跪求中英文对照的哲理小故事？

The country Maid and Her Milk Can

村姑和牛奶罐

A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections.” The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred, These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and what may be destroyed by vermin, will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to market just at the time when poultry is always dear; so that by the new year I cannot fail of hing money enough to purchase a new gown. Green-let me consider-yes, green becomes my complexion best. and green it shall be, In this dress I will go to the fair,where all young fellows will strive to he me for a parter;but no-I shall refuse every one of them,and with a disdainful toss turn from them." Transported with this idea, she could not forbear acting with her head the thought that passed in her mind, when down came the can of milk! And all her imaginary hiness vanished in a moment.

一个村姑头上顶着一罐牛奶在路上行走。走着走着，她的脑子里浮现出一连串的幻想：“我卖了这罐牛奶后，用这笔钱买鸡蛋，这样我有的鸡蛋可以增加到300个。用这300个鸡蛋孵小鸡，这就算有坏的、生虫的，至少也能孵出250只小鸡。等小鸡长大后，正好能赶上卖个好市价；那么到了新年，我就能有钱买一件新晚装。买一件绿色的——让我好好想想——对，绿色与我的肤色最相衬。我穿上这件衣服去赶集，所有的年轻小伙子都会抢着邀请我做舞伴；但是不行——我要轻蔑地把头一扬，转身过去不理他们，让他们都碰个钉子。她想得得意忘形，情不自禁地把头一扬，刹那间，牛奶罐跌了下来！她幻想的一切幸福间破灭了。

Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!

向远方的美景欢呼！

And see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations. nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. we he as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the gre. It is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth, that(so to speak)identifies us with nature ,and(our experience being slight and our passions strong)deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. Our short-lives connation with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. As infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more-objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we he no room for the thoughts of death.

此时，但觉好风光应接不暇，而且，前程更有美不胜收的新鲜景致。在这生活的开端，我们听任自己的志趣驰骋，放手给它们一切满足的机会。到此为止，我们还没有碰上过什么障碍，也没有感觉到什么疲惫，因此觉得还可以一直这样向前走去，直到永远。我们看到四周一派新天地——生机盎然，变动不居，日新月异；我们觉得自己活力充盈，精神饱满，可与宇宙并驾齐驱。而且，眼前也无任何迹象可以证明，在大自然的发展过程中，我们自己也会落伍，衰老，进入坟墓。由于年轻人天真单纯，可以说是茫然无知，因而将自己跟大自然划上等号；并且，由于经验少而感情盛，误以为自己也能和大自然一样永世长存。我们一厢情愿，痴心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暂时栖身，当作千古不变、万事长存的结合，好像没有冷淡、争执、离别的密月。像婴儿带着微笑入睡，我们躺在用自己编织成的摇篮里，让大千世界的万籁之声催哄我们安然入梦；我们急切切，兴冲冲地畅饮生命之杯，怎么也不会饮干，反而好像永远是满满欲溢；森罗万象纷至沓来，各种欲望随之而生，使我们腾不出工夫想死亡。

急需一篇英语故事，内容精炼，富有哲理或教育意义。（中短篇，初二水平）

The Fox and the Grapes

One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."

故事内容：

炎热的夏天里，一只狐貍在果园漫步 （One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard），看到一串熟透的葡萄沿著藤蔓高挂在上 （till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch.）。「解渴就靠这个了。」他这麼说著 （"Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he）。退了几步之後，他往前又跑又跳的 （Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump），可惜没搆到那串葡萄 （and just missed the bunch），往後再退了几步，一、二、三，往上一跳 （Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up），还是没有构到那串葡萄 （but with no greater success.）。他试了又试，只希望吃口诱人的葡萄 （Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel），可最後还是放弃了（but at last had to give it up），最後离开，鼻子嗅了嗅说 （and walked away with his nose in the air, saying）：「葡萄太酸了 （"I am sure they are sour."）。」

The moral is that：It is easy to despise what you cannot get.

