短篇英文勵志小故事

　　我們多閱讀一些，不但能瞭解一些人生道理，還能提高我們的閱讀理解能力，那麼都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。

　　：畫餅充飢

　　Relieving hunger with a picture of cakes

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

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

　　畫餅充飢

　　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。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!”

　　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。

　　：老人與死神

　　An old man was gathering sticks in a forest.

　　At last he grew very tired and hopeless. He threw down all the sticks and cried out, "I cannot bear this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would come and take me!"

　　As he spoke, Death appeared, and said to him, "What would you do, old man? I heard you call me."

　　"Please, sir," replied the old man, "would you help me lift this bundle of sticks up to my shoulder?"

　　有個老人在森林中砍了不少柴，十分吃力地挑著走了很遠的路。

　　一路上他累極了，實在挑不動了，便扔下柴擔，叫喊起來：“這種日子我受不了了，死神啊，帶我走吧。”

　　這時，死神來了，對他說：“老頭，你想做什麼，我聽見你叫我?”

　　“先生”，老人說，“您能幫忙將那擔子放在我的肩上嗎?”

　　寓意：即使生活不幸，人們仍需愛惜生命。

　　：捕石頭的漁夫

　　Catch stone fisherman

　　Fisherman who dragnet, feel very heavy, they danced for joy, thinking that this suddenly catch a lot of fish.

　　the network pulled the shore, network full of stones and other things, not a fish.

　　They are very Yusang, did not catch fish inverted worth mentioning at all uncomfortable with the fact that they expected the opposite is true.

　　One of them elderly fisherman said: "friends, not sadness, joy and pain together total, they like a sister. Advance happy we have, and now had to endure the pain a little bit."

　　moral：The story is that life is happening, as sometimes sunnyskies will suddenly urmoil, not because of setbacks and frustration.

　　捕石頭的漁夫

　　漁夫們拉網時,覺得很沉重,他們高興得手舞足蹈,以為這一下子捕到了許多的魚。

　　哪知把網拉到岸邊,網裡卻滿是石頭和別的東西,沒有一條魚。

　　他們十分懊喪,沒捕到魚倒也罷,難受的是事實與他們所預想的正好相反。

　　他們中一個年老的漁夫說道:“朋友們,別難過,快樂總與痛苦在一起,她們如同一對姐妹。我們預先快樂過了,現在不得不忍受到一點點痛苦。”

　　寓意：這故事是說,人生變化萬千,正如有時晴朗的天空會突然發生風暴, 不要因挫折而苦惱。