一捆木条英文故事简介【汇编20篇】

第一部 临界爵迹(上)

奥汀大陆分为四个国家，每个国家中都生活着一群以魂力守卫国家的魂术师，而这群人中最杰出的的七位叫做王爵。故事开始于水源亚斯蓝帝国，从小生活在客栈做小二的麒零在一次魂术师的战斗中下意识的收服了传说中的魂兽苍雪之牙。而闻讯而来的银尘发现了他即将被魂兽吞噬救下了他，并根据白银祭司的命令将他收为使徒。在他的帮助下，麒零前往魂冢寻找魂器，无奈麒零没有按照银尘的安排安安分分的待着，和天束幽花、鬼山莲泉一起走进了魂冢。在魂冢的冒险之后，他被银尘骂了一顿。而此刻亚斯蓝帝国另一边的蓄谋已久阴谋开始渐露眉目。

第一部 临界爵迹(下)

五度王爵鬼山兄妹因为获知统治者白银祭司们的秘密。被白银祭司们下令追杀，他们为求自保只得循着秘密去寻找失踪已久的前任一度王爵吉尔伽美什。几乎所有王爵在西流尔岛相遇，鬼山缝魂为救妹妹被王爵们绞杀，鬼山莲泉将吉尔伽美什还活着的秘密告诉了银尘，于是在银尘的帮助下逃走两人一起结伴去解救吉尔伽美什，仓促之际，银尘丢下了麒零。在经历了各种难关后，银尘牺牲了自己将吉尔伽美什救出，而莲泉被白银祭司抓走。另一方面，白银祭司获晓冰帝出走风源因德帝国。为了寻找冰帝，他们命令王爵们前往风源。

in the spring and autumn period, a man in the state of song raised monkeys. the monkeys could understand what he said.

as the man became poor, he wanted to reduce the monkeys food. he first suggested that he give them three acorns(橡子) in the morning and four acorns in the evening.

thereupon, the monkeys protested angrily. then their owner said, "how about four in the morning and three in the evening?" the monkeys were satisfied with that.

this idiom originally meant to befool others with tricks. later it is used to mean to keep changing ones mind.

牛郎是一个农村里放牛的孩子。他不肯帮哥哥种田，不肯帮嫂嫂车水，不肯帮妈妈做家务事。牛郎只是贪玩，只爱作奇怪的幻想。他的最好的朋友就是他所看守的老牛。有一晚，他在梦幻中看到天上的仙境。他便牵着老牛动身到天上去。同时，在天上有一位织女却想要下凡来享受人间的温暖。王母娘娘可怜织女的孤寂，便差遣金童玉女和喜鹊把织女带到天涯海角去和牛郎相会。“金风玉露一相逢”，真是“胜却人间无数”。一对爱侣被送上九霄云外度蜜月去了。

牛郎游遍了天上的胜境，日子一久，也便觉得平淡无奇了。织女得继续纺织云锦天衣，不能老陪着他。牛郎越来越感觉无聊，又从金童得知家里的人日夕在盼望他回去，便把回家的意念告诉织女。织女决心和他同到地上去享受那可爱的春天。可惜事机不密，给西王母晓得了。她赶来用玉簪划成银河一道，把牛郎和织女隔开，只答应每年七夕遣喜鹊结成天桥，使他们渡河相会一次。牛郎回到人间，很高兴地再看到母亲、哥哥、嫂嫂。从此，他不再偷懒，不再作无谓的幻想，天天努力劳动。他觉悟到在现实生活里也可以创造出美丽来。他闻到泥土的香味了，他洞悉生活的意义了。他唯一的惋惜，就是所爱的织女不能也到地上来和他一起劳动，一起享受人间的温暖。不过每年七夕还可以相会一次，那已经比永别好多了。

小王子是一个超凡脱俗的仙童，他住在一颗只比他大一丁点儿的小行星上。陪伴他的是一朵他非常喜爱的小玫瑰花。但玫瑰花的虚荣心伤害了小王子对她的感情。小王子告别小行星，开始了遨游太空的旅行。他先后访问了六个行星，各种见闻使他陷入忧伤，他感到大人们荒唐可笑、太不正常。只有在其中一个点灯人的星球上，小王子才找到一个可以作为朋友的人。但点灯人的天地又十分狭小，除了点灯人他自己，不能容下第二个人。在地理学家的指点下，孤单的小王子来到人类居住的地球。

