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 man's 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贫饮,他说:“我不计划吃那些贫饮,因为富人会给我更多的食物,他会给我特别好吃的东西。”接着他拿起贫饮,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,接着他说:“今天我去不了富人家了,因为我不能度过河。” 他开始回家,那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的,他找到贫饮,特别开心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效果处。
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Fox and cock One morning a fox sees a cock.He
think,"This is my breakfast.'' He comes up to the cock and says,"I
know you can sing very well.Can you sing for me?''The cock is glad.He closes
his eyes and begins to sing.The fox sees that and caches him in his mouth and
carries him away. The people in the field see the fox.They
cry,"Look,look!The fox is carrying the cock away.''The cock says to the
fox,"Mr Fox,do you understand?The people say you are carrying their cock
away.Tell them it is yours.Not theirs.'' The fox opens his mouth ang
says,"The cock is mine,not yours.''Just then the cock runs away from the
fox and flies into the tree.
狐狸和公鸡 一天早上,一只狐狸看到了一侄耀鸡。他想:这是我的早餐。 他朝公鸡走来,对他说:“我知道,你能唱得很好听,你能唱给我听么?”公鸡特别开心。他闭上眼睛开始唱歌。狐狸看到这些抓住它放到自己的嘴里走了。
在田地里的人们看到了狐狸。大喊大叫:“看,看!狐狸抓住公鸡逃走了。”公鸡对狐狸说:“狐狸先生,你能理解么?人们认为你叼走了公鸡。告诉他们这是你的,不是他们的。”狐狸张开她的嘴说:“公鸡是我的,不是你们的。”就在那时,。公鸡跑到了树底下。
你可以查阅伊索寓言 里面好多有趣又充满哲理的英语小故事。
找英文版的《心灵鸡汤》。《心灵鸡汤》是杰克·坎菲尔、马克·汉森创作。是世界上最畅销的系列读物之一,以其简短、精炼的语言为读者讲述了一个个充满哲理的小故事。作者选文一直遵照的准则为:以浅显的语言表达着人间真情;以至深的情感述说着五彩人生;在每一个角落把真情的火炬点燃;让每一缕清香在尘世间流传;让真情在心灵的碰撞中凝固成永恒。 后泛指有益于精神或心理的充满哲理的小故事。
Years ago,I lived in a building in a large city.The building next door was only a few feet away from mine.There was a woman who lived there,whom I had never met,yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon,sewing or reading. After several months had gone by,I began to notiee that her window was dirty.Everything was unclear through the dirty window.I would say to myself,“1 wonder why that woman doesn't wash her window.It really looks terrible.” one bright morning I decided to clean my flat,including washing the window on the inside. Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning,I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise Across the way,the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible.Her window was clean Then it dawned on me.I had been criticizing her dirty window,but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window. That was quite an important lesson for me.How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart,through my own shortcomings? Since then,whenever I wanted to judgesomeone,I asked myseIf first,“Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.