举案齐眉的故事原文及翻译(汇总16篇)

Ivan came home with a bloody nose and his mother asked, "What happened?"

"A kid bit me," replied Ivan.

"Would you recognize him if you saw him again?" asked his mother.

"Id know him any where," said Ivan. "I have his ear in my pocket."

伊凡鼻子流着血回到家里。他妈妈问，“发生了什么事?”

“一个男孩咬了我一口，”伊凡说。

“再见到他你能认出来吗?”妈妈问。

“他走到哪里我都能认出他，”伊凡说。“他的耳朵还在我衣兜里呢。”

这一天，娃娃鱼家来了一位外国小客人。

小朋友们猜一猜，她是谁呀?

嗨，她就是来自丹麦的人鱼姑娘。

人鱼姑娘说的丹麦话，娃娃鱼一个字也听不懂。

他飞快地跑出门，找来九头鸟当翻译。

九头鸟长了九个脑袋。九个脑袋上共有九个嘴巴。因为翅膀好使，她到过许多地方，会说许多外国话。具体来讲，她会说九国语言。

人鱼姑娘拉着娃娃鱼的手，说：

(这是丹麦人鱼语，上面有许多小气泡似的符号，那是因为人鱼姑娘生活在大海里的缘故。)

娃娃鱼瞪着小眼睛凝望九头鸟，那意思是：哎呀，急死人

了!快翻译呀，不然，我怎么回答人家呢。

九头鸟不慌不忙。1号嘴对2号嘴咕嘟了一句什么，2号嘴对3号嘴咕嘟了一句什么，3号嘴对4号嘴咕嘟了一句什么，4号嘴对5号嘴，5号嘴对6号嘴最后，8号嘴对9号嘴咕嘟了一句什么，9号嘴这才慢悠悠地说道：人鱼姑娘说，5000年前咱们是一家，一笔写不出两个鱼字呀!看到你，我真高兴!

本来，见多识广的九头鸟完全可以把丹麦人鱼语，直接翻译成中国娃娃鱼语，但因为她有九个脑袋呀，她常常拿不定主意。(瞧，没有主脑，就是这么麻烦!)再说，她有九个嘴巴呀，七嘴八舌的事，总是难免的。为了公平公正，让每个嘴巴都有表现的机会，充分行使说话权，九头鸟只好这样安排：1号嘴将丹麦人鱼语翻译成澳大利亚袋鼠语;2号嘴将澳大利亚袋鼠语翻译成美国公牛语;3号嘴将美国公牛语翻译成南美洲树獭语;4号嘴说出了泰国大象语;5号嘴翻译成了冰岛企鹅语最后，9号嘴将爱斯基摩海豹语翻译成中国娃娃鱼语。

高兴，高兴，我比您更高兴!我代表娃娃鱼家族欢迎您的光临!

娃娃鱼说得多好!他的外交口才几乎是天生的。这下轮到人鱼姑娘听不懂了。她忽闪着美丽的长睫毛，眼巴巴地望着九头鸟，希望她快点翻译。

[给人鱼姑娘当翻译故事作文

太行、王屋二山，方七百里，高万仞。本在冀州之南，河阳之北。北山愚公者，年且九十，面山而居，惩山北之塞，出入之迂也。聚室而谋，曰："吾与汝毕力平险，指通豫南，达于汉阴，可乎?"杂然相许。其妻献疑曰："以君之力，曾不能损魁父之丘，如太行、王屋何?且焉置土石?"杂曰："投诸渤海之尾，隐土之北。"遂率子孙荷担者三夫，叩石垦壤，箕畚运于渤海之尾。邻人京城氏之孀妻，有遗男，始()，跳往助之。寒暑易节，始一反焉。河曲智叟笑而止之，曰："甚矣，汝之不惠!以残年余力，曾不能毁山之一毛，其如土石何?"北山愚公长息曰："汝心之固，固不可彻，曾不苦孀妻弱子。虽我之死，有子存焉。子又生孙，孙又生子;子又有子，子又有孙，子子孙孙，无穷匮也。而山不加增，何苦而不平?"河曲智叟亡以应。操蛇之神闻之，惧其不已也，告之于帝。帝感其诚，命夸娥氏二子负二山，一厝朔东，一厝雍南。自此，冀之南，汉之阴，无陇断焉。

列 子《列子·汤问篇》

列 子(公元前450-前375)，名列御寇，春秋末郑国人。

【经典寓言故事】

传说很早以前，在冀州的南面、河阳的北面有两座大山，一座叫太行山，一座叫王屋山，山高万丈，方圆有七百里。

在山的北面，住着一位叫愚公的老汉，年纪快九十岁了。他家的大门，正对着这两座大山，出门办事得绕着走，很不方便。愚公下定决心要把这两座大山挖掉。

有一天，他召集了全家老小，对他们说："这两座大山，挡住了我们的出路，咱们大家一起努力，把它挖掉，开出一条直通豫州的大道，你们看好不好?"

