在学习、工作、生活中，大家都有令自己印象深刻的寓言故事吧，寓言的篇幅一般比较短小，语言精辟简练，结构简单却极富表现力。还苦于找不到优秀的寓言故事？
One day, Tom is bathing in a river. He doesn't swim well and will be drown. He calls out loud for help. A man is just passing by. He doesn't help the boy, but stands by and says to him. “How imprudent you are! It is dangerous to bath in the river.” “Oh, yes sir,” cries the boy, “ Please help me out and scold me afterward.”
Counsel without help is useless.
洗澡的男孩
有一天，汤姆在河里洗澡。他不太会游泳。眼看就要被淹死，他大声呼喊救命。有个人正好从旁边经过，他没有帮助小男孩，却是站在旁边对小孩子说道：“ 你怎么这么草率！在河里洗澡很危险。”“哦，先生，”小男孩喊叫：“ 请你还是先把我救起来后再责备我吧。”
只有忠告而不给予帮助是无济于事的。
He turned to the patient:“But you were in the wrong when you took the boat without asking the owners permission.
You were in the right because you were not so lazy as he was and you did not want to let the moonlit night go by without making some use of it.”
他又转向那位病人说：“但是，你未征得船主的许可便动用了他的船，在这点上你是不对的。你也有对的一面，因为你不像他那样懒惰，你不想让这月夜白白溜走而不去利用它。”
Dr.Schweitzer divided the catch among the fisherman, the boat owner, and the hospital.
施韦策博士把捕来的鱼分给了渔夫、病人和医院三方。
The swallows and sparrows are very pleased to find a place on the roof of the hall for their nests.The mother birds are feeding their babies with pleasure, which assumes a scene of peace and harmony.But they have never thought of the following scene: the chimney at the top of the kitchen might break, the fire might leap up to the roof and the burning purling might destroy their nests.
But those swallows and sparrows are unmindful of the coming disaster.
They go on with their superficial happiness brought by peace and calm.
燕雀处室
燕雀为拥有屋顶下面的一个位置而欣慰不已。母鸟用叼来的食物喂养啁啾鸣叫的幼鸟，整个儿是一派欢乐自得的'祥和景象。
它们完全没有考虑到：炉灶上的烟囱有可能会炸裂，火苗将会窜上屋梁，烧着的椽将会摧毁它们的巢穴。
不知大祸将要降临到自己头上的燕雀们正在安然自若地品味这表面上的安宁所带来的幸福。
Fox, just at the time of the vintage, stole into a vine-yard where the ripe sunny Grapes were trellised up on high in most tempting show. He made many a spring and a jump after the luscious prize, but, failing in all his attempts, he muttered as he retreated："Well what does it matter! The Grapes are sour!"
Kitty the Cat is eating all the mice. The mice are afraid to come out of their mouseholes.
猫咪凯蒂几乎吃光了所有的老鼠。老鼠们都非常害怕，不敢踏出鼠洞半步。
Kitty: Meow… I got you, little mouse.
凯蒂：喵呜……我抓住你了，小老鼠。
Little Joe: Oh, please, Kitty! Let me go. I am too small to eat.
小乔伊：哦，求求你了，凯蒂！放我走吧。我太小了，不够你吃的。
Kitty: I don’t mind. I am very hungry right now. (gulp!)
凯蒂：没关系。我现在太饿了。(一口吞下小老鼠！)
Kitty the Cat eats poor Little Joe and looks around for another mouse.
猫咪凯蒂吃掉了可怜的小乔伊。又继续四处寻找其他的'老鼠。
Kitty: That was delicious. But I’m still not full. I need another one. Meow…
凯蒂：味道真不错。可是我还是没饱，我得再找一只。喵呜……
Lenny and Theodore are also mice. They see everything.
伦尼和西奥多也是老鼠，他们目睹了这一切。
Lenny: Did you see that, Theodore?
伦尼：你看到了吗，西奥多？
Theodore: I sure did, Lenny. It was terrible.
西奥多：我看到了，伦尼。太可怕了。
Lenny: Kitty is getting fatter and fatter every day. She is eating more and more.
