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...