英语是世界上通用的语言，而英语的学习是很枯燥的，想要学好英语不妨先从阅读英语故事开始。从英文故事中学习，提高英文水平。从故事中学习，学到人生的哲理。
A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
Zeal should not outrun discretion.
Nowadays, GEICO is a well-known insurance company. For many years, however, it was unnoticed. Other companies, like Allstate and Farmers, were more popular. Then GEICO tried something different; it got a new ad agency.
The owner of the agency, Billy Ray Childers, was from Virginia. Years ago, he had tried to start his own agency in Manhattan. But when New Yorkers heard his southern accent, they gave him the cold shoulder. Angry, Billy Ray returned to Virginia. Someday, he hoped to teach those New Yorkers a lesson.
He set up his new ad agency in Raleigh. Then he called up GEICO headquarters in New York. He told them that they could improve their sales if they used a gecko to advertise GEICO. They balked at first, but then approved his ad campaign. In the new commercial, the animated lizard said, ”I'm a gecko, not a GEICO.“ GEICO was originally going to do one TV commercial with the bright green lizard, and then retire it. But viewers, especially women, fell in love with the cute gecko. So GEICO decided to do a few more commercials. And then a few more.
The clever lizard with the British accent is now eight years old and stars in a new commercial every several months. It has made GEICO famous - almost as famous as the gecko itself!
The tortoise saw an eagle flying in the air, then request the eagle taught him to fly. Eagle advised him, said he could not fly. Can the tortoise so pressing, eagle and caught him, fly to the high altitude, and then he let go. The tortoise fell on the rock, was cast sky-high.
This story shows that those who aim high, impractical person is bound to fail.
四、抢在第三只耗子前讲话的第四耗子知道都说了些什么
“我立刻便去了最大的城市，”它说道，“名字我记不住，我不善于记名字。我乘上载着被没收的货物的火车来到了市议会大厅，又跑到了看管监狱的人那里。他讲到了他的犯人，特别谈到一个尽讲些不顾后果的话的犯人，他讲的话别人又讲来讲去，写成白纸黑字，由人说由人读；‘全是肉肠签子烧的汤！’他说道，‘可是这汤却能让他丢脑袋！’这就叫我对那个犯人有了兴趣，”小耗子说道。“我注意找机会钻到了他那里；在上锁的门后总有一个耗子洞！他面色苍白，长着满脸胡须，一对大眼闪闪发光。灯在冒烟，四面的墙对此已很习惯，这些墙黑得不能再黑了。犯人又画画，又写诗，用***笔涂在黑底子上。我没有读。我想，他是觉得腻味了；我是一个很受欢迎的客人。他用面包屑，用口哨和温和的话引诱我。他非常喜欢我，我也信任他，于是我们成了朋友。他和我分食面包，共同饮水，给我干酪和香肠；我过得好极了。但是我可以说，特别是我们的友好交往，才使我留下来的。他让我爬到他的手掌上、爬到他的手臂上，一直到隔肢窝；他让我在他的胡须上爬，把我叫做他的小朋友。我对他很亲热。这种事总是有来有往的！我忘掉了我跑进这茫茫世界的使命，忘掉了我那藏在地板缝里的肉肠签子，它现在还在那里呢。我愿意留在那儿；要知道若是我走开了，那犯人便什么朋友也没有了，在这个世界上这就太少了点了！我留下了，可他并没有！最后那一回他十分悲哀地对我讲话，加倍地给我面包、干酪皮，给我送来飞吻。他走了，再也没有回来。我不知道他的往事。‘肉肠签子烧的汤！’看守监狱的人这么说，于是我就去了他那里，可是我不该相信他。他倒也把我放在手里，可是他把我关进笼子里，笼子里装着那种脚一踏便会滚动的轱辘车；真要命！你跑呀跑，可是怎么跑也还是在原地，只是引人笑，逗人乐！
“那位看守的孙女是一个可爱的姑娘，长着金黄卷曲的头发，眼总是高高兴兴的，嘴也是笑哈哈的。‘可怜的小耗子！’她说道，望进我那可怕的笼子里，把铁签子抽了，——我一下子跳下到了窗框那儿，爬到外面屋檐上。自由了，自由了！我想到的只是这个，没有想这次外出的目的。
“这时天黑下来，快到夜晚了。我跑到一个古塔里去藏身，里面住着一位守塔的人和一只猫头鹰。对他们我谁都不相信，特别是猫头鹰，它像一只猫，有吃耗子的大缺点。可是你也会弄错的，我就是这样。它是一只很令人尊敬，非常有教养的小猫头鹰；她知道的东西比守塔人知道的多得多，就和我一样多。小猫头鹰把什么事都搅得天翻地覆；‘别拿肉肠签子烧汤了！’她说道。这是她在这里能说的最严厉的话，她对她自己的家庭非常真诚。我对她产生了很大的信任，在呆着的缝里对她吱吱叫起来。她好像很喜欢这种信任，她向我保证，我会受到她的保护；任何动物也不许欺侮和伤害我，她要在冬天缺少食物的时候自己享用我。
