中英双语故事读物.doc

中英双语故事1、两个哑巴的真挚爱情He is a mute, Although can understand others speech, Cannot say own actually feeling. She is his neighbor, The girl who is bound by a common destiny with the grandmother.He really looks like an elder brother, Leads her to go to school, Accompanies her to play, Listens to her chirp with a smile grasps the speech.He only uses the hand signal and she converses, Possible she to be able to read his each look. Gazes at in her vision from elder brother, She knew he has likes oneself.他是个哑巴，虽然能听懂别人的话，却说不出自己的真实感受。她是他的邻居，和外婆相依为命。他的确像个哥哥一样，领着她上学，陪着她玩耍，含笑听着她唧唧喳喳的讲话，领会她话中的意思。他只用手语和她交谈，而她能明白他的意思，可能她能读懂他的每一个表情。从他注视她的目光里，她知道他对自己心有所属。Afterwards, She finally tests went to college, Extremely happy, He then starts to go all out to make money, Then sends continuously for her. She has not rejected.Finally, She has graduated, Started the work. Then, she said firmly to him that, “Elder brother, I must marry to you!” He looked like only the frightened rabbit to escape, again is not willing to see her, how regardless of she does entreat.Do you think i pity you? Do you think i appreciate you? no, ive fallen in love with you since i was12。But, She can not obtain his reply.后来，她终于考上了大学，开心极了。他却开始拼命挣钱，然后不断地寄钱给她供她读书。她并没有拒绝。终于，她毕业了，参加了工作。这时，她坚定地对他说：“哥，我一定要嫁给你！”他却害怕得像一只受惊的兔子一样，唯恐避之不及，无论她怎样哀求，他再也不愿见她了。她对他说：“你以为我是同情你吗？想对你报恩吗？不是，我12岁时就爱上你了。”可是，她得不到他的答复。One day, She has been admitted to the hospital suddenly. He has scared, Runs looks at her. Doctor said, In her throat steadily a lump, Although has excised, Destroyed the vocal cord actually, Possibly again also could not deliver the speech. On hospital bed, Her tearful eyes dance gaze he, Therefore they married.Very many years, Nobody listens to them to deliver a speech. They use the hand, With pen, Converses with the look, Shares is joyful and is sad. They became have loved the object which the men and women envied. The people said,That pair of how happy mute husbands and wives!Love could not prevent god of death arrival, He abandoned her to walk first.The people feared she cannot undergo loses lovers attack to comfort her。By now, She takes back gazes at his portrait after-image the dull crazy vision, Opens the mouth to say suddenly that,“He walked.”The rumor has revealed .有一天，她突然住进了医院。他吓坏了，跑去探望她。医生说，她喉咙里长了一个肿块，尽管已经被切除了，声带却意外被破坏了，可能她再也讲不了话了。病床上，她泪眼矇眬的注视着他，于是，他们结婚了。很多年过去了，没有人听他们讲过一句话。他们用手、用笔、用眼色交谈，分享着生活中的喜悦和悲伤。他们成了男男女女羡慕的一对爱侣。人们说那一对哑巴夫妻多么幸福啊！”但爱情阻挡不了死神的降临，他离开了她，先去了那个世界。人们担心她经受不住失去爱侣的打击，纷纷来安慰她。到这时，她收回注视着他遗像的呆痴迷失的目光，突然开口说了句：“他还是走了。谎言已经被揭穿了 2、两个和尚,两种态度 【英文原文】Thus have I heard, the below poignant and hilarious accounts are based on actual concurrent incidentsThe old abbot of a temple had a terrible toothache.So bad was it that it was debilitatingaffecting his nerves literally.The hospital stay was humbling to him.It made him reflectabout the importance of spiritual cultivationbefore his time in this life ran out.He wanted to practice well.A young disciple of the abbothad a terrible stroke.So bad was it that it was debilitatingaffecting his nerves literally.The hospital stay was boring to him.It made him reflectabout the importance of entertainmentbefore his time in this hospital ran out.He wanted a video game.【中文译文】根据的我听说的，下面讲的辛酸和滑稽的故事是建立在同时发生的真实事件上的。一个寺院里的一个老和尚的牙痛得很厉害。疼得如此厉害，以至于使老和尚虚弱如字面所说，折磨他的神经。在住院期间，他感到自我的卑微。这使得他反思到在他此生的生命结束之前精神修养的重要性。他想更好地修行。这个老和尚的一个年轻的弟子有过一次很严重的中风。如此严重，也使该弟子虚弱也如字面所说，折磨他的神经。但是在住院期间，他感到很无聊。这使他发现在他出院之前娱乐是多么地重要。他想玩电子游戏。