寓言是含有讽喻或明显教训意义的故事。它的结构简短，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。下面小编为大家带来的经典寓言故事，欢迎大家阅读!

经典寓言故事：桂饵金钩

A person of the state of Lu loved angling very much.

Obsessed with it, he used sweet-osmanthus as bait and a hook made of gold. He even inlayed the hook with siver thread and jade, and use thick thread made of kingfisher's feather as fishing thread.

When angling, he chose the right place and his pose was also correct, but he didn't catch much more fish than others. So as far as angling is concerned, the decoration is not important. When it comes to doing practical things, a glib tongue doesn't play a important role.

一个鲁国人特别喜欢钓鱼。

由于过分投入，他用名贵的桂香做鱼食，用黄金打造鱼钩，并在钩上镶嵌银丝和碧玉，用翡翠鸟的羽毛纺成粗丝线做钓鱼线。

钓鱼的时候，他持杆的姿势和选择的地点都很正确，但是钓上了的鱼并不比别人多多少。因此说，钓鱼这件事，美丽的装饰并不重要，做实际事物，口才敏捷也不起关键作用。

经典寓言故事：生母和后母

When the mother was treating his son's tumefaction on his head, there was a lot of blood coming down from the top of her son's head to the neck, forming a cruel scene. But the people watching this all considered this to be an act of solicitude done by the mother to cure her son as soon as possible, and it's done out of love for the son.

If a stepmother had done this, then people would have considered the stepmother to be so cruel that she had the heart to do so. People might even think that all stepmothers hoped the children of her husbands former wife would die soon.

母亲在给儿子治疗头疮的时候，血从孩子的头顶一直流到耳朵根，景象非常残酷，但看到的人都认为是母亲希望儿子病快好所采取的关怀行动，是爱孩子太深的缘故。

如果这做母亲的是后妈，那看到的人则会认为天下做后娘的确实残忍，因而敢下手。他们或许还会联想到做后妈的都想让前妻的孩子赶快死掉。

经典寓言故事：雀巢扶枝

Magpies are clever birds. At the beginning of every spring it can predict the weather for the whole year.

If this year will be windy, it will move its nest from tall trees to a low crotch of a tree.

By doing so it keeps the nest away from the threat of winds, but not from the threats by human. When adults pass the nest, they often take away the young birds. Even children can easily climb up the trees and take away the eggs. The magpie knows know the keep away dangers in future, but overlooks the imminent dangers.

喜鹊是一种很聪明的鸟，每年一开春，它就能预测出全年的气候。

如果这年多风，它就会把自己的巢从很高的大树顶上搬下来，移到低矮的树杈上。

这样一来，尽管风对鸟巢构不成威胁，但人为的灾难却接踵而至：大人路过时，常常将小鹊儿摸走;小孩可以轻易地爬上来，掏走鹊蛋。喜鹊虽然知道防备将来的灾难，却忽视了迫在眉睫的危险。