神話故事是原始的哲學和宇宙觀,是各民族對自然和社會進行探索、理解和幻想的結晶,下面這些是小編爲大家推薦的幾篇民間故事英文版。
民間故事英文版1：夜光之珠
A fisherman, Bei Gongzhi got a very precious and rareluminous pearl, and all his acquaintances came to congratulate him.
And the minister of the state of Song promised to take him to see the king of the state of Song and promised him that he would get wealth and rank soon.
At this time, this father had just come back home. After hearing this, his father has made a simple living by hunting for a dozen said, "My family has made a simple living by hunting for a dozen generations.
It is easy to become rich and noble if I present the pearl to the king.
But after you become rich and noble, it is easy for you to become haughty, andhaughtiness will lead to atrocity, and atrocity will lead to wild act, and that will be very close to danger, and a fatal disaster will be imminent.
At that time, it would be impossible to come back to live the simple life of today."
民間故事英文版2:角象龍鳴
Da Fuquan made a born that could make sounds of dragon. He blew the born by the deep pool near Mountain Nanshang.
Hearing the sound, the three-legged turtle in the pool thought that people were to catch it and eat it.
So it got so frightened that it shouted hysterically with its mouth wide open.
Da Fuquan thought this was sound of a real dragon. Then he went to find Gong Zhiqi and told him he wanted to learn the real sound of a dragon.
Gong Zhiqi told him, "What you heard was not real sound of a dragon but sound of a three-legged turtle.
The real sound of a dragon is rare2 to be heard by people. The sound made by your born is not that of a dragon, and now it is even worse for you to mistake the sound of a turtle to be that of a dragon! You just give up one false thing to take up another."
民間故事英文版3:戴蒿畫牛
Dai Song was a famous painter in Tang dynasty and his paintings of ox were always cherished by Brahmins.
In Song dynasty, a person who lived in Sichuan province with a surname of Du collected a painting of ox by Dai Song, and he cherished it very much and often took it out to appreciate it.
And he even often dries it in sunny days.
Once a shepherd boy saw this painting and couldn't help laughing, thinking that the painting was to depict a fighting ox, but in this painting the tail of the ox was raised high, which was quite different from what he had observed before.
In fighting, the tail of the ox should he between the legs.
So this painting had this wrong. The Sichuan person with the surname of Du agreed with the shepherd boy and didn't cherish it that much any longer.