英語童話故事
童話是最富有兒童文學特點的一種文體,被譽爲最純真美好的人類話語。下面是本站小編帶來的經典英語童話故事閱讀，歡迎閱讀!
《跳高者》The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and whoever else would come, to see the grand sight. And there the three famous jumpers were met together in the room。
有一次，跳蚤、蚱蜢和跳鵝(注：這是丹麥一種舊式的玩具，它是用一根鵝的胸骨做成的;加上一根木栓和一根線，再擦上一點蠟油，就可以使它跳躍。)想要知道它們之中誰跳得最高。它們把所有的人和任何願意來的人都請來參觀這個偉大的場面。它們這三位著名的跳高者就在一個房間裏集合起來。
"Yes, I'll give my daughter to him who jumps highest," said the King, "for it would be mean to let these people jump for nothing."
"對啦，誰跳得最高，我就把我的女兒嫁給誰!"國王說，"因爲，假如讓這些朋友白白地跳一陣子，那就未免太不像話了!"
The Flea stepped out first. He had very pretty manners, and bowed in all directions, for he had young ladies' blood in his veins, and was accustomed to consort only with human beings; and that was of great consequence。
跳蚤第一個出場。它的態度非常可愛：它向四周的人敬禮，因爲它身體中流着年輕小姐的血液，習慣於跟人類混在一起，而這一點是非常重要的。
Then came the Grasshopper: he was certainly much heavier, but he had a good figure, and wore the green uniform that was born with him. This person, moreover, maintained that he belonged to a very old family in the land of Egypt, and that he was highly esteemed
there. He had just come from the field, he said, and had been put into a card house three stories high, and all made of picture cards with the figures turned inwards. There were doors and windows in the house, cut in the body of the Queen of Hearts。
接着蚱蜢就出場了，它的確很粗笨，但它的身體很好看。它穿着它那套天生的綠制服。此外，它的整個外表說明它是出身於埃及的一個古老的家庭，因此它在這兒非常受到人們的尊敬。人們把它從田野里弄過來，放在一個用紙牌做的三層樓的房子裏——這些紙牌有畫的一面都朝裏。這房子有門也有窗，而且它們是從"美人"身中剪出來的。
"I sing so," he said, "that sixteen native crickets who have chirped
from their youth up, and have never yet had a card house of their own, would become thinner than they are with envy if they were to hear me."
"我唱得非常好，"它說，"甚至16個本地產的蟋蟀從小時候開始唱起，到現在還沒有獲得一間紙屋哩。它們聽到我的情形就嫉妒得要命，把身體弄得比以前還要瘦了。"
Both of them, the Flea and the Grasshopper, took care to announce who they were, and that they considered themselves entitled to marry a Princess。
跳蚤和蚱蜢這兩位毫不含糊地說明了它們是怎樣的人物。它們認爲它們有資格和一位公主結婚。
The Skipjack said nothing, but it was said of him that he thought all the more; and directly the Yard Dog had smelt at him he was ready to assert that the Skipjack was of good family, and formed from the breastbone of an undoubted goose. The old councillor, who had received three medals for holding his tongue, declared that the Skipjack possessed the gift of prophecy; one could tell by his bones whether there would be a severe winter or a mild one; and that's more than one can always tell from the breastbone of the man who writes the almanac。
跳鵝一句話也不說。不過據說它自己更覺得了不起。宮裏的狗兒把它嗅了一下，很有把握地說，跳鵝是來自一個上等的家庭。那位因爲從來不講話而獲得了三個勳章的老顧問官說，他知道跳鵝有預見的天才：人們只須看看它的背脊骨就能預知冬天是溫和還是寒冷。這一點人們是沒有辦法從寫曆書的人的背脊骨上看出來的。
"I shall not say anything more," said the old King. "I only go on quietly, and always think the best."
"好，我什麼也不再講了!"老國王說，"我只須在旁看看，我自己心中有數!"
