好的英语故事是学习英语者的首选工具，
如果你爱看韩剧，看过《我的名字叫金三顺》，或许你会记得一个片段：金三顺在公车站台读一首诗，还没读完，双眼就满含泪水。这首诗最先出自一位名叫 Alfred D'Souza 的神父之手。我们中的许多人未必爱看韩剧，未必看过《我的名字叫金三顺》，但看到这些句子、这样的生活态度或许也会被打动：
Love like you've never been hurt,Dance like nobody's watching,Sing like nobody's listening,Work like you don't need the money,Live like it's heaven on earth.
去爱吧，如同不曾受过伤害一样，跳舞吧，就像没有人注视你一样，唱歌吧，如同没有人聆听一样，工作吧，如同不需要金钱一样，活着吧，如同今天是末日一样。
For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But, there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished busines time still to be served or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
长期以来，我都觉得生活——真正的生活似乎就要开始了。但是，总会有一些障碍挡住去路，一些必须先完成的事情，一些未完成的工作，一些要付出的时间或一些要偿还的债务。之后，生活就会开始了。
At last it dawned on me that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
最后，我突然醒悟过来：通往幸福的道路并不存在，幸福本身就是通途。
So treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you share it with someone special, someone special enough to spend your time with. Make the most of your time. Don't waste too much of your time studying, working, or stressing about something that seems important. Do what you want to do to be happy but also do what you can to make the people you care about happy. Remember that time waits for no one. So stop waiting until you take your last test, until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you have the perfect body, the perfect car, or whatever other perfect things you desire.
因此，珍惜你所拥有的每一寸时光吧；当你和某位特别的、值得你与之共度时光的人在一起时，请加倍珍惜。将你的时间用得其所。不要浪费太多时间在学习、工作或烦心一些看似重要的事情上。做你想做的事以使自己快乐；同时做你力所能及的事以使自己关心的人快乐。记住，时不待人。因此，不要再等下去了——等到考完最后一科，等到完成学业，等到重回学校，等到你拥有完美的身体、完美的座驾、或其他你想要的完美之物。
Stop waiting until the weekend, when you can party or let loose, until summer, spring, fall or winter, until you find the right person and get married, until you die, until you're born again, to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.
不要再等下去了——等到周末，你可以宴请亲朋或是放松身心；等到夏天、春天、秋天或冬天，等到你找到合适的人结婚，等到你死去，等到你重生，才明白没有任何时候比此刻更应追求快乐的了。
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.So work like you don't need the money,Love like you have never been hurt,And dance like no one's watching.
幸福是一段旅程，不是一个终点。因此，工作吧，如同不需要金钱一样，去爱吧，如同不曾受过伤害一样，跳舞吧，就像没有人注视你一样。
小鸭子得救了
一只活泼可爱的小鸭子去游泳。可是，到了5261河4102边，他东瞧瞧，西望望，一不1653小心掉在一个又大又深的坑里。
他拼命地喊：“救命啊！救命啊。”小猴正好路过，听到喊声急忙跑过来说：“小鸭子，别着急，我想办法救你上来。”他拿来一根长竹竿伸进坑里，让小鸭子叼住。可竹竿太滑，小鸭子叼不住。小后边去叫小熊哥哥。
小熊哥哥赶紧提来一桶水，说“小鸭子，别着急，我把水倒进坑里，你就浮上来了。”说着，把水往坑里一倒。可坑里的图很松散，没等第二桶水提来，水早渗到地下了，小猴只好找大象伯伯。
大象伯伯跑来说：“不怕，我用鼻子卷你上来！”可是行不通，大象鼻子有点短。
这时，小猴子拍拍脑子说：“我们一倒水，小鸭子就可以浮上来了~”大家一起拿了水，泼向坑里，最后小鸭子浮了上来，得救了~!
小鸭子感谢了所有人，一起在欢乐的歌声与阳光下一起做游戏，一起回到了家。
翻译： Little duck was saved
A lively lovable duck swimming. But, by the river, he looked at east, west, carelessly fall in a big and deep pit.
He desperately to shout: ”help! Help!...“ Little monkey just passing by, heard shouts hurried said, ”little duck, don't worry, I tried to deliver you up.“ He took a long bamboo pole into a pit, let little duck live in. Bamboo is too slippery, can not duck diao. Little bear brother to call back.
