英语小故事（不要太长）

A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.

He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's house today, for I cannot get over the river."

He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.

Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.

【译文】

一个人正朝着一个富人的房子走去，当他沿着路走时，在路的一边他发现一箱好苹果，他说：“我不打算吃那些苹果，因为富人会给我更多的食物，他会给我很好吃的东西。”然后他拿起苹果，一把扔到土里去。

他继续走，来到河边，河涨水了，因此，他到不了河对岸，他等了一会儿，然后他说：“今天我去不了富人家了，因为我不能渡过河。”

他开始回家，那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的，他找到苹果，很高兴地把它们从尘土中翻出来吃了。

不要把好东西扔掉，换个时候你会觉得它们大有用处。

The lion and the mouse

When a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down beside him. This soon wakened the lion. He was very angry, and caught the mouse in his paws.
"Forgive me, please." cried the little mouse. "I may be able to help you someday." The lion was tickled at these words.
He thought, "How could this little mouse help me?" However he lifted up his paws and let him go.
A few days later, the lion was caught in a trap.
The hunters wanted to take him alive to the king, so they tied him to a tree, and went away to look for a wagon.
Just then the little mouse passed by, and saw the sad lion.
He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes. "Was I not right?" asked the little mouse.

我知道一个比较动人的故事，先把中文翻译写下，你要是有兴趣，就点下面的连接，英文都写在图片上了。从答复5看起。
有一个婴儿即将出生。

一天，
这个小孩问上帝，“他们告诉我明天你将要把我送到地球，不过为什么我在那儿会那么小和无助呢？”

上帝回答到：“在你身边有很多天使，我会给你找一个。她会等着你降临，保护你。”
“不过”，
小孩问了，“请告诉我，在天堂我除了歌唱和微笑之外什么都不做。这些是我快乐所需要的！”

上帝说，“你的天使每天将会为你歌唱和微笑。你将会感受到你的天使的爱，你会感到快乐。”
“还有”，
小孩又问了，“如果我不懂他们说的语言，当人们对我说话的时候我怎样才会理解呢？”

“这很简单，”上帝说，“你的天使将教会你语言中最美丽和最甜蜜的词语，带着最大的耐心和关怀，你的天使将教会你怎样说话。
小孩抬头看着上帝说，
“我想和你说话的时候我该怎么做呢？”

上帝微笑着对小孩说，“你的天使会把你的双手放在一起然后教会你怎样祈祷。”
小孩说，
“我听说地球上有坏人，谁将会保护我呢？”

上帝把手放在小孩身上，说，“你的天使将会保护你，甚至会冒生命的危险！”
小孩看起来有些悲伤，
他说，“我将会一直感到悲伤因为我再也看不到你了。”

上帝拥抱着小孩。“你的天使以后会一直跟你说有关我的事情，还会教你回到我身边的方法，虽说我一直与你同在。”

地址在这一刻小孩在天堂感到了无比的安详，
不过已经可以听到从地球传来的声音……
小孩有点急促，
温柔的问“上帝啊，如果我现在将要离开，请告诉我我的天使的名字！”

上帝回答说，“你的天使的名字并不那么重要，你可以简单的叫她 “妈妈”。
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photosynthesis/光合作用

Ten-year-old Timmy was just surfing/在...冲浪 /the World Wide Web when his father called him outside to help with raking /rake：用耙子耙/the leaves.To keep the boy occupied, his father told him about how the fairies descended from heavens and turned the leaves brown. Timmy listened, and when it seemed the narrative had ended, looked up his father with his big innocent-looking blue eyes, and said: "Daddy, have you ever heard of photosynthesis/光合作用/?"

Did you cry？

The five-year-old boy was terribly spoilt. His grandparents knew it. The neighbors knew it. But his mother doted/溺爱/ on him. He hardly left her side. And when he wanted anything, he whined, cried or threw a tantrum / throw a tantrum：发脾气/. Then came his first day at school.

At the end of the day his mother came to fetch him home.

“Did you get along all right？ Did you cry？” she asked dotingly.

“Yes，I did！”

“Oh my poor baby...Come let mama give you a hug...（and she hugs him）...Did anyone else cry besides you？”

“Yeah，the teacher.”

campaign竞选运动

My son Michael, a fifth-grader, decided to run for竞选 president of the student council. During the "campaign," Michael and I took him younger brother to the pediatrician儿科医师 for a check up. The doctor, noticing the campaign竞选运动 buttons, volunteered that he, too, had run for president of the student council when he was in sixth grade, but had not won.

Several days later, Michael called me at work to give me the election results. Said Michael, "It looks like I'm going to be a doctor."

pay for the wine and the song

After locating/locate：发现，定位/ the car of his dreams at a local lot/场地/， my teenage son began trying to persuade me to co-sign a loan. He did his homework well， checking with our bank and insurance agent before presenting me with figures to prove he could cover both payments with the salary from his part-time job.

It took several weeks of pleas and arguments before I said yes. These you won’t have any money left for wine， women and song.

“Mom，”he answered with a grin. “with that car， the women will pay for the wine and the song