伦尼：凯蒂一天比一天胖。她越吃越多。
Theodore: Soon she will eat all of us. We need to do something.
西奥多：很快她就会把我们都吃光。我们必须采取行动。
Lenny: You’re right. But what can we do?
伦尼：你说得对。但是我们该怎么做呢？
Theodore: Let’s have a meeting first. Tell all the mice to come to my house tonight.
西奥多：我们先开个会。告诉所有的老鼠今晚到我家来。
Lenny: Don’t worry. I’ll tell everyone to come. We’ll all be there.
伦尼：你放心吧。我去叫所有的人来。我们大家都会到。
The phoenix
Many ages had now passed away since the Phoenix had been seen in the world. At last he again appeared. Immediately al the different kinds of animals, both birds and beasts, flocked around him.
Astonished at his beauty, they stared and admired, and broke out into great praise. But in a short time, the wisest and most prudent(谨慎的) amongst them began to look upon him with an eye of compassion, and they sighed,"O unhappy phoenix! Fate has been hard to him. He has neither mate nor friend. He will never know the pleasure of loving, or of being loved."
A hippo lives in the zoo. I like him very much. I often go to see him. He often thinks of me, too. Today is Sunday. It is fine day. I go to see him again. After I leave the zoo, he follows me to my house. I give him lettuce, cabbages, bananas, apples and other food. He eats them up. When I sing songs, he stays in the pool. He is as quite as a rabbit.
In the evening, he jumps onto my bed with me. My mum tells him to go home. He has to pack his bag and go back to the zoo. My mum lets me see him every week.
河马住在动物园里，我很喜欢他。我经常去看它，它也经常想我。
今天是星期日，是个好天气，我又一次去看望它。在我离开动物园之后，它跟随到我的家。我给它莴苣、生菜、香蕉、苹果和其他食物。它都吃了。
当我唱歌时，它待在水池里，像兔子一样安静。
晚上，它跳到床上同我睡觉在一起睡。
妈妈要它回家。它不得不背起包回到动物园。妈妈允许我每周去看它。
从前，有个守财奴将他的金块埋到一棵树下，每周他都去把他挖出来看看。
一天晚上，一个小偷挖走了所有的。金块。 守财奴再来查看时，发现除了一个空洞什么都没有了。
守财奴便捶胸痛哭。哭声引来了邻居
他告诉他们这里原来有他的金块。
问明了原因后，一个邻居问：“你使用过这些金块吗？” “没用过，” 他说，“我只是时常来看看。”“那么，以后再来看这个洞，”邻居说，“就像以前有金块时一样。”
A man walking in the night slipped from a rock. Afraid that he would fall down thousands of feet, because he knew that place was a very deep valley, he took hold of a branch that was hanging over the rock. In the night all he couls see was a bottomless abyss. He shouted, his own shout reflected back--there was nobody to hear.
You can imagine that man and his whole night of scare. Every moment there was death, his hands were becoming cold, he was losing his grip...... and as the sun came out he looked down and he laughed. There was no abyss. Just six inches down there was a rock. He could have rested the whole night, slept well---the rock was big enough---but the whole night was a nightmare.
Fear is only six inches deep. Now it is up to you whether you want to go on cling to the branch and turn your life into a nightmare, or whether you would love to leave the branch and stand on your feet.
There is nothing to fear.
Long ago a great mountain began to rumble and shake .
People came from far and near to see what would happen.
"A great river will be born." said one.
"Surely nothing less than a mighty dragon will e out." said another.
"A god himself will spring form these rocks." said a third.
Finally , after days of expectation a small crack appeared in the mountain. And out popped ---- a mouse.
Just because someone makes a lot of fuss, it doesn't mean he is important.
Ye Gong was well-known for his fondness for dragons: In the house where he lived, dragons were painted on the walls and carved on the pillars and the four walls of his bedroom. There were dragons everywhere, up and down, front and back, with each dragon baring its teeth andbrandishing its claws.
In the heavens there was a real dragon. It was very happy to hear that Ye Gong was so fond of dragons.
