英語中長篇故事閱讀
① 關於愛麗絲的長篇英語故事帶翻譯
編者按：《The pool of tears》這個英語故事是來自愛麗絲夢遊仙境中的第二章，講述的是主人公愛麗絲傷心流眼淚，形成一個小池塘的故事。
The pool of tears
講述者
Hello! Alice is having some very curious adventures at the bottom of a rabbit hole. She drank a drink that made her verysmall indeed. But she wants to grow bigger so that she can reach the key thatwill unlock the tiny door to a beautiful garden. After eating some cake she found in a little glass box, Alice started to feel something …
大家好!Alice正在兔子洞底經歷一場奇幻怪異的旅程。她喝了一種能讓她變小的飲料，但是現在為了拿到鑰匙進入花園，她又想重新變大。在吃完玻璃盒子里的小蛋糕以後，她開始有了一些異樣的感覺。
Alice
Curiouser and curiouser! I'm growing! My feet are so far away. Goodbye feet! How will I put my shoes and socks on, I wonder? Ouch!
越來越奇怪了!我在慢慢變大!我的腳已經穿不進鞋子里了，好奇怪的感覺啊!哎呀!
講述者
Alice grew so big that her head hit the ceiling! It was easy to reach the table now. She picked up the tiny key and rushed to the door. But in her excitement, she forgot something again…
Alice長得很大，頭都頂到了天花板，現在她能輕而易舉地夠到鑰匙了，她拿到鑰匙向門跑去，但是她興奮過頭了，忘記了一件重要的事…
Alice
Ohhhh… this is hopeless! I'm much too big for this door now! I'll never get into the garden! I can only look through the door with one eye! Oh…
噢…糟糕了!我現在身體太大進不去門了!我又進不去那個花園了，只好透過門縫往裡看了!唉…
講述者
Alice was over nine feet tall, and when a girl that big cries, the tears are big too. Alice cried and cried until half the hall was filled with a salty pool of tears. After a time, Alice heard a little pattering of feet in the distance. She dried her eyes to see what was coming.
Alice現在長到已經九英尺高了，她急得大哭了起來，碩大的淚滴也撲撲地落下來，形成了一片鹹水灘。過了一會兒，Alice聽到遠處有腳步聲，她擦幹了眼淚看看是誰走了過來。
White Rabbit
Oh! I'm late! I'm so very late! I was told to be early and I'm going to be late. The Duchess will be waiting. Oh my! Ohmy! She will be so very angry with me! Oh my!
噢!我來晚了!我來晚了!我被通知要早點過來，我還是要遲到了。公爵夫人在等我，噢!天啊!她肯定會非常生氣!天啊!
講述者
The sight of The White Rabbit, splendidly dressed in his best clothes, and carrying a large fan and a pair of white leather gloves was enough to stop Alice's tears.
Alice的目光被那隻兔子吸引了，他衣著華麗，拿著大扇子，帶著白色的皮手套。Alice停止了哭泣。
Alice
If you please, sir…
先生…請問…
White Rabbit
Oh!! Oh my!
啊!天啊!
Alice
Don't go! I won't hurt – Oh dear! You'vedropped your gloves… But look: what a pretty fan. And crying is such hot work.Oh, that's better. Oh dear… how strange everything is today. Yesterday thingswere normal. But today I'm not sure if I am the same girl who woke up thismorning. But, if I'm not the girl who woke up this morning, the question is, "Whoam I?"
不要走，我不會傷害你，啊!親愛的，你的白手套掉了，你的扇子好漂亮…我哭得好熱!正好可以扇一扇。今天發生的事情都好奇怪，昨天都還很正常，但是今天我都不敢確定我還是不是早上起來的那個我了，但如果不是的話，我又是誰呢?
講述者
Alice fanned herself while she talked. Shefelt much cooler. But after a minute or two, something started happening.
Alice邊說話邊扇扇子，感覺涼快多了，但是過了一會兒，又有事情發生了。
Alice
Oh: Here's that feeling again.
噢!那種感覺又來了!
講述者
Then something kept happening. Alice kept fanning herself.
Alice繼續扇著扇子。
Alice
I don't believe it. I must be… I am! I'm growing smaller again. Smaller than the table. Hello feet! It's good to see you again.
我不信，我肯定是…又要變小了!越來越小了，比桌子還小。你好!桌子腿!又見面了!
講述者
Soon Alice was smaller than ever. She was still shrinking and shrinking and she didn't know why.
過了一會兒，Alice變得比上次還小，也不知道為什麼，她還在繼續縮小。
Alice
Oh dear - I'm getting very small. Oh… I'm getting much too small! Oh dear - I shall fade away altogether! Ohh…! The fan?The fan!
噢親愛的，我現在變得非常小了，簡直太小了!我恐怕要完全消失了!扇子呢?扇子呢?
講述者
Just in time. Alice threw the fan on the floor, so she wouldn't get any smaller.
好在Alice把扇子扔到了地上，她才停止繼續變小了。
Alice
That was a lucky escape! But now I'm small enough to get into the garden!
幸虧扔掉的及時!現在我終於可以進入那個花園了!
講述者
Poor Alice! There she stood at the little door - but it was locked again. And there was the little key, back in itsplace, out of reach, on the table.
