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篇一:[英语小故事]英文小故事

　　故事是文学体裁的一种，侧重于事件发展过程的描述，人们也乐意阅读这类型的文学。
　　英文小故事篇一
　　美德
　　Many years after receiving my graduate degree, I returned to the State University of New York at Binghamton as a faculty member. One day in a crowded elevator, someone remarked on its inefficiency. I said the elevators had not changed in the 20 years since I began there as a student.
　　获取研究生学位多年以后，我回到位于宾翰顿的纽约州立大学当教员。一天，电梯里很拥挤，有人抱怨电梯效率太低。我说自我在那里当学生起，20年来电梯一直没有换过。
　　When the door finally opened, I felt a compassionate pat on my back, and turned to see an elderly nun smiling at me. "You"ll get that degree, dear," she whispered. "Perseverance is a virtue."
　　最后当电梯门打开时，我感到有人在我的背上同情地拍了一下，回过头来我看到一位年长的修女正在朝我微笑。“你会拿到学位的，亲爱的，”她低声说道：“坚持不懈是一种美德。”
　　英文小故事篇二
　　The Thirsty Dog
　　A dog is very thirsty. But he only sees some empty pails. There is no water in them. The dog goes on looking for water. He comes to a small house. There is a girl in it. The girl goes out with a pail. “She goes to a well,” the dog thinks and follows her. The dog is right. The girl comes to a well and puts down the pail, and the pail is full of water, there the girl goes back to her house.
　　“ Water! Great!” the dog says and runs to the well. He jumps into the well without thought.”
　　The water is good. The dog is happy and drinks much. But he can’t jump out of the well. He waits and waits. But no one comes. “I’m hungry now. I must go out,” he thinks.
　　At the time a thirsty goat comes to the well. He looks at the water and the dog. “Is the water good?” the goat asks. “ Of course. Come down,” the dog says. Then the goat jumps into the well, too. Then dog is happy. He jumps on the goat’s back and jumps out of the well.
　　The dog has a look at the goat and says, “Goodbye!” Then he leaves.
　　英文小故事篇三
　　老板最大
　　There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, "How come this guy is $5,000? That"s so expensive for this kindof parrot." The owner said, "Because I have trained him and he can talk." So the customer asked him, "How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?" The owner said, "Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing1 actions, like dancing and so on. That"s why he"s so expensive." Then the customer said, "How about the third one? What canhe do that makes him so expensive?" The owner of the shopsaid, "I don’t know. Normally2, I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him "The Boss.""
　　有个人到一间商店买鹦鹉。店里有三只鹦鹉，其中一只卖五千元，另一只卖一万元，还有一只卖三万元。顾客问老板：“为什么这只要卖五千元?这个价钱对这种鹦鹉来说太贵了!”老板说：“因为我有训练他讲话。”顾客又问：“那这只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?”老板说：“他除了会说话之外，还会表演一些有趣的动作，好比说跳舞等等，所以才卖这么贵。”顾客接着又问：“那第三只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?老板说：“我不知道。我从没听过他讲话、吹口哨或唱歌，也没看过他跳舞，什么都没有!不过另外两只叫他：“‘老板!’”
　　英文小故事篇四
　　Estimate 估算
　　Mrs. Green was the manager of a large company and she frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all, but many of the other people at the meetings did, so she often found the air during the meetings terrible.
　　One day,after an hour, her throat and eyes were sore and she was coughing a lot, so she called a big air conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.
　　After a few days the air conditioning company sent in two estimates2 for Mrs. Green to choose from. One estimate1 was for $5,000 to put in new air conditioning, and the other was for $5.00 for a sign which said, NO SMOKING.
　　格林太太是一家大公司的经理，必须经常在她大厦内的房间跟其他的生意人开会。 她本人不抽烟，但是许多其他来开会的人却抽烟，所以她常常觉得会场里的空气令人难受。
　　有一天，开了一小时的会，她喉咙和眼晴都很痛，而且咳口嗽得很厉害，所以她就请了一家处理空气调节的大公司，请他们计算一下要花多少钱，才能使大厦会议室内的空气保持绝对干净。
　　几天后受理空气调节的公司开了两张估价单供格林太太选择。 一张是花五千元来安置新的空气调节设备，另一张是花五块钱买一个“请勿抽烟”的牌子。

