經典名人故事閱讀

　　從名人故事中，我們能學到名人的一些優秀品德，那麼你想閱讀一些經典的名人故事嗎？下面小編為大家帶來經典名人故事三則，歡迎大家閱讀!

　　經典名人故事：家裡唯一的藝術家

　　When Pable Picasso was a little boy, he lived in a small town in Spain. His mother liked to call him "Piz". It is the Spanish word for pencil. As a baby, he liked pencils and chalks better than any of his toys.

　　Picasso's father was an artist. He spent a lot of time teaching the little boy how to draw.

　　Drawing was Picasso's great pleasure. He usually sat by the windows and drew pictures ofpigeons.

　　One day his father came back. He stood for a long time looking at Picasso's picture. The pigeons in the picture looked quite real.

　　His father gave all his brushes and paint to Picasso. He told his son that from then on there would be only one artist in the family.

　　巴勃羅·畢加索小時候住在西班牙的一個小鎮上。他母親喜歡叫他“皮茲”。這是“鉛筆”的西班牙語單詞。他從小就喜歡鉛筆和粉筆勝過任何的玩具。

　　畢加索的父親是個畫家，他花了大量時間教他兒子怎樣繪畫。

　　繪畫成了畢加索很大的樂趣，他通常坐在窗戶旁邊畫鴿子。

　　有一天，他父親回來了。他站了很長時間觀察畢加索畫的畫，畫中的鴿子看上去十分逼真。

　　畢加索的父親把所有的畫筆和顏料全給了他。他對他兒子說，從那個時候起家中只有一個畫家。

　　經典名人故事：正直的林肯

　　Lincoln was delighted to advocate the cases of those whom he knew to be wronged, but he would not defend the cause of the guilty.

　　If he discovered in the course of a trial that he was on the wrong side, he lost all interest, and ceased to make any exertion.

　　Once, while engaged in a prosecution, he discovered that his client's cause was not a good one, and he refused to make the plea. His associate, who was less scrupulous***小心謹慎的***, made the plea and obtained a decision in their favor. The fee was nine hundred dollars, half of which wastendered***償付*** to Mr. Lincoln, but he refused to accept a single cent of it.

　　His honesty was strongly illustrated by the way he kept his accounts with his law-partner. When he had taken a fee in the latter's absence, he put one half of it into his own pocket, and laid the other half carefully away, labeling it "Billy," the name by which he familiarly addressed his partner. When asked why be did not make a record of the amount and, for the time being, use the whole, Mr. Lincoln answered, "Because I promised my mother never to use money belonging to another person."

　　林肯非常樂意為那些他認為受到冤屈的人辯護，但是他卻拒絕為那些確實有罪的人辯護。

　　如果在審判中發現自己的立場錯誤，就立刻都案件失去興趣，不再辯護。

　　他參與了一起起訴案件。當他發現他的客戶動機不良時，便拒絕為其申辯。他的一位做事不太謹慎的同事參與了辯護，並得到對他們有利的判決。辯護費為900美元，這位同事把其中的一半給了林肯，但是林肯一分錢也沒拿。

　　林肯的誠實在下面的例子裡得到最好的證明。他與他的夥伴記有詳細的賬目。但他的夥伴不在時，他僅拿走所得收入的一半，把另一半仔細地儲存，寫上同伴的名字：“貝利”。當被問到他這樣做的原因，林肯回答道：“因為我曾經答應我的媽媽永遠不拿屬於別人的錢。”

　　經典名人故事：狄馬德斯和他的寓言 

　　Demades the orator was once speaking in the assembly at Athens; but the people were very inattentive to what he was saying, so he stopped and said, "Gentlemen, I should like to tell you one of Aesop's fables." This made every one listen intently. Then Demades began: "Demeter, a swallow, and an eel were once travelling together, and came to a river without a bridge: the swallow flew over it, and the eel swam across", and then he stopped. "What happened to Demeter?" cried several people in the audience. "Demeter," he replied, "is very angry with you for listening to fables when you ought to be minding public business."

　　有一次，演說家狄馬德斯在雅典的一次集會上演講，但是沒有一個人認真聽，他便停下來，說：“先生們，我很想告訴你們一個伊索寓言裡的故事。”這話受到了人們的重視。接著，他開始說：“有一次，德墨忒爾***掌管農業，結婚，豐饒的女神***和一隻燕子，一隻鰻魚同行，他們要穿過一條沒有橋的河，燕子飛過去，鰻魚游過去了。”講到這裡，他便停下來，不再講了。聽眾中有幾個人問他：“那麼德墨忒爾怎麼過去的呢?”他回答說：“德墨忒爾正在生你們的氣呢，因為你們對公共事務毫無興趣，一心只喜歡聽伊索寓言。”