“她对什么事，对所有的事都知道得很透彻。她让我相信，守塔人除非用那挂在身旁的号，否则他便不会吹。‘他对这一点吹嘘得天花乱坠，以为他就是塔里的猫头鹰！想很了不起，可是却很渺小！用肉肠签子烧的汤！’我请她给我弄到方子，于是她便对我解释说：‘肉肠签子烧汤只是人讲话的一种方式，有各种不同的理解，每个人都认为自己的理解是最正确的；可是一切一切实际上都就是这么一回事！’
“‘就是这么一回事！’我说道。我很吃惊！真理并不总是很令人舒服的，但是真理却是至高无上的！老猫头鹰也这样说。我琢磨着，看出，在我把这至高无上的东西带回的时候，那我带回的东西比起肉肠签子烧的汤可就多得多了。于是我便匆匆离开，及时赶回，带来至高无上的、最好的东西：真理。耗子是有学问的一族，耗子王则是所有耗子中最最有学识的。由于真理的缘故，他是能立我为后的。”
“你的真理尽是些谎言！”那只还没有得到允许说话的耗子说道。“我会做这汤，我一定会做出它来！”
A boy was playing in the fields when he was stung by a nettle 。 He ran home to tell his mother what had happened.
"I only touched it lightly," he said, "and the nasty thing stung me."
"It stung you because you only touched it lightly," his mother told him." Next time you touch a nettle grasp it as tightly as you can. Then it won't sting you at all."
Face danger boldly.
男孩和荨麻
有个男孩子在地里玩耍，被荨麻刺痛了。他跑回家去，告诉妈妈出了什么事。
"我可是轻轻地碰了它一下，"他说，"那厌恶的东西就把我刺痛了。"
"你只轻轻地碰了它一下，所以它才刺痛你，"妈妈对他说，"下一回你再碰到荨麻，就尽量紧紧地抓住它。那它就根本不会刺痛你了。"
要敢于应对危险。
One day, some animals were talking about which animal was the best. The pig said, "Pigs are the greatest because we have many babies. I have twelve healthy little pigs." She asked the rabbit, "How many babies do you have?"
The rabbit felt embarrassed. She only had seven. Then she pointed at the sheep and said, "She only has three!" Everyone laughed.
A snake passed by and said, "Snakes are truly the greatest. I have fifty!"
"So what?" said a new voice. Everyone turned around and saw a lioness.
The snake lifted up her head and looked at the lioness."Why do you speak? I have fifty babies. You only have one. That's nothing." The other animals said that the snake was right.
The lioness laughed. "I only have one, but it is a lion. Only a lion can be the king of the forest."
The other animals could think of nothing to say. They had many babies, but none of them would ever be as strong as a lion. "One valuable thing," said the lioness, "is worth more than a hundred common ones."
It was time for a haircut. Lenny didn’t even have to look in the mirror. Even though he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut his hair every two weeks.
He had a "tongue" of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was what they call "salt and pepper," a mixture of gray hair and dark brown hair. It was only a few years, he figured, until the salt and pepper became just salt.
He never let his hair grow for more than two weeks. The longer it got, the worse it looked, he thought.
He spread a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went down the drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cutting his hair. He started at the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the top. Every minute or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with an old toothbrush.
