英语已成为很多学习外语的人必学的科目之一，你的英语学得怎样了呢？

不妨来做个检查，看看看看你的英语水平是不是处于哪种阶段。好了，下面是小编为大家整理的我们在生活中耳熟能详的英语故事：下金蛋的鹅

下面和小编一起读读吧；

Once upon a time, a man and his wife had the good fortune to have a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough.

They imagined that if the bird must be able to lay golden eggs, its insides must be made of gold. And they thought that if they could get all that precious metal at once, they would get mighty rich very soon. So the man and his wife decided to kill the bird.

However, upon cutting the goose open, they were shocked to find that its innards were like that of any other goose!

词汇学习：

Once upon a time从前,很久很久以前

good fortune福分；福气；好运；

every day每天; 天天; 日; 逐日

soon [suːn] 很快，不久

golden eggs大利益

be made of用…造成

imagined [ɪˈmædʒɪn] 想象；猜想；幻想 （imagined是imagine的过去式形式）

think [θɔːt] 思维，思考,认为 （thought是think的过去式形式）

precious metal贵金属

at once立刻; 立即; 同时; 一起

mighty [ˈmaɪtɪ] 强而有力的；巨大的

very soon不久; 俄; 俄顷

like that那样地; 类似地; 一概如此; 非常友好亲密

好了，以上就是关于“下金蛋的鹅”英文版的故事，这则故事看似简单，实则是告诉我们：有财富是好事，但物极必反，过分追求财富，不仅不能让人感到快乐，反而会使人的压力增大，听起来是不是很笨？