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32温斯顿·丘吉尔:生活侧记-名人传记英文故事
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+ 加入清单My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s, amid disastrous circumstances. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have shortened the course of a bloody world war. But when the mission failed, with great loss of life, Churchill paid the price, both publicly and privately. He was removed from the admiralty and effectively sidelined.
Overwhelmed by the catastrophe — “I thought he would die of grief,” said his wife, Clementine —he retired with his family to Hoe Farm, a country retreat in Surrey. There, as Churchill later recalled, “The muse of painting came to my rescue!”
Wandering in the garden one day, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolors. He watched her for a few minutes, then borrowed her brush and tried his hand. The muse had cast her spell!
Churchill soon decided to experiment with oils. Delighted with this distraction from his dark broodings, Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints she could find.
For Churchill, however, the next step seemed difficult as he contemplated with unaccustomed nervousness the blameless whiteness of a new canvas. He started with the sky and later described how “very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint on the palette, and then with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean upon the affronted snow-white shield. At that moment the sound of a motor car was heard in the drive. From this chariot stepped the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery .”
“ ‘Painting!’ she declared. ‘But what are you hesitating about? Let me have the brush — the big one.’ Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette, and then several fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas.”
At that time, John Lavery— a Churchill neighbor and celebrated painter— was tutoring Churchill in his art. Later, Lavery said of his unusual pupil: “Had he chosen painting instead of statesmanship, I believe he would have been a great master with the brush.”
In painting, Churchill had discovered a companion with whom he was to walk for the greater part of the years that remained to him. After the war, painting would offer deep solace when, in 1921, the death of the mother was followed two months later by the loss of his and Clementine’s beloved three-year-old daughter, Marigold. Battered by grief, Winston took refuge at the home of friends in Scotland, finding comfort in his painting. He wrote to Clementine: “I went out and painted a beautiful river in the afternoon light with crimson and golden hills in the background. Alas I keep feeling the hurt of the Duckadilly (Marigold’s pet name).”
Historians have called the decade after 1929, when the Conservative government fell and Winston was out of office, his wilderness years. Politically he may have been wandering in barren places, a lonely fighter trying to awaken Britain to the menace of Hitler, but artistically that wilderness bore abundant fruit. During these years he often painted in the South of France. Of the 500-odd canvases extant, roughly 250 date from 1930 to 1939.
Painting remained a joy to Churchill to the end of his life. “Happy are the painters,” he had written in his book Painting as a Pastime, “ for they shall not be lonely. Light and color, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.” And so it was for my father.