小王子发现人类缺乏想象力，只知像鹦鹉那样重复别人讲过的话。小王子这时越来越思念自己星球上的那枝小玫瑰。后来，小王子遇到一只小狐狸，小王子用耐心征服了小狐狸，与它结成了亲密的朋友。小狐狸把自己心中的秘密——肉眼看不见事务的本质，只有用心灵才能洞察一切——作为礼物，送给小王子。用这个秘密，小王子在撒哈拉大沙漠与遇险的飞行员一起找到了生命的泉水。最后，小王子在蛇的帮助下离开地球，重新回到他的B612号小行星上。

童话描写小王子没有被成*人那骗人的世界所征服，而最终找到自己的理想。这理想就是连结宇宙万物的爱，而这种爱又是世间所缺少的。因此，小王子常常流露出一种伤感的情绪。作者圣埃克絮佩里在献辞中说：这本书是献给长成了大人的从前那个孩子。

《小王子》不仅赢得了儿童读者，也为成年人所喜爱，作品凝练的语言渗透了作者对人类及人类文明深邃的思索。它所表现出的讽刺与幻想，真情与哲理，使之成为法国乃至世界上最为著名的一部童话小说。

第一篇：

The goose with the golden eggs

One morning a countryman went to his gooses nest, and saw a yellow and glittering1 egg there.

He took the egg home. To his delight, he found that it was an egg of pure gold.

Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs.

The countryman became more and more greedy. He wanted to get all the gold at once, so he killed the goose, when he looked inside, he found nothing in its body.

生金蛋的鹅

一天早晨，一位农夫发现自家的鹅窝中有一只金灿灿的蛋。

他将蛋带回家，惊喜地发现这是一个金蛋。

此后，农夫每天都能得到一个金蛋。从此，他靠卖他的金蛋变得富有起来。

农夫变得越来越贪婪，他想一下子得到鹅肚子中所有的金蛋。于是他杀死了鹅，但是，鹅肚子中什么也没有。

第二篇：

Zhuang Zhous family was poor. Once, he went to the official who supervised1 rivers to borrow some grain. The official said: "Well, wait until the end of the year when I collect the taxes from the people, then I will lend you 300 gold pieces. All right?"

When Zhuang Zhou heard this, he was so angry that the colow of his face changed. But he told the official this story: When I came here yesterday, on the way I heard a voice calling Help! I turned my head and saw a small crucian carp in the dried-up carriage ditch2."

I went over and asked: "Little crucian carp, why are you calling for help?"

The little crucian carp answered: "I am a subject of the Dragon King of the East China Sea. Unfortunately I fell down here. Can you give me a little water to save my life?"

I said: "All right, I am just going to the south to sell ideas to the kings of the States of Wu and Yue. I will ask them to stir3 up the water of the Xijiang River to welcome you. Will that do?"

When the crucian carp heard this, it got angry and said: "When I lose the water which is always with me, I cannot survive. Now, I want only a little bit of water so that I can survive.Yet you say such things. Then youd better go to the salt-fish shop to look for me."

鲫鱼求救

庄周家境贫穷。一次，他去监河侯那里借粮食，监河侯说：“好吧!等到年底，我收到了老百姓的税金时，就借给你三百金，行吗?”

庄周一听，气得脸色都变了，但是他却对监河侯讲了这样一件事情：我昨天来时，半路上听到‘救命’的呼喊声。我回过头来，看见干涸的车沟里有条小螂鱼。

我走过去，问它： “小娜鱼，你为什么喊救命?”

小鲤鱼回答说：“我是东海龙王的臣子，不幸落到这里。您能够给我一些水来救我活命吗?”

我说：“好吧!我正好要去南方游说吴国和越国的国王，那我就请他们激起西江的大水来迎接您，可以吗?”

卿鱼听了，气得不得了，说：“我失去了常跟我在一起的水，就无法生存下去了。现在，我只要得到一些水，就能够生存下去;你却说出这样的话。好吧，你不如趁早到咸鱼店里去找我吧!”

英文幽默风趣哲理小故事一

父子二人经过五星级饭店门口，看到一辆十分豪华的进口轿车。

儿子不屑地对他的父亲说：「坐这种车的人，肚子里一定没有学问!」

父亲则轻描淡写地回答：说这种话的人，口袋里一定没有钱

(注：你对事情的看法，是不是也反映出你内心真正的态度?)

After his father five-star hotel door and saw a very luxury imported cars.

Son of disdain for his father, said: "The people who take such a vehicle, necessarily Moyouxuewen stomach!"

Father answered lightly: say such things, certainly no money pocket

(Note: Your view of things, is not it also reflects the real attitude of your heart?)

英文幽默风趣哲理小故事二

An elephant said to a mouse ,"no doubt that you are the smallest znd most useless thing that Ihave e ver seen ."

"Pless ,say it again .Let me take it down ."the mouse said ."I will tell a flea what I know."

