sand and stone,沙子和石头的故事
中英双译
The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert.During some point of the journey they had an argument,and one friend slapped the other one in the face.The one who got slapped was hurt,but without saying anything,wrote in the sand:” today my best friend slapped me in the face.”
They kept on walking until they found an oasis where they decided to take a bath.The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning,but the friend saved him.After he recovered from the near drowning,he wrote on a stone:”today my best friend saved my life.”
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him:” After I hurt you,you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone.why?”
The other friend replied:”when someone hurts us,we should write it down in the sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away.But when someone does something good for us,we must engrave it in stone where no wind ever erases it.
Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in stone..They say it takes a minute to find a special person,an hour to appreciate him,a day to love him,but an entire life to forget him.
Send this phrase to the people you will never forget .it’s a short message to let them know that you will never forget them.
Take time to live.
两个朋友在荒漠里穿行,途中他们呢发生了争执；其中一个朋友扇了另一个一个耳光.被打的人非常的伤心,但他什么也没有说,只是在沙上写着：“今天,我最好的朋友扇了我一个耳光.”
他们继续往前走,发现了一片绿洲,他们决定在哪里洗个澡.结果,刚刚被打的那位陷进了泥潭,眼看着就要被淹死了,他的朋友救了他.醒过来以后,他在石头上写着：“今天,我最好的朋友救了我的命.”
那位打他并救了他的朋友问：“为什么我打你的饿时候你在沙上写下来,现在却在石头上刻下来呢?”
被救的那一个回答道：“受到伤害的时候我们应该把它写在沙地上,让宽恕的风将其抹平.当我们受到别人的恩泽的时候,我们应该把它刻在石头上,任何风雨都不会把它擦掉.”
学会将所受到的伤害写在沙子上,把所受到的恩泽刻在石头上.有人说：“找到一个特别的人只需要用一分钟的时间,欣赏他需要用一个小时的时间,喜欢他需要用一天的时间,但是忘记它却需要一生的时间.”
把这一句话送给那些你永远都无法忘记的人吧.这段短短的话能让他们知道你永远都不会忘记他们.
此生不忘.
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初中英语故事
The Dog and His Shadow
狗和他的影子
It happened that a dog had some meat that he wanted to eat at home.On his way home he met a river.As he looked down,he saw his shadow in the water.
一只狗叼着肉打算回家去吃.在回家的路上他遇到一条河.他朝河里望去,看见水中自己的影子.
"Just look!"said he to himself."That dog down there has some meat,too.If I could get it away from him,I would really eat well tonight!"
“看呐!”他自言自语道.“下面那条狗也衔着肉呢.如果我把他的抢走,今晚上一定可以美餐一顿了!”
With this thought,he made a snap at the other dog's meat.And as he did,his own meat fell into the water.So then he had nothing at all.
这么想着,他就冲那只影子狗咬去,这时候他自己的肉掉进了水里.当然他什么也没有得到.
Then he saw that the other dog had lost his meat,too."That is as it should be!thought he."For I saw him trying to take my meat away from me."
然后,他看到另一只狗的肉也没了.“活该!”他想,“因为我看到他想从我这里抢走我的肉.”
By wanting to have everything,he has lost everything he had!
什么都想要,却失去了原来所拥有的!