英语简短故事第1篇GiveuphalfwayDuringtheWarringStatesPeriod(475-221BC),therewasamancalledYueYangziinStateOned下面是小编为大家整理的英语简短故事集锦16篇,供大家参考。
英语简短故事 第1篇
Give up halfway
During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi in State One day he saw a piece of gold on the road and picked it He took it home and gave it to his But his wife was not The virtuous woman said, "I hear that a man of morality doesn"t drink a thief"s water and a man of probity refuses to accept What do you think of the action of picking up another"s lost valuable and possessing it for one"s own?"
Yue Yangzi, feeling ashamed, sent the gold back to where he found
the next year, Yue Yangzi felt that he should go out and visit scholars to enrich his So he set
A year later, he came back home
"Why have you returned?" asked his wife in surprise, "You"ve only spent one year studying with "
"I come back because I missed you very "
Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of scissors and went to the loom at which she had Pointing at the half done brocade, she proclaimed : "This brocade is woven from the finest I wove one strand after another to produce the Now if I cut it, all my previous work will be It"s the same with your You can acquire knowledge only through Now, you"ve stopped Isn"t it the same as cutting the brocade on the loom?"
Yue Yangzi was moved by what she He again left home to visit Several years later he became a learned
半途而废
战国时期，魏国有个叫乐羊子的人。有一天，乐羊子在路上看到一块金子，他就捡起金子，带回了家并把它拿给妻子看。可他妻子一点儿也不高兴。这个贤惠的女人对他说："我听人说"壮士不饮盗泉之水;廉洁的人不食嗟来之食"。把别人遗失的贵重之物捡起来据为己有，你怎么看待这种行为呢?"
乐羊子听了妻子的话，觉得很惭愧，就把那块金子又扔到原来的地方。
第二年，乐羊子离开家到了一个很远的地方，去拜师求学。
一年后，乐羊子突然回到家中，他的妻子很惊讶地问："你怎么回来了?你才和那些学者学了一年呀。"乐羊子说："我太想你了，所以回来看看。"
他的妻子听了以后，二话不说，拿起把剪刀走到她的织布机前。她指着那块已经完成了一半的锦缎说："这块锦缎用的是最好的丝。我一丝丝的累积来织成这锦缎。如果我现在把它剪断，就等于前功尽弃。你求学也是这样。如果现在停止，和剪断织布机上的锦缎有什么区别?"
乐羊子被妻子的话所感动，于是立刻离开家，继续拜师求学。
几年后，乐羊子终于完成学业，成为一个博学的人。
英语简短故事 第2篇
有一天某位女士看到一只老鼠在自家的厨房地板上窜过。她很害怕老鼠，所以她冲出屋子，搭上了公共汽车直奔商店。在那儿，她买了一只老鼠夹。店主告诉她：“放点奶酪在里面，很快你就会逮住那只老鼠的。”
这位女士带着鼠夹回到家里，但她没有在碗橱里找到奶酪。她不想再回到商店里去，因为已经很晚了。于是，她就从一份杂志中剪下一幅奶酪的图片放进了夹子。
令人称奇的是，这画有奶酪的图片竟然奏效了!第二天早上，这位女士下楼到厨房时，发现鼠夹里奶酪图片旁有一张画有老鼠的图片!
Gardening Gloves
For months I hinted that I needed a new wedding ring, since I had developed an allergy to gold. On my birthday, while I was gardening, my husband asked me for gift suggestions. I held my hands up and said, "Well, you‘ll notice that my hands are bare."
Later that evening I opened my present with enthusiasm. "Happy birthday," he said, as I unwrapped a new pair of gardening gloves.
英语简短故事 第3篇
Doing the rounds in the folk is a story, once upon a time there lived a king, and he sent neighbouring Sudan three appearance, size, and weight are exactly the same gold statue, and told the Sudan, their value is not the same. The king is to want to take this a few things to try the Sudan and his subjects is not clever.
Sudan received the unusual gifts, feel strange. Him to the king"s palace to find out the statue to the difference, however, read and reread all around them, checked and checked, how also can not find out.
