有哲理的英语小故事

有哲理的英语小故事

　　篇一：有哲理的英文小故事——人生的大石头

　　One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget.

　　一天，时间管理专家为一群学生讲课。他现场做了演示，给学生们留下了一生都难以磨灭的印象。

　　As he stood in front of the group of overachievers he said, "OK, time for a quiz." He pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouth jar and set it on the table in front of him. He also produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?"

　　站在那些高智商高学历的学生前面，他说：“我们来做个小测验”，拿出一个一加仑的广口瓶放在他面前的桌上。随后，他取出一堆拳头大小的石块，仔细地一块放进玻璃瓶。直到石块高出瓶口，再也放不下了，他问道：“瓶子满了？”

　　Everyone in the class yelled, "Yes." The time management expert replied, "Really?" He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. He dumped some gravel in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the group once more, "Is this jar full?"

　　所有学生应道：“满了！”。时间管理专家反问：“真的？”他伸手从桌下拿出一桶砾石，倒了一些进去，并敲击玻璃瓶壁使砾石填满下面石块的间隙。“现在瓶子满了吗？”他第二次问道。

　　By this time the class was on to him. "Probably not," one of them answered. "Good!" he replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full?"

　　但这一次学生有些明白了，“可能还没有”，一位学生应道。“很好！”专家说。他伸手从桌下拿出一桶沙子，开始慢慢倒进玻璃瓶。沙子填满了石块和砾石的所有间隙。他又一次问学生：“瓶子满了吗？”

　　"No!" the class shouted. Once again he said, "Good." Then he grabbed a pitcher of water

　　and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" One eager student raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!"

　　“没满！”学生们大声说。他再一次说：“很好！”然后他拿过一壶水倒进玻璃瓶直到水面与瓶口平。抬头看着学生，问道：“这个例子说明什么？”一个心急的学生举手发言：“无论你的时间多少，如果你确实努力，你可以做更多的事情！”

　　"No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is if you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. What are the 'big rocks' in your life? Time with your loved ones, your education, your dreams, a worthy cause, teaching or mentoring others? Remember to put these big rocks in first or you'll never get them in at all."

　　“不！”时间管理专家说，“那不是它真正的意思，这个例子告诉我们：如果你不是先放大石块，那你就再也不能把它放进瓶子了。那么，什么是你生命中的大石头呢？也许是你的道德感、你的梦想？还有你的---切切记得先去处理这些大石块，否则，一辈子你都不能做！”

　　我们可曾问过自己这个问题：人一生的“大石头”是什么？找出自己人生的“大石头”，然后把它们先放进我们人生的瓶子中！

　　篇二：有哲理的英文小故事——没有左手的人

　　Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take, for example, the story of one girl who decided to study judo[柔道] despite the fact that she had lost her left arm in a car accident.

　　有的时候，你的软弱之处反而拥有强大的力量。比如我们下面要讲的这个故事：一位在车祸中丧失了左臂的小女孩，决定去学习柔道。

　　The girl began lessons with an old Japanese judo instructor. The girl was doing well. So she couldn't understand why, after three months of training, the instructor had taught her only one move.

　　小女孩向一位年长的日本老师学校柔道。小女孩学习进展不错，而三个月过去了，老师却只是重复的教授她一个动作，这使得她很迷惑不解。

　　"Instructor," the girl finally said, "Shouldn't I be learning more moves?"

　　“老师，”女孩终于忍不住问，“能不能再多教我一些动作？”

　　"This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you'll ever need to know," the instructor replied.

　　老师回答说：“你只要把这个动作学好就可以了。”

　　Not quite understanding, but believing in her teacher, the girl kept training.

　　尽管女孩并不明白老师的用意，不过她相信老师的话，继续努力练习

　　Several months later, the instructor took the girl to her first tournament[比赛]. Surprising herself, the girl easily won her first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, her opponent became impatient and charged. The girl deftly[巧妙的] used her one move to win the match. Still amazed by her success, the girl was now in the finals.