Finished, he picked up a hand mirror to check out the back of his head. Everything looked okay. He carried the newspaper back out to the kitchen and shook the hair clippings into the trash can.
Then he took a shower.
The horse of Confucius’s chariot escaped to the farmer’s field and ate the crop during the rest time. The farmer kept the horse in custody.
The eloquent Zi Gong went to argue with the farmer, but out of his expectation, the farmer would not listen to him.
At that time another farmer who had just come to study under Confucius came over and said to the former farmer, “You don’t cultivate land by the east sea, and I don’t farm by the west sea. Since we are so close to each other, it is impossible to prevent my horse from eating your crop.”
Hearing this, the former farmer became delighted, and said to the second farmer, “What you said is quite right, making much more sense than the person person before you!” So he gave the horse to him right away.
给孔子驾车的马趁人不注意，在休息的时候，跑到田里吃了农民的庄稼，结果被农民扣住不放。
能言善辩的子贡跑去说了一大通，却不料那农民根本不予理睬。
有个刚来跟孔子学习的乡下人走来对农民说：“你不在东海边种地，我也不在西海边耕田，我们相距这么近，我的马怎么可能不吃你的庄稼呢？”
农民听了这话很高兴，英语小故事对他说，“你这话说得好极了，比刚才那人要强得多！”当下将马交给了他。
One evening in December, the wind whistling blowing, the white snow covering the entire piece pine.
After dinner, my mother squirrel receive the tray in the kitchen, the small squirrel to bed, give him cover the quilt, he said softly: "Baby, go to sleep!"
Sleep little squirrel. "I could not sleep." Squirrel wink.
"We want to sleep a long sleep, until the weather became warmer." Squirrel mother stroking a small squirrel.
"I can not sleep." Squirrel tail shaking.
Squirrel father lift a small wooden table will block the portal, lifting a small wooden chair on the table, and the chair put a thick book. Then, he was lying on the right side of squirrels, he said: "！ Good boy, and quickly to sleep."
At this time, lying on the left side of the squirrel mother gave a small squirrel sweet goodnight kiss.
Soon, squirrel mom and dad fell asleep. Squirrel secretly get up, go under the bed, playing for a while "Box" of beer caps, glass beads, colored eggs and a variety of good-looking Nutshell.
He got into the cupboard, opened the old mother earlier on large sealed jars, crashed - numerous pieces scattered over the ground hazelnuts.
"Wow, my favorite!" Squirrels cheered.
"There is no table how the line!" He walked to the back door, throw away the book, put down the chair, push the table to its original position. Then he removed the plates from the cupboard, pour chocolate sauce, happily eating.
But soon, little squirrel accidentally dirty dishes, and dirty table, also made himself dirty; he went to wash their hands the basin edge, wet the floor; he took a mop to clean up my mom, but on the ground leaving a string of dirty footprints.
"Hate!" Little squirrel to see their own feet, to climb the window, hung upside down on the curtain, casually wiping foot.
So the little squirrel brazenly play again. Him on the clothesline "tightrope" in the smoke pipe in "drill tunnel" jump "trampoline" on the couch, playying "slippery slide" on the stair railing, when he was holding the chandelier on the ceiling "swing" when, one by one yawn, how he could not open the eyes.
"Boom -" Little squirrel fell from the ceiling.
Fortunately, he just fell on the bed, dropped the squirrel between father and mother.
"。.。.。. I can not sleep." Squirrel called long yawn, closed his eyes.
Myra told Myron that they shouldn’t see each other for a while. Her doctor had suggested that she take a short vacation from her job and a long vacation from Myron.
“What did you tell him about me?” Myron asked.
She told her doctor that she had dreams about Myron leaving her. She sometimes dreamed that he pushed her out of his car in the middle of nowhere. She would be crying on the side of the road in the middle of the night, cold and scared, as the taillights disappeared.
“What kind of dream is that?” Myron's voice was loud. “Do you think I would ever do that to you?“ She said that she didn’t know.
