寓言故事中蕴含的审美倾向体现为:对世俗功利的超越、对自然无为的崇尚和对逍遥自由的向往,下面这些是小编为大家推荐的几篇英文伊索寓言故事。
英文伊索寓言故事1：死去的苍蝇
The teacher asked her students in class: "If there are five flies on your desk and you kill one, how many will remain?"
"One," shouted a boy, "the dead one." The teacher said: "You should know that there are still four not dead."
The boy replied: "I know, but they have flown away."
He is right. Arithmatic is one thing, but logic is another.
上课时老师问学生：“如果有5只苍蝇在你的书桌上，你打死了一只，还剩下多少只?”
“一只，就是死了的那只。”一个男孩大声回答道。老师说：“你应该知道还有4只没有死嘛。
男孩回答说：“我知道，可是它们已经飞走了。
他是对的，算术是一回事，而逻辑是另一回事。
英文伊索寓言故事2:老鼠和公牛
A mouse once took a bite out of a bull's tail as he lay dozing. The bull jumped up in a rage and, with his head low to the ground, chased the mouse right across the yard. The mouse was too quick for him, however, and slipped easily into a hole in the wall.
The bull charged the wall furiously again and again, but although he bruised his head and chipped his horns, the mouse stayed safely inside his hole. After a time the bull gave up and sank down to rest again.
As soon as the bull was asleep, the little mouse crept to the mouth of the hole, pattered across the yard, bit the bull again -- this time on the nose -- and rushed back to safety. As the bull roared helplessly the mouse squeaked:
"It's not always the big people who come off best. Sometimes the small ones win, you know."
有一次，公牛躺着打盹，一只老鼠咬了他的尾巴。公牛怒气冲冲地跳起来，低着头追老鼠，一直追过院子。然而，老鼠跑得比他快多了，从容地钻到墙洞里去了。
公牛一次又一次地猛撞墙壁，尽管头撞肿了，角撞裂了，老鼠却安然待在洞里。过了一会儿，公牛不撞了，倒下歇着。
公牛刚睡着，小老鼠就爬到洞口，嗒嗒地跑过院子，又咬了公牛一口 这回咬了鼻子 又跑回安全的地方去。当公牛毫无办法地吼叫时，老鼠吱吱叫道：
“大人物并不总占上风。有时小人物也会取胜。”
英文伊索寓言故事3:驴和哈巴狗
A man had an ass and lovely lap-dog.
The ass was left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and day to eat, just as any other ass would. The lap-dog knew many tricks, and was a great favourite with his master.
The master seldom went out to dine or to super without bringing him something nice to eat when he jumped about him in a pleasant manner.
The ass, on the contrary, had much work to do, in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm,.
He often co plained about his own hard fate, and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the lap-dog. At last one day he broke the chain and ran into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measuring and jumping as well as he could, he next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the lap-dog do, but he broke the table, and smashed all the dishes on it to pieces. He then tried to lick his master, and jumped upon his back.
The servants hearing the strange noise, and imagining the danger of his master, quickly helped him out of the situation and drove out the ass to his stable, with kicks and beatings. The ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus cried and said sadly, "I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have beencontented to labour with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little alp-dog".
一个人有一头驴和一只可爱的哈巴狗。
驴关在栏里，享受着和其他驴同等的待遇—燕麦和干草。哈巴狗却会很多的鬼把戏，深得主人的宠爱。
主人出去吃晚饭或午饭，每次都要给小狗带回好吃的东西，这时他就会在主人身旁欢快地跳跃，以博取主人的欢心。驴却大相庭径，他有很多的事情要做;到磨坊去推磨，到树林去背回木材，或到农庄去驮运货物。他常常自怨自艾命运太苦，并把自己的境遇同哈巴狗的安逸和懒惰作了一番比较。终于有一天他挣断了缰绳，跑到主人屋乱跳乱踢一通，然后又在主人的身旁模仿这哈巴狗跳跃的摸样试跳起来，可他踢坏了桌子，将桌子上的碗碟摔得粉碎。接着他又去舔它的主人，爬到主人的背上去。仆人们听到了奇怪的声响，以为他们的主人有危险，急忙帮他脱身，他们用棍棒将驴赶回到栏里去。驴差不多被打了个半死。回到栏里，驴哭诉着说：“这都是我自作自受!我为什么不能和同伴们一起去干活，不去奢望成为整日懒惰无用的小哈巴狗呢?”
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