可憐的Alice，她站在小門前發現門還是鎖著的，鑰匙還在原處放著，依然夠不到。
Alice
Oh not again! This is hopeless. I'll never et that key now. I so badly wanted to see the garden. And things are worse than ever - I've never been so small as this in my life. Never!
不會吧!沒希望了!我在也拿不到鑰匙了!我多想進去那個小花園啊，這下比上回還糟糕，我變得太小了，永遠也拿不到鑰匙了!
講述者
Things were as bad as ever. And they were about to get worse...
情況還是那麼糟糕，比上次還早糟糕。
Alice
Ohhh!
啊啊啊!
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② 英語長篇美文閱讀精選
語文學教學不應局限於英美文學,應研究和評介各英語國家的優秀作家和作品。下面是我帶來的英語長篇美文閱讀，歡迎閱讀!
英語長篇美文閱讀篇一
Just two for breakfast 兩個人的早餐
When my husband and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary at our favorite restaurant, Lenny, the piano player, asked, "How did you do it?"
I knew there was no simple answer, but as the weekend approached, I wondered if one reason might be our ritual of breakfast in bed every Saturday and Sunday.
It all started with the breakfast tray my mother gave us as a wedding gift. It had a glass top and slatted wooden side pockets for the morning paper the kind you used to see in the movies. Mother loved her movies, and although she rarely had breakfast in bed, she held high hopes for her daughter. My adoring bridegroom took the message to heart.
Feeling guilty, I suggested we take turns. Despite grumblings -- "hate crumbs in my bed" ---Sunday morning found my spouse eagerly awaiting his tray. Soon these weekend breakfasts became such a part of our lives that I never even thought about them. I only knew we treasured this separate, blissful time read, relax, forget the things we should remember.
Sifting through the years, I recalled how our weekends changed, but that we still preserved the ritual. We started our family (as new parents, we slept after breakfast more than we read), but we always found our way back to where we started, just two for breakfast, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
When we had more time, my tray became more festive. First it was fruit slices placed in geometric pattern; then came flowers from our garden .This arranger of mine had developed a flair for decorating, using everything from amaryllis to the buds of a maple tree. My husband said my cooking inspired him. Mother would have approved. Perhaps it was the Saturday when the big strawberry wore a daisy hat that I began to think, how can I top this? One dark winter night I woke with a vision of a snowman on a tray. That Sunday I scooped a handful of snow and in no time had my man made. With a flourish I put a miniature pinecone on his head.
As I delivered the tray, complete with a nicely frozen snowman, I waited for a reaction. There was none but as I headed down the stairs I heard a whoop of laughter and then, "You've won! Yes, sir, you've won the prize!"
英語長篇美文閱讀篇二
Put time where love is 捨得為愛付出時間
During my 25 years as a marital therapist, I have seen hundreds of people disappointed over unfulfilling relationships. I have seen passion turn to poison. I have grieved with patients for the love they lost or never found.
"We seemed to love so much, but now it's gone," one woman lamented to me. "Why do I feel so lonely every night even when he is right there beside me? Why can't marriage be more than this?"
It can. I was once invited to the 60th-anniversary celebration of a remarkable couple. I asked the husband, Peter, if he ever felt lonely and wondered where the love between him and Lita had gone. Peter laughed and said, "If you wonder where your love went, you forgot that you are the one who makes it. Love is not out there; it's in here between Lita and me."
I know we can love deeply, tenderly and lastingly. I have seen such love, and I have felt such love myself. Here are the law I have discovered for such lasting and loving relationships---put time where love is.
A fulfilling marriage begins when two people make time together their No.1 priority. If we hope to find love, we must first find time for loving.
Unfortunately, current psychology rests on the model of the independent ego. To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness. We must go beyond what psychologist Abraham Maslow called "self-actualization" to "us-actualization". We have to learn to put time where love is.
Many couples have experienced a tragic moment that taught them to value their time together. One husband related how he sat trapped in his car after a crash. His wife was outside, crying and banging on the window. "I thought I was going to die before we had enough time together." He told me. "Right then I promised to make the time to love my wife. Our time is our own now, and those hours are sacred."
英語長篇美文閱讀篇三
I am nature's greatest miracle. 我是自然界最偉大的奇跡
I am nature's greatest miracle.
Although I am of the animal kingdom, animal rewards alone will not satisfy me. Within me burns a flame, which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will. I will fan this flame of dissatisfaction and proclaim my uniqueness to the world.
None can plicate my brush strokes, none can make my chisel marks, none can plicate my handwriting, none can proce my child, and, in truth, none has the ability to sell exactly as I. Henceforth, I will capitalize on this difference for it is an asset to be promoted to the fullest.
I am nature's greatest miracle.
Vain attempts to imitate others no longer will I make. Instead will I place my uniqueness on display in the market place. I will proclaim it, yea, I will sell it. I will begin now to accent my differences; hide my similarities. So too will I apply this principle to the goods I sell. Salesman and goods, different from all others, and proud of the difference.
I am a unique creature of nature.
I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable. I am the end proct of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.
But my skills, my mind, my heart, and my body will stagnate, rot, and die lest I put them to good use. I have unlimited potential. Only a small portion of my brain do I employ; only a paltry amount of my muscles do I flex. A hundredfold or more can I increase my accomplishments of yesterday and this I will do, beginning today.
