寒号鸟
The Winter-Crying Bird
Level 4 · Fables · 寓言故事 · 47 vocabulary words
Source: 中国民间童话(小学语文课文) · Chinese folk tale (school textbook classic)
冬天到了,喜鹊忙着做窝,寒号鸟却只知道玩。
Winter came. The magpie busied itself building a nest, but the winter-crying bird only played.
夜里很冷,寒号鸟说:明天我就垒窝!
The nights were cold. 'Tomorrow I'll build my nest!' it said.
第二天,太阳出来了,它又忘了垒窝,继续玩。
The next day the sun came out, and it forgot all about the nest and played on.
就这样一天又一天,它一直没有垒窝。
Day after day went by like this, and the nest never got built.
最后,在一个寒冷的夜里,寒号鸟冻死在了岩缝里。
Finally, one freezing night, the winter-crying bird froze to death in a crack in the rocks.