Bear brother hurriedly to a bucket of water and said, ”little duck, don't worry, I poured water into a pit, you up.“ The water into a pit, a fall. But the figure is very loose pit, not to mention if two buckets of water, underground water into the early, little monkey had to find an elephant's uncle.
Elephants are not afraid to say: ”uncle, running nose with me you up!“ But a short nose, elephant work.
At that time, little monkey brains said: ”we clap a water, duck can float ~“ together, and took the waters to pit, finally duck bobbed up, saved ~!
Thanks for all the little ducks, together with the sunshine joyful songs play games together, to return home.
Kandata was floating and sinking along with the other sinners in the Lake of Blood at the bottom of Hell. It was pitch black no matter which way he looked, and the occasional glimpse of light that he would see in the darkness would turn out to be just the glint of the terrible Mountain of Needles. How lonely he must have felt! All about him was the silence of the grave, the only occasional sound being a faint sigh from one of the damned. Those who were so evil as to be sent to this place were tired by its various torments, and left without even the strength to cry out. Even the great thief Kandata could only squirm like a dying frog as he choked in the Lake of Blood.
这边厢犍陀多正和其他罪人，在地狱底层的血池里载沉载浮。不论朝哪儿望去，处处都是黑魆魆暗幽幽的，偶尔影影绰绰，暗中悬浮着什么，原来是阴森可怕的刀山剑树，让人看了胆战心惊。尤其是四周一片死寂，如在墓中。间或听到的，也仅是罪人恹恹的叹息声。凡落到这一步的人，都已受尽地狱的折磨，衰惫不堪，恐怕连哭出声的气力都没有了。所以，恁是大盗犍陀多，也像只濒死的青蛙，在血池里，惟有一面咽着血水，一面苦苦挣扎而已。
But one day, raising up his head and glancing at the sky above the lake, in the empty darkness Kandata saw a silver spider's thread being lowered from the ceiling so far, far away. The thread seemed almost afraid to be seen, emitting a frail, constant light as it came down to just above Kandata's head. Seeing this, Kandata couldn't help but clap his hands in joy. If he were to cling to this thread and climb up it, he may be able to climb out of Hell! Perhaps he could even climb all the way to Paradise! Then he would never be chased up the Mountain of Needles, nor drowned in the Lake of Blood again.
偶然间，犍陀多无心一抬头，向血池上空望去，在阒然无声的黑暗中，但见一缕银色的蛛丝，正从天而降。仿佛怕人看到似的，细细一线，微光闪烁，恰在自己头上笔直垂落下来。犍陀多一见，喜不自胜，拍手称快。倘抓住蜘蛛丝，攀援而上，准保能脱离苦海。不特此也，侥幸的话，兴许还能爬进极乐世界哩。如此，再不会驱之上刀山，也庶免沉沦血池之苦了。
Thinking so, he firmly grasped the spider's thread with both hands and began to climb the thread, higher and higher. Having once been a great thief, he was used to tasks such as this. But the distance between Hell and Paradise is tens of thousands of miles, and so it would seem that no amount of effort would make this an easy journey. After climbing for some time Kandata tired, and couldn't climb a bit higher. Having no other recourse, he hung there from the thread, resting, and while doing so looked down below.