Nevermore will I be satisfied with yesterday's accomplishments nor will I inlge, anymore, in self-praise for deeds which in reality are too small to even acknowledge. I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle which proced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
I am nature's greatest miracle.
I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
I will increase my knowledge of mankind, myself, and the goods I sell, thus my sales will multiply. I will practice, and improve, and polish the words I utter to sell my goods, for this is the foundation on which I will build my career and never will I forget that many have attained great wealth and success with only one sales talk, delivered with excellence. Also will I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
I am nature's greatest miracle.
I will concentrate my energy on the challenge of the moment and my actions will help me forget all else. The problems of my home will be left in my home. I will think naught of my family when I am in the market place for this will cloud my thoughts. So too will the problems of the market place be left in the market place and I will think naught of my profession when I am in my home for this will dampen my love.
There is no room in the market place for my family, nor is there room in my home for the market. Each I will divorce from the other and thus will I remain wedded to both. Separate must they remain or my career will die. This is a paradox of the ages.
I am nature's greatest miracle.
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think and now I know a great secret of life for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. I will no longer be fooled by the garments they wear for mine eyes are open. I will look beyond the cloth and I will not be deceived.
I am nature's greatest miracle.
No beast, no plant, no wind, no rain, no rock, no lake had the same beginning as I, for I was conceived in love and brought forth with a purpose. In the past I have not considered this fact but it will henceforth shape and guide my life.
I am nature's greatest miracle.
And nature knows not defeat. Eventually, she emerges victorious and so will I, and with each victory the next struggle becomes less difficult.
I will win, and I will become a great salesman, for I am unique.
I am nature's greatest miracle.
③ 英語長篇文章閱讀
眾所周知，閱讀作為人類汲取知識的主要手段和認知世界的主要途徑之一，一度成為語文、外語等文科類學科學習的主要方式，而倍受關注和青睞。下面是我帶來的英語長篇 文章 閱讀，歡迎閱讀!
英語長篇文章閱讀1
寒武紀大爆發 動物王國出現
Science and technology
The Cambrian explosion
Kingdom come
Chinese palaeontologists hope to explain the rise of the animals
AMONG the mysteries of evolution, one of the most profound is what exactly happened at the beginning of the Cambrian period.
Before that period, which started 541m years ago and ran on for 56m years, life was a modest thing.
Bacteria had been around for about 3 billion years, but for most of this time they had had the Earth to themselves.
Seaweeds, jellyfish-like creatures, sponges and the odd worm do start to put in an appearance a few million years before the Cambrian begins.
But red in tooth and claw the Precambrian was not—for neither teeth nor claws existed.
Then, in the 20m-year blink of a geological eye, animals arrived in force.
Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.
The sudden evolution of this megafauna is known as the Cambrian explosion.
But two centuries after it was noticed, in the mountains of Wales after which the Cambrian period is named, nobody knows what detonated it.
A group of Chinese scientists, led by Zhu Maoyan of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, plan to change that with a project called 「From the Snowball Earth to the Cambrian explosion: the evolution of life and environment 600m years ago」.
The 「Snowball Earth」 refers to a series of ice ages that happened between 725m and 541m years ago.
These were, at their maxima, among the most extensive glaciations in the Earth』s history.
They alternated, though, with periods that make the modern tropics seem chilly: the planet』s average temperature was sometimes as high as 50C.
Add the fact that a supercontinent was breaking up at this time, and you have a picture of a world in chaos.
Just the sort of thing that might drive evolution.
Dr Zhu and his colleagues hope to find out exactly how these environmental changes correspond to changes in the fossil record.
The animals』 carnival
Fortunately, China』s fossil record for this period is rich.
Until recently, the only known fossils of Precambrian animals were what is called the Ediacaran fauna—a handful of strange creatures found in Australia, Canada and the English Midlands that lived in the Ediacaran period, between 635m and 541m years ago, and which bear little resemblance to what came afterwards.
In 1998, however, a team led by Chen Junyuan, also of the Nanjing Institute, and another led by Xiao Shuhai of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in America, discovered a 580m-year-old Lagersttte—a place where fossils are particularly well preserved—in a geological formation called the Doushantuo, which spreads out across southern China.
Portents of the modern world
This Lagersttte has yielded many previously unknown species, including microscopic sponges, small tubular organisms of unknown nature, things that look like jellyfish but might not be and a range of what appear to be embryos that show bilateral symmetry.
What these embryos would have grown into is unclear. But some might be the ancestors of the Cambrian megafauna.
To try to link the evolution of these species with changes in the environment, Chu Xuelei of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing and his colleagues have been looking at carbon isotopes in the Doushantuo rocks.
They have found that the proportion of 12C—a light isotope of carbon that is more easily incorporated by living organisms into organic matter than its heavy cousin, 13C—increased on at least three occasions ring the Ediacaran period.
They suggest these increases mark moments when the amount of oxygen in seawater went up, because more oxygen would mean more oxidisation of buried organic matter. That would liberate its 12C, for incorporation into rocks.
Each of Dr Chu』s oxidation events corresponds with an increase in the size, complexity and diversity of life, both plant and animal.
What triggered what, however, is unclear.
There may have been an increase in photosynthesis because there were more algae around.
