大蛇掏心键盘怎么发:哪有英语趣味故事?

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英文数字儿歌
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how old are you?(你多大了?)—《英文数字儿歌》
i have got six pence(我有六便士)—《英文数字儿歌》
old king cole(老油菜王)—《英文数字儿歌》
six little ducks(六只小鸭)—《英文数字儿歌》

《世界著名儿童歌曲精选》(中英文对照)
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The man and the monkey

——Yoo hoo! Monkey! Where are you, little monkey?

——Come here little monkey! Come out, come out. Wherever you are!

——Where could he be? He must be around. Here somewhere.

——The boss is going to skin me alive when she finds out I lost her monkey.

Synopsis(故事大纲): The security guard has been hired full time to take care of a small, but troublesome monkey. If you have any ideas for the cartoon story, please feel free to e-mail us.

Skin me alive: Literally it means to remove someone's skin while they are still alive. In everyday speech however, if someone says that they will be skinned alive it means that they will be in a lot of trouble - usually from someone with more authority.(活剥我的皮)

1. Honesty

诚实

A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured. The manager of the office asked him how old his parents were when they died.

“Mother had a bad heart and died at the age of thirty. Father died of tuberculosis when he was thirty-five.”

“I am very sorry,”said the manager,“we cannot insure your life as your parents were not healthy.”

As the man was leaving the office, depressed, he met a clerk, who had overheard the conversation.

“You must not be so frank and tell the truth,”said the clerk,“no office will insure you if you speak like that. Use your imagination a little.”

The man went to another office and was shown into the manager's room.

“Well, young man, how old were your parents when they died?”

“Mother was ninety-three, and she died from a fall off her bicycle. Father was ninety-eight and he died while he was playing football.”

2. An American on a British Train

一个美国人乘英国火车

A young American entered a railway compartment on a British train, to discover that all seats were occupied, Including one on which was seated a small dog. To its owner, a middle-aged lady wearing a large hat, he said politely,“Excuse me, ma'am, but may I sit down?”

She said nothing, but merely sniffed and turned over the pages of her newspaper.

Again he said,“Excuse me, ma'am, but may I have this seat, please? And again she ignored him.

For a third time the young American said,“Ma'am, would you please remove your dog so that I may sit down?”

And for the third time the snooty matron totally ignored him, so he opened a window, picked up the dog, threw it out, and then sat on the empty seat.

There was a stunned silence, and then an Englishman sitting opposite said,“You know, you Yanks are the strangest people. You drive on the wrong side of the road. You eat with the fork in the wrong hand, you name the floors in the wrong numbers, and now you've just thrown the wrong bitch out of the window!”

3.A Bad Foot

受伤的脚

There was a bookseller who did not like to pay for anything. One day a big box of books fell on his foot.

“Go to the doctor,”said his wife,“show that foot to him.”

“No,”he said,“I'll wait until the doctor comes to our shop next time. Then I'll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I shall have to pay.”

The next day the doctor came to the shop to buy some books. The bookseller told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it and promised to help.

He took out a piece of paper and wrote something on it.“Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night.”he said.

“Thank you.”said the bookseller.“And now, sir, here are your books.”

“How much?”asked the doctor.

“Two pounds.”

“Good,”said the doctor.“I shall not have to pay you anything today.”

“Why?”asked the bookseller.

“I have examined your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I usually charge two pounds. And I came here today, didn't I? Bye-bye!”

4.The Gold and the Fur Coat

金子与皮大衣

A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus at a station. They sat next to each other.

“What's that in your bag?”asked the young man, pointing to a big bag beside the old man.

“Gold, nothing but gold,”answered the old man.

The young man could hardly believe his own ears,“What?”he said to himself in surprise.“So much gold? My God! How I wish to be able to get so much gold!”Then he began to think about how to get the gold.