篇二:[英语小故事]　英语小故事多篇

　　四年级英语小故事：披着狮皮的驴
　　The assin the lion"s skin
　　An Ass found a Lion"s Skin, and dressed himself up in it. Then he went about frightening every one he met, for they all took him to be a lion, men and beasts alike, and took to their heels when they saw him coming. Elated by the success of his trick, he loudly brayed in triumph. The Fox heard him, and recognised www.xiaogushi8.com him at once for the Ass he was, and said to him, "Oho, my friend, it"s you, is it? I, too, should have been afraid if I hadn"t heard your voice."
　　【译文】
　　披着狮皮的驴
　　一头驴发现了一张狮子的皮，于是就披到身上。他走出去吓唬其它动物，所有见到他的人和动物都把他当成狮子，吓得四处逃跑。驴见自己的诡计得逞了。兴奋地大叫起来。狐狸听到他的声音，立刻认出这是一头驴，于是就对他说：“哦，朋友，这才是真正的你，是吗?要不是听到了你的声音，我也被你吓着了。”突然一阵风刮来，把驴身上披着的狮子皮吹走了，驴子原形毕露。这时，动物们见此情形，又都跑回来，用木板和棍棒狠狠地打他。
　　四年级英语小故事：猴子捞月
　　Monkeys fishing month
　　One day,a little monkey is playing by the well.
　　He looks in the well and shouts :
　　“Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!”
　　An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says,
　　“Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!”
　　And olderly monkey comes over.
　　He is very surprised as well and cries out:
　　“The moon is in the well.”
　　A group of monkeys run over to the well .
　　They look at the moon in the well and shout:
　　“The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let’get it out!”
　　Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch .
　　And he pulls the next monkey’s feet with his hands.
　　All the other monkeys follow his suit,
　　And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.
　　Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and
　　happens to see the moon in the sky,
　　He yells excitedly “Don’t be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!”
　　【译文】
　　猴子捞月
　　一天，有只小猴子在井边玩儿。
　　它往井里一瞧，高喊道： 噢!我的天!月亮掉到井里头啦!
　　一只大猴子跑来一看，说，
　　“糟啦!月亮掉在井里头啦!” 老猴子也跑过来。
　　他也非常惊奇，喊道：
　　“糟了，月亮掉在井里头了!” 一群猴子跑到井边来，
　　他们看到井里的月亮，喊道：
　　月亮掉在井里头啦!快来!让我们把它捞起来
　　然后，老猴子倒挂在大树上， 拉住大猴子的脚，
　　其他的猴子一个个跟着， 它们一只连着一只直到井里。
　　它兴奋地大叫：“别蠢了!月亮还好好地挂在天上呢!”
　　正好他们摸到月亮的时候，老猴子抬头发现月亮挂在天上呢
　　四年级英语小故事：拔苗助长
　　To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow
　　Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who planted a plot of rice. After he planted the seedlings, every day he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day, but still, he thought they were growing too slowly. Eventually he got impatient with the young plants and suddenly he hit upon an idea that one by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. The next early morning, the young man couldn’t wait to check his “achievement”, but he was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.
　　【译文】
　　拔苗助长
　　从前，有个农夫，种了稻苗(seedlings)后，便希望能早早收成。每天他到稻田时，都发觉那些稻苗长得非常慢。他等得很不耐烦。想了又想，他终于想到一个“最佳方法”，他将稻苗全都拔高了几分。第二天，一早起身，他迫不及待地去稻田看他的“成果”。 哪知，却看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了。
　　四年级英语小故事：画蛇添足
　　Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It
　　Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has ever seen a snake with feet?”
　　The story of "Draw a snake and add feet to It.” tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
　　【译文】
　　画蛇添足
　　古时几个人分一壶酒。他们都想独自喝完那壶酒，所以就定了一个规矩：每人在地上画一条蛇，谁画得最快，这壶酒就归谁。有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时，看见别人都还在忙着画，就决定给蛇再画上几只脚。结果，他的蛇脚还没加完，另一个人已经把蛇画好了。那人一下把酒壶夺了过去，说：“有谁见过长脚的蛇?”。
　　这个故事告诉我们这样的道理：做得过分和做得不够都是不对的
　　四年级英语小故事：刻舟求剑
　　Making His Mark
　　A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn’t this a very foolish way to look for a sword?
　　【译文】
　　刻舟求剑
　　楚国有个人坐船渡江时，他不小心把自己的一把宝剑掉落江中。他马上掏出一把小刀，在宝剑落水的船舷上刻上一个记号。船靠岸后，那楚人立即从船上刻记号的地方跳下水去捞取掉落的宝剑。他怎么找得到宝剑呢?船继续行驶，而宝剑却不会再移动。像他这样去找剑，真是太愚蠢可笑了。
　　四年级英语小故事：鸽子和蚂蚁
　　Pigeons and ants
　　An ant was drinking at a river. Suddenly he slipped, and fell into the water.
　　A dove took pity on him. She threw a small branch into the river. The ant seized the bough, and swam back to the shore.
　　A few days later, the ant saw a hunter aiming a gun at the dove. He bit the man in the foot sharply.The man missed the shot, and the dove"s life was saved. The dove felt very grateful. She made good friends with the ant.
　　【译文】
　　鸽子和蚂蚁
　　一只蚂蚁到河边饮水，却不幸掉入河中。
　　一只鸽子看见，扔下一段树枝，将他救起。
　　过了不久，蚂蚁看见猎人正在拿枪瞄准鸽子，就狠狠地朝他脚上咬了一口，没让他打中。鸽子非常感激蚂蚁。从此，他们成了好朋友。
　　寓意: 有些朋友也许平时看似微不足道，但却有可能在我们身处困境的时候提供巨大的帮助

