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有趣的英语小故事带翻译 Adding Feet to a Snake 画蛇添足 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? 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? They think of an idea and decide to have a match-Draw a snake. If you finish first, you can get it. 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。 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 and my snake.” 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。” At the time, Mr. Gorilla also finishes. He takes away the pot of wine and drinks, then he says, “That isn’t a snake. Snakes have no feet. I get the wine.” 这时，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。 公输子造喜鹊 During the Spring and Autumn Period 770一476 B.C., a skillful craftsman named Gongshu Zi in the State of Lu, known to people as Lu Ban, made a magpie with bamboo and wood. 春秋时期，鲁国有个能工巧匠公输子，人称“鲁班”。他用竹木造了一只喜鹊。 A machine was installed in this magpie which, when started, could fly high like a real bird. It actually flew continually for three days and nights before it landed. 这只木制的喜鹊，安装着机关。只要一开动它，就能像真的鸟一样展翅高飞。它一连飞了三天三夜才降落下来。 Gongshu Zi greatly appreciated this excellent work of his own. 公输子非常欣赏自己这件得意的作品。 When Mo Zi Master of the Mohist School heard of this, he went immediately to see Gongshu Zi and said to him: 墨子知道了这件事情以后，立刻去见公输子，对他说: As you know, it takes an ordinary carpenter a very short time to make a linchpin of a wheel with the minimum amount of timber. A vehicle with a linchpin inserted into each end of an axle can carry many things and bear a heavy load of 50 dan1 hectolitre. But you took painstaking effort to make this wooden magpie. Though pretty and able to fly, it cannot compare with the linchpin in terms of practical value. Things made by a carpenter should be useful for peoples life, so that everyone will praise him for his cleve