我的父亲，温斯顿·丘吉尔，在他四十多岁时开始迷恋上绘画，当时环境异常恶劣。那是在1915年，任海军大臣的他，积极投身于在达达尼尔海峡的一场战役中，这场战役本可以缩短那段血雨腥风的世界大战。但由于遭受失败，伤亡惨重，丘吉尔于公于私都付出了代价。他被从海军部调离且实则坐起了冷板凳。
在灾难的折磨下——他的妻子克莱门廷说：“我想他会痛苦而死，”——他携家带口来到萨利郡的一处乡间静居霍·华姆。在那儿，丘吉尔后来回忆道，“是绘画中的冥思拯救了我！”
一天他在花园散步时，偶然看到他的弟媳在用水彩作画。他观察了几分钟，然后向她借了画笔并一试身手。他的专注仿佛给他施了魔法！
丘吉尔很快就决定试试去画油画。看到他从阴暗的忧郁思中解脱出来，克莱门廷非常开心，她赶忙去买所有能买到的颜料。
然而，迈出下一步似乎有些困难，因为丘吉尔看到一块新画布的洁白无暇时感到无所适从和为难。他先从天空画起，后来他描述如何“非常谨慎地在调色板上加入一点儿蓝色调，然后以万分的小心，在这块被蓄意冒犯的雪白的防护板上点上豌豆大的一笔。这时，传来一阵驾驶机动车的马达声。约翰·拉威利先生才华出众的太太从这辆车中姗然而下。
“‘在画画呀！’她高声说着。‘可你还在犹豫什么呢？给我那支笔——那支头号的。’只见松油飞溅，她在蓝白颜料间挥毫泼墨，在调色板上龙飞凤舞，接着在吓得发皱的油画布上用力东戳西捣几下蓝色。”
那时，约翰·拉威利——丘吉尔的邻居，也是一位有名的画家—正教丘吉尔学画。后来提及他的这位特殊的学生，拉威利说：“倘若他选择绘画而不是从政，我相信他会是位绘画大师的。”
在绘画中，丘吉尔找到了能陪他度过余生大部分时光的知已。战后，在1921年，母亲刚去世两个月，他和克莱门廷就失去了他们深爱着的三岁女儿玛丽戈尔德，这时作画给了他一些安慰。在痛苦的打击下，温斯顿来到苏格兰朋友们的家中以求得安慰，用绘画来解脱自己。他在给克莱门廷的信中说：“我出外画了一条夕阳下美丽的溪流，背后映衬着晚霞的群山。唉，达克迪莉（玛丽戈尔德的昵称）使我的苦痛总是挥之不去。
史学家把1929年后的十年，也就是保守党政府垮台而温斯顿下台的时间，称为他的荒凉岁月。政治上，他一直在举步维艰的处境中徘徊，是一个孤独的勇士在努力唤起受到希特勒威胁的国人，但在艺术上他在那荒凉岁月却硕果累累。这些年他经常在法国南部作画。在现存的500多张油画中，大约250张是1930至1939年间的作品。
绘画给丘吉尔带来了乐趣直到他的人生尽头。在他所著的《画中的消遣》里说：“画家其乐融融，因为他们不会孤独。光与色，和平与希望，会始终伴随他们。”我父亲就是这样一个人。
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吉姆说：“我明天还要再来这里。”
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In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak.
1882年，一名女婴因高发烧差点丧命。她虽幸免于难，但发烧给她留下了后遗症 她再也看不见、听不见。因为听不见，她想讲话也变得很困难。
So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a world-famous author and public speaker?
那么这样一个在19个月时就既盲又聋的孩子，是如何成长为享誉世界的作家和演说家的呢？
The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving her of sight and sound. It was as if she had been thrown into a dark prison cell from which there could be no release.
高烧将她与外界隔开，使她失去了视力和声音。她仿佛置身在黑暗的牢笼中无法摆脱。
Luckily Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She followed her mother wherever she went, hanging onto her skirts, She touched and smelled everything she came across. She copied their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself, like milking the cows or kneading dough, She even learnt to recognize people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet.
万幸的是海伦并不是个轻易认输的人。不久她就开始利用其它的感官来探查这个世界了。她跟着母亲，拉着母亲的衣角，形影不离。她去触摸，去嗅各种她碰到的物品。她模仿别人的动作且很快就能自己做一些事情，例如挤牛奶或揉面。她甚至学会*摸别人的脸或衣服来识别对方。她还能*闻不同的植物和触摸地面来辨别自己在花园的位置。
By the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family, If she wanted bread for example, she would pretend to cut a loaf and butter the slices. If she wanted ice cream she wrapped her arms around herself and pretended to shiver.
七岁的时候她发明了60多种不同的手势，*此得以和家里人交流。比如她若想要面包，就会做出切面包和涂黄油的动作。想要冰淇淋时她会用手裹住自己装出发抖的样子。
Helen was unusual in that she was extremely intelligent and also remarkably sensitive. By her own efforts she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even so she had limitations.
海伦在这方面非比一般，她绝顶的聪明又相当敏感。通过努力她对这个陌生且迷惑的世界有了一些知识。但她仍有一些有足。
At the age of five Helen began to realize she was different from other people. She noticed that her family did not use signs like she did but talked with their mouths. Sometimes she stood between two people and touched their lips. She could not understand what they said and she could not make any meaningful sounds herself. She wanted to talk but no matter how she tried she could not make herself understood. This make her so angry that she used to hurl herself around the room, kicking and screaming in frustration.
