五年級英語朗讀篇目　　　　Crying wolf too often

 There was a shepherd who was fond of playing practical jokes. He would drive his flock some distance from the village and then shout to the villagers for help, saying that wolves had attcked his sheep. Two or three times the inhabitants came rushing out in alarm- and then went back with the shepherd laughing at them.

 Eventually, however, some wolves really came. They got between the shepherd and his flock and he called the neghbors to aid him. But they thought he was up to his usual trick and did not bother their heads about him. So he lost his sheep.

 A scaremonger gains nothing by raising false alarms. He merely makes people disbelieve him when he does speak the truth.

　　                                  一天到晚叫狼來了

有個牧羊人很喜歡惡作劇。他會帶著羊群從村裡走一段路，然後對著村人們大叫救命，說狼襲擊他的羊，村人著急地這樣跑了兩三次，回來的時候，就發現牧羊人在嘲笑他們。

 最後，狼真的來了。牠們團團圍住牧羊人和羊群，他大聲喊村人來救，但是大家都以為又是他的老把戲，懶得為他傷腦筋。他的羊全都沒了。

 常散播謠言的人最後會什麼也沒有，到他說真話的時候，已經沒人相信他。