一头大象对一只小老鼠说：“你无疑是我见过的最小、最没用的东西。”

“请再说一遍，让我把它记下来。”老鼠说。“我要讲给我认识的一只跳蚤听。

英文幽默风趣哲理小故事三

Donny is a seven year old boy. He goes to school every day. The school is near his home.

So he goes there on foot and comes back home on time. But today, he is late.

His mother asks him, “Why do you go to the headmaster’s office?”

Because the teacher asks us a question in class and nobody can answer it, but I can.”

“It’s good to answer the teacher’s question.” “But the question is ‘Who pours ink on my chair?’”

谁把墨水倒在我椅子了?

唐尼是个7岁孩子，每天他都上学。学校在他的家附近。

因为，他不行去上学并按时回家。但是今天他回来迟了。

他的母亲问他：“你为什么去校长的办公室?”

“ 因为老师在上课时老师问我们一个问题，没有人能回答他，而我能。”

“ 回答老师的问题是好事。”

“ 但那个问题 ‘谁把墨水倒在我的椅子上了?’”

My hometown xi an has changed so much! If I were a tourist, I might not be able to find my way home. Speaking of changes in hometown, the road is of course to be mentioned. We used to return from xi an to zhou to the zhou dynasty. It took us an hour or two to get to our hometown. Now it is very convenient for us to go around the high speed. It takes only two to thirty minutes to get there. No matter how you open it, you can step on the gas pedal, and the steering wheel is held only slightly, not in the wrong direction. Listen to mom and dad say around the city high speed of both sides are planted various kinds of flowers and trees, with the blue sky to make the city high speed to add color.

One other thing is that we all have a family. Every time we go back to our hometown. The road of grandmas house is always worrying, the road is paved with dirt, and the road to the soil is turned into water when it rains. A car drove past, and here it was a tire. When the second one went by, the tyre was in the mud. But now, the team organized the concrete road and reached the door of my grandmothers house, which helped us to solve the big problems.

As life continues to improve, so do people. I have asked my parents, who at the time, not to say nutrition, color and taste, so long as they can eat, if not bad. Todays xi an people are very different, the meal not only wants delicious, in nutrition collocation and colour and lustre requirement is very strict. On Sunday, a few friends gathered together to eat at the hotel, which is very common.

There is another small thing, our telephone number in xi an is up to eight, on the surface only the number has changed. In fact, there are too many people in xi an to install the phone, so there are no more than seven, so we have to go up one to eight.

My hometown changed all the time, and he became more and more beautiful.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, a farmer in the State of Song was one day working in the fields when he saw a rabbit bump into a tree stump(树桩) accidentally and break its neck.

The farmer took the rabbit home, and cooked himself a delicious meal.

That night he thought, I neednt work so hard. All I have to do is wait for a rabbit each day by the stump.

So from then on he gave up farming, and simply sat by the stump waiting for rabbits to come and run into it.

This idiom satirizes(讽刺，挖苦) those who just wait for a stroke of luck, rather than making efforts to obtain what they need.

Mr Smith and his son Jim rent a boat from Mr Green. They find a very good place and catch a lot of fish. Now it is   late and they are going home.

Jim says, “I’ll come here again tomorrow.”

“Yes, me too.” say his father. “But how can we get      back and find the right place again?” “I can make a    mark   on the side of the boat.” Jim answers.

The father laughs and says, “No, that’s foolish! Mr Green won’t give us the same boat next time.”

【释义】

史密斯先生和他的儿子吉姆，从格林先生那里租了一条船。他们找到了一个非常好的地方并抓到了许多鱼。天色已经很晚了，他们要回家了。

吉姆说：“我明天还要再来这里。”

“是的，我也是。”他的父亲说。“但是我们怎么回来并找到正确的地方呢?”“我可以在船的一侧做个记号。”吉姆回答道。

父亲大笑说道：“不那太愚蠢了!格林先生下次不会给我们同一条船的。”

小小的故事蕴含着大道理，下面是小编为大家收集整理的一些有哲理的英文故事，欢迎大家阅读参考!

1、The House of 1000 Mirrors

Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself,“This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.” In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself,“That is a horrible place, and I will never go backthere again.” All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kinds of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?