大家都很赞同，只有他的妻子提出了疑问。她说："像太行、王屋这么高大的山，挖出来的那些石头、泥土往哪里送呢?"

大家说："这好办，把泥土、石块扔到渤海边上就行了!再多也不愁没地方堆。"

第二天天刚亮，愚公就带领全家老小开始挖山。

他的邻居是个寡妇，她有一个七八岁的小儿子，刚刚换完奶牙，也蹦蹦跳跳地前来帮忙。

大家干得很起劲，一年四季很少回家休息。

黄河边上住着一个老汉，这人很精明，人们管他叫智叟。他看到愚公他们一年到头，辛辛苦苦地挖山运土不止，觉得很可笑，就去劝告愚公："你这个人可真傻，这么大岁数了，还能活几天?用尽你的力气，也拔不了山上的几根草，怎么能搬动这么大的山呢?"

愚公深深地叹口气说："我看你这人自以为聪明，其实是顽固不化，还不如寡妇和小孩呢!不错，我是老了，活不几年了。可是，我死了还有儿子，儿子又生孙子，孙子又生儿子;子子孙孙，世世代代，一直传下去，是无穷无尽的。可是这两座山却不会再长高了，我们为什么不能把它们挖平呢!"

听了这些话，那个自以为聪明的智叟，再也无话可说了。

山神知道了这件事，害怕愚公一直挖下去，就去向上帝报告。老愚公的精神把上帝感动了，他就派两个大力神下凡，把两座大山背走，一座放到朔方东边，一座放到雍州南边。从此以后，冀州的南面，汉水的北面，就没有高山阻挡了。

【寓意】：

只要有顽强的毅力，坚定的决心，坚持不懈，奋斗不息，再大的困难也能够克服。

【篇一】

A little panda picks up a pumpkin and wants to take it home. But the pumpkin is too big. The panda can’t take it home.

Suddenly she sees a bear riding a bike toward her. She watches the bike. “I know! I have a good idea.” she jumps and shouts happily, “I can roll a pumpkin. It’s like a wheel.”

So she rolls the pumpkin to her home. When her mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised, “Oh, my God! How can you carry it home?” the little panda answers proudly, “I can’t lift it, but I can roll it.” Her mother smiled and says，“What a clever girl! Use you heard to do something,”

一只小熊猫摘了一只大南瓜，想把它拿回家。但是这只南瓜太大了，她没有办法把这么大的南瓜带回家。

突然她看见一只狗熊骑着一辆自行车朝她这边来。她看着自行车，跳着说：“有了!我有办法了。我可以把南瓜滚回家去。南瓜好像车轮。

于是她把那瓜滚回家。当她妈妈看到这只大南瓜的时候，很惊讶：“天啊!这么食的南瓜!你是怎么把它带回家来的?”小熊猫自豪地说;“我拎不动它，可是我能滚动它啊!”她妈妈微笑着说：“真聪明啊!记住：只要你肯动脑筋，没有难办的事。

【篇二】

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。”

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.

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."

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。"

Tina is a lovely girl. She has a lot of dolls. One of these dolls is very beautiful. She has long blond hair and wears a white dress. The little girl likes her very much. She called her “Sandy”. You would forget all the sad things and become happy when you see her.

Tina tried to teach Sandy to speak, but she failed. When she is free, Tina always made clothed for her. When she is unhappy or met with some difficulties, Tina talked to her, because they are close friends. What a lovely girl she is!

Do you like it, too?

漂亮的洋娃娃

缇娜是一个可爱的女孩， 她有许多洋娃娃。其中有个是很没得：她有着金色的长发，穿着一件白色的连衣裙。小女孩非常喜欢它，因此， 小女孩叫她“桑迪”。当你看到它的时候就会高兴，会忘记所有不开心的事。

缇娜试着教桑迪说话，可她失败了。 当缇娜空闲时，她时常会桑迪缝衣服。当她遇到不快乐的事或碰倒困难的时候，缇娜中哦你对它倾述，因为他们是亲密的朋友。多么可爱的一个女孩啊!