　　几个月过去了，老师决定带她去参加一次竞赛。令女孩惊讶的是，她轻松地击败了头两个对手。第三个对手虽然比较强悍，但一番苦战后，对手就开始心浮气躁。女孩巧妙的使用她唯一的一招赢得了比赛。女孩自己虽感到不可思议，但她却一步步进入的决赛。

　　This time, her opponent was bigger, stronger and more experienced. For a while, the girl appeared to be overmatched. Concerned that the girl might get hurt, the referee[裁判] called a time-out. She was about to stop the match when the instructor intervened.

　　这一次，她的对手更高大强壮，而且经验丰富。女孩在一些时候甚至显露出败相，由于害怕女孩受伤，裁判宣布暂停比赛。正当她准备下场时，教练却制止了她。

　　"No," the instructor insisted, "Let her continue."

　　“让她继续比赛。”教练坚持道。

　　Soon after the match resumed, her opponent made a critical mistake: she dropped her guard. Instantly, the girl used her move to pin her opponent. The girl had won the match and the tournament. She was the champion.

　　比赛恢复后，她的对手犯了一个严重的错误：她放松了自己的防卫。女孩立即用她那一招钉死了对手。女孩终于赢得了这场比赛，也成为了这次竞赛的冠军。

　　On the way home, the girl and her teacher reviewed every move in each and every match. Then the girl summoned the courage to ask what was really on her mind.

　　回家的路上，女孩和老师回顾了比赛的每个环节，女孩鼓起勇气问老师一个困惑已久的问题。

　　"Instructor, how did I win the tournament with only one move?"

　　“教练，为什么我用一个招式就赢得了这场比赛？”

　　"You won for two reasons," the teacher answered. "First, you've almost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. Second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."

　　老师回答她说：“有两个原因：一、我教你的招式是柔道中最难的一个动作，而你把它掌握的很精通；二、对手想要破解这个招式只有一个动作，就是抓住你的左手。”

　　The girl's biggest weakness had become her biggest strength.

　　这个女孩最软弱的地方，竟然成了她致胜的关键所在。

　　我们每个人都有软弱的地方，但上天总在我们的软弱上，给我们以意想不到的力量。只要善于利用命运给我们的一切，我们也能像这个女孩一般，在自己的软弱上，得到上天的另一种祝福。

　　篇三：20个英文哲理小故事

　　英语哲理小故事

　　(1)

　　One day, the lion king announced that he was going to get married, and he invited all the animals to attend the wedding ceremony. So the tortoise thought, “I am an animal. I shall attend it as well.” Then he set out on the journey.

　　On his way, he met other animals. They were stunned for a few seconds and then began to laugh at the tortoise, saying, “How silly you are! The ceremony is starting. Can you make it as you walk so lowly? I’m afraid you still can’t be there after the baby lion king is born, or grow up or even after he gets married.” But the tortoise had made his mind to go.

　　Many years passed, and he finally got to the entrance of the lion king’s cave. No wonder that the lion king’s wedding had already been finished a long time ago. However, the tortoise found that the cave was so well- decorated and all varieties of animals were there. They told the tortoise, “Today, the son of the old lion king is going to get married.”

　　How could the tortoise attend the little lion king’s wedding party if he had stopped half- way?

　　(2)

　　After a heavy rain, a spider was climbing hard towards his broken net on the wall. Because the wall was too wet, the spider fell down after reaching a certain height. But he continuously climbed up and fell down again and again.

　　The first man saw it, sighed heavily and said to himself, “My life is just like that spider’s; busy all the time but getting nothing?” He became increasingly depressed.

　　The second man saw it and said, “What a stupid spider. Why doesn’t it make a detour to a drier place? I’d never be that stupid.” So he became smarter.

　　The third man saw it. He was quite moved by the spider’s perseverance and said to himself, “I won’t let a little spider be stronger and more persistent than me. I’ll learn from his example and become stronger,” and he did.

