英語短篇美文四級閱讀

　　語言是人類最重要的思維和交流工具,學習和掌握外語逐漸成為國民必備的素質之一。而英語作為全球使用面最廣的一門語言,具有更重要的意義。下面是小編帶來的四級英語短篇美文，歡迎閱讀!

　　四級英語短篇美文篇一

　　畫餅充飢Relieving hunger with a picture of cakes

　　Once in the Three Kingdoms Period ***220-280***, the duke of the Wei.

　　三國時代魏國的皇帝曹睿，準備選拔一個有才能的人到朝廷來做官。

　　Cao Rui, planed to select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers: 'When choosing a talented person, always beware of one with a false reputation. A false reputation is just like a picture of a cake; it can' t ease hunger.'

　　曹睿對他的大臣說：“選擇人才，不能光找有虛名的人。虛名好像是畫的一塊餅，只能看，不能解決肚子飢餓的問題啊!”

　　moral：Later, this idiom came to be used to mean comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problems.

　　英語小短文寓意：後來人們就用“畫餅充飢”這個成語比喻用空想安慰自己，不能解決實際問題。

　　四級英語短篇美文篇二

　　食品與健康Food and Health

　　The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health.

　　我們所吃的食物似乎對我們的健康有深遠的影響。

　　Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.

　　儘管科學上已取得許多進展，使食物更適合我們食用，但與此同時它也使許多食物不宜食用了。

　　Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.

　　一些研究已經表明，人類大概有80%的疾病與飲食有關，40%的癌症，特別是結腸癌，也與飲食有關。 不同的文化會使人們更易患某些疾病，這是由這些文化的人們喜好的食物所致。 食物與疾病 有關並不是新發現。

　　In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration ***FDA*** has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.

　　1945 年，政府部門的科研工作者瞭解到，被廣泛用於肉類以保持肉類 色澤的硝酸鹽、亞硝酸鹽和其他的新增劑可誘發癌症。 可是這些致癌物質依然存在於我們的食物之中。與此同時，要想知道加工食品標籤上的哪些成分對健康有利，哪些成分對健康不利，變得更加困難了。我們吃到的這些新增物並非都是如此直接的。農民常給牛和家 禽注射青黴素，因而在受過注射的牛所產牛奶裡發現青黴素。有時讓家禽服用這類藥物並 非是為了治病，而是為了經濟上的緣故。農民們只是想使家畜長得更肥壯可以上市場上賣 到好價錢。雖然食物和藥品管理局已一再設法控制這種情況的發生，但是這種行為仍在繼 續。

　　四級英語短篇美文篇三

　　鄭人買鞋A man of Zheng buys shoes

　　In the State of Zheng. There was a man who wanted to go into town to buy a pair of new shoes.

　　鄭國，有個人想去城裡買一雙新鞋子。

　　Before leaving home, he measured his foot with a piece of straw for size. After he arrived at the town and entered a shoe shop, he put his hand into his pocket only to find that in his haste he had left the measurement at home. Thereupon, he turned round and started for home. But when he rushed back to the shoeshop with the measurement, the shop had closed. As a result, he had suanwenw busied himself for nothing.

　　他離家前先用一根稻草量了自己的腳，把他當作尺碼。他到了城裡，走進鞋店，伸手摸口袋，從發現因為急著趕路，把尺碼忘在家裡了。於是，他轉身就往家裡跑。可是等他拿著尺碼趕回鞋店的時候，店已經關門了。結果，他白忙了一陣子，還是沒有買到鞋子。

　　Later, someone asked him:” Were you buying shoes for yourself or for others? ”

　　後來，有人問他：“你是給自己買鞋，還是給別人買鞋?”

　　He answered:” For myself.”

　　他回答說：“是給我自己。

　　Someone else asked him:” Don’t you have your feet on yourself? You need only to Try on shoes with your feet to get the right size. Why did you go back home to fetch the measurement? “

　　別人又問他：“腳不是長在你自己身上嗎?英語小短文只要用你的腳去試試鞋子的大小，不就可以了嗎?為什麼還要回家去拿尺碼呢?“

　　The man of Zheng insisted:” I would rather trust the measurement than my own feet.”

　　那個鄭國人堅持說：“我寧願相信尺碼，也不相信自己的腳。“