你也喜欢它吗?

When I was very small, I like to read the books withpictures, because I did not know the words.

在我还很小的时候，我喜欢看那些有图片的书，因为我还不认识字。

One day, I saw the interesting pictures in the book, Isaw the turtle and the rabbit, but I did not knowwhat it said, so I asked my mom.

有一天，我在一本书上看到了有趣的图片，我看到了乌龟和兔子，但是我不知道上面讲的是什么，因此我问妈妈。

She told me that the turtle and the rabbit were racing, I said there was no doubt that therabbit would win, but my mom smiled and said the turtle won at last because the rabbit was soconfident and slept for a while and missed the time.

她告诉我乌龟和兔子正在比赛，我说肯定是兔子赢，但是妈妈笑笑，说乌龟最后赢了，因为兔子那么自信，睡了一会，错过了时间。

I was shocked, I learned that lagging behind doesn’t mean lose, if we insist, we will have thechance to win.

我很震惊，我学到了落后并不意味着输，如果我们坚持，就有机会取得胜利。

[高考满分英语作文龟兔赛跑原文及翻译

The so-called Eight Immortals refers to the eight immortal, they are: torrent, Han Chung, Lan Tsai, Chang, old, Xiangu, Han Xiang, obviously drunk and Lu Tung-pin.

One day, the Queen Mother of the West Eight Immortals birthday celebration back from the clouds over the East China Sea through, I saw choppy sea, Bailangtaotian, it is truly spectacular. Thus, the Eight Immortals decided to go to the sea and play.

Lu Tung-pin, said: "Everyone threw their treasures on the sea, it is crossed by the sea, comparison and who is more supernatural powers, how?"

Tieguaili first welcomed the recommendation, high-spirited mood he said: "Well you look at me!!" Put the crutches toward the sea, crutches like a boat floating in the water, a torrent somersault, turned upright on crutches.

Han Chung then put his palm-leaf fan thrown into the sea, standing on the top jump.

Subsequently, several other fairy also recount, Chang, old riding a donkey down, marching Lu Tung-pin male and female sword, Xiao Han Xiangzi sitting, riding Xiangu flowers, blue and standing on the green light, obviously drunk stepping jade, are floating up in the sea.

Eight Immortals secure in the surging waves along the drift, which clouds feel different, do not have a new stimulus and atmosphere, we really played with pleasure.

In this case, obviously drunk suddenly points to the right hand, and shouted:

"We see ah! There seat mirage!"

We turned around and saw a gradually rising mountains from the sea, the mountains there are trees, there are buildings, while on the up in the air, the clouds slowly into the horizon, a flash, a cloud that has been scattered by the wind a.

Han Xiang said: "We do not really treat shallow sea dragon mirage gas is booed out of gas, a rare century ah!!"

Suddenly, the blue and disappeared from them. We wait and see far and near, while calling to find, but I could not see blue and traces of old Chang guess, he said:

"East China Sea Dragon King might be trouble, he did not welcome us his prowess at sea, the blue and caught underwater to go, we go together to the underwater dignitaries go!"

We came to the Dragon Palace, Dragon King politely request release. Dragon unreasonable, not only refused, but also sent his sons to lead the minor players to kill the Eight Immortals. Eight Immortals had to use magic to carry a weapon, resisting many small, after a fierce battle, two were the Eight Immortals Dragon Prince killed.

A dragon, his two sons were killed the Eight Immortals, really extreme grief, please South China Sea, West Sea, North Sea Dragon King to help. Dragon King ton of bricks, the Eight Immortals also riled. Torrent wine gourd sea water absorbance, and the remaining few will be immortal Tarzan moved over to fling the East China Sea, the East China Sea became an immediate high.

The two sides played incredibly hard, sun and the moon light, the Lao, and Avalokiteshvara Buddha also alarmed, they all came to mediation. The results of mediation is, by the blue and the East China Sea Dragon King sent two Jade, as compensation for killing two Prince Tarzan moved back by Kannon responsible place.

Because of a dispute, the Eight Immortals Jade Emperor was downgraded first-class. Since then, the Eight Immortals no longer afraid to stir up trouble to the outside.

