1、frank
A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured. The manager of the office asked him how old his parents were when they died.
“Mother had a bad heart and died at the age of thirty. Father died of tuberculosis when he was thirty-five.”
“I am very sorry,”said the manager,“we cannot insure your life as your parents were not healthy.”
As the man was leaving the office, depressed, he met a clerk, who had overheard the conversation.
“You must not be so frank and tell the truth,”said the clerk,“no office will insure you if you speak like that. Use your imagination a little.”
The man went to another office and was shown into the manager's room. “Well, young man, how old were your parents when they died?”
“Mother was ninety-three, and she died from a fall off her bicycle. Father was ninety-eight and he died while he was playing football.”
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Before, very few foreigners visited the southem foot of Himalayas. Then, many travelers went there. It is said that this is because of the honesty of a small boy. One day, some photographers asked a local boy to buy some bottles of beer, which took the boy three hours.
The next day, the boy volunteered to buy for them. The photographer gave him a lot of money. But the boy did not return until the afternoon of the third day. So the photographers began to talk about it and thought they were cheated by the boy. The third night, the boy knocked the door of the photographer. The boy told them that he bought four bottles of beer at one store, and then he climbed another mountain and crossed a river to buy the other six. On the way back,
three bottles of them were broken, he cried and brought the broken pieces of bottles to the photographer and gave him the small changes.
The people there were moved, which moved more people. Then more travelers came to the place.
早年，尼泊尔的喜马拉雅山南麓很少有外国人涉足。后来，许多游客到这里观光旅游，据说，这是源于一位少年的诚信。
一天，几位摄影师请当地一位少年买啤酒，这位少年为之跑了3个多小时。
第二天，那个少年又自告奋勇地再替他们买啤酒。这次摄影师们给了他很多钱，但直到第三天下午那个少年还没回来。于是，摄影师们议论纷纷，都认为那个少年把钱骗走了。第三天夜里，那个少年敲开了摄影师的门。原来，他只购得四瓶啤酒，尔后，他又翻了一座山，趟过一条河才购得另外6瓶，返回时摔坏了3 瓶。他哭着拿着碎玻璃片，向摄影师交回零钱，在场的人无不动容。
这个故事使许多外国人深受感动。后来，到这儿的游客越来越多。
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Good faith
It is true that most of us value honesty highly. However, nowadays we often confront confidence crisis such as cheating, overcharging, fak e commodities and so on. I think that we should be honest because bei ng honest is not only beneficial to ourselves but also to others and the whole society. The reasons can be listed as follows.Firstly, only honest people can be truly respected by the others and can make more
friends over a long period of time. Secondly, honesty, which is the traditional virtue of the Chinese people, can make our life easier an d more harmonious. For example, consumers will not be afraid of being overcharged if dealers are honest, and thus dealers can win over mor e customers. Thirdly, honesty can make our society more stable. A cas e in point is that Singapore, a society featuring trustworthiness and integrity, has a comparatively low criminal rate.
It goes without saying that being honest is of great benefit to both the community and individuals. There is no doubt that we should foste r the spirit of honesty. In conclusion, laying stress on honesty will become the public morals in our society
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华盛顿与樱桃树
When George was about six years old, he was made the wealthy master o f a hatchet of which, like most little boys, he was extremely fond. H e went about chopping everything that came his way.
One day, as he wandered about the garden amusing himself by hacking h is mother's pea sticks, he found a beautiful, young English cherry tr ee, of which his father was most proud. He tried the edge of his hatc het on the trunk of the tree and barked it so that it died.
Some time after this, his father discovered what had happened to his favorite tree. He came into the house in great anger, and demanded to know who the mischievous person was who had cut away the bark. Nobod y could tell him anything about it.
Just then George, with his little hatchet, came into the room.
"George,'' said his father, "do you know who has killed my beautiful little cherry tree yonder in the garden? I would not have taken five guineas for it!''
This was a hard question to answer, and for a moment George was stagg ered by it, but quickly recovering himself he cried:
"I cannot tell a lie, father, you know I cannot tell a lie! I did cut it with my little hatchet.''
The anger died out of his father's face, and taking the boy tenderly in his arms, he said:
"My son, that you should not be afraid to tell the truth is more to m e than a thousand trees! Yes - though they were blossomed with silver and had leaves of the purest gold!''
