sand and stone,沙子和石頭的故事
中英雙譯
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.
兩個(gè)朋友在荒漠里穿行,途中他們呢發(fā)生了爭(zhēng)執(zhí)；其中一個(gè)朋友扇了另一個(gè)一個(gè)耳光.被打的人非常的傷心,但他什么也沒有說,只是在沙上寫著：“今天,我最好的朋友扇了我一個(gè)耳光.”
他們繼續(xù)往前走,發(fā)現(xiàn)了一片綠洲,他們決定在哪里洗個(gè)澡.結(jié)果,剛剛被打的那位陷進(jìn)了泥潭,眼看著就要被淹死了,他的朋友救了他.醒過來以后,他在石頭上寫著：“今天,我最好的朋友救了我的命.”
那位打他并救了他的朋友問：“為什么我打你的餓時(shí)候你在沙上寫下來,現(xiàn)在卻在石頭上刻下來呢?”
被救的那一個(gè)回答道：“受到傷害的時(shí)候我們應(yīng)該把它寫在沙地上,讓寬恕的風(fēng)將其抹平.當(dāng)我們受到別人的恩澤的時(shí)候,我們應(yīng)該把它刻在石頭上,任何風(fēng)雨都不會(huì)把它擦掉.”
學(xué)會(huì)將所受到的傷害寫在沙子上,把所受到的恩澤刻在石頭上.有人說：“找到一個(gè)特別的人只需要用一分鐘的時(shí)間,欣賞他需要用一個(gè)小時(shí)的時(shí)間,喜歡他需要用一天的時(shí)間,但是忘記它卻需要一生的時(shí)間.”
把這一句話送給那些你永遠(yuǎn)都無法忘記的人吧.這段短短的話能讓他們知道你永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)忘記他們.
此生不忘.
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初中英語故事
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.
一只狗叼著肉打算回家去吃.在回家的路上他遇到一條河.他朝河里望去,看見水中自己的影子.
"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!"
“看吶!”他自言自語道.“下面那條狗也銜著肉呢.如果我把他的搶走,今晚上一定可以美餐一頓了!”
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.
這么想著,他就沖那只影子狗咬去,這時(shí)候他自己的肉掉進(jìn)了水里.當(dāng)然他什么也沒有得到.
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沒了.“活該!”他想,“因?yàn)槲铱吹剿霃奈疫@里搶走我的肉.”
By wanting to have everything,he has lost everything he had!
什么都想要,卻失去了原來所擁有的!