中英双语故事读物

1、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 w

2、ith 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

3、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,

4、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

5、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

6、 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 a

7、nd 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

8、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，

9、“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

10、 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 debili

11、tatingaffecting 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

12、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

13、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

14、 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 supermark

15、et 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

16、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 r

17、etailers 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

18、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 t

19、hought 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 millio

20、naire.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 wit

21、h 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 t

22、hat 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)

23、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

24、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.

25、 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 pul

26、ling 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.

27、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

28、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 s

29、till 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 dial

30、ed 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

31、 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

32、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 t

33、he 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

34、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 neve

35、r 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 wa

36、s 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

37、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 cough

38、ed 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 sh

39、ook 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 can

40、t 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 th

41、at. 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 wev

42、e 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

43、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

44、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

45、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 service

46、s, 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

47、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 m

48、e 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

49、hing that seems effortless yet helpful. It s fun, personally rewarding, and sets a good example. Everyone wins.【中文译文】伸出你的友爱之手如果你想让自己的生活安宁祥和，最好做一些友善平和的事情。我最喜欢的一种方式是培养 自己乐于助人的习惯。这些小小的善行让你有机会去帮助别人，让你意识到待人友善、乐于助人的感觉有多好。我们住在旧金山圣弗朗西斯科湾地区的郊外。我们目所能及的几乎都是美丽的自然风光。与这美景不太和谐的是有人驱车行驶在乡间小路上时随手从车窗往外扔垃圾。而居住在这种偏远的地方的

50、一个缺点就是缺少必要的公共服务，例如，垃圾的收集就不如靠近市区那样方便。我跟我的两个孩子经常做的一件事就是捡拾我们周围地区的垃圾。对此我们已经习以为常，我的女儿们经常会兴奋地对我说，“爸爸，这儿有垃圾，请停一下车！”只要时间来得及，我们总是将车开到路边并将垃圾捡起来。这似乎有点不可思议，但我们真的喜欢这样做。我们在公园里，人行道上，几乎任何地方捡拾垃圾。曾经有一次，我在我们家附近看到一位陌生人在捡垃圾。他笑着对我说，“我看到你这么做了，看来是个好主意。”捡垃圾只不过是无数善意行为中的一种形式而已。你可以为别人开门，或者去敬老院看望那些孤独的老人，或者清除别人行车道上的积雪。总会想出一些似乎毫不

51、费力但又非常有益的事情。这真的很有趣，自己会感觉很好，也为别人树立了榜样。每个人都会从中受益。7、众目睽睽下偷曲奇饼的大胆男人A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see that

52、 the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be, grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between, which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene. So she munched the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock.一天晚上，一位女士在机场候机，她的航班还要等上很长的几个小时。她在机场的商店里找了一本书，买下一袋曲奇饼，找了一个地方坐

53、下。她全神贯注地读着书，忽然看见坐在她旁边的一个男子居然大胆地从他们之间的曲奇饼袋子里拿走了一两块去吃。为了不当众发脾气，她尽量假装没有看见，使劲地嚼着曲奇饼，一边看着表，而那个可恶的曲奇饼小偷正在使她的存货不断减少。She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking,If I wasnt so nice, I would blacken his eye. With each cookie she took, he took one too. When only one was left, she wondered

54、 what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other.时间一分一秒地过去，她越来越生气，心想：“要不是我脾气好，我早把他的眼睛打青了！”就这样，她拿一块曲奇饼，他也拿一块，剩了最后一块时，她不知道对方会怎么做。他呢，脸上带着微笑，又有些紧张，把最后一块曲奇饼拿起来，掰成两半，给她一半，自己把另一半吃了。She snatched it from h

55、im and thought.oooh, brother. This guy has some nerve and hes also rude. Why he didnt even show any gratitude! She had never known when she had been so galled and sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate, refusing to look back at the ingrate t

56、hief.她从对方手里夺下半块曲奇饼，想，哦，老兄！这家伙有点太胆大、太无理了。他竟然都没有露出一点感激的意思！她从来也没有像这样恼怒过，所以在她的航班通告响起时，她如释重负地叹了口气。她收拾好了行李，走向登机口，根本不想再看一眼那忘恩负义的小偷。She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat. Then she sought her book, which was almost complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise. There was her bag of

57、cookies, in front of her eyes. If mine are here, she moaned in despair, the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to apologize, she realized with grief, that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.登机之后，她舒适地坐在座位上，开始找那本马上就要看完的书。就在她够到行李时，却惊讶地喘不过气来。她的曲奇饼不就放在自己眼前吗？她绝望地喃喃着，如果这是我的，那么那些曲奇饼就

58、是他的啦，是他在和我分享。她悲哀地意识到，道歉已经太晚，她才是那个不讲理的、忘恩负义的、偷了曲奇饼的人。How many times in our lives have we absolutely known that something was a certain way, only to discover later that what we believed to be true.was not?在我们的生活中，有多少次我们认为事情完全就是那样的，而后来才发现我们认为是真相的东西却并非真相？It is only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally