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掩耳盗铃英语故事篇1

Plugging One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell

Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal his neighbor’s doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bell would ring and catch the other people’s attention as long as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever “idea”. He plugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole the bell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he was caught on the spot as a thief.

“掩耳盗铃”

从前，有一个人想偷邻居门上的铃，但是他知道一碰到铃，铃就会响起来，被人发现。他想啊想，终于他想出一个“妙极”，他把自己的耳朵用东西塞起来，就听不见铃声了。但是当他去偷铃时，铃声仍旧响起来，他被别人当场抓住。

掩耳盗铃英语故事篇2

During the Spring and Autumn period, Zhi Bo of the Spring and Autumn period, Zhi Bo of the State of Jin destroyed Fan's family. Taking advantage of this occasion, a man went to Fan's house and tried to steal something. As soon as the man entered the gate, he saw that there hung a big bell in the courtyard. The bell was cast in high-quality bronza, and was beautiful in design and shape. The theif was very glad, and decided to carry this beautiful bell back home. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not move the bell, because the bell was both big and heavy. He thought and thought again, and believed there was only one way to solve the problem. He had to break the bell to pieces before he was able to carry them back to his home separately.

The thief found a big iron hammer, with which he struck the bell with all his might. The striking produced an enormous crashing sound, which might. The striking produced an enormous crashing sound, which made the thief terribly frightened. The thief got flurried, thinking that it was too bad to have produced the crashiing sound which would himself on the bell, trying to muffle the crashing sound with his arms. But how could the crashing sound of the bell be muffled?The crashing sound still kept drifting melodiously to distant places. The more he listened to the sound, the more frightened hw became. He xubconsciously shrank back, and covered his ears hard with his hands. "Hey, the sound becomes fainter, inaudible, "the thief became cheerful at once, " wonderful!The sound of the bell can not be heard when the ears are covered. "He immediately got some odd bits of cloth, made two rolls with them, and had his ears plugged with the two cloth rolls. He thought that in this way nobody could hear the sound of the bell. Feeling relieved, he began striking the bell, one blow after another. The resounding sound of the bell was heard at distant places, and finally people caught the thief by gracing the sound.

This story comes from"Knowing Yourself" in The Annals by Buwei, written just before the Qin Dynasty(221-207 B.C.) was founded. Allegedly, when Li Yuan, Emperor Gao Zu of the Tang Dynasty(618-907), read this story, he felt it simply ridiculous and said, "This is what is called plugging one's ears while stealing a bell. "

Later, people have used the set phrase "plugging one's ears while stealing a bell" to refer to the ignorance and foolishness of the person who deceives himself as well as others.

掩耳盗铃英语故事篇3

Once upon a time, a man saw a doorbell hanging from someone's door and wanted to steal it.

从前，有个人看见人家大门上挂着一只门铃，就想把它偷来。

But he knew that if he were to steal the bell, it would start ringing the moment his hand touched it.

但是，他知道，如果去偷这只门铃，只要手一碰到，就会发出“铃铃铃”的响声。

If he were discovered, not only he couldn't get the bell, but he himself might also be caught.

如被人发觉，不但偷不到铃，而且还会被捉住。

He thought this over and said to himself:"Why will there be trouble when a bell rings?

他想了想，自言自语地说:“为什么铃响了，就会闯出祸来呢?

This is because our ears can hear it.

这是因为耳朵能听见。

If I cover my ears, I won't be able to hear it.

假如把耳朵捂住，不是听不见铃声了么?

This way I won't be caught."

这样，就不会被人家捉住了。”

Later, he eventually got an idea.

后来，他终于想出了一个办法。

He first covered his own ears, then went on to steal the bell.

先把自己耳朵捂住，再去偷那只门铃。

However, in the end he was still discovered and caught red-handed.

结果，他还是被人当场发现捉住了。