英语作文寓言故事40字过去式

One day, a colt carried a bag of wheat to the mill.

As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. Water went gurgling on. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a cow grazing nearby. He asked, \"Uncle Cow, could you tell me if I can cross the river?\" the cow told him that he could and that the river was not very deep, just to his knees.

The colt was crossing the river when a squirrel jumped down a tree and stopped him. The squirrel shouted, \"Colt, stop! You'll be drowned! One of my friends was drowned yesterday just in the river.\" Not knowing what to do, the colt went home to consult his mom.

He told his mom his experience on the way. His mother said, \"My child, don't always listen to others. You'd better go and try yourself. Then you'll know what to do.\"

Just at the river, the squirrel stopped the colt again. \"Little horse, it's too dangerous!\" \"No, I want to have a try by myself\Then he crossed the river carefully. On the other side of the river, the colt realized that the river was neither as shallow as the cow said nor as as deep as the squirrel told him.

The fable tells us a truth: real knowledge comes from practices. 一天， 老马使大马驮着半口袋麦子至磨坊回去磨面。

小马驮着口袋朝着磨坊跑去。忽然，一天小河挡住了去路，河水哗哗地流着。小马为难了，怎么办呢?它向四周望了望，看见一头老牛在河边吃草。小马问道：“牛伯伯，请您告诉我，这条河我能趟过去吗?”老牛说：“能。谁很浅，刚没小腿。”

小马听到了老牛的话，正准备工作过河，忽然丛树上冲下一只松鼠，拦下它大喊道：“小马，别过河!河水可以把你溺死的。昨天，我的一个伙伴就是掉到这条河里溺死的!”小马无人知晓如何是好，同意回家问妈妈。

小马把路上的经历告诉了妈妈。妈妈说：“孩子，光听别人说是不行的，你自己亲自去试一试，就知道答案了。”

小马返回河边，刚必须上岸，松鼠又大喊出来：“小马，你不要命啦?”小马说道：“使我试试吧。”它一面提问一面下了河，小心地趟了过去。原来河水既不像是老牛说道的那样深也不像是松鼠说道的那样浅。

这则寓言告诉我们:实践出真知。