与乌鸦有关的寓言故事推荐三篇 作文英语（汇总20篇）

Once there were three foxes, they worked together. They lived a happy life.

Little by little, the youngest fox became lazy, and often quarreled with the other foxes. The eldest had to leave, and the second fox was driven off, too.

Looking at the warm house with a lot of good food in it, the youngest fox smiled.

The eldest fox opened a new hill again.

The second eldest fox dug a pool. Two of them because rich soon.

The youngest fox ate up the food left by the other two foxes. In the end it felt so cold and hungry that it could not stand up.

从前有三只狐狸，他们愉快地工作和居住在一起。

最小的狐狸又懒又坏，经常同其他的两只狐狸争吵，气走了它的大哥和二哥。

最小的狐狸得意地住在温暖的房子里享受着丰富的食品。

老大重新开了一块小山坡种地。

老二挖了池塘，不久他们过上了富裕的生活。

最小的狐狸吃完了那些狐狸留下的所有食物，最后又冷又饿连站也站不起来。

One day, a colt carried a bag of wheat to the mill.

As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. Water went gurgling on. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a cow grazing nearby. He asked, "Uncle Cow, could you tell me if I can cross the river?" the cow told him that he could and that the river was not very deep, just to his knees.

The colt was crossing the river when a squirrel jumped down a tree and stopped him. The squirrel shouted, "Colt, stop! Youll be drowned! One of my friends was drowned yesterday just in the river." Not knowing what to do, the colt went home to consult his mom.

He told his mom his experience on the way. His mother said, "My child, dont always listen to others. Youd better go and try yourself. Then youll know what to do."

Just at the river, the squirrel stopped the colt again. "Little horse, its too dangerous!" "No, I want to have a try by myself", answered the colt. Then he crossed the river carefully. On the other side of the river, the colt realized that the river was neither as shallow as the cow said nor as as deep as the squirrel told him.

The fable tells us a truth: real knowledge comes from practices.

一天， 老马让小马驮着半口袋麦子到磨坊去磨面。

小马驮着口袋朝着磨坊跑去。忽然，一天小河挡住了去路，河水哗哗地流着。小马为难了，怎么办呢?它向四周望了望，看见一头老牛在河边吃草。小马问道：“牛伯伯，请您告诉我，这条河我能趟过去吗?”老牛说：“能。谁很浅，刚没小腿。”

小马听了老牛的话，正准备过河，突然丛树上跳下一只松鼠，拦住它大叫道：“小马，别过河!河水会把你淹死的。昨天，我的一个伙伴就是掉到这条河里淹死的!”小马不知如何是好，决定回家问妈妈。

小马把路上的经历告诉了妈妈。妈妈说：“孩子，光听别人说是不行的，你自己亲自去试一试，就知道答案了。”

小马回到河边，刚要下水，松鼠又大叫起来：“小马，你不要命啦?”小马说：“让我试试吧。”它一面回答一面下了河，小心地趟了过去。原来河水既不像老牛说的那样浅也不像松鼠说的那样深。

这则寓言告诉我们:实践出真知。

A snake, having made his hole close to the door of a cottage, inflicted a sever bite on the cottagers little son. So the child died.

This caused much sorrow to his parents. The father decided to kill the snake. The next day, on its coming out of its hole for food, he took up his ax, but, making too much haste to hit the snake, missed its head, and cut off only the end of its tail.

After some time the cottager, lest the snake should also bite him, tried to make peace, and placed some bread and salt beside its hole, the snake, slightly hissing, said, "From now on there can be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son."

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.

有条蛇在一家农舍的门边打了个洞，并把主人的小孩咬了一口，孩子就一命呜呼。

这对夫妇痛不欲生。孩子的父亲决意弄死那条蛇。第二天，当蛇出洞觅食之时，他举起斧头就砍那条蛇。可惜太操之过急，没砍中蛇头，只砍断了尾巴。

过了一阵子，屋主很害怕那条蛇会以牙还牙，就想同蛇讲和，于是就将一些面包和盐放在洞口。那条蛇发出丝丝的声音作出回答：“从今以后，在我们之间不会有和平。因为我一看到你，就会想自己被砍掉的尾巴;同样当你见到我时， 你会想起你死去的儿子。”

面对伤害过自己的人，我们难以真正忘记有过的创痛。

Helen Keller once wrote about these early days.

