小学英语作文美文欣赏【一】
When a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down beside him. This soon wakened the lion. He was very angry, and caught the mouse in his paws.
"Forgive me, please." cried the little mouse. "I may be able to help you someday." The lion was tickled at these words.
He thought, "How could this little mouse help me?" However he lifted up his paws and let him go.
A few days later, the lion was caught in a trap.
The hunters wanted to take him alive to the king, so they tied him to a tree, and went away to look for a wagon.
Just then the little mouse passed by, and saw the sad lion.
He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes. "Was I not right?" asked the little mouse.
狮子与报恩的老鼠
●狮子睡着了，有只老鼠在他的周围爬上爬下，很快吵醒了狮子，狮子很生气，一把抓住了老鼠。
●“饶了我吧，”老鼠请求说，“也许有一天我能帮上你的忙呢。”狮子觉得很好笑，他想：“这只小老鼠怎么能帮上我的忙？”但他还是抬起爪子放他走了。
●不久，狮子被陷阱困住了。猎人们想将活狮子献给国王，就把他捆在一棵大树上，然后去找马车。
●这时，老鼠路过这里，看到了绝望中的狮子。他走过去，很快啃断了绳索，说：“我虽小，可是我也能帮上你的忙。”
寓意: 有些朋友也许平时看似微不足道，但却有可能在我们身处困境的时候提供巨大的帮助。
小学英语作文美文欣赏【二】
"An illusory snake in a goblet" is used to describe the psychological state of being frightened caused by taking illusions as reality.
“杯弓蛇影”比喻把虚幻当作真实的恐惧心理。
In Jin Dynasty there was a man named Yue Guang who was fond of drinking alcohol.
晋朝有个叫乐(yuè广的人，爱喝酒。
One day, he invited a friend to his house to drink together.
一天，他邀请朋友到家里来对斟（zhēn对饮。
Suddenly, his friend saw the reflection of a snack swimming in the goblet.
忽然，朋友看见酒杯里有条蛇影在游动。
He got so much frightened that he took ill on bed after getting home.
他受了惊吓，回去便一病不起。
And neither any doctor or any medicine could cure his illness.
请医服药，都无起色。
Yue Guang came to see him and asked about the cause of his disease.
乐广跑来看他，问明起病的缘由。
When he got to know the cause, he pulled his friend from the bed immdiately and took him to his house.
乐广听后一把拉起朋友往家走。
Yue Guang made his friend sit where he used to, pouring a goblet of alcohol for him, and asked him," Is there any snake reflection in the goblet?"
他让朋友坐在原处，斟满酒问：“有蛇影吗？”
There was still a "snake reflection" in the goblet! Yue casually took away the bow hanging on the wall.
杯子里还有“蛇影”！乐广随手取下墙上的弓。
This time, the "snake reflection" disappeared.
这次，“蛇影”不见了！
"So it was the bow reflection that was in the goblet!" His friend at once got well from his illness.
“杯子里原来是弓影呀！”朋友的病情顿时好了！
小学英语作文美文欣赏【三】
Carrying Faggots to Put Out a Fire
In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.B., the qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei with a momentum more vigorous than ever. The king of the State of Wei summoned his officials,and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. After years of chaos caused by the wars,the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak ofresistance. At the critical moment when a large enemy force was bearing down upon the border, most of the offinials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River and south of the Taihang Mountain. However Su Dai, a counsellor, did not agree. He hurried up to the king and said:"Your Majesty, they don't think about the interests of the country at all.It is just because they are cowardly and afraid of death that they ask you to sue for peace by betraying the country. Of course you can temperarily satisfy the ambition of the king of the State of Qin is insatiably greedy. It will never stop assaulting us until our land is totally given away."Once there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire fiercer. That was because he didn't know that,instead of putting out the fire, faggots could only make it burning more vigorously. Isn't it equivalent to carrying faggots to put out a fire if you agree to sue for peace at the cost of the land of the State of Wei?"Though Su Dai's argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials and gave away to the State of Qin a large area of the land of the State of Wei. For the king of the State of Wei was cowardly and only cared for peace at the moment.As might be expected,the Qin army assaulted the State of Wei on a large scale in 225 B.C.,surrounding the capital city Daliang and flooding it by digging open the dykes of the Huanghe River.The State of Wei was finally destroyed by the State of Qin.This story appears in the Historical Records Written by Sima Qian.The set phrase"carrying faggots to put out a fire"is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.
