古代英语故事

in the spring and autumn period, there was a farmer who was impatient by nature. he thought his rice shoots（嫩枝） were growing too slowly, so he decided to help them by pulling them.有个急性子的宋国人，日夜盼望稻田里的稻子快些长大。可是，稻子是要慢慢长的，不能照他想的那样长的那么快。one day at dusk, he went back home dog-tired and said to his family: "i helped the rice shoots grow today." hearing this, his son hurried to the field, only to find that all the plants had withered（干枯） .有一天，他想出了一个妙计：下得田去，把每棵稻子都从土里拔高了一些。“好累啊!辛辛苦苦干了一整天!不过，田里的稻子倒是都长高好些了。”他的儿子听说田里的稻子长高了好些，连忙跑到田里去看。可是，糟糕得很，田里的稻苗的叶子，都开始枯萎了。this idiom refers to spoiling things because of being over-anxious for results and ignoring the law of nature.这则故事主要告诫人们：不尊重自然规律或忽视自然规律，过分的焦急，必然导致破坏事情的正常发展。

摘取了一个，其他的在附件里。 古希腊神话故事:海尔墨斯 Hermes immediately after he was born，hermes was appointed godof thieves at olympus．and a thief he became when he was barely a few hours old．feeling hungry，the infant left his cradle after nightfall to hunt for food．he chanced uponapollo\'\'s oxen grazing on a meadow and drove a number ofthese animals away，tying tree branches around the feet of thecattle to make their footsteps dim．he killed two of these oxenand had a magnificent dinner．then he slipped back into his littlebed in his mother\'\'s house．when apollo came to question himhermes pretended to be innocent．the angry sungod draggedhim up to olympus，where he was accused of the stealing andmade to return the cattle to their master．in reconciliation little hermes gave apollo the lyre he had made out of a tortoise shell，and apollo was so pleased with the gift that he presented his little brother with a magic stick．the stick could pacify hostileforces． in due time hermes was appointed messenger of zeus andthe gods．the gods equipped him with a pair of winged sandalsand winged cap to enable him to travel swifter than sight．it was hermes who took the messages of zeus to the world below． hermes was a patron of travellers．his busts and statueswere set up as dividing marks at crossroads or street corners toguide passersby．the hermes，as these statues were called，were regarded as sacred，and their mutilation was sacrilegiousand punishable by death．the destruction of the numerous hermes within the city of athens caused a terrible excitement amongits citizens that it might be no exaggeration to state that itchanged the whole course of historic development of athens ． 海尔墨斯 海尔墨斯一生下来就被任命为奥林波斯山的贼神。他出生后几个小时的时候就做了贼。黄昏时分，他感到饥饿，于是还是婴孩的海尔墨斯离开了他的摇篮去找食物吃。他碰巧看见阿波罗的牛在草地里吃草，于是他偷走了许多牛，并将树枝绑在牛脚上，让脚印变得模糊不清。他杀了其中两头牛，美餐了一顿。然后悄然地回到他妈妈的房里，爬上床。当阿波罗发现牛少了，来质问他时，海尔墨斯佯作不知。愤怒不已的太阳神把他拖到奥林波斯山上，告他偷窃并责令将牛如数还给主人。为了平息这件事，小海尔墨斯将他用乌龟壳做的琴送给阿波罗。阿波罗得到这件礼物非常高兴，并送给他的小兄弟一支魔棍，这支魔棍可以化解敌对力量。 到了一定的时候，海尔墨斯被指定为宙斯和众神的传令官。众神赐他一双带翅膀的草鞋和一顶带翅膀的帽子，让他可以行动神速。海尔墨斯成了宙斯和凡世之间传递消息的人。 海尔墨斯是行人的保护神。十字路口或街角都有他的半身像和雕像。并作为独特的标记，看护着每一个过往的人。这些雕像也用海尔墨斯的名字命名，并被视为神圣不可侵犯的。任何毁坏雕像的行为都被认为是亵渎神灵，要被处以极刑。一次在雅典城，海尔墨斯的像遭到大量破坏。这一捣毁神像的行为在国民中引起了强烈的反响。毫不夸张地说，它改变了雅典历史发展的全部进程。 附件： 中英文对照古希腊神话故事集锦.doc

After Pangu created the world, there was no one in the world. The female cochlea molded human beings with yellow mud according to her own appearance. Since then, people began to live happily on the earth. There was an unexpected situation. One year, the earth suddenly fell apart, the fire raged, the flood surged, and wild animals injured people.The female cochlea melts the multicolored stones and then mends the hole in the sky with these melted liquid. Then she cut off the four legs of a ten thousand year old giant turtle and used them as Optimus Prime to support the four directions of heaven and earth.In this way, the sky is mended, the four corners are supported, the flood is tamed, the beasts are destroyed, and human life returns to the happiness of the past

China is a great country with a very early civilization and a long and rich history. The compass, gunpowder, the art of paper-making and block printing(四大发明哦） invented by the ancient Chinese have contributed immensely to the progress of mankind. The Great Wall, Grand Canal, Museum of Chin Sh Huang's Buried Sculpture Legion and other projects built by the Chinese people are regarded as engineering feats in the world.

Jim’sHistoryExaminationUncle:HowdidJimdoinhishistoryexamination?Mother:Oh,notatallwell,butthere,itwasn'thisfault.Theyaskedhimthingsthathappenedbeforethepoorboywasborn.吉姆的历史考试舅舅：吉姆这孩子历史考得怎么样？母亲：唉，糟透了。可话又说回来，这也不能怪他。嗨，他们尽问一些这个可怜的孩子出生前的事儿。