小學生英語勵志小故事演講稿

　　小學生演講英語故事的時候應該演講些什麼樣的呢？下面是小編給大家整理的，供大家參閱!

　　：井底之蛙

　　It said to a turtle that lived in the East Sea, "I am so happy! When I go out, I jump about on the railing beside the mouth of the well. When I come home, I rest in the holes on the broken wall of the well. If I jump into the water, it comes up to my armpits and holds up my cheeks. If I walk in the mud, it covers up my feet. I look around at the wriggly worms, crabs and tadpoles, and none of them can compare with me. Moreover, I am lord of this trough of water and I stand up tall in this shallow well. My happiness is full. My dear sir, why don't you come often and look around my place?"

　　Before the turtle from the East Sea could get its left foot in the well, its right knee got stuck. It hesitated and retreated. The turtle told the frog about the East Sea. "Even a distance of a thousand li cannot give you an idea of the sea's width; even a height of a thousand ren cannot give you an idea of its depth. In the time of King Yu of the Xia dynasty, there were floods nine years out of ten, but the waters in the sea did not increase. ln the time of King Tang of the Shang dynasty there were droughts seven years out of eight, but the waters in the sea did not decrease. The sea does not change along with the passage of time and its level does not rise or fall according to the amount of rain that falls.

　　The greatest happiness is to live in the East Sea."

　　After listening to these words, the frog of the shallow well was shocked into realization of his own insignificance and became very ill at ease.

　　它對從東海中來的大鱉說：“我多麼快樂啊!出去玩玩，就在井口的欄杆上蹦蹦跳跳，回來休息就蹲在殘破井壁的磚窟窿裡休息休息;跳進水裡，水剛好託著我的胳肢窩和麵頰;踩泥巴時，泥深只能淹沒我的兩腳，漫到我的腳背上。回頭看一看那些赤蟲、螃蟹與蝌蚪一類的小蟲吧，哪個能同我相比哪一天!並且，我獨佔一坑水，在井上想跳就跳，想停就停，真是快樂極了!您為什麼不常來我這裡參觀參觀呢?”

　　海鱉左腳還沒踏進井裡，右腿已被井壁卡住了。於是，它在井邊徘徊了一陣就退回來了，把大海的景像告訴青蛙，說道：“千里的確很遠，可是它不能夠形容海的遼闊;千仞的確很高，可是它不能夠控明海的深度。夏禹的時候，10年有9年水災，可是海水並不顯得增多;商湯時，8年有7年天旱，可是海水也不顯得減少。永恆的大海啊，不隨時間的長短而改變，也不因為雨量的多少而漲落。這才是住在東海里最大快樂啊!”

　　淺井的青蛙聽了這一番話，惶恐不安，兩眼圓睜睜地好像失了神。深深感到自己的渺小。

　　：小馬過河

　　One day, a colt took a bag of wheat to the mill. As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a cow grazing nearby. He asked, “Aunt Cow, could you tell me if I can cross the river?” The cow told him that he could and that the river was not very deep, just knee high.

　　The colt was crossing the river when a squirrel jumped down fron a tree and stopped him. The squirrel shouted, “Colt, stop! You’ll drown! One of my friends drowned just yesterday in the river.” Not knowing what to do, the colt went home to consult his mum.

　　He told his mum his experience on the way. His mother said, “My child, don’t always listen to others. You’d better go and try yourself. Then you’ll know what to do.”

　　Later, at the river,the squirrel stopped the colt again. “Little horse, it’s too dangerous!” “No, I want to try myself,” answered the colt.Then he crossed the river carefully.

　　Real knowledge comes from practice.

　　一天，一匹小馬馱著麥子去磨坊。當它馱著口袋向前跑去時，突然發現一條小河擋住了去路。小馬為難了，這可怎麼辦呢?它向四周望了望，看見一頭奶牛在河邊吃草。小馬問道：“牛阿姨，請您告訴我，這條河我能趟過去嗎?”奶牛回答說：“水很淺，剛到膝蓋。”

　　小馬正準備過河，突然從樹上跳下一隻松鼠，攔住它大叫道：“小馬，別過河!