About the three gold statue of the news soon spread out in the city, from the old man to the child, not a don"t know. A poor young man in a locked up in prison alone.so he told Sudan, as long as let him take a look at the three gold statue, he"ll be able to tell the difference between them.
Sudan commanded to bring the youth into the king"s palace. He around the three gold statue back and forth to see it again, found their ears are drilling a eye. He picked up a straw, wear into the first statue of ears, straw emerged from his mouth. He wear straw into the second statue ears, straw and emerged from the other ear. He wear straw into the third when the ears of the statue, straw was it swallowed into the stomach, can not come.
So, young people began to say to Sudan:
"Your majesty! This a few gold statue and the characteristics of people. The first is like a statue sharp-tongued, he heard something, say it out soon, this kind of person can"t depend on, so, this statue value a few money. The second is like a statue east out the ear, ear, this kind of person be unlearned, no skill, the value of money. The third statue is like a very cultured person, he can know all the things in the belly, so this is the most valuable statue."
Sudan, hear the word of the young people very happy, he bade on each statue write down the value of it, and gave them back to the king of neighboring countries. Since then, Sudan to the young people released from the prison, and leaving him in the side, problems in doubt, ask for his advice.
英语简短故事 第4篇
Ignorance of the objective world
In the State of Lu, there was a couple of husband and wife, the former being an expert shoemaker and the latter a skilled hand in wearing taffeta. One day after consultations they decided to go to the state of Yue to earn a livelihood. The neighbors advised them not to go when they learned about their plan. "Don"t go there," said one neighbor, "If you go, you can never earn a livelihood."
"We cannot understand you," interrogated the couple, "We have a find command of our art, how could we not earn our living with our work? Don"t make a fool of us, please."
"Indeed, you have your skill," explained the man, "But have you taken notice of the fact that shoes are made for people and the silk taffeta are for hat-making? The people of Yue don"t wear shoes, for they are barefooted. Again, they like to have their hair spread out over their heads and they never use hats. To whom should you sell your shoes and hats then?" Experienced though you are in the arts, yet the arts you have mastered are useless there."
After this explanation, the husband and wife now understood that anything that was not adaptable to the objective world would be useless and unpractical.
不合时宜
鲁国有对夫妻，男的是鞋匠，鞋子做的很好;女的是织绢能手。有一天，他们商量想到越国去谋生。消息传到四邻后，有人对他们说："不要到那儿去!否则你们一定无法生存的!"那对夫妇说："我们不明白你的意思， 我们都有一套手艺，怎么 会生活不了呢?别胡说了!" 那人说："对呀，你们虽然都有一套手艺，可是你们要知道，鞋子是给人穿的，但越国人都赤脚不穿鞋子，你们织的丝绢原是做帽子用的，但越国人喜欢披着头发，不戴帽子，你们的本领虽大，手艺虽高，但你们做的鞋子、帽子去卖给谁呢?那对夫妇这才明白，凡事如果不合时宜，不适合客观环境就不中用了。
英语简短故事 第5篇
The shoemaker"s adventure 鞋匠奇遇
A young shoemaker left his Along the way, he found some ants, who were very sad because a bear had destroyed their anthill(蚁冢，人群密集的地方) . The shoemaker helped them rebuild it, and the ants offered to return the
The shoemaker followed his way and found some bees with the same problem as the The young man also helped them, and the bees promised to help him in the
Further along, the shoemaker learned that the king’s daughter was in the castle of a witch(巫婆，女巫) . The young man decided to rescue But the witch locked him up in a stinking(发恶臭的，非常讨厌的) dunge on with a sack of sand mixed with poppy(罂粟) seeds and told him that if he wasn’t able to separate the two, she would cut off his head at