”You don’t know?! Of course I wouldn’t do that to you! I love you!“
Myra asked Myron to lower his voice. She no longer believed that he loved her. One day, feeling low and insecure, she had told Myron that it would be nice to get away for the weekend. Perhaps they could go to a quiet resort in the mountains. He told her that he was playing golf that Saturday. Maybe they could go to a resort another time. She was astounded.
”I needed you that weekend. Instead, you preferred to play golf. Now there is a shadow on my heart that nothing can remove,“ she told him sadly.
Once upon a time there were a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a filthy shack near the sea. Every day the fisherman went out fishing, and he fished, and he fished. once he was sitting there fishing and looking into the clear water, and he sat, and he sat. Then his hook went to the bottom, deep down, and when he pulled it out, he had caught a large flounder.
Then the flounder said to him, "Listen, fisherman, I beg you to let me live. I am not an ordinary flounder, but an enchanted prince. How will it help you to kill me? I would not taste good to you. Put me back into the water, and let me swim."
"Well," said the man, "theres no need to say more. I can certainly let a fish swim away who knows how to talk."With that he put it back into the clear water, and the flounder disappeared to the bottom, leaving a long trail of blood behind him. Then the fisherman got up and went home to his wife in the filthy shack.
"Husband," said the woman, "didnt you catch anything today?" "No," said the man. "I caught a flounder, but he told me that he was an enchanted prince, so I let him swim away.”"Didnt you ask for anything first?" said the woman. "No," said the man. "What should I have asked for?"
"Oh," said the woman. "It is terrible living in this shack. It stinks and is filthy. You should have asked for a little cottage for us. Go back and call him. Tell him that we want to have a little cottage. He will surely give it to us.""Oh," said the man. "Why should I go back there?" "Look," said the woman, "you did catch him, and then you let him swim away. He will surely do this for us. Go right now."
The man did not want to go, but neither did he want to oppose his wife, so he went back to the sea.When he arrived there it was no longer clear, but yellow and green. He stood there and said: “Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te! Flounder, flounder, in the sea! My wife, my wife Ilsebill, Wants not, wants not, what I will?”The flounder swam up and said, "What does she want then?"
"Oh," said the man, "I did catch you, and now my wife says that I really should have asked for something. She doesnt want to live in a filthy shack any longer. She would like to have a cottage.""Go home," said the flounder. "She already has it."
The man went home, and his wife was standing in the door of a cottage, and she said to him, "Come in. See, now isnt this much better?”There was a little front yard, and a beautiful little parlor, and a bedroom where their bed was standing, and a kitchen, and a dining room. Everything was beautifully furnished and supplied with tin and brautensils, just as it should be. And outside there was a little yard with chickens and ducks and a garden with vegetables and fruit.
"Look," said the woman. "Isnt this nice?""Yes," said the man. "This is quite enough. We can live here very well.""We will think about that," said the woman.Then they ate something and went to bed.
Everything went well for a week or two, and then the woman said, "Listen, husband. This cottage is too small. The yard and the garden are too little. The flounder could have given us a larger house. I would like to live in a large stone palace. Go back to the flounder and tell him to give us a palace.""Oh, wife," said the man, "the cottage is good enough. Why would we want to live in a palace?"
"I know why," said the woman. "Now you just go. The flounder can do that.""Now, wife, the flounder has just given us the cottage. I dont want to go back so soon. It may make the flounder angry.""Just go," said the woman. "He can do it, and he wont mind doing it. Just go."
The mans heart was heavy, and he did not want to go. He said to himself, "This is not right," but he went anyway. When he arrived at the sea the water was purple and dark blue and gray and dense, and no longer green and yellow. He stood there and said:“Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te! Flounder, flounder, in the sea! My wife, my wife Ilsebill, Wants not, wants not, what I will?”
"What does she want then?" said the flounder. "Oh," said the man sadly, "my wife wants to live in a stone palace.""Go home. Shes already standing before the door," said the flounder.
Then the man went his way, thinking he was going home, but when he arrived, standing there was a large stone palace. His wife was standing on the stairway, about to enter. Taking him by the hand, she said, "Come inside."
