用英语讲中国故事素材-中国神话故事英文版

用英语讲中国故事推荐篇目:

篇目1:《魂归故里化作梅(王昭君)》

However, the distant land of the Xiongnu was a bleak place, and all of the palace maids were reluctant to go there except Wang Zhaojun, who bravely volunteered to marry the Xiongnu chief for the sake of ending her people’s suffering.

She said, “Finally, the leader of the Xiongnu desires peace with us. Whoever of us is willing to marry him will be a peace envoy. This is the real reason I have decided to take this step.

I used to think of myself as be­ing no more than a weak woman, who would never have the opportunity of serving my country like a man would. Now I have such a splendid opportunity!”

Emperor Yuan, hearing of her words, thought to himself: “The courage of this woman is really deserving of respect.” He hurriedly summoned Wang Zhaojun to his throne room.

篇目2:《牛郎织女的传说》

One day, as the sun was setting behind the western hills, Herdboy and the ox were plodding their weary way home, when the ox suddenly started to speak. It told Herdboy that fairies would descend from Heaven that very evening to play in a nearby river, and urged him to go there.

Herdboy was amazed, but curiosity compelled him to go to the river just as night was closing in. There in the pitch-dark night he seemed to see the forms of girls twinkling like stars. Fairies had indeed come down to Earth!

As they descended, each one took off her winged garment, and began to splash about and play in the water. Herdboy, hiding in a clump of trees near the river, watched the fairies’ graceful movements.

He found the youngest fairy particularly attractive. Her smiling face moved Herdboy’s heart, and he in­stantly fell in love with her. On an impulse, he snatched up and hid her winged garment.

篇目3:《游洞记》

It was as though the five men had stumbled into a fairyland. As they went further in, the temperature dropped, and their torch started to burn low. Everyone began to feel anxious, and their once-bold footsteps began to falter.

At this moment, a nervous young man said, “We should go back out now, otherwise we won’t be able to get out. If our torch dies, we’ll all be trapped in this cave.”

Alarmed at these words, everyone turned around, and scuttled back out of the cave. However, Wang Anshi was soon filled with regret: The torch clearly could have lasted for much longer.

There were many more wonders in the cave, but they had rushed out halfway through exploring it. How disappointing! But then the following thought came to him: “When I heard that man’s call to leave the cave, I did what the others did without even thinking.

That shows that I am a coward, too. It was my fault that we turned back. My own resolve is not firm enough; how can I blame others?”

1、女娲补天

英文:

It is said that there was no man when the sky andthe earth were separated by Pangu. It was Nuwawho made human beings after her own model withyellow  then on, man began to live in peace andhappiness on the earth.

nexpectedly, one year, the fourpillars supportingthe heaven suddenly collapsed and the earthcracked. A great fire raged; torrential water flooded all the lands;fierce animals preyed on men. ThenNuwa melted fivecolored stones, using them to mend the cracks in the sky.

To replace the broken pillars, she cut off the four legs of a huge turtle and used them tosupport the  the sky was patched up, its four corners were lifted, the flood was tamed, harmful animalswere killed, and the innocent people were able to restore their happy lives.

中文:

盘古开天辟地

后,世上本没有人,是

女蜗

按照自己的样子用黄 泥塑出了人类。此后,人们便开始在大地上幸福的生活着。天有不测风云,一年, 忽然天崩地裂,大火肆虐,洪水滔天,野兽横行伤人。

女蜗把五彩石融化,再用这些熔化了的液体把天上的洞补好。然后,她又将一只万年巨龟的四足斩下,把它们用作

擎天柱

,支撑住了天地的四方。

就这样,天补好了,四个角撑住了,洪水被驯服, 猛兽被消灭,人类的生活又恢复到往日的幸福祥

和之中。

2、玉兔捣药

英文:

Legend has it that there are three gods into three of the elderly poor, to foxes, monkeys, rabbits for food, the fox and the monkey had food to relief, only rabbit be at a loss what to do. Then the rabbit said: "you eat my flesh!" it into the fire, will he cooked, fairy touched, put the rabbit to the palace of the moon, the moon. Company E, and ramming ever-young medicine.

