五年級(jí)上冊(cè)英語(yǔ)短故事

Clever rabbit

The wolf and the fox wanted to eat the rabbit, but it wasn't easy to catch him_

One day the wolf said to the fox, "You go home and lie in bed. I'll tell the rabbit that you are dead. When he comes to look at you, you can jump up and catch him_" That's a good idea," said the fox.

He went home at once. The wolf went to the rabbit's house and knocked at the door. "Who is it?" asked the rabbit. "It's the wolf. I've come to tell you that the fox is dead." Then the wolf went away.

The rabbit went to the fox's house. He looked in through the window and saw the fox lying in bed with his eyes closed. He thought, "Is the fox really dead or is he pretending to be dead? If he's not dead, he'll catch me when I go near him_" so he said, "The wolf says that the fox is dead. But he doesn't look like a dead fox. The mouth of a dead fox is always open." When the fox heard this, he thought, "I'll show him that I'm dead." So he opened his mouth.

The rabbit knew that the fox wasn't dead, and he ran as quickly as he could.

【譯文】

聰明的兔子

狼和狐貍想要吃掉兔子，但是這只兔子太難抓到了。

一天，狼對(duì)狐貍說(shuō)：“你回家假裝躺在床上。我去告訴兔子你已經(jīng)死了。當(dāng)他來(lái)看你的時(shí)候，你就可以跳起來(lái)抓住他了。”“真是個(gè)好主意!”狐貍說(shuō)。

于是他立刻回到家。狼去兔子的房前敲了敲門(mén)，“是誰(shuí)啊?”兔子問(wèn)道。“狼，我是來(lái)告訴你狐貍已經(jīng)死了?！闭f(shuō)完狼就走開(kāi)了。兔子去狐貍家看情況。他通過(guò)狐貍家的窗戶看到閉著眼睛的狐貍躺在床上。他想，狐貍是真的死了，還是在假裝呢?如果他沒(méi)有死，那么我走近他就會(huì)被他抓住。于是他說(shuō)：“狼說(shuō)狐貍死了。但是他看起來(lái)并不像死掉了呀。死去的狐貍通常都是張著嘴的?！焙偮?tīng)到這些話就想：我得證明自己是真的死了。于是他張開(kāi)了嘴巴。

這時(shí)兔子知道狐貍并沒(méi)有死，他就以最快的速度跑開(kāi)啦。