Now they were to take their jump. The Flea sprang so high that no one could see him; and then they asserted that he had not jumped at all. That was very mean. The Grasshopper only sprang half as high, but he sprang straight into the King's face, and the King declared that was horribly rude. The Skipjack stood a long time considering; at last people thought that he could not jump at all。
現在它們要跳了。跳蚤跳得非常高，誰也看不見它，因此大家就說它完全沒有跳。這種說法太不講道理。蚱蜢跳得沒有跳蚤一半高。不過它是向國王的臉上跳過來，因此國王就說，這簡直是可惡之至。跳鵝站着沉思了好一會兒;最後大家就認爲它完全不能跳。
"I only hope he's not become unwell," said the Yard Dog, and then he smelt at him again."
我希望它沒有生病!"宮裏的狗兒說，然後它又在跳鵝身上嗅了一下。
"Tap!" he sprang with a little crooked jump just into the lap of the Princess, who sat on a low golden stool. Then the King said, "The highest leap was taken by him who jumped up to my daughter; for therein lies the point; but it requires head to achieve that, and the Skipjack has shown that he has a head."
"噓!"它笨拙地一跳，就跳到公主的膝上去了。她坐在一個矮矮的金凳子上。國王說："誰跳到我的女兒身上去，誰就要算是跳得最高的了，因爲這就是跳高的目的。不過能想到這一點，倒是需要有點頭腦呢——跳鵝已經顯示出它有頭腦。它的腿長到額上去了!"
And so he had the Princess。
所以它就得到了公主。
"I jumped highest, after all," said the Flea. "But it's all the same. Let her have the goose-bone with its lump of wax and bit of stick. I jumped to the highest; but in this world a body is required if one wishes to be seen."
"不過我跳得最高!"跳蚤說。"但是這一點用處也沒有!不過儘管她得到一架帶木栓和蠟油的鵝骨，我仍然要算跳得最高。但是在這個世界裏，一個人如果想要使人看見的話，必須有身材才成。"
And the Flea went into foreign military service, where it is said he was killed。
跳蚤於是便投效一個外國兵團。據說它在當兵時犧牲了。
The Grasshopper seated himself out in the ditch, and thought and considered how things happened in the world. And he too said, "Body is required! Body is required!" And then he sang his own melancholy song, and from that we have gathered this story, which they say is not true, though it's in print。
那隻蚱蜢坐在田溝裏，把這世界上的事情仔細思索了一番，不禁也說："身材是需要的!身材是需要的!"於是它便唱起了它自己的哀歌。我們從它的歌中得到了這個故事——這個故事可能不是真的，雖然它已經被印出來了。
經典英語童話故事閱讀篇二小豬搬西瓜
The pig & Watermelon
In spring, the mother pig took the little pig LuLu to the foot of the mountain. They planted some watermelon.
When summer came, there were many big round watermelons in the field.
One day, the sun was burning like a fire, it was terribly hot on the ground. The mother pig said to the little pig:"Lulu, go to the field to pick a watermelon back,ok?" Lulu said happily:"Ok! No problem."
Then he ran to the watermelon field. When he got to the field, he was happy to find so many big green watermelons. He chose one of the biggest watermelon and picked it from the vine. Then he held it with his hands trying to lift is on his shoulder to carry it home.
"Wow!It's so heavy!" Lulu tried several times, but he failed. And he was socked with sweat. He wiped his sweat off and decided to have a rest.
Suddenly he saw the monkey Pipi. He was playing with a hoop. Lulu patted his head and said:"I've got it." He thought,the round hoop can roll, the watermelon round too,then it can roll then put the big melon on the ground and rolled it forward quickly.
At last he got home with the mother pig knew the story, she exclaimed:"My child, you're really clever!"