Or eroded material from newly formed mountains may have buried organic matter that would otherwise have reacted with oxygen, leading to a build-up of the gas.
The last—and most dramatic—rise in oxygen took place towards the end of the Ediacaran.
Follow-up work by Dr Zhu, in nine other sections of the Doushantuo formation, suggests this surge started just after the final Precambrian glacial period about 560m years ago, and went on for 9m years.
These dates overlap with those of signs of oxidation found in rocks in other parts of the world, confirming that whatever was going on affected the entire planet.
Dr Zhu suspects this global environmental shift propelled the evolution of complex animals.
Dr Zhu also plans to push back before the Ediacaran period.
Other researchers have found fossils of algae and wormlike creatures in rocks in northern China that pre-date the end of the Marinoan glaciation, 635m years ago, which marks the boundary between the Ediacaran and the Cryogenian period that precedes it.
Such fossils are hard to study, so Dr Zhu will use new imaging technologies that can look at them without having to clean away the surrounding rock, and are also able to detect traces of fossil organic matter invisible to the eye.
Besides digging back before the Ediacaran, the new project』s researchers also intend to analyse the unfolding of the Cambrian explosion itself by taking advantage of other Lagersttten—for China has several that date from the Cambrian.
Dr Chen, indeed, first made his name in 1984, when he excavated one at Chengjiang in Yunnan province.
It dates from 525m years ago, which make it 20m years older than the most famous CambrianLagersttte in the West, the Burgess shale of British Columbia, in Canada.
The project』s researchers plan to see how, evolutionarily speaking, the various Lagerst?tten relate to one another, to try to determine exactly when different groups of organisms emerged.
They will also look at the chemistry of elements other than carbon and oxygen—particularly nitrogen and phosphorous, which are essential to life, and sulphur, which often indicates the absence of oxygen and is thus antithetical to much animal life.
Dr Zhu hopes to map changes in the distribution of these chemicals across time and space.
He will assess how these changes correlate, whether they are related to weathering, mountain building and the ebb and flow of glaciers, how they could have affected the evolution of life, and how plants and animals might themselves have altered the chemistry of air and sea.
Most ambitiously, Dr Zhu, Dr Xiao and their colleagues hope to drill right through several fossiliferous sites in southern China where Ediacaran rocks turn seamlessly into Cambrian ones.
Such places are valuable because in most parts of the world there is a gap, known as an unconformity, between the Ediacaran and the Cambrian.
Unconformities are places where rocks have been eroded before new ones are deposited, and the widespread Ediacaran-Cambrian unconformity has been a big obstacle to understanding the Cambrian explosion.
With luck, then, a mystery first noticed in the Welsh mountains in the early 19th century will be solved in the Chinese ones in the early 21st.
If it is, the origin of the animal kingdom will have become clear, and an important gap in the history of humanity itself will have been filled.
英語長篇文章閱讀2
巴西水資源 無水可喝
Water in Brazil
Nor any drop to drink
Dry weather and a growing population spell rationing
BRAZIL has the world's biggest reserves of fresh water. That most of it sits in the sparsely populated Amazon has not historically stopped Brazilians in the drier, more populous south taking it for granted. No longer. Landlords in S?o Paulo, who are wont to hose down pavements with gallons of potable water, have taken to using brooms instead. Notices in lifts and on the metro implore paulistanos to take shorter showers and re-use coffee mugs.
S?o Paulo state, home to one-fifth of Brazil's population and one-third of its economic activity, is suffering the worst drought since records began in 1930. Pitiful rainfall and high rates of evaporation in scorching heat have caused the volume of water stored in the Cantareira system of reservoirs, which supplies 10m people, to dip below 12% of capacity. This time last year, at the end of what is nominally the wet season, it stood at 64%.
On April 21st the governor, Geraldo Alckmin, warned that from May consumers will be fined for increasing their water use. Those who cut consumption are already rewarded with discounts on their bills. The city will tap three basins supplying other parts of the state, but since these reservoirs have also been hit by drought and supply hydropower plants, fears of blackouts are rising.
Without a downpour, Sabesp, the state water utility, expects Cantareira's levels to sink beneath the pipes which link reservoirs to consumers a week after S?o Paulo hosts the opening game of the football World Cup on June 12th. To tide the city over until rains resume in November, it is installing kit to pump half of the 400 billion litres of reserves beneath the pipes, at a cost of 80m reais. The company says this 「dead volume」, never before used, is perfectly treatable. Some experts have expressed concerns about its quality.
Mr Alckmin has not ruled out tightening the spigots. Flow from taps in parts of S?o Paulo has already become a trickle, for which Sabesp blames maintenance work. Widespread cuts could hurt the governor's re-election bid in October. Hours after he announced the latest measures, a thirsty mob set fire to a bus.
Paulistanos use more water than most Brazilians, but lose less of it to leaks: 35%, compared with a national average of 39%. Sabesp, listed on the New York Stock Exchange but majority-owned by the state government, is a paragon of good governance, says John Briscoe, a water expert at Harvard and a former head of the World Bank mission in Brazil.
The problem exposed by the drought is that supply has not kept pace with the rising urban population. Facing a jumble of overlapping municipal, state and federal regulations, investment in storage, distribution and treatment has lagged behind. And not just in S?o Paulo; the national water regulator has warned that 16 projects in the ten biggest cities must be completed by 2015 to prevent chronic water shortages over the next decade. So far only five are finished; work on some has not begun. Short-term measures should keep the water trickling for now. But the well of temporary solutions will eventually run dry.