One beautiful spring morning I was alone in my room, reading. Suddenly a wonderful smell in the air made me get up and put out my hands . The spirit of spring seemed to be passing in my room. "What is it?"I asked. The next minute I knew it was coming from mimosa tree outside. I walked outside to the edge of the garden, toward the tree. There it was, shaking in the warm sunshine. Its long branches, so heavy with flowers, almost touched the ground. I walked through the flowers to the tree itself and then just stood silent. Then I put my foot on the tree and pulled myself up into it. I climbed higher and higher until I reached a little seat. Long ago someone had put it there. I sat for a long time... Nothing in all the world was like this.

Later Helen learned that nature could be cruel as well as beautiful. Strangely enough she discovery this in a different kind of tree.

One day my teacher and I were returning from a long walk. It was a fine morning but it started to get warm and heavy. We stopped to rest two or three times. Our last stop was under a cherry tree, a short way from our house. The shade was nice and the tree was easy to climb. Miss Sullivan climbed with me. It was so coot up in the tree, we decided to have lunch there. I promised to sit still until she went to the house for some food. Suddenly a change came over the tree. I knew the sky was black because all the heat which meant light to me had died out of the air. A strange odor came up to me from the earth . I knew it. It was the odor which always comes before a thunder storm. I felt alone, cut off from friends, high above the firm earth. I was frightened and wanted my teacher. wanted to get down from that tree quickly, but I was no help to myself. There was a moment of terrible silence. Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me. I almost fell. I wanted to jump, but was afraid to do so. I tried to make myself small in the tree as the branches rubbed against me. Just us I thought that both the tree and I were going to fall, a hand touched me . It was my teacher. I held her with all my strength, then shook with joy to feel the solid earth under my feet.

Miss Sullivan stayed with Helen for many year. She taught Helen how to read, how to write and how to speak. She helped her to get ready for school and college. More than anything, Helen wanted to do what others did, and do it just as well. In time Helen did go to college and completed her studies with high honors. But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages. Miss Sullivan and others had to teach her what was in these books by forming words in her hands. The study of geometry and physics was especially difficult. Helen could only learn about squares, triangles and other geometrical forms by making them with wires. She kept feeling the different shapes of these wires until she could see them in her mind.

During her second year college Miss Keller wrote the story of her life and what a college meant to her. This is what she wrote.

My first day at Radcliffe college was of great interest. Some powerful force inside me made me test my mind. I wanted to learn if it was as good as that of others. I learned many things at college. One thing I slowly learned was that knowledge does not just mean power, as some people say. Knowledge leads to happiness because to have it is to know what is true and real. To know what great man of the past had thought, said, and done is to feel the heartbeat of humanity down through the ages.

All of Helen Kellers knowledge reached her mind through her sense of touch and smell, and of course her feelings. To know a flower was to touch it, feel it and smell it. This sense of touch became greatly developed as she got older. She once said that hands speak almost as loudly as words. She said the touch of some hands frightened her. The people seemed so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking bands with a storm. She found the hands of others full of sunshine and warmth. Strangely enough Helen Keller learned to love things she could not hear, music for example. She did this through her sense of touch. When waves of air beat against her, she felt them. Sometimes she put her hand to a singers throat. She often stood for hours with her hands on a piano while it was played. Once she listened to an organ. Its powerful songs made her moved her body in rhythm with the music. She also liked to go to museums. She thought she understood sculptures as well as others. Her fingers told her the true size and the feel of the material.

What did Helen Keller think of herself, what did she think about the tragic lost of her sight and hearing. This is what she wrote as a young girl.

Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist. I sit alone, and wait at life s shut-door. Beyond there is light and music and sweet friendship. But I may not enter. Silence sits heavy upon my soul. Then comes hope with a sweet smile and said

softly " There is joy in forgetting oneself And so I tried to make the light in others eyes my sun, the music in others ears my symphony, the smile on others lips my happiness.

