日期：2013-07-17 There was once an enchanter（巫师，魔法师） who was standing in the midst of a great crowd of people performing his wonders. He had a cock brought in, which lifted a heavy beam and carried it as if it were as light as a feather. But a girl was prese... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 There was once an old woman, but thou hast surely seen an old woman go a-begging before now? This woman begged likewise, and when she got anything she said, May God reward you. The beggar-woman came to a door, and there by the fire a friendly rogue... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 A certain King had three sons who were all equally dear to him, and he did not know which of them to appoint as his successor after his own death. When the time came when he was about to die, he summoned them to his bedside and said, Dear children,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 There was once on a time a shepherd boy whose fame spread far and wide because of the wise answers which he gave to every question. The King of the country heard of it likewise, but did not believe it, and sent for the boy. Then he said to him, If t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 There was once on a time a little girl whose father and mother were dead, and she was so poor that she no longer had any little room to live in, or bed to sleep in, and at last she had nothing else but the clothes she was wearing and a little bit of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 A father was one day sitting at dinner with his wife and his children, and a good friend who had come on a visit was with them. And as they thus sat, and it was striking twelve o'clock, the stranger saw the door open, and a very pale child dressed i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 There was once a young shepherd who wished much to marry, and was acquainted with three sisters who were all equally pretty, so that it was difficult to him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to any one of them. Then he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 There was once on a time a maiden who was pretty, but idle（懒惰的） and negligent（疏忽的） . When she had to spin she was so out of temper that if there was a little knot in the flax（亚麻） , she at once pulled out a whole heap of it, and strewed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 A sparrow had four young ones in a swallow's nest. When they were fledged（羽毛丰满的） , some naughty boys pulled out the nest, but fortunately all the birds got safely away in the high wind. Then the old bird was grieved that as his sons had all g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 There was once a boy called MaLiang. His family was very poor, so poor that he couldn't afford a writing brush. One day on his way home after herding the cattle, he passed by a private school. He saw a painter was painting for an officer. MaLiang lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 There once was a small kingdom around a lake. One very hot summer it did not rain and the lake dried up. People grew anxious and went to the king. It has not rained for so long. Our fields are barren（贫瘠的） ! said the farmers. There's no fish to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 Long ago, three soldiers hid in the wheat field. They had eaten nothing for two days and two nights. Soon, they would starve to death. However they were not willing to walk out of the wheat field because there were soldiers stationed all round. At t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-25 I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls（家禽，鸟） flying; they flew quickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their backs to hell, and an anvil（铁砧，砧骨） and a mill-stone swam across the Rhine prettily, slowly, and gently,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-25 Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-25 Let no one ever say that a poor tailor cannot do great things and win high honors; all that is needed is that he should go to the right smithy（铁匠铺） , and what is of most consequence, that he should have good luck. A civil, adroit tailor's appre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-25 There was once upon a time a King, but where he reigned and what he was called, I do not know. He had no son, but an only daughter who had always been ill, and no doctor had been able to cure her. Then it was foretold to the King that his daughter s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-25 There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitary valley. It came to pass that the mother once went into the wood to gather branches of fir, and took with her little Hans, who was just two years old. As it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 In former days every sound still had its meaning and application. When the smith's hammer resounded, it cried, Strike away! strike away. When the carpenter's plane grated, it said, Here goes! here goes. If the mill wheel began to clack, it said, Hel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 The fishes had for a long time been discontented（不满的） because no order prevailed in their kingdom. None of them turned aside for the others, but all swam to the right or the left as they fancied, or darted between those who wanted to stay toget... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 Where do you like best to feed your flocks? said a man to an old cow-herd. Here, sir, where the grass is neither too rich nor too poor, or else it is no use. Why not? asked the man. Do you hear that melancholy（忧郁，悲哀） cry from the meadow there... 阅读全文>>