英語名人勵志小故事

　　如果可以找一些來教育孩子，那還是很不錯的，那麼英語名人勵志小故事都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。

　　篇1：一次成功就夠了

　　There was a man who had undergone numerous failures in his life. But he said, "One success is enough for me!"

　　有一個人，一生中經歷了無數次失敗。但他卻說：“一次成功就夠了。”

　　When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any property.

　　5歲時，他的父親突然病逝，沒有留下任何財產。

　　When he was twelve, his mother married another man His step-father treated him strictly and often beat him when his mother was away.

　　12歲時，母親改嫁，繼父對他十分嚴厲，常在母親外出時痛打他。

　　When he was fourteen, he dropped out from school and began his life of roving.

　　14歲時，他輟學離校，開始了流浪生活。

　　When he was twenty, he changed his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were tough for him.

　　20歲時，他當電工、開渡輪，後來又當鐵路工人，沒有一樣工作順利。

　　When he was thirty, he did a sales work in an insurance company. But before long, he fell out with his boss due to the bonus problems.

　　When he was thirty-one, he learnt law by himself and began working in law with the encouragement of his friends. But in a trial, he fought with the litigant on court.

　　When he was thirty-two, he was out of work and led a tough led a tough life.

　　When he was thirty-five, he suffered such severe injuries in an accident that he could no longer continue his job of promoting tires.

　　30歲時，他在保險公司從事推銷工作，後因獎金問題與老闆鬧翻而辭職。

　　When he was sixty-six, he made a living by promoting his chicken-frying technics to various restaurants in different places.

　　When he was seventy-five, he felt powerless to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he turned down the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.

　　31歲時，他自學法律，並在朋友的鼓動下幹起了律師行當。一次審案時，竟在法庭上與當事人大打出手。

　　When he was eighty-three, he opened another fast-food restaurant but fell into a lawsuit due to trademark and patent issues.

　　32歲時，他失業了，生活非常艱難。

　　When he was eighty-eight, he achieve great success and became weU-known to the whole world.

　　35歲時，他在一次事故中身受重傷，無法再幹輪胎推銷員的工作。

　　He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde. Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad weather. Actually the weather is not bad at all. As long as you are optimist and confident all the time, you will have a good weather everyday."

　　66歲時，為了維持生活，他到各地的小餐館推銷自己掌握的炸雞技術。

　　75歲時，他感到力不從心，因此轉讓了自己創立的品牌和專利。新主人提議給他1萬股，作為購買價的一部分，他拒絕了。後來公司股票大漲，他因此失去了成為億萬富翁的機會。

　　83歲時，他又開了一家快餐店，卻因商標專利與人打起了官司。

　　篇2：鄭和下西洋

　　Early in the 15th century, a huge fleet of ships set sail from Nanjing. It was the first of a series of voyages that would, for a brief period, establish China as the leading power of the age. The voyage was led by Zheng He, the most important Chinese adventurer of all time and one of the greatest sailors the world has ever known.

　　15世紀初，一支浩浩蕩蕩的船隊從南京啟航。這次遠航揭開了其後一連串海上航行的序幕，並在短暫時間內為中國確立了大國領先的地位。鄭和統帥了這次遠航，他是中國歷史上最重要的探險家，也是舉世聞名的最偉大的航海家之一。

　　In 1371, Zheng He was born in what is now Yunnan Province to Muslim parents, who named him Ma Sanpao When he was 11 years old, invading Ming armies captured Ma and took him to Nanjing. There he was castrated and made to serve as a eunuch in the imperial household.

　　公元1371年，鄭和出生在現在的雲南省的一個穆斯林家庭裡。他的父母給他取名為馬三保。馬三保11歲時，被入侵雲南的明軍擄至南京，被淨身後入宮，選去王府做內宮太監。

　　Ma befriended a prince there who later became the Yong Le Emperor, one of the Ming Dynasty's most distinguished. Brave, strong, intelligent and totally loyal, Ma won the trust of the prince who, after ascending the throne, gave him a new name and made him Grand Imperial Eunuch.

　　馬三保在王府期間和王太子成為了好朋友，王子後來成為明成祖永樂皇帝，是明代最出色的皇帝之一。馬三保英勇、強壯、足智多謀，又赤膽忠心，因此深得王太子的信賴。王太子登基之後，賜給馬三保“鄭和”這個新的名字，同時提升他為內宮監太監。

　　Yong Le was an ambitious emperor who believed that China's greatness would be increased with an "open-door" policy regarding international trade and diplomacy. In 1405, he ordered Chinese ships to sail to the 1ndian Ocean, and put Zheng He in charge of the voyage. Zheng went on to lead seven expeditions in 28 years, visiting more than 40 countries.