　　(3)

　　There was a young flower in the desert where all was dry and sad looking. It was growing by itself, enjoying every day and saying to the sun, “When shall I be grown up?” And the sun would say, “Be patient! Each time I touch you, and you will grow a little.” She was so pleased because she would have a chance to bring beauty to this corner of sand. And this is all she wanted to do ---- bring a little bit of beauty to this world.

　　But one day a hunter came by and stepped on the flower. She was going to

　　die and she felt so sad. Not because she was dying, but because she would never have a chance to bring a little bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.

　　The Great Spirit saw her, thinking that she should be living. So he reached down and touched her---- and gave her a second life.

　　Finally she grew up to be a beautiful flower. And this corner of the desert also became so beautiful because of the small flower.

　　(4)

　　Soon after her little brother was born, Sachi began to ask her parents to leave her alone with the new baby. They worried that like most four-year-olds, she might feel jealous and want to hurt (hit or shake) him, so they said no. But she tried every effort to show she wouldn’t hurt him. (But they found her have no sign of jealousy.) She treated the baby with kindness, and her pleas to be left alone with him became more urgent. After a long time of observation, her parents finally allowed it.

　　Elated, she went into the baby’s room and shut the door, but it opened a crack---- enough for her curious parents to peek in and listen. They saw little Sachi walk quietly up to her baby brother, put her face close to his and say quietly, “Baby, tell me what God feels like. I’m starting to forget.”

　　(5)

　　There are three brothers who all have doctor degrees and work for NASA. One day after finishing dinner in their mother’s home, again they started discussing the project of landing on the moon and establishing the space station.

　　One of the daughters-in-law washing dishes in the kitchen complained, “They three discuss those unimaginable things all the time, which makes us foolish compared with them.”

　　But the mother said, “I used to think that I was foolish. However, I changed my mind remembering that they three spent the whole afternoon fixing all the screen windows around the house last autumn.”

　　(6)

　　A customer having lunch in a restaurant asked a waiter, “What will be the weather like tomorrow?”

　　The waiter answered full of certainty, “It will be the weather I like.”

　　Puzzled, the customer asked, “How can you know it will be the weather you like?”

　　The waiter said, “I find that the surroundings can not always go with my mind. So I learn to face everything that I encounter joyfully. Then the weather tomorrow must be the one that I enjoy.”

　　(7)

　　Three criminals were sentenced to stay in prison for three years. The warden agreed to satisfy each a request.

　　The American liked to smoke cigars so he asked for three cases of cigars.

　　The Frenchman was the most romantic among them all. He wanted a beautiful lady for companion.

　　The Jewish, however, would like to have a phone connecting the outside society.

　　Three years later, the first man rushing out of the prison was the American, with his nostrils full of cigars, shouting, “Give me fire! Give me fire!” He turned out to forget to ask for fire.

　　Then there came the Frenchman. He was seen to hold a child in his arms. The beautiful lady was followed by one child, too, perceiving the third one.

　　The last coming one was the Jewish. He held the warden’s hand tightly and said, “Thanks to the telephone. I have been keeping contact with the outside society these three years. My business didn’t stop, but has increased by 200%. So I’ll send you a Rolls-Royce as a gift to show my thankfulness.”

　　(8) The Fox and the Crow

　　One day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and felt very happy with the meat in his mouth. At that time, a fox saw the crow with the meat, so he swallowed and eagerly thought of a plan to get the meat. However, whatever the fox said to the crow, the crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought highly of the crow’s beautiful voice, the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to sing. As soon as the meat fell down to the ground, the fox took the meat and went into his hole.

　　(9)

　　There was a little mouse staying at home all day. It dared not to go out, even at night. “The cat is such a terrible animal. He’ll eat me.” it always said, with a shudder of horror.

　　God sympathized with the little mouse very much, so he turned it into a cat. But the cat which was previously a mouse turned out to be afraid of dogs. “Dogs always appear fiendish. What can I do if I happen to encounter him?” So God turned it into a dog. But it then began to be scared of tigers. And trying his best, God turned it into a tiger.

　　To his surprise, again the tiger said with its legs shaking, “The hunter’s gun can kill me at any time.”