One day, the sky suddenly darkened, and then came wind, thunder and rain. The real dragon flew to Ye Gong's home. It poked its head into the window in the south and coiled its tail to the window in the north, rocking and rattling the whole house.
At the sight of this real dragon, Ye Gong was frightened out of his wits. He trembled all over and hurriedly hid himself.
So it turned out that what Ye Gong liked was painted and carved fake dragons but not real ones.
叶公喜欢龙，已经出了名了。他住的屋子里，墙上画着龙，柱子上雕着龙，卧室四面的墙壁上也刻着龙，上上下下，前前后后，到处都是龙，一条条张牙舞爪。
天上有一条真的龙，听说叶公这样喜欢龙，高兴极了。
有一天，天空突然暗了下来，又是刮风，又是打雷，又是下雨，真龙飞到了叶公的家里。它把头伸进了南面的窗口，把尾巴绕到了北面的窗口，把整个屋子摇得格格直响。
叶公看到这条真龙，一下子吓得魂飞魄散，浑身发抖，急忙躲了起来。
原来，叶公喜欢的只是那些画着、雕着的假龙，而不是真龙！
In a primeval forest, a boa constrictor and a leopard at the same time stare at an antelope. The leopard looks at the python, the boa constrictor looks at the leopard, each takes the abacus".
The leopard thought, "if I want to eat the antelope, I must destroy the python first.".
Python thought: "if I want to eat antelope, we must first destroy the leopard.".
So, almost at the same time, the leopard jumped on the python, and the python jumped on the leopard.
The leopard bit the Python's neck and thought, "if I don't bite, I'll be bitten by a python.".
The python wrapped around the leopard's body and thought, "if it doesn't work hard, I'll be killed by a leopard.".
So both sides fought desperately.
Finally, the antelope walked serenely, while the leopard and python fell to the ground.
The hunter saw this battle is very emotion, said: "if both pounce on prey, rather than toward each other, and then divide the food, both will not die; if both go together, to give up their prey, both will not die; if a party of two side away, toward the prey, both will not die if the seriousness of each other; two problems in consciousness, they are not dead. Their sorrow is to have the courtesy into a fight at outrance struggle."
The sorrow of life often comes from this.
A man once had four sons who never stopped quarrelling with one another. He was always telling them how much easier life would be if they worked together but they took absolutely no notice of him. One day he decided to show them what he meant.
He called all the sons together and put a tightly tied bundle of sticks on the floor in front of them.
"Can you break that ? " he asked the youngest son. The boy put his knee on the bundle but though he pressed and pulled with his arms he could not bend the wood. The father asked each son in turn to try to break the bundle, but none of them could do it .
Then he untied the string and scattered the sticks.
" Now try, " he said . The boys broke the sticks easily in their hands.
"Do you see what I mean ?" asked the father. "if only you stand together no one can hurt you . If you all disagree the whole time and insist on going your separate ways, the first enemy you meet will be able to destroy you. "
United we stand ; divided we fall.
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf."
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
The United States of Tennessee Delta have an immigration to Peru, where he has six hectares of forests in the United States, a western gold rush to sell, he moved west in the West bought ninety hectares of land for drilling, hoping to find sands or iron ore here. He worked for five years, did not find anything, even the family finally toss out, had to return to Tennessee.
When he returned, found the roar of the machine, with the shed. Originally, the mountain was sold him a gold mine. Now, this is in gold mining, it is the famous American Monroe gold.
In this world, everyone hides unique gifts. Talent is like gold mine, buried in our ordinary life, whether a person is lucky enough to dig into this gold mine, the key is to see whether we can play down their strengths on the ground, and carefully manage their own life.
美国田纳西洲有一位秘鲁移民，在这里他拥有六公顷山林，在美国掀起西部淘金热时，他变卖家产举家西迁，在西部买了九十公顷的土地进行钻探，希望能在这里找到金沙或铁矿。他一连干了五年，不仅没有找到任何东西，最后连家底也折腾光了，不得不又重返田纳西洲。
当他回到故地时，发现那儿机器轰鸣，工棚林立。原来，被他卖掉的那个山林就是一座金矿。如今，这金矿依在被开采，它就是美国有名的门罗金矿。
在这个世界上，每个人都潜藏着独特的天赋。天赋像金矿一样，埋藏在我们平淡无奇的生命中，一个人是否有幸挖到这座金矿，关键看能不能脚踏实地发挥自己的长处，用心去经营自己的人生。
A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: "Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us."