Helen Keller was tall and strong. When she spoke, her face looked very alive. It helped to give meaning to her words. She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings. She and Miss Sullivan both were known for their sense of humor. They enjoyed jokes and laughing at funny things that happened to themselves or others. Helen Keller had to work hard to support herself after she finished college. She spoke to many groups around the country. She wrote several books and she made one movie based on her life. Her main goal was to increase public interest in the difficulties of people with physical problems. The work Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan did has been written and talked about for many years. Their success showed how people can conquer great difficulties. Anne Sullivan died in 1936, blind herself. Before Miss Sullivan died, Helen wrote and said many kind things about her.

It was the genius of my teacher, her sympathy, her love which made my first years of education so beautiful. My teacher is so near to me that I do not think of myself as a part from her. All the best of me belongs to her. Everything I am today was awakened by her loving touch .

Helen Keller died on June 1st, 1968. She was 87 year old. Her message of courage and hope remains.

这个成语出自《战国策齐策二》。

楚国一位舍人得到了主人送的一壶酒，觉得几个人一起喝嫌少，一个人独喝又嫌多，于是让几个人在地上画蛇，先画成的就喝酒。有个人蛇先画好了，拿起酒壶准备喝，看看其他人还没画好，又左手拿壶，右手给蛇画脚，还没等他画好脚，另一人的蛇画好了，夺过酒壶说：“蛇本来就没有脚，你怎么能添上脚呢?”说完把酒喝了。那个画蛇脚的人，终于没有喝上酒。

唐朝大文学家韩愈在其《感春》诗中写道：“画蛇著足无处用，两鬓雪白趋埃尘。”

画蛇添足”比喻做了多余的事，反而把事情弄坏。有时也作“画蛇著足”。

一头小狮子因为贪玩而远离了狮群，不幸遭遇了几只鬣狗。

本来，小狮子这时候还有机会逃生，但由于过分自傲，他却放弃了机会。

"我是狮子。"小狮子把胸脯拍得啪啪响。

"不错。"领头的鬣狗说，"如果你是一只成年狮，那么你是强者，我们是弱者。而今你还是一头幼狮，你是弱者而我们是强者，大自然的生存规律就是弱肉强食。"说完，鬣狗们便扑过去把小狮子咬死吃掉了。

其实，谁也并非天生就是强者，在还没有成为强者之前，哪怕是小狮子，为了生存，他首先要做的，还是学会保护自己。

一个干旱炎热的夏天，一只口渴的乌鸦找不到水喝，乌鸦飞来飞去，已经累得精疲力尽了。

乌鸦突然发现地面上有一口井，他兴奋地朝井边飞去，乌鸦心想：终于找到水喝了!可是，井里一滴水也没有，这时，乌鸦发现井边有一个瓶子，乌鸦高兴极了，心想：我可以从瓶里弄到水喝了!可是，瓶子里水很少，瓶口又很小，乌鸦把嘴伸进瓶口试了试，根本喝不到水，乌鸦想把水瓶撞到，他撞了几下，水瓶动也没动，眼看着瓶里的水喝不到嘴，乌鸦又气又急，乌鸦搂住水瓶，用力地摇晃，水瓶仍然没动，乌鸦用头使劲顶，水瓶还是不动，哎!乌鸦觉的自己太笨了，又渴又累的乌鸦失望地坐在地上，这是，乌鸦看到地上有许多石子，忽然想起了一个好主意，乌鸦用嘴叼起石子，投进水瓶里，乌鸦投了一些石子，瓶子里的水位开始上升了，乌鸦不停地往瓶子里投石子，瓶子里的水位越升越高，乌鸦越投越起劲，眼看就要喝水了，瓶子里的水已经升到了瓶口，乌鸦终于喝到水了，乌鸦喝足了水，快乐地飞走了。

He looked at us and said, "I wish you could have met my Dad. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. His rain hat would be pulled down over his brow. No matter how much my Mother washed them, they would still smell of the sea and of fish."

He looked at us and said, "I wish you could have met my Dad. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. His rain hat would be pulled down over his brow. No matter how much my Mother washed them, they would still smell of the sea and of fish."