3、如果你有邮箱那将会怎样 A jobless man applied for the position of office boy at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.一个失业的人去微软申请办公室文员的职位，人事经理面试他，并且看着他打扫地板，作为测试。You are employed he said. Give me your e-mail address and Ill send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start.“你被录用了”，人事经理说：“给我你的邮箱地址，我会把申请表发给你填，发给你的同时也意味着你开始上班。”The man replied But I dont have a computer, neither an email.这个人回答说：“但是我没有电脑，更没有邮箱了。”Im sorry, said the HR manager. If you dont have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesnt exist, cannot have the job.“我很抱歉，”人事经理说：“如果你没有邮箱，那就意味着你不能生存，一个不能生存的人当然不能有工作。”The man left with no hope at all. He didnt know what to do, with only in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate.He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with.这个人不抱希望的离开了，他不知道要做什么，口袋里只有10块钱，他决定去超市买了10公斤西红柿。接着他在附近门挨着门卖西红柿，不到两小时，他成功的将他的资金翻了一倍，他又做了3个小时，到回家时身上已经有60块钱了。The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday.Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US.这个人认识到他可以用这种方式生存，以后他每天起的很早，回家的很晚，因此，他的钱每天都翻两三倍。很短的时间里，他买了个手推车，然后卡车，接着他有了自己的运输车队。5年以后，他成了美国最大的食品零售商。He started to plan his familys future, and decided to have a life insurance.He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan.When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his email.The man replied,I dont have an email.他开始计划他家庭的未来，就决定买个人身保险。他打电话给保险经纪人，然后选择一个保险。当谈话结束后保险经济人问他的邮箱地址，他说：“我没有邮箱”.The broker answered curiously, You dont have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e mail?! The man thought for a while and replied, Yes, Id be an office boy at Microsoft!保险经济人很吃惊的说：“你没有邮箱都可以成功的建立一个帝国，你能想象如果你有邮箱的话会怎么样吗？”这个人想了一下然后回答：“是的，我会成为微软的办公室文员”Moral of the story 故事寓意Moral 1Internet is not the solution to your life.网络不是你生活的解决办法Moral 2If you dont have Internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire.如果你没有网络，但是努力工作，你仍可以成为百万富翁.4、史上五大最失败的愚人节玩笑 1.Imagine reading that your husband or brother who has been held in a prison for years is finally going to be released. You make the long journey to the prison and stand outside the prison gates, waiting desperately for the moment youll be reunited with your loved one, only to hear. April Fools! No ones being released! This experience happened to sixty people in April 2000 who read in the Opinia newspaper that their loved ones were going to be released from the Baia Mare prison in Romania. They made the long journey to the prison, only to learn that the paper had played an April Fools joke on them. The Opinia later published an apology.想象你的亲人正在监狱服刑，而一天你突然从报纸上看到他们要被提前释放的消息。你满怀欢喜地去迎接他们，最后在监狱门口被告知，这只是个愚人节玩笑，你会怎么想？2000年罗马尼亚的一家监狱愚弄了60个人，结果不得不公开道歉。2.Glenn Howletts colleagues at London city hall thought they had dreamed up(v.空想出, 构思, 创造, 设计(发明物等) a great gag. They sent him a memo informing him that the really big report he was working on was going to be due early, in just two weeks. The tip-off was that the memo was dated April 1st. Ha Ha. Except Howlett didnt realize it was a joke. He received the memo while on vacation and immediately cut his vacation short and phoned the office to tell everyone to start getting busy. But as he contemplated the new deadline he worked himself up into an increasing state of panic, until soon he began to experience heart palpitations. Finally he collapsed from the stress and had to take leave from work As he was recovering he realized it just wasnt worth risking his health to finish the report, so he filed for early retirement. At which point someone told him the early deadline was just a joke. He responded by suing for damages. As a consequence of his lawsuit, city hall banned employees from pulling any more pranks. 