寓言故事是文學(xué)體裁的一種。含有諷喻或明顯教訓(xùn)意義的故事。它的結(jié)構(gòu)簡(jiǎn)短，多用借喻手法，使富有教訓(xùn)意義的主題或深刻的道理在簡(jiǎn)單的故事中體現(xiàn)。寓言的故事情節(jié)設(shè)置的好壞關(guān)系到寓言的未來。

　　一、Sun the Ice

　　Once a simpleton's wife told him to buy some ice.

　　Two hours later, he didn't come back. She wanted to know why he didn't come back and went out to have a look. She saw he was standing in the sun at the gate and watching the ice melting.

　　"What's the matter?" She asked him. "Why don't you bring it in?"

　　"I saw the ice was wet and I was afraid that you would scold me so I'm running it dry." The simpleton answered.

　　曬冰

　　從前有一個(gè)笨人的妻子讓她的丈夫買幾塊冰。

　　兩個(gè)小時(shí)后，他還沒回來。

　　她想知道他為什么沒回來，就出去看了看，發(fā)現(xiàn)她的丈夫在門口站著，在太陽(yáng)下曬冰，看著冰融化。

　　她問他："怎么啦?你為什么不把它拿進(jìn)來?"

　　"我看見冰是濕的，恐怕你會(huì)訓(xùn)斥我，因此，我正在把它曬干。"笨人回答道。

　　二、Mike and the Pot

　　One day, Mike's mother needed a pot. She asked Mike to borrow one from her friend. So Mike went to the friend's house. She gave him a big pot. On the way home Mike put it down on the road and looked at it. It was made of clay and had three legs.

　　Then he said to the pot, "You have three legs and I have only two. You can carry me for a few minutes." Then Mike sat down inside the pot. But the pot didn't move.

　　Mike got angry and broke it then carried the broke pot home. His mother was angry. "You are stupid." She said. But Mike thought, "I'm not stupid. Only a stupid person carried something with three legs."