童话能让人长知识，让人快乐，人类就是在童话的指导下长大的。童话表现出了我们对美好的向往和追求。
黄鼠狼和人
A man once caught a weasel, which was always sneaking1 about the house, and was just going to drown it in a tub of water, when it begged hard for its life, and said to him, "Surely you haven't the heart to put me to death? Think how useful I have been in clearing your house of the mice and lizards2 which used to infest3 it, and show your gratitude4 by sparing my life." "You have not been altogether useless, I grant you," said the Man: "but who killed the fowls5? Who stole the meat? No no! You do much more harm than good, and die you shall."
从前，有一个人抓住了一只黄鼠狼，它总是在房子里偷偷摸摸。这人正要用一盆水淹死它时，黄鼠狼苦苦哀求人饶了自己的性命，并且对人说：“你一定不忍心杀了我!想想我对你们家做的贡献吧，我可是一只在清理你家里的'老鼠和蜥蜴，为了显示你对我的感激之情，就饶我一命吧。”“我也承认，你并非完全无用，” 男人说， “但是，是谁杀了鸡?是谁偷了肉?不不!你做了太多坏事，理应去死。”
公羊触篱
There was a sturdy ram1 with a pair of thick horns upright on its head.
It strutted2 about proudly and saw a fence built with bamboo and wood in front, which blocked its way. It cast a sidelong glance at the fence, lowered its neck and lunged at the fence, hoping to knock it down. The fence remained intact but the ram injured its own horns.
If it had not injured its horns, the ram would have persisted obstinately3 in butting4 against the fence, even against the spokes5 of a wheel until it bled with a fractured skull6.
As a result, with its horns caught in the fence, the ram could neither advance nor retreat but bleat7 helplessly.
一头长得非常雄壮的公羊的头上，挺立着一对粗大的犄角。
公羊骄傲地踱着步，看见前面有一道竹木编成的篱笆挡住了它的去路。公羊斜着眼睛看看，便弯下脖子呼的一声撞上去，想把篱笆撞倒。结果篱笆纹丝不动，反把自己的犄角碰上了。
假如公羊没有碰伤犄角的话，那么它还会一个劲儿地撞下去，甚至向车轮的辐条上撞去，直到头破血流为止。
结果呢?公羊的犄角被篱笆夹住，进也不得，退也不得，只能“咩咩”不停地叫唤。
长颈鹿的小靴子
Birthday small giraffe, giraffe mother gave him to buy two pairs of small boots because he had four feet. Giraffe's devoted and long legs, boots EC particularly high. Small giraffe wearing new boots, in the woods, run, jump and do not take care of losing one. He Huaahua ah, did not find darkness to find. The next day, small goats grazing in the woods, only to see a small boots. He was pleased to that, I thought: "I want my mother to buy new boots, and her mother not to buy. This small boots and new and beautiful, I just can wear. Although only one, is better than no-ah."
小长颈鹿过生日，长颈鹿妈妈给他买了两双小靴子，因为他有四只脚。长颈鹿的腿又细又长，所以靴统特别高。小长颈鹿穿着新靴子，在树林里又跑又跳，不当心丢了一只。他找啊找啊，找到天黑也没找到。第二天，小山羊在树林里吃草，看见了这只小靴子。他高兴极了，心想：“我要妈妈给我买新靴子，妈妈不给买。这小靴子又新又漂亮，正好可以给我穿。尽管只有一只，可总比没有强呀。”
Small goat wearing small boots. His legs may be too short, feet cannot catch the end, a reference to the contrary tripwire,fell down hurtly.
小山羊穿上小靴子。可他腿太短，脚够不着底，反而绊了一交，摔得好疼。
Small goat said: "Oh, dared to offend you because I roof dwarf? High roof as big brother, I gave him to wear!" Although the roof as the big brother, his legs may be too rough, would not be able to wear.
小山羊说：“唉，谁叫我个儿矮呢?象大哥个儿高，我送给他穿!”象大哥虽然个儿高，可他腿太粗，也没法穿。
Piglets,monkeys, small Qiwei, small squirrels ...... also no law to wear.
