寓言故事作为小学语文教学中很重要的一个部分,对于小学语文的学习有着非常重要的影响作用,下面这些是小编为大家推荐的几篇英文版寓言故事。

英文版寓言故事1：The Man Selling the Idol

A man carves an idol and takes it to the fair. No one buys it, so he begins to shout in order to canvass the customer.

He says that this idol can bring in wealth and good luck. One man says to the seller, "Hello, My friend, if this is so, you should have the advantages that the idol can bring, why do you want to sell it?" The seller says, "What I want is that I can get cash in at once. The profit from the idol is so slow."

This story means: God will never respect people who make a profit by hook or crook.

有人雕刻了一个赫尔墨斯的木像，拿到市场上去卖。因为没有一个买主上前购买，他便大声叫喊，想招揽生意。

他说有赐福招财的神出售。这时旁边有一个人对他说道：“喂，朋友，既然这样，你自己应该享受他的好处哇，为什么还要卖掉他呢?”他回答说：“我要的是现在马上可以兑现的利益，这个神的利益却来得很慢哪。”

这故事正是说那种不择手段地求利，连神也不尊敬的人。

英文版寓言故事2:The Neighbour and the Snake

A snake, having made his hole close to the door of a cottage, inflicted a sever bite on the cottager's 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。

英文版寓言故事3:The ass and a lap-dog

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?”