有个去过国外旅游的人回国后大肆吹嘘他在别的很多城市的丰功伟绩。其中，他就说道，他在罗德岛曾跳得很远，连奥林匹克的`冠军都不能与他抗衡。他还说那些当时在场观看的人们若能到这里来，就可以给他作证。这时，旁边的一个人对他说：“喂，朋友，如果这一切是真的，根本不需要什么证明人。你把这里当作是罗德岛，你跳吧！”
On a vacation trip, Duke Huan of the state of Qi came to the ruin of the capital of Guo Shi , which perished long ago.
Seeing the desolate and bleak prospects of broken tiles, collapsed walls, and clusters of weeds, he could not help asking the local people about the reason of the ruin of Guo Shi.
They replied,"Guo Shi was fond of doing good deeds, and averse to evildoing, which led to the perdition."
When the Duke could not understand the answer, people explained ," Though he liked doing good, he had never been able to do so; though he hated evildoing, never could he help not participating. That caused the ruin of his capital."
Drop at the fox in the well with thegoat
An only the fox take a wrong stepped the well，in spite of how he struggle can not still climb up，and have to be foolish there.The公goat feels
Thirsty pole，arrive at this well the side，and see the fox under the well，and then ask him the well water the how about it to drink?The fox feels the opportunity to e，heart inside
The暗pleaseds，right away the town quiet down，make every effort the laudation well water good drink，say this water is a world the first spring，pure and sweet and good to eat，and advise the goat to hurry up
Come down，and drink to heart's content with him.A the heart think only of to drink the water letter to think the true goat，then the without stopping to think ground jump downed to go to，and be his咕咚咕the咚painful
After finishing drinking，have to with the fox together totally the pany ascend the well's way.Fox early contain preparation，he to archly say:" I pour to have a
Method.You pick with forepaw on the well wall，again Cape竖直，I behind carry on the back to jump up the well to go to from you，and pull you again to e up，we all
Save." the公goat agreed his proposal，fox to trample the feet of his empress，and jump he carry top on his back，and then make an effort from the Cape a
Jump，jump outed the mouth of a well.The fox go ups the hereafter，and the preparation alone escape.The公goat blames the fox and does not keep the诺speech.The fox returns overdo
Say to公goat:" hello，friend，beard that you of brains if resemble you are so perfect，you not to the extent of at did not see the pure exit it
Front blindly jump down to go to."
This story elucidation，cleverness of the person should to in advance think it over the affair's result，then just go to do.
Little boy and scorpion son
There is a child in front of city wall to catch the grasshopper, and in a short while caught the lots of.Suddenly see a scorpion son, he to think is also grasshopper,
Then two go to catch him.The scorpion son raises his poison to stab, say:" e, if you really dare to do like this, connect your grasshopper that catch to also would entirely lose."
This story warns people, and want to distinguish the pure good man with the bad person, and distinct to treat them.
小男孩与蝎子
有个小孩在城墙前捉蚱蜢，一会儿就捉了许多。忽然看见一只蝎子，他以为也是蚱蜢，
便着两手去捕捉他。蝎子举起他的毒/刺，说道：“来吧，如果你真敢这样做，就连你捉的蚱蜢也会统统失掉。”
这故事告诫人们，要分辨清好人和坏人，区别对待他们。
Three Good Friends
One day，a monkey rides his bike near the river. This time he sees a lion under a tree. The lion runs at him. He is afraid and falls into the river. He can’t swim. He shouts. The rabbit hears him.
He jumps into the river. The rabbit swims to the monkey，but he can’t help him. Luckily，an elephant es along. He is very strong. He helps the rabbit and monkey. Three friends are very happy.
They go to the elephant’s home. Then，three of them bee good friends.