小猪、小猴、小刺猥、小松鼠......也都没法穿。
Like big brother thought for a little while, said: "This small boots only the owner can wear it. Owners can Who? No owner, no one wearing more than a pity!" "This small boots can I do to Waterloo." Small squirrels Then, jumping on the small boots go. She can just jump into, shouting up: "help ah! I climb not come up!" We hastened to find something long tree branches to throw small boots go, let along the branches of small squirrels toclimb up. We said: "This small boots useless, it has had to throw away." "Do not throw, it can give me to do chimney!" Small rabbit heard of this matter and immediately ran over. Her own small boots on the roof. You see, all laughed, and said: "small rabbits, not under your chimney hole, how smoke into?" Small rabbits in all seriousness: "I have this special chimney usefulness." After a while, small mouth giraffe just out of the house, see far away places, there is a strange chimney. He went one, was shocked: "This is not my small boots?" He found a small giraffe small boots. Now, he has the four feet on a small boots.
象大哥想了想说：“这小靴子只有它的主人才能穿。可主人是谁呢?找不到主人，没人穿多可惜呀!”“这小靴子可以给我做窝。”小松鼠说着，就跳到小靴子里去。可她刚跳进去，就大叫起来：“救命啊!我爬不上来了!”大家赶紧找了些长树枝，扔到小靴子里去，让小松鼠顺着树枝爬上来。大家说：“这小靴子没用处，只好扔掉它了。”“别扔，它可以给我做烟囱!”小兔子听说这件事，赶紧跑来。她把小靴子放在自己的屋顶上。大家一看，都笑了，说：“小兔子，你的烟囱底下没有洞，烟怎么进去呀?”小兔子一本正经地说：“我这烟囱有特别的用处。”过一会儿，小长颈鹿刚走出家门口，就看见老远的地方，有个奇怪的烟囱。他跑去一看，大吃一惊，说：“这不是我的小靴子吗?”小长颈鹿找到了他的小靴子。现在，他的四只脚上都有小靴子了。
童话的逻辑性能使虚构的故事得到合乎逻辑的发展，也就是使假戏真做，使作品获得强烈的艺术真实性。
鹦雀笑鹏
As the legend goes, during ancient times, in the expansive open country of North China, there was a kind of birds called "rocs".
The roc was very huge, with its back like a big mountain, and its wings like a stretch of cloud which could cover the sky. When it spread its wings, it could break through a storm and soar at a height of 90,000 li (1/2 kilometre) in the sky towards the sea in the south.
A small bird called the quail1 bounced on the ground, free and happy. It looked up at the roc soaring in the sky and couldn't help laughing: "Hey, see how cocky you are! Look at me, one jump can take me over 10 chi. How delightful2! Every day I come and go amid these weeds and thickets3 and fly freely. Don't I fly quite well too? But, where can you fly to anyway?"
传说，古时候中国北方的原野上有一种鸟，它的名字叫“鹏”。
鹏长得很大，背脊像一座大山，翅膀像一大片云，能把天空遮住。它张开翅膀能冲破风暴，在九万里高的天空中飞翔，一直飞向南方的大海。
有一只叫鹦雀的小鸟，在地上蹦蹦跳跳，自由自在，非常快活。它望着天空中展翅飞翔的大鹏，忍不住发笑，说：“咳，看你神气活现的!我呀，一蹦一跳，就有十几尺，多么痛快啊!我每天在这些杂草和树丛里，来来去去，自由飞翔，不也飞得挺好吗?可是，你又能飞到哪里去呢?”
潘多拉
After the stealing of fire,Zeus became increasingly unkind to men.One day he ordered his son Hephaestus tobuild an image of a beautiful maiden out of clay.He then asked the gods and goddesses to award her with different kinds of gifts.Among others,Athena clothed her in an attractive coat and Hermes gave her the power of telling lies.A charming young lady,she was the first woman that ever lived.Zeus called her Pandora.Because she had received from each of the gods and goddesses a gift.The gift was harmful to men.