He went inside with her. Inside the palace there was a large front hallway with a marble floor. Numerous servants opened up the large doors for them. The walls were all white and covered with beautiful tapestry. In the rooms there were chairs and tables of pure gold. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceilings. The rooms and chambers all had carpets. Food and the very best wine overloaded the tables until they almost collapsed. Outside the house there was a large courtyard with the very best carriages and stalls for horses and cows. Furthermore there was a magnificent garden with the most beautiful flowers and fine fruit trees and a pleasure forest a good half mile long, with elk and deer and hares and everything that anyone could possibly want.
Doing the rounds in the folk is a story, once upon a time there lived a king, and he sent neighbouring Sudan three appearance, size, and weight are exactly the same gold statue, and told the Sudan, their value is not the same. The king is to want to take this a few things to try the Sudan and his subjects is not clever.
Sudan received the unusual gifts, feel strange. Him to the kings palace to find out the statue to the difference, however, read and reread all around them, checked and checked, how also can not find out.
About the three gold statue of the news soon spread out in the city, from the old man to the child, not a dont know. A poor young man in a locked up in prison alone.so he told Sudan, as long as let him take a look at the three gold statue, hell be able to tell the difference between them.
Sudan commanded to bring the youth into the kings palace. He around the three gold statue back and forth to see it again, found their ears are drilling a eye. He picked up a straw, wear into the first statue of ears, straw emerged from his mouth. He wear straw into the second statue ears, straw and emerged from the other ear. He wear straw into the third when the ears of the statue, straw was it swallowed into the stomach, can not come.
So, young people began to say to Sudan:
"Your majesty! This a few gold statue and the characteristics of people. The first is like a statue sharp-tongued, he heard something, say it out soon, this kind of person cant depend on, so, this statue value a few money. The second is like a statue east out the ear, ear, this kind of person be unlearned, no skill, the value of money. The third statue is like a very cultured person, he can know all the things in the belly, so this is the most valuable statue."
Sudan, hear the word of the young people very happy, he bade on each statue write down the value of it, and gave them back to the king of neighboring countries. Since then, Sudan to the young people released from the prison, and leaving him in the side, problems in doubt, ask for his advice.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220AD)， there was a man called Yue Yangzi. Encouraged by his wife, he left home to visit scholars and enrich his knowledge.
A year later, he came back home suddenly
“Why have you returned?” asked his wife in surprise, “Youve only spent one year studying with scholars.”
“I come back because I missed you very much,” Yue Yangzi replied.
Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of scissors and went to the loom at which she had worked. Pointing at the half-done brocade, she proclaimed, “This brocade is woven from the finest silk. I wove one strand after another to produce the brocade. Now if I cut it, all my previous work will be wasted. Its the same with your studies. Now, youve stopped halfway. Isnt it the same as cutting the brocade on the loom?”
Deeply moved by what she said, Yue Yangzi again left home to continue his studies.
Several years later, he finished his studies and became a learned man.
As long as fill the stomach, the animals are not afraid of anything. Eat a meal, can make them warm. Subcutaneous fat fat, is the warm down jacket. Even if the cold can penetrate fur and feathers, also absolutely cant get through the thick layer of fat under the skin.
If food is abundant, the winter is absolutely cant be afraid. But, where is the winter food? Where to find?
The Wolf and fox in the woods shot to shot, but very quiet in the woods, some animals and birds, had to shelter for the winter, others fly to other places.
During the day, only a crow flying in the woods; Night, the sable 暤 (hao) kept flying in the air, they are trying to look for food. But couldnt find anything!
The day of the forest cant! Hungry! Hungry as hell!
Mr Watt tip: tells the story of children, in the winter, the animals lack of food, can only rely on their thick fur and the accumulation of body fat to resist the cold winter, they are so hungry!
There once was a proud heron. She thought she was the wisest and most beautiful heron in the world.
One morning, she stood a stream and looked into the water. She want to have a big, fat fish for breakfast. “There are a lot of fish here,” she said, “but they’re too small for me. I deserve only the biggest and the best!”
Just then, a bigger fish swam near the shore, but the heron still wasn’t interested. “I wouldn′t bother to open my mouth for such a small fish!” she said.
Then heron was that a big, fat fish would come soon. She waited beside the stream, but only small fish appeared.