Frank‘s voice dropped a bit. "When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business. That truck was older than he was. It would wheeze and rattle down the road. You could hear it coming for blocks. As he would drive toward the school,I would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear. Half the time, he would slam to a stop and the old truck would belch a cloud of smoke. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here, I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!"

Frank‘s voice dropped a bit. "When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business. That truck was older than he was. It would wheeze and rattle down the road. You could hear it coming for blocks. As he would drive toward the school,I would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear. Half the time, he would slam to a stop and the old truck would belch a cloud of smoke. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here, I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!"

He paused and then went on, "I remember the day I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, ‘No, Dad.‘

He paused and then went on, "I remember the day I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, ‘No, Dad.‘

画鬼最易

春秋时期有一个很高明的画家，这天被请来为齐王画像。画像过程中，齐王问画家：“比较起来，什么东西最难画呢？”

画家回答说：“活动的狗与马，都是最难画的，我也画得不怎样好。”

齐王又问道：“那什么东西最容易画呢？”

画家说：“画鬼最容易。”

“为什么呢？”

“因为狗与马这些东西人们都熟悉，经常出此刻人们的眼前，只要画错那怕一点点，都会被人发现而指出毛病，所以难画，个性是动态中的狗与马难画，因为既有形又不定形。至于鬼呢，谁也没见过，没有确定的形体，也没有明确的相貌，那就能够由我随便画，想怎样画就怎样画，画出来后，谁也不能证明它不像鬼，所以画鬼是很容易的，不费什么神。”

画家的高论证明：如果没有具体的客观标准，就会容易使人“弄虚作假”和“投机取巧”。唯心论最省力，因为它不受客观实际检验，能够瞎说一气，而唯物论则要理解客观实际的检验，所以很费工夫。

很久以前，鸟类和走兽，因为发生一点争执，就爆发了战争。并且，双方僵持，各不相让。

有一次，双方交战，鸟类战胜了。蝙蝠突然出现在鸟类的堡垒。“各位，恭喜啊！能将那些粗暴的走兽打败，真是英雄啊！我有翅膀又能飞，所以是鸟的伙伴！请大家多多指教！”

这时，鸟类非常需要新伙伴的加入，以增强实力。所以很欢迎蝙蝠的加入。可是蝙蝠是个胆小鬼，等到战争开始，便不露面，躲在一旁观战。

后来，当走兽战胜鸟类时，走兽们高声地唱着胜利的歌。蝙蝠却又突然出现在走兽的营区。“各位，恭喜啊！把鸟类打败！实在太棒了！我是老鼠的同类，也是走兽！敬请大家多多指教！”

走兽们也很乐意的将蝙蝠纳入自己的同伴群中。于是，每当走兽们胜利，蝙蝠就加入走兽。每当鸟类们打赢，却又成为鸟类们的伙伴。最后战争结束了，走兽和鸟类言归和好，双方都知道了蝙蝠的行为。当蝙蝠再度出现在鸟类的世界时，鸟类很不客气的对他说：“你不是鸟类！”被鸟类赶出来的蝙蝠只好来到走兽的世界，走兽们则说：“你不是走兽！”并赶走了蝙蝠。

最后，蝙蝠只能在黑夜，偷偷的飞着。

一只狐狸在森林里碰上一只死去的鹿，狐狸高兴的又唱又跳，心想我的运气可真好。

狼在远处看见狐狸又蹦又跳，好奇的走过来，狼看见死去的鹿心里乐开了花，脸上淡定的说：这只猎物是我刚刚捕获的，你在我的猎物面前在做什么?

狐狸纳闷的说：可是这头鹿没有一点体温，怎么会是您刚刚捕获的呢!

