爱华网故事永远伴随着我们,伴随着我们的学习,从童年到老年,从课堂到职场,从故土到异乡。因此我们说,学习始于故事。本文是原版少儿英语故事，希望对大家有帮助!
原版少儿英语故事：The Owl and the Ass
A blind ass, which had undertaken a long journey, wandered from the road into a forest. As the night came on, our foolish fellow went so far into the thicket(灌木丛) that it couldn't move either backward or forward; and even one who had eyes would have been unable to get out of that difficulty. But an owl, by good luck, happened to be in the neighbourhood, and offered to act as a guide to the ass.
We all know how well owls see at night. Hills, hillocks, ditches, precipices(悬崖) - all these our owl distinguished as if it had been daylight, and, by daybreak, it had made its way with the ass to the level road. Now, how could any one part with such a guide? So the ass entreated(恳求) the owl not to desert it, and de termined to visit the whole world in the owl's company.
Our owl seated itself like a lord on the back of the ass, and the two friends began to continue their journey, But did it prosper? No. The sun had scarcely begun to glow in the morning sky, when a greater than nocturnal(夜的) darkness did everything from the owl's eyes, But our owl is obstinate(顽固的), it directs the ass at random.
"Take care!" it cries, "We shall tumble into a pool, if we go to the right."
There was really no pool on the right, but on the left there was even worse.
"Keep more to the left-another pace to the left!"
And, the owl and the ass fell into the ravine(山涧，峡谷) together.
原版少儿英语故事：The Scorpion and the Tortoise
A tortoise and scorpion had contracted a great intimacy(亲密), and bound themselves with such ties of friendship, that the one could not live without the other.
One day these inseparable companions, finding themselves obliged to change their habitation, traveled together; but in their meeting with a large and deep river, the scorpion making a stop, said to the tortoise:
"My dear friend, you are well provided for what we see before us, but how shall I get over this water?"
"Never trouble yourself, my dear friend, for that, " replied the Tortoise, "I will carry you upon my back secure from all danger."
On this, the scorpion, without hesitation, got upon the back of the tortoise, who immediately took water and began to swim. But he had hardly got half way across the river, when he heard a terrible rumbling upon his back, which made him ask the scorpion what he was doing.
"Doing!" replied the scorpion, "why, I am whetting(研磨) my sting, to try whether I can bore this horny cuirass(胸甲，铁甲) of yours, that covers yours flesh like a shield, from all injuries."
"Oh, ungrateful wretch, "cried the tortoise, "wouldst thou, at a time when I am giving thee such a demonstration of my friendship, wouldst thou at such a time,pierce with thy venomous sting, the defense that Nature has given me, and take away my life? It is well, however, I have it in my power both to save myself and reward thee as thou deservest. "
So saying, he sunk his back to some depth under water, threw off the scorpion, and left him to pay with his life for his monstrous ingratitude.
原版少儿英语故事：小马过河
One day, a colt(小马，生手) 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 wentgurgling(作汩汩声) 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! You'll 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, don't always listen to others. You'd better go and try yourself. Then you'll know what to do."
Just at the river, the squirrel stopped the colt again. "Little horse, it's 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.
