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英文寓言故事精选汇总 英文寓言故事1 Adding Feet to a Snake 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? They think out an idea and decide to have a match-Draw a snake. If you finish first, you can get it. 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 to my snake.” At the time, Mr. Gorilla also finishes. He takes away the pot of wine and drinks, and then he says, “That isn’t a snake. Snakes have no feet. I get the wine.” 画蛇添足 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?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。 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。”这是猩猩先生也画好了。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。” 英文寓言故事2 （百喻经之十二煮黑石蜜浆喻） THE BOILED BLACK ROCK - HONEY SYRUP 昔有愚人煮黑石蜜，有一富人来至其家。时此愚人便作是念：“我今当取黑石蜜浆，与此富人。”即著少水，用置火中，即于火上，以扇扇之，望得使冷。 Once upon a time, a man was boiling black rock-honey syrup, when a rich man came to his house. He thought he would give the syrup to the rich man. He poured a little water into it and put it on a slow fire. He then fanned it with a fan in the hope of cooling it. 傍人语言：“下不止火，扇之不已，云何得冷?” A bystander addressed to him, If you dont put out the fire below, how can you cool it even though you keep on fanning? 尔时人众，悉皆嗤笑。 People began to laugh at him. 其犹外道，不灭烦恼炽燃之火，少作苦行，卧棘刺上，五热炙身，而望清凉寂静之道，终无是处。徒为智者之所怪笑。受苦现在，殃流来劫。 This is like the heretics who will practice a little mortification by sleeping on thorny brambles without putting out the flames of annoyance. As the five passions are still blazing within them, there is no way for such people to become cool and quiet. As a result, they sardonically laughed at by the wise. Moreover, they will suffer affliction in their present lives and transmigration in the future. 白话： 从前有一个愚蠢的人正在家里烧制黑石蜜的蜂糖。这时有一个富人来到他家中。愚人心里便想：“我应当取蜂糖来招待富人。”于是在熬的蜂糖里加上一些水，放到火上，用扇子去扇蜜糖，希望使糖很快冷却。旁边的人说