儿童英语寓言故事 蚱蜢和蚂蚁

I’m an artist, and as everyone knows, artists are usually very poor. But normally, I don’t mind about that. When the sun is shining, I sit on my favourite blade of grass and make cheerful music for everyone to listen too. I have lots of friends, and together we’ve formed an orchestra.

Everyone loves our music and says how cheerful it makes them feel. Well almost everyone. There’s a family of ants who never stop to listen. They take themselves far to seriously for music or enjoyment. All they do is work, work, work, even when the sun is shining.

“Hey You Ants I said to them. “It’s a lovely summer’s day, Why don’t you stop for a little while, and listen to my sweet music?.

“No time to stop, one of them said, panting away. “We’re far too busy stocking up food for winter.

The months went by, and the days got shorter and colder. I was shivering so much that I couldn’t even sing. A hard frost was on the ground, and I couldn't even find a crumb to eat. I was so hungry ! So I went to see that busy family of ants and said, “Please Sirs, I’m a poor hungry musician. Spare me a few crumbs from your store of food.

But do you know what? Those ants just turned their noses up at me. They were so stingy that they wouldn’t share any of their food with me. Oh Well, I’ll have to go hungry this winter. In the New Year I’ll make a resolution. When the times are good, I’ll remember to save some food for a rainy day.

需要学会的词汇：

blade

n. 草叶,叶片;刀片,刀刃

时 态：bladed,blading,blades

形容词：blad'ed

同反义词同： [n.] brand, leaf blade, steel, vane

orchestra

n. 管弦乐队

形容词：orches'tral

副 词：orches'trally

stock

n.

1.[C,U]贮存；（知识等的）蓄积

2.[C,U]进货，库存品，存货

3.[C,U]（公司的）股票，股份

4.[C,U]【英】公债,国债

5.[U]原料，材料


6.[C,U]（汤等的）原汁，汤料

7.[U]信任，相信

8.[U]家畜

9.[U]树干；插枝的母株

10.[C,U]家系，血统

11.[C]（工具的）柄，把；枪托

12.[C]紫罗兰属植物

v.[T]

1.给（商店）办货，进货(+up/with)

2.库存，贮存

3.给...装上把手（或柄等）

4.供给（牧场）牲畜(+with)

a.

1.库存的；现有的；常备的

2.陈腐的；平凡的；惯用的

shiver

vi. 颤抖,哆嗦,被打碎

vt. 使迎风飘动,粉碎

n. 战栗,碎块