伦敦市政厅工作的 Glenn Howlett，被他的同事狠狠整了一次。在他度假的时候，他的同事告诉他，他要做的一份报告必须提前上交，最后期限就是4月1日。他信以为真，取消了休假，日夜赶工的同时身体也累垮了，住院的时候他琢磨着这样不行啊，不能因为工作把人给弄残了，于是申请提前退休。就在这时有人告诉他，他被耍了。随后 Glenn Howlett控诉他的那几个同事，结果伦敦市政厅从此之后禁止员工之间开这样的玩笑。3.Paul Goobie tied a dead chihuahua to the bumper of his co-workers car. His co-worker, Kevin Meloy, got in the car and drove off, unaware that the chihuahua was there. Obviously passing motorists were horrified. But what made the situation even worse was that Meloy was deaf,so he couldnt hear the other motorists frantically honking at him. Happily he drove on for miles until finally someone was able to get his attention. Police charged Goobie with unlawful disposal of a dead animal.一个叫Paul Goobie的人在同事Kevin Meloy车子的保险杠上拴了一只死去的吉娃娃狗。Kevin驾车上街后，街上的人都给吓坏了。因为Kevin是聋子，他听不见别的司机冲他揿喇叭的声音，所以就拖着一只死狗一路奔驰。最后被起诉非法处理死去的动物尸体。4.Randy Woods marriage was over, but apparently he was still a little bitter about the divorce.Sohe decided to play a prank on his ex-wife. He called her up and asked her to come over, telling her that he had something to show her. Obligingly she drove over, only to find him hanging by a noose from a tree in his front yard. Terrifed, she immediately dialed 911. Emergency services, including firefighters, policemen, and paramedics, soon showed up(v.揭露, 露出, 露面). But when they went to cut Wood down they discovered he wasnt dead. He wasnt even hurt. He had strung himself up as a prank to scare his ex-wife, using a linemans harness similar to those used by utility crews. The authorities warned that he would face a fine of up to $1,000 and a year in jail for his prank. 一个叫Randy Wood的人在愚人节给他前妻打电话，说想见她。他前妻来的时候却惊恐地发现他上吊自杀了。于是她拨打了急救电话，还叫了消防队和警察。等人都到齐后，大家才发现是假的，他是用吊不死人的背带上吊的。警方说，罚款可能高达1000美元，并可能入狱一年。5.Sitra Walker was an employee at a clothing store in Columbus, Ohio. She had only been working there for two weeks, but already she felt that she knew the manager well enough to joke around with him. So on April 1, 2003 she called him up（召唤, 使想起, 提出, 打电话给） at his home and told him that armed men were robbing the store. The manager immediately called the police, who promptly dispatched four cruisers. Minutes later Walker phoned the manager again and screamed April Fools. Too late.When the police arrived moments later they werent amused and charged her with inducing a panic. Walkers manager fired her.一家服装店的雇员 Sitra Walker只在那工作了两个星期，然而她觉得自己和经理已经熟到可以开玩笑的程度了。愚人节那天她打电话给经理说店里被人抢了。经理立刻打电话报警，警察派了四辆巡逻车来。等她再打电话来说是开玩笑时，迟了。警察没觉得这个好笑，起诉她蓄意制造混乱。而经理也毫不犹豫地开除了她。5、运用智慧 适时舍得s a master who went to India. In those times, we didnt have the communications or airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went to India on foot. He had never been to India before; perhaps he came from Persia. And when he got there, he saw a lot of fruit. In India they have plenty of fruit to sell,but much of it is expensive because they cant grow much due to the water situation. So he saw one basket, a big basket of some very red, long fruit. And it was the cheapest in the shop, not expensive at all.从前有一位师父，他到印度去，那时候因为交通不发达，没有飞机，不像现在一样有很多交通工具，所以这位师父就步行去印度。他有可能是波斯人，以前没去过印度。他到印度时，看见许许多多的水果。在印度，有时因为缺水的缘故，水果产量不多，许多小店虽然摆满了水果，但多半都很贵。