篇三:[英语小故事]简单的英语小故事四篇

　　英语小故事中往往能帮助小朋友们明白一下人生的道理，对以后的学习有一定的意义。

　　简单的英语小故事篇一
　　Little Pigs,the Crane and a Wolf
　　Once, a mother pig sent her three little children into the world. They needed to look after themselves.
　　The first pig found some straw, and he built a fine house with straw, and he built a fine house with straw.
　　The second pig built a house with wood.
　　The third pig built a house with stone.
　　One day, a wolf came to straw house, he was hungry.
　　“Little pig let me in! I’m your brother.”
　　“No, no! You are a wolf.”
　　Then the wolf blew down the straw house. The first pig ran to the wooden house.
　　Then the wolf came to the wooden house, too. The two pigs ran to the stone house.
　　The wolf came and blew the stone house. He blew and blew, but the house didn’t fall down. Then wolf was angry, he climbed to the roof and jumped down the chimney.
　　The wolf fell into the pot! Ouch! He ran away.
　　The three little pigs lived happily.
　　There is a bad wolf in the forest. One day he is eating a lamb. Suddenly a bone sticks in his throat.
　　“Oh, a bone is my throat.” He goes to see a doctor, “Please help me.” The doctor, Mr. Panda says, “Sorry, I can’t help you. The bone is inside.”
　　“What can I do?” the wolf is sad. Then he meets a crane. “Oh, dear crane. Please help me. A bone is in my throat. I will pay for your help.”
　　“Ok. Let me have a try,” the crane says. She pulls out the bone with her bill. “Now I will go. Remember your words. You should pay me,” she says.
　　“Well. Pay you. I remember,” the wolf says. With the words, the wolf bites off the crane’s neck and eats her up.
　　简单的英语小故事篇二
　　The Clever King Solomon
　　Long, long ago, there was a king. Solomon was his name. He was very clever.In his country, there were two women. They lived in the same house and each had a child.
　　One night, one of the babies died. The dead baby’s mother took the other woman’s baby, and put it in her own bed.
　　The next morning , they had a quarrel.
　　“No, this is my baby!” The dead is yours!”
　　Each one wanted the living baby. So they went to see King Solomon.
　　“Bring me a knife, cut the child into two and five, each woman one half.” said the King.
　　“Oh. Your Majesty! Give her my baby. Please don’t kill my baby!”
　　Then King Solomon pointed to the woman in teas and said, “Give the baby to her. She is the mother.”
　　God had given Solomon any wish, and he chose wisdom. This I heard from another guard. Icouldn’t believe it! Why hadn’t he picked other things like riches, long life, or the death of his enemies? Now I know why because he is one of the youngest rulers ever and he needs wisdom to rule the people. God thought that it was such a good answer so he gave him wisdom, riches,power and fame.
　　When Pharaoh came to Jerusalem to speak with Solomon, I was called to stand behind KingSolomon. I was listening to their conversation when finally they came to a point. Solomon had made an alliance or a so-called treaty of peace by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter. I was at their wedding too. I soon overheard about how King Solomon was making a temple to the one and only God above. I was sent to work at the masonry, because I was once a stone mason and they are short of masons so they are pulling everybody with rock carving experience to them asonry. At least I don’t have to worked like those labour slaves have to. They are worked until they are almost dead. It looks like they never stop working. I feel that those labour.
　　简单的英语小故事篇三
　　The phoenix
　　Many ages had now passed away since the Phoenix had been seen in the world. At last he again appeared. Immediately al the different kinds of animals, both birds and beasts, flocked around him.
　　Astonished at his beauty, they stared and admired, and broke out into great praise. But in a short time, the wisest and most prudent(谨慎的) amongst them began to look upon him with an eye of compassion, and they sighed,"O unhappy phoenix! Fate has been hard to him. He has neither mate nor friend. He will never know the pleasure of loving, or of being loved."
　　简单的英语小故事篇四
　　时间很重要
　　As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal(肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.
　　Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic.
　　As the alcoholism progressed, AL began to lose everything he possessed -- his land, house, etc. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Al"s death, I thought, "What a totally wasted life! What a complete failure! "
　　As time went by , I began to revalue my earlier rough judgement . I knew Al"s now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring , most loving men I have ever known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere .
　　I hadn"t heard Ernie talked much about his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said quietly, "As a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, "love you, son."
　　Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been a fool to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his best love.

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