　　永樂皇帝是個雄心勃勃的皇帝，他相信通過國際貿易及外交上的“門戶開放”政策，中國會在世界上享有更高的聲望。公元1405年，永樂皇帝下詔讓中國船隊遠航到印度洋，並派遣鄭和負責此趟航程。在以後的28年裡，鄭和連續7次率領了海上遠征探險的壯舉，訪問了40多個國家。

　　The voyages helped expand foreign interest in Chinese goods such as silk and porcelain. In addition, Zheng He brought exotic foreign items back to China, including the first giraffe ever seen there. At the same time, the fleet's obvious strength meant that the Emperor of China commanded respect and inspired fear all over Asia.

　　這幾次遠航剌激了外國對中國貨物如絲綢、瓷器等的興趣。此外，鄭和也將外國的珍奇寶物帶回中國，包括以前沒見過的麒麟長頸鹿。同時，鄭和船隊顯而易見的強大陣容，意味著中國皇帝獲得了亞洲各國的敬畏。

　　Though Zheng He died in 1433 and was probably buried at sea, a grave and small monument to him still exist in Jiangsu Province. Three years after Zheng He's death, a new emperor banned the construction of oceangoing ships, and China's brief era of naval expansion was over.

　　鄭和於公元1433年去世，並且可能葬身於汪洋大海之中，但江蘇省現在仍有他的墳墓和一座小型紀念碑。鄭和死後3年，新登基的皇帝下詔禁止遠洋船舶的建造，中國這短暫的海軍擴張時代也就到此結束了。

　　篇3：托馬斯·愛迪生

　　Born in 1847 in Ohio, Thomas Edison attended school for only three months. After his teacher claimed that he could not learn, Edison's mother decided to teach him at home. There he was allowed to explore the subjects that most interested him. By age ten, Edison had built a science laboratory in the basement of his family's home and had become an avid experimenter.

　　1847年托馬斯·愛迪生出生於俄亥俄州。他僅僅上了三個月的學。在愛迪生的老師聲稱他有學習障礙之後，他的母親決定在家教他。在家裡，愛邊生可以隨心所欲地探索最使他感興趣的事物。十歲那年，愛迪生在家裡的地下室建了一間科學實驗室。從此，愛迪生就成了一位孜孜不倦的實驗者。

　　Edison got his first job at age twelve on the railway selling candy and newspapers. Three years later, he suffered an ear injury from a train accident and lost much of his hearing. He could have had an operation, but he refused He insisted that being deaf helped him concentrate on his experiments.

　　十二歲時，愛迪生找到了他的第一份工作一一一在火車上賣糖果和報紙。三年後，一場火車事故導致他耳朵受傷，幾乎完全失聰。他本可以接受手術治療，但他拒絕了，因為他堅信聽覺的喪失可以讓他更專心地做實驗。

　　Thomas Edison's first invention was the automatic telegraph repeater. He was already an expert on the telegraph before he came up with a gadget that sent telegraph signals between unmanned stations. Thanks to Edison, people were then able to send several telegraph messages simultaneously.

　　電報自動轉發器是托馬斯·愛迪生的第一個發明。他發明的這種裝直，用於在元人看營的兩站之間傳輸電報訊號，在此項發明前，愛邊生就已經是位電報專家了。幸虧有愛迪生，我們才能在同一時間傳送好幾封電報訊息。

　　Next came the electric vote recorder. It made voting quicker and more accurate, yet no one wanted to buy it Edison then moved on to tackle the stock market ticker, the machine that gave information about stock market prices Edison improved it, and sold the rights for US$40,OOO.

　　接下來的電子記票器讓統計票數的速度更快、更準確，但卻沒有人妥買。之後，愛迪生轉而進行股票行情收錄器的研究，他把收錄器作了改進並將該項專利以四萬美元賣出。

　　In his late twenties, Edison built an "invention factory" where he and his business partners could dedicate all their time to inventing. After improving upon the telephone, Edison created the phonograph, his favorite and most lucrative invention. Although Edison did not actually invent the light bulb, he did create an electric lighting system which led to its widespread use.

　　近三十歲時，愛迪生蓋了一座“發明工廠”，可讓他和他的同事專心致力於發明工作。在改進了電話功能後，愛邊生又發明了留盧機，這是他喜愛的而且最能賺錢的一項發明。雖然愛迪生實際上並沒有發明燈泡，但他的確發明了電燈照明系統，這導致了燈泡的廣泛使用。

　　A tireless achiever, Edison established the first central electric power station in 1882, enabling New York to be the first city in the world to have electric lights. This was the beginning of the modern world in which electricity became a way of life.

　　1882年，這位孜孜不倦的實踐家建成了第一座中央電站，使紐約市成為世界上第一個有電力照明裝置的城市，這就是現代世界的開始，電成為人們的一種生活方式。

　　Thomas Edison died at the age of eighty-four in 1931. Three days later, much of America dimmed its lights in honor of the inventor---man who had more impact on the development of present-day civilization than anyone else in history.

　　愛邊生1931年去世，享年84歲。在他死後三天，美國大部分地區使燈暗下來來紀念這位在歷史上對現代文明發展最具影響力的發明家。