The young man thought about his But his friends the ants came and helped him pass the The witch was Then she took him to a room where there were thirteen maidens with their faces covered: the shoemaker had to discover which one was the
The young man became discouraged but he saw a bee that landed the sweetest one, the true When the shoemaker uncovered her face, the witch was changd into a crow(乌鸦) . The young people fell in love and lived surrounded by animals and
一个年轻鞋匠离开他所在的村子。沿途中看到一些蚂蚁，蚂蚁们很伤心，因为熊破坏了他们的家。于是这个鞋匠帮助它们重修了蚁丘，蚂蚁们说将来会回报他的帮助。
鞋匠上路继续前行，发现一些蜜蜂遭遇到和蚂蚁一样的状况。于是这个年轻人也帮助了蜜蜂们，蜜蜂承诺将来也会帮助这位年轻人。
又走了很远，鞋匠听说国王的女儿困在女巫的城堡里，年轻人决定去营救她。但女巫把他锁在恶臭的粪土堆旁，还扔给他一麻袋混合在一起的沙子和罂粟种子。告诉他如果不能够在黎明前把这些区分开来，就要在黎明时砍掉他的脑袋。
年轻人想着他要死了。这时他的朋友蚂蚁来了，帮助他通过了这个考验。女巫大吃一惊，接着她把年轻人带到了一个房间，里面有蒙着面纱的是三个少女：鞋匠必须从中找出真正的王妃。
年轻人有些灰心了，但这时他看到了一只蜜蜂降落在一个人身上……那人就是真正的王妃。当鞋匠揭开她的面纱，于是女巫变成了一只乌鸦。年轻人跟公主坠入爱河，动物们和罂粟花都围绕着他们。
英语简短故事 第6篇
A farmer in the state of Song once got a piece of stone with jade in it.
宋国人有个农夫得到一块含宝玉的石头后，将它献给了相国子罕。
He presented this stone to Prime Minister Zi Han. But Zi Han refused to accept it. The farmer explained, “It looks like just a stone, but there is jade inside. It actually is a piece of treasure and suitable for honorable men like you, not for us common people.”
子罕拒绝接受这块石头，农夫解释说：“表面上它是块石头，但里面含有宝玉，是个宝物，适合您这样的贵人使用，我们普通百姓用它就不合适了。”
“I know there is jade inside,” Zi Han said,” but I disagree with you. I think to have the virtue of declining things that do not belong to oneself is the real treasure. ”
子罕说：“我知道里面是宝玉。但我的观点和你不同，我认为具有不接受不应得的东西的品德才是真正的宝玉。”
英语简短故事 第7篇
In the Warring States Period, a man in the state of Chu was offering a sacrifice to his ancestors. After the ceremony, the man gave a beaker of wine to his servants. The servants thought that there was not enought wine for all of them, and decided to each draw a piecture of snake; the one who finished the piecture first would get the wine. One of them drew very rapidly. Seeing that the others were still busy drawing, he added feet to the snake. At this moment, another man finished, snatched the beaker and drank the wine, saying,"A snake doesnt have feet. How can you add feet to a snake?"
This idiom refers to ruining a venture by doing unnecessary and surplus things.
英语简短故事 第8篇
In tc tung at the age of 17, dizhou tong ningbo effect real high school want to enter oneself for an examination. This middle school in zhejiang province is a famous school, particularly high entrance scores, and years only recruit New Year 3 students. Home all advised him not to good to be true, but with confidence dizhou tong said: "I spell on a summer vacation, line!"
The examination results, tc tung indeed was admitted. He became effective real middle school the first ever new didn"t go to school and earning grade three students.
There is, however, many people still in speculation, like dizhou tong village wretched exactly can work with. The first semester has passed, tc tung only 45 points average total score, English is too bad. He dropped out of school mobilization or demotion. He holds the tears, trying to read a semester again repeated requests to the principal classes. After school reluctantly agreed to, he is with amazing perseverance to overcome learning difficulties. Morning before dawn, he would get up quietly, under the street light to read a foreign language; The classmates all slept at night, he still standing under the street light self-study lessons. Dean finds out, close the street lamp forced him into the house. He is unaware, proctor and ran to the toilet outside under the light of learning, the proctor also touched.
In this way, he finally came up to the second semester, the total average of 70 points, geometry also got 100 points. Until old age, tc tung also recalled, he said: "I know, I"m not stupid than others. Others can do it, after work I can also do it. The world of genius, is acquired at the cost of labor and sweat."
英语简短故事 第9篇
A Clever Hare
Billy hare is hungry and finds a radish. What he picks it up, Mr. Fox is behind him and wants to eat him. “I’m hungry, too. You’re my dinner. I’m going to eat you,” he says.
Billy Hare is shocked, but he isn’t scared. He says, “Follow me. I have better food for you.”
They go to a well.
“Look down here,” Billy Hare says “There is something in the water. “What’s that?” Mr. Fox asks surprisingly. “It’s a big and fat hen. Let’s get down and fetch it.” Billy Hare says and gets down with a pail.
“Can you out the hen into the pail?” Mr. Fox shouts. “No. She’s too big,” Billy Hare says, “Come down, please. We can take her up together. Jump into the other pail.”
Mr. Fox does so. When he gets down, Billy Hare gets up. “Good-bye!” Billy Hare gets out of the well and says. Mr. Fox can’t get out.
聪明的野兔
野兔比利很饿，他找到了一只萝卜。当他捡起萝卜的时候，狐狸先生正在他的身后，想吃了他。
“我也饿了。你是我的晚餐，我要吃了你。”狐狸说。
比利很吃惊，但是他并不害怕。他说：“跟我来，我有更好的食物给你。” 他们来到一口井边。
“朝这下面看，”比利说， “水里有东西。”“是什么呀？”狐狸先生好奇地问：“那是一只有大又费肥的母鸡。我们下去把她捉上来。”比利说着，乘一只水桶下去了。
“你能把鸡放进桶里吗？”狐狸问他：“不行，这只鸡太大了，”比利说，“下来吧。我们可以一起把它捉上去。快跳到另一只水桶里吧。”
狐狸照做了。当他下去的时候，比利就上来了。“再见。”比利从井里出来时说。而狐狸却出不来了。
英语简短故事 第10篇
Once upon a time, there was a farmer.One day, while he was working in the fields, he saw a hare run into a tree stump accidentally and die of a broken neck.
The farmer took the hare home and cooked a delicious meal for himself.
That night he thought: "I neednt work so hard. All I have to do is wait every day by the stump to pick up the hare that runs into it.
So from then on he gave up farming, and stood by the tree stump waiting for the hare to come and run into it.
Butfromthen on, he never saw another hare run into the tree stump.
从前，有一个农夫。一天，在他耕田的时候，忽然跑过来一只野兔，恰好碰在一个树桩上，脖子折断死了。
农夫把兔子拾回家去，美美地吃了一顿兔肉。
当晚，他就想：“我何必辛辛苦苦的种地呢？每天在树桩旁等着捡撞倒的野兔就好了”。
于是他从此不再耕种，每天在树桩旁等待野兔的到来。
但是，从那以后，他再没有发现一只野兔撞在树桩上。
英语简短故事 第11篇
In the reign of Emperor the Second of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.), the prime minister Zhao Gao, obsessed with ambitions, was planning to usurp the throne day and night. But he did not know how many of the ministers in the court were allowed to be ordered about by him and how many of them were his opponents. So he thought out a way to test how high his prestige among the ministers was and also to find out who dared to oppose him.
One day when court was held, Zhao Gao let someone bring a stag to the court and, with a broad smile on his face, he said to Emperor the Second of the Qin Dynasty:"Your Majesty, here is a fine horse Im presenting to you." Looking at the animal, Emperor the Second thought that it was obviously a stag and that it couldnt be a horse. So he said smilingly to Zhao Gao:"Mister Prime Minister, you are wrong. This is a stay. Why do you say it is a horse?" Remaining calm, Zhao Gao said:"Will your Majesty please see more clearly? This really is a horse that covers a thousand li a day." Filled with suspicion, Emperor the Second looked at the stag again and said:"How can the antlers be grown on the head of a horse?" Turning around and pointing his finger at the ministers, Zhao Gao said in a loud voice:"if our Majesty do not believe me, you can ask the ministers."
