初中經典英語故事精選

　　英語故事教學是小學英語教學中的一種重要方法,對學生綜合語言運用能力的發展起著重要作用。小編精心收集了初中經典英語故事，供大家欣賞學習!

　　初中經典英語故事：The Man Selling the Idol

　　A man carves an idol and takes it to the fair. No one buys it, so he begins to shout in order to canvass the customer.

　　He says that this idol can bring in wealth and good luck. One man says to the seller, "Hello, My friend, if this is so, you should have the advantages that the idol can bring, why do you want to sell it?" The seller says, "What I want is that I can get cash in at once. The profit from the idol is so slow."

　　This story means: God will never respect people who make a profit by hook or crook.

　　有人雕刻了一個赫爾墨斯的木像，拿到市場上去賣。因為沒有一個買主上前購買，他便大聲叫喊，想招攬生意。

　　他說有賜福招財的神出售。這時旁邊有一個人對他說道：“喂，朋友，既然這樣，你自己應該享受他的好處哇，為什麼還要賣掉他呢?”他回答說：“我要的是現在馬上可以兌現的利益，這個神的利益卻來得很慢哪。”

　　這故事正是說那種不擇手段地求利，連神也不尊敬的人。

　　初中經典英語故事：功虧一簣

　　Once a man planned to build a terrace.

　　He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth.

　　When the mound was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed, the man gave up.

　　The terrace was never completed.

　　This idiom means to fail to succeed for lack of final effort.

　　古時，有一個人要築一座九仞***八尺=一仞***高的山。

　　他十分努力的建造這座山，並且花了很多時間挖土、搬運泥土。

　　終於當山快要建成的時候，幾乎只差最後一籃子的泥土就行了的時候，他放棄了。

　　這座山便永遠無法完工。

　　這個典故用以形容“離成功只有一步之遙，但最終失敗告終”的意思。

　　初中經典英語故事：The Blind Man and the Little Animal

　　A blind man is good at touching all the things.

　　No matter whatever the thing is he can distinguish it as soon as he touches it

　　A man brings a young wolf and lets him touch it.

　　Having touched the animal, he says, "This is a fox or a wolf, I am not sure. But I know that putting this kind of animal into the sheep pen is not safe"

　　The story means: we can know someone's bad habits from when he is young.

　　一個瞎子精於用手觸控各種動物。

　　什麼動物只要他一摸，就能分辨出來。

　　有人帶來一隻小狼，請他摸一摸，說出是什麼東西。

　　他摸了摸這個小野獸後說：“這是一隻狐狸或者一匹狼，啊，我不太清楚。不過有一點我卻十分地明白，讓這種動物進羊欄是不安全的。”

　　這個故事是說一個人的惡習在年幼時便可得知。