用英语讲中国成语故事 成语故事之一 对牛弹琴 古时候，有一个人琴弹得很好。一次，他对着牛弹了一段曲子，希望牛也能欣赏他的技巧。曲子虽然很好听，但是牛却丝毫不理会，只顾埋头吃草。这个人只好叹了口气离开了。“对牛弹琴”这个成语，比喻对不懂道理的人讲道理。也用来讥笑说话的人不看对象。 Playing the Lute to a Cow In ancient times there was a man who played the zither(古筝）very well.Once,he played a tune in front of a cow, hopping that the cow would appreciate it. The tune was melodious(悦耳的），but the cow showed no reaction, and just kept on eating grass. The man signed and went away. This idiom is used to indicate(显示；象征）reasoning with stubben(顽固的；固执的）people or talking to the wrong audience. 成语故事之二 刻舟求剑 战国时期有个楚国的人，得到一把宝剑，非常珍爱。一天，他坐船过江，不小心把宝剑掉到江中去了。他急忙在剑掉下去的船舷上刻了一个记号。船靠岸后，他就从刻有记号的地方跳下水去找他的剑。 “刻舟求剑”这个成语讽刺那些办事迂腐，不知道变通情况的人。 Notching the Boat to Find the Sword In the Warring States Period, a man in the State of Chu had a sword which he cherished(珍爱；珍惜）very much. One day, when he was crossing a river in a boat, the sword suddenly fell into the water. The man the made a mark on the side of the boat at the spot where the sword had fallen overboard. When the boat reached the shore, he jumped from the spot he marked into the water to look for his sword. This idiom satirizes(讽刺）those who stick to rigid rules instead of taking changed circumstances(情况）into account. 一箭双雕 南北朝时代，有个名叫长孙晟的人，聪明敏捷，特别善于射箭。一天他同朋友一起去打猎，忽然看见两支雕在空中争夺一块肉。他的朋友立即给了长孙晟两只箭，说：“你能把两只雕都射下来吗？”长孙晟不慌不忙拉开弓，只射了一箭，就把两只雕同时射下来了。朋友直夸他好箭法。英语小故事尽在英语学习网 这个成语比喻用一种办法同时得到两种收获或效果。英语小故事尽在英语学习网 Killing Two Birds with One Stone 英语文章尽在英语学习网 In the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties(420-589) there was an expert archer named Zhan sun Shang. One day he went hunting together with a friend. Suddenly they saw two vultures fighting for a piece of meat high in the air. His friend handed him two arrows, and said, “Can you shoot down both vultures?” Zhangsun Sheng effortlessly killed both vultures with only one arrow. Mao Sui Recommending Himself in the Warring States Period, the State of Qin besieged the capital of the State of Zhao. Duke
关于经典的英语故事欣赏 One day a rabbit was in the garden eating carrots. When he was about to go home he saw the farmer. So he needed to hide. But where could he hide? The carrots are under the ground only the leaves were out. He could not hide there but the farmer was coming closer to him, then he had an idea to dig a hole and cover the top of the hole with leaves and twigs细枝 and wait until the farmer leaves. But the farmer did not leave because he needed some carrots to make soup. Then the rabbit had another idea, he would dig under to the lettuce生菜，莴苣patch and go home, he will get muddy if he did that but if that was the only way to go home he will do it. And that was the only way to go home. So he did it but by the time he got home he was very muddy and tired. So he went to bed. When he got up he took a bath, when he got out he had a nice meal with his family. One day a mouse saw some cheese on the table but there was a cat in the house. So the mouse needed a plan to get the cat away from the table. His first idea was to make the cat chase him and then hide but then he thought of a safer idea, to go to the cat's toy basket and wind the cat's toy mouse up and make a squeak吱吱声 and let the toy mouse go. So while the cat was chasing the toy mouse the real mouse climbed on the table. When he was about to climb back down the cat came back to the kitchen to drink. So he needed another plan to get rid of the cat. His plan was to knock a cup of water over on the cat. Just then he saw the cat go to sleep. So he went back to the cat's toy basket and got someyarn and went back to the table and tied it to the cheese and lowered the cheese to the ground. Then he started pulling, but it was too hard to pull. So he got 112 mice to help him pull it to their hole in the wall. When they got there they had a nice meal together. Don't tell anyone this but I'm a fairy. Nobody knows you see because I never transform around other people. My name is Pixie and I am a green fairy. You see in the fairy tribe I come from they have three different types of fairies: the purple fairy, the green fairy and the yellow fairy. The purple fairies are the queen fairies the fairies that live inside the Queen fairies
英语幽默小故事