所谓八仙是指八位仙人，他们分别是：铁拐李、汉钟离、蓝采和、张果老、何仙姑、韩湘子、曹国舅和吕洞宾。

有一天，八仙向西王母拜寿回来，腾云驾雾从东海上空经过，只见海上波涛汹涌，白浪滔天，煞是壮观。于是，八仙决定到海面上玩一玩。

吕洞宾说：“大家把自己的宝物扔到海面上，借着它渡过大海，比一比谁更有神通，怎么样？”

铁拐李首先对这一建议表示欢迎，他兴致昂扬地说：“好啊！大家先看我的！”便把拐杖投向海中，拐杖像一条小船漂浮在水面，铁拐李一个筋斗，翻立在拐杖上。

接着汉钟离把他的芭蕉扇丢到海上，跳下去站在上面。

接着，其他几位仙人也各显神通，张果老倒骑着毛驴，吕洞宾踏着雌雄宝剑，韩湘子坐着萧，何仙姑乘着花篮，蓝采和站在拍板上，曹国舅踩着玉版，都在海面上漂浮了起来。

八仙安稳地顺着汹涌的波浪漂去，这与腾云驾雾感觉大不相同，别有一番新的刺激和情调，大家玩得好不快意。

这时，曹国舅突然用手指向右边，并高声喊道：

“大家看啊！那里有座海市蜃楼！”

大家转头一看，只见一座仙山渐渐地从海里升起，山上有树木，有楼房，一会儿就升到半空中，慢慢地变成天边的浮云，一转眼，那浮云又被风吹散了。

韩湘子说：“我们真是眼福不浅！蜃气是海里蛟龙嘘出来的气体 ，百年难得一见啊！”

突然 ，蓝采和从他们当中消失了。大家远近观望，一边找一边喊，可就是不见蓝采和的踪迹，张果老猜说：

“可能是东海龙王作怪，他不欢迎我们在他的海上大显神通，把蓝采和抓到龙宫去了，走 我们一起到龙宫要人去！”

大家来到龙宫，婉言请求龙王放人。龙王蛮不讲理，不但不肯，还派自己的几个儿子带领虾兵蟹将追杀八仙。八仙只得用随身的法宝当武器，抵抗虾兵蟹将，经过一场激烈的战斗之后，龙王的两个太子被八仙杀死了。

龙王一听，自己的两个儿子被八仙杀了，真是悲愤至极，商请南海、西海、北海龙王来帮忙。龙王的不依不饶，把八仙也给惹火了。铁拐李用酒葫芦把海水吸光，其余几位仙人将泰山搬了过来，往东海一扔，东海立刻变成了一座高 。

双方打得天昏地暗，日月无光，把太上老君、如来佛和观世音也惊动了，他们全都赶来调解。调解的结果是，由蓝采和送东海龙王两片玉版，作为杀两位太子的补偿泰山则由观世音负责搬回原处。

因为这一场纠纷，八仙被玉皇大帝降级一等。从此，八仙再也不敢到外面惹是生非了。

关于诗歌我想很多同学都不陌生啦!下面小编就为大家带来古代诗歌四首，大家一起欣赏探讨，有你认识的吗?

《观沧海》

曹操

东临碣石，以观沧海。

水何澹澹，山岛竦峙。

树木丛生，百草丰茂。

秋风萧瑟，洪波涌起。

日月之行，若出其中;