海伦五岁时开始意识到她与别人不同。她发现家里的其他人不用象她那样做手势而是用嘴交谈。有时她站在两人中间触摸他们的嘴唇。她不知道他们在说什么，而她自己不能发出带有含义的声音。她想讲话，可无论费多大的劲儿也无法使别人明白自己。这使她异常懊恼以至于常常在屋子里乱跑乱撞，灰心地又踢又喊。
As she got older her frustration grew and her rages became worse and worse. She became wild and unruly . If she didnt get what she wanted she would throw tantrums until her family gave in. Her favourite tricks included grabbing other peoples food from their plates and hurling fragile objects to the floor. Once she even managed to lock her mother into the pantry. Eventually it became clear that something had to be done. So, just before her seventh birthday, the family hired a private tutor Anne Sullivan.
随着年龄的增长她的怒气越为越大。她变得狂野不驯。倘若她得不到想要的东西就会大发脾气直到家人顺从。她惯用的手段包括抓别人盘里的食物以及将易碎的东西猛扔在地。有一次她甚至将母亲锁在厨房里。这样一来就得想个办法了。于是，在她快到七岁生日时，家里便雇了一名家庭教师 安尼沙利文。
Anne was careful to teach Helen especially those subjects in which she was interested. As a result Helen became gentler and she soon learnt to read and write in Braille. She also learnt to read peoples lips by pressing her finger-tips against them and feeling the movement and vibrations. This method is called Tadoma and it is a skill that very, very few people manage to acquire. She also learnt to speak, a major achievement for someone who could not hear at all.
安尼悉心地教授海伦，特别是她感兴趣的东西。这样海伦变得温和了而且很快学会了用布莱叶盲文朗读和写作。*用手指接触说话人的嘴唇去感受运动和震动，她又学会了触唇意识。这种方法被称作泰德马，是一种很少有人掌握的技能。她也学会了讲话，这对失聪的人来说是个巨大的成就。
Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honours from Radcliffe College in 1904. She had phenomenal powers of concentration and memory, as well as a dogged determination to succeed. While she was still at college she wrote ‘The Story of My Life. This was an immediate success and earned her enough money to buy her own house.
海伦证明了自己是个出色的学者，1904年她以优异的成绩从拉德克利夫学院毕业。她有惊人的注意力和记忆力，同时她还具有不达目的誓不罢休的毅力。上大学时她就写了《我的生命》。这使她取得了巨大的成功从而有能力为自己购买一套住房。
She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Eventually she became so famous that she was invited abroad and received many honours from foreign universities and monarchs. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.
她周游全国，不断地举行讲座。她的事迹为许多人著书立说而且还上演了关于她的生平的戏剧和电影。最终她声名显赫，应邀出国并受到外国大学和国王授予的荣誉。1932年，她成为英国皇家国立盲人学院的副校长。
After her death in 1968 an organization was set up in her name to combat blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Keller International, is one of the biggest organizations working with blind people overseas.
1968年她去世后，一个以她的名字命名的组织建立起来，该组织旨在与发展中国家存在的失明缺陷做斗争。如今这所机构，“国际海伦凯勒”，是海外向盲人提供帮助的最大组织之一。
篇8：经典的英文哲理故事2：NineTonsofTrash
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+ 加入清单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.
