The Final Test of Confidence | 自信的最终考验
A professor offers his students a 'B' grade if they opt out of the final exam. Most accept, but t...
Herr Korbes | 科贝斯先生
A cock and a hen, on a journey to Herr Korbes's house, pick up a series of peculiar passengers. U...
The Farmer and the Donkey | 农夫与驴
A donkey trapped in a well shakes off each shovelful of dirt meant to bury it, using it as a step...
Going South by Driving North | 南辕北辙
A man traveling in the wrong direction believes his superior resources will help, but they only t...
Lawn Chair Flight | 草坪椅飞行记
A truck driver fulfills his dream of flight by tying 42 helium balloons to a lawn chair, accident...
Bill, Bingo and Bram 2 | 比尔、宾果和布拉姆 2
The narrator contrasts his own family's focus on television with his neighbor Bill's preference f...
Food Handled Out in Contempt | 嗟来之食
During a famine in ancient Qi, an arrogant noble's contemptuous offer of food is refused by a sta...
The Lion, the Fox and the Ass | 狮子、狐狸与驴
A lion, a fox, and an ass hunt together. The ass's fair division angers the lion, who kills him. ...
Tuning an Instrument is Like Governing a State | 调琴如治国
The story uses the metaphor of tuning a stringed instrument to illustrate the importance of disti...
The Third Person | 第三人
Three roommates consistently seek judgment from their third companion during disputes, regardless...
Rabindranath Tagore: A Literary Colossus | 泰戈尔:文学巨匠
Rabindranath Tagore, India's Nobel laureate poet, was a prolific writer whose work explored spiri...
Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats | 草船借箭
Zhuge Liang ingeniously fulfills an impossible order for 100,000 arrows by tricking the enemy int...
Fire Goddess with Two Ds | 火山女神,双D拼写
A woman's life transforms after a dramatic midlife crisis. Forgetting her childhood dream of bein...
Yallery Brown | 黄褐精灵
A farmhand named Tom frees a magical creature, Yallery Brown, from under a stone. In return, the ...
The Frog in the Shallow Well | 坎井之蛙
A frog from a shallow well boasts of its life to a sea turtle, only to be humbled by the turtle's...
The Chariot Race | 争先恐后
A student loses a chariot race and blames his teacher for withholding skills. The teacher explain...
The Dancing Bear | 会跳舞的熊
A dancing bear returns to the wild and impresses his former companions with his skills, but his s...
Adding Feet to a Snake | 画蛇添足
This fable tells of a servant who lost a wine-drawing contest by adding unnecessary feet to his s...
The Three Fishermen <5> | 三个渔夫 <5>
The narrator and his brother are back at the Pine River, immersed in nature's sounds. They meet a...
Echo and Narcissus | 回声与那西塞斯
The myth tells of Narcissus, a youth so enamored with his own reflection that he spurns the nymph...
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