1、New Discovery A hillbilly was visiting the big city for the first time. Entering an office building, he saw a pudgy older woman step into a small room. The doors closed, lights flashed, and after a while the door slid open and a beautiful young model stepped off the elevator. Blinking in amazement, the hillbilly drawled, "I shouldhave brought my wife!" 新发现 一个乡下人第一次到大城市游逛。他走进一座大楼，看见一个岁数很大的矮胖女人迈进一个小房间。房间的门随后关上，有几个灯在闪亮。一会儿，门开了，电梯里走出一位年青漂亮的女模特。 乡下人惊奇地眨着眼睛，慢吞吞地说：“我应该把我的老婆带来!” hillbilly n. 乡下人，乡巴佬. pudgy adj.矮胖的，矮而粗的 drawl vt, vi慢吞吞地说；拉长语调地说 2、Always Thirsty "I had an operation," said a man to his friend, "and the doctor left a sponge in me." "That's terrible!" said the friend. "Got any pain?" "No, but I am always thirsty!" 总感到口渴 一个男人对他的朋友说：“我动了一次手术，手术后医生把一块海绵忘在我的身体里了。” “真是太糟糕了！”朋友说道：“你觉得疼吗？”
In modern years, China has already obtained world-acclaimed public spend much time talking about China, and the outside wants to know more about this country.?As Chinese, we have a vital task which is to spread the Chinese v o i c e. First of all, we should seriously understand our country, keep up with developments, and gradually increase the ability to master and use international discourse rights on the basis. Second, the story is for individuals to listen to, to let individuals hear it, to attract individuals, to impress individuals, and subsequently persuade achieve such a goal, we require paying attention to certain methods and techniques to do our homework.?What's more, we should enhance our level of translation.?Due to the deep gap between Chinese culture and western civilization, there are multifaceted differences such as grammar, word order.?I am greatly convinced that it can be solved by improving English proficiency.
经典幽默英语故事（50个） 要求： 1、每天阅读两篇小故事，写出故事大意，尽量理解故事里的幽默点。 2 3、开学后，请把这14页的阅读素材，装订成册，上交给各班的英语老师。老师会根据你的完成情况，给你的阅读作业打出分数。 姓名：_________ 班级：_________ 学号：_________ 成绩：_________ 第一篇 My First and My Last When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of tricks. George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George offered to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, "I've travelled in a big plane several times, but I've never been in a small one, so I'll go." They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air. When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking voice, "Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane." Gerogy was very surprised and said, "Two trips?" "Yes, my first and my last," answered Mark. 故事大意： _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________第二篇 First Flight Mr. Johnson had never been up in an aerophane before and he had read a lot about air accidents, so one day when a friend offered to take him for a ride in his own small phane, Mr. Johnson was
1、守株待兔： 相传在战国时代宋国，有一个农民，日出而作，日入而息．遇到好年景，也不过刚刚吃饱穿暖；一遇灾荒，可就要忍饥挨饿了．他想改善生活，但他太懒，胆子又特小，干什么都是又懒又怕，总想碰到送上门来的意外之财。 奇迹终于发生了。深秋的一天，他正在田里耕地，周围有人在打猎。吆喝之声四处起伏，受惊的小野兽没命的奔跑。突然，有一只兔子，不偏不倚，一头撞死在他田边的树根上。 当天，他美美地饱餐了一顿。 从此，他便不再种地。一天到晚，守着那神奇的树根，等着奇迹的出现。 成语“守株待兔”，比喻亡想不劳而得，或死守狭隘的经验，不知变通。 staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it this story took place more than 2,000 years ago,in the warring states period（475-221 b.c.）.tradition has it that in the state of song at that time there was a man who was famous for staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it. he was a yong farmer,and his family had been farmers for generations.year after year and generation after generation, farmers used to sow in spring and harvest in autumn,beginning to work at sunrise and retiring at sunset.in good harvest years,they could only have enough food to eat and enough clothing to wear.if there was a famine due to crop failure,they had to go hungry. this young farmer wanted to improve his life.but he was too lazy and too cowardly.being lazy and cowardly over everything,he often dreamed of having unexpected blessings. a miracle took place at last. one day in late autumn,when he was ploughing in the field,two groups of people were hunting nearby.as shoutings were rising one after another,scared hares were running desperately.suddenly,a blind hare dashed itself headlong against the stump of a dead tree in his field and died. that day,he ate his fill.
英语幽默小故事10篇(带翻译) 线话英语|2016-03-14 17:03:05 英语幽默小故事10篇(带翻译)如下： Midway Tactics Three competing store owners rented adjoining shops in a mall. Observers waited for mayhem to ensue. The retailer on the right put up huge signs saying, "Gigantic Sale!" and "Super Bargains!" The store on the left raised bigger signs proclaiming, "Prices Slashed!" and "Fantastic Discounts!"
