人与动物的英语童话故事
人和动物之间总有说不清的情，下面小编为大家带来有关人与动物的经典英语故事，欢迎大家阅读!
老人与蝴蝶
There was a wonderful old man who loved everything.Animals,spiders,insects ...
One day while walking through the woods,the nice old man found a cocoon.He decided to take the cocoon home to watch its beautiful transformation from a little cocoon to a beautiful butterfly.
He gently placed the cocoon on his kitchen table and watched over it for days.
One day the cocoon started to move.It moved frantically!The old man felt sorry for the little butterfly inside.He watched it struggle and struggle!
Finally the old man rushed to its aid with a scalpel and gently slit the cocoon so the butterfly could emerge.
Just one slice was all it took,and the butterfly broke free from its cocoon only to wilt over in a completely motionless state.
The old man did not know what to think.Had he accidentally killed the little butterfly?No,it was still moving a little bit.Maybe it was sick.
He was quite perplexed.He decided the best thing he could do for the butterfly was to place it gently back into its cocoon.
He did so,and placed a drop of honey on it to seal the cocoon,leaving the butterfly to nestle in its natural state.
The next day he noticed that the cocoon was moving again.It struggled and struggled.Finally the butterfly broke free from its cocoon and stretched its wings out.Its beautiful wings were filled with wonderful colors!It took off!It was flying!
And that wonderful butterfly flew and flew till it was almost out of the old man's sight.What a joy,he exclaimed!But then he started to think.What did I do wrong by trying to help that beautiful little butterfly out at first?The old man went to the library and read every book he could find on butterflies and cocoons.
Finally the answer appeared.The butterfly has to struggle and struggle while inside the cocoon.That's how it gets its strength.That's just what they are designed to overcome in order to be strong and beautiful.
送水的象
Some two thousand years ago, in a river in ancient India, there was a pond full of fish. They lived happily in the clear water. They jumped and swam or just floated around enjoying their watery home.
Then for a long time it didn't rain. Every day some more water evaporated, until the pond had almost dried up. If the pond dried up, all of the fish would die under the hot, dry sun.
The sun kept beating down on the dry earth. An old man happened to walk by the pond. He saw the water was almost gone. His heart filled with mercy. He went straight to the king and said, "The water in the fish's pond is almost dry, and the fish are in great danger. If it pleases your majesty, you might send twenty elephants to tote water to save those fish."
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The king was a Buddhist, so as soon as he heard the old man's request, he said, "It is wonderful that you have such a kind and merciful heart. Go to the royal elephant stables and take as many elephants as you feel you need to to the water
When the old man heard the king's reply, he took his two sons to the royal elephant stables and selected twenty of the best elephants. Then he went to the breweries and borrowed as many skins as he could -- in India in those days, liquor was stored and transported in skins. Then the three of them led the twenty elephants to the biggest river in the region, and filled all the skins with water. The twenty royal elephants carried the heavy skins full of water to the fish pond, and they poured all the water into the pond.
After many trips, the pond was full again, just as it had been before the drought. The fish in the pond were saved! They leapt and played and swam back and forth.
When the old man saw how happy the fish were, and watched the ripples on the water's surface, all of the worries and sadness that the long years had gathered in his tired old heart were immediately swept away.
As the day turned into night, he and his sons cheerfully led the twenty elephants back to the royal stables and went to tell their king the good news.
