關於餅的英語故事閱讀

　　小學英語故事課教學,教師既要充分利用現有教材,又要勇於創新地使用,讓我們懷揣一顆童心,努力展現故事的魅力,做個會講故事的人。小編整理了關於餅的英語故事，歡迎閱讀!

　　關於餅的英語故事：畫餅充飢

　　In the Three Kingdoms Period ***220-280***, the king of the Wei, Cao Rui, wanted to select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers: 'When choosing a talented person, always beware of one with a false reputation. A false reputation is just like a picture of a cake; it can' t relieve hunger.'

　　Later, this idiom came to be used to mean comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problems.

　　【中文譯文】

　　三國時代魏國的皇帝曹睿，準備選拔一個有才能的人到朝廷來做官。曹睿對他的大臣說：“選擇人才，不能光找有虛名的人。虛名好像是在地上畫的一塊餅，只能看，不能解決肚子飢餓的問題啊!”

　　後來人們就用“畫餅充飢”這個成語比喻用空想安慰自己，不能解決實際問題。

　　關於餅的英語故事：從小甜餅中得來的幸福

　　One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was "having the cookie." If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address. A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about."

　　我有一位病人，他是一個成功的商人，告訴我，在他患癌症之前，凡事如果沒有確定下來他就憂心忡忡。對他而言，幸福是“擁有小甜餅”。如果你擁有了小甜餅，一切都一帆風順。如果你沒有小甜餅，生活就一文不值。不幸的是，小甜餅總是不斷變換著，有時是金錢，有時是權力，有時是慾望。在其他時候，它是一輛新車、一份數額最大的合同、或者一個享有聲望的通訊地址。在他被診斷出患有前列腺癌的一年半之後，他坐在那裡，悲天憫人地搖著頭，說：“長大以後，我好像就不知道怎樣生活了。當我給我兒子一個小甜餅時，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜餅或者是小甜餅碎了，他就悶悶不樂。不同的是，他只有兩歲半，而我已經43了。我花了這麼長的時間才明白小甜餅並不能使我長久感到幸福。從你擁有小甜餅的那一刻，它就開始破碎，或者你就開始擔心它會破碎，抑或你開始擔心別人拿走它。為了守護你的小甜餅，為了防止它破碎或者確定別人不會從你手中奪走它，你不得不放棄許多東西。你忙於不讓自己失去它，甚至沒有時間享受它。擁有小甜餅並不是生活的全部內容。

　　My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. "Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. Life. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?" He pauses thoughtfully. "Damn, I guess life is the cookie

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　　我的病人笑著說癌症已經改變了他。不論他的生意是否一帆風順，不論他在打高爾夫球時是輸是贏，他有生以來第一次感到幸福。“兩年前，癌症問我‘什麼重要?什麼才真正的重要?’對，生命重要。生命。生命，無論如何你擁有生命。有小甜餅也罷，沒有小甜餅也罷，幸福與小甜餅並非息息相關，而是與生命的存在有關。可是，時光一去不復返，誰又能讓時光倒流呢?”他停頓了一下，若有所思，說：“該死，我覺得生命就是那塊小甜餅”。

　　關於餅的英語故事：《畫餅充飢》中英文版

　　This idiom comes from Records of Three Kingdoms• Kingdom of Wei • Biography of Lu Yu. When Lu Yu, the minister of the State of Wei was young, his parents and brothers all died one after another, and he became an orphan. In such a difficult situation, he still studied very hard. Finally he became a talented person and served as a high officialof hisstate.Hewassouprightin performing his official duties that he was promoted to the minister of the Board of Civil Office, in charge of the officials' appointments and removals.

　　Owing to the vacancy of Lu Yu's original post, it had to fill up a new official for it. Although there were many officials to recommend some well-known people for the post, all were refused by Emperor Wen. He only let Lu Yu do it and also pointed out:"It depends on you whether we can find the right person for the important post. But we can't choose someone only with fame in stead of his real ability. You see, the fame is just like drawing cakes on the ground to allay hungry."

　　Then Lu expressed his idea:" You are right, YourMajesty, selections should depend on their real learning and abilities. But the real fame is still very important, such as self-possession and high moral character. So we should select people with both of them."

　　Now we use it to describe comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problemsand feeding on illusions.

　　此語出自《三國志•魏志•盧毓傳》。三國時代,魏國的大臣盧毓,自幼父母雙亡,兩位兄長又先後去世,他成了孤兒。但他刻苦學習,終於成了很有才學的人,而且做了朝廷大臣。他為官清正、廉潔,因而連連提升,後被任命為吏部尚書,負責官吏的任免。

　　盧毓升任吏部尚書後,他原擔任的中書郎職務空缺,需要選拔人補上,當時有很多大臣都推薦一些有名氣的人來擔任,但都被魏文帝拒絕了。魏文帝曹睿要盧毓選好這個官,並對他說:“這次選拔中書郎,能否選到合適的人,就看你了。千萬不要選那些只有虛名而沒有真才實學的人,虛名就像在地上畫的餅,是不能充飢的。”

　　盧毓對此說出了他的意見:“陛下說得很對,選拔不能只看名氣,但名氣也能反映一定的實際情況,如果是修養、才學都好而有名氣就不應該嫌棄,主要看他們是否有真才實學。”