英文勵志短故事大全

　　想必大家中文的勵志故事看的多了，那就看看看英文的吧。下面是小編給大家整理的英文勵志短故事，供大家參閱!

　　英文勵志短故事：斷尾的狐狸

　　A tail-lost fox

　　A fox’s tail was caught in a trap. When he was trying to release himself, he lost his whole tail except the stump.

　　At first he was ashamed to see the other foxes because he had no tail, but he was determined to face his misfortune. He called all the foxes to a meeting.

　　When they had gotten together, the fox said that they should all do away with their tails. He said that their tails were very inconvenient when they met with their enemies. He did not talk about any advantages of the tail.

　　"You are right," said one of the older foxes, "but I don’t think you would advise us to do away with our tails if you hadn’t lost it yourself first."

　　一隻狐狸的尾巴被夾住了，當他試著脫身的時候，掙斷了整條尾巴。

　　開始時，他看到其他狐狸的時候感到很羞愧。後來，他決定面對這種不幸，就召集了所有的狐狸開會。

　　大家到齊後，他極力勸說其他狐狸也割掉尾巴，說尾巴在遭遇敵人時很不方便，尾巴一點兒作用也沒有。

　　一隻老狐狸站出來說：“如果你沒有失去你的尾巴，你是不會來勸大家都割去尾巴的。 ”

　　寓意: 有些人為了自己的利益而勸告他人，我們不能輕信他們的意見。

　　英文勵志短故事：驚弓之鳥

　　A bird startled by the mere twang of a bow-string

　　During the time of the Warring States 475-221 BC， there lived a well-known archer named Geng Ying whose art in shooting was excelled by none at his time.

　　One day, as he was standing by the side of the King of Wei, a flock of swan geese were flying over. With confidence, Geng Ying said to the king, "The twang of my bow-string might bring down a bird." The King doubted much. Just then a solitary swan goose appeared, low and slow in its flight, sad and dolorous in its cry. Instantly Geng Ying bended his bow and forcibly pulled the bowstring. Twang! High up went he shrilling sound into the air and down fell the bird to the ground. The king admired with bewilderment. Gang Ying then explained: "The bird was flying low and slow, because it was already hurt; it was crying in a bitter tone, because it had lost its companions. Due to the fact that it was already hurt and sad at heart, the twang of my strong bow, that birds dreaded most, startled it. The shrilling sound made its heart beat fast, its wings weak, its balance uneven. Thus it fell down just as commonly as a man drops his chop-sticks, at the thunder-stroke, at a dinner table." Henceforth comes the idiom "A bird startled by the mere twang of a bow-string", illustrating a case where a man who had been previously and repeatedly frightened became numb and stupefied by a new thing of the same nature not knowing how to face the new situation.

　　驚弓之鳥

　　戰國時期，有個傑出的弓箭手，叫做更贏。他的射箭本領在當時可稱是舉世無雙。有一天，他和魏王並肩站著，天空中忽然飛過一群鴻雁。更贏很自信的對魏王說："我可以用弓聲就把飛鳥給打下來。"魏王很懷疑。正在那是，一隻孤雁很低很慢的飛過。鳴聲悽慘。更贏見了，就張著弓，扣著弦，砰的一聲，直入雲宵。那孤雁果然應聲落地。魏王驚歎之餘，不明白這是怎麼回事。更贏解釋說："那孤雁飛得低且慢，因為它已經受過傷;它鳴叫的聲音悲而哀，因為它離了群。身傷心碎，使它心跳加速，兩翼無力，體重失去平衡，正如人們吃飯時，突然聽見雷聲，筷子落地的情況一樣自然而平常。

　　後人根據上面的故事，做成了"驚弓之鳥"這個成語，形容先前多次受過驚嚇的人，忽然遇到同樣可怕的事物，就嚇得魂飛魄散，驚惶失措，不知如何去應付新的環境。

　　英文勵志短故事：網開一面

　　Give the wrong-doer a way out

　　Beginning with Yu the GREat, the Xia Dynasty had lasted about four hundred years before Jie became the supreme ruler.

　　And that was in the 18th century BC. Jie was extremely tyrannical and dissolute. This aroused GREat resentment among the people. Tang, the Chief of the tribe Shang took advantage of this situation to overthrow the Xia Dynasty and established the Shang Dynasty in the early 17th century BC. Among the preparations for the overthrow had been the winning over of popular support.

　　One day, Tang was having a walk in the open country. He saw a man catching birds with a big net spread in a box-like and mumbling: "Come on, birds! Come into my net. All of you, whether you are flying high or low, east or west. Come into my net!"

　　Tang walked over and said to the man, "This method is ruthless! You'll spare no birds this way!" With these words, he cut the net down on three sides. Then he murmured in a light voice as if praying: "Oh, birds! Fly to the left or right as you like. And if you're really tired of your life, come into this net!"

　　When chiefs of other tribes heard about this, they were all moved. They said, "Tang is a good king indeed. He is so kind even to birds and beasts. He must be more merciful to human beings." And very soon, about forty tribes pledged allegiance to Tang.

　　From that story came the idiom "Open the net on three sides". Later, people changed it into "Give the wrong-doer a way out."， indicating to be lenient to the wrong-doers.

　　網開一面

　　從大禹到桀，夏朝一共持續了四百多年的歷史。

　　那是在公元前十八世紀。桀是個極端殘暴，放蕩的人。他激起了人民的極度不滿。部落商的領袖湯利用這個形勢，推翻了夏朝，並在公元前十七世紀早期建立了商朝。在準備這場推翻夏朝的行動中，湯贏得了廣泛的支援。

　　一天，湯在一片開闊的田野裡散步。他看見一個人正在捕鳥。那人支開一張像籠子般的大網，喃喃的說："來吧，鳥兒們!飛到我的網裡來。無論是飛得高的還是低的，向東還是向西的，所有的鳥兒都飛到我的網裡來吧!"

　　湯走過去對那個人說："你這種方法太殘忍了!這樣作你連一隻鳥也不放過!"

　　一邊說著，湯砍斷了三面網。然後，像做祈禱那樣，他輕輕的低聲說道，"哦，鳥兒們，喜歡向左飛的，就向左飛;喜歡向右飛的，就向右飛;如果你真的厭倦了你的生活，就飛入這張網咖!"

　　其它部落的首領得知這件事後都非常感動。他們說："湯真是一位賢王啊。他對鳥獸都如此仁慈，何況是對人呢?" 不久就有四十多個部落宣誓效忠湯。

　　"網開三面"這個成語就是由此而來的。後來，人們把它改為"網開一面"，表示寬容的對待做錯事的人。