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千镜之屋

很久以前的一个很远的小村庄里，有一个以“千镜屋”而著名的地方。一只乐观的小狗听说了这个地方并决定去参观。当来到这个地方，他蹦蹦跳跳地上了台阶，来到房门口，高高地竖起耳朵，欢快地摇着尾巴，从门口往里张望，他惊奇地看到有1000只欢乐的小狗像他一样快地摇尾巴。他灿烂地微笑着，回报他的是1000张热情，友好的灿烂笑脸。离开时他心想：“这是一个精彩的地方，我一定要经常来参观。” 在这个村里还有另一只想参观“千镜屋”的小狗，他不及第一只小狗乐观，他慢吞吞地爬上台阶，然后耷拉着脑袋往屋子里看。一看到有1000只小狗不友好地盯着他，他便开始冲他们狂吠，镜中的1000只小狗也冲着他狂吠，把他给吓坏了，他在离开时心想：“这是一个恐怖的地方，我再也不会来了。” 世界上所有的脸都是镜子，在你所遇见的人的脸上你看到反射出来的是什么?

2、It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now, on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and was never seen more.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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一只狗嘴里衔着一块肉，走过一条河上面的桥，看见他自己在水里的影子，以为是另一只狗，那时狗衔着的肉，比他自己的还要大一倍，因此他仍掉自己的那一块，狠狠地扑向那只狗，想夺到那一块较大的肉。结果两头都落了空，因为他想要抓取在水中的那一块，只不过是一个影子，而原来的那一块，也被水冲走了。

谨记，切莫因追逐幻影而丢失已有的东西。

3、An elephant said to a mouse ,"no doubt that you are the smallest znd most useless thing that Ihave e ver seen ."

"Pless ,say it again .Let me take it down ."the mouse said ."I will tell a flea what I know."

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为我所用

一头大象对一只小老鼠说：“你无疑是我见过的最小、最没用的东西。”

“请再说一遍，让我把它记下来。”老鼠说。“我要讲给我认识的一只跳蚤听。

4、The perform master

Front some performs the master to go on stage, his disciple told him the shoelace to be loose. The master nods expresses thanks, squats down carefully is good. When after the disciple turns around, also squats down the shoelace solution pine. Has an observer to see all these, relentlessly asked: "The master, why do you have the shoelace solution pine?" The master replies: "Because I play am a tired travel, makes a long and wearisome journey lets his shoes matter pine open, may tired display him through this detail to be thin and pale." "Why then you not directly do tell you the disciple?" "He can carefully discover my shoelace has been loose, and warm-heartedly tells me, me certainly must preserve he this kind of warm initiative, promptly encourages for him, why as for has to untie the shoelace, future will be able to have more opportunities to teach him to perform, will be allowed next again to say."

this story told us that:Person time only can make a matter, understands grasps key, is the genuine talented person.

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表演大师

有一位表演大师上场前，他的弟子告诉他鞋带松了。大师点头致谢，蹲下来仔细系好。等到弟子转身后，又蹲下来将鞋带解松。有个旁观者看到了这一切，不解地问：“大师，您为什么又要将鞋带解松呢?”大师回答道：“因为我饰演的是一位劳累的旅者，长途跋涉让他的鞋事松开，可以通过这个细节表现他的劳累憔悴.”“那你为什么不直接告诉你的弟子呢?”“他能细心地发现我的鞋带松了，并且热心地告诉我，我一定要保护他这种热情的积极性，及时地给他鼓励，至于为什么要将鞋带解开，将来会有更多的机会教他表演，可以下一次再说啊。”

这个故事说明了：人一个时间只能做一件事，懂抓重点，才是真正的人才。

The oceanside community of Lozano Beach is debating whether to allow homeowners to rent out their homes on a weekly basis during the summer. Such rentals produce high incomes for the owners and the city, which gets part of this income through a 15-percent surcharge to the owner. “This can be a boon to our coffers,” said Rick Brown, city manager. “In the summer, homeowners can bring in $2,000 a week or more.”

However, these rentals can also be a can of worms. The city stopped allowing weekly rentals 10 years ago because of the problems they were generating. Two, three, or even four families would pile into a two- or three-bedroom house. Then they would park their cars on the lawn and produce huge amounts of trash. Sometimes they would toss this trash on the streets and sidewalks.

Noise would be another problem. Some people would party late and loud every night. This abuse created a lot of friction with neighbors and resulted in extra work for city maintenance crews and for police, who had to respond almost hourly to residents’ complaints about noise, music, trash, and parking problems. But now, the city’s budget problems are making it reconsider its ban.

City officials will hold a community meeting next week to listen to the pros and cons. One official has already suggested a proposal. He thinks that a fine might work. If the city has to respond to complaints, the homeowner will be charged $200 per response. Such a fine might cause the homeowner to be careful to rent only to people that he is sure will be considerate of the neighbors. The city would still get 15 percent of the rental fee, even if the homeowner’s rent were totallyoffset by fines. The city would post inconsiderate renters’ names on the city website so that other homeowners would know about them.

Some officials think the ban should be continued because these visitors to the community have already proven that they have no consideration for others. Their money isn’t worth the headaches they cause.

