寒號鳥
Level 4 · 寓言故事 · 47 vocabulary words
Source: 民间寓言(《南村辍耕录》载寒号虫) · Chinese folk tale (the hanhao bird appears in Nancun Chuogeng Lu)
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 hanhao bird only played.
夜里很冷,寒号鸟说:明天我就垒窝!
At night it grew cold. 'Tomorrow I'll build my nest!' the hanhao bird 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 again.
就这样一天又一天,它一直没有垒窝。
Day after day went by like this, and it never built the nest.
最后,在一个寒冷的夜里,寒号鸟冻死在了岩缝里。
In the end, on one freezing night, the hanhao bird froze to death in a crevice.