The old man looked tired and sleepy and it seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open.“Are you sleepy, sir?”asked the young man.“Then you'd better lie down on the chair and have a good rest. Don't worry about the bus. I'll wake you up in time.”

“All right. It's very kind of you, young man.”The old man lay down and before long he fell asleep.

The young man took the big bag gently. But when he was about to run away, he found a corner of his fur coat was under the old man's body. Several times he tried to pull it out, but he couldn't. At last he took off his coat and went away with the bag.

The young man ran out of the station as quickly as his legs could carry him. When he reached a place where he thought the old man couldn't find him, he stopped and quickly opened the bag.

To his surprise, there was nothing but a lot of small stones in it. He hurried to the station at once. But when he got there, he found the old man was gone.

5. Shave Me First

先给我刮脸

A barber was in his shop, busily cutting a man's hair, when a handsome young stranger came in. He had a small boy with him. They sat down together and waited until the barber had finished. Then the young man told the barber to shave him and to cut the small boy's hair.

The barber said,“Do you want me to cut the boy's hair first, or to shave you?”

“Oh, shave me.”said the young man.“Then I'll go down the road and have a glass of wine while you're cutting the boy's hair.”

The young man sat down in the barber's chair, and the barber began to shave him.

When he had finished, the young man got up and said,“I'll go down the road now and have my wine while you're cutting the boy's hair.”

“All right, but I won't take long.”the barber warned him. The young man went out, the small boy obediently sat down in the barber's chair,and the barber began to cut his hair.

As he had said, he soon finished, and then the boy sat down and waited. At the end of half an hour, when the young man had still not come back, the barber said to the boy,“It is a pity that your daddy's taking such a long time. Where is he likely to be now?”

“I can't guess,”answered the small boy.“And that man wasn't my daddy. I've never seen him before in my life. I was playing in the street this morning, and he came up to me and asked me whether I'd like to have my hair cut without having to pay anything. I said I would, because my hair was rather long, so he brought me here.”

6.The Man and His Monkey

耍猴的人

A small crowd had gathered round the entrance to the park. His curiosity aroused, Robert crossed the road to see what was happening. He found that the centre of attraction was an old man with a performing monkey. The monkey's tricks ,he soon discovered, were in no way remarkable. So after throwing a few pennies in the dirty hat which the man had placed on the pavement, Robert began to move off, along with other members of the crowd.

At this point the man suddenly let out a loud cry. Everyone turned to see what had happened. The man was bending over his monkey, which now lay quite still on the pavement. He picked up the apparently lifeless body and, holding it close to him, began to weep. A young man stepped forward from the crowd and, taking some money from his pocket, dropped it into the hat. Robert and several other people did likewise, until the pennies in the hat were covered with silver coins. Meanwhile, the man continued to hold the dead monkey in his arms and seemed to take no notice of what was going on about him.

A few months later, Robert came across the old man again in another part of the city. The man had amonkey,bought no doubt with the money which the crowd had given him. It did not, however, seem any better at its tricks than the previous one. Robert was pleased to see that the old man was still able to earn a living, though on this occasion, having partly paid for the monkey out of his own pocket, he did not feel inclined to throw any money into the hat.

But the performance was not yet over! Once again the old man let out a loud cry. Once again the monkey lay still on the pavement. The man picked up the “dead”monkey and, clutching it in his arms, began to weep. The same young man stepped forward and threw some money into the hat. Again the crowd followed suit except for Robert. Smiling to himself, he went on his way, amazed at the man's audacity.

7.“You Failed!”

“你没及格!”

When I was at the university I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing games in the club than working in the library.

Once, at the end of term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write“True”or “False”.While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan.“It's very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get sixty correct to pass the test. I'll take a coin into the examination room. I haven't studied a chemistry book for months, so I'm sure I'll just toss the coin. If the coin comes down on my hand with the right side up, I write“True”.If it rests with the other side up, I write“False”.That way, I'm sure I'll get sixty questions right.”