The nonsense of Zhao Gao made the ministers totally at a lose, and they whispered to themselves: What tricks was Zhao Gao playing? Was it not obvious whether it was a stag or a horse? But when they saw the sinister smile on Zhao Gaos face and his two rolling eyes which were gazing at each of them, they suddenly understood his evil intentions.
Some of the ministers who were timid and yet had a sense of right eousness did not dare to say anything, because to tell lies would make their conscience uneasy and to tell the truth would mean that they would be persecuted by Zhao Gao later. Some ministers with a sense of justice persisted that it was a stag and not a horse. There were still some crafty and fawning ministers who followed Zhao Gao closely in ordinary times. They immediately voiced their support to Zhao Gao, saying to the emperor:"This really in a horse that covers a thousand li a day."
After the event, Zhao Gao punished by various means those ministers with a sense of justice who were not obedient to him, even with whole families of some of those ministers executed.
This story appears in "The Life of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty" in The Historical Records written by Sima Qian. From this story people have derived the set phrase "calling a stag a horse" to mean deliberately misrepresenting some thing and misleading the public.
秦二世时，丞相赵高野心勃勃，日夜盘算着要篡夺皇位。可朝中大臣有多少人能听他摆布，有多少人反对他，他心中没底。于是，他想了一个办法，准备试一试自己的威信，同时也可以摸清敢于反对他的人。
一天上朝时，赵高让人牵来一只鹿，满脸堆笑地对秦二世说：“陛下，我献给您一匹好马。”秦二世一看，心想：这哪里是马，这分明是一只鹿嘛！便笑着对赵高说：“丞相搞错了，这里一只鹿，你怎么说是马呢？”赵高面不改色心不跳地说：“请陛下看清楚，这的确是一匹千里马。”秦二世又看了看那只鹿，将信将疑地说：“马的头上怎么会长角呢？”赵高一转身，用手指着众大臣，大声说：“陛下如果不信我的话，可以问问众位大臣。”
大臣们都被赵高的一派胡言搞得不知所措，私下里嘀咕：这个赵高搞什么名堂？是鹿是马这不是明摆着吗！当看到赵高脸上露出阴险的笑容，两只眼睛骨碌碌轮流地盯着赵高脸上露出阴险的笑容，两只眼睛骨碌碌轮流地盯着每个人的时候，大臣们忽然明白了他的用意。
一些胆小又有正义感的人都低下头，不敢说话，因为说假话，对不起自己的良心，说真话又怕日后被赵高所害。有些正直的人，坚持认为是说明书而不是马。还有一些平时就紧跟赵高的x佞之人立刻表示拥护赵高的说法，对皇上说，“这确是一匹千里马！”
事后，赵高通过各种手段把那些不顺从自己的正直大臣纷纷治罪，甚至满门抄斩。
故事出自《史记秦始皇本纪》。成语“指鹿为马”比喻故意颠倒是非，混淆黑白。
英语简短故事 第12篇
A child was careless Ramie stabbed, he rushed home and told his mother: "I only lightly Pengyi what, it was my painful thorns." Mom said: "Because of this, it will thorn you. if the next time you met Ramie, to a courageous and seize it, it will be in your hands become soft as silk, you will no longer be stabbed. "
一个小孩不小心被苎麻刺了，他急忙跑回家，告诉妈妈说：“我只轻轻地碰它一下，它就刺得我很痛。”妈妈说：“正因为如此，它才会刺你。下次你如果再碰到苎麻，要勇敢地一把抓住它，它就会在你的手中变得柔软如丝，不再会刺伤你了。
英语简短故事 第13篇
It was time for a haircut. Lenny didn’t even have to look in the mirror. Even though he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut his hair every two weeks.
He had a "tongue" of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was what they call "salt and pepper," a mixture of gray hair and dark brown hair. It was only a few years, he figured, until the salt and pepper became just salt.
He never let his hair grow for more than two weeks. The longer it got, the worse it looked, he thought.
He spread a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went down the drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cutting his hair. He started at the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the top. Every minute or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with an old toothbrush.
Finished, he picked up a hand mirror to check out the back of his head. Everything looked okay. He carried the newspaper back out to the kitchen and shook the hair clippings into the trash can.