狼发出凶狠的表情，狐狸见状只好灰溜溜的走了，猎物落到狼的口中，狼乐的又是唱歌又是跳舞，远处的老虎看见狼这么高兴想着一定是有什么好事，它悄悄的走进，结果发现有一只死去的鹿。

老虎说：你在我的食物面前做什么?这只鹿是我咬死的，你快点离开。

狼不情愿的走开了，最终狐狸和狼都没有吃到猎物。

这则故事告诉我们：应该谨慎从事，不要被被胜利冲昏了头脑。

瞎子和小野兽的寓言故事告诉我们，恶劣的习性在年小时便可得知。

瞎子和小野兽的寓言故事告诉我们，恶劣的习性在年小时便可得知。

从前有一个瞎子，他虽然看不见，但是很擅长用手触摸各种动物，什么动物只要他一摸，就能知道这是哪种动物。

有一天，一个人带来一条小狼，请他摸一摸，说出是什么东西。他仔细地摸了摸这个小野兽，然后说：“这是一条狐狸，还是一条狼，我不大确定。可是我知道，要是这种动物跑进了羊栏，羊就会被吃掉。”

这故事是说恶劣的习性在年小时便可得知。

宋朝有个丞相叫张商英，他有个爱好就是书法，他特别喜欢写草书，闲来无事，他便提笔龙飞凤舞一阵，甚是得意。其实，这张丞相的书法很不到家，字写得不合体统，他还孤芳自赏。当时，很多人都讥笑他，而他却不以为然，依然是我行我素，按他的老习惯写字。

一天饭后，张丞相小憩片刻，突然来了诗兴，偶得佳句，便当即叫小童磨墨铺纸，张丞相提起笔来，一阵疾书，满纸是一片龙飞蛇走，让人还着实难以辨认。张丞相写完后，摇头晃脑得意了好一阵，似乎还意犹未尽。于是叫来他的侄子，让侄子把这些诗句抄录下来。

丞相的侄子拿过纸笔，准备用小楷将诗句录下，可是他好半天才能辨认出一个字，时时碰到那些笔划曲折怪异之处，侄子只好连猜带蒙。可是有些地方，他实在是怎么也看不懂，不知从哪里断开才对。他没办法，只好停下笔来，捧着草稿去问张丞相。

张丞相拿着自己的大作，仔细看了很久，也辨认不清，自己写的字自己都不认识了。他心里颇有些下不了台，便责骂侄子说：“你为什么不早些来问呢？我也忘记是写的什么了！”

有些人总爱自以为是，既不虚心，又爱坚持自己的错误，还强词夺理为自己辩护，结果是越显出自己的愚蠢可笑。

在某一个地方，有一个婆罗门，名叫娑跋波俱利钵那，他用行乞得来的吃剩下的大麦片填满了一罐子，把罐子挂在木栓上，在那下面放了一张床，目不转睛地看着罐子，在夜里幻想起来：“这个罐子现在是填满了大麦片。倘若遇上俭年，就可以卖到一百块钱，可以买两头山羊。山羊每六个月生产一次，就可以变成一群山羊。山羊又换成牛。我把牛犊子卖掉，牛就换成水牛，水牛再换成牝马，扎马又生产，我就可以有很多的马。把这些马卖掉，就可以得到很多金子，我要用这些金子买一所有四个大厅的房子。有一个人走进我的房子里来，就把他那最美最好的女儿嫁给了我。她生了一个小孩子，我给他起了一个名字，叫做苏摩舍摩。因为他总喜欢要我抱在膝上左右摆动着玩，我就拿了书躲到马棚后面的一个地方去念起来。但是苏摩舍摩立刻看见了我。因为他最喜欢坐在人的膝上让人左右摆动者玩，就从母亲怀里挣扎出来，走到马群旁边来找我。我在大怒之余，喊我的老婆：‘来照顾孩子吧！来照顾孩子吧！’但是，她因为忙于家务，没有听到；我于是立刻站起来，用脚踢她。”这样，他就从幻想中走出来，真地用脚踢起来。罐子一下子破了，盛在里面的大麦片也成了一场空。

在一个寒冷的冬天，有一对狐狸母子，它们住在森林了的一个洞里。

有一次，小狐狸刚睡醒，想出去玩，刚到洞口，就捂住了眼睛，它对妈妈说：是什么扎到我眼睛了，妈妈把捂住眼睛的手拿开一看，说：什么东西都没有啊！妈妈出去看了看，对小狐狸说：因为你没有见过雪，被雪地强烈的反光一晃，就以为是什么东西扎进眼睛了。

小狐狸跑出去玩了。它踩在象丝棉一般柔软的雪地上奔跑。忽然，"扑哩啪啦"一声响，把它吓坏了。它回头看看，什么都没有。原来是树枝上的雪掉了下来。

它飞快地跑到洞里，对妈妈说：我的手都冻红了，冻僵了。妈妈用自己温暖的手包住了小狐狸的手，妈妈心想：别把我孩子的手冻坏了，我该给它买一双毛线手套了。

到了夜晚，狐狸妈妈带着小狐狸一起去买手套，小狐狸没有见过灯光，小狐狸说:"星星怎么掉到那么低的地方啊?"