英語長篇文章閱讀3
德國公司的管理 董事會的多元化
Business
Corporate governance in Germany
Diversifying the board
German boards have long been cosy men's clubs. But things are changing
HERMANN JOSEF ABS liked to joke, What's the difference between a doghouse and the supervisory board?
The doghouse is for the dog; the supervisory board is for the cat.
For those unfamiliar with the nuances of German humour, for the cat is slang for something like trash.
The late banker would know: while running Deutsche Bank from 1957 to 1967, he also sat on dozens of supervisory boards.
This was the peak of Deutschland AG, a clique of long-serving bosses, autocratic chairmen, do-nothing board members and their financier friends.
Big German companies' supervisory boards are supposed to act as a check on their management boards.
But in practice their relations were too cosy for this.
This past year the stumbles of two titans seemed to highlight how much corporate power is still concentrated in few hands in the Germanspeaking world.
As 2013 began Gerhard Cromme was chairman of the supervisory boards of both Siemens, an instrial conglomerate, and ThyssenKrupp, a steelmaker.
But big losses at foreign mills and heavy fines over a cartel case cost him the chairmanship at ThyssenKrupp.
Then in July, a boardroom bunfight at Siemens ended with the departure of Peter Lscher, the chief executive.
Mr Cromme belatedly called for his firing—but only after hiring him and protecting him for years.
Josef Ackermann, a Swiss former boss of Deutsche Bank and a Siemens board member, had defended Mr Lscher.
When Mr Lscher went, so did he.
Shortly before this he had quit as chairman of Zurich, a Swiss insurer, whose chief financial officer had committed suicide, leaving a note berating Mr Ackermann.
Now he has no big corporate job, there have been reports that Mr Ackermann may have to step down as a trustee of the World Economic Forum after its gabfest in Davos this week.
At first glance, corporate power in Germany still looks male, German and concentrated.
But its boardrooms are slowly getting more diverse.
In 2003 the average supervisory-board member at a public company sat on 1.9 boards; now the figure is 1.6.
A 2001 cut in tax on sales of shares let banks and insurance companies, which played big roles as lenders and part-owners, start disentangling themselves from companies.
Into the gaps, and onto the boards, has come a new generation of more active members.
Boards have little choice but to be sharper, says Christoph Schalast of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Many companies are now paying fines and settlements for their behaviour before the financial crisis.
A 2010 change in the law doubled the statute of limitations for such misdeeds to ten years.
Progress on making boards more international is slower.
Eight of the largest 30 public companies have foreign bosses, but the rest of their boards' members are predominantly German, even at the country's most multinational firms.
But Burkhard Schwenker, the boss of Roland Berger, a consulting firm, says that counting passports is simplistic: what matters more is international experience, which German firms increasingly look for when recruiting both management-and supervisory-board members.
If boards are becoming more professional and diverse, is accumulation of board seats a bad thing in itself?
Jrg Rocholl, the president of the European School for Management and Technology, says that studies disagree on whether busy board members are better or worse for profits.
But he agrees that boards are becoming more capable, and says this has been a factor in Germany's economic revival.
Pay for German board members is going up; but these days, members are earning it.
④ 經典的英文故事閱讀10篇
【 #能力訓練# 導語】英語是世界上通用的語言，而英語的學習是很枯燥的，想要學好英語不運枯妨先從閱讀英語故事開始。從英文故事中學習，提高英文水平。從故事中學習，學到人生的哲理。下面是 考 網分享的經典的英文故事閱讀10篇。歡迎閱讀參考！
1.經典的英文故事閱讀
Stolen Turkey
Ducking into confession with a turkey in his arms, Brian said, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I stole this turkey to feed my family. Would you take it and settle my guilt?"
布萊恩抱著一隻火雞，非常苦惱，他說：「原諒我，神父，我有罪。我偷來這只火雞給我家人吃。你能告慰我的罪嗎」
"Certainly not," said the Priest. "As penance, you must return it to the one from whom you stole it."
「當然不行，」神父說。「你必須把它還回去，這樣才能贖罪。」
"I tried," Brian sobbed, "but he refused. Oh, Father, what should I do?"
「我試過了。」布萊恩抽泣著，「但是他拒絕了。神父，我到底該怎麼辦呢?」
"If what you say is true, then it is all right for you to keep it for your family."
「如果你說的是真的，那你就留旁中洞著它吧。」
Thanking the Priest, Brian hurried off.
謝過了神父，布萊恩跑開了。
When confession was over, the Priest returned to his residence. When he walked into the kitchen, he found that someone had stolen his turkey.
告誡會結束後 ，神父回到住處。當他走到廚房的時候，他發現火雞不見了。
2.經典的英文故事閱讀
A waggoner was once driving a heavy load on a very muddy road.
一名車夫趕著貨車沿著一條非常泥濘的小路前行。
Suddenly the wheels of the wagon sank into the mire, and the horse could not pull them out.
突然，馬車的輪子陷入了泥潭，馬無法將它們拉出來。
The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules. 「Hercules, help me,please,「 he said.