The owner in the middle then prepared a large sign that simply stated, "ENTRANCE". 中间战术 三个互相争生意的商店老板在一条商业街上租用了毗邻的店铺。旁观者等着瞧好戏。 右边的零售商挂起了巨大的招牌，上书：“大减价!”“特便宜!” 左边的商店挂出了更大的招牌，声称：“大砍价!”“大折扣!” 中间的商人随后准备了一个大招牌，上面只简单地写着：“入口处”。 Very Pleased to Meet You During World War II, a lot of young women in Britain were in the army. Joan Phillips was one of them. She worked in a big camp, and of course met a lot of men, officers and soldiers. One evening she met Captain Humphreys at a dance. He said to her, "I’m going abroad tomorrow, but I‘d be very happy if we could write to each other." Joan agreed, and they wrote for several months. Then his letters stopped, but she received one from another officer, telling her that he had been wounded and was in a certain army hospital in England. Joan went there and said to the matron, "I‘ve come to visit Captain Humphreys." "Only relatives are allowed to visit patients here," the matron said.
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The three wishes三个愿望 A couple wishes for good luck. A fairy comes to them and says,”You may have three wishes.” The wife is very happy. She doesn’t think much and says, “I wish I had a delicious sausage.” So she has it.“Silly!” shouts the husband. “How can you just wish for a sausage” I wish it were on your nose!” After that, the sausage grows on the wife’s nose. “How stupid you are! What can we do now” cries the wife. “We have only one wish.” The husband is also very sad, and says, “We must wish this sausage off.” So the sausage goes away. They have three wishes, but they get nothing in the end. Stir/美[st?/ the grass and startle the snake打草惊蛇 Long long ago, a county magistrate named Wang Lu worked in present Anhui Province , east China . Wang Lu was very greedy and took many bribes. One of his secretaries was equally corrupt, and often schemed for Wang Lu's deeds. One day a man went to the magistrate to lodge a complaint against the secretary. The secretary's crimes were almost the same as the crimes the magistrate himself committed. Wang Lu was so frightened that he forgot his proper role in handling the case. Instead of issuing a judgment, he couldn't help writing these words concerning
简短的英语成语故事附中文 导读：本文简短的英语成语故事附中文，仅供参考，如果觉得很不错，欢迎点评和分享。 夜郎自大 Once, the Han Dynasty dispatched an emissary to the State of Dian (now Yunnan Province)and the State of Yelang (now Guizhou Province). 一次，汉朝派遣使者出使滇国(今云南)和夜郎国(今贵州)。 The King of Dian asked the emissary from the Han Dynasty: "The Han Dynasty and the Stateof Dian, which is bigger?" 滇国的国王问汉朝的使者: “汉朝和滇国，哪一个大?” The King of Yelang also asked the emissary in the same way: "The Han Dynasty and the Stateof Yelang, which is bigger?" 夜郎国的国王也这样问汉朝的使者: “汉朝和夜郎国，哪一个人?” As a matter of fact, the territories of the State of Dian and the State of Yelang were only as bigas a prefecture of the Han Dynasty, but they closed their states to the external contact, shuttheir eyes and stopped their ears, and didn't understand the conditions of the outside world.
英语寓言经典小故事带翻译 两口锅 There were two pots on the bank of a river. One was made of brass, and the other was made of clay. 河中漂流着一个瓦锅和一个铜锅。 When the water rose they both floated off down the river. The earthen pot tried to stay away from the brass one. 每当潮涨潮落时，瓦锅就尽量地远离铜锅。 So the brass pot cried out, "Fear nothing, friend, I will not hit you." 铜锅大叫：“别害怕，朋友，我不会撞你的。” "But I may come in contact with you," said the earthen pot. "If I come too close, whether I hit you or you hit me, I shall suffer for it." “但是我有可能会和你接触，”瓦锅对铜锅说，“如果我离你太近，无论是你碰到我，或者是我自己不小心碰到你，我都会碎的。” After that the earthen pot floated away. 然后，瓦锅就漂走了。 两个狗洞 My uncle has two dogs. One is big and the other is small. He likes them very much.One day, Mr. Smith came to visit him. When the friend saw two holes in the door, a large hole and a small hole, he was surprised and said, "My dear friend, why
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最经典听的英语故事大全 海的女儿 The year after this, another sister became fifteen. She went up to the top of the sea. But the water was cold and there was much snow everywhere on the land. She soon came back. The five sisters were very happy when they went to the top of the sea to look at ships, cities, and men. But they did not remember these things for long. Their own home soon began to look more beautiful than anything which they saw at the top of the sea or on the land. The five sisters went up to the to…… 瞎子点灯 1.Once upon a time there lived a blind man in a village. He had been blind in both eyes for many years. 从前一个村子里住着一个瞎子,他双目失明已有很多年了。 2.He lived a happy life because he got on well with his neighbors and they often helped him. 他生活得很好,因为他与邻居们相处融洽,他们常常照顾他。 3.It was Ne w Year’s eve. All the people celepated the Spring Festival joyfully. 大年三十,人们欢度新春佳节。 4.The blind man was steaming jiaozi at home. 瞎子在家蒸饺子。 5.After a while,he finished the work.