妈妈说:"这是镇子上的灯光。"

狐狸妈妈一看到灯光，就想起上次跟朋友一起去镇上险些送命的事。她劝朋友不要去偷人家的鸭子，可那只狐狸不听，非要去偷，结果被农民发现，追得它们没命地逃，好不容易才捡了一条命。

狐狸妈妈腿软了，在也走不动了。只好让小狐狸自己去买手套。妈妈对小狐狸做了一些交代，要注意安全。小狐狸就去镇上了。

小狐狸没有见过镇，它来到镇上以后才知道，原来镇上这么漂亮。灯挂的高高的，五彩缤纷的。

小狐狸到了买手套的商店，把钱递给卖手套的，人家给它了一双毛线手套。它拿着手套往回家的路上走，心里想:人没有妈妈说的那么可怕啊!

它就跑到妈妈等它的地方，妈妈正在焦急的等着它。

小狐狸对妈妈说人没有象你说的那么可怕，是吗?你怎么知道，因为我看到了。

我知道了，什么事情不能只靠别人，要靠自己，勇敢的去面对困难，就能战胜困难。要象小狐狸一样。

The miser and his gold Once upon a time there was a miser. He hid his gold under a tree. Every week he used to dig it up.

One night a robber stole all the gold. When the miser came again, he found nothing but an empty hole.

He was surprised, and then burst into tears.All the neighbors gathered around him.

He told them how he used to come and visit his gold.

"Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "No," he said, "I only came to look at it." "Then come again and look at the hole," said the neighbor, "it will be the same as looking at the gold."

守财奴

从前，有个守财奴将他的金块埋到一棵树下，每周他都去把他挖出来看看。

一天晚上，一个小偷挖走了所有的金块。 守财奴再来查看时，发现除了一个空洞什么都没有了。

守财奴便捶胸痛哭。哭声引来了邻居

他告诉他们这里原来有他的金块。

问明了原因后，一个邻居问：“你使用过这些金块吗？” “没用过，” 他说，“我只是时常来看看。”“那么，以后再来看这个洞，”邻居说，“就像以前有金块时一样。”

Once upon a time there was a miser. He hid his gold under a tree. Every week he used to dig it up.

One night a robber stole all the gold. When the miser came again, he found nothing but an empty hole.

He was surprised, and then burst into tears.All the neighbors gathered around him. He told them how he used to come and visit his gold.

"Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "No," he said, "I only came to look at it." "Then come again and look at the hole," said the neighbor, "it will be the same as looking at the gold."

从前，有个守财奴将他的金块埋到一棵树下，每周他都去把他挖出来看看。

一天晚上，一个小偷挖走了所有的金块。 守财奴再来查看时，发现除了一个空洞什么都没有了。

守财奴便捶胸痛哭。哭声引来了邻居，他告诉他们这里原来有他的金块。

问明了原因后，一个邻居问："你使用过这些金块吗?" "没用过，" 他说，"我只是时常来看看。""那么，以后再来看这个洞，"邻居说，"就像以前有金块时一样。"

In the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋时期,770-476 BC), in the State of Qi there was a man who always let his imagination run away with him.

春秋战国时期，杞国有个人喜欢胡思乱想。

One day he even worried that the sky would fall on his head. He was so worried that he could neither eat nor sleep.

一天，他竟然担忧天会塌下来，地会陷下去，自己无处存身。这个人越想越害怕，便整天愁眉苦脸，坐立不安，睡不好觉，吃不下饭。

Later, someone persuade him that his fears were groundless.

