三分鐘英語勵志的故事

　　我們在做課前三分鐘演講時，可以講一些英語勵志的故事，那麼都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。

　　：園丁

　　The Yardman

　　The yardman comes every two weeks.

　　He drives a gray pickup truck.

　　The truck is a Ford.

　　It is about 15 years old, but it runs well.

　　It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage.

　　The yardman’s name is Byron.

　　In the back of his truck are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel.

　　Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building.

　　Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag.

　　He blows the dirt out into the street.

　　He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower.

　　He trims the hedge.

　　He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment door.

　　Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow.

　　He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster.

　　It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.

　　When he is done,he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner.

　　There he does the same work again.

　　園丁

　　園丁每兩週來一次。

　　他開著一輛銀色小卡車。

　　卡車是福特的。

　　它已經15年了，但是效能依舊很好。

　　它不用石油，它用汽油。

　　這個園丁的名字是拜倫。

　　他的卡車後面有個割草機、鼓風機、耙子和鐵鏟。

　　拜倫用鼓風機來吹葉子以及建築物前前後後的塵土。

　　接著他把葉子耙進一個包裡。

　　他把塵土吹進街道。

　　他用割草機割草坪。

　　他修理了樹籬。

　　他用鼓風機吹走公寓門前的塵土。

　　接著他把所有的葉子、修剪的草以及剪下的東西放進獨輪手推車。

　　他將獨輪手推車推到建築物後面，在後面他用鐵鏟將推車中的垃圾清進大垃圾箱。

　　拜倫花了兩小時做這項工作。

　　當他做完工作，他堵住了通往拐角處房子的街道。

　　他做著重複的工作。

　　：老闆最大

　　There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, “How come this guy is $5,000? That’s so expensive for this kindof parrot.” The owner said, “Because I have trained him and he can talk.” So the customer asked him, “How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?” The owner said, “Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing actions,like dancing and so on. That’s why he’s so expensive.” Then the customer said, “How about the third one? What canhe do that makes him so expensive?” The owner of the shopsaid, “I don’t know. Normally, I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him ‘The Boss.’”

　　有個人到一間商店買鸚鵡。店裡有三隻鸚鵡，其中一隻賣五千元，另一隻賣一萬元，還有一隻賣三萬元。顧客問老闆：“為什麼這隻要賣五千元?這個價錢對這種鸚鵡來說太貴了!”老闆說：“因為我有訓練他講話。”顧客又問：“那這隻呢?他會做什麼?為什麼要賣這麼貴?”老闆說：“他除了會說話之外，還會表演一些有趣的動作，好比說跳舞等等，所以才賣這麼貴。”顧客接著又問：“那第三隻呢?他會做什麼?為什麼要賣這麼貴?”老闆說：“我不知道。我從沒聽過他講話、吹口哨或唱歌，也沒看過他跳舞，什麼都沒有!不過另外兩隻叫他：“老闆!”

　　：坐井觀天

　　Look at the Sky from the Bottom of a Well

　　There is a frog. He lives in a well and he never goes out of the well. He thinks the sky is as big as the mouth of the well.

　　One day a crow comes to the well. He sees the frog and says, “Frog, let’s have a talk.” Then the frog asks, “Where are you from?” “I fly from the sky,” the crow says. The frog feels surprised and says, “The sky is only as big as the mouth of the well. How do you fly from the sky?”

　　The crow says, “The sky is very big. You always stay in the well, so you don’t know the world is big.”

　　The frog says, “I don’t believe.” But the crow says, “You can come out and have a look by yourself.”

　　So the frog comes out from the well. He is very surprised. How big the world is!

　　坐井觀天

　　有一隻青蛙住在井底，他從來沒有去過井外面。他以為天空就和井口一樣大。

　　一天， 一隻烏鴉飛到井邊，看見青蛙，就對它說：“青蛙，咱們聊聊吧。”青蛙就問他：“你從哪裡來?”“我從天上上來。青蛙驚訝了，就說：“天空就只有這井口這麼大，你怎麼會從天上飛老呢?”

　　烏鴉說：“天空很大。只不過你一直呆在井裡，所有不知道世界很大。”青蛙說：“我不相信。”烏鴉說：“你可以出來，自己看看嘛。”

　　於是青蛙來到井外。他十分驚訝，原來世界這麼大!