　　At last, God was so angry that he turned it back to a mouse. He said, “You’re

　　a mouse after all. Even if I turned you into a hunter, you would be in fear of mice. I can not help you because you only have a mouse’s gut.”

　　(10) Suffering Is a Part of Life

　　----By Kimberly Kirberger One of the most difficult things to accept about life is the fact that suffering is a part of it. People die, get sick, hurt each other and hurt themselves. One of the most important lessons I have learned is that it is very important to accept the bad with the good, the light with the dark and the pain with the joy. I have learned that without pain I wouldn’t know joy. I have learned that because of things like illness and death it is that much more important to love and live life to the fullest. Great lessons are learned from terrible tragedies, tremendous growth takes place when we are pushed to our very limits, and although I don’t necessarily like the “tough stuff” I am learning to live with it.

　　(11)

　　A varying hare named Clara and his family lived in the northern part of America where was snowy most of the time and was lack of food.

　　Clara didn’t want to live this kind of life any more. So although his relatives urged him to stay, he resolutely set off for immigration

　　After months of trek, the open grassland which grew all kinds of grass finally appeared right before Clara. This definitely excited Clara. But right at that time, Clara suddenly felt something wrong. He looked up alertly but only found a shadow diving sharply toward him. “An eagle!” Clara shouted out. But it was too late to escape. Clara was licked up by the eagle.

　　Actually, eagles are born to be the enemy of varying hares. But in the northern area, varying hares’ fur is the same color with the snow surrounded. The eagles can’t find the hares despite of their sharp eyes. However, white Clara was so outstanding in the green grassland.

　　Every one has his own advantages. But these advantages are not implicit. Sometimes they may turn to disadvantages.

　　(12)

　　A college graduate was new in job and he found something really strange. One of his colleagues was a chair warmer. Most of the time, he would play his digital camera, receive and send his private e-mails or listen to the music. And more strangely, the boss never blamed him.

　　The graduate was quite curious. How come his colleague could laze away while the competition nowadays was so fierce? May he be the boss’s relative?

　　One day, his colleague was listening to the music leisurely while the boss

　　suddenly came and said seriously, “The host computer in the company has something wrong.”

　　The colleague jumped up right off and rushed to the controlling centre. All the managers were there, waiting anxiously, and knew nothing to do.

　　The colleague tested the machines and began to fix it silently. Twenty minutes later, the host computer reworked normally. Thanks to his good judging and instant handling, the company saved hundreds of millions of dollars.

　　Then the graduate realized that the boss was not stupid to raise a lazy man. The economic loss that his colleague had saved this time must have been hundreds times of his salary.

　　(13)

　　On June 11, a country girl working in Shenzhen named Liu Wenxiu was shopping while she saw a man with a knife in his hand was trying to commit a suicide on the pedestrian overcrossing. Liu found the man’s emotion was turning more and more instable, so she wanted to save him. At that time, the police didn’t allow anyone to come close, but Liu claimed that she was the man’s girlfriend so that the police let her get close to the man. On the overcrossing, Liu got to know that the man was only 16 years old. His mother passed away while he was young and his father married to another woman who treated him badly and robbed him blind. Liu said she used to have the same desperate feeling. She hoped the man could come through the difficulties

　　The man gained Liu’s understanding and burst into tears. Liu kiss the man in the end. Just in the second, the firemen rushed to pull the man back from the railing and saved his life.

　　Liu said, “I think that if we want to communicate with someone, we need to understand him first, think in his position. He was so sad then that I also cried.” Later, people said the 19-year-old girl gave the man “the angel’s kiss”.

　　(14)

　　A student from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University named Chen Wenyuan is working in the school canteen. Recently he is famous for his high speed of dishes receiving. A video on the Internet showed that he could collect three dishes one by one in one second and he collected nearly 20,000 dishes in two hours at noon. People commented that it was easy to do easy things but hard to do them excellently. Although Chen is from a poor family but he has the good qualities which a modern university student needs anxiously, such as self-reliance, self-esteem and perseverance. Chen told us that even the most ordinary things also needed to be done passionately.

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