那位师父发现有个大篮子里面装着一种红色长条形的水果，这种水果的价格最便宜，一点都不贵.So he went up（上升, 增长, 被兴建起来） and asked, How much per kilo? And the shopkeeper said, Two rupees. Two rupees in India is nothing; its like dirt. So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started eating it. But after he ate some of it: Oh, my God! His eyes watered,（his mouth watered and burned, his eyes were burning, his head was burning and his face became red. As he coughed and choked and gasped for breath, he jumped up and down, saying, Ah! Ah! Ah!他就走过去询问：“这个一公斤要多少钱？”小贩回答：“两卢比。”两卢比在印度根本不算什么，像尘土一样不值钱，于是他就整整买了一公斤，然后开始吃。 吃了几口之后，这位师父就眼泪、口水齐流，眼睛发红，嘴巴辣得像着火一样，整个头好像要烧起来，他又咳又呛，满脸通红地喘不过气来，在那里边跳边叫.But he still continued to eat the fruit! Some people who were looking at him shook their heads and said, Youre crazy, man. Those are chilies! You cant eat so many; theyre not good for you! People use them as a condiment（调味品）, but only a little bit to put into food for taste. You cant just eat them by the handful like that; theyre not fruit! So the stupid master said, No, I cant stop! I paid money for them, and now Ill eat them. Its my money!不过他还是继续吃！有人看到他这样子后，就摇摇头说：“老兄，你是脑袋坏掉啦？这是辣椒耶！不能吃那么多，这样对你不好。辣椒是用来调味的，煮菜时每次只放一点点在食物里增加味道。这个不是水果，不能这样整把拿起来吃啊！”那位笨师父说：“不行，我已经花钱买了，就要把它吃完，这可都是钱哪！”And you think that master was stupid, right? Similarly, we sometimes do a lot of things like that. We invest money, time or effort in a relationship, business or job. And even though（即使） its been a long time, bitter experience tells us it wont work, and we know theres no more hope that things will change in the future this we definitely know by intuition（直觉）。we still continue just because weve invested money, time, effort and love into it. If so,were kaput（过时的, 故障的,失败了的）in the brain.Just like the man who ate the chilies and suffered so much but couldnt stop because he didnt want to waste the money hed paid.你们觉得这位师父很笨，是吗？其实我们有时候也做很多类似的傻事。有时候我们在某些感情或事业工作上，投入了金钱、时间和心力，经过长期的经营之后，我们从惨痛的经验中知道行不通，直觉也很清楚未来不会有任何转机，但我们还是舍不得放弃，因为已经投入了金钱、时间、心力和感情在里面。像这种情形，表示说我们头脑坏掉，就像那个吃辣椒的人一样，明明已经那么痛苦了，还是不肯停止，只因为不想白白浪费已经付出的钱。So even if youve lost something, let it go and move on(继续前进).Thats better than continuing to lose.就算你会有所损失，还是要放下，然后继续前进！这样总比一直损失下去来得好。6、伸出你的友爱之手 【英文原文】Develop Your Own Helping RitualsIf you want your life to stand for peace and kindness,it s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ways to do this is by developing my own helping rituals. These little acts of kindness are opportunities to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be kind and helpful.We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is be auty and nature. One of the exceptions to the beauty is the litter that some peop le throw out of their windows as they are driving on the rural roads. One of the few drawbacks to living out the boondocks is that public services, such as litter collection, are less available than they are closer to the city.A helping ritual that I practice regularly with my two children is picking up li tter in our surrounding area. We ve become so accustomed to doing this that my da ughters will often say to me in animated voices, There s some litter, Daddy, stop the car! And if we have time, we will often pull over and pick it up. It may seem strange, but we actually enjoy it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically anywhere. Once I even saw a complete stranger picking up litter close to where we live. He smiled at me and said, I saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good idea.Picking up litter is only one of an endless supply of possible helping rituals. You might like holding a door open for people, visiting lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or shoveling snow off someone else s driveway. Think of somet