小编整理了一些简单的英文哲理故事，请看看！

【1】

A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.

He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich mans house today, for I cannot get over the river."

He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.

Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.

【译文】

一个人正朝着一个富人的房子走去，当他沿着路走时，在路的一边他发现一箱好苹果，他说：“我不打算吃那些苹果，因为富人会给我更多的食物，他会给我很好吃的东西。”然后他拿起苹果，一把扔到土里去。

他继续走，来到河边，河涨水了，因此，他到不了河对岸，他等了一会儿，然后他说：“今天我去不了富人家了，因为我不能渡过河。”

他开始回家，那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的，他找到苹果，很高兴地把它们从尘土中翻出来吃了。

不要把好东西扔掉，换个时候你会觉得它们大有用处。

【2】

An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.

Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."

【译文】

一位老妇有只猫，这只猫很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了东西，因为它年纪太大了。一天，老猫发现一只老鼠，它跳过去抓这只老鼠，然而，它咬不住这只老鼠。因此，老鼠从它的嘴边溜掉了，因为老猫咬不了它。

于是，老妇很生气，因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫，猫说：“不要打你的老仆人，我已经为你服务了很多年，而且还愿意为你效劳，但是，我实在太老了，对年纪大的不要这么无情，要记住老年人在年青时所做过的有益的事情。

【3】

Teacher:Why are you late for school every morning?

Tom:Every time I come to the corner,a sign says,"School-Go slow".

【译文】

老师:为什么你每天早晨都迟到?

汤姆:每当我经过学校的拐角处,就看见一个牌子上写着"学校----慢行".

【4】

Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. "What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?"

"I gave it to a poor old woman," he answered.

"Youre a good boy," said the mother proudly. "Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?"

"She is the one who sells the candy."

【译文】

小罗伯特向妈妈要两分钱。

昨天给你的钱干什么了?我给了一个可怜的老太婆，他回答说。你真是个好孩子妈妈骄傲地说。再给你两分钱。可你为什么对那位老太太那么感兴趣呢?她是个卖糖果的。

【5】

One day, a father and his little son were going home. At this age, the boy was interested in all kinds of things and was always asking questions. Now, he asked, "Whats the meaning of the word Drunk, dad?" "Well, my son," his father replied, "look, there are standing two policemen. If I regard the two policemen as four then I am drunk."

"But, dad," the boy said, " theres only ONE policeman!"

【译文】

一天，父亲与小儿子一道回家。这个孩子正处于那种对什么事都很感兴趣的年龄，老是有提不完的问题。他向父亲发问道：爸爸，醉字是什么意思?唔，孩子，父亲回答说，你瞧那儿站着两个警察。如果我把他们看成了四个，那么我就算醉了。可是，爸爸，孩子说，那儿只有一个警察呀!

海伦·凯勒，美国著名的女作家、教育家、慈善家、社会活动家。在十九个月时因患急性胃充血、脑充血而被夺去视力和听力。以下是小编整理的海伦凯勒故事简介，希望能够帮助到大家！

海伦·凯勒（1880年6月27日至1968年6月1日），19世纪美国女作家、教育家、慈善家、社会活动家。享年88岁。87年生活在无声、无光的世界中。在十九个月时因患脑充血和胃充血而导致双目失明，双耳失聪。她完成了一系列著作，并致力于为残疾人造福，建立慈善机构，1964年荣获“总统自由勋章”，次年被美国《时代周刊》评为二十世纪美国十大英雄偶像之一。主要著作有《假如给我三天光明》《我的生活》《再塑生命》等。她的《再塑生命》节选进人教版语文教材八年级下册，《假如给我三天光明》节选进苏教版高中语文教材必修二、苏教版语文教材五年级下册第九课和上海版语文教材六年级第九课，北师大版六年级下册《伟大的日子》。

《假如给我三天光明》是美国当代著名作家海伦·凯勒的代表作。该书的前半部分主要写了海伦变成盲聋人后的生活，后半部分则介绍了海伦的求学生涯。同时也介绍她体会不同的丰富多彩的生活以及她的慈善活动等等。她以一个身残志坚的柔弱女子的视角，告诫身体健全的人们应珍惜生命，珍惜造物主赐予的一切。此外，本书中收录的《我的人生故事》是海伦·凯勒的自传性作品，被称为“世界文学史上无与伦比的杰作”。

刚满周岁那年，一天傍晚，母亲趁太阳西下以前，放了一盆热水为海伦·凯勒擦洗身子。可是，当母亲自浴盆把海伦·凯勒抱了起来，放在膝盖上，正想拿条大毛巾替她包裹身子的时候，海伦凯勒的目光，突然被地板上摇晃不定的树影给吸引了过去。她好奇地看著，看得很入神，眼珠子动也不动一下，而且还忍不住伸长小手扑了过去，好像非得揪住它不可。

当时，母亲虽然已经注意到海伦·凯勒的眼神，但是看在母亲的眼里，树影不过是平常又自然的现象，没什麼好大惊小怪的。所以，她万万没有想到海伦凯勒会使出这麼原劲儿往前倾，结果不小心一溜手，竟让海伦·凯勒滑倒在地，哇哇大哭个不停。母亲知道女儿受了惊吓，飞快地将海伦·凯勒搂进怀里，连哄带骗了好一阵子，海伦·凯勒才安静了下来。

事隔不久，母亲一个人静静回想这件事情发生的经过，她发现海伦凯勒的观察力似乎特别灵敏。通常一个周岁大的婴儿，应该是懵懵懂懂的，对什么事情都没有企图深入了解的倾向，可是海伦凯勒却别有细腻的之思，甚至於想用自己的肢体去感受变化的奇妙。当然，跟大人比起来，海伦凯勒的表现并不成熟，如果跟其他的婴孩相比，可就不能不算特殊了。而为人父母的，能幸运地生下一个天赋优异的小孩，当然是得意洋洋啰！每逢亲朋好友到家里做客，不谈起女儿也就罢了，一旦话题转到海伦凯勒身上，母亲心满意足的喜悦，就会自然而然地从言谈中流露了出来。

但是这份喜悦到底能持续多久呢？当父母亲正兴高采烈畅谈海伦凯勒美好未来的当儿，海伦凯勒却莫名其妙生了一场大病，这场大病不但夺走了父母心中的希望，更使海伦凯勒变成一个看不见、也听不见的小女孩，而且她脾气更暴躁起来！

可怜的海伦凯勒，该如何去面对一个没有光线，没有声音的世界呢？这真是一个令人头痛的问题。通常教育一个五官健全的孩子，已经不是一件轻而易举的事了，更何况海伦凯勒又瞎又聋！也许，父母亲他们可以猜测、也可以想像海伦凯勒的心情，但是他们绝对无法体会，就如同海伦凯勒无法体会正常人的生活一样，他们真的无从体会。

起先，父母亲采用实验的方法，一次又一次地尝试，虽然他们失败过无数次，但是日子久了，也摸索出不少要领，他们除了被动地猜想海伦凯勒的比手画脚，有时也教导海伦凯勒凭藉肢体动作，表达喜怒哀乐。

另外，海伦凯勒也学习运用触觉去感受周遭的事事物物。就这样一点一的累积，四、五年以后，大凡孩子们用眼睛、耳朵能感受的，海伦凯勒都能以触摸的方式领略。只是父母亲不是残障教育的专家，所以海伦凯勒学到的肢体语言，只有父母才看得懂，至于外人可就很难说了。

向来关心女儿的父母亲，也一直挂心这个问题，尤其他们想到自己终有年老体衰的一天，到时候要是海伦凯勒仍然不能跟外人沟通，那海伦凯勒往后的遭遇，将是非常悲惨的。於是，在海伦凯勒七岁那年，他们从外地请来一位受过专门训练的莎利文老师。

莎利文老师跟海伦凯勒很投缘，她们认识没有几天就相处融洽，而且海伦凯勒还从莎利文老师那里学会了认字。

一天，老师在海伦凯勒的手心写了「水」这个字，海伦凯勒不知怎麼搞的，总是没法子记下来。老师知道海伦凯勒的困难处在哪儿，她带著海伦凯勒走到喷水池边，要海伦凯勒把小手放在喷水孔下，让清凉的泉水溅溢在海伦凯勒的手上。接著，莎利文老师又在海伦凯勒的手心，写下「水」这个字，从此海伦凯勒就牢牢记住了，再也不会搞不清楚。海伦后来回忆说：“不知怎的，语言的秘密突然被揭开了，我终于知道水就是流过我手心的一种物质。这个喝的字唤醒了我的灵魂，给我以光明、希望、快乐。

不过，莎利文老师认为，光是懂得认字而说不出话来，仍然不方便沟通。可是，从小又聋又瞎的海伦凯勒，一来听不见别人说话的声音，二来看不见别人说话的嘴型，所以，尽管她不是不能说话的哑巴，却也没法子说话。

为了克服这个困难，莎利文老师替海伦凯勒找了一位专家，教导她利用双手去感受别人说话时嘴型的变化，以及鼻腔吸气、吐气的不同，来学习发音。当然，这是一件非常不容易的事，不过，海伦凯勒还是做到了。 盲人作家海伦凯勒，除了突破官能障碍学会说话，更奉献自己的一生，四处为残障人士演讲，鼓励他们肯定自己，立志做一个残而不废的人。海伦凯勒这份爱心，不但给予残障人士十足的信心，更激起各国人士正视残障福利，纷纷设立服务机构，辅助他们健康快乐的过生活。