車夫扔下鞭子，跪在地上，祈求大力神出現，「大力神啊，請來幫助我。」他說。
But Hercules appeared to him, and said, 「Man, don』t kneel there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.「
大力神出現了，卻說：「朋友，用你的肩膀把車輪扛起來，再驅趕馬拉車出來。跪在那裡祈求我有什麼用呢?」
3.經典的英文故事閱讀
培肆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 gave 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 e off best。 Sometimes the small ones win， you know。"
老鼠和公牛
有一次，公牛躺著打盹，一隻老鼠咬了他的尾巴。公牛怒氣沖沖地跳起來，低著頭追老鼠，一向追過院子。然而，老鼠跑得比他快多了，從容地鑽到牆洞里去了。
公牛一次又一次地猛撞牆壁，盡管頭撞腫了，角撞裂了，老鼠卻安然待在洞里。過了一會兒，公牛不撞了，倒下歇著。
公牛剛睡著，小老鼠就爬到洞口，嗒嗒地跑過院子，又咬了公牛一口??這回咬了鼻子??又跑回安全的地方去。當公牛毫無辦法地吼叫時，老鼠吱吱叫道：
"大人物並不總占上風。有時小人物也會取勝。"
4.經典的英文故事閱讀
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. Graally 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!
一位小男孩發現了一隻老鷹下的蛋，把它放進了一隻山雞的窩里。鷹被孵出來了，但他以為自己是一隻山雞。漸漸的他長大了，卻做著山雞所做的事---從泥土裡尋找食物，做短距離的飛翔，翅膀還啪啪作響。生活非常沉悶，漸漸地鷹長大了，也越來越苦惱。有一天，他和他的山雞朋友看見一隻美麗的鳥在天空翱翔，飛的比山還高。 「哦，我要能飛的那麼高該多好啊！」鷹說。山雞回答說，「不要想了，那是兇猛無比的鷹，鳥中---你不可能像他一樣！」於是鷹放棄了那個念頭。他繼續咯咯地叫，不停的抱怨生活。最後他死了，依然認為自己是一隻山雞。朋友們，你們天生就是雄鷹。造物主有意把你造就成一隻雄鷹，所以不要聽信山雞的話！
5.經典的英文故事閱讀
A papaya dropped into the lake from a tree, A rabbit who lived near the tree heard it,"I must run away,or I'll be in danger." thought the rabbit, and then he began to run fast. A fox saw him and asked:"Hey, Hey ,Rabbit, What's happened?" "goo-dong, that goo-dong there." He thought, it seems that goo-dong is a terrible thing. "I must run away too." A monkey saw them running. "what happened? Why are you running so fast?","Er, Er, here comes Goo-dong." the monkey didn't know what a goo-dong was. " I'd better run away." He thought and ran quickly with the rabbit and the fox. The bear was running, the deer was running too, and more and more animals began to run. The lion was surprised, "what happened, why are you running so fast?" "Goo-dong, that goo-dong there." But where was it ? The tiger shook his head，the deer said:"I don't know either." The bear said"I don't know." The monkey said"I don't know." At last, the lion asked the rabbit about it. "that goo-dong lives near me by the river."
一隻木瓜從樹上落到湖裡，住在這棵樹附近附近的一隻兔子聽到了這個聲音，「我必須趕快逃跑，不然我就會有危險。」兔子想，然後他開始快速跑走。一隻狐狸看見了它，問：「嘿，嘿，兔子，發生了什麼事？」 「咕咚，那裡有咕咚。」它認為，咕洞似乎是一件可怕的事情。「我也必須逃走。」 猴子看到它們。「發生了什麼事？你們為什麼跑那麼快？」 「呃，呃，咕咚來了。」 猴子不知道咕咚是什麼。「我也逃走。」 它邊想邊跟著兔子和狐狸跑起來了。熊在跑，鹿也在跑，越來越多的動物跟著一起跑。獅子感到很奇怪，「發生了什麼事？為什麼你們都跑那麼快？」 「咕咚，那裡有咕咚。」但是它在哪裡？老虎搖了搖頭，鹿說：「我也不知道。」 熊說：「我不知道。」 猴子說：「我不知道。」 最後，獅子問兔子。 「咕洞就在我住的地方鍍金的河裡。」
"well then take us there，we must have a look." Then they run after the rabbit to the lake. "Where is the goo-dong?" Just then a gale blew over,another ripe papaya dropped into the lake. "My god, goo-dong is just a papaya."
「好了，然後帶我們過去，我們必須去看看。」然後，他們跟著兔子來到湖邊。「咕洞在哪裡？」 就在這時，大風吹過，一隻熟透的木瓜落入湖中。「我的上帝，咕洞只是一隻木瓜。」
6.經典的英文故事閱讀
On the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: 「If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!」
In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of 「Ai Yo!」, fell heavily to the ground.
Seeing this, the snake said: 「Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can』t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.」
Lion said: 「I also can』t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.」
Tiger said, 「I can』t fly, but I can swim!」
Little Elephant』s father and mother said to him, 「We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird』s.」
Little Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.
