The travelers and the purse

There were two men.They were on a trip together along the road.One of them picked up a purse.The purse was full of gold."How happy I am!"the man said."I have found a purse and it has so much gold.""Do not say'I have found a purse',"said the other man."Say 'we have found a purse'and 'how happy we are'.We should share with each other everything.""No,no."replied the other man."I found it and I am going to keep it."

Just then they heard a shout of"Stop,thief!"and they looked around.They saw some people coming down the road.The man who found the purse was afraid."We will die if they find the purse on us,"he cried."No,no,"replied the other."You did not say 'we' before,so now you should say 'I will die'."

旅人和钱包

从前有两个人。他们在路上一起去旅行 。其中一个捡到一个钱包，钱包里装满了金子。“我多么快乐！ ”他说 ，“我找到一个装满金子的钱包
。”“别说‘我找到了钱包’，
”另一个人说
，“说‘我们找到了钱包’和‘我们多么快乐’。我们应该分享所有的东西 。”“不，不 ， ”另一个人答道
，“我找到了它，而且我要留着它
。
”

这时候他们听到一个声音“站住 ，小偷！”
，然后他们四处张望。他们看见一群人冲了过来 。那个人害怕了
。“如果他们在我们身上找到了钱包，我们会被打死的！ ”他说。“不 ，不
，
”另一个人答道，“之前你没有说‘我们’ ，所以你应该说‘我会被打死’ 。”

Question:

1.How is the man who had found the purse?

2.What can you learn form the story?

四年级英语故事短文

There are two rabbits in the wood. They are good friends. They go to find food together. They go to school together. They do all the things together. But there is only one thing they do it by oneself. What is it? Do you know? They don’t eat together. Because one of the rabbits is a toy rabbit.

在森林里有两只小兔子
。他们是好朋友。他们一起去找食物 。他们一起去上学
。他们一起做所有的事情。但是只有一件事情他们是独自做的 。它是什么？你知道吗？他们不一起吃饭。因为其中的一只小兔子是玩具兔子
。

您觉得可以了,我录音,发给您.

四年级英语小故事（带翻译
，10—到60个）

英语故事因其具有可理解性、趣味性和足够的语言输入量被认为符合学前儿童学习语言的特点,从而成为幼儿教师在英语教学过程中采用频率较高的一种教学手段。我精心收集了，供大家欣赏学习!

篇1

Gong Zhiqiao obtained a piece of fine Chinese tung wood and made a qin stringed musicalinstrument out of it.

工之侨得到一块优质的桐木料 ，用它制作了一把琴，

When installed with strings and plucked, it gave out a wonderful sound, harmonious andpleasing to the ear.

安上琴弦
，一弹，发出金玉一般的声音 ，和谐悦耳 。

Gong Zhiqiao thought this was the finest instrument in the world,

工之侨自以为这是世界上最好的一把琴了
。

so he presented it to the Tai Chang Si Qing a high official in charge of rites and protocol of theancestral temple who had it examined by an imperial musician, but the musician disdained tohave a look at it.

于是
，他就拿去献给太常寺卿。太常让皇家的乐工检验，乐工却不屑一顾 ，

He only said“Not ancient! ”and returned the instrument.

说:“不古 。
”把琴还给了他
。

Gong Zhiqiao had to take it home and asked a lacquerer to paint many crackles on theinstrument in imitation of an ancient qin,

工之侨只好把琴拿回家
，让漆工仿古，在琴上漆出许多裂纹 ，

and asked a sculptor to carve on it some inscriptions of ancient scholars. Then he put it in abox and buried it underground.

又让雕匠在琴上刻了古人的题字
，然后装进匣子，埋在地下。

After one year, Gong Zhiqiao took out the instrument from underground,and went to themarket to sell it.

一年之后 ，工之侨把琴从地下取出来
，赶到集市上去卖 。

It happened that an influential personage was passing by. He bought it with 100 pieces of goldand presented it to the imperial court.

有位显贵之人正好路过，出百金买下了这把琴 ，并把它献给了朝廷
。

The imperial musicians vied with each other to look at it and praised in unison:

乐工们捧著这把琴，争相传看
，竟然齐声称赞:

“Ah! It is indeed a rare stringed musical instrument in the world!”

“啊，真是世上少有的珍琴i ”

篇2

A civilian named Shentu Dun in Luoyang obtained an unearthed tripod of the Han Dynastyfrom Shenchuan, Chang’an.