海伦·凯勒的散文代表作《假如给我三天光明》，她以一个身残志坚的柔弱女子的视角，告诫身体健全的人们应珍惜生命，珍惜造物主赐予的一切。此外，本书中收录的《我的人生故事》是海伦·凯勒的本自传性作品，被誉为“世界文学史上无与伦比的杰作”。

1968年，海伦88岁去世，她把所有终生致力服务残障人士的事迹，传遍全世界。她写了很多书，她的故事还拍成了电影。莎利文老师把最珍贵的爱给了她，她又把爱散播给所有不幸的人，带给他们希望。死后，因为她坚强的意志和卓越的贡献感动了全世界。并且各地人民都开展了纪念她的活动。

海伦。凯勒，自幼因病成为盲聋哑人，但她自强不息，克服巨大的困难读完大学。一生写了十几部作品，同时致力于救助伤残儿童、保护妇女权益和争取种族平等的社会活动。1964年获总统自由勋章。她的事迹曾两次被拍成电影。

How time flies! I was 11 years old, and as I grew up in xi an, there was a sea change.

Xi an before my mind, is filled with dust and dirt, some narrow roads, remote places ranch house on both sides of the road, the ground, often can see the paper scraps, waste, flower beds, green belts, rarely, the whole are in poor districts. It is difficult to connect it with historical and cultural cities. Just a few short years great changes have taken place in the image of the city of xi an, ranch house was replaced by the buildings were built of tall, straight lines of the road leading to the distance, lined with rows of tall and straight trees. Now the ancient city wall of the moat park around the city, formed a unique scenery, standing on the wall, xi an city view panoramic view, west street have been built into the antique street, bustling street is the antique building shows its unique charm, and the most worthy of our xi an proud is xi an wild goose pagoda built us all of Asias biggest music fountain, attracts many Chinese and foreign tourists to watch, whenever night falls, around the wild goose pagoda qujiang ruins park, datang datang lotus park, the city that never sleeps, is glittering, past imitation architecture like beyond time and space to visitors with the tang dynasty. All this shows the charm and charm of its nine dynasties.

Today xi an is moving toward an international metropolis. The upcoming world garden will breathe new life into it. Xi an is welcoming the expo with the change of the sun and moon.

nstead of saying "I dont have time" try saying "its not a priority" and see how that feels. Often thats a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just dont want to. But other things are harder. Try it:

"Im not going to edit your resume, sweetie, because its not a priority."

"I dont go to the doctor because my health is not a priority."

If these phrases dont sit well, thats the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we dont like how were spending an hour, we can choose differently.

[英文经典哲理故事

A Sunday between March 22 and April 25

The meaning of many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in pre-Christian religions and Christianity. All in some way or another are a salute to spring, marking re-birth. The white Easter lily has come to capture the glory of the holiday. The word Easter is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox (春分).

People celebrate the holiday according to their beliefs and their religious denominations (命名). Christians commemorate Good Friday as the day that Jesus Christ died and Easter Sunday as the day that He was resurrected (复活). Protestant settlers brought the custom of a sunrise service, a religious gathering at dawn, to the United States.

This year Easter will be celebrated on Sunday April 11, 2004. On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods and organizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize.

The Easter Bunny is a rabbit-spirit. Long ago, he was called the Easter Hare. Hares and rabbits have frequent multiple births so they became a symbol of fertility. The custom of an Easter egg hunt began because children believed that hares laid eggs in the grass. The Romans believed that All life comes from an egg. Christians consider eggs to be the seed of life and so they are symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Why we dye, or color, and decorate eggs is not certain. In ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Persia eggs were dyed for spring festivals. In medieval Europe, beautifully decorated eggs were given as gifts.

In the Warring States Period, a man in the state of Chu was offering a sacrifice(祭品) 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 picture of snake; the one who finished the picture 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(烧杯，大口杯) 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.