(要鄙视得不到的东西，可真容易呢。)

人生多了酸的滋味，永远比连酸都没嚐过的人生来的圆满。

1.stroll （vi.）：散步

2.orchard （nc.）：果园

3.a bunch of ：一串

4.ripen （vi.）：变成熟，变鲜美

5.vine （nc.）：藤蔓

6.train （vt.）：让植物沿著一定的方向生长

7.lofty （adj.）：很高的

8.quench （vt.）：压抑；解渴

9.quoth （vt.）：说（文言）

10.morsel （nc.）：一口

有哲理的英语小故事

钉子 :

有一个男孩有著很坏的脾气，于是他的父亲就给了他一袋钉子；并且告诉他，每当他发脾气的时候就钉一根钉子在后院的围篱上。

第一天，这个男孩钉下了37根钉子。慢慢地每天钉下的数量减少了。

他发现控制自己的脾气要比钉下那些钉子来得容易些。

终於有一天这个男孩再也不会失去耐性乱发脾气，他告诉他的父亲这件事，父亲告诉他，现在开始每当他能控制自己的脾气的时候，就拔出一根钉子。

一天天地过去了，最后男孩告诉他的父亲，他终於把所有钉子都拔出来了。

父亲握著他的手来到后院说：你做得很好，我的好孩子。但是看看那些围篱上的洞，这些围篱将永远不能回复成从前。你生气的时候说的话将像这些钉子一样留下疤痕。如果你拿刀子捅别人一刀，不管你说了多少次对不起，那个伤口将永远存在。话语的伤痛就像真实的伤痛一样令人无法承受。

注：人与人之间常常因为一些彼此无法释怀的坚持，而造成永远的伤害。如果我们都能从自己做起，开始宽容地看待他人，相信你（你）一定能收到许多意想不到的结果....帮别人开启一扇窗，也就是让自己看到更完整的天空....

The Nail

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father ge him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.

Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You he done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they lee a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us. Show your friends how much you care.

谁能给我一篇英语哲理短文字数150左右，要是故事的那一种。不要连篇说理。

Willful Child

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Once upon a time there was a child who was willful and did not do what his mother wanted. For this reason God was displeased with him and caused him to become ill, and no doctor could help him, and in a short time he lay on his deathbed.

He was lowered into a gre and covered with earth, but his little arm suddenly came forth and reached up, and it didn't help when they put it back in and put fresh earth over it, for the little arm always came out again. So the mother herself had to go to the gre and beat the little arm with a switch, and as soon as she had done that, it withdrew, and the child finally came to rest beneath the earth.

从前有个非常任性的小孩,她从不听母亲的话,上帝对此很不高兴,让她得了医生谁也治不好她的病,很快她就踏上了黄泉之路。人们把她的尸体放入了墓穴,然后向她身上撒泥土,但突然她的一只手臂伸了出来,向上举着。人们把她的手臂又塞了进去,继续撒泥土,但她的手臂又伸了出来。对此她母亲也无计可施,只得走下墓穴,用棍子在那手臂上敲了一下,它这才缩了进去,这样小女孩总算在地下安静地长眠了

求英语哲理小故事 急！！！！！！！ 务必要稍微简短的

上帝的咖啡

God's Coffee

一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen

and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,

some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。想想吧：生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,

leing behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your

problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In

most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you

consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing

each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we he does not define,

nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。······享受你们的咖啡吧。

God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!

最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。

"The hiest people don't he the best of everything. They just

make the best of everything."

简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。

其他的，就留给上帝吧。

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Lee the rest to God

为了让你看着方便，再发一遍

God's Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation

soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen

and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,

some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,

leing behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your

problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In

most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you

consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing

each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we he does not define,

nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!

"The hiest people don't he the best of everything. They just

make the best of everything."

Live simply.

Love generously.

Care deeply.

Speak kindly.

Lee the rest to God.

上帝的咖啡

一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。

老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。

等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。想想吧：生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。

上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。······享受你们的咖啡吧。

最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。

简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。

其他的，就留给上帝吧。

有哲理的英文小故事，拿来做演讲的。高一水平

people he a job to candidates, picked up the corridor to pick up the paper, into the dustbin by the passing of the population to see the official test, so he had the job. The original was reciated very simple, to develop a good habit of it.

有一个人去应徵工作，随手将走廊上的纸屑捡起来，放进了垃圾桶，被路过的囗试官看到了，因此他得到了这份工作。原来获得赏识很简单，养成好习惯就可以了。

Has a younger brother at a bicycle shop as an rentice, someone sent a failure of the bicycle, boy apart from the car repaired, the car also organize such as the pretty new, other rentices laughed him superfluous, then the employer will get back the second day of a bicycle , boy who was recruited into the employer's company. The original is very easy to get ahead at the expense of it.

有个小弟在脚踏车店当学徒，有人送来一部故障的脚踏车，小弟除了将车修好，还把车子整理的漂亮如新，其他学徒笑他多此一举，后来雇主将脚踏车领回去的第二天，小弟被挖角到那位雇主的公司上班。原来出人头地很简单，吃点亏就可以了。

child mother has said: "Mother you pretty well today." The mother replied: "Why." The child said: "Since Mother is not angry today." That is pretty easy to he, as long as you can not be angry .

有个小孩对母亲说：「妈妈你今天好漂亮。」母亲回答：「为什麽。」小孩说：「因为妈妈今天都没有生气。」原来要拥有漂亮很简单，只要不生气就可以了。

There is a ranch owner, called him every day at Children ranch on hard work, a friend said to him: "Do not need you to let children work so hard, crops will be grown as well." Ranch owner replied: "I am not At cultivate crops, cultivate at me are my children. "cultivate the original Child is very simple, so that he can be a bear hardships.

有个牧场主人，叫他孩子每天在牧场上辛勤的工作，朋友对他说：「你不需要让孩子如此辛苦，农作物一样会长得很好的。」牧场主人回答说：「我不是在培养农作物，我是在培养我的孩子。」原来培养孩子很简单，让他吃点苦头就可以了。

there is a tennis of the students said: "If a tennis ball falling into the weeds, there should be how to get?" Someone replied: "From the beginning to find the centerline of haystacks." Someone replied: "From the beginning haystack to find the most hollow . "someone replied:" From the grass to find the longest place start. " announced the correct answer:" step-by-step from the lawn of a search into the other end of the grass. "look for the success of the original method is very simple, from one to ten Do not skip it.

有一个网球教练对学生说：「如果一个网球掉进草堆里，应该如何找?」有人答：「从草堆中心线开始找。」有人答：「从草堆的最凹处开始找。」有人答：「从草最长的地方开始找。」教练宣布正确答案：「按部就班的从草地的一头，搜寻到草地的另一头。」原来寻找成功的方法很简单，从一数到十不要跳过就可以了。

often there is a brightly lit store, someone asked: "are you in the end what the store brand of tube? So durable." Stores said: "We usually he a bad lamp, but for us it is broken on . "bright and original way to keep it simple, as long as you can usually replace.

有一家商店经常灯火通明，有人问：「你们店里到底是用什麽牌子的灯管?那麽耐用。」店家回答说：「我们的灯管也常常坏，只是我们坏了就换而已。」原来保持明亮的方法很简单，只要常常更换就可以了。

live frogs at the edge of the frogs living in the street said: "you here too dangerous to live here with me now!" Side of the road the frog said: "I he got used to not bother moving." A few days later , Tanabe frog street to visit the frog, they found the car he had been crushed to death, dead in the street violence. Hands the fate of the original method is very simple, lazy away from it.

住在田边的青蛙对住在路边的青蛙说：「你这里太危险，搬来跟我住吧!」路边的青蛙说：「我已经习惯了，懒得搬了。」几天后，田边的青蛙去探望路边的青蛙，却发现他已被车子压死，暴尸在马路上。原来掌握命运的方法很简单，远离懒惰就可以了。

there is a chicken hatched when there is only just after a tortoise, then on the chicken egg shell on the back over a lifetime. From the hey load that is very simple, stubborn to give up preconceived ideas on it.

有一只小鸡破壳而出的时候，刚好有只乌龟经过，从此以后小鸡就背着蛋壳过一生。原来脱离沉重的负荷很简单，放弃固执成见就可以了。

When there is some kids want to angels, God give them a candlestick one person, ask them to maintain the light, resulting in one or two days later, not to God, all the children that no longer wipe Candlestick, God has a surprise visit to a day, every Candlestick individuals he cast a thick layer of dust, only a child everyone called him a fool, because God did not come, he will wipe every day, the results of this fool has become an angel. When the original angel is very simple, as long as you can really do.

有几个小孩很想当天使，上帝给他们一人一个烛台，叫他们要保持光亮，结果一天两天过去了，上帝都没来，所有小孩已不在擦拭那烛台，有一天上帝突然造访，每个人的烛台都蒙上厚厚的灰尘，只有一个小孩大家都叫他笨小孩，因为上帝没来，他也每天都擦拭，结果这个笨小孩成了天使。原来当天使很简单，只要实实在在去做就可以了。

pig has only to make the request of the disciples of God, God is pleased to agree, just he a calf by the quagmire in climb out of the mud is all that God said to the pig: "to help him wash it down!" Small the Pig replied, surprised: "I am a disciple of God, how can it go wait on the calf so dirty!" God said: "You do not wait on others, how others know you are my disciples do ! "was very easy to become a god, as long as you can really pay.

