2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
A little boy was born to a king who ruled over a great country through which ran a wide river. The king was nearly beside himself with joy, for he had always longed for

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Over all the vast under-world the mountain Gnome Rubezahl was lord; and busy enough the care of his dominions kept him. There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone throu

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night, and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat. But, industrious as he was, he could hardly buy bread

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
When birds were men, and men were birds, Pivi and Kabo lived in an island far away, called New Claledonia. Pivi was a cheery little bird that chirps at sunset; Kabo was

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a queen who had a beautiful cat, the colour of smoke, with china-blue eyes, which she was very fond of. The cat was constantly with her, and ran after her wherever s

2008-03-03 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Far away on the other side of the world there lived, long ago, a lion and his younger brother, the wild cat, who were so fond of each other that they shared the same hut. The li

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a man whose name was Abu Nowas, and he was a great favourite with the Sultan of the country, who had a palace in the same town where Abu Nowas dwelt.

One day Abu No

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived an old man who had only one son, whom he loved dearly; but they were very poor, and often had scarcely enough to eat. Then the old man fell ill, and things grew wors

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived an old man and his wife in a dirty, tumble-down cottage, not very far from the splendid palace where the king and queen dwelt. In spite of the wretched state of the

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a crab who lived in a hole on the shady side of a mountain. She was a very good housewife, and so careful and industrious that there was no creature in the whole

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Many many years ago there lived a king and queen who had one only son, called Sigurd. When the little boy was only ten years old the queen, his mother, fell ill and died, and th

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Long, long ago, as far back as the time when animals spoke, there lived a community of cats in a deserted house they had taken possession of not far from a large town. They had

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Far away in the east country, there lived a king who loved hunting so much that, when once there was a deer in sight, he was careless of his own safety. Indeed, he often became

2008-03-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Down in the south, where the sun shines so hotly that everything and everybody sleeps all day, and even the great forests seem silent, except early in the morning and late in th

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a stone-cutter, who went every day to a great rock in the side of a big mountain and cut out slabs for gravestones or for houses. He understood very well the kinds o

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
In a little town that lay in the midst of high hills and wild forests, a party of shepherds sat one night in the kitchen of the inn talking over old times, and telling of the st

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a king and a queen who had one son. The king loved the boy very much, but the queen, who was a wicked woman, hated the sight of him; and this was the more unlucky fo

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
In a very hot country, a man lived with his wife in a little hut, which was surrounded by grass and flowers. They were perfectly happy together till, by-and-by, the woman fell i

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Long, long ago, a king and queen reigned over a large and powerful country. What their names were nobody knows, but their son was called Sigurd, and their daughter Lineik, and t

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a poor man who had more children than bread to feed them with. However, they were strong and willing, and soon learned to make themselves of use to their father and

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
The things in this story happened, and if they had not happened then the story would never have been told. But that was the time when wolves and lambs lay peacefully together in

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
In the very middle of the middle of a large kingdom, there was a town, and in the town a palace, and in the palace a king. This king had one son whom his father thought was wise

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Somewhere or other, but I don't know where, there lived a king who owned two remarkably fine fields of rape, but every night two of the rape heaps were burnt down in one of the

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a princess who was so beautiful and so good that everybody loved her. Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, s

2008-03-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a king who was so fond of wine that he could not go to sleep unless he knew he had a great flaskful tied to his bed-post. All day long he drank till he was too stupi