洛阳 ，有一位平民叫申屠敦
，他从长安深川得到了一尊出土的汉鼎。

On the tripod, the crisscross designs of clouds and ancient hornless dragons were bright andclear.

鼎上，云和蝠交错的花纹 ，灿烂清晰 。

Lu Sheng, his neighbour on the west,took a fancy to it instantly.

申屠敦家西边的一位邻居鲁生一见到就十分喜爱
，

He asked a copper *** ith to cast a tripod in imitation, soaked and dyed it with a strangedecoction,dug a pit and buried it underground.

让铜匠模仿著也铸了一尊，用一种奇特的药浸染之后 ，挖了一个坑
，把它埋在地下
。

After three years, he dug it out.Owing to the decoction and corrosion of the earth,

过了三年，他把鼎从地下挖出来一看 ，由于药物和泥土的锈蚀
，

the copper surface of the tripod changed and looked very much like Shentu Dun’s genuinetripod.

表面的铜质起了变化，跟申屠敦的真的汉鼎极其相似。

One day,Lu Sheng presented this fake tripod to an influential official,

一天 ，鲁生将这尊假汉鼎献给了一位权贵 。

who was so pleased as if he had got a treasure that he invited guests to a banquet toappreciate it together.

权贵如获至宝，便大宴宾客
，请大家共同欣赏。

At the time,Shentu Dun was also present. He knew in his heart that Lu Sheng’s tripod was afake.He said:

当时，申屠敦也在座
。他心里头最明白 ，鲁生的那尊是假的
，就说:

“I also have a tripod of about the same shape as this one. But I don’t know which one isgenuine.
”

“我也有一尊汉鼎，形状和这尊差不多 ，但不知哪一尊是真的。”

The influential official asked him to fetch it at once. After he examined it for a long time, hesaid:

权贵立即叫他搬过来
，左右端详了很久，说：

“This one is not genuine. ”

“这尊不是真的!”

The guests also chimed in and said one after another:“It is indeed not genuine.
”

众宾客也附和著 ，一个接一个地说:“的确不是真的!”

Shentu Dun was quite perturbed and argued on just grounds,but the others rallied together toattack him,ridiculed and even insulted him, so he said no more.

申屠敦心中很不平静
，据理争辩 。众人竟群起而攻之，冷嘲热讽 ，甚至羞辱
，他便不再做声了
。

When he returned home, he sighed:

回到家里，申屠敦唉声叹气:

“I didn’t know until today the power of authority, which can confound right with wrong andpass off the fake as the real thing. ”

“我今天才知道权势的威力 ，可以颠倒是非，以假乱真。
”

篇3

There was a treasure mountain on the sea, where there were many,many rare treasuresshining with brilliant light and dazzling the eyes.

海上
，有一座宝山 。宝山上，有许许多多奇珍异宝 ，光芒四射
，非常耀眼
。

A seaman got a pearl of 1 can 1/30 metre in diameter, which glistened brightly. He took aship to take it home.

一个海员得到一颗直径一寸的明珠，金灿灿的 ，便乘船把它运回家。

But before the ship had sailed for 100 li,all of a sudden black clouds rolled all over the sky,and astrong wind blew to unleash huge waves.

可是
，航行不到百里，突然间 ，满天乌云滚滚
，刮起了大风，掀起了巨浪 ，

The ship was tossed about violently. A flood dragon was seen emerging from the stormy seaand looking very terrifying.

船身颠簸得很厉害 。人们只见一条蛟龙
，在惊涛骇浪中出没，样子非常可怕
。

The crew advised the seaman:

船工劝告海员说:

“It seems that the flood dragon wants to have your pearl.

“看样子 ，这条蛟龙想要得到您的这颗明珠啊!

Please throw it into the sea at once; otherwise you will get us into trouble.”

请您赶快把它抛到海里去吧，否则就会连累了我们。 ”

At the moment,the seaman was in a dilemma. He couldn’t bear to part with the pearl;on theother hand, he was afraid of the imminent disaster.

这时候
，海员左右为难:丢掉吧，实在舍不得;不丢吧 ，又怕大难临头
，急得满头大汗 。

His head was covered with perspiration from anxiety.After a while, with his teeth clenched toendure the pain,he gouged out a piece of flesh from his thigh to conceal the pearl there. Thestorm on the sea subsided at once.

过了一会儿，他咬紧牙关 ，忍着痛
，宛开大腿上的一块肉，把明珠藏了进去
。海上的风浪立即小了。

As soon as the seaman got home, he took out the dazzling pearl immediately. But not longafterwards he died of the festering wound in his thigh.