星汉灿烂，若出其里。

幸甚至哉，歌以咏志。

《次北固山下》

王湾

客路青山下，行舟绿水前。

潮平两岸阔，风正一帆悬。

海日生残夜，江春入旧年。

乡书何处达，归雁洛阳边。

《钱塘湖春行》

白居易

孤山寺北贾亭西，水面初平云脚低。

几处早莺争暖树，谁家新燕啄春泥。

乱花渐欲迷人眼，浅草才能没马蹄。

最爱湖东行不足，绿杨阴里白沙堤。

《天净沙·秋思》

马致远

枯藤老树昏鸦，小桥流水人家，古道 西风瘦马。

夕阳西下，断肠在天涯。

好啦，看了原古诗，大家是不是都领悟了诗人想表达的意思呢?下面就为大家带来古代诗歌四首原文翻译对照,译文注释哦

《观沧海》

曹操

东行登上碣石山，来观赏大海。

海水多么宽阔浩荡，碣石山高高耸立在海边。

碣石山上树木丛生，各种草长得很繁茂。

秋风飒飒，海上涌起巨大的波涛。

日月的运行，好象是从这浩淼的海洋中出发的。

银河星光灿烂，好象是从这浩淼的海洋中产生出来的。

真是幸运极了，用歌唱来表达自己的思想感情吧。

《次北固山下》

王湾

旅客要走的道路呀，正从青青北固山向远方伸展。江上碧波荡漾，我正好乘船向前。

潮水上涨，与岸齐平，江面变得开阔无边。和风吹拂，风向不偏，一叶白帆好像悬挂在高远江天。

红日从东海上诞生了，冲破残夜，驱尽大地的黑暗。大江弥漫着温煦的气息，春天提早进入了旧年。

我多么思念亲爱的故乡，书信早已写好，如何寄回家园?掠过晴空的北归鸿雁啊，拜托你们，把信捎到洛阳那边。

《钱塘湖春行》

白居易

从孤山寺的北面到贾亭的西面，湖面春水刚与堤平，白云重重叠叠，同湖面上的波澜连成一片。

几处早出的黄莺争着飞向向阳的树木，谁家新来的燕子衔着春泥在筑巢。

繁多而多彩缤纷的春花渐渐要迷住人的眼睛，浅浅的春草刚刚能够遮没马蹄。

我最喜爱西湖东边的美景，游览不够，尤其是绿色杨柳荫下的白沙堤。

《天净沙·秋思》

马致远

黄昏，枯藤缠绕着的老树，乌鸦在哀鸣;

潺潺流水，小桥旁边，呈现几户人家;

嗍嗍西风，荒凉古道，疲惫不堪的瘦马驮着我蹒跚前行。

夕阳已经落下，我这个浪迹天涯的旅人，不禁又升起思乡思亲之情，简直要肝肠俱断了。

好啦以上就是古代诗歌四首，各位同学有没有领略到我国古代诗歌的意境呢?感谢大家阅读。

1、牛和蛙

一头牛到水潭边去喝水，踩着了一群小蛙，并踩死了其中一只。小蛙妈妈回来后，见到 少了一个儿子，便问他的兄弟们，他到哪里去了。一只小蛙说：“亲爱的妈妈，他死了。刚 才有一头巨大的四足兽来到潭边，用他的蹄子踩死了我们的兄弟。”蛙妈妈一边尽力鼓气， 一边问道：“那野兽是不是这个样子，这般大小呢？”小蛙说：“妈妈，您别再鼓气了。我 想您不可能和那怪物一样大小，再鼓气就会把肚子胀破。”

这是说，渺小无论如何也不能与伟大相比。

2、蝮蛇和狐狸

盘缠在一捆荆棘上的蝮蛇，顺着河水漂流。狐狸在河边看见后说：“这船主与船倒很匹配。”

这故事说的是想做坏事的恶人。

3、马、牛、狗与人

宙斯创造了人，没给人长寿，却给了人聪明才智。在冬天，人给自己建造好了房屋，舒适地住在里面。有一天，天气异常库冷，还下着雨，马冻得再忍受不住了，便跑到人那里，请求让它住在屋内避寒。人说除非马同意把它的部分寿命送给人，否则就不让它进门。马高兴地答应了。不久之后，牛也忍受不了寒冬，跑来找人。那人同样地说，除非牛能把部分寿命送给人，不然就不收留它。牛献出了部分寿命后，被收留下来。最后，狗冻得几乎要死了，也跑来把自己的部分寿命送给人，得到住处。这样，人在宙斯所给的年岁内，纯洁而善良；到了马给的年岁，就吹牛说大话，自命不凡；到了牛给的年岁，开始干事业；而到狗给的年岁，便容易发脾气，动不动就大吵大闹。

这故事适用于爱发脾气的固执的老人。

4、孔雀和天后赫拉

孔雀向赫拉诉说夜莺以悠扬、动听的歌声，深深地打动了人们的心，使大家十分喜爱她。而她一开口唱歌，便遭到听众们的嘲笑。天后赫拉安慰她说：“但你的外表和身材是出类拔萃的。绿宝石的光辉闪耀在脖子上，开屏时，羽毛更是华丽富贵，光彩照人。”孔雀说：“既然在歌唱上我远远不及他人，这种无言的美丽，对我又有什么用呢？”赫拉回答说：“各人有各人的命运，这是由命运之神所注定的。他注定了你的美丽，老鹰的力量，夜莺的歌唱，乌鸦的凶征。所有鸟类都满意神所赋与他们的东西。”

