丑小鴨英文故事簡(jiǎn)短

The Ugly Duckling

It was summer. A duck was sitting in her nest. Her little ducklings were about to hatched.

One egg after another began to crack,but the biggest one was still there. At last, it cracked.The baby was big and ugly.

The next day,the mother duck with her family went down to the moat. One duckling jumped in after another. The big ugly one swam about with them.But the poor duckling was chased and harassed by all the ducklings because he was very ugly.The ducks bit him,the hens pecked him. And the girl who fed them kicked him aside.

Then he ran off and soon came to a great marsh where the wild ducks lived. He stayed there for two whole days.A big dog appeared close beside him,but he did not touch the duckling. "Oh,I am so ugly that even the dog won`t bite me." Sighed the duckling.

In the evening,he reached a little cottage. Because he could not lay eggs,he was driven away by the hen.

one evening,he saw some swans.He flew into the water and swam towards them. What did he see in the clear water? He was no longer a dark grey ugly bird. He wa s himself a swan.

He said to himself,"I never dreamed that I could be so happy when I was the ugly duckling."

譯文：夏天到了，一只鴨子正坐在它的窩里。它的小寶寶們就要孵出來了。一只又一只的蛋開始裂開，但是最大的蛋仍然在那里。最后，它破裂了。寶寶又大又丑。第二天，鴨媽媽帶著一家去河溝里去了。一只又一只的小鴨子跳了進(jìn)去。這個(gè)又大又丑的鴨子在別的鴨子邊上游泳。但因?yàn)樗L(zhǎng)得很丑，不但沒有被鴨群接受，還挨啄、被排擠、被訕笑。而且在雞群中也是這樣。他因此覺得很自卑。無奈之下，丑小鴨飛過籬笆逃走了。有一次，他遇到了一只獵狗，但那只獵狗只是聞聞他，并沒有把他抓住。他暗自慶幸，“我丑得連獵狗也不敢咬我了！”他為自己逃生而慶幸，同時(shí)為自己長(zhǎng)得丑而懊喪。在這以后，丑小鴨遇到了很多磨難。后來，對(duì)美好大自然、美好生活的向往與追求驅(qū)使著丑小鴨不再依靠別人生活。有一天，三只美麗的白天鵝從樹陰里一直游到他面前來，小鴨認(rèn)出了這些美麗的動(dòng)物，于是心里感到一種說不出的難過。小鴨感到自己要游向他們，就算他們把自己弄死也沒關(guān)系，因?yàn)樗幸活w追求美的心。但他在水里看到的是什么呢，不再是那只丑陋的小鴨了，而是——一只美麗的天鵝。