The next day Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. He sat tossing a coin for half an hour andhanded in his paper one hour earlier than the rest of us.

The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor.

“Oh, good,”he said.“Have you got the results of the test? What mark did I get?”

The professor looked at him and smiled.

“Ah, it's you, Baines. Just a minute.”

Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it in the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

“I'm terribly sorry, Baines,”he said,“You failed.”

8.Elena Was Taught a Lesson

埃琳娜受到教训

Elena was not a good student. Her head was in the clouds most of the time. She wanted to listen in class and to study,but other things were more important, like her boyfriend, her clothes, and television. Every time she tried to concentrate on her lesson, her mind wandered.

One day, her English teacher, Mrs Green, said she was going to give an important test. She reviewed all week. Where Was Elena? She seemed to be there, but her mind was absent.

“Did you copy the questions? Did you do the exercises? Did you write your homework? Elena, wake up! You're going to fail the test,”warned Mrs Green.

The day of the test arrived. Elena didn't study very much, and she didn't know many answers. She tried to guess but soon gave up.

Next to Elena sat Ivan, a very hardworking student. Elena didn't want to fail the test, so she decided to cheat. She knew it was wrong, but she had no way out. She began to copy all of I van's answers.

Ivan noticed Elena cheating and was very angry. Quickly he changed all his answers so that they were incorrect. So did Elena. Then, hiding his paper,hequickly changed his answers back to the way they had been. Elena wasn't quick enough and the bell rang. Ivan turned to Elena and laughed.

“Honesty is the best policy,”he said.“Now all your answers are wrong for sure.”

9.A Guide with Prejudice

带偏见的导游

In 1861 the Civil War started in the United States between the Northern and the Southern states. The war continued with great bitterness until 1865,when the Northerners were victorious. However, even today, many Southerners have not forgotten their defeat, or forgiven the Northerners.

A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields of the Civil War with a guide who came from one of the Southern states. At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces of Northerners there.

At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him,“But surely the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?”

“Not as long as I'm the guide here, madam,”answered the Southern guide.

10.It Was Not Enough

这样还不够

A famous doctor once attended a little boy who was dangerously ill. Thanks to his skill and care this young patient recovered, and was soon able to get up and run about again. The child's mother was very grateful, and she called on the doctor to thank him for what he had done for her son.

“Doctor,”she said.“You have saved my little boy's life. I do not know how to thank you enough. I feel that money alone cannot repay you, so I have made this little purse with my own hands, as a sign of my gratitude. I hope you will accept it.”

The doctor drew himself up and said coldly,“Madam, little presents like that are very nice between friends, but a doctor needs to be paid properly for his attentions.”

The lady was too surprised and hurt to reply for a moment. Then she said quietly,“Perhaps you will tell me what your fee is, doctor?”

“Fifty pounds,”he answered.

The lady opened the little purse that she had made and took out four fifty-pound bank notes. She handed one of them to the doctor, and put the other three back into the purse. She put the purse into her handbag, andsaying good morning to the doctor, she went out of the room.

11.Behaving Like a Lady

照女士的样子行事

Mr West intended to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very busy, so he was never able to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week before Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he decided that he could not wait any longer. He worked in an office, and usually had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them quickly and went out to a big shop near his office during his lunch hour.

The shop was full of women, who were also buying presents during their lunch hour. Mr West stood politely at the edge of a crowd of women who were pushing forward to try to get to the people who were selling necklaces and ear-rings. He tried to move forwards slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were coming into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly past him.

After half an hour, he was just as far from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been when he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to an end, so he decided to change his way of doing things: he put his head down, gave a sudden loud shout and started to push his way towards the front of the crowdas hard as he could.

The women around him became very angry when they saw what he was doing, and began to scold him.“Why can't you behave like a gentleman?”they shouted.

“Ladies,”he answered them,“I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has got me nowhere, so now I am starting to behave like a lady!”