As she waited, the sun rose into the sky. The water became warm and all the small fish swam away. The heron was hungry, but she could only find a tiny snail.
“I had so many choices before,” said the heron, “but I was too proud and hard to please.
Now I have nothing to eat at all.”
Jerome turned off the TV. He had just watched a couple of "South Park" cartoons. "South Park" is an amusing series about elementary school kids living in a small town in Colorado.
The first cartoon was about Herman, who wanted to become strong and muscular. He asked his mother to buy a supplement that was advertised on TV. The supplement was actually nothing but sugar, but the TV ad promised that it would make you strong and muscular.
Instead, it made Herman very fat. Worse, Herman refused to believe that he had become fat. Even though all his friends were calling him Super Fat Boy, he told them that he was Super Muscle Boy. Finally, when Herman walked onto the stage to receive an award in the school auditorium, the stage collapsed. Then he realized that maybe he WAS super fat.
The second cartoon was about a dog that followed Lenny home. Lenny loved the dog until he found out it was gay. Then he hated the dog. But Big Al took Lenny to the city’s Home for Gay Animals. While there, Lenny decided that it was okay to be gay. When he got home, he hugged his dog and took it for a walk. He didn’t even mind when it sniffed other male dogs.
Two madmen were talking in the mental hospital, and one said, "I have decided to give my sister to you in marriage once we are out of here."
The other man said, "No, thank you. It cannot be so."
He asked, "Why？" The man answered ， "Because,according to our family tradition only relatives get married. We cannot marry an outsider."
The other man asked, "How come there is such a family custom？" He said, "You see, my grandmother married my grandfather. My mother married my father, my sister married my brother—in—law, and so on. How can I marry your sister？"
Robert was a clever young man and got on well with his classmates .They all liked him and played with him though he often boasted .He was strong and often had sports .He hoped to join the army when he left the middle school .Bad luck !His leg was hurt in a traffic accident and he couldn’t walk .He had to go to his home village and help his father to manage the farm .He read a lot of books on farming and did well in it .He got much money and bought a few farms next to hs and ten years later he became the richest farmer in his village .
Once Robert net several friends in the capital .Some of them were famous in their country .They knew nothing about their lame friend .It made him unhappy and he asked them to visit his farm .They agreed and went there with him .They saw a beautiful house with a big garden when they got there .They found he had a lot of sheep ,pigs and cows .Robert and his family warmly received the guests from London .The next morning he took them to his farm .It was so large that they couldn’t see the other end and it surprised them all .
“It’ll take you two days to reach the other end of my farm by car !”Robert said happily .
“I think something is wrong with your cars !”one of the guests said with a smile .
A FOX one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. ”If,“ said he, ”you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards.“ The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, ”You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.“
when george was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. he soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of tricks.
george had a friend. his name was mark. one day george offered to take mark up in his plane. mark thought, ive travelled in a big plane several times, but ive never been in a small one, so ill go.
they went up, and george flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air.
when they came down again, mark was very glad to be back safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking voice, well, george, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.
george was very surprised and said, two trips?
yes, my first and my last, answered mark.
Liz was excited. She was going to Asia with her mom. Neither of them had ever traveled out of the United States before. They were going to fly to Hong Kong. After staying in Hong Kong for three nights, they would travel on their cruise ship to Shanghai and Beijing.
“Beijing is inland, so we have to take about a two-hour bus ride to get there from the port. I forget the name of the port. Anyway, we're going to see the Great Wall, the Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City. It’s going to be so cool!” she told her neighbor Jane.
From China, the cruise ship would go to Pusan in South Korea, and finally to Tokyo. From Tokyo, they would catch a flight back to Los Angeles.
“The trip is going to last three weeks. It's only going to cost us $2,800 each, IF we can control our urge to shop,” she laughed.
“I hope your trip is more fun than mine was,” said Jane. “I took a cruise to the Bahamas, but almost all the passengers got sick. I caught some kind of virus that made me throw up for almost three days. They gave us a discount that we could use on a future trip. Ha! No more cruising for me.”
“We've heard about those disasters,” said Liz. “Mom and I are going to be washing our hands every 30 minutes, and we're bringing surgical masks with us.”
