5篇英文故事,不少于80词,含中文意思

5篇英文故事,不少于80词,含中文意思
5篇英文故事,不少于80词,含中文意思

5篇英文故事,不少于80词,含中文意思
坏孩子的故事
Once upon a time there was a child who was willful and did not do what his mother wanted. For this reason God was displeased with him and caused him to become ill, and no doctor could help him, and in a short time he lay on his deathbed.
He was lowered into a grave and covered with earth, but his little arm suddenly came forth and reached up, and it didn't help when they put it back in and put fresh earth over it, for the little arm always came out again. So the mother herself had to go to the grave and beat the little arm with a switch, and as soon as she had done that, it withdrew, and the child finally came to rest beneath the earth.
从前有个非常任性的小孩,她从不听母亲的话,上帝对此很不高兴,让她得了医生谁也治不好她的病,很快她就踏上了黄泉之路.人们把她的尸体放入了墓穴,然后向她身上撒泥土,但突然她的一只手臂伸了出来,向上举着.人们把她的手臂又塞了进去,继续撒泥土,但她的手臂又伸了出来.对此她母亲也无计可施,只得走下墓穴,用棍子在那手臂上敲了一下,它这才缩了进去,这样小女孩总算在地下安静地长眠了
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That's Why
Jimmy started painting when he was three years old, and when he was five, he was already very good at it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them. They said, "This boy's going to be famous when he's little older, and then we're going to sell these pictures for a lot more money."
Jimmy's pictures were different from other people's because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.
"That's very clever," everyone said, "Nobody else does that!"
One day somebody bought one of Jimmy's pictures and then said to him, "Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom half of your pictures, but not on the top half?"
"Because I'm small," Jimmy said, "and my burshes don't reach very high."

原来如此
吉米三岁开始画画,五岁时已经画得很好了.他画了很多美丽而有趣的画,人们出高价购买.他们说,“这个孩子长大一点肯定会出名,我们可以靠这些画大赚一笔.”
吉米的画与众不同.因为他从来不在整张纸上作画.他只画一半的纸,而另一半他总空着.
“构思多么巧妙啊!”大家都说,“从来没有人这么做过.”
有一天,一个人买了吉米的画,然后问他：“请告诉我,吉米,你为什么总是在纸的下半部分画画,而不是在纸的上半部分?”
吉米说,“因为我个头小,够不着上面.”
英语成语故事：邯郸学步
Imitating Another without Success and Losing What Used to Be One'sOwn Ability Tradition has it that more than 2,oooyears ago,there lived a young man in the Shouling area of the State of Yan.As his name is not known ,we just call him Shouling young man for convenience's sake.
self confident He was at a loss as to how to behave all the time.
His family members advised him to overcome this shortcoming,but he thought they were fond of poking their noses into his business and were unwilling to provide him with tuition fee.His relatives and neighbours sneered at him,saying that he would never be able to learn anything.Asthe days went by,he even began to doubt whether he should walk the way he did,for he felt more and more that his walking gestures were too clumsy and awkward.
One day,he met some people on the road who werechattingand laughing.One of themsaid that people in Handan walked most gracefully.And thatwas just what he was most concerned about,so he hurreed towards themand wanted to make further inquiries.To his surprise,when these people saw him,they stalked off laughing.
He could not picture to himself in what way their walking gestures were graceful,no matter how hard he racked his parents one day.He went to Handanwhich was far away to learn how to walk.
As soon as he arrived in Handan,he was dazzled to find that everything was novel.He learned from the children there how to walk,because he thought that the children's walking gestures were lively and pleasing to the eye.He learnd from the old people there how to walk,because he thought the old people's walking gestures were steady .He learnd from the women there how to walk,because he thought the women' swaying walking gestures were beautiful.That being the case with him ,in less than half a month he even forgot how to walk.As he had already used up his traveling expenses,he had to crawl back home.
Thisstory come from the article"Autumn Water"in The Works of Xhuang Zi(Zhuang Zi was a famous ancient Chinese philosopher of about 300B.c.).Later the set phrase"initating another without success and losing what used to be one's own ability"is used to refer to acts of copying others mechanisally in disregard of specififc conditions.
相传在两千年前,燕国寿陵地方有一位少年,不知道姓啥叫啥,就叫他寿陵少年吧!
这位寿陵少年不愁吃不愁穿,论长相也算得上中等人材,可他就是缺乏自信心,经常无缘无故地感到事事不如人,低人一等——衣服是人家的好,饭菜是人家的香,站相坐相也是人家高雅.他见什么学什么,学一样丢一样,虽然花样翻新,却始终不能做好一件事,不知道自己该是什么模样.
家里的人劝他改一改这个毛病,他以为是家里人管得太多.亲戚、邻居们,说他是狗熊掰棒子,他也根本听不进去.日久天长,他竟怀疑自己该不该这样走路,越看越觉得自己走路的姿势太笨,太丑了.
有一天,他在路上碰到几个人说说笑笑,只听得有人说邯郸人走路姿势那叫美.他一听,对上了心病,急忙走上前去,想打听个明白.不料想,那几个人看见他,一阵大笑之后扬长而去.
邯郸人走路的姿势究竟怎样美呢?他怎么也想象不出来.这成了他的心病.终于有一天,他瞒着家人,跑到遥远的邯郸学走路去了.
一到邯郸,他感到处处新鲜,简直令人眼花缭乱.看到小孩走路,他觉得活泼、美,学；看见老人走路,他觉得稳重,学；看到妇女走路,摇摆多姿,学.就这样,不过半月光景,他连走路也不会了,路费也花光了,只好爬着回去了.
故事出自《庄子·秋水》.成语“邯郸学步”,比喻生搬硬套,机械地模仿别人,不但学不到别人的长处,反而会把自己的优点和本领也丢掉.
英语寓言故事：The miser and his gold
Once upon a time there was a miser. He hid his gold under a tree. Every week he used to dig it up.
One night a robber stole all the gold. When the miser came again, he found nothing but an empty hole.
He was surprised, and then burst into tears.All the neighbors gathered around him.
He told them how he used to come and visit his gold.
"Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "No," he said, "I only came to look at it." "Then come again and look at the hole," said the neighbor, "it will be the same as looking at the gold."
守财奴和他的黄金
从前,有个守财奴将他的金块埋到一棵树下,每周他都去把他挖出来看看.
一天晚上,一个小偷挖走了所有的金块. 守财奴再来查看时,发现除了一个空洞什么都没有了.
守财奴便捶胸痛哭.哭声引来了邻居,他告诉他们这里原来有他的金块.
问明了原因后,一个邻居问：“你使用过这些金块吗?” “没用过,” 他说,“我只是时常来看看.”“那么,以后再来看这个洞,”邻居说,“就像以前有金块时一样.”
寓意: 即使是再珍贵的东西,如果不善加使用,也不会带来任何好处.
小鼹鼠和妈妈The Mole and His Mother
A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: "I am sure than I can see, Mother!" In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, "What is it?' The young Mole said, "It is a pebble." His Mother exclaimed: "My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.
参考译文：小鼹鼠和妈妈
传说鼹鼠的眼睛是瞎的,可小鼹鼠却对妈妈说他能看得见.妈想试验他一下,便拿来一 小块香喷喷的食物,放在他面前,并问他是什么.他说是一颗小石头.母亲说：“啊,不幸 的孩子,你不但眼睛看不见,连鼻子也没用了.” 这故事是说,那些爱吹牛说大话的人,常常夸海口能做大事,却在一些微不足道的事情 上暴露了本质.