Zeus decided to send her down to men as a present.So Hermes them essenger brought her to Epimetheus,brother of Prometheus.The greatness of her beauty touched the hearts of all who looked upon her,and Epimetheus happily received her into his house.He had quite forgotten Pometheus' warning:never to accept anything from Zeus.The couple lived a happy life for some time.Then trouble came on to the human world.
When he was busy with teaching men the art of living,Prometheus had left a bigcask in the care of Epimetheus.He had warned his brother not to open the lid.Pandora was a curious woman.She had been feeling very disappointed that her husband did not allow her to take a look at the contents of the cask.One day,when Epimetheus was out,she lifted the lid and out itcame unrest and war,Plague and sickness,theft and violence, grief sorrow,and all the other evils.The human world was hence to experience these evils.Only hope stayed within the mouth of the jar and never flew out.So men always have hope within their hearts.
潘多拉
偷窃天火之后,宙斯对人类的敌意与日俱增。一天,他令儿子赫菲斯托斯用泥塑一美女像,并请众神赠予她不同的礼物。其中,雅典娜饰之以华丽的衣裳,赫耳墨斯赠之以说谎的能力。世上的第一个女人是位迷人女郎,因为她从每位神灵那里得到了一样对男人有害的礼物,因此宙斯称她为潘多拉(pander:意为煽动)。
宙斯决定把她作为礼物送给世间的男子。于是信使赫耳墨斯将她带给普罗米修斯的弟弟厄庇墨透斯。她姿容绝美,见者无不为之倾心。厄庇墨透斯兴高采烈地把她迎入屋内。普罗米修斯警告过他不得接受宙斯的'任何馈赠,而他已将之忘于脑后。这一对夫妻有过一段幸福的生活,但不久灾难却降临人间。
当普罗米修斯忙于教授人们生存之道的时候,他把一个桶托付给厄庇墨透斯。他警告过他的弟弟不要打开桶盖。潘多拉好奇心强。她的丈夫不允许她看桶中之物,这使她感到十分懊恼。一天乘厄庇墨透斯出门在外,她打开桶盖,从桶里跑出的是是不和与战争,瘟疫与疾病,偷窃与暴力,悲哀与忧虑,以及其他一些人类从此要遭受的不幸。只有希望被关在桶口,永远飞不出来,因此人们常常把希望藏于心中。
童话对生活的幻想性反映，使其内容极具广度。因为童话有化复杂为单纯、化深奥为浅显的特异功能，所以童话对社会生活的反映面远比小说要宽广得多。
仕数不遇
There was a scholar in the Zhou Dynasty who had tried several times in his life to seek for an official post, but failed again and again till his temples turned white.
One day, as he was walking on the road, he looked back upon the past and shed tears of sorrow. Someone asked him: "Why are you weeping?"
He replied: "Several times I have failed to win recognition. Now I am old and no longer have any opportunity. That is why I am weeping."
The man asked again: "Then how is it that you have never won recognition?"
He replied: "When I was young, I studied the classics hard and had all the literary qualifications. When I sought for an official post, unexpectedly the king liked to appoint old men. After the king died, his successor liked to appoint warriors1. I made a determined2 effort to learn martial3 arts, but when I had learned the military skills, the king who liked martial arts passed away. Now the new king likes to appoint young men, but I am already old. Thus I have never won recognition in my whole life and have never held an official post."
周朝有个读书人，一生中几次谋求做官，可是直到两鬓斑白仍然没有做成。
一天，他走在路上，回首往事，伤心地掉下了眼泪。有人问道：“您为什么哭泣呢?”
他回答说：“我几次都得不到赏识。现在年纪大了，再也没有机会了，因此哭泣。”
那人又问：“那您怎么一次都得不到赏识呢?”
