【正文】 eSimply to Relax, I39。m you39。re faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a wholeand remember the positive 。當(dāng)你面對(duì)重重困難的時(shí)候，要意識(shí)到相對(duì)于你的整個(gè)生命，這些難題其實(shí)是微不足道的，請(qǐng)銘記你生命中美好的東西。The Bridge橋Once upon a time two brothers who lived on neighboring farms fell into ，生活在相領(lǐng)的農(nóng)場(chǎng)中，他們之間發(fā)生了沖突。One morning there was a knock on John’s opened it to find a man with a carpenter’s ，有人敲約翰的門。他打開門，發(fā)現(xiàn)外邊站著一位背著木工箱的人。“I’m looking for a few days’ work,” he said.“Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there I could help with?” “我想找?guī)滋旎罡?，”他說?！澳氵@里是否有些零活需要我做？”“Yes,” said the elder brother.“I do have a job for across the creek at that ’s my neighbor。in fact, it’s my younger brother’ week there was a meadow between us, but he took his bulldozer to the river levee, and now there is a creek between that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to build me a fence—an 8foot fence—so I won’t need to see his face any more.” “是的，”作為兄長(zhǎng)的約翰說?！拔业拇_有件活讓你做。你看小溪那邊的農(nóng)場(chǎng)。那是我的鄰居，其實(shí)就是我弟弟的農(nóng)場(chǎng)。上周我們之間還有一片牧場(chǎng)，但他用推土機(jī)把河堤推掉了，如今橫在我們面前的是一條小溪?？吹叫笊崤赃叺哪嵌涯静牧藛?？我想讓你為我修建一道籬笆——一道8英尺高的籬笆——這樣我就用不著看他的臉色了。”The carpenter said, “I think I understand the ’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.” 木匠說，“我明白了。我的活保證讓您滿意。”The elder brother had to go to town on business, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready, and then he was sunset when John returned, thecarpenter had just finished his ’s eyes opened was no fence there at ，因此他幫木匠備好料后就走了。大約在太陽(yáng)落山的時(shí)候約翰回來了，木匠也剛剛干完活。約翰的眼睛睜得大大的。那根本沒有籬笆。It was a bridge—a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other!A fine piece of work, handrails and all and the neighbor, his younger brother, was ing across, his hand ——一座橫跨小溪的橋！這是一座非常完美的橋，欄桿和所有的一切都很精美，那位鄰居，也就是他弟弟，正走過來，并向前伸出手?！癥ou are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I’ve said and done.” The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, and then they met in the middle, takingeach other’s hand, then embracing each other.“在我說了過頭的話和做了過頭的事之后，你這樣做太令我感動(dòng)了?！毙值芏朔謩e站在橋的兩端，然后他們?cè)跇蛑虚g相遇了，握住對(duì)方的手，然后擁抱在一起。They turned to see the carpenter raise his toolbox on his shoulder.“No, wait!Stay a few ’ve a lot of other projects for you,” said John.“I’d love to stay on.” The carpenter said, “but I have many more bridges to build.”他們轉(zhuǎn)過身，看到木匠把他的木工箱扛到了肩膀上?！安唬纫幌?！請(qǐng)?jiān)俅魩滋臁Ｎ疫€有很多其它活兒需要你做，”約翰說。“我很想呆下去，”木匠說，“但還有更多的橋等著我去修建呢?！钡诙河⒄Z短文A Wolf in sheep39。s clothing（披著羊皮的狼）A wolf wanted to eat the sheep, but he was afraid of the vigilantshepherd and his day the wolf found the skin of a put it on and walked among the lamb thought that thewolf was its mother because his skin looked like itfollowed the after they had left the dogs, the wolf cameat the lamb and ate it some time he succeeded in deceivingthe sheep, and enjoying hearty 狼想吃羊，但是他害怕警惕的牧羊人和牧羊犬。有一天狼發(fā)現(xiàn)了一塊羊皮，便披著它混入羊群。一只小羊羔把這只披著羊皮的狼誤認(rèn)為自己的媽媽，被領(lǐng)出了羊群。狼成功地欺騙了羊群，吃掉了小羊羔。寓意：事物的外表有時(shí)候會(huì)掩蓋它的本質(zhì)，所以我們不能只憑表面現(xiàn)象就作判斷。good boy(好孩子)Little Robert asked his mother for two cents.“What did you dowith the money I gave you yesterday?”“I gave it to a poor old woman,” he answered.“You39。re a good boy,” said the mother proudly.“Here are two cents why are you so interested in theold woman?”“She is the one who sells the candy.”小羅伯特向媽媽要兩分錢?！白蛱旖o你的錢干什么了？”“我給了一個(gè)可憐的老太婆，”他回答說?！澳阏媸莻€(gè)好孩子，”媽媽驕傲地說?！霸俳o你兩分錢?？赡銥槭裁磳?duì)那位老太太那么感興趣呢？” “她是個(gè)賣糖果的?！?Naughty monkey(調(diào)皮的猴子)It’s very old man is asleep on the fly es and sits on the end of the man’s old man has a naughty chases the fly es back again and sits on the old man’s nose monkey chases it away again and happens five or six monkey is very jumps up, runs to the garden and picks up a large the fly sits on the old man’s nose again, the monkey hits ithard with the kills the fly and breaks the old man’s 。一位老人在椅子上睡著了。一只蒼蠅飛來落在老人的鼻子上。老人有一只頑皮的猴子。猴子在追打蒼蠅。蒼蠅再次飛落在老人的鼻子上，猴子一再追打蒼蠅。這樣往返了五六次，猴子很生氣。他跳著跑到花園，撿起一塊大石頭。當(dāng)蒼蠅再次落在老人的鼻子上時(shí)，猴子用石頭擊中老人的鼻子上的蒼蠅。他砸死了蒼蠅也打破了老人的鼻子.第三篇：英語經(jīng)典短文中小學(xué)課外輔導(dǎo)專家英語經(jīng)典短文一、How to use an EnglishChinese dictionary? When you are reading something in English, you may often e across a new ’s the best way to know it? You may look it up in an EnglishChinese will tell you a lot about the word: the pronunciation, the Chinese meaning and also how to use this how can you know where the word is in thousands of English words? How to find it in the dictionary both quickly and correctly? First, all the English words are arranged in the alphabetical the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the Ietter A, then B,C,D,E…That means if there are two words “desert”and “pull”,” “desert”will be certainly before“pull”.Then if there,are two words both beginning with the same letter,you may look at the second the third, the fourth…For example, “pardon”is before “plough”, “judge”is before “just”, you understand how to look up a word in a dictionary? The dictionary will be your good friend,I hope you’ll use it as often as possible in your English 、Travel by bikeIf you go to visit London, you’ll see a lot of buses and cars on the ’ll also see a lot of bikes because more people travel by are a lot of reasons for , it is very cheap to buy a bike, and it is quick, often have to wait for a bus for half an the bus es, there are so many other buses and cars on the roads that the bus moves very traveled to work by bus for about four often arrived at work late and one day, about two years ago, a friend of mine said, “ I go to work by don’t we travel together?”“Because my bike is old.” I answered, “And there are so many buses and cars on the ’ll feel frightened“You needn’t feel frightened!” said my friend.“If you follow me and we ride slowly, you’ll be fine.”The next day I brought myself a new we went slowly, we arrived ai work took 40 minutes to go to work by bus, but only half an hour by bike!Now I don’t feel love going go work by take a different road every arrived at work very ’ve got a little more money now, and more important, I feel people think in the same way as I ’s why you see a lot of bike