Then he took a shower.
英语简短故事 第14篇
Look at the Sky from the Bottom of a Well
There is a frog.He lives in a well and he never goes out of the well.He thinks the sky is as big as the mouth of the well.
有一只青蛙住在井底，他从来没有去过井外面。他以为天空就和井口一样大。
One day a crow comes to the well.He sees the frog and says,“Frog,let’s have a talk.”
一天，一只乌鸦飞到井边，看见青蛙，就对它说：“青蛙，咱们聊聊吧。”
Then the frog asks,“Where are you from?”
青蛙就问他：“你从哪里来?”
“I fly from the sky,”the crow says.
“我从天上上来。”乌鸦说。
The frog feels surprised and says,“The sky is only as big as the mouth of the well.How do you fly from the sky?”
青蛙惊讶地说：“天空就只有这井口这么大，你怎么会从天上来?”
The crow says,“The sky is very big.You always stay in the well,so you don’t know the world is big.”
乌鸦说：“天空很大。只不过你一直呆在井里，所有不知道世界很大。”
The frog says,“I don’t believe.”
青蛙说：“我不相信。”
But the crow says,“You can come out and have a look by yourself.”
乌鸦说：“你可以出来，自己看看嘛。”
So the frog comes out from the well.He is very surprised.How big the world is!
于是青蛙来到井外。他十分惊讶，原来世界这么大!
英语简短故事 第15篇
As long as fill the stomach, the animals are not afraid of anything. Eat a meal, can make them warm. Subcutaneous fat fat, is the warm down jacket. Even if the cold can penetrate fur and feathers, also absolutely can"t get through the thick layer of fat under the skin.
If food is abundant, the winter is absolutely can"t be afraid. But, where is the winter food? Where to find?
The Wolf and fox in the woods shot to shot, but very quiet in the woods, some animals and birds, had to shelter for the winter, others fly to other places.
During the day, only a crow flying in the woods; Night, the sable 暤 (hao) kept flying in the air, they are trying to look for food. But couldn"t find anything!
The day of the forest can"t! Hungry! Hungry as hell!
Mr Watt tip: tells the story of children, in the winter, the animals lack of food, can only rely on their thick fur and the accumulation of body fat to resist the cold winter, they are so hungry!
英语简短故事 第16篇
Groping about the Chin of the Black Dragon to Get a Pearl-Bringing Out the Best
Long,Long age,there lived a family by the Yellow River.They lived a very poor lift,depending on cutting reeds,weaving hanging screens and dustpans for a livelihood.
One day,the son was cutting reeds by the riverside.With the scroching sun directly overhead,his head was swimming,so he sat down to take a rest.Looking at the river water in front which was his father had once told him.in the depths of the river there were a lot of rare treasures,but nobody dared to get them because a fierce black dragon was residing there.He thought that,if he could dive into the depts of the river and get the treasures,the whole family would not have to toil from morning till night and yet could not have enough to eat as now.He thought it would be better to have a try,and he was resolved to try in desperation.So he took off his clothes nimbly and dived into the cold water with a splash.
At first,he could see small fish here and there all around.However,the deeper he dived ,the darker it became,and the colder the river water.At last,it was pitch-dark all around,and he could see nothing.He became frightened,and was at a loss where he should swim to.Just at that time,he noticed a round object which was glittering not far away.He fixed his eyes on it,and saw it was a bright pearl.He held his breath and swam over there,held the pearl with both hands,pulled it with a great effort,and the bright pearl come into his arms.He came out from the water immediately,climbed up the bank,and made off for home at once.
His father saw the bright pearl,and asked where he had got it.He told his father the whole story exactly as it had happened.Hearing this,his father said repeatedly,"How dangerous it was!This precious pearl was grown on the chin of the black dragon.The black dragon must have been sleeping when you were pulling the pearl.If the black dragon were awake,you would be dead."When the son heard this,he considered himself very lucky indeed.
This story appears in The Works of Zhuang Zi.From this story,later generations have derived the set phrase "groping about the chin of the black dragon to get a pearl-- bringing out the best" to indicate that an article is to the point.
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