他回答说：“我少年时苦读经书，文才兼备，去求官，不料君王喜欢任用老年人。君王死后，继位的君王又喜欢任用武士，我发愤改学武艺，谁知武功刚学成，好武的君王又死去了。现在新立的君王却喜欢任用年轻人，而我已经老了。就这样，我终生不曾得到一次赏识，也没有做过一次官。”
怪物和猎人
Long ago, there lived a huge monster. The monster looked like a human, but had a large body and much hair. His eye was in the middle of his forehead.
People were really afraid of this monster. That is because the monster ate up people. The people did not go neat the woods where the monster lived.
One day, a young hunter went hunting in the woods where the monster lived. He did not know that the monster lived there. He ran into the monster.
The brave hunter took out his arrow1 and shot2 the monster. The monster did not feel any pain and attacked the hunter. "How come he got shot, but he is alright..." The hunter shot a few more arrows,but the monster was not injured3 at all. The hunter only had one arrow left.
"That monster has to have a weak spot. Right! It must be that eye." The hunter shot his last arrow to the monster's eye. The monster was hit. It screamed and fell. The hunter barely4 killed the monster and realized it was the monster that people feared.
"This monster has to be burned so it won't ever bother people again." The hunter made a fire and turned the monster into ashes. Suddenly, a strong wind came and the ashes turned into an insect.
The insect attacked the hunter and began sucking5 his blood. The hunter ran away from the insect. The ashes became a mosquito6 that still bothers us on a hot summer day.
很久以前，有过一个巨大的怪物。怪物看起来像一个人，但有一个很大的身体和很多毛。他的眼睛长在他额头中间。
人们真的很害怕这个怪物。这是因为这个怪物会吃人。人们不敢靠近怪物生活的树林。
有一天，一个年轻的猎人在这个怪物居住的树林里打猎。他不知道怪物住在这里。他跑进了怪物的地盘。
勇敢的猎人拿出了他的箭，并射向这个怪物。怪物没有感到任何疼痛，并攻击猎人。“无论它怎么被射杀，但它还是没事......”猎人又射出了几箭，但是在这个怪物还是没有受伤。猎人只剩一只箭了。
“那怪物一定有一个弱点。对了!一定是它的眼睛。”猎人把他最后的一只箭射向怪物的眼睛。怪物被射中了。它尖叫着倒下了。猎人好不容易杀死了怪物，然后意识到这就是人们害怕的那只怪物。
“这个怪物必须烧毁了，然后它就不能再不会打扰人类了。”这个猎人生了火，把怪物化为了灰烬。突然，吹起了一阵奇怪的风，而这些灰烬变成一种昆虫。
这些昆虫攻击猎人，并开始吮吸他的血。猎人从昆虫那里逃走了。这些灰烬变成了蚊子，仍然在每个炎热的夏天来骚扰我们。
聪明的国王所罗门
Long, long ago, there was a king. Solomon was his name. He was very clever.
很久很久之前，有一位国王，他的名字叫所罗门，他非常聪明。
In his country, there were two women. They lived in the same house and each had a child.
在他的国家里，有两位妇女，她们住在同一间房子里。各有一个婴孩。
One night, one of the babies died. The dead baby's mother took the other woman's baby, and put it in her own bed.
一天夜里，其中一个婴孩死了。死了孩子的.妈妈抱走了另一位妇女的孩子，并放在自己的床上。
The next morning , they had a quarrel.
第二天早上，她们发生了争吵。
“No, this is my baby!” The dead is yours!”
“不，这是我的孩子!这个死的是你的!”
Each one both wanted the living baby. So they went to see King Solomon.
她们都想要这个活着的孩子，于是她们去见所罗门国王。
“Bring me a knife, cut the child into two and give each woman one half.” said the King.
“给我拿把刀来，把这个孩子切成两半，每人一半。”国王判决道。
“Oh. Your Majesty! Give her my baby. Please don't kill my baby!”One of the women cried and shouted.
“哦，陛下，把我的孩子给她吧。请不要杀了我的孩子!”其中一位妇女哭喊道。
Then King Solomon pointed to the woman in tears and said, “Give the baby to her. She is the mother.”
于是所罗门指着流泪的妇女说：“把孩子给她，她是孩子真正的母亲。”
