高考英语励志小故事带翻译参考

高考英语励志小故事带翻译参考

【英语哲理小故事】

A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were there?” The boy replied, “Air.” Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret.”

一个年轻人向苏格拉底询问成功的秘诀，苏格拉底让年轻人第二天早晨到河边见他。他们见面后，苏格拉底叫年轻人和他一起走向河里，当河水淹至他们的脖子时，苏格拉底出其不意地抓住年轻人并把其压入水中，那人想要挣出水面，而强壮有力的苏格拉底将他摁在水中直到他变得无力抗争，脸色发青。苏格拉底将他的头拖出水面，这个年轻人所做的第一件事就是大口喘息后，深吸一口气。苏格拉底问：“当你闷在水里的时候你最想要的是什么？”年轻人回答说：“空气。”苏格拉底说：“那就是成功的秘诀。当你像渴望空气一样渴望成功，你就能够获得它！没有其他的秘密了。”

【英语幽默小故事200】

A boy found an eagle's egg and he put it in the nest of a prairie chicken. The eagle hatched and thought he was a chicken. He grew up doing what prairie chicken do-scratching

at the dirt for food and flying short distances with a noisy fluttering of wings. It was a dreary life. Gradually the

eagle grew older and bitter. One day he and his prairie chicken friend saw a beautiful bird soaring on the currents

of air, high above the mountains.

"Oh, I wish I could fly like that!" said the eagle. The chicken replied, "Don't give it another thought. That's the mighty eagle, the king of all birds-you could never be like him!" And the eagle didn't give it another thought. He went

on cackling and complaining about life. He died thinking he was a prairie chicken. My friends, you too were born an eagle. The Creator intended you to be an eagle, so don’t listen to the prairie chickens!

一个小男孩发现了一只老鹰下的蛋，把它放进了一只山鸡的窝里。鹰

被孵出来了，但他以为自己是一只山鸡。逐步的他长大了，却做着山

鸡所做的事---从泥土里寻找食物，做短距离的飞翔，翅膀还啪啪作响。生活非常沉闷，逐步地鹰长大了，也越来越苦恼。有一天，他和他的

山鸡朋友看见一只美丽的鸟在天空翱翔，飞的比山还高。

“哦，我要能飞的那么高该多好啊！”鹰说。山鸡回答说，“不要想了，那是凶猛无比的鹰，鸟中---你不可能像他一样！”于是鹰放弃了

那个念头。他继续咯咯地叫，不停的抱怨生活。最后他死了，依然认

为自己是一只山鸡。朋友们，你们天生就是雄鹰。造物主有意把你造

就成一只雄鹰，所以不要听信山鸡的话！

【小故事：利用好你的错误】

Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we

advance in life. Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes

to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the

pursuit of their goals and aspirations, and who are able to learn from those mistakes. And in order to learn from

mistakes you must be willing to pay for them.

Mistakes can be enormously valuable, but when you try to get others to pay for your mistakes, then you deprive yourself of the opportunity to learn from them. When something goes wrong, it's usually very easy to find someone else to blame, but

what does that really accomplish?

Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they demand a cost that must be paid. The person who learns the most from a mistake is the person who pays the price for that mistake.

When you make a mistake, the lastthing you want to do is run away from it. You need to accept it because you can learn a

lot from it. The mistake has been made, so make the most of

it. Pay the price, learn the lesson, and grow that much stronger.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Remember the reason for it, and then look forward. Mistakes

are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The

present is still in your power. Take full advantage of your mistakes to achieve your goals and aspirations.

翻译：过失和错误让我们辨别是非,协助我们前进。错误是伟大的老师。成功总是眷顾那些敢于冒着犯错的危险去追求他们的目标和理想,