多读寓言故事有助于培养学生的审美能力与良好的道德情操,而英文版的小故事还可以锻炼孩子们的外语能力。下面这些是小编为大家推荐的几篇英文三分钟寓言小故事。
英文三分钟寓言小故事1：Little boy with a bad temper
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.
He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal(言语的) wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.
英文三分钟寓言小故事2:Happiness is a kind of ability
It is a multinational company director of planning of recruitment. After each, finally only three outstanding. Last time, three applicants before examination were enclosed in a room with the monitor. Inside the room of supplies, but no telephone hris, no access to the Internet. Three people have told inspection specific what to do, just say, let a few people waited patiently for the exam questions.
The first day, three men are slightly excited, watch TV, books, look to music.
The next day, the situation began to appear. Because of the delays, some questions can become anxious constantly changing, someone with TV channels, turn to... Only one person, also with television plot happy smile, relish(品味，喜爱) cooking dinner, reading builders sleep...
Five days, assessment will three people please out of the room, I say the result that can keep happy life hired. I explained: "happy is a kind of ability, in any environment keep a happy heart, can be more safely near success!"
英文三分钟寓言小故事3:Finding a New Spring
Once upon a time a certain tradesman was leading a caravan(大篷车) to another country to sell his goods. Along the way they came to the edge of a severe hot-sand desert. They asked about, and found that during the daytime the sun heats up the fine sand until it's as hot ascharcoal(木炭) , so no one can walk on it -- not even bullocks(小公牛，阉牛) or camels! So the caravan leader hired a desert guide, one who could follow the stars, so they could travel only at night when the sand cools down. They began the dangerous night-time journey across the desert. A couple nights later, after eating their evening meal, and waiting for the sand to cool, they started out again.
Later that night the desert guide, who was driving the first cart saw from the stars that they were getting close to the other side of the desert. He had also overeaten, so that when he relaxed, hedozed off(打瞌睡) to sleep. Then the bullocks who, of course, couldn't tell directions by reading the stars, gradually turned to the side and went in a big wide circle until they ended up at the same place they had started from! By then it was morning, and the people realized they were back at the same spot they'd camped at the day before. They lost heart and began to cry about their condition. Since the desert crossing was supposed to be over by now, they had no more water and were afraid they would die of thirst. They even began to blame the caravan leader and the desert guide -- "We can do nothing without water!", they complained.
Then the tradesman thought to himself, "If I lose courage now, in the middle of thisdisastrous situation, my leadership has no meaning. If I fall to weeping and regretting thismisfortune, and do nothing, all these goods and bullocks and even the lives of the people, including myself, may be lost. I must be energetic and face the situation!" So he began walking back and forth, trying to think out a plan to save them all. Remaining alert, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a small clump of grass. He thought, "Without water, no plant could live in this desert." So he called over the most energetic of his fellow travelers and asked them to dig up the ground on that very spot. They dug and dug,and after a while they got down to a large stone. Seeing it they stopped, and began to blame the leader again,saying "This effort is useless. We're just wasting our time!" But the tradesman replied, "No no, my friends, if we give up the effort we will all be ruined and our poor animals will die -- let us be encouraged!" As he said this, he got down into the hole, put his ear to the stone, and heard the sound of flowing water.
Immediately, he called over a boy who had been digging and said, "If you give up, we will allperish -- so take this heavy hammer and strike the rock." The boy lifted the hammer over his head and hit the rock as hard as he could -- and he himself was the most surprised when the rock spilt in two and a mighty flow of water gushed(涌出，迸发) out from under it! Suddenly, all the people were overjoyed. They drank and bathed and washed the animals and cooked their food and ate. Before they left, they raised a high banner so that other travelers could see it from afar(遥远地) and come to the new spring in the middle of the hot-sand desert. Then they continued on safely to the end of their journey. The moral is. Don't give up too easily keep on trying until you reach the goal.