经典成语寓言故事阅读

下面本站小编为大家带来两篇中国经典成语寓言故事，欢迎大家阅读!

　中国成语寓言故事：鲁班造鹊

春秋时期，鲁国有个能工巧匠公输子，人称“鲁班”。他用竹木造了一只喜鹊。

A machine was installed in this magpie which, when started, could fly high like a real bird. It actually flew continually for three days and nights before it landed.

这只木制的喜鹊，安装着机关。只要一开动它，就能像真的鸟一样展翅高飞。它一连飞了三天三夜才降落下来。

Gongshu Zi greatly appreciated this excellent work of his own.

公输子非常欣赏自己这件得意的作品。

When Mo Zi (Master of the Mohist School) heard of this, he went immediately to see Gongshu Zi and said to him:

墨子知道了这件事情以后，立刻去见公输子，对他说:

"As you know, it takes an ordinary carpenter a very short time to make a linchpin of a wheel with the minimum amount of timber. A vehicle with a linchpin inserted into each end of an axle can carry many things and bear a heavy load of 50 dan(1 hectolitre). But you took painstaking effort to make this wooden magpie. Though pretty and able to fly, it cannot compare with the linchpin in terms of practical value. Things made by a carpenter should be useful for people's life, so that everyone will praise him for his cleverness and skill. Otherwise, he is bound to be derided."

“你知道，普通的木匠只花很短的时间，用极少的木料就能做成车辖。将车辖插在车轴的两端，这样的车子可以装载许多东西，能经受五十石的重压。而这只你费了心血做成的木头喜鹊，虽然会飞也很漂亮，但是却不如车辖那样有实用价值。木匠做出来的东西，要对人们的生活有帮助，大家才会夸他心灵手巧;否则难免被人笑骂。”

　　中国成语寓言故事：多言何益

One day, Zi Qin asked his master Mo Zi:

一天，子禽问他的老师墨子:

"Master, is there any good at all of talking much?"

“老师，多说话到底有没有好处?”

Mo Zi thought for a while, and answered:

墨子想了一下回答说:

"If one talks too much, what good is there?"

“话要是说得太多了，还有什么好处呢?”

Then, he told Zi Qin:

接着，又告诉子禽说:

"Toads and frogs croak and flies buzz day and night until they are parched and dry in the mouth, yet nobody listens to them. But a rooster in a chicken coop crows only a few times at dawn, and everyone knows that when it crows, daylight,is coming and the whole world will be awakened. Therefore, there is no use talking too much. What is important is to suit the words to the occasion, and say things which hit the nail on the head."

“蛤蟆、青蛙、苍蝇白天黑夜不停地叫，叫得口干舌燥，可是却没有人听它们的。但是，鸡棚里的雄鸡只在黎明时啼叫两三次，大家知道鸡啼就要天亮，天下皆醒。所以，多说话没有什么用处，重要的是话要说得切合时机，说到点子上。”