100个儿童英语小故事: Nightingale 夜莺
时间：2018-12-06 作者：英语课 分类：汪培珽儿童英文分级书单三 An I can read
005 Nightingale
A long time ago in China there lived an emperor. The emperor loved to read books. One day, in the book he was reading, it wrote, "The most beautiful precious 1 treasure is the bird nightingale."
The emperor had never seen or heard of nightingale. "What is nightingale?" No one has ever seen or heard of it.
The emperor was very curious as to what nightingale was. "Bring nightingale to me at once". The servants were worried by the emperor's command. They looked here and there.
One day a little girl said that she knew of nightingale. She said that the bird she had was nightingale. It was a small cute bird. At once nightingale was brought to the emperor.
The emperor was very happy. "Ah ~ is this bird called nightingale?" For the first time in his life, he heard the beautiful voice and was impressed and deeply 2 moved.
"Please give me nightingale and I will reward 3 you handsomely." So nightingale came to live in the palace. Everyday Nightingale sang for the emperor.
Emperor was happy every time he heard Nightingale sing. He was so proud of Nightingale that he allowed the servants to hear it too. However, Nightingale was not happy. Nightingale felt trapped 4 and had no freedom.
One day the neighboring country sent a gift to the emperor. It was a nightingale doll made of jewels and gold. Every time the doll was wound 5 up it sang beautifully. Furthermore 6, the emperor if wanted could hear it everyday.
"It's really amazing. It's beauty is the finest in the world." The real Nightingale was sad. The real Nightingale decided 7 to leave. It flew off into the forest of freedom.
The Nightingale doll kept on singing. One day the doll broke. No body was able to fix it. The emperor was heart broken.
The emperor became ill. He just laid there waiting to die. Just then, from the window, a beautiful song came flowing in. Everyone looked.
Sitting by the window, Nightingale began singing. Shortly 8 after, the emperor became better. Nightingale was happy. Soon, the emperor's face was filled with happiness once again.
- Each life is precious.生命都是宝贵的。
- Spring rain is as precious as oil.春雨贵如油。
- I do feel deeply the strength of the collective.我确实深深地感到了集体的力量。
- We're deeply honoured that you should agree to join us.您能同意加入我们，我们感到很荣幸。
- He will expect some reward after working so hard.他工作很努力，会得到报偿的。
- I didn't do it for reward;I did it for love.我做这件事不是为了报酬，而是出于爱好。
- There was a gush of blood from the wound.血从伤口流出。
- The nurse gently mopped the blood from the wound.护士轻轻地抹去伤口上的血。
- I don't like her because she is too tall and furthermore she smokes too much.我不喜欢她，因为她太高，另外她抽烟太厉害。
- I don't want to go there,furthermore,I have no time to do so.我不想去那里，而且我也没时间去。