曾經有一次，當我在白天唱歌時，一個捕鳥人被我的歌聲吸引，就用鳥籠子捉住了我。從此我只在夜裏歌唱。”可是，蝙蝠卻説：“你現在這樣做根本沒用了，因為你已經成為階下囚。若是在被捉住之前這樣做就好了，那樣或許你依然是自由之身!”

待事情發生之後再預防，為時已晚。

英語寓言故事帶啟迪2:The labourer and the snake

A labourer's little son was bitten by a snake and died of the wound. The father was beside himself with grief, and in his anger against the snake the caught up an axe and went and stood close to the snake's hole, and watched for a chance of killing it. Presently the snake come out, and the man aimed a blow at it, but only succeeded in cutting of the tip of its tail before itwriggled in again. He then tried to get it to come out a second time, pretending that he wished to make up the quarrel. But the snake said, "I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child."

Injuries are never forgotten in the presence of those who caused them.

工人的小兒子被一條毒蛇咬了一口，並且死於蛇傷。悲痛氣憤之餘，工人抓起一把斧頭，氣沖沖地跑到蛇洞外，等待機會砍死蛇。不久，蛇從洞裏出來了，工人立即一斧頭砍過去，可是隻砍斷了它的尾巴尖。隨後，工人還想再如法炮製，便假裝想與蛇和解。可是，蛇卻説：“我永遠也無法成為你的朋友，因為我丟了自己的尾巴，而你卻丟失了兒子。”

在造成創傷的雙方心裏，永遠無法忘卻傷痛。

英語寓言故事帶啟迪3:The two spells

There was once a boy in a village. When ever he asked people to do things, no onewould listen to him. He was sad. So he asked a wizard to solve the problem by using magic. The old wizard tried a lot of spells, but didn't work.

A young man heard about the problem. He went to the boy and said that he knew thesolution. He gave the boy two small pieces of paper.

"These are two spells, my boy. Use the first before you ask others to do something, and use the second when they have done it. A smile is also necessary, "the young man said.

The boy was happy and tried to use the spells. When he asked people to do something, he said "Please" before his words, and "Thank you" after they had done it. People were verysurprised that the boy could be polite. Soon, they became happy to do what the boy asked them to do.

The wizard was surprised, and asked the young man about the spells.

"It's not magic. When I was a child, my teacher told me that with good manners you could get anything you want. And he was right. The boy only needed good manners to get what he wanted."

從前村莊有一個男孩，當他請人幫他做事情的時候，沒有人會聽他的，他很傷心，所以他請巫師用魔法解決問題。老巫師嘗試了很多的辦法，但都沒有成功。

一個年輕人聽説了這件事情。他就去了那個小男孩那裏並且告訴他應該怎樣解決這個問題。他給了這個男孩兩個小紙條。

“這是兩個咒語，我的孩子。第一個呢在請別人做事前使用，第二個呢，在他們做完了後使用。還有微笑是必不可少的”年輕人説。

男孩很非常開心的用了這兩個咒語。當他想人們做什麼事情之前，他先説“請”，當人們做完的時候他説：“謝謝你”，人們都很驚奇這個男孩變得如此有禮貌。不久，他們都很樂意為這個男孩子做事。

這個巫師感到很驚訝，問這個年輕人關於咒語的事情。

“這不是咒語。當我還是個孩子的時候，我的老師告訴我，良好的舉止你可以得到任何你想要的，老師是正確的，這個男孩只有以禮待人才能得到同等的回報。”