这样一想，犍陀多赶紧伸出双手，死死攥住蛛丝，一把一把，拼命往上攀去。原本是大盗，手并足抵，区区小事一桩而已。可是，地狱与净土之间，何止千万里！不论犍陀多怎样心焦气躁，要想爬出地狱，真谈何容易。爬了一程，终于筋疲力尽，哪怕伸手往上再升一级，也难以为役了。一筹莫展之下，只好住手，先歇会儿喘口气，便吊在蛛丝上，悬在半空中，一面放眼向下望去。
He saw that he had made a good deal of progress. The Lake of Blood that he had been trapped in was now hidden in the dark below, and he had even climbed higher than the dimly glowing Mountain of Needles. If he could keep up this pace, perhaps he could escape from Hell after all. Kandata grasped the thread with both hands, and laughingly spoke in a voice that he hadn't used in the many years since he had come here, ”I've done it! I've done it!“
方才是不顾死活往上攀，总算没白费力气，片刻前自己还沉沦在内的血池，不知何时，竟已隐没在黑暗的地底。那寒光闪闪，令人毛骨悚然的刀山剑树，也已在自己脚下。如果一直这样往上爬，要逃出地狱，也许并非难事。犍陀多将两手绕在蛛丝上，开怀大笑起来：“这下好啦！我得救啦！”那吼声，自打落进地狱以来多年不曾得闻的。
Looking down, however, what did he see but an endless queue of sinners, intently following him up the thread like a line of ants! Seeing this, surprise and fear kept Kandata hanging there for a time with mouth open and eyes blinking like a fool. How could this slender spider's web, which should break even under just his weight, support the weight of all these other people? If the thread were to snap, all of his effort would be wasted and he would fall back into Hell with the others! That just would not do. But even as he thought these thoughts, hundreds more, thousands more of the damned came crawling up from the Lake of Blood, forming a line and scurrying up the thread. If he didn't do something fast, surely the thread would snap in the middle and he would fall back down.
可是，他留神一看，蛛丝的下端，有数不清的罪人，简直像一行蚂蚁，跟在自己后面，正一意在攀登上来。见此情景，犍陀多又惊又怕，有好一忽儿傻不愣登张着嘴，眨巴着眼睛。这样细细一根蜘蛛丝，负担自家一人尚且发发可危，那么多人的重量，怎禁受得住？万一半中间断掉，就连好家伙我，千辛万苦才爬到这里，岂不也要一头朝下，重新掉进地狱里去么？那一来，可乖乖不得了！这工夫，成百上千的罪人蠢蠢欲动，从黑洞洞的血池底下爬将上来，一字儿沿着发出一缕细光的蜘蛛丝，不暇少停，拼命向上爬。不趁早想办法，蛛丝就会一断二截，自己势必又该掉进地狱去了。
Kandata shouted out, ”Hey! You sinners! This thread is mine! Who said you could climb up it? Get off! Get off!“
于是，犍陀多暴喝一声：“嘿，你们这帮罪人，这根蛛丝可是咱家我的！谁让你们爬上来的？快滚下去！滚下去！”
Though the thread had been fine until just then, with these words it snapped with a twang right where Kandata held it. Poor Kandata fell headfirst through the air, spinning like a top, right down through the darkness. The severed end of the silver thread hung there, suspended from heaven, shining with its pale light in that moonless, starless sky.
说时迟，那时快，方才还好端端的蜘蛛丝，竟噗哧一声，从吊着犍陀多的地方突然断裂。这回有他好受的了。霎时间，犍陀多像个陀螺，滴溜溜翻滚着，唆地一头栽进黑暗的深渊。此时，惟有极乐净土的蜘蛛丝，依然细细的，闪着一缕银光，半短不长的，飘垂在没有星月的半空中。
The Buddha stood in Paradise at the edge of the lotus pond, silently watching these events. After Kandata sank like a stone to the bottom of the Lake of Blood, he continued his stroll with a sad face. He must have been surprised that even after such severe punishment Kandata's lack of compassion would lead him right back into Hell.
佛世尊伫立在宝莲池畔，始终凝视着事情的经过。当犍陀多倏忽之间便石头般沉入血池之底，世尊面露悲悯之色，又重新踱起步来。犍陀多只顾自己脱离苦海，毫无慈悲心肠，于是受到应得的报应，又落进原先的地狱。在世尊眼里，想必那作为是过于卑劣了。
Yet the lotus blossoms in the lotus ponds of Paradise care nothing about such matters. Their jewel-like white flowers waved about the feet of the Buddha, and each flower's golden center continuously filled the place with their indescribably wondrous fragrance. It was almost noon in Paradise.
不过，极乐莲池里的莲花，并不理会这等事。那晶白如玉的花朵，掀动着花萼在世尊足畔款摆，花心之中金蕊送香，其香胜妙殊绝，普薰十方。极乐世界大约已近正午时分。
关于经典英语故事带翻译
Plugging One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell 掩耳盗铃
Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal his neighbor’s doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bell would ring and catch the other people’s attention as long as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever “idea”。 He plugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole the bell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he was caught on the spot as a thief.