后来，有个人就去开导他，那个杞国人听后，才放下了心。

This idioms satirizes those who worry unnecessarily.

成语杞人忧天讥笑那些没有必要或毫无根据的忧虑。

有一天，蜘蛛对蚕说：“你每天吃饱桑叶，一天天长大，然后从嫩黄的嘴里吐出纵横交叉的长丝，织成茧壳，把自己牢牢地封裹起来。蚕妇把你放进开水中，抽出长丝，最后毁了你的身躯和茧壳。你口吐银丝的绝技恰恰成了杀死自己的手段，这样做不是太愚蠢了吗?”

蚕回答：“我固然是杀死了自己，但是，我吐出的银丝可以织成精美的绸缎，皇帝穿的龙袍，百官穿的朝服，哪一件不是用我吐出的长丝织成的?你也有吐丝织网的绝技。你张开罗网，坐镇中央，蝴蝶、蜜蜂、蚊子、小虫，只要撞入你的罗网，就统统成了你口中的美餐，没有一个能够幸免。你的技术是够高超的了，但专门用来捕杀别的动物，是不是太残忍了呢?”蜘蛛很不以为然：“为别人打算，说得多好听!我宁愿为自己!”

狮子开了一个蛋糕店，开始的时候买的人很多，可是买过的动物只买一次就不来买了。狮子很纳闷于是它又做了一个又大又好看的大蛋糕，可是还是没人了买。

正在这时一只小鹿经过狮子的蛋糕店，狮子一把抓住小鹿问：“你们为什么不来买我的蛋糕？”小鹿说：“因为你做的蛋糕不好吃。”狮子不相信小鹿的话拿了一块蛋糕自己吃了一口，说：“挺好吃的呀！”小鹿问：“你不觉得咸吗？”狮子说：“不咸呀！”这时大象来了，大象对狮子说：“我知道你的蛋糕为什么卖不掉，。”“为什么”狮子问，“因为你是按照自己的口味去做的不适合别人的口味，所以大家不来买你的蛋糕”，大象说。

听了大象的话狮子才明白自己喜欢的口味别人不一定喜欢。我从中也学习到了一点道理。

寓言故事结构简短，多用借喻手法，使富有教训意义的主题或深刻的道理在简单的故事中体现。下面是yuwenmi小编整理的作文，快来看看吧，希望对你有帮助哦。

《老妇人和鹰》

Once upon a time, when cups were plates and when knives and forks grew in the ground, there was an old woman who had never seen an eagle.

在和现在非常不一样的从前，有一位老妇人，她从来没见过鹰。

One day, an eagle was flying high in the sky and decided to stop for a rest. He swooped down and landed — where do you think?

有一天，一只高高飞翔的鹰想歇息一会儿，就从天上飞下来，停在了 ... 你猜哪里?

He landed right at the front door of the old woman’s house.

对了，就在这位老妇人的门前。

The old woman took a long, hard look at the eagle and said, “Oh my, what a funny pigeon you are!” She figured he was a pigeon, you see, because although she had never seen an eagle, she had seen lots of pigeons.

“I am not a pigeon at all,” said the eagle, drawing himself up to his full height.

老妇人仔细瞧了鹰很久，她说：“哦，你真是一只看上去很可笑的鸽子”。她认为这只鹰是鸽子，因为她从没见过鹰，但见过很多鸽子。

“我不是鸽子”，鹰说，还努力地立起来，让老妇人好好看看自己。

“Nonsense!” said the old woman. “I’ve lived for more years than you’ve got feathers in your wings, and I know a pigeon when I see one.”

“If you’re so sure that I’m a pigeon,” said the eagle, “then why do you say I’m a funny pigeon?”

“胡说!”老妇人说。“我活得年数比你翅膀上的羽毛还多，我不会认错一只鸽子。”

“如果你这么确定我是一只鸽子”，鹰说，“那你为什么说我很可笑?”

“Well, just look at your beak,” said the old woman. “It’s all bent. Pigeons have nice, straight beaks. And look at those claws of yours! Pigeons don’t have long claws like that. And look at the feathers on top of your head! They are all messed up and need to be brushed down. Pigeons have nice, smooth feathers on their heads.”