这故事是说，人要接受自己的优点，也要接受自己的缺点，任何事和任何人都不可能十全十美。

5、核桃树

有棵核桃树生在路旁，结了很多核桃，路过的人们都用石头去打树上的果实。核桃树暗自叹息，自言自语：“我真倒霉，每年我给人们带来了果实却为自己招来许多侮辱与苦恼。”

这故事是说那些因自己行善而吃苦的人们。

6、行人与真理

有个人在荒凉的野外赶路，他看见一个女人眼睛盯着地下，独自站在路旁，便问她，“你是谁？”她说：“我是真理。”他又问道：“你为什么不住在那繁华热闹的城市，而住在这荒凉的野外呢？”她答道：“古时候，谬误只在少数人哪里，可是现在你无论到哪里都听到谬误。”

这是说，当到处都充满谬误时，真理就远离人们无处存身了。

Ji Anlived at the time of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.24). He was respected for being upright and just and for daring to speak the truth. He did not bother about amall matters in personal behaviour and in being an official. He was particular about actual effects and ,although he did not cause a stir ,he could keep the prefecture he governed in perfect order. Because of this. the imperial court transferred him to the central government from being the perfect of the Donghai Prefecture to being a commander in charge of the appointment and dismissal of the local officals.

Once,Emperor Wudi said that he would implement the policy of benevolence and justice of Confucianism and would do good turns to the people.Emperor Wudi Had hardly finished his remards when Ji An said that there was no need for the emperor to say so.Why should the emperor bother,Ji An said, about pretending to implement the policy of benevolence and justice since he was so greedy and avaricious within himself? This choked the emperor off. The emperor suddenly Changed his countenance and declared the meeting over. All the civilian and military officers at court were breathless with anxiety for fear that Ji An might bring disaster upon himself because of this. After returning, Emperor Wudi said to the people around him that Ji An was a little too rude and too straightforward.

For this reason ,Ji An was never promoted again. When he was the commander in charge of the appointment and dismissal of the local officials, both Gongsun Hong and Zhang Tang were low -ranking lfficials of little importance. Later ,they were promoted continuously. Gongsun Hong became the prime minister and Zhang Tang became the imperial censor. However, JiAns post remained thesame. One day, Ji An said to Emperor Wudi that the way the emperor used his ministers was just like piling up firewood, which meant that the latecomers surpassed the old-timers. Of course, Emperor Wudi could see that Ji An was complaining. So,turning to his ministers, Emperor Wudi said, "It is true that no one can stop learning.You see, Ji An is making more and more indiscreet remarks."

This story comes from The Historical Records. Later generations use the set phrase "the latecomers surpass the old-timers " to indicate that successors can cxcel the predecessors, which is quite different from the original idea when Ji An said that the latecomers surpassed the old-timers.

汲黯是西汉武帝时代人，以刚直正义、敢讲真话而受人尊重。他为人和做官都不拘小节，讲求实效。虽然表面上不那么轰轰烈烈，却能把一个郡治理得井井有条，因此，朝廷把他从东海太守调到朝廷当主爵都尉——一种主管地方吏任免的官职。

有一次，汉武帝说要实行儒家的仁义之政，为老百姓办好事了。没等皇帝把话说完，汲黯就说：“陛下内心里那么贪婪多欲，表面上却要装得实行仁政，这是何苦呢？”一句话把皇帝噎了回去。汉武帝登时脸色大变，宣布罢朝，满朝文武都为汲黯捏着一把汗，担心他会因此招来大祸。武帝回到宫里以后，对身边的人说，汲黯这个人也未免太粗太直了。

从此以后，汲黯的官职再也没有提升。他当主爵都尉的时候，公孙弘、张汤都还是不起眼的小官，后来，他们一个劲儿住上升，公孙弘当上了丞相，张汤做上了御史大夫，可他汲黯还蹲在原地没动窝。有一天，汲黯对武帝说，陛下使用群臣，跟码劈柴一样，是“后来者居上”啊！汉武帝当然听得出这是发牢骚。于是，转脸对臣下们说：“人真是不能不学习啊！你们听汲黯说话，越来越离谱了！”

故事出自《史记汲郑列传》。成语“后来居上”，往往指后起的可以胜过先前的。和汲黯说这话的原意，大不相同。

The Father and His Son

Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarrelling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They each tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it.

He next unclosed the faggot, and took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into their hands, on which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks."

