2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Long, long ago, in the days when fairies, witches, giants and ogres still visited the earth, there lived a king who reigned over a great and beautiful country. He was married to

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There once lived in Denmark a peasant and his wife who owned a very good farm, but had no children. They often lamented to each other that they had no one of their own to inheri

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There were once a king and a queen who lived in a beautiful castle, and had a large, and fair, and rich, and happy land to rule over. From the very first they loved each other g

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time there were seven brothers, who were orphans, and had no sister. Therefore they were obliged to do all their own housework. This they did not like at all; so aft

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a man who had a son who was very clever at reading, and took great delight in it. He went out into the world to seek service somewhere, and as he was walking betw

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time there lived a man who had two sons but they did not get on at all well together, for the younger was much handsomer than his elder brother who was very jealous

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There once lived a king and a queen who ruled over a very great kingdom. They had large revenues, and lived happily with each other; but, as the years went past, the king's hear

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time there lived a shoemaker who could get no work to do, and was so poor that he and his wife nearly died of hunger. At last he said to her, 'It is no use waiting o

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a rich merchant who had three sons, and when they were grown up the eldest said to him, 'Father, I wish to travel and see the world. I pray you let me.'

So the f

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time there lived a peasant called Ivan, and he had a wife whose name was Marie. They would have been quite happy except for one thing: they had no children to play w

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
It happened once that a king, who had a great kingdom and three sons, became blind, and no human skill or art could restore to him his sight. At last there came to the palace an

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
In a little village that stood on a wide plain, where you could see the sun from the moment he rose to the moment he set, there lived two couples side by side. The men, who work

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turning a corner, he suddenly saw a large rock.

'Was that you I heard walking about just now?' he asked, for wolv

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a turtle who lived among a great many people of different kinds, in a large camp near a big river which was born right up amongst the snows, and flowed straight a

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
A great king of the East, named Saman-lalposh, had three brave and clever sons Tahmasp, Qamas, and Almas-ruh-baksh.One day, when the king was sitting in his hall of audience, hi

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived in Japan a rat and his wife who came of an old and noble race, and had one daughter, the loveliest girl in all the rat world. Her parents were very proud of her, and

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Long, long ago, there lived a king who ruled over a country by the sea. When he had been married about a year, some of his subjects, inhabiting a distant group of islands, revol

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
In a very cold country, far across the seas, where ice and snow cover the ground for many months in the year, there lived a little hare, who, as his father and mother w

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Two young men living in a small village fell in love with the same girl. During the winter, it was all night except for an hour or so about noon, when the darkness seemed a litt

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Far, far in the forest there were two little huts, and in each of them lived a man who was a famous hunter, his wife, and three or four children. Now the children were forbidden

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Long, long ago, far, far away on the other side of the world, some young men left the camp where they lived to get some food for their wives and children. The sun was hot, but t

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dad Gunjay, or Wali Dad the Bald. He had no relations, but lived all by himself in a little mud hut some distance from any town, a

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was a country where the rivers were larger, and the forests deeper, than anywhere else. Hardly any men came there, and the wild creatures had it all to themselves, and use

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Far way, in a very hot country, there once lived a man and woman who had two children, a son named Koane and a daughter called Thakane.

Early in the morning and late in the eve

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the palace. The king would have preferred his choos