从前，有一个人想偷邻居门上的铃，但是他知道一碰到铃，铃就会响起来，被人发现。他想啊想，终于他想出一个“妙极”，他把自己的耳朵用东西塞起来，就听不见铃声了。但是当他去偷铃时，铃声仍旧响起来，他被别人当场抓住。
林书豪成名的背后
He is a Harvard graduate playing in the National Basketball Association. He is an Asian-American in a league devoid of them, which makes him doubly anomalous. No team drafted Lin in 20xx. Two teams cut him in December, before the Knicks picked him up.
他是NBA赛场上少有的名校哈佛毕业生，他是联盟里少见的亚裔美国人，这样双重特殊身份的林书豪，在20xx年NBA新秀大会上落选，20xx年12月先后被金州勇士队和休斯敦火箭队裁掉，之后纽约尼克斯队宣布签下他。
His contract, potentially worth nearly $800,000, was not even guaranteed until Tuesday afternoon. So for the past six weeks, Lin, 23, has been sleeping in his brother Josh’s living room, waiting for clarity and career security.
尼克斯与他签下的合同价值约为80万美元，也许在这之前他持有的是非保障合同，但到周二下午6点(球队裁员的截至日子)林书豪的的合同自动转为了保障合同，他将安全的留在尼克斯队。事实上在过去的6周里，23岁的林书豪因为不确定自己是否能够继续留在纽约，一直寄居在哥哥家当沙发客，等待职业生涯中保障合同的出现。
On Saturday night, Lin came off the bench and powered the Knicks to a 99-92 victory over the Nets at Madison Square Garden, scoring a career-best 25 points with 7 assists. Two nights later, he made his first N.B.A. start and produced 28 points and 8 assists in a 99-88 win over the Utah Jazz.
上周六的晚上，纽约尼克斯在麦迪逊广场花园主场迎战新泽西网队，板凳席上的林书豪临危受命，拿下了职业生涯的25分7助攻，帮助尼克斯99比92战胜网队。两天后，林书豪获得NBA的第一次首发机会，在对阵犹他爵士队的比赛中砍下28分8助攻。
Knicks fans now serenade Lin with chants of “Je-re-my!” and “M.V.P.!”。 With every game, every precision pass and every clever drive to the basket, Lin is raising expectations, altering the Knicks’ fate and redefining the word “unlikely.” On Twitter, fans and basketball pundits are using another term to describe the phenomenon: “Linsanity.”
麦迪逊广场花园的球迷们齐声欢呼“Jeremy”和“MVP”。每一场比赛，每一个精准的过人，每一次聪明的突破，林书豪给球迷们带来希望，改变了尼克斯队的命运，也再次重新定义了“不可能”。在推特上，球迷和篮球人士用Linsanity “为林疯狂” 这个标签来描述这种林书豪热现象(Linsanity：Lin+insanity)。
Two weeks ago, the 6-foot-3 Lin was not even part of the Knicks’ point-guard rotation, despite their lack of talent at the position. He played sparingly in a few games, showing just enough promise to keep getting another look— a few more minutes, another quarter. But there was never any hint of what was to come.
两周前，这个身高1米91的华裔小个子甚至根本不在尼克斯队的控球后卫轮转名单中，尽管尼克斯目前在控卫的位置缺乏优秀的人才。在此之前他只打过几场比赛，但他的表现足以让教练注意到他。慢慢地，他的上场时间在增加：多了几分钟，再打一节。林书豪的传奇成功不是无迹可寻的。
With 25 points Saturday, Lin set the N.B.A. scoring record for a player from Harvard. For an encore, he became the first player in more than 30 years to record at least 28 points and 8 assists in his first N.B.A. start. The last to do so was Isiah Thomas, the Detroit Pistons’ Hall of Fame point guard, in October 1981.
在周六砍下25分的一球成名战后，林书豪也创下了NBA赛场上哈佛毕业生的得分记录。第二场比赛中，他再次创下记录，成为NBA赛场30多年里首发首秀拿到28分8助攻的第一人。上次拿到这个得分的是在1981年10月，底特律活塞队伊塞亚·托马斯(NBA名人堂球员)。
“I don’t think anyone, including myself, saw this coming,” Lin said after the game Monday.
林书豪在周一比赛后表示，“我相信任何人包括我自己在内，都没有预想到这样的成绩”。
孤岛上的故事
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island.