Three Good Friends
One day, a monkey rides his bike near the river. This time he sees a lion under a tree. The lion runs at him. He is afraid and falls into the river. He can’t swim. He shouts. The rabbit hears him. He jumps into the river. The rabbit swims to the monkey, but he can’t help him. Luckily, an elephant comes along. He is very strong. He helps the rabbit and monkey. Three friends are very happy. They go to the elephant’s home. Then, three of them become good friends.
一天，一只猴子在河边骑车。这时他看见树下有一只狮子，狮子向他跑来。他非常的害怕，掉进河里。他不会游泳，大叫起来。兔子听见了，跳进水里，但他却没有办法救猴子。幸运的是，一只大象过来了。大象非常强壮，救出了兔子和猴子。他们来到大象的家，在那里吃了一顿大餐。从此他们成了好朋友。
A Man and a Satyr having struck up an acquaintance, sat down together to eat. The day being wintry and cold, the Man put his fingers to his mouse and blew opon them. "What's that for, my friend?" asked the Satyr. " My hands are so cold," said the Man, "I do it to warm them." In a little while some hot food was placed before them, and the Man, raising the dish to his mouse, again blew opon it. "And what's the meaning of that, now?" said the Satyr. "Oh," replied the Man, "my porridge is so hot, I do it to cool it." "Nay, then," said the Satyr, "from this moment I renounce your friendship, for I will have nothing to do with one who blows hot and cold with the same mouse."
一个人与赛特偶然相识，坐在一齐吃东西。正值冬季，天气很冷，那人把手放在嘴边哈气。赛特问道“我的朋友，那是干吗？”这人说“我的手太冷了，这是为了取暖”。过了一会儿，热腾腾的食物端上来了，那人把碟子举到嘴边又吹了起来，赛特问“这又是干吗？”，那人说“哦，我的粥太烫了，我把他吹凉些”。赛特说“从此刻起，我要与你绝交，因为我不想和一个反复无常的人做朋友”。
Once there was a boy who lived on a farm. Every day he had to take his father’s sheep to a hill. One day he tried to play a trick on the other people. He said to himself. I will call “wolf. wolf.” then everyone come to help me. It will be fun when they find out there is no wolf after all. So he cried: “wolf 。wolf.” and everyone ran to help him. When they came he just said: “there is no wolf. It was only a joke.” He did this three times. Then one day a wolf really came. “Help! Help! The wolf is here.” called the boy. But everyone said: “No you know that there is no wolf. He is just calling us for fun. There is no danger.” So they did not go to help the boy. The wolf killed all the sheep then.
The wolf then came to the house of bricks.
" Let me in , let me in" cried the wolf
"Or I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in"
"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" said the pigs.
Well, the wolf huffed and puffed but he could not blow down that brick house.
But the wolf was a sly old wolf and he climbed up on the roof to look for a way into the brick house
The little pig saw the wolf climb up on the roof and lit a roaring fire in the fireplace and placed on it a large kettle of water.
When the wolf finally found the hole in the chimney he crawled down and KERSPLASH right into that kettle of water and that was the end of his troubles with the big bad wolf.
The next day the little pig invited his mother over . She said "You see it is just as I told you. The way to get along in the world is to do things as well as you can." Fortunately for that little pig, he learned that lesson. And he just lived happily ever after!
When the Ming dynasty, the emperor ordered the slaughter of cattle, is the man who believe in Islam, is no exception.
One day, a squire Zhang Jingzhai and juren fan4 jin4 meet high visit to the county magistrate of a county in soup. Soup magistrate of a county buy wine to entertain them. He was an old man brought the soup magistrate of a county the cobbled together with several other Islam fifty pounds of beef. Soup magistrate of a county has always been taking bribes bribery, but he's also believe in Islam, but it has a ban on, also don't know should shouldn't take this gift. So Zhang Jingzhai asked: ”are you done officer, about the ban on killing cattle are the to discuss with you. Just a few people believe in Islam in order to open, from 50 kg of meat, a few loose request me to them. Do you think is to accept or not accept?“
Zhang Jingzhai shake head a way: ”this should never). You and I are a few people, should be in the heart is only the emperor, manage people who believe in the same teaching? Think of Mr HongWuNian asked Mr (refers to liu bowen); the hongwu got to his house, even the jiangnan trump sent a food jars. (gathering), open on see, face to face is an altar of gold. The king was angry, the next day Mr Put Mr As qingtian county magistrate of a county, then poisoned him with poison.