有只小猪，向神请求做 的门徒，神欣然答应，刚好有一头小牛由泥沼里爬出来，浑身都是泥泞，神对小猪说：「去帮他洗洗身子吧!」小猪讶异的答道：「我是神的门徒，怎麽能去侍候那脏兮兮的小牛呢!」神说：「你不去侍候别人，别人怎会知道，你是我的门徒呢!」原来要变成神很简单，只要真心付出就可以了。

there is a gold digging team walking in the desert, we he the pace of a hey, painful, and only walked one hy person, people ask: "Why are you so hy?" He says with a laugh: "Since I took things at least." Originally Hiness is very simple, with less on it.

有一支掏金队伍在沙漠中行走，大家都步伐沉重，痛苦不堪，只有一人快乐的走着，别人问：「你为何如此惬意?」他笑着：「因为我带的东西最少。」原来快乐很简单，拥有少一点就可以了。

A mouse once took a bite out of a bull's tail as he lay dozing. The bull jumped up in a rage and, with his head low to the ground, chased the mouse right across the yard. The mouse was too quick for him, however, and slipped easily into a hole in the wall.

The bull charged the wall furiously again and again, but although he bruised his head and chipped his horns, the mouse stayed safely inside his hole. After a time the bull ge up and sank down to rest again.

As soon as the bull was asleep, the little mouse crept to the mouth of the hole, pattered across the yard, bit the bull again -- this time on the nose -- and rushed back to safety. As the bull roared helplessly the mouse squeaked:

"It's not always the big people who come off best. Sometimes the small ones win, you know."

老鼠和公牛

有一次，公牛躺着打盹，一只老鼠咬了他的尾巴。公牛怒气冲冲地跳起来，低着头追老鼠，一直追过院子。然而，老鼠跑得比他快多了，从容地钻到墙洞里去了。

公牛一次又一次地猛撞墙壁，尽管头撞肿了，角撞裂了，老鼠却安然待在洞里。过了一会儿，公牛不撞了，倒下歇着。

公牛刚睡着，小老鼠就爬到洞口，嗒嗒地跑过院子，又咬了公牛一口 这回咬了鼻子 又跑回安全的地方去。当公牛毫无办法地吼叫时，老鼠吱吱叫道：

"大人物并不总占上风。有时小人物也会取胜。"

A man once bought a brilliantly-coloured parrot. Instead of locking it up in a cage or chaining it to a perch, he allowed it to fly free all over the house. The parrot was delighted at this and fled from room to room, shrieking and screaming with hiness. At last he settled on the edge of a rich curtain.

"Who on earth are you" said a cross voice from below. "Stop that terrible noise at once."

The parrot saw a cat staring up at him from the carpet.

"I 'm a parrot. I 've just arrived and I 'm to make as much noise as I can," he said.

"Well, I 've lived here all my life," replied the cat ."I was born in this very house and I learned from my mother that it is best to keep quiet here."

"Keep quiet then, "said the parrot cheerfully. "I don't know what you do around here, but I know my job. My master bought me for my voice and I'm going to make sure he hears it."

Different people are valued for different things.

鹦鹉和猫

从前，有人买了一只毛色鲜艳的鹦鹉。他没有把鹦鹉关在笼子里，也没有用链条把他拴在栖木上，而让他在家里自由自在地飞来飞去。鹦鹉对此非常高兴，扑动翅膀，从一间屋子飞到另一间屋子，愉快地尖声叫着，最后停在华丽的帷幔的边上。

"你到底是谁？"从下面传来怒气冲冲的说话声，"马上住嘴，别发出那难听的声音。"

鹦鹉看见地毯上有一只猫抬头看着他。

"我是鹦鹉。 我刚到，我要使劲地吵吵。"他说。 "那你就一声不响吧，"鹦鹉欢快地说，"我不知道你在这儿干什么，可我知道我的活儿。主人为了我的声音才买我，我一定得让他听到。"

不同的人因有不同的特点而受重视。

A man once had four sons who never stopped quarrelling with one another. He was always telling them how much easier life would be if they worked together but they took absolutely no notice of him. One day he decided to show them what he meant.

He called all the sons together and put a tightly tied bundle of sticks on the floor in front of them.