Carrying Faggots to Put Out a Fire

In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.B., the qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei with a momentum more vigorous than ever. The king of the State of Wei summoned his officials,and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. After years of chaos caused by the wars,the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak ofresistance. At the critical moment when a large enemy force was bearing down upon the border, most of the offinials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River and south of the Taihang Mountain. However Su Dai, a counsellor, did not agree. He hurried up to the king and said:"Your Majesty, they dont think about the interests of the country at all.It is just because they are cowardly and afraid of death that they ask you to sue for peace by betraying the country. Of course you can temperarily satisfy the ambition of the king of the State of Qin is insatiably greedy. It will never stop assaulting us until our land is totally given away."Once there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire fiercer. That was because he didnt know that,instead of putting out the fire, faggots could only make it burning more vigorously. Isnt it equivalent to carrying faggots to put out a fire if you agree to sue for peace at the cost of the land of the State of Wei?"Though Su Dais argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials and gave away to the State of Qin a large area of the land of the State of Wei. For the king of the State of Wei was cowardly and only cared for peace at the moment.As might be expected,the Qin army assaulted the State of Wei on a large scale in 225 B.C.,surrounding the capital city Daliang and flooding it by digging open the dykes of the Huanghe River.The State of Wei was finally destroyed by the State of Qin.This story appears in the Historical Records Written by Sima Qian.The set phrase"carrying faggots to put out a fire"is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.

战国末期，秦国向魏国接连发动大规模的进攻，魏国无力抵抗，大片土地都被秦军占领了。到公元前273年，秦国又一次向魏国出兵，势头空前猛烈。

魏王把大臣们召来，愁眉苦脸地问大家有没有使秦国退兵的办法。大臣们由于经过多年的战乱，提起打仗就吓得哆嗦，谁也不敢谈“抵抗”二字。在这大兵压境的危急时刻，多数大臣都劝魏王，用黄河以北和太行山以南的大片土地为代价，向秦王求和。

谋士苏代听了这些话，很不以为然，忙上前对魏王说：“大王，他们是因为自己胆小怕死，才让您去卖国求和，根本不为国家着想。您想，把大片土地割让给秦国虽然暂时满足了秦王的野心，但秦国的欲望是无止境的，只要魏国的土地没割完，秦军就不会停止进攻我们。”

说到这里，苏代讲了一个故事：从前有一个人，他的房子起火了，别人劝他快用水去浇灭大火，但他不听，偏抱起一捆柴草去救火，是因为他不懂得柴草不但不能灭火反而能助长火势的道理。大王若同意拿着魏国土地去求和，不就等于抱着柴草救火吗？”

尽管苏代讲得头头是道，但是胆小的魏王只顾眼前的太平，还是依大臣们的意见把魏国大片土地割让给秦国。到公元225年，果然秦军又向魏国大举进攻，包围了国都大梁，掘开黄河大堤让洪水淹没了大梁城，魏国终于被秦国灭掉了。

故事出自《史记魏世家》。成语“抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害，结果反而使祸害扩大。

国籍：美国

出生地：肯塔基州哈丁县

生卒年：1809—1865

身份：政治家

(他是一个)不会被困难所吓倒，不会为成功所迷惑的人，他不屈不挠地迈向自己的伟大目标，而从不轻举妄动，他稳步向前，而从不倒退;……总之，他是一位达到了伟大境界而仍然保持自己优良品质的罕有的人物。——马克思

他的地位相当于音乐中的贝多芬,诗歌中的但丁,绘画中的拉斐尔和人生哲学中的基督。即使他不曾当选为总统,也将无可争辩地和现在一样伟大。——列夫·托尔斯泰

1、林肯领导了美国南北战争，颁布了《解放黑人奴隶宣言》，维护了美联邦统一，为美国在19世纪跃居世界头号工业强国开辟了道路，使美国进入经济发展的黄金时代。

2、由于林肯在美国历史上所起的进步作用，人们称赞他为“伟大的解放者”、“新时代国家统治者的楷模”。

A work crew consisting of 150 volunteers worked for eight hours in a light drizzle on Saturday to clean Carson Creek of almost nine tons of debris. “A job well done,” smiled Alan Specter, the director of the event. “We’re scheduled to come back here one more time, three years from now. Of course, we hope that there won’t be nine tons of garbage next time.”

The garbage came in all shapes, sizes, and colors: cans, bottles, bicycles, car tires, autobatteries, sofas, furniture, clothing, shopping carts, bowling balls, plastic bags, dolls, baby carriages, TV antennas, and portable radios. There was even a golf bag with a full set of golf clubs.

Much of the backbreaking work was done by two community groups—the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, and two environmental groups—Save the Bay and Watch the Whales. Concerned retirees and volunteers from police and fire departments assisted. Everyone was issued boots, gloves, and rain gear. The work occurred along a two-mile stretch of streambed. The debris was hauled roadside, where trucks lined up to take the trash to the landfill. More than 500 big yellow trash bags were filled.

No one found anything of great value, although a five-year-old boy found an earring that he thought might be worth a million dollars because it was so shiny. He said he would sell it. Then he would donate half of the proceeds to Watch the Whales, and use the other half to buy a triple-scoop ice cream cone every day for the rest of his life.