　　你會被淹死的。昨天，我的一個夥伴就在這條河裡淹死啦!”小馬不知如何是好，於是決定回家問問媽媽。

　　小馬把路上的經歷告訴了媽媽。媽媽說：“孩子，光聽別人說是不行的，你自己親自去試一試，就知道答案了。”

　　小馬回到河邊，剛要下水，松鼠又大叫起來：“小馬，你不要命啦?”小馬說：“讓我自己試試吧。”他一面回答一面下了河，小心地趟了過去。

　　實踐出真知。

　　：牙齒仙女

　　Primitive peoples believe that hair， nail clippings， and lost teeth remain magically linked to the owner even after they have been disconnected from his body. As any voodoo artist will tell you， if you want to grind someone into powder， you don't need to touch him at all. It's quite enough to stamp on a missing molar and let "contagious magic" do the rest. This is why peoples all over the world traditionally hide lost body parts， lest they fall into the wrong hands.

　　American children's ritual of hiding lost teeth under their pillows probably derives distantly from this practice. But there is an obvious difference， for when Suzie conceals her baby milk-tooth， she fully expects it to be found， and by a good magician， not an evil one. Moreover， she expects to be paid for having surrendered it， and at the going rate. Nothing mare clearly suggests the blithe commercial gusto of our culture than this transformation of a fearful superstition into a cheery business transaction.

　　Because American children expect fair exchange for their lost teeth， it is likely that the tooth fairy ritual derives more immediately from the European， and particularly German， tradition of placing a lost tooth in a mouse or a rat hole.The folk belief governing this practice is that when a new tooth grows in， it will possess the dental qualities， not of the original， lost tooth， but of whatever creature finds it， so the creatures of choice would be those world-class champers， the rodents.

　　Thus the optimistic， "fair exchange" principle most likely started in Germany and was brought here by German immigrants. It was only left to America to replace the beneficent “tooth rat” with the more agreeable fairy and to replace the traditional hope of hard molars with our more characteristic hope of hard cash.

　　遠古時期的人們認為毛髮、剪下的指甲和脫落的牙齒即使離開了人的身體，仍與其主人保持著神祕的聯絡。正如任何一個伏都教大師都會告訴你的，假如你想置某人於死地，根本用不著去碰他，只需用腳踩碎那人脫落的一顆臼齒就夠了，剩下的事就交給“無邊的法力”去辦。這就是為什麼全世界各個民族都習慣於把身體上脫落的東西藏起來，以免落入惡人之手。

　　美國兒童把脫落的牙齒藏到枕頭下的習慣做法很可能與這個習俗稍有聯絡。但兩者又有明顯的差別，因為當小蘇珊把她的乳牙藏起來時，她其實滿心希望有個善良的，而不是邪惡的巫師能發現她的牙齒。而且由於交出了牙齒，她還希望按現行價格得到報償。我們把可怕的迷信變成了愉快的商業交易，沒有什麼比這更明白地表明我們文化中的令人愉快的商業熱情。

　　因為美國孩子希望用他們脫落的牙齒作公平交易，所以牙齒仙女的習俗可能更直接淵源於歐洲風俗，尤其是德國風俗中把脫落的牙齒放在老鼠洞裡的傳統做法。這種習俗依據的民間觀念認為，新牙長出來時不具有原先脫落的牙齒的特質，哪種動物發現了掉下來的牙，新牙就具有那種動物的牙的特質。因此，要選那些世界一流的擅長啃咬的動物，那些齧齒目動物。

　　因此，這種樂觀的“公平交易”原則很可能發源於德國，並由德國移民帶到了這裡。美國人只是把好心的“牙齒老鼠”換成了更可親的仙女，而傳統上人們希望長出堅固的牙齒，到我們這兒卻變成了希望拿到現金，這就更具有我們的特色。