在一场船难中，的生存者随着潮水，漂流到一座无人岛上。
He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him,
他天天激动地祈祷神救他能够早日离开此处，回到家乡。
and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
他还每天注视着海上有否可搭救他的人，但却是除了汪洋一片，什么也没有。
Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions.
后来，他决定用那片带他到小岛的木头造一个简陋的小木屋，以保护他在这险恶的环境中生存，并且保存他所有剩下的东西。
But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky.
但有一天，在他捕完食物后，准备回小屋时，突然发现他的小屋竟然陷在熊熊烈火之中， 大火引起的浓烟不断向天上窜。
The worst had happened; everything was lost.
最悲惨的是：他所有的一切东西，在这一瞬间通通化为乌有了。
He was stunned with grief and anger. “God how could you do this to me!” he cried.
悲痛的他，气愤的对天吶喊着：神啊！你怎么可以这样对待我！顿时，眼泪从他的眼角中流出。
Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island.
第二天一早，他被一艘正靠近小岛的船只的鸣笛声所吵醒。
It had come to rescue him.
是的，有人来救他了。
“How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.
到了船上时，他问那些船员说：「你怎么知道我在这里？」
It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad.
「因为我们看到了信号般的浓烟。」他们回答说。 人在碰到困难时，很容易会沮丧。
But we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering.
不过无论受到折磨或者痛苦，都不用因此失去信心，因为上帝一直在我们心里面做着奇妙的工作。
Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground it just may be a smoke signal that summons the grace of God.
记住：当下一次你的小木屋着火时，那可能只是上帝美妙恩典的表征而已。
For all the negative things we have to say to ourselves,God has a positive answer for it.
在所有我们所认为负面的事情，上帝都是有正面答案的。
But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, 1splinters slicing all the way through the glove. He too small for that kind a work, too skinny, but he needed the job. He was tired. It was raining. He slip off the loading dock, fell down on the drive. Tractor trailer didn't see him and crushed his lungs fore he could move. By the time I found out, he was dead.
一天晚上，他在斯坎伦-泰勒轧机厂干到很晚，拖着的木料往货车上装，木刺划破手套，扎得满手都是。他太瘦，个头又小，干不了那重活儿，可他需要那份工作。他累得支撑不住，天又下雨，他滑倒了，从装卸月台上摔下来，一头栽进车道。拖车司机没瞧见他，他还没来得及挪身，车就从他身上碾过去了。等我找到他的时候，他已经断气了。
That was the day my whole world went black. Air look black, sun look black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls a my house. Minny came ever day to make sure I was still breathing, feed me food to keep me living. Took three months fore I even look out the window, see the world still there. I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
从那天起，我整个世界都黑了。空气是黑的，太阳是黑的。我躺在床上直愣愣地盯着屋里黑的墙壁。明尼每天都来看我，以确保我还有气息，她喂我进食，让我残喘地活下去。整整三个月后，我才抬眼看窗户外头，看外头的世界是否照旧。我惶惑地发现整个世界竟然没有因为我儿子的死停下半分。
Five months after the funeral, I lifted myself up out a bed. I put on my white uniform and put my little gold cross back around my neck and I went to wait on Miss Leefolt cause she just have her baby girl. But it weren't too long before I seen something in me had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside a me. And I just didn't feel so accepting anymore.
葬礼之后又过了五个月，我起身下床。我穿上白色制服，又把小小的金十字架戴回脖子上，随后前去服侍李弗特小姐，她刚生下个女娃。但没过多久我便发现我的心已不复从前。苦涩的种子在我体内悄然埋下，我不再那么容易敞开胸怀了。
“GET THE HOUSE straightened up and then go on and fix some of that chicken salad now,” say Miss Leefolt.
“把屋子规整规整，再去把鸡肉沙拉准备好。”李弗特太太呼喝着。
It's bridge club day. Every fourth Wednesday a the month. A course I already got everthing ready to go—made the chicken salad this morning, ironed the tablecloths yesterday. Miss Leefolt seen me at it too. She ain't but twenty-three years old and she like hearing herself tell me what to do.
每个月的第四个礼拜三是她们的桥牌聚会日。我已经将里里外外拾掇停当——一大早做好了鸡肉沙拉，桌布也在昨天熨烫平整。李弗特太太亲眼瞧着我做完这些。她不过才二十三岁，却很喜欢对我指手画脚，差使我做这干那。
She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.
她已经把我今早熨好的蓝裙子穿上了，那条在腰上密匝匝打了六十五个小褶的裙子，我得戴起眼镜眯上眼才能把那些绿豆大的褶给烫准了。我对家常日子没啥抱怨的，可我和那条裙子实在处不到一块儿去。
“And you make sure Mae Mobley's not coming in on us, now. I tell you, I am so burned up at her—tore up my good stationery into five thousand pieces and I've got fifteen thank-you notes for the Junior League to do…”
“还有，你要管住梅·莫布利，别让她来烦我们。我告诉你吧，她可是把我惹火了，她把我好端端的信纸撕个粉碎，我可还有十五封青年联盟会的感谢信要写呐……”
I arrange the-this and the-that for her lady friends. Set out the good crystal, put the silver service out. Miss Leefolt don't put up no dinky card table like the other ladies do. We sat at the dining room table. Put a cloth on top to cover the big L-shaped crack, move that red flower centerpiece to the sideboard to hide where the wood all scratched. Miss Leefolt, she like it fancy when she do a luncheon. Maybe she trying to make up for her house being small. They ain't rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don't try so hard.
我还在忙着为她的那些太太小姐们准备这个支应那个。我搬出花哨的玻璃杯盏，摆上银质刀叉。李弗特太太没能像其他阔太太那样添置上一张小巧精致的牌桌，我们只得坐在餐桌前打牌。我们在桌上铺上桌布遮住L型的裂隙，又把红色镂花桌饰挪到橱柜那儿，好挡住坑坑洼洼剥落掉渣的木柜。李弗特太太大概想弥补屋子狭小的不足，着意把餐会拾掇得富贵体面。我知道他们不太富裕，富庶人家可不会这么费劲。
I'm used to working for young couples, but I spec this is the smallest house I ever worked in. It's just the one story. Her and Mister Leefolt's room in the back be a fair size, but Baby Girl's room be tiny. The dining room and the regular living room kind a join up. Only two bathrooms, which is a relief cause I worked in houses where they was five or six. Take a whole day just to clean toilets. Miss Leefolt don't pay but ninety-five cents an hour, less than I been paid in years. But after Treelore died, I took what I could. Landlord wasn't gonna wait much longer. And even though it's small, Miss Leefolt done the house up nice as she can. She pretty good with the sewing machine. Anything she can't buy new of, she just get her some blue material and sew it a cover.
我过去常帮年轻夫妇操持家务，可我揣度着这家是我见过门户最小的人家。整套房子上下不过一层，她和李弗特先生的后屋尚且宽敞，可是梅的房间小得立不住脚。餐厅连着起居室混作一处。他们只有两个卫生间，这倒为我省下不少事，我从前碰上的人家通常都有五六间，光为他们清理厕所就得花上我整整一天。李弗特太太每个钟点只付我九十五美分，我早不止这个价了，但打崔劳死后，我也顾不上挑肥拣瘦，我已经拖欠不起房租了。尽管屋子小得转不开身，可李弗特太太还是费心尽力把它装点得光鲜体面。她很擅长缝连补缀，一旦买不起新家什，她便扯些蓝布头，自裁自缝出个布套子把旧家什装扮上。
我妻子独自在家时，总是不想让别人知道家里没有其他的人。
一天晚上，我工作到很晚。我妻子听到有人敲门，她就没理，但敲门的声音总是不停，慌乱之中，她开始学狗叫。一开始她低声地叫，随后她的叫声越来越大。敲门声很快地停了，她这才松了口气。
第二天，送报的小孩来我家收钱，那小孩告诉我：“我昨晚上就来了，你老婆老冲我学狗叫，我就走了
My wife will go to any extreme to keep people from,knowing she is home alone.
One evening when I was working late，my wife heard a knock on the door. She ignosed it,but the knocing continued. Frantic，sloe began to bark,softly at first，then louder and louder. Much to her relief,the knocking soon stopped.
