2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon. He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave hand

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Now let no one say that a poor tailor can't get on in the world, and, indeed, even attain to very high honour. Nothing is required but to set the right way to work, but of cours

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time there was a handsome black Spanish hen, who had a large brood of chickens. They were all fine, plump little birds, except the youngest, who was quite unlike his

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once upon a time a castle in the middle of a thick wood where lived an old woman quite alone, for she was an enchantress. In the day-time she changed herself into a ca

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a rich man who had three sons. When they grew up, he sent the eldest to travel and see the world, and three years passed before his family saw him again. Then he ret

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Not very long ago there lived a King, the fame of whose wisdom was spread far and wide. Nothing appeared to be unknown to him, and it really seemed as if tidings of the most sec

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
A poor man and his wife lived in a little cottage, where they supported themselves by catching fish in the nearest river, and got on as best they could, living from hand to mout

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once upon a time a poor woman who had one little daughter called 'Parsley.' She was so called because she liked eating parsley better than any other food, indeed she w

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was a pig who lived with her three children on a large, comfortable, old-fashioned farmyard. The eldest of the little pigs was called Browny, the second Whitey, and the yo

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once upon a time a poor woman who would have given all she possessed for a child, but she hadn't one.
Now it happened one day that her husband went to the wood to coll

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once upon a time a shepherd who had two children, a son and a daughter. When he was on his death-bed he turned to them and said, 'I have nothing to leave you but three

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a farmer who lived in great comfort. He had both lands and money, but, though he was so well off, one thing was wanting to complete his happiness; he had no child

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time three musicians left their home and set out on their travels. They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined to stick together and to seek

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Once upon a time there was a great lord who had three sons. He fell very ill, sent for doctors of every kind, even bonesetters, but they, none of them, could find out what was t

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a little hut close to the sea, and the fisherman used to go down every day to fish; and he would fish and fish. So

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was a king and a queen, who were so sorry that they had no children; so sorry that it cannot be expressed. They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
A poor widow once lived in a little cottage with a garden in front of it, in which grew two rose trees, one bearing white roses and the other red. She had two children, who were

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enchantment. So the King set out to seek a fairy, and asked w

2008-02-22 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once upon a time a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter. Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King, and in order to appear a person of som

2008-02-21 所属栏目:英语故事

In a little house in a little old village in Japan lived a little old man and his little old wife. One morning when the old woman slid open the screens which form the sides of the Japanese houses,

2008-02-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time . . . in the immense Russian steppe, lay a little village where nearly all the inhabitants bred horses. It was the month of October,





when a big livestock market was held year

2008-02-21 所属栏目:英语故事

That summer the country was particularly beautiful, and it was glorious to be out in the green fields and meadows. It was so amusing to see the white stork parading around on his long red legs and

2008-02-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time, a peasant worked hard to make a living from his land. Every year his pear tree produced four basketfuls of fruit which had to be given to the king, a greedy ruler who grew ric

2008-02-21 所属栏目:英语故事

One day a Lion lay asleep in the jungle. A tiny Mouse, running about in the grass and not noticing where he was going, ran over the Lion's head and down his nose.
The Lion awoke with a loud roar, a

2008-02-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time, there was a King and Queen. And when their baby daughter was born they were so happy they decided to have a big party. They invited all their family, all their friends and all the