英语寓言故事缩写

揠苗助长(To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow)Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants. "How could the plants grow faster?" He tossed in bed during the night and could not sleep. Suddenly he hit upon an idea. He had an idea not wait for daybreak. He jumped out of the bed and dashed to the field. By the moonlight, he began working on the rice seedlings. One by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was already morning. Straightening his back, he said to himself, "What a wonderful idea! Look, how much taller the plants have grown one night!" With great satisfaction, he went back home. He told his son what he had done in a triumphant tone. His son was shocked. Now the sun had risen. The young man was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.People now use " Ba Miao Zhu Zhang" to describe the behavior of those who are too eager to get something done only to make it worse. The idiom is a bit like the English proverb "Haste makes waste" ------to spoil things by excessive enthusiasm.异译古时候宋国有个农夫，种了稻苗后，便希望能早早收成。每天他到稻田时，发觉那些稻苗长得非常慢。他等得不耐烦，心想："怎么样才能使稻苗长得高，长很快呢?想了又想，他终了想到一个"最佳方法"，就是将稻苗拨高几分。经过一番辛劳后，他满意地扛锄头回家休息。然后回去对家里的人表白："今天可把我累坏了，我帮助庄稼苗长高一大截！"他儿子赶快跑到地里去一看，禾苗全都枯死了。人们现在用拔苗助长形容急于求成，违法客观规律，只会把事情办坏。成语有点像西方的谚语“欲速则不达”——过度的热情只会把事情办坏

这是一则家喻户晓的寓言故事，说的是狐狸凭自己的智谋逃出了虎口。后来都用来比喻依仗别人的势力欺压人。狡猾的狐狸凭借老虎的威风，在森林中吓唬别人，但是，狡诈的手法决不能使狐狸改变虚弱的本质。把戏一旦被戳（chuō）穿，它非但会受到群兽的围攻，还将被受骗的老虎吞吃。引申说明仗势欺人的坏蛋，虽然能够嚣张一时，但最终决不会有好的下场。