英語小學生睡前故事

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　　英語小故事一

　　生金蛋的鵝

　　Lay golden goose

　　One morning a countryman went to his goose's nest, and saw a yellow and glitteringegg there.He took the egg home. To his delight, he found that it was an egg of pure gold.

　　Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs.

　　The countryman became more and more greedy. He wanted to get all the gold at once, so he killed the goose, when he looked inside, he found nothing in its body.

　　【譯文】

　　生金蛋的鵝

　　一天早晨，農夫去他的鵝窩看見一隻金燦燦的蛋，他帶回家後發現這是一隻純金蛋。每天早晨同樣的事情都會發生，他也靠賣金蛋逐漸變得富足起來。

　　農夫變得越來越貪婪，他想立刻得到鵝肚子中所有的金蛋。於是他殺死了鵝，但是，在鵝肚中他什麼也沒找到。

　　英語小故事二

　　區別

　　Difference

　　"I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class," observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at California State University in Los Angeles. "When I say, 'Good afternoon,' the undergraduates respond, 'Good afternoon." But the graduate students just write it down."

　　區 別

　　“研究生班和本科生很容易就能區別開來，”在洛杉磯加利福利亞州立大學給我們研究生上工程學課的老師如此說。“我說‘下午好’，本科生們回答說‘下午好’。研究生們則把我說的話記在筆記本上。”

　　英語小故事三

　　美德

　　Virtue

　　Many years after receiving my graduate degree, I returned to the State University of New York at Binghamton as a faculty member. One day in a crowded elevator, someone remarked on its inefficiency. I said the elevators had not changed in the 20 years since I began there as a student.

　　When the door finally opened, I felt a compassionate pat on my back, and turned to see an elderly nun smiling at me. "You'll get that degree, dear," she whispered. "Perseverance is a virtue."

　　美 德

　　獲取研究生學位多年以後，我回到位於賓翰頓的紐約州立大學當教員。一天，電梯裡很擁擠，有人抱怨電梯效率太低。我說自我在那裡當學生起，20年來電梯一直沒有換過。

　　最後當電梯門開啟時，我感到有人在我的背上同情地拍了一下，回過頭來我看到一位年長的修女正在朝我微笑。“你會拿到學位的，親愛的，”她低聲說道：“堅持不懈是一種美德。