英语哲理小故事带翻译
篇一：富有哲理的英文小故事
富有哲理的英文小故事
The House of 1000 Mirrors
Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself,“This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.”
In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to
himself,“That is a horrible place, and I will never go back
there again.”
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kinds of
reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?
/ v. 跳跃?????bounce /
/ n. 门口???????doorway /
/ v.???wag / 摇摆
/ v. 咆哮?????growl /
/ v. 恐吓????????horrify /
/?????????reflection / n. 反射
参考译文 千镜之屋
很久以前的一个很远的小村庄里，有一个以“千镜屋”而著名的地方。一只乐观的小狗听说了这个地方并决定去参观。当来到这个地方，他蹦蹦跳跳地上了台阶，来到房门口，高高地竖起耳朵，欢快地摇着尾巴，从门口往里张望，他惊奇地看到有1000只欢乐的小狗像他一样快地摇尾巴。他灿烂地微笑着，回报他的是1000张热情，友好的灿烂笑脸。离开时他心想：“这是一个精彩的地方，我一定要经常来参观。”
在这个村里还有另一只想参观“千镜屋”的小狗，他不及第一只小狗乐观，他慢吞吞地爬上台阶，然后耷拉着脑袋往屋子里看。一看到有1000只小狗不友好地盯着他，他便开始冲他们狂吠，镜中的1000只
小狗也冲着他狂吠，把他给吓坏了，他在离开时心想：“这是一个恐怖的地方，我再也不会来了。”
世界上所有的脸都是镜子，在你所遇见的人的脸上你看到反射出来的是什么?
An angel wrote: 一位天使这样说
Many people will walk in and out of your life, 许多朋友进出你的生命，
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.但是只有真正的朋友会在你的心中留下脚印。
To handle yourself, use your head; 要操控自己，用你的头﹔ To handle others, use your heart. 要指挥别人，用你的心。 Anger is only one letter short of danger. 生气和危险只有一字之隔。
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; 如果别人背叛你一次，那是他的错﹔
If he betrarys you twice, it's your fault. 如果他背叛你二次，那是你的错。
Great minds discuss ideas; 心胸远大的人谈理想﹔
Average minds discuss events; 一般的人批评事情﹔ Small minds discuss people. 心胸狭小的人道人长短。 God gives every bird it's food, 上帝给每只小鸟她的食物， But He does not throw it into it's nest. 但是他不会把食物丢到她的巢
He who loses money, loses much; 失去金钱的人，失去很多﹔ He who loses a friend, loses more; 失去朋友的人，失去更多﹔
He who loses faith, loses all. 失去信心的人，失去所有。
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, 美丽的年轻人是天然形成，
But beautiful old people are works of art. 美丽的老年人才是艺术作品。
Learn from the mistakes of others. 从别人所患的错误中学习。
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. 你不能活得那么长足以经历这一切。
The tongue weights practically nothing, 舌头的重量微不足道，
But so few people can hold it. 但少有人可控制它。 Friends, you and me... 你和我是朋友…
you brought another friend... 你带来另一位朋友… and then there were3... 我们就有三个朋友…
we started our group... 我们开始成为一个小组…
Our circle of friends... and like that circle... 就像一个圈圈… there is no beginning or end... 没有开始也没又结束
Yersterday is history, tomorrow is a mistery 昨日已成历史，明日不可预测
Today is a gift 今日是上帝的恩赐
Make each day the best of your life 让每一天成为你生命中最美好的一天
篇二：中英文对照哲理小故事
上帝的咖啡
一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。 老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。 等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。
生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。
上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。享受你们的咖啡吧。 最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。 简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。 其他的，就留给上帝吧。
God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
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.