20个英文哲理小故事
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英语哲理小故事
(1)
One day, the lion king
announced that he was going to get married, and he
invited all the animals to attend the
wedding ceremony. So the tortoise thought,
“
I
am an animal.
I shall attend it as well.
”
Then he set out on the journey.
On his way, he met other animals. They
were stunned for a few seconds and
then
began to laugh at the tortoise, saying,
“
How silly you are! The
ceremony is
starting. Can you make it
as you walk so lowly? I
’
m
afraid you still can
’
t be
there
after the baby lion king is born,
or grow up or even after he gets
married.
”
But the
tortoise had made his mind to go.
Many years passed, and he finally got
to the entrance of the lion
king
’
s cave.
No
wonder that the lion king
’
s
wedding had already been finished a long time ago.
However, the tortoise found that the
cave was so well- decorated and all varieties
of animals were there. They told the
tortoise,
“
Today, the son of
the old lion king
is going to get
married.
”
How could the tortoise attend the
little lion king
’
s wedding
party if he had
stopped half- way?
(2)
After a
heavy rain, a spider was climbing hard towards his
broken net on the
wall. Because the
wall was too wet, the spider fell down after
reaching a certain
height. But he
continuously climbed up and fell down again and
again.
The first man saw
it, sighed heavily and said to himself,
“
My life is just like
that
spider
’
s;
busy
all
the
time
but
getting
nothing?
”
He
became
increasingly
depressed.
The second man saw it and
said,
“
What a stupid spider.
Why doesn
’
t it make
a detour to a drier place?
I
’
d never be that
stupid.
”
So he became
smarter.
The third man saw
it. He was quite moved by the
spider
’
s perseverance and
said to himself,
“
I
won’t let a
little spider
be stronger and more
persistent than me.
I
’ll
learn from his example and become
stronger,”
and he did.
(3)
There was a
young flower in the desert where all was dry and
sad looking. It
was growing by itself,
enjoying every day and saying to the sun,
“When shall I be
grown
up?
”
And the sun would say,
“Be patient
! Each time I
touch you, and you
will grow a
little.
”
She was so pleased
because she would have a chance to bring
beauty to this corner of sand. And this
is all she wanted to do ---- bring a little bit
of beauty to this world.
But
one day a hunter came by and stepped on the
flower. She was going to
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die and she felt so sad.
Not because she was dying, but because she would
never
have a chance to bring a little
bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.
The Great Spirit saw her, thinking that
she should be living. So he reached
down and touched her---- and gave her a
second life.
Finally
she
grew up to
be a beautiful
flower. And this
corner of
the desert
also became so beautiful
because of the small flower.
(4)
Soon after her little
brother was born, Sachi began to ask her parents
to leave
her
alone
with
the
new
baby.
They
worried
that
like
most
four-year-olds,
she
might feel jealous and
want to hurt (hit or shake) him, so they said no.
But she
tried every effort to show she
wouldn
’
t hurt him. (But they
found her have no sign
of
jealousy.)
She
treated
the
baby
with
kindness,
and
her
pleas
to
be
left
alone
with him became more
urgent. After a long time of observation, her
parents finally
allowed it.
Elated,
she
went
into
the
baby
’
s
room
and
shut
the
door,
but
it
opened
a
crack----
enough
for
her
curious
parents
to
peek
in
and
listen.
They
saw
little
Sachi walk quietly up to her baby
brother, put her face close to his and say
quietly,
“
Baby, tell me what
God feels like. I
’
m starting
to forget.
”
(5)
There are three brothers
who all have doctor degrees and work for NASA.
One
day
after
finishing
dinner
in
their
mother
’
s
home,
again
they
started
discussing the
project of landing on the moon and establishing
the space station.
One
of
the
daughters-in-law
washing
dishes
in
the
kitchen
complained,
“
They
three
discuss
those
unimaginable
things
all
the
time,
which
makes
us
foolish compared with
them.
”
But the
mother said,
“
I used to
think that I was foolish. However, I changed
my
mind
remembering
that
they
three
spent
the
whole
afternoon
fixing
all
the
screen
windows around the house last
autumn.
”
(6)
A
customer
having
lunch
in
a
restaurant
asked
a
waiter,
“
What
will
be the
weather like
tomorrow?
”
The
waiter answered full of certainty,
“
It will be the weather I
like.
”
Puzzled,
the customer asked,
“
How can
you know it will be the weather you
like?”
The
waiter
said,
“I
find
that
the
surroundings
can
not
always
go
with
my
mind.
So
I
learn
to
face
everything
that
I
encounter
joyfully.
Then
the
weather
tomorrow must be the one that I
enjoy.”