一位父亲有几个孩子，这些孩子时常发生口角。他丝毫没有办法来劝阻他们，只好让他们看看不合群所带来害处的例子。为了达到这个目的，有一天他叫他们替他拿一捆细柴来。当他们把柴带来时，他便先后地将那捆柴放在每一个孩子的手中，吩咐他们弄断这捆柴。他们一个个尽力去试，总是不能成功。

然后他解开那捆柴，一根根地放在他们手里，如此一来，他们便毫不费力地折断了。于是他就告诉他们说：「孩子们!如果你们大家团结一致，互相帮助，你们就像这捆柴一样，不能被你们的敌人折断;但如果你们自行，你们就将和这些散柴一般，不堪一折了。

“Why need our care?’

“Because from then on the aunt cannot do what they liked to along with her daughter. She is very pitiful. In her distress, making dinners and doing chores are also becoming so difficult. My dear, can you help Mother hit an idea to help the aunt in other ways?”

At her mother’s proposal, the girl thought for a long while. All of a sudden, she went to the neighbor and knocked at the door.

The neighbor with a look of haggardness and tiredness opened the door.

“What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor.

“I heard my mother say you’re very distressed for losing your daughter…” The girl timidly handed the band-aid tightly held in her hand to the neighbor.

The neighbor suddenly choked with sobs, her tears gushing from her eyes. She hugged the girl and said, “Thank you. This band-aid will cure my wound.”

【中文翻译】

“妈妈，您在忙什么呢?”还不到6岁的女孩，好奇的问妈妈。

“给邻居家的阿姨做饭。”

“为什么?”

“前几天阿姨失去了心爱的女儿，现在很伤心。我们这几天要好好照顾她。”

“为什么需要我们照顾呢?”

“阿姨以后不能和她女儿一起做他们喜欢做的事了，很可怜。人在极度悲伤时，做饭和料理家务也会变得很难。女儿，你能不能也帮妈妈想想其他能帮助阿姨做的事呢?”

女孩听到妈妈的提议，认真的思考了很久，突然走到邻居家敲响了门。

一脸憔悴和疲惫的邻居开了门。

“有什么事吗?”邻居问道。

“听妈妈说，您因为失去了女儿，非常痛苦……”女孩羞涩的把攥在手里的创可贴递给了邻居。

“阿姨，把这个贴在胸口吧，那样你的心就不会痛了。”

邻居突然哽咽起来，泪水夺眶而出。她抱住女孩说：“谢谢，这个创可贴会治好我的伤口的。”

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!”

A Garden That Welcomes Strangers

By Allen Lacy

I do not know what became of her, and I never learned her name. But I feel that I knew her from the garden she had so lovingly made over many decades.

The house she lived in lies two miles from mine – a simple, two-story structure with the boxy plan, steeply-pitched roof and unadorned lines that are typical of houses built in the middle of the nineteenth century near the New Jersey shore.

Her garden was equally simple. She was not a conventional gardener who did everything by the book, following the common advice to vary her plantings so there would be something in bloom from the first crocus in the spring to the last chrysanthemum in the fall. She had no respect for the rule that says that tall-growing plants belong at the rear of a perennial border, low ones in the front and middle-sized ones in the middle, with occasional exceptions for dramatic accent.

In her garden, everything was accent, everything was tall, and the evidence was plain that she loved three kinds of plant and three only: roses, clematis and lilies, intermingled promiscuously to pleasant effect but no apparent design.

She grew a dozen sorts of clematis, perhaps 50 plants in all, trained and tied so that they clambered up metal rods, each rod crowned intermittently throughout the summer by a rounded profusion of large blossoms of dark purple, rich crimson, pale lavender, light blue and gleaming white.

Her taste in roses was old-fashioned. There wasn’t a single modern hybrid tea rose or floribunda in sight. Instead, she favored the roses of other ages – the York and Lancaster rose, the cabbage rose, the damask and the rugosa rose in several varieties. She propagated her roses herself from cuttings stuck directly in the ground and protected by upended gallon jugs.

Lilies, I believe were her greatest love. Except for some Madonna lilies it is impossible to name them, since the wooden flats stood casually here and there in the flower bed, all thickly planted with dark green lily seedlings. The occasional paper tag fluttering from a seed pod with the date and record of a cross showed that she was an amateur hybridizer with some special fondness for lilies of a warm muskmelon shade or a pale lemon yellow.

She believed in sharing her garden. By her curb there was a sign: “This is my garden, and you are welcome here. Take whatever you wish with your eyes, but nothing with your hand.”