中文:

相传有三位神仙变成三个可怜的老人,向狐狸、猴子、兔子求食,狐狸与猴子都有食物可以济助,唯有兔子束手无策。后来兔子说:“你们吃我的肉吧!”就跃入烈火中,将自己烧熟,神仙大受感动,把兔子送到月宫内,成了玉兔。陪伴

嫦娥

,并捣制

长生不老药

。

3、精卫填海

英文:

Once upon a time, Yan has a small daughter, Her name is baby girl, he loved his little daughter, Yan often play with the girls, but the terrible thing happened, girls playing in the sea, unfortunately, dead water, and then She turned into a bird, named Jingwei, Yan sad day Jade Bird watching it, and finally decided to make this Jingwei filled the sea, so that he no longer claimed more lives!

中文:

从前,有1个女孩叫做精卫,她很爱自己的父亲

炎帝

,他们经常在一起玩,每天都很开心。有一天,精卫去划船,不小心掉进了海里,后来她变成了1只鸟。她经常去看她的父亲,她的父亲为此很伤心。后来精卫决定用石子把那个海填起来。

4、夸父追日

英文:

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.

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.

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.

中文:

夸父竭尽全力追赶太阳。当他追赶太阳降落的地方时, 由于忍受不了干渴,只好掉转头,回到黄河、

渭河

所在的地方,一口气便将这两条河里的水喝得精光。

虽然喝光了两条大河,但夸父还是感到不解渴,又打算到北方的大湖里去痛饮一番。北去的途中,夸父终因干渴而死。

扔下的手杖,被他的尸体所化成的养料滋润,竟然开花结果,长成一片连绵千里的

桃林

。

5、牛郎织女

英文:

On the east bank of the heavenly river lived a girl weaver, daughter of the emperor of heaven. She worked hard year in and year out, weaving colorful clothes for gods and goddesses.

Later she sneakly married the cowherd who is only a mortal and raised two children with him. However, goddess found the fact that she concealed. Greatly outraged, the goddess forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year.

On the seventh day of each autumn, magpies would suddenly become bald-headed for no obvious reasons at all. According to legend, that day the cowherd and the weaver met on the east bank of the river, and magpies were made to form a bridge for them. And for this reason the down on their heads was worn out from book of plants and animals.

中文:

天河东岸住着一个女孩,她是天帝的女儿。她年复一年地辛勤工作,为众神和女神编织丰富多彩的衣服。

后来,她偷偷嫁给了一个只是凡人的牛郎,并和他一起抚养了两个孩子。然而,女神发现了她隐藏的事实。女神非常愤怒,她强迫女孩过河,让她一年只能和丈夫团聚一次。

每年秋天的第七天,喜鹊突然变得秃顶,完全没有明显的原因。传说那天牛郎和织女在河的东岸相遇,喜鹊被做成了一座桥。正因为如此,他们的头上的毛从植物和动物的书上磨损了。

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Magic Shot Outside the Military Camp

Yuan Shu sent 100 thousand troops, led by General Ji Ling, to attack Liu Bei. For fear of Lü Bu in Xuzhou who might lend Liu a hand, Yuan wrote Lü a letter, together with many food supplies as gifts, asking him not to help Liu. Liu, on the other hand, wrote lüa letter asking for assistance. “If I remain an onlooker with folded arms,”thought Lü, “I will be in danger after Yuan defeats Liu. But if I help Liu, Yuan will be be resentful to me.” So Lü invited both Liu Bei and Ji Ling to a bqnqet.

Lü sat between Liu and Ji at the banquet. After a few rounds of toasts Lü began, “Please grant me a favor by stopping the fight.” When Ji Ling refused, Lu shouted for his long lance to be brought over. Both Liu and Ji got a fright. “I'll stand my lance 150steps away outside the gate. If my arrow hits its edge you two will stop your fight. And if I miss the target you have your own way.” Ji secretly hoped that he would miss the target, while Liu crossed his fingers wished Lu succees. Lü and wine brought up to him. After each one had a cup Lu arched his bow, aimed and shot with a big shout. The arrow flew like lightening toward the target, and hit right on the edge of the lance. A big applause rose from everybody around. Lu dropped his bow and laughed, saying, “You see, even the heavens wish that you stop fighting.” With his excellent archery, Lü averted a fight between the two sides.