The next day the paper boy came to the door to collect.”I came by last night,“he told me,”but I left when your wife barked at me!“
聪明的熊猫
A little panda picks up a pumpkin and wants to take it home. but the pumpkin is too big. The panda can’t take it home. Suddenly she sees a bear riding a bike to ward her. she watches the bike. “ i know! I have a good idea.”She jumps and shouts happily, “i can roll a pumpkin. It like a wheel.”
So she rolls the pumpkin to her home. When her mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised,“oh, my god! How can you carry it home?”The little panda answers proudly,“I can ‘t lift it ,but I can roll it.”Her mother smiled and says，“ what a clever girl !Use you heard to do something,”
一只小熊猫摘了一只大南瓜，想把它拿回家。但是这只南瓜太大了，她没有办法把这么大的南瓜带回家。
突然她看见一只狗熊骑着一辆自行车朝她这边来。她看着自行车，跳着说：“有了！我有办法了。我可以把南瓜滚回家去。南瓜好像车轮。
于是她把那瓜滚回家。当她妈妈看到这只大南瓜的时候，很惊讶：“天啊！这么食的南瓜！你是怎么把它带回家来的？”小熊猫自豪地说；“我拎不动它，可是我能滚动它啊！”她妈妈微笑着说：“真聪明啊！记住：只要你肯动脑筋，没有难办的事”。
One day, the Buddha was strolling alone along the edge of a lotus pond in Paradise. The blooming lotus flowers in the pond were each pure white like jewels, and the place was filled with the indescribably wondrous fragrance continually emitted from each flower's golden center. It was just morning in Paradise.
一天，佛世尊独自在极乐净土的宝莲池畔闲步。池中莲花盛开，朵朵都晶白如玉。花心之中金蕊送香，其香胜妙殊绝，普薰十方。极乐世界大约时当清晨。
After a time, the Buddha paused at the edge of the pond and from between the lotus leaves that covered it saw a glimpse of the state of things below. Now this celestial pond just happened to lie directly over Hell, and peering through that crystal-clear water was like looking through a magnifying glass at the River of Death and the Mountain of Needles and such.
俄顷，世尊伫立池畔，从覆盖水面的莲叶间，偶见池下的情景。极乐莲池之下，正是十八地狱的最底层。透过澄清晶莹的池水，宛如戴上透视镜一般，把三恶道上之冥河与刀山剑树的诸般景象，尽收眼底。
The Buddha saw there, in the depths of Hell, a single man writhing along with the other sinners. This man was named Kandata, and he had been a notorious thief who had performed murder and arson and other acts of evil. In his past, however, he had performed just one good deed: one day, when walking through the deep forest, he saw a spider crawling along the road. At first he raised his foot to crush it, but suddenly he changed his mind and stopped, saying, ”No, small though it may be, a spider, too, has life. It would be a pity to meaninglessly end it,“ and so did not kill it.
这时，一名叫犍陀多的男子，同其他罪人在地狱底层挣扎的情景，映入世尊的慧眼。世尊记得，这犍陀多虽是个杀人放火、无恶不作的大盗，倒也有过一项善举。话说大盗犍陀多有一回走在密林中，见到路旁爬行一只小蜘蛛，抬起脚来，便要将蜘蛛踩死。忽转念一想：“不可，不可，蜘蛛虽小，到底也是一条性命。随便害死，无论如何，总怪可怜的。”犍陀多终究没踩下去，放了蜘蛛一条生路。
Looking down upon the captives in Hell the Buddha recalled this kind act that Kandata had performed, and thought to use his good deed as a way to save him from his fate. Looking aside, there on a jade-colored lotus leaf he saw a single spider, spinning out a web of silver thread. The Buddha carefully took the spider's thread into his hand, and lowered it straight down between the jewel-like white lotuses into the depths of Hell.
世尊看着地狱中的景象，想起犍陀多放蜘蛛生路这件善举。虽然微末如斯，世尊亦拟施以善报，尽量把他救出地狱。侧头一望，说来也巧，净土里有只蜘蛛，正在翠绿的莲叶上，攀牵美丽的银丝。世尊轻轻取来一缕蛛丝，从莹洁如玉的白莲间，径直垂向香渺幽邃的地狱底层。
男孩和荨麻
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.
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。
"我不过轻轻地碰了它一下，"他说，"那讨厌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。"
要敢于面对危险。