篇9：精选英文成语故事：抱薪救火
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+ 加入清单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。
篇10：故事简介
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+ 加入清单战国时，秦军在长平一线，大胜赵军。秦军主将白起，领兵乘胜追击，包围了赵国都城邯郸。 大敌当前，赵国形势万分危急。平原君赵胜，奉赵王之命，去楚国求兵解围。平原君把门客召集起来，挑选20个文武全才的门客一起去。经过挑选，最后还缺一个人。
门下有一个叫毛遂的人走上前来，向平原君自我推荐说：“听说先生将要到楚国去签订‘合纵’盟约，约定与门客二十人一同前往，而且不到外边去寻找。可是还少一个人，希望先生就以毛遂凑足人数出发吧！”
平原君说：“先生来到赵胜门下几年了？”
毛遂说：“三年了。”
平原君说：“贤能的人处在世界上，就好比锥子处在囊中，它的尖梢立即就要显现出来。如今，处在赵胜的门下已经三年了，左右的人们对你没有称道，赵胜也没听到赞语，这是因为先生没有什么才能的缘故。所以先生不能一道前往，请留下！”
毛遂说：“我不过今天才请求进到囊中罢了。要是我早就处在囊中的话，就会像锥子那样，整个锋芒都会露出来，不仅是尖梢露出来而已。”平原君终于带毛遂一道前往。
到了楚国，楚王只接见平原君一个人。两人坐在殿上，从早晨谈到中午，还没有结果。毛遂大步跨上台阶，远远地大声叫起来：“出兵的事，非利即害，非害即利，简单而又明白，为何议而不决？”楚王非常恼火，问平原君：“此人是谁？”
平原君答道：“此人名叫毛遂，乃是我的门客！”楚王喝道：“赶紧退下！我和你主人说话，你来干吗？”毛遂见楚王发怒，不但不退下，反而又走上几个台阶。他手按宝剑，说：“如今十步之内，大王性命在我手中！”楚王见毛遂那么勇敢，没有再呵斥他，就听毛遂讲话。毛遂就把出兵援赵有利楚国的道理，作了精辟的分析。
毛遂的一番话，说得楚王心悦诚服，答应马上出兵。不几天，楚、魏等国联合出兵援赵。秦军撤退了。平原君回赵后，待毛遂为上宾。他很感叹地说：“毛先生一至楚，楚王就不敢小看赵国。”
篇11：复活节的英文简介
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+ 加入清单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.
篇12：经典的英文哲理故事1：OceansideCommunity
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+ 加入清单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.
篇13：英文成语故事三:守株待兔
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+ 加入清单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.
篇14：西安简介高中英文
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+ 加入清单How time flies! I turned 12 years old, and as I grew up, xi an has also changed dramatically. Teacher wang, our class teacher, told me that she had no idea where the primary school was when she came to dongguan nanjie primary school. Finally, it was asked to know that the entrance to the primary school was blocked by the sale of vegetables, to make the teacher cry and smile. Father also had said, in his impression of xi an is filled with dust and dirt, before some of the road is very narrow, remote places ranch house on both sides of the road, the ground, often can see the paper scraps, rubbish, green belts are also very few. The whole city looks very bad.
But in a few short years xi ans urban image has changed dramatically. The low bungalows were replaced by high-rises that sprang up. Now the ancient city wall moat, ring city park, formed the scenery of the disk, standing on the city wall, the city of xi an, the view of the city, the west street was built into a replica of the street. Is the most worthy of our xi an proud of xi an 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 furong garden, the city that never sleeps, is also illuminated. All this shows the charm and charm of its nine dynasties. Xi an is now moving toward an advanced international metropolis.
篇15：牛郎织女的故事简介戏剧版
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+ 加入清单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。
篇16：海伦凯勒故事简介
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+ 加入清单海伦·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。
篇17：外国经典英文寓言故事
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Making His Mark “刻舟求剑” 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? 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。
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To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow “拔苗助长” 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. 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。
篇18：关于圣诞节的英文故事
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圣诞节是欧美国家一年中最盛大的一个节日,时间是每年的12月25日。以下的内容是必克英语为同学们整理的关于圣诞节的英文故事。
关于圣诞节的英文故事（内容仅供大家参考）
It is said that there was a farmer served a poor boy on a cold windy Chrismas Eve and gave him a big chrisemas meal. The boy cut a Fir trees branch and ed it into the earth.He said, "every year this time. there will be many presents in this branch. I wish I can pay back to your favor by this beautiful Fir tree. " After the boy left, the farmer discovered that the branch had grow up as a big tree. Then he realized that the boy was an envoy of the god. This is the origin of the chrismas day. In western countries, Whatever you are, everyone will prepare a chrismas tree to increase the happiness of the chrismas day.
Chrismas trees are made of evergreen tree like Fir trees and they represent the long lives.People put candles,flowers,toys,stars on the tree and they put chrismas present on the tree. On Chrismas Eve,people sing and dance happily and they enjoy themselves around the tree.
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篇19：西安简介高中英文
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+ 加入清单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.
篇20：英文成语故事二:画蛇添足
全文共 680 字
+ 加入清单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.