英文短故事：Hungry Wolf

This is a short story about Hungry Wolf. 

 

 

 

Once, a wolf was very hungry. It looked for food here and there. But it couldn't get any. At last it found a loaf of bread and piece of meat in the hole of a tree. 

 

 

 

The hungry wolf squeezed¹ into the hole. It ate all the food. It was a woodcutter's lunch. He was on his way back to the tree to have lunch. But he saw there was no food in the hole, instead, a wolf. 

 

 

 

On seeing the woodcutter, the wolf tried to get out of the hole. But it couldn't. Its tummy was swollen². 

 

 

 

The woodcutter caught the wolf and gave it nice beatings.  

1 squeezed   

squeeze（挤压）的过去式与过去分词

参考例句：

• freshly squeezed orange juice 鲜榨橙汁
• They squeezed too many people into the small room. 他们把太多的人塞进这间小房间里。

2 swollen   

adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀

参考例句：

• Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
• A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。