Articulate soup magistrate of a county Zhang Jingzhai said, I not letter, so quickly to ask what to do with as well. Zhang Jingzhai said: “a surname can make in this matter. Grasp the old man and beat him dozens of board, with a big neck-irons, stacked from beef on big cangue, and beside it a notice, that they are bold, just that. Meticulous like boss know you work, you promoting to a higher position is just around the corner.”
Even the tiny place also don't careless, describe work conscientiously, good fine.
"I had another bad dream," she told her fiancé。 "It was about you again. You and your ex-girlfriend were kissing. I yelled at you to stop it. You looked right at me, and then you laughed at me! She laughed, too. Then you both went back to kissing. I tried not to watch, but when I covered my eyes, something pulled my hands away. I tried to leave, but my feet were glued to the ground. Finally, I woke up. Of course, it was very difficult to get back to sleep.
"I had to drive home from Las Vegas this morning. Its a wonder I didnt crash 50 times. Instead of seeing traffic in front of me, all I saw was you and her. I cant take any more dreams like this. Were going to have to break up. We can be friends, but just friends. That way, I wont be jealous anymore, and I wont have these bad dreams anymore."
"Why didnt you call me up and tell me about your dream?" he asked. "They say that the more you talk about bad dreams, the sooner youll stop having them."
She disagreed. She thought that the only solution was to break up and be just friends. She loved him, but these dreams had become so frequent that she was actually afraid to go to sleep. She was losing weight and having stomachaches from the stress.
He didnt know what to do. He wanted her to have pleasant dreams. He wanted her to have a life without stress. He wanted her to be his wife. This was it, she repeated; if she had just one more bad dream, they were through. He squeezed her hand, but said nothing.
The Frog and the Cow
Baby frogs went on a picomic in the woods. Getting out of the pond for the first time, they sang merrily.
Then, they found a cow grazing in a field. "Oh, my! What is that?" "It is huge!" All of them wondered what kind of animal it was. "Let's ask Daddy."
They returned home in a hurry and shouted, "Daddy, we saw a strange animal." "What kind of animal was it?"
"It had large horns on its head and its body was way bigger than you. Even if we all add up our power, we can not defeat that animal."
The father was curious what the animal looked like. "Really? Was it bigger than my stomach?" "Yes. Much bigger than that!"
The father frog blew up his stomach largely, "Well, now, I'm as big as the animal, right?" "No, you are as big as the animal's heel." The father puffed himself up deeply and blew up his stomach enormously.
"How about now? Am I as big as the animal, huh?" "No, not even." Thinking he could not be outdone, the father frog puffed up his stomach even more.
The father frog's stomach was blown up as big as he could get. Right at that very moment, the father frog's stomach burst with a bang.
翻译：
小青蛙们在树林里野餐。这是他们第一次从池塘里出来，他们正在愉快地唱歌。
突然，他们发现了一头正在牧场上吃草的奶牛。“哦，天哪！那是什么？好大啊！”他们都很好奇那究竟是什么动物。“咱们问爸爸吧。”
他们匆匆忙忙地回了家，大声喊道：“爸爸，我们看到了一只奇怪的动物。”“什么样的动物啊？”
“头上有很大的触角，身体比你大得多。就算我们所有人都加起来，都很难打败它。”
父亲对他的描述感到很好奇。“真的吗？它比我的肚子还大吗？”“是啊，可比你的肚子大得多！”
父亲使劲鼓起了自己的肚子，“现在呢，现在我和那个动物一样大了，对吧？”“不，你现在也就只有那只动物的脚跟那么大。”父亲气急了，又使劲鼓了鼓他的肚子。
“现在呢？现在我和那动物一样大了吧？”“不，还是小。”父
就这样他不停地吹气，肚子已经达到极限了。就在这一瞬间，青蛙爸爸的肚子砰的一声爆炸了。