小学生英语成语故事(三篇)

小学生英语成语故事（三篇）

During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of

the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan in battle. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated and thus absent Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn’t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house.

The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell

with all his might. A loud “gong” sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this enterprise was spoiled, thinking “that kind of noise is tantamount to

telli ng people that I’m here stealing the bell, isn’t it?” He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.

The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all

his strength. “Yi, the sound has lessened, I can’t hear it anymore!” The thief became happy again, “How wonderful! If

I cover my ears well, the sound can’t be heard!” covered

his ears well, he couldn’t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears,

thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell’s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.

春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想

偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型

和图案都很精美。小偷心里快乐极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已

家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个方法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。

小偷寻来一把大大锤，舍命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了

一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正

在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂

住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依旧悠悠地传向远方。

他越听越可怕，不同自由地抽回双手，用劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷快乐起来，“妙极了！把耳朵

捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他赶忙寻来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，

心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟

声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。

【用心致志】

Long ago there was a chess master named Qiu whose chess skills were superlative.

Qiu had two students who studied chess with him, one student studied with concentrated focus and energy. The other, howe ver, wasn’t like that, he thought studying chess was

very easy, and there was no need to take it seriously. When

the teacher was explaining, although the the student sat there, his eyes seemed to be on the chess pieces, he was