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关于拔苗助长的英语故事 There once was an impatient farmer who lived during the Song Dynasty.sòng cháo,960-1279 AD. 春秋时代，宋国有个急性子的农夫。 Everyday the anxious farmer would measure the growth of the crops. 庄稼长出禾苗以后，他每天都去观看。 To his dismay, his crops were growing much slower than he expected. 令他沮丧的是，禾苗长得太慢。 The farmer racked his brains trying to find better ways of planting in order to get quickerresults. 农夫绞尽脑汁想让禾苗长快些。 One day he finally came up with a solution. 一天他终于想出方法。 He started to physically pull the crops out of the ground, thus making them taller. 他跑到田里，把禾苗一颗颗往上拔，使它们长高。 The farmer worked very hard and at day’s end was physically exhausted but mentally happy as his plan had produced the desired results. 农夫虽然很累但他很高兴看到禾苗长高。 When the farmer went home, he told his son of his “brilliant” method. 当农夫回家时，把这个好办法告诉了他儿子。 His son went to the field only to discover that all of his crops were all dead. 他的儿子赶忙跑到田里去看，禾苗全都枯萎了。 Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants. How could the plants grow faster? He tossed in bed during the night and could not sleep. Suddenly he hit upon an idea. He had an idea not wait for daybreak. He jumped out of the bed and dashed to the field. By the moonlight, he began working on the rice seedlings. One by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was already morning. Straightening his back, he said to himself, What a wonderful idea! Look, how much taller the plants have grown one night! With great satisfaction, he went back home. He told his son what he had done in a triumphant tone. His son was shocked. Now the sun had risen. The young man was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying. People now u