这个海员回到家里后 ，连忙取出了耀眼的明珠 。但是不久
，他因大腿的伤口溃烂而死了。

1. Virtue

Many years after receiving my graduate degree, I returned to the State University of New York at Binghamton as a faculty member. One day in a crowded elevator, someone remarked on its inefficiency. I said the elevators had not changed in the 20 years since I began there as a student.

When the door finally opened, I felt a compassionate pat on my back, and turned to see an elderly nun smiling at me. "You'll get that degree, dear," she whispered. "Perseverance is a virtue."

美 德

获取研究生学位多年以后，我回到位于宾翰顿的纽约州立大学当教员
。一天 ，电梯里很拥挤
，有人抱怨电梯效率太低。我说自我在那里当学生起，20年来电梯一直没有换过 。

最后当电梯门打开时 ，我感到有人在我的背上同情地拍了一下，回过头来我看到一位年长的修女正在朝我微笑
。“你会拿到学位的
，亲爱的，
”她低声说道：“坚持不懈是一种美德。”

2. Difference

"I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class," observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at California State University in Los Angeles. "When I say, 'Good afternoon,' the undergraduates respond, 'Good afternoon." But the graduate students just write it down."

区 别

“研究生班和本科生很容易就能区别开来 ， ”在洛杉矶加利福利亚州立大学给我们研究生上工程学课的老师如此说 。“我说‘下午好’
，本科生们回答说‘下午好’
。研究生们则把我说的话记在笔记本上。
”

3.Too Long

The travel editor of a newspaper called, saying she was finally using an article I had written several years earlier. She wanted to be sure the tour information was still correct. "I also wanted to make certain," she sheepishly confessed, "that you're still alive. Whenever the writer has died, I know I've held a story too long."

太久

一家报纸的旅行版编辑打开电话，说她终于决定要采用一篇我几年前写的文章 。她想确定那旅游信息是否还可靠
。“我还想确定 ，”她怯怯地坦白道：“您是否还健在。每次发现作者已经不在人世了
，我才知道我将文章压得太久了 。 ”

4.Charge for Bread and Butter

Some years ago, my dad, an attorney, took me to a fancy restaurant in Now York City. When the bill arrived, there was a $1.50 charge for bread and butter. Dad paid the bill, including the charge for bread and butter. However, the next day, he sent a letter to the resturant stating that the charge was uncalled for. Enclosed in the same envelope was a bill for $500 in legal services.

Someone from the restaurant called immediately and asked, "What is this $500 bill for? We never ordered any legal services."

Dad replied, "I never ordered any bread and butter."

The $1.50 was returned without delay.

面包和黄油费

几年前，我当律师的爸爸带我去纽约的一家高档餐馆
。帐单上来时 ，上面有1.5美元的面包和黄油费。爸爸付了帐
，连同面包和黄油的收费一齐付了 。但是第二天，他给餐馆寄了一封信 ，说那项收费是没有道理的。随信还寄上了一张500美元的法律服务机构的收费单
。

餐馆马上打来电话
，问道：“这500美元的收费单是怎么回事？我们从来没有要什么法律机构的服务。
”

爸爸答道，“我也从来没有要什么面包和黄油 。”

那1.5美元立即就寄了回来
。

5. Sleeping Pills

Bob was having trouble getting to sleep at night. He went to see his doctor, who prescribed some extra-strong sleeping pills.

Sunday night Bob took the pills, slept well and was awake before he heard the alarm. He took his time getting to the office, strolled in and said to his boss: "I didn't have a bit of trouble getting up this morning."

"That's fine," roared the boss, "but where were you Monday and Tuesday?"

安眠药

鲍勃晚上失眠。他去看医生 ，医生给他开了一些强力安眠药 。

星期天晚上鲍勃吃了药，睡得很好
，在闹钟响之前就醒了过来
。他到了办公室，遛达进去 ，对老板说：“我今天早上起床一点麻烦都没有。 ”

Much Worse 那就更糟了

Policeman: Why didn't you shout for help when you were robbed of your watch?

Man: If I had opened my mouth, they'd have found my four gold teeth. That would be much worse.

警察：有人抢你的手表时
，你为什么不呼救呢？

男子：要是我张口的话，他们就会发现我的四颗金牙 。那就更糟了

“好啊!”老板吼道 ，“那你星期一和星期二到哪儿去了？
”