战国末期，秦国向魏国接连发动大规模的进攻，魏国无力抵抗，大片土地都被秦军占领了。到公元前273年，秦国又一次向魏国出兵，势头空前猛烈。
魏王把大臣们召来，愁眉苦脸地问大家有没有使秦国退兵的办法。大臣们由于经过多年的战乱，提起打仗就吓得哆嗦，谁也不敢谈“抵抗”二字。在这大兵压境的危急时刻，多数大臣都劝魏王，用黄河以北和太行山以南的大片土地为代价，向秦王求和。
谋士苏代听了这些话，很不以为然，忙上前对魏王说：“大王，他们是因为自己胆小怕死，才让您去卖国求和，根本不为国家着想。您想，把大片土地割让给秦国虽然暂时满足了秦王的野心，但秦国的***是无止境的，只要魏国的土地没割完，秦军就不会停止进攻我们。”
说到这里，苏代讲了一个故事：从前有一个人，他的房子起火了，别人劝他快用水去浇灭大火，但他不听，偏抱起一捆柴草去救火，是因为他不懂得柴草不但不能灭火反而能助长火势的道理。大王若同意拿着魏国土地去求和，不就等于抱着柴草救火吗？”
尽管苏代讲得头头是道，但是胆小的魏王只顾眼前的太平，还是依大臣们的意见把魏国大片土地割让给秦国。到公元225年，果然秦军又向魏国大举进攻，包围了国都大梁，掘开黄河大堤让洪水淹没了大梁城，魏国终于被秦国灭掉了。
故事出自《史记魏世家》。成语“抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害，结果反而使祸害扩大。
小学英语作文美文欣赏【四】
这一天，我正躺在一片树叶上睡大觉，正对着我走过来的是一个人。我一看，可乐了。因为我正想补一补身子呢！不过天有不测风云，这时一只蜻蜓径直向我飞了过来，我十分惊慌，不过也只能认命，没想到这人一下子就把蜻蜓抓住了。我心想：我真是一只幸运的蚊子。于是我放心的补身子了。可不幸依然缠着我，又来了一只青蛙。正好看见我，正想吐出舌头将我给抓住吃掉，不过看见了人类却不敢下手，只能三步并作两步地逃跑了。我又在心里想：我可是在太幸运了！
不过现在你们人类对我们实在不友好，你们用电蚊拍电我们，用苍蝇拍打我们，还用种种办法使我们死亡。我的兄弟姐妹就惨死在你们手中！就如下面一件事。
那天我又找着一个可以为我补身子的`人，我正以极快的速度飞向他，可一下子就被电蚊拍电到了，可怜啊！我那天只有七十岁。［蚊子界一天等于一年］
哼！我要告诉人类，蚊子不是好欺负的，等天下只有二只蚊子的时候，我们就比大熊猫还要珍惜了！
小学英语作文美文欣赏【五】
我的同桌是个糊涂蛋。有一天我刚从家里带来一块新橡皮，下课时，就被同桌给拿走了。当时，我害怕极了，因为刚带来的橡皮不见了。我把前后左右的人全部问遍了，别人都说不知道我橡皮去哪儿了，我把书包的拉链拉开，“翻箱倒柜”地，我把书本一本一本拿出来，翻开，看看橡皮是不是收书时夹进去了，结果没有。我又把抽屉里找了个遍，结果又没找到。于是，我着急地哭了起来。这时，我的同桌来了，问我：“王一诺，你干嘛哭呀？”我难受地说：“我橡皮不见了，快帮我找找呀！”他说：“那好吧！”他用他那乌黑的手在书包里摸来摸去，他先扔出一本数学书，接着扔出一本语文书。突然一块紫色的橡皮出现在我们眼前，他问我：“是不是这块橡皮？”我高兴地笑了：“就是这个，就是这个。”后来，他不好意思地跟我说橡皮是他不小心拿的，要我原谅他。唉，遇到这样糊涂蛋，我又怎么能跟他计较呢？
我的同桌不仅糊涂，还很爱吃。一次春游，我带来了好多好吃的，我跟他说：“我先上个厕所，你可别偷吃我的东西。”结果，不出我所料，他竟然趁我不在偷吃了起来：他一手拿着火腿，另一个手拿着果汁，一边吃一边说：“嗯，好吃，嗯，太好吃了……”他的吃相，真是太像“八戒”先生了！我仔细一看，哇！他已经把我的东西都吃完了，我气得把他的耳朵揪来揪去。
瞧，这就是我的同桌，一个又有趣又让人无奈的同桌。