春天的時候，豬媽媽帶着小豬嚕嚕，在山坡下種了一大片西瓜。到了夏天，西瓜地裏結滿了又圓又大的西瓜。
有一天，太陽光火辣辣地照着大地，天啊，可熱了。豬媽媽對小豬說：“嚕嚕，你到咱們的地裏摘個大西瓜回來解解渴吧!”小豬嚕嚕高興地說：“好吧!”說完就往西瓜地裏跑。到了地裏一看。呵，到處躺着大西瓜，水靈靈的，真惹人喜愛!嚕嚕挑了個最大的摘了下來。它雙手摟着西瓜，想抱起來放在肩上扛回家。“喲，好重呀!”嚕嚕試着抱了幾次都沒有抱起來，還累得滿頭大汗。 它直起身來，擦了擦臉上的汗水想休息一下，再去試試抱西瓜。突然，它看到小猴皮皮在山下邊的馬路上滾鐵環玩呢。小豬嚕嚕一拍後腦勺高興地說：“有了，我有辦法了。”什麼辦法呢?小豬嚕嚕心想：鐵環是圓的，可以滾動。西瓜也是圓的，不也可以滾動嗎?想到這兒啊，小豬嚕嚕顧不上休息，把大西瓜放在地上。咕嚕嚕，咕嚕嚕地向前滾，一直把西瓜滾到家裏。
豬媽媽看到小豬嚕嚕把又圓又大的西瓜搬回家，誇獎嚕嚕是個愛動腦筋的豬娃娃!
經典英語童話故事閱讀篇三Pandora
After the stealing of fire,Zeus became increasingly unkind to day he ordered his son Hephaestus tobuild an image of a beautiful maiden out of then asked the gods and goddesses to award her with different kinds of gg others,Athena clothed her in an attractive coat and Hermes gave her the power of telling lies.A charming young lady,she was the first woman that ever called her use she had received from each of the gods and goddesses a g gift was harmful to men.
Zeus decided to send her down to men as a Hermes them essenger brought her to Epimetheus,brother of greatness of her beauty touched the hearts of all who looked upon her,and Epimetheus happily received her into his had quite forgotten Pometheus' warning:never to accept anything from couple lived a happy life for some trouble came on to the human world.
When he was busy with teaching men the art of living,Prometheus had left a bigcask in the care of had warned his brother not to open the ora was a curious had been feeling very disappointed that her husband did not allow her to take a look at the contents of the day,when Epimetheus was out,she lifted the lid and out itcame unrest and war,Plague and sickness,theft and violence, grief sorrow,and all the other human world was hence to experience these hope stayed within the mouth of the jar and never flew men always have hope within their hearts.
潘多拉
偷竊天火之後,宙斯對人類的敵意與日俱增。一天,他令兒子赫菲斯托斯用泥塑一美女像,並請衆神贈予她不同的禮物。其中,雅典娜飾之以華麗的衣裳,赫耳墨斯贈之以說謊的能力。世上的第一個女人是位迷人女郎,因爲她從每位神靈那裏得到了一樣對男人有害的禮物,因此宙斯稱她爲潘多拉(pander:意爲煽動)。
宙斯決定把她作爲禮物送給世間的男子。於是信使赫耳墨斯將她帶給普羅米修斯的弟弟厄庇墨透斯。她姿容絕美,見者無不爲之傾心。厄庇墨透斯興高采烈地把她迎入屋內。普羅米修斯警告過他不得接受宙斯的任何饋贈,而他已將之忘於腦後。這一對夫妻有過一段幸福的生活,但不久災難卻降臨人間。
當普羅米修斯忙於教授人們生存之道的時候,他把一個桶託付給厄庇墨透斯。他警告過他的弟弟不要打開桶蓋。潘多拉好奇心強。她的丈夫不允許她看桶中之物,這使她感到十分懊惱。一天乘厄庇墨透斯出門在外,她打開桶蓋,從桶裏跑出的是不和與戰爭,瘟疫與疾病,偷竊與暴力,悲哀與憂慮,以及其他一些人類從此要遭受的不幸。只有希望被關在桶口,永遠飛不出來,因此人們常常把希望藏於心中。
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