英文短故事：Elephant and Friends

Elephant and Friends :

 

 

 

One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends. 

 

He saw a monkey on a tree. 

 

“Will you be my friend?" asked the elephant. 

 

Replied the monkey, “You are too big. You can not swing from trees like me." 

 

Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to be his friends. 

 

But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow¹!" 

 

Then the elephant met a frog. 

 

“Will you be my friend? He asked. 

 

“How can I?" asked the frog. 

 

“You are too big to leap about like me." 

 

The elephant was upset. He met a fox next. 

 

“Will you be my friend?" he asked the fox. 

 

The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big." 

 

The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives. 

 

The elephant asked them what the matter was. 

 

The bear replied, “There is a tier in the forest. He’s trying to gobble us all up!" 

 

The animals all ran away to hide. 

 

The elephant wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest. 

 

Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating up whoever he could find. 

 

The elephant walked up to the tiger and said, “Please, Mr. Tiger, do not eat up these poor animals." 

 

“Mind your own business!" growled² the tiger. 

 

The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick. 

 

The frightened tiger ran for his life. 

 

The elephant ambled³ back into the forest to announce the good news to everyone. 

 

All the animals thanked the elephant. 

 

They said, “You are just the right size to be our friend."  

1 burrow   

vt.挖掘(洞穴)；钻进；vi.挖洞；翻寻；n.地洞

参考例句：

• Earthworms burrow deep into the subsoil.蚯蚓深深地钻进底土。
• The dog had chased a rabbit into its burrow.狗把兔子追进了洞穴。

2 growled   

v.（动物）发狺狺声， （雷）作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 )；低声咆哮着说

参考例句：

• \"They ought to be birched, \" growled the old man. 老人咆哮道：“他们应受到鞭打。” 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He growled out an answer. 他低声威胁着回答。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 ambled   

v.（马）缓行( amble的过去式和过去分词 )；从容地走，漫步

参考例句：

• We ambled down to the beach. 我们漫步向海滩走去。
• The old man ambled home through the garden every evening. 那位老人每天晚上经过花园漫步回家。 来自《简明英汉词典》