“看看你的喙”，老妇人说：“它是弯的，鸽子的喙很直很好看。再看看你的爪子，鸽子的爪子没那么长。还有你头上的羽毛，乱哄哄竖立着，应该梳平，像鸽子头上的毛那样顺。”

And before the eagle could reply, she got hold of him and carried him into the house. She took her clippers and trimmed his claws until they were quite short.

鹰还没来得及回答，老妇人就把他抱起来，带进屋子里，拿出剪刀，把他的爪子剪短剪平了。

She pulled on his beak until it was quite straight. And she brushed down the lovely tuft of feathers on top of his head until it was quite flat.

把它的嘴巴拉直，把头上的那簇毛也梳平了。

“Now you look more like a pigeon!” said the old woman. “That’s so much better!” But the eagle didn’t feel any better. In fact, he felt quite sad.

“好了，你现在终于看上去像一只鸽子了”，老妇人说，“真棒”。但是鹰的感觉可不好，他觉得很悲伤。

As soon as the old woman let him go he flew to the top of a tree. As he was sitting there wondering what to do, another eagle came along and alighted on the bough beside him.

“Well, well,” said the new bird. “Aren’t you a funny looking eagle!”

“Well, at least you know I’m an eagle,” said the first eagle. “Thank goodness for that!”

“What happened to you?” asked the new eagle.

所以当老妇人放下他，他马上飞到了树顶上;正在考虑下一步做什么的时候，另外一只鹰飞过来，立在他身边。

第二只鹰说：“哈哈，你真是一只看上去很好笑的鹰!”

“好吧，至少你知道我是一只鹰”，第一只鹰说，“谢天谢地。”

“发生了什么事?”第二只鹰问。

“Well,” said the first eagle, “An old woman thought I was a pigeon. And since pigeons don’t have long claws, she trimmed my claws. And since pigeons don’t have hooked beaks, she straightened my beak. And since pigeons don’t

have tufts of feathers on their heads, she brushed my tuft down.”

“是这样的”，第一只鹰说，“一位老妇人认为我是一只鸽子。因为鸽子的爪子不长，她就把我的爪子剪短了。因为鸽子没有弯弯的嘴巴，她就把我的嘴巴拉直了。因为鸽子头顶上没有那一簇毛，她就把我的毛梳平了。”

“She must be a very foolish old woman, indeed,” said the new eagle.

And with that, he took a brush from under his wing, and he brushed the first eagle’s feathers back into a tuft. And with his claws he bent the eagle’s beak down until it was nicely rounded once again.

“她一定是一个非常愚蠢的老妇人”，第二只鹰说。

说到这，第二只鹰从翅膀下拿出一把梳子，把第一只鹰头顶上的那簇毛又梳出来了;然后用自己的爪子去掰第一只鹰的喙，恢复了它原来弯弯的形状。

“There now!” he said, “you look like an eagle again. Don’t worry about your claws, they’ll soon grow back.”

“Thank you, my friend!” said the first eagle.

“Think nothing of it,” said his new friend.

“好了”，他说，“你现在看上去又像一只鹰啦。不要担心你的爪子，它们会长回来的。”

“谢谢你，我的朋友”，第一只鹰说。

“没有什么好谢的”，他的新朋友说。

“But remember this,” he continued, “there are a lot of silly people in the worldwho think that pigeons are eagles, or that eagles are pigeons, or that all sorts of things are other things. And when they are silly like that, they do very foolish things. We must be sure to keep away from that silly old woman and the people like her.”

“但是记住”，他继续说，“世界上有许多很傻的人，他们把鸽子当做鹰，把鹰当做鸽子，把各种事情搞得乱七八糟。他们犯傻的时候，会做非常愚蠢的事情。我们必须要远离这些人，比如那个老妇人，还有像她那样的人。”

And with that, the eagles flew back to their own country and returned to their own nests. And they never went near that silly old woman again.

And so everyone lived happily ever after.

说完，这两只鹰就飞向了他们自己的国度，回到了他们的家。他们再也没有接近过那位老妇人。

从此，大家都快快乐乐地生活。