12.The Hunter's Boldness

猎手胆大过人

A certain hunter had found a piece of forest where there were plenty of animals to hunt. The only trouble was that the place was very difficult to get to.

He returned from his first visit to the place in late autumn, and could not get back until the snows melted in the following spring. Then he went to the pilot of a small plane, who earned his living by carrying hunters over parts of the country where there were no roads and no railways, and asked him to take him back to his favourite piece of forest.

The pilot did not know the place, so the hunter showed it to him on the map.“But there is nowhere to land there, man!”said the pilot.“I have flown over that part of the country on my way to other places, and I know that we can't land anywhere between this river and these mountains.”

“I thought you were a wonderful pilot,”said the hunter.“Some of my friends said you could land a plane on a postage stamp.”

“That's right,”answered the pilot.“I can land a plane where nobody else can. But I tell you there is nowhere to land in the place you are talking about.”

“And what if I tell you that another pilot did landme there last spring?”said the hunter.

“Is that true?”asked the pilot.

“Yes, it is. I swear it.”

Well, this pilot could not let himself be beaten by another, so he a geed to take the hunter.

When they reached the place, the hunter pointed out a small spot without trees in the middle of the forest, with a steep rise at one end. The pilot thought that there was not enough room to land there, but the hunter said that the other pilot had done so the year before, so down went the plane. When it came to the rise, it turned right over onto its back. As the hunter climbed out, he smiled happily and said,“Yes, that is exactly how the other pilot managed it last time.”

13.At the Waxworks Exhibition

在蜡像馆

One rainy Saturday afternoon, Nancy and Smith were wondering what to do, when suddenly Smith had an idea.

“I know,”he said enthusiastically,“I'll take you to a place my father used to take me to when I was a boy. No, don't ask questions; just get your umbrella and get into the car.”

Half an hour later they stopped outside a large building and Nancy laughed.

“Oh, it's the waxworks exhibition. Do you know, I've never been here before?”

And Smith said,“Oh, we used to come here often when I was little. There used to be a lot of famous people inside, all made of wax, but I suppose they've changed most of them now.”

While Smith was buying the tickets at the pay-desk, Nancy looked round.

“Did your mother use to come too?”she asked.

“Not very often.”Smith told her.“She used to stay at home and look after babies. Come on, up these stairs.”

At the top of the stairs stood an attendant, holding some catalogues. Nancy went up to her, openingher handbag, while Smith watched her.

“How much are the catalogues, please?”Nancy asked; but the girl didn't answer. And she didn't realize that she had been talking to a waxwork until she heard Smith laughing behind her.

14.Noise Makers

噪声制造者

Agay young man, who earned his living as a drummer in a band, had just married, and he and his wife were looking for somewhere to live. They saw a lot of places, but there was always something that one of them did not like about them. At last, however, they found a block of new flats which both of them really liked. However, there was still the problem of whether they should take one of the ground-floor flats, which had a small garden, or one of the upstairs ones.

At last they decided on a first-floor flat----not too low down and not too high up----and moved in. After they had bought furniture, carpets, curtains, and all the rest, they gave a big party to celebrate the setting up of their first home together.

It was a gay and noisy party, as all the host's friends from the band came and played their instruments. The guests danced, sang and practised on their host's drums.

Soon after one a.m. the telephone rang. The hostess went to answer it in the hall, and after she had finished, came back with a happy smile on her face and said to her husband,“That was the man who has just moved into the flat downstairs telephoning, dear.Iam so glad we decided not to choose it. He says it is terribly noisy down there.”

15.The Bad Check

空头支票

One day a middle-aged woman telephoned her doctor.

“Doctor,”she said,“I'm having a lot of trouble with my shoulder. It hurts all the time and I can't sleep at night.”

“Come in this afternoon.”said the doctor,“and I'll have a look at it.”

That afternoon the woman went to the doctor's office. He gave her a very thorough examination, asked a lot of que

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