小象生下來的第三天，跟媽媽來到小河邊，看見一隻小鳥在天空飛來飛去。小象想：「要是我也會飛，可以看到更多的東西，多好呀！」
小象爬到樹去學飛「哎喲」一聲，摔了一個大跟頭。
蛇看見了說:「小象，我們有自己的本事。我不會飛，可是，我會在樹上睡覺。」
獅子說:「我也不會飛，可是，我能跳過寬寬的大河。」
老虎說:「我不會飛，可是我會游泳！」
爸爸媽媽對小象說:「我們象的力氣大，這是小鳥不能比的。」小象明白了。他用長鼻子一鉤，大木頭就搬走了。
7.經典的英文故事閱讀
A spider and three
After the rain， a difficult spider to the wall has been fragmented network， e to damp walls， it must climb the height， it will fall， which one to climb， repeatedly falling and… No. a person to see， and he sighed to himself： "my life as this spider is not it? busy and no income." Thus， he increasingly depressed. See the second person， he said： this spider really stupid， why do not dry place from the next to climb up to look around? I'll be as stupid as it can not. Thus， he becomes wise up. See the third person， he immediately spiders keep the spirit of war touched. So he has become strong.
Tip： the mentality of those who are successful can be found everywhere the power of success.
一隻蜘蛛和三個人
雨後，一隻蜘蛛艱難地向牆上已經支離破碎的網爬去，由於牆壁潮濕，它爬到一定的高度，就會掉下來，它一次次地向上爬，一次次地又掉下來……第一個人看到了，他嘆了一口氣，自言自語：「我的一生不正如這只蜘蛛嗎?忙忙碌碌而無所得。」於是，他日漸消沉。第二個人看到了，他說：這只蜘蛛真愚蠢，為什麼不從旁邊乾燥的地方繞一下爬上去?我以後可不能像它那樣愚蠢。於是，他變得聰明起來。第三個人看到了，他立刻被蜘蛛屢敗屢戰的精神感動了。於是，他變得堅強起來。
8.經典的英文故事閱讀
Look at the Sky from the Bottom of a Well
There is a frog. He lives in a well and he never goes out of the well. He thinks the sky is as big as the mouth of the well.
有一隻青蛙住在井底，他從來沒有去過井外面。他以為天空就和井口一樣大。
One day a crow comes to the well. He sees the frog and says, 「Frog, let』s have a talk.」
一天， 一隻烏鴉飛到井邊，看見青蛙，就對它說：「青蛙，咱們聊聊吧。」
Then the frog asks, 「Where are you from?」
青蛙就問他：「你從哪裡來?」
「I fly from the sky,」 the crow says.
「我從天上上來。」烏鴉說。
The frog feels surprised and says, 「The sky is only as big as the mouth of the well. How do you fly from the sky?」
青蛙驚訝地說：「天空就只有這井口這么大，你怎麼會從天上來? 」
The crow says, 「The sky is very big. You always stay in the well, so you don』t know the world is big.」
烏鴉說：「天空很大。只不過你一直呆在井裡，所有不知道世界很大。」
The frog says, 「I don』t believe.」
青蛙說：「我不相信。」
But the crow says, 「You can come out and have a look by yourself.」
烏鴉說：「你可以出來，自己看看嘛。」
So the frog comes out from the well. He is very surprised. How big the world is!
於是青蛙來到井外。他十分驚訝，原來世界這么大!
9.經典的英文故事閱讀
It』s very hot.. An old man is asleep on the chair.
A fly comes and sits on the end of the man』s nose.
The old man has a naughty monkey.
He chases the fly. The fly comes back again and sits on the old man』s nose again.
The monkey chases it away again and again. This happens five or six times. The monkey is very angry.
He jumps up, runs to the garden and picks up a large stone.
When the fly sits on the old man』s nose again, the monkey hits it hard with the stone. He kills the fly and breaks the old man』s nose.
天氣很熱。一位老人在椅子上睡著了。
一隻蒼蠅飛來落在老人的鼻子上。
老人有一隻頑皮的猴子。
猴子在追打蒼蠅。 蒼蠅再次飛落在老人的鼻子上，猴子一再追打蒼蠅。 這樣往返了五六次，猴子很生氣。
他跳著跑到花園，撿起一塊大石頭。
當蒼蠅再次落在老人的鼻子上時，猴子用石頭擊中老人的鼻子上的蒼蠅。 他砸死了蒼蠅也打破了老人的鼻子。
10.經典的英文故事閱讀
One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear,
一天，一位老人正在賣一頭大象。一位年輕人來到大象跟前慢慢的觀察著。老人上前在年輕人耳邊輕語，
「Don』t say anything about the elephant before I sell it; then I will give you some meat.」
「在我把大象賣出去之前你一句話也不要說，那麼我會給你一些肉。」
「All right.」 says the young man.
「好的。」那位年輕人說。
After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man some meat and says, 「How can you see the bad ears of the elephant?」
老人賣出大象之後，他給了年輕人一些肉然後說，「你是怎麼看到大象的壞耳朵的?」
「I didn』t see the bad ears,」 says the young man.
「我沒有看到壞耳朵，」年輕人說。
「Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?」 asks the old man.
「那你為什麼要慢慢地看著大象?」老人問。
The young man answers, 「Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.」
年輕人回答：「因為我之前從沒見過大象，我想知道它長什麼樣子。」
⑤ 英文長篇美文3篇閱讀
語言學習與 文化 學習是交織在一起的，語言習得者要掌握好一門語言，尤其是第二語言，具備充足的文化背景知識是必不可少的。下面是我帶來的英文長篇美文閱讀，歡迎閱讀!
