小學生英語故事演講

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　　小學生英語故事篇1

　　be afraid of one's own shadow

　　草木皆兵

　　In AD 383, the king of Former Qin ***秦朝***, Fu Jian ***fú jiān 苻堅***, led a huge army to attack Eastern Jin.

　　公元383年，秦王苻堅率領步兵、騎兵90萬，攻打江南的晉朝。

　　After losing the first round of fighting, Fu Jian looked down from a city wall, and was terrifiedwhen he saw the formidable battle array of the Eastern Jin army.

　　在一輪戰敗後，苻堅從城牆俯視周遭，當他看到勢不可破的東晉部隊，他感到很害怕。

　　And then looking at the mountains around, he mistook the grass and trees for enemysoldiers.

　　此時，苻堅在壽春城上望見晉軍隊伍嚴整，士氣高昂，再北望八公山，只見山上一草一木都像晉軍的士兵一樣，於是更加恐慌。

　　As a result, when the nervous Fu Jian led his army into battle, it suffered a crushing defeat.

　　後來苻堅全軍覆沒，帶著少數殘餘的隊伍逃回去了。

　　This idiom describes how one can defeat oneself by imaging difficulties.

　　這個成語後來形容人在極度驚恐時，疑神疑鬼的心理狀態。

　　小學生英語故事篇2

　　to add insult to injury/to add fuel to the fire

　　抱薪救火

　　In the last years of the Warring States period ***戰國, 475-221BC***, the State of Qin ***秦國*** attacked the State of Wei ***魏國*** on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself.

　　戰國末期，秦國向魏國接連發動大規模的進攻，魏國無力抵抗，大片土地都被秦軍佔領了。

　　In 273 BC, the Qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei with a momentummore vigorous than ever. The king of the State of Wei summoned his officials,and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army.

　　到公元前273年，秦國又一次向魏國出兵，勢頭空前猛烈。魏王把大臣們召來，愁眉苦臉地問大家有沒有使秦國退兵的辦法。

　　After years of chaos caused by the wars,the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak of “resistance”.

　　大臣們由於經過多年的戰亂，提起打仗就嚇得哆嗦，誰也不敢談“抵抗”二字。

　　At the critical moment when a large enemy force was approaching the border, most of the officials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River

　　***huáng hé 黃河*** and south of the Taihang Mountain ***tài háng shān 太行山***.

　　在這大兵壓境的危急時刻，多數大臣都勸魏王，用黃河以北和太行山以南的大片土地為代價，向秦王求和。

　　However Su Dai ***sūdài 蘇代***, a counsellor, did not agree. He hurried up to the king and said:"Your Majesty, they don't think about the interests of the country at all.It is just because they are cowardly and afraid of death that they ask you to sue for peace by betraying the country.Of course you can temperarily satisfy the ambition of the king of the State of Qin isinsatiably greedy. It will never stop assaulting us until our land is totally given away."

　　謀士蘇代聽了這些話，很不以為然，忙上前對魏王說：“大王，他們是因為自己膽小怕死，才讓您去賣國求和，根本不為國家著想。您想，把大片土地割讓給秦國雖然暫時滿足了秦王的野心，但秦國的慾望是無止境的，只要魏國的土地沒割完，秦軍就不會停止進攻我們。”

　　Once there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire fiercer. That was because he didn't know that,instead of putting out the fire, faggots could only make it burning more vigorously. Isn't it equivalent to carrying faggots to put out a fire if you agree to sue for peace at the cost of the land of the State of Wei?"

　　說到這裡，蘇代講了一個故事：“從前有一個人，他的房子起火了，別人勸他快用水去澆滅大火，但他不聽，偏抱起一捆柴草去救火，是因為他不懂得柴草不但不能滅火反而能助長火勢的道理。大王若同意拿著魏國土地去求和，不就等於抱著柴草救火嗎?”

　　Though Su Dai's argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials and gave away to the State of Qin a large area of the land of the State of Wei.

　　儘管蘇代講得頭頭是道，但是膽小的魏王只顧眼前的太平，還是依大臣們的意見把魏國大片土地割讓給秦國。

　　The State of Wei was finally destroyed by the State of Qin. This story appears in the Historical Records Written by Sima Qian. The set phrase"carrying faggots to put out a fire"is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.

　　到公元225年，魏國最終被秦國滅掉了。這個故事出自司馬遷的《史記》，“抱薪救火”就是指“用錯誤的方式去挽救現狀，最終只會令狀況更糟糕”。

　　小學生英語故事篇3

　　Love me, love my dog.

　　愛屋及烏

　　There was a state called zhou ***周*** in the chinese history.

　　中國歷史上有一個國家名叫“周”。

　　One day, the king of zhou asked his officials for advice on deal with prisoners of war.

　　一天，周王問他的官員，應該怎樣處理戰俘。

　　An official said, "i once heard if you love someone, you are intended to love even the crows on the roof of his house; if you hate someone, you are intended to hate even the walls and the parapets of his. The prisoners of war were enemies fighting against us. In my opinion, we'd better kill them all."

　　一個官員說：“我以前曾聽說：如果喜歡某個人，就連停留在那人住的屋頂上的烏鴉都喜歡;如果厭惡某個人，就連那人家裡的牆壁和圍牆都厭惡。戰俘是我們的敵人，和我們是對立的，我覺得最好把他們全部殺了。”

　　But the king didn't agree with him."I think we should treat the prisoners of war differently bydiffering them into those who are guilty and those who are not. The guilty ones will besentenced to death in order to avoid future disasters." Another official put forward his suggestion.

　　周王認為這樣做不行。另外一個官員也提出了自己的意見：“依我看應該把戰俘區分對待，把有罪的和無罪的、好的和壞的區分開來。有罪的戰俘要處死，不能留下禍患。”

　　The king didn't think it was a proper way, either.

　　周王認為這樣做也不大妥當。

　　Then a third one said, "Your majesty, I think all the prisoners should be set free and sent backhome to work in the fields and support themselves by their own labor. Moreover, you should keep strictly the rules for reward and punishment and treat your relatives and friendsimpartially.The people are sure to believe in you if you administer our country by morals and laws."

　　接著，又有一個官員說：“大王，我認為應該把這些戰俘全都放了，讓他們回到自己的家裡，耕種田地，自食其力。而大王對自己的親人和朋友，也要賞罰分明，不能偏心。通過道德和法律來治理國家，人民肯定會對大王信服的。”

　　The king thought the official's proposal was quite reasonable so he accepted and followed it.As a result, the domestic situation soon settled down and gradually the country became more stable and stronger.

　　周王聽後覺得很有道理，就按這個辦法去做，結果國家真的很快***下來了，變得越來越穩定和強大。

　　The idiom is then used to mean that if you love someone,you'll love people and things relative to him as well.

　　成語“愛屋及烏”後來就被用來比喻：因為喜愛一個人，連帶和他有關的人或事物也喜愛、關心。