1.幼兒?jiǎn)⒚捎⒄Z(yǔ)故事
The Crow and The Pitcher
A crow felt very thirsty. He looked for water everywhere. Finally, he found a pitcher.
But there was not a lot of water in the pitcher. His beak could not reach it. He tried again and again, but still could not touch the water.
When he was about to give up, an idea came to him. He took a pebble and dropped it into the pitcher.
Then he took another and dropped it in.
Gradually, the water rose, and the crow was able to drink the water.
口渴的烏鴉
一只烏鴉口渴了，到處找水喝。終于，他找到了一個(gè)大水罐。
然而，水罐里面的水并不多，他的尖嘴夠不到水面，他試了一次又一次，都沒(méi)有成功。
就在他想放棄的時(shí)候，他突然想到一個(gè)主意。烏鴉叼來(lái)了一塊小石子投到水罐里，接著又叼了一塊又一塊石頭放進(jìn)去。
漸漸地，水面升高了。烏鴉高興地喝到了水。
寓意：有些東西雖然看起來(lái)微不足道，但如果積少成多，便會(huì)帶來(lái)很大變化。
2.幼兒?jiǎn)⒚捎⒄Z(yǔ)故事
One day, Zhuang Gong, King of the State of Qi, went out in a chariot to hunt.
一天，齊莊公乘車(chē)外出打獵。
On the way, he saw a small insect raise both its arms, trying to stop the wheels of the chariot. Zhuang Gong of Qi was curious and asked the driver:
路上，他看見(jiàn)一只小蟲(chóng)舉起雙臂，想阻擋車(chē)輪前進(jìn)。齊莊公很好奇，就問(wèn)車(chē)夫:
"What kind of insect is it?"
“這是什么蟲(chóng)子?”
"It is a mantis," the driver replied promptly. "This kind of insect only knows how to advance but not retreat, blindly underrating its enemies and overrating its own abilities."
車(chē)夫連忙回答:“這是蝗螂。這種蟲(chóng)子只知前進(jìn)，不知后退，盲目輕敵，不自量力。”
Hearing the driver's reply, Zhuang Gong smiled to himself and remained silent.
聽(tīng)了車(chē)夫的回答，莊公暗自發(fā)笑，默默無(wú)語(yǔ)。
3.幼兒?jiǎn)⒚捎⒄Z(yǔ)故事
A waggoner was once driving a heavy load on a very muddy road.
一名車(chē)夫趕著貨車(chē)沿著一條非常泥濘的小路前行。
Suddenly the wheels of the wagon sank into the mire, and the horse could not pull them out.
突然，馬車(chē)的輪子陷入了泥潭，馬無(wú)法將它們拉出來(lái)。
The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules. “Hercules, help me,please,“ he said.
車(chē)夫扔下鞭子，跪在地上，祈求大力神出現(xiàn)，“大力神啊，請(qǐng)來(lái)幫助我�！彼f(shuō)。
But Hercules appeared to him, and said, “Man, don’t kneel there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.“
大力神出現(xiàn)了，卻說(shuō)：“朋友，用你的肩膀把車(chē)輪扛起來(lái)，再驅(qū)趕馬拉車(chē)出來(lái)。跪在那里祈求我有什么用呢?”
4.幼兒?jiǎn)⒚捎⒄Z(yǔ)故事
One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crows beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took the meat and went into his hole.
有一天, 一只烏鴉站在窩旁的樹(shù)枝上嘴里叼著一片肉，心里非常高興。這時(shí)候，一只狐貍看見(jiàn)了烏鴉，饞得直流口水，非常想得到那片肉。但是，無(wú)論狐貍說(shuō)什么，烏鴉就是不理睬狐貍。最后，狐貍贊美烏鴉的嗓音美，并要求烏鴉唱幾句讓他欣賞欣賞。烏鴉聽(tīng)了狐貍贊美的話，得意極了，就唱起歌來(lái)。沒(méi)想到，肉一掉下來(lái)，狐貍就叼起肉，鉆回了洞。
5.幼兒?jiǎn)⒚捎⒄Z(yǔ)故事
On the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: “If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!”
In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of “Ai Yo!”, fell heavily to the ground.
Seeing this, the snake said: “Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can’t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.”
Lion said: “I also can’t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.”
Tiger said, “I can’t fly, but I can swim!”
Little Elephant’s father and mother said to him, “We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird’s.”
Little Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.
小象生下來(lái)的第三天，跟媽媽來(lái)到小河邊，看見(jiàn)一只小鳥(niǎo)在天空飛來(lái)飛去。小象想：“要是我也會(huì)飛，可以看到更多的東西，多好呀！”
小象爬到樹(shù)去學(xué)飛“哎喲”一聲，摔了一個(gè)大跟頭。
蛇看見(jiàn)了說(shuō):“小象，我們有自己的本事。我不會(huì)飛，可是，我會(huì)在樹(shù)上睡覺(jué)�！�
獅子說(shuō):“我也不會(huì)飛，可是，我能跳過(guò)寬寬的大河�！�
老虎說(shuō):“我不會(huì)飛，可是我會(huì)游泳！”
爸爸媽媽對(duì)小象說(shuō):“我們象的力氣大，這是小鳥(niǎo)不能比的�！毙∠竺靼琢�。他用長(zhǎng)鼻子一鉤，大木頭就搬走了。
