1.少兒簡單的英語故事集錦
All his life, Shen Nong had a crystal abdomen, and one could clearly see all of his internal organs. At that time, humans were often getting sick and even dying because they ate things indiscriminately [not knowing if they were good or bad]. Shen Nong determinedly tasted everything everywhere; the good-tasting things he put in a bag on his left side, those were for people to eat; the bad-tasting things he put in a bag on his right side, and those were used for medicine.
The first time, Shen Nong tasted a small fresh leaf. As this leaf fell into his stomach, it cleaned every inch of his insides so that every organ top and bottom was fresh and cool, as if [the leaf] was somehow on patrol [making the rounds], so Shen Nong called it “chá” [to investigate / check], and later generations of men called it “chá” [tea]. Shen Nong put it in the bag on the right. The second time, Shen Nong tasted a little light red flower that looked like a butterfly, which was sweet and delicious, with an exotic smell that filled his nostrils, so he called it “l(fā)icorice”. He put it in the bag on the left. In this way, Shen Nong diligently tasted all manner of flora, and every time he was poisoned, he used tea to rescue himself. Before long, the bag on his left contained 47,000 kinds of flowers, grasses, roots and leaves, and the right side had 398,000 kinds.
But one day, Shen Nong tasted “heartbreak grass”, and this poison was too terrible, so there wasn’t enough time to eat the tea leaves to detoxify and he died. He sacrificed himself to save humanity, so people call him the “Bodhisattva of Medicine”, and people forever commemorate him through this story.
神農(nóng)一生下來就是個水晶肚子，五臟六腑全都能看得一清二楚。那時侯，人們經(jīng)常因為亂吃東西而生病，甚至喪命。神農(nóng)決心嘗遍所有的東西，好吃的放在身邊左邊的袋子里，給人吃；不好吃的就放在身子右邊的袋子里，作藥用。
第一次，神農(nóng)嘗了一片小嫩葉。這葉片一落進肚里，就上上下下地把里面各器官擦洗得清清爽爽，象巡查似的，神農(nóng)把它叫做“查”，就是后人所稱的“茶”。神農(nóng)將它放進右邊袋子里。第二次，神農(nóng)嘗了朵蝴蝶樣的淡紅小花，甜津津的，香味撲鼻，這是“甘草”。他把它放進了左邊袋子里。就這樣，神農(nóng)辛苦地嘗遍百草，每次中毒，都靠茶來解救。后來，他左邊的袋子里花草根葉有四萬七千種，右邊有三十九萬八千種。
但有一天，神農(nóng)嘗到了“斷腸草”，這種毒草太厲害了，他還來不及吃茶解毒就死了。他是為了拯救人們而犧牲的，人們稱他為“藥王菩薩”，人間以這個神話故事永遠地紀念他。
2.少兒簡單的英語故事集錦
During the Han Dynasty, in the southwest there was a small country called Yelang, and although it was an independent nation, its territory was small, there weren’t many citizens, and its products were pitifully few. Because it was the largest kingdom in the near area, the Yelang king who’d never left his own country thought the country he ruled was the biggest on earth.
One day, the king of Yelang was on a national border inspection tour with his troops, when he pointed in front of him [to neighboring country] and said, “Which country is bigger?” In order to serve their own interests and make the king happy, the troops said, “Of course Yelang is bigger!” They walked along, and the king once again lifted up his head, gazed at the big mountain in the distance and asked: “Is there a taller mountain than this anywhere on earth?” And his men answered: “No, there’s no mountain taller than this one on earth.” After a while, they reached the river side, and the king asked again: “I think this is the world’s longest river.” And all his men said in unison “The king speaks truly.” After this, the ignorant king believed even more firmly that Yelang was the world’s biggest country.
Then one day, the Han Dynasty dispatched an envoy to Yelang, and en route they encountered the neighboring kingdom DianGuo, and the King of Dian asked the emissary: “If you compared the Han Dynasty and my Kingdom, which one would be bigger?” The emissary listened in astonishment, as he’d never have thought this small a country thought it could compare itself to the Han Dynasty. But he really never could have suspected that when he got to Yelang, the prideful and ignorant king who didn’t know that the kingdom he ruled was about the size of one Han county, would ask with an exaggerated opinion of his own worth, “Which is bigger: the Han Dynasty or my country?”