"Can you break that " he asked the youngest son. The boy put his knee on the bundle but though he pressed and pulled with his arms he could not bend the wood. The father asked each son in turn to try to break the bundle, but none of them could do it .

Then he untied the string and scattered the sticks.

" Now try, " he said . The boys broke the sticks easily in their hands.

"Do you see what I mean" asked the father. "if only you stand together no one can hurt you . If you all disagree the whole time and insist on going your separate ways, the first enemy you meet will be able to destroy you. "

United we stand ; divided we fall.

一捆树枝

从前有一个人，他有四个儿子。儿子们不断地争吵。他一再告诫他们说，如果他们一起干活儿，生活会舒适得多，但他们丝毫不理会他的意见。有一天，他决定通过示范把自己的意思告诉他们。

他把四个儿子都叫来，又把一捆扎得很紧的细树枝放在他们面前的地上。

"你能折断这个吗？"他问最小的儿子。小伙子用膝盖顶住，两只手又压又拉，都不能把那捆树枝弄弯。父亲让别的儿子挨个儿试试，看他们是否能把那捆树枝折断，但谁也做不到。

然后，他解开绳子，把树枝撒开。

"试试吧。"他说。四个小伙子用手轻轻一撅，树枝就断了。

"你们明白我的意思了吗？"父亲问，"只要你们联合起来，谁也不能伤害你们。如果你们老吵架，一定要各行其是，那么你们一遇到敌人，就会被打败。"

合则存，分则败。

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks against a tree one day when a fox came by.

"What are you doing that for?" asked the fox . "There are no hunters around. Everything looks very peaceful to me ."

"Quite true, "said the boar, "but when the hunter does come with his dogs I shall be too busy running away to he time for this . So let me sharpen my tusks while I can."

Be prepared .

野猪和狐狸

有一天，野猪在树上磨牙齿，狐狸走过来。

"你为什么干这个呀？"狐狸问，"附近又没有猎人，我觉得平安无事。"

"不错，"野猪说，"但是，如果猎人真的带着猎狗来了，我只能逃走，就没工夫干这个了。趁我现在可以磨，就让我磨磨牙齿吧。"

时刻准备着（有备无患）

Long ago a great mountain began to rumble and shake .

People came from far and near to see what would hen.

"A great river will be born." said one.

"Surely nothing less than a mighty dragon will come out." said another.

"A god himself will spring form these rocks." said a third.

Finally , after days of expectation a small crack eared in the mountain. And out popped ---- a mouse.

Just because someone makes a lot of fuss, it doesn't mean he is important.

山

很久以前，一座大山隆隆作响，摇晃起来。远近各处的人都来看是怎么回事。

一个人说："要出现一条大河了。"

另一个人说："准会出现一条巨龙。"

第三个人说："从这些岩石中会出现一尊神来。"

等了几天之后，山坡上终于裂开一条小缝，却蹦出来一只耗子。

正因为某人大肆张扬，所以他没有什么了不起

Long ago a great mountain began to rumble and shake .

People came from far and near to see what would hen.

"A great river will be born." said one.

"Surely nothing less than a mighty dragon will come out." said another.

"A god himself will spring form these rocks." said a third.

Finally , after days of expectation a small crack eared in the mountain. And out popped ---- a mouse.

Just because someone makes a lot of fuss, it doesn't mean he is important.

山

很久以前，一座大山隆隆作响，摇晃起来。远近各处的人都来看是怎么回事。

一个人说："要出现一条大河了。"

另一个人说："准会出现一条巨龙。"

第三个人说："从这些岩石中会出现一尊神来。"

等了几天之后，山坡上终于裂开一条小缝，却蹦出来一只耗子。

正因为某人大肆张扬，所以他没有什么了不起

Long ago a great mountain began to rumble and shake .

People came from far and near to see what would hen.

"A great river will be born." said one.

"Surely nothing less than a mighty dragon will come out." said another.

"A god himself will spring form these rocks." said a third.

Finally , after days of expectation a small crack eared in the mountain. And out popped ---- a mouse.

Just because someone makes a lot of fuss, it doesn't mean he is important.

山

很久以前，一座大山隆隆作响，摇晃起来。远近各处的人都来看是怎么回事。

一个人说："要出现一条大河了。"

另一个人说："准会出现一条巨龙。"

第三个人说："从这些岩石中会出现一尊神来。"

等了几天之后，山坡上终于裂开一条小缝，却蹦出来一只耗子。

正因为某人大肆张扬，所以他没有什么了不起。

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