勵志的英語寓言故事

　　有時候我們會需要用到翻譯成英語的勵志寓言故事，那麼都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。

　　：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。

　　：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。

　　：孩子和苧麻

　　A child and ramie

　　A child was careless ramie stabbed, he rushed home and told his mother: "I only lightly Pengyi what, it was my painful thorns." Mom said: "Because of this, it will thorn you. if the next time you met Ramie, to a courageous and seize it, it will be in your hands become soft as silk, you will no longer be stabbed. "

　　It is said that many people are serving hard against soft.

　　孩子和苧麻

　　一個小孩不小心被苧麻刺了，他急忙跑回家，告訴媽媽說：“我只輕輕地碰它一下，它就刺得我很痛。”媽媽說：“正因為如此，它才會刺你。下次你如果再碰到苧麻，要勇敢地一把抓住它，它就會在你的手中變得柔軟如絲，不再會刺傷你了。”

　　寓意：這是說，許多人都是服硬不服軟的。

　　：小鼴鼠和媽媽

　　The Mole and His Mother

　　A Mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: "I am sure that I can see, Mother!" In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, "What is it?' The young Mole said, "It is a pebble." His Mother exclaimed: "My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.

　　小鼴鼠和媽媽

　　傳說鼴鼠的眼睛是瞎的，可小鼴鼠卻對媽媽說他能看得見。媽想試驗他一下，便拿來一小塊香噴噴的食物，放在他面前，並問他是什麼。他說是一顆小石頭。母親說：“啊，不幸的孩子，你不但眼睛看不見，連鼻子也沒用了。”

　　寓意：那些愛吹牛說大話的人，常常誇海口能做大事，卻在一些微不足道的事情上暴露了本質。

　　：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。

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