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(7)
Three criminals were
sentenced to stay in prison for three years. The
warden
agreed to satisfy each a
request.
The American liked to smoke
cigars so he asked for three cases of cigars.
The
Frenchman
was
the
most
romantic
among
them
all.
He
wanted
a
beautiful lady for companion.
The
Jewish,
however,
would
like
to
have
a
phone
connecting
the
outside
society.
Three years later, the first man
rushing out of the prison was the American,
with his nostrils full of cigars,
shouting,
“
Give me fire!
Give me fire!
”
He turned
out to forget to ask for fire.
Then there came the Frenchman. He was
seen to hold a child in his arms. The
beautiful lady was followed by one
child, too, perceiving the third one.
The last coming one was the Jewish. He
held the warden
’
s hand
tightly and
said,
“
Thanks
to
the
telephone.
I
have
been
keeping
contact
with
the
outside
society these three
years. My business didn
’
t
stop, but has increased by 200%. So
I
’
ll send you a
Rolls-Royce as a gift to show my
thankfulness.
”
(8) The Fox and the Crow
One
day a crow stood on a branch near his nest and
felt very happy with the
meat
in
his
mouth.
At
that
time,
a
fox
saw
the
crow
with
the
meat,
so
he
swallowed and eagerly
thought of a plan to get the meat. However,
whatever the
fox said to the crow, the
crow just kept silent. Until the fox thought
highly of the
crow’s beautiful voice,
the crow felt flattered and opened his mouth to
sing. As
soon as the meat fell down to
the ground, the fox took the meat and went into
his
hole.
(9)
There was a little mouse staying at
home all day. It dared not to go out, even
at night.
“
The
cat is such a terrible animal.
He
’
ll eat
me.
”
it always said, with a
shudder of horror.
God
sympathized with the little mouse very much, so he
turned it into a cat.
But the cat which
was previously a mouse turned out to be afraid of
dogs.
“
Dogs always appear
fiendish. What can I do if I happen to encounter
him?
”
So
God
turned
it
into
a dog.
But
it
then
began
to
be
scared
of
tigers.
And
trying his best, God turned it into a
tiger.
To his surprise, again the tiger
said with its legs shaking,
“
The
hunter
’
s gun
can
kill me at any time.
”
At last, God was so angry that he
turned it back to a mouse. He said,
“
You
’
re
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a mouse after
all. Even if I turned you into a hunter, you would
be in fear of mice.
I can not help you
because you only have a
mouse
’
s
gut.
”
(10) Suffering Is a Part of Life
----By Kimberly
Kirberger
One of the most difficult
things to accept about life is the fact that
suffering
is a part of it. People die,
get sick, hurt each other and hurt themselves. One
of the
most important lessons I have
learned is that it is very important to accept the
bad
with the good, the light with the
dark and the pain with the joy. I have learned
that
without pain I
wouldn
’
t know joy. I have
learned that because of things like illness
and death it is that much more
important to love and live life to the fullest.
Great
lessons are learned from terrible
tragedies, tremendous growth takes place when
we are pushed to our very limits, and
although I don
’
t necessarily
like the
“
tough
stuff
”
I am
learning to live with it.
(11)
A
varying
hare
named
Clara
and
his
family
lived
in
the
northern
part
of
America
where was snowy most of the time and was lack of
food.
Clara
didn
’
t want to live this
kind of life any more. So although his relatives
urged him to stay, he resolutely set
off for immigration
After months of
trek, the open grassland which grew all kinds of
grass finally
appeared right before
Clara. This definitely excited Clara. But right at
that time,
Clara
suddenly
felt
something
wrong.
He
looked
up
alertly
but
only
found
a
shadow diving sharply toward him.
“
An
eagle!
”
Clara shouted out.
But it was too
late to escape. Clara
was licked up by the eagle.
Actually,
eagles
are
born
to
be
the
enemy
of
varying
hares.
But
in
the
northern area, varying
hares
’
fur is the same color
with the snow surrounded. The
eagles
can
’
t find the hares despite
of their sharp eyes. However, white Clara was
so outstanding in the green grassland.
Every
one
has
his
own
advantages.
But
these
advantages
are
not
implicit.
Sometimes they may turn to
disadvantages.
(12)
A
college
graduate
was
new
in
job
and
he
found
something
really
strange.
One of his
colleagues
was a
chair warmer. Most of the time, he
would play his
digital
camera,
receive
and
send
his
private
e-mails
or
listen
to
the
music.
And
more strangely, the boss never blamed
him.
The
graduate
was
quite
curious.
How
come
his
colleague
could
laze
away
while the competition nowadays was so
fierce? May he be the boss
’
s
relative?
One
day,
his
colleague
was
listening
to
the
music
leisurely
while
the
boss
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