背道而驰成语故事（中英文版） 背道而驰，意思就是背道而驰。故事中的那个人，思想不仅糊涂，而且顽固。以下是小编整理的背道而驰成语故事（中英文版），欢迎阅读。 背道而驰成语故事（中文版）从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的盘缠，雇了上好的车，驾上骏马，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人不问青红皂白让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。 路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声答复说：“去楚国!”路人告诉他说：“到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。”那人满不在乎地说：“没关系，我的马快着呢!”路人替他着急，拉住他的马，阻止他说：“方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!”那人仍然毫不醒悟地说：“不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!”路人竭力劝阻他说：“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!”那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说：“这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!”路人无奈，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。 那个魏国人，不听别人的指点劝告，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向一意孤行。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。 这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能充
分发挥自己的有利条件;假如方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。 背道而驰成语故事（英文版）Ｏnce a man wanted to go to the south, but his carriage was heading north. Ａ passer-by asked him:"Ｉf you are going to south, why is your chariot heading north?" Ｔhe ma answered, "Ｍy horse is good at running, Ｍy driver is highly skilled at driving a carriage, ad Ｉ have enough money."Ｔhe man didint consider that the direction might be wrong; the better his conditions were, ther further he was away from his destination. Ｔhe idiom derived froim this story indicates that one's action was the opposite effect to one's intention. 【拓展延伸】 【原文】 魏王欲攻邯郸。季梁闻之，中道而返。衣焦不申，头尘不去，往见王曰：今者臣来，见人于太行，方北面而持其驾，告臣曰：我欲之楚。臣曰：君之楚将奚为北面？曰：吾马良！臣曰：马虽良，此非楚之路也。曰：吾用多！臣曰：用虽多，此非楚之路也。曰：吾御者善！此数者愈善，而离楚愈远耳。今王动欲成霸王，举欲伸于天下。恃王国之大，兵之精锐，而攻邯郸以广地尊名。王之动愈数，而离王愈远耳。犹至楚而北行也！ 【字释】
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【练习内容】 一、翻译下列短语和句子 首段 1. 我是李华，目前在新华中学上学，今年17岁。 I am Li Hua, a __________________ boy currently studying in _____________________. 2. 我从报纸上得知你们美术馆需要一名志愿者来介绍中国画。 I learned from the newspaper that_/knowing that/Recently, I learned that_____________________________________________to introduce Chinese paintings. 3. 因此，我写信申请这个工作/职位/机会 As a result, I’m writing to________________________________. 4. 我想申请到贵校学习。 I’m writing to _______________to your college. 中间段 个人优势1—英语好、学习好 5. 很好的掌握了…______________________________ 6. 获得一等奖 ________________________________ 7. 各门功课优秀 _______________________________ 8. 我能说流利的英语，这使我能够自如有效的和外国人交流。 I can speak fluent English, which enables me to ___________________________with foreigner. 9. 我作为一名留学生在西雅图住了半年，很好地掌握了英语写作和口语。 Living in Seattle for half a year ______________________, I have a good command of ____________________. 10. 作为一名学生，我读了很多书，在许多方面有丰富知识。 As a student, I’ve read a lot and have much experience_______________________. 个人优势2—有相关工作经验 11. 具有足够的相关经验和社会技能 _________________ adequate ______________ experience and social skills 12. 我有两年作为——的经验 I have_______________ experience as… 13. 我有超过…年的实践工作经验 I have _________...years of ___________ experience 14.我曾经在中央电视台做过志愿者/我曾经在肯德基做过服务员，因此，我具备充足的相关经验和社会技能。 I once ________________ in CCTV/_____________ in the KFC restaurant. As a result, I am equipped with adequate ____________ and ___________. 个人优势3—善于交往、乐于助人 15.与…相处融洽___________________________ 16.良好的人际关系 harmonious ________________________