英语短文故事(中英对照)复习过程

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一

One morning a fox saw a thought,

He came up

to the cock and said,

was closes his eyes and began to fox saw that and caught him in his

mouth and carried him away.

The people in the field saw the

cried,

The cock said to the

fox,

them it is theirs.''

The fox opened his mouth and said,

mine,not yours.''Just then the cock ran away from the fox and fled into the tree.

二

Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the

other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City

mouse; he said,

went. The City mouse said,

do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would

live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come

and see me at my house in the city.

The Country mouse went to the house of the

City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But

just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried,

The cat is coming!

After some time they came

out. When they came out, the Country mouse said,

like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich

and afraid.

三

Jonesie The Great Lion Hunter A small village was troubled by a man-eating lion. So

its leaders sent a message to the great hunter, Jonesie, to come and kill the beast. For

several nights the hunter lay in wait for the lion, but it never appeared. Finally, he told

the village chief to kill a cow and give him its hide. Draping the skin over his

shoulders, he went to the pasture to wait for the lion. In the middle of the night, the

villagers woke to the sound of blood-curdling shrieks coming from the pasture. As

they carefully approached, they saw the hunter on the ground, groaning in pain. There

was no sign of the lion.

四

Weather Predict A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old

Indian went up to the director and said,

week later, the Indian went up to the director and said,

day there was a hailstorm.

secretary to hire the Indian to predict the weather. However, after several successful

predictions, the old Indian didn't show up for two weeks. Finally the director sent for

him.

you. What will the weather be like?

know,

五

It doesn't matter where you are coming that matters is where you are

going.

Your decision to be,have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties

that are out of the ordinary as mes your greatest asset is simply your

ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

You cannot control what happens to you,but you can control your attitude toward

what happens to you,and in that,you will be mastering change rather than allowing it

to master you.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms

of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers

and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

The more you seek security ,the less of it you the more you seek

opportunity,the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help essful

people are always asking,

All successful people,men and women,are big imagine what their

future could be,ideal in every respect,and then they work every day toward their

distant vision,that goal or purpose.

六

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,

for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat.

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,

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.

七

There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard He was very hardworking, and

the farm always prospered under his care. But he knew that his three sons despised the

farm work, and were eager to make wealth, trough adventure.

When the farmer was old, and felt that his time had come to die, he called the three

sons to him and said,

for it, if you wish it.

The sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden;

but he would tell them nothing more.

After the farmer was dead, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold; since they

did not know where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one end of

the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.

They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other,

round the tree-roots and between them. But no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed

as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits.

The three sons were bitterly disappointed to have all their work for nothing.

The next olive season, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ever

given; when it was sold, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.

And when they saw how much money had come from the orchard, they suddenly

understood what the wise father had meant when he said,

orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.

八

A young shoemaker left his village. 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 favor.