2008-03-13 所属栏目:英语故事

Long, long ago there lived a mouse in the forest. The mouse was fearful all day and all night, for the sly fox always tried to catch him and eat up him. The mouse was very clever and was able to hi

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

A little over two hundred years before our era, the first emperor of the Chin dynasty ascended the throne under the name of Shih Huang. This emperor was very cruel towards his subjects, forcing peo

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Long, long ago there lived in the Land of the Khans a poor Alad [a serf or a herdsman in the days of feudalism]. His wife bore three children, but unfortunately they all died. No further children w

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Long, long ago there was a young couple who lived in a small thatched hut in a gully. They were so poor that every day they had to cut two bundles of firewood and carry them to market on their back

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time there lived in the mountains a woman and her daughter. The daughter liked to dress in red. Hence her name, Little Red. One day they were plowing and sowing in the fields. All of a

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time a landlord hired a shepherd boy whose name was Aniz. He was very well liked. What people liked most of all was to listen to him playing the flute. His flute looked very simple, no

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

A carpenter and a blacksmith had an argument. Each of them insisted that he was more skilful than the other. Who was actually the more skilful of the two? They disputed this question for a long tim

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

There once lived a landlord who loved money as he loved his own life. In his eyes the smallest coin seemed as large as a millstone. He was always on the lookout for some new way of making money and

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time in a certain place there lived three men who all had the same name -- Genjia. One was the tribal chief, the second a carpenter, and the third the chief's steward. Genjia the carpen

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

A long time ago, animals weren't animals - they were people. Koobor the koala was a boy. His parents were dead and he lived with relatives in a very dry part of the country, where there was never e

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

A very long time ago in the village of Shufinne, a young orphan girl lived with her aunt.The aunt spoilt her own children but was very mean to the little girl. She made her work from sunrise to sun

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

A long time ago, some animals looked different to the way they look now. Kangaroos had no tails and wombats had high, round heads.Mirram the Kangaroo and Warreen the Wombat were good friends. They

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

A long time ago, a young man called Crow lived in one of the villages of the Seneca people. His parents had died many years before and he had no one to care for him, or to cook and sew for him.He l

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Sti'Tumma had always wanted to have beautiful beaded "shooflies" attached to her saddle, on the breastplate and under the horse's tummy on the cinch. She had already made a couple for he

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

DAY ONE
Tuesday, June 15




At high noon a large spaceship floated gently down out of a blue sky to land on the front lawn of the White House. It rested motionless for the next five hours while

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

I've never told this story before, but just the same I'm telling you now. I was a boy of 8 in 1885 and I lived in a small town out west with my baby sister and my folks who ran the local delivery s

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Monsieur Signy l'Abbaye was a master artist in his day, who in 1392 was ready to retire. It was the month of May. But Guiliano Bartoli, a rich Italian patron, sent for him saying, "I'd like a

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Once there was an elderly widow, Chen Ma, who lived with her only son inside a forest in the Shanxi Province. Her son was one of the tiger hunters licensed by the local magistrate, following the

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

It was a day like the day before and the day after. The wind wrapped itself around the sod cabin in gusting moans as the pioneer family within carried out their tasks pretending not to hear. T

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Dogedog had always been very lazy, and now that his father and mother were dead and he had no one to care for him, he lived very poorly. He had little to eat. His house was old and small and so poo

2008-03-12 所属栏目:英语故事

One very hot day, when a carabao went into the river to bathe, he met a shell and they began talking together."You are very slow," said the carabao to the shell. "Oh, no," repli

2008-03-11 所属栏目:英语故事

The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footballs and was selling them at a real good price.

2008-03-11 所属栏目:英语故事

My husband brought our three young children down the long hall of the maternity ward, pausing to let them wave in each doorway at the new mothers cuddling bundles. At my room, he beckoned them in a

2008-03-11 所属栏目:英语故事

Two nuns were driving down a country road when they ran out of gas. They walked to a farmhouse and a farmer gave them some gasoline; but the only container he had was an old bedpan. The nuns were h

2008-03-11 所属栏目:英语故事

The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footballs and was selling them at a real good price.