The Secret of Success | 成功的秘诀
A young man repeatedly asks Einstein for the secret of success. Annoyed, Einstein writes a formul...
The Three Army-Surgeons | 三个军医
Three overconfident army-surgeons boast of their surgical skills by removing their own organs, re...
Two Children Argue About the Sun | 小儿辩日
Confucius encounters two children debating whether the sun is closer at sunrise or noon, each usi...
Tongue Twisters Collection 2 | 英语绕口令集锦(二)
A curated collection of 54 classic English tongue twisters, designed to challenge pronunciation, ...
The Dog and the Wolf | 狗与狼
A clever dog escapes being eaten by a wolf by promising to get fattened up for a future feast, bu...
The Camel and the Arab | 骆驼与阿拉伯人
A loaded camel is asked by its driver whether it prefers going uphill or downhill. The camel shre...
Huang Gong's Daughters | 黄公嫁女
Huang Gong's excessive modesty backfires when he constantly describes his beautiful daughters as ...
Recommending Zhuge Liang on Horseback | 走马荐诸葛
Cao Cao lures Liu Bei's advisor Xu Shu away by exploiting his filial piety. Before leaving, Xu Sh...
A Courtyard as Crowded as a Marketplace | 门庭若市
This fable tells how Minister Zou Ji used a personal story about flattery to persuade the King of...
Fish Cheeks | 鱼颊
A teenage girl is mortified when her Chinese family hosts a traditional Christmas Eve dinner for ...
Might Makes Right | 强权即公理
A lion and a wild ass hunt together, but when dividing the spoils, the lion uses his power and th...
The Bellamy and the Members | 贝拉米与成员们
A group of Socialists rebels against their leader Bellamy, questioning the one-sided provision of...
Two Hunters | 两个猎人
Two hunters ignore a pilot's weight limit, pressure him into overloading the plane with two moose...
A Place to Stand | 立足之地
The author encounters a toll booth worker who transforms his monotonous job into a daily celebrat...
The Old House | 老房子
A lonely old man living in a decaying, centuries-old house forms a silent friendship with a curio...
The Lazy Spinner | 懒惰的纺纱女
A lazy woman devises clever tricks to avoid spinning and winding yarn, first by frightening her h...
Christopher Reeve: A Real-Life Superman | 克里斯托弗·里夫:现实中的超人
Christopher Reeve, famed for playing Superman, became a real-life hero through his courageous adv...
The Humorous Customer | 幽默的顾客
A narrative about a regular customer at a garden centre whose witty humor, including pretending h...
I Never Work After Supper | 饭后从不工作
A stingy farmer tries to make his farmhand work non-stop by having all meals at once in the morni...
The Magic Thread (I) | 魔法线(上)
A boy named Peter, impatient with the present, receives a magical silver ball with a golden threa...
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