漢朝的時候，在西南方有個名叫夜郎的小國家，它雖然是一個獨立的國家，可是國土很小，百姓也少，物產(chǎn)更是少得可憐。但是由于鄰近地區(qū)以夜郎這個國家，從沒離開過國家的夜郎國國王就以為自己統(tǒng)治的國家是全天下的國家。
有一天，夜郎國國王與部下巡視國境的時候，他指著前方問說：“這里哪個國家呀？”部下們?yōu)榱擞蠂醯男囊�，于是就說：“當然是夜郎國啰！”走著走著，國王又抬起頭來、望著前方的高山問說：“天底下還有比這座山更高的山嗎？”部下們回答說：“天底下沒有比這座山更高的山了�！焙髞恚麄儊淼胶舆�，國王又問：“我認為這可是世界上極長的河川了�！辈肯聜�?nèi)匀划惪谕暬卮鹫f：“大王說得一點都沒錯�！睆拇艘院�，無知的國王就更相信夜郎是天底下的國家。
有一次，漢朝派使者來到夜郎，途中先經(jīng)過夜郎的鄰國滇國，滇王問使者：“漢朝和我的國家比起來哪個大？”使者一聽嚇了一跳，他沒想到這個小國家，竟然無知的自以為能與漢朝相比。卻沒想到后來使者到了夜郎國，驕傲又無知的國王因為不知道自己統(tǒng)治的國家只和漢朝的一個縣差不多大，竟然不知天高地厚也問使者：“漢朝和我的國家哪個大？”
3.少兒簡單的英語故事集錦
Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River.
夸父竭盡全力追趕太陽。當他追趕太陽降落的地方時， 由于忍受不了干渴，只好掉轉(zhuǎn)頭，回到黃河、渭河所在的地方，一口氣便將這兩條河里的水喝得精光。
In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rivers. Though he drank up two rivers, he still felt thirsty, and he decided to go to the large lake in the north for a good drink. On the way to the north, Kua Fu eventually died of thirst。
雖然喝光了兩條大河，但夸父還是感到不解渴,又打算到北方的大湖里去痛飲一番。北去的途中，夸父終因干渴而死。
The walking stick thrown down by him, being nurtured by the nourishment converted from his dead body, unexpectedly bloomed and fructified, and it grew into peach woods, which stretched for thousands of miles.
扔下的手杖，被他的尸體所化成的養(yǎng)料滋潤，竟然開花結(jié)果，長成一片連綿千里的桃林。
4.少兒簡單的英語故事集錦
Once a man wanted to go to the south, but his carriage was heading north. A passer-by asked him: “If you are going to the south, why is your chariot heading north? ” The man answered, “My horse is good at running, my driver is highly skilled at driving a carriage, and I have enough money. ” The man didn't consider that the direction might be wrong; the better his conditions were, the further he was away from his destination.
從前有個人要到南方去，他坐的車子卻向北方行駛。過路人說：“你去南方，車子怎么向北行駛呢？”他回答說：“我的馬很能跑路，我的車夫駕車的技術也很高明，加上我又帶了充足的路費�！边@個人沒有考慮到，方向弄反了，他的條件越好，離他要去的地方就越遠。
The idiom derived from this story indicates that one's action was the opposite effect to one's intention.
后來人們就把這個故事概括為“南轅北轍”，比喻一個人的行為和他的目的正好相反。
5.少兒簡單的英語故事集錦
In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king: 'I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.' When the king expressed doubt, Geng Lei pointed his bow at a wild goose flying in the sky, twanged the bowstring, and the goose fell to the ground. Geng Lei said, 'This goose has been hurt in the past. Hearing the twang of the bowstring, it assumed that it was doomed. So it simply gave up trying to live.
戰(zhàn)國時期（公元前403―221年中國中原地區(qū)各諸侯國連年爭戰(zhàn)的時代）魏國有個名叫更羸的人。一天，他對國王說：“我只要拉開弓，空射一下，就能把天上的鳥射下來�！眹醪幌嘈�。更羸便對準天上飛來的一只雁射去，果真那只雁聽到拉弦的聲音就掉了下來。國王感到很奇怪。更羸說，“那是一只受過傷的雁。它一聽到我拉開弓弦的聲響，就驚慌得支持不住，自然要掉下來了�！�
This idiom means that if one has been frightened in the past one's will may become paralysed in a similar situation.
“驚弓之鳥”這個成語比喻受過驚恐之后，有一點動靜就特別害怕。