Until five years ago, her garden was always immaculately tended, the lawn kept fertilized and mowed, the flower bed free of weeds, the tall lilies carefully staked. But then something happened. I don’t know what it was, but the lawn was mowed less frequently, then not at all. Tall grass invaded the roses, the clematis, the lilies. The elm tree in her front yard sickened and died, and when a coastal gale struck, the branches that fell were never removed.

With every year, the neglect has grown worse. Wild honeysuckle and bittersweet run rampant in the garden. Sumac, ailanthus, poison ivy and other uninvited things threaten the few lilies and clematis and roses that still struggle for survival.

Last year the house itself went dead. The front door was padlocked and the windows covered with sheets of plywood. For many months there has been a for sale sign out front, replacing the sign inviting strangers to share her garden.

I drive by that house almost daily and have been tempted to load a shovel in my car trunk, stop at her curb and rescue a few lilies from the smothering thicket of weeds. The laws of trespass and the fact that her house sits across the street from a police station have given me the cowardice to resist temptation. But her garden has reminded me of mortality; gardeners and the gardens they make are fragile things, creatures of time, hostages to chance and to decay.

Last week, the for sale sign out front came down and the windows were unboarded. A crew of painters arrived and someone cut down the dead elm tree. This morning there was a moving van in the driveway unloading a swing set, a barbecue grill, a grand piano and a houseful of sensible furniture. A young family is moving into that house.

I hope that among their number is a gardener whose special fondness for old roses and clematis and lilies will see to it that all else is put aside until that flower bed is restored to something of its former self.

(选自Patterns: A Short Prose Reader, by Mary Lou Conlin, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.)

昔孟子少时，父早丧，母仉[zhang]氏守节。居住之所近于墓，孟子学为丧葬，躄[bì],踊痛哭之事。母曰：“此非所以居子也。”乃去，舍市傍，孟子又嬉为贾人炫卖之事，母曰：“此又非所以居子也。”舍市，近于屠，学为买卖屠杀之事。母又曰：“是亦非所以居子矣。”继而迁于学宫之旁。每月朔(shuò，夏历每月初一日)望，官员入文庙，行礼跪拜，揖[yī,拱 孟母三迁手礼]让进退，孟子见了，一一习记。孟母曰：“此真可以居子也。”遂居于此。 孟子名轲，字子舆，战国中期邹(今山东邹县)人，是孔子思想和政治主张的继承者和发扬者，也是孔子以后儒家学派的代表人物。孟子能成长为一个大学问家首先得归功于孟母。

孟轲三岁时死了父亲，养育的责任就全部落在母亲的身上。孟母是一位勤劳善良又有见识的妇女，丈夫死后，她靠织布、帮人浆洗过活。

孟轲小时候贪玩不好好念书，当时他住的地方有一些坟墓。他常常和小朋友到坟场玩耍，看到人家埋葬死人，他就和小朋友们学着样子玩抬棺材、挖坑这类游戏。孟母见了，认为这个地方对小孩子的影响不好，就搬了家。

孟家搬到城里街上住，家附近是集市和商店。孟轲住在那里后，又和小朋友玩起做买卖的游戏来。孟母见了很不高兴，决定再搬家。

孟母第三次搬到了学宫旁边，学宫就是学校的校舍。学宫里进进出出的都是些读书人，文质彬彬，有时学宫里还举行祭祀，纪念那些逝去的著名学者。孟轲耳濡目染，受其影响，也带着小朋友玩

行礼的游戏。孟母见了，这才放下心来。从此孟家就居住在那里。可见孟母在教育儿子上是多么煞费苦心，同对又表现出孟母的远见卓识，她虽是一位普通的家庭妇女，却懂得环境在小孩子成长中潜移默化的影响。

孟母还很懂得教育方法。孟轲长大一点，便就学于子思门下，但读书不用功，有一次竟逃学提前回了家。他的母亲正在织布，见他早回来，诧异地问：“你已经学好了吗?”

孟轲回答：“没有!”

孟母拿起剪刀把织的布剪断了。孟轲紧张地问母亲为什么要剪断布。母亲说：“你中途停学，和我中途断织是一样的事。君子只有经过学和问才能有广博的知识，以后一生做的事情才能顺利，避免祸患。现在你没到放学就跑回来，将来怎么能有出息?好比我们家是靠我织布生活的，现在我把布机上的布剪断了，吃饭和穿衣的来源也就都断了。”

母亲的教育方式给孟轲很深的印象，从此，他下决心刻苦读书，后来成为著名的儒家学者。