英文長篇美文閱讀篇一
Americans have any morals
Do Americans have any morals? That's a good question. Many people insist that ideas about right and wrong are merely personal opinions. Some voices, though, are calling Americans back to traditional moral values. William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Ecation, edited The Book of Virtues in 1993 to do just that. Bennett suggests that great moral stories can build character. The success of Bennett's book shows that many Americans still believe in moral values. But what are they?
美國人還有道德嗎?這是個好問題。許多人堅持對與錯乃是個人的意見。但是，還是有些人在呼喚美國人回到傳統的道德價值里去。威廉。班奈特，前任美國 教育 部長，正是為了此目的而在一九九三年編輯了「美德」這本書。班奈特認為偉大的道德 故事 可以建造性格。班奈持這本書的成功顯示了許多美國人仍然相信道德的價值。但是它們到底為何?
To begin with, moral values in America are like those in any culture. In fact, many aspects of morality are universal. But the stories and traditions that teach them are unique to each culture. Not only that, but culture influences how people show these virtues.
最開始，道德價值在美國就像在任何 其它 的文化一樣。事實上，許多道德的觀點是全球一致的。但是，不同的文化則有不同的故事和傳統來教導它們。不僅如此，文化也影響了人民如何表現這些美德。
One of the most basic moral values for Americans is honesty. The well-known legend about George Washington and the cherry tree teaches this value clearly. Little George cut down his father's favorite cherry tree while trying out his new hatchet. When his father asked him about it, George said, “I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my hatchet.” Instead of punishment, George received praise for telling the truth. Sometimes American honesty-being open and direct-can offend people. But Americans still believe that “honesty is the best policy.”
美國人最基本的道德價值之一是誠實。眾所周知的喬治。華盛頓砍櫻桃樹的故事，即將此道德教導地極為清楚。小喬治在試他新斧頭時砍倒了爸爸最心愛的櫻桃樹。當爸爸問他的時候，喬治說，「我不能說謊，我用我的斧頭砍了它。」喬治非但未被懲罰，反而因為誠實而被贊賞。有時候美國人仍然相信「誠實是最上策」
Another virtue Americans respect is perseverance. Remember Aesop's fable about the turtle and the rabbit that had a race? The rabbit thought he could win easily, so he took a nap. But the turtle finally won because he did not give up. Another story tells of a little train that had to climb a steep hill. The hill was so steep that the little train had a hard time trying to get over it. But the train just kept pulling, all the while saying, “I think I can, I think I can.” At last, the train was over the top of the hill. “I thought I could, I thought I could,” chugged the happy little train.
另外一個為美國人所尊崇的美德為堅忍。記得再龜兔賽跑這則伊索寓言嗎?兔子以為它可以贏的很輕松，便睡了個午覺，但是烏龜再最後終因不放棄而贏了這場比賽。另一個故事談到一個必須爬過陡峭山頭的小火車，山頭是這么陡，以至於小火車很難爬上去，但是它仍不斷地爬，並不停地說：「我想我能做到，我能做到。」最後，火車終於爬過了山頭，「我就知道我可以。」這個快樂的小火車繼續往前去。
Compassion may be the queen of American virtues. The story of “The Good Samaritan” from the Bible describes a man who showed compassion. On his way to a certain city, a Samaritan man found a poor traveler lying on the road. The traveler had been beaten and robbed. The kind Samaritan, instead of just passing by, stopped to help this person in need. Compassion can even turn into a positive cycle. In fall 1992, people in Iowa sent truckloads of water to help Floridians hit by a hurricane. The next summer, ring the Midwest flooding, Florida returned the favor. In less dramatic ways, millions of Americans are quietly passing along the kindnesses shown to them.
同情心，可能是美國的道德之最了。聖經中的「好撒瑪利亞人」的故事，描述一個流露同情心的人。在這個撒瑪利亞人出發去某城市的途中，看到一個可憐的旅客躺在路旁。這旅客被鞭打、搶劫，這位仁慈的撒瑪利亞人非但沒有視而不見，反而停下來幫助這位有需要的人。同情心還可以變成一個正面循環，在一九九二年的秋天，愛荷華州的居民將好幾輛卡車的水送到受颶風侵襲的佛羅里達州;而就在第二年夏天，當中西部鬧水災的時候，佛州人便投挑報李。數以百萬計的美國人民正用較不醒目的方式回報人們向他們表達的善意。
In no way can this brief description cover all the moral values honored by Americans. Courage, responsibility, loyalty, gratitude and many others could be discussed. In fact, Bennett's bestseller-over 800 pages-highlights just 10 virtues. Even Bennett admits that he has only scratched the surface. But no matter how long or short the list, moral values are invaluable. They are the foundation of American culture-and any culture.
在這么一篇短短的 文章 里，無論如何也不能將美國人所尊崇的道德述盡。勇氣、責任心、忠誠、感激之心還有許多其它可以討論的。事實上，班奈特最暢銷的書──超過八百頁──只談到了十種美德。即使班奈特也承認他只談到了皮毛而已。但是不論這張道德表是多長或短，道德價值都是無價的。他們是美國文化──和任何其它國家的文化之基礎