英语哲理故事演讲稿

1The Mol鼹鼠

It is said that the mole’s eyes are blind. But he says to his mother that he can see. His mother wants to test him. The mother brings a little food to put in front of him and asks him what it is. He says it is a little stone. His mother says: “Ah poor child you not only can’t see anything but also your nose is useless.”

传说鼹鼠的眼睛是瞎的，可小鼹鼠却对妈妈说他能看得见。妈妈想试验他一下，便拿来一小块香喷喷的食物，放在他的面前，并问他是什么。他说是一颗小石头。母亲说：“啊，不幸的孩子，你不但眼睛看不见，连鼻子也没用了。”

This is to say those people who like boasting often claim that they can do great thing but they expose themselves from some trifle.

这个故事是说，那些爱吹牛说大话的人，常常夸海口能做大事，却在一些微不足道的事情上暴露了本质。

2The Passerby and the Phoenix Tree行人与梧桐树

At noon in summer it is extremely hot. Some passersby are very tired. Having seen a phoenix tree they go under the tree for a rest.

夏季中午时候，十分炎热，头顶烈日的几个行人疲倦极了，看见一颗梧桐树，便走到树底下，躺在树荫下休息。

Looking up at the tree they remark to the tree: ‘‘Hey! This tree has not fruit it is no use. ” The tree answers that: ” You don’t know what’ good. You are getting my favor but you say that I am useless without fruit.”

他们仰望着宽大的树叶，彼此大发议论：“唉，这树呀，不能结果，对人没有什么好处。”树回答说：“不知好歹的人们！你们现在正享受着我的恩惠，还说我是不结果的无用之树。”

This is to say: Although some people don’t know what good they are getting from others they still criticize their benefactors.

这是说，有些人不知好歹，享受了别人的帮助，还要贬低别人呢。

3The moon on the Tree树上的月亮

In ancient times no moon was in sky. The sky was black.

古时候，夜晚的天空上本来没有月亮，到处是一片漆黑。

Once upon a time four men went in a carriage to a trip. They reached another country when it was dark; they saw a tall tree with a ball of soft silver light hanging from it. They asked a native passing if it was a light in a tree. The native told them that it was a moon which their chief had bought with three coins.

有一次，四个小伙子赶着一辆马车外出去旅行。当他们去到另外一个国家时，已是晚上了。他们看到在一棵高大的树上悬挂着一个光亮的球，闪着柔和的银光。他们问一个从树下走过的当地人那是不是一盏灯。那个本地人告诉他们那是月亮，是他们的村长用三块硬币买来的。

At midnight the four man stole the moon and put it in their carriage covering it with a piece of clothing. They carried the moon to their country and hung it on a tall oak. Since then the night were bright and moonlit so all the people were happy.

半夜里，四个小伙子偷偷地把月亮从树上摘下来，放上车，用一块布盖好。然后神不知鬼不觉地拉回到他们的国家里，挂到一棵很高的橡树上。夜里有了光明，全国的人都很高兴。

Many years later one of the men was ill and dying he said that a quarter of the moon belonged to him. And he wanted to take it into the tomb. When he died they cut a quarter of the moon to put in the coffin. The other three men also wanted to be buried with their share of the moon when they died. So it was done as they wished. When the last one died the sky was dark.

许多年之后，四个人中的一个人病了，快要死了，他说月亮的四分之一是属于他的。所以他要把它带到坟墓里去。后来他死了，大家爬上树去，剪下月亮的四分之一，放进他的棺材里。当其他三个人临死的时候，也都提出了同样的要求。大家觉得这些要求很合理，于是就满足了他们的心愿。在最后死去的那个人下葬时，夜里到处又是一片漆黑了。

In the heaven the four men rose from their graves and put the moon back together. The people in heaven sang danced drank and enjoyed themselves. Their noise spread in throughout heaven. The guard St. Peter thought the people had rebelled he took his horse and rode quickly to the place. When he got there he ordered the dead to lie in their tombs. He took away the moon to hang back in the sky. From this time on the moon belonged to the people on earth.

在天堂里，那四个人又把月亮复原。于是生活在天堂里的人们有了光明，就整天唱歌、跳舞、酗酒、打闹。他们的喧哗声传遍了天堂。天国里的卫士——圣彼得，以为他们要造反，骑马赶到了那里。到达以后，他命令所有的死去的人躺回到他们的坟墓里去。然后他把月亮带走，挂在了天上。从那以后啊，月亮就属于整个人类了。

4双语哲理故事：看不见春天的盲人，换一种思路换一种人生

One day there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a sign by his feet that reads: "I am blind please help."

一天，一位盲人坐在建筑物的台阶上，他的脚边放着一个牌子，那上面写着：“我是盲人，请帮帮我”。

A creative publicist was walking by the blind man and stopped to observe that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat and without stopping to ask for permission（征求许可） took the sign turned it around and wrote a new message. He then placed the sign by the feet of the blind man and left.

一个有创意头脑的广告员走到那位盲人身旁，他发现盲人的帽子里只有很少的一些硬币。于是没有征得盲人的同义，他就拿过牌子，将牌子调过来，写了一些字。他将牌子放到盲人的脚下然后离开了。

Later that afternoon the creative publicist returned by the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost completely full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it was him who had changed his sign? He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it.

那天下午的晚些时候那位广告员回到盲人哪儿，发现他的帽子里装满了钞票和硬币。盲人认出了他的脚步声，问广告员是不是将他的牌子换了？盲人想知道牌子上写了什么。

The blind man didn't know that his new sign reads as this: "It's spring now but I can't see it."

盲人不知道调换了面的牌子上写着：“现在是春天，但我却看不到春天。”

5The Real Princess 真正的公主

There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess；but then she must be a real Princess.

从前有一位王子，他想找一位公主结婚，但她必须是一位真正的公主。

He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady；but there was always something wrong.

他走遍了全世界，想要寻到这样的一位公主。

Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide for now one thing now another seemed to him not quite right about the ladies.

可是无论他到什么地方，他总是碰到一些障碍。公主倒有的是，不过他没有办法断定她们究竟是不是真正的公主。她们总是有些地方不大对头。

At last he returned to his palace quite cast down， because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.

结果，他只好回家来，心中很不快活，因为他是那么渴望着得到一位真正的公主。

One evening a fearful tempest arose it thundered and lightened and the rain poured down from the sky in torrents: besides it was as dark as pitch.

有一天晚上，忽然起了一阵可怕的暴风雨。天空在掣电，在打雷，在下着大雨。这真有点使人害怕！

All at once there was heard a violent knocking at the door and the old King，he Prince’s father went out himself to open it.

这时，有人在敲门，老国王就走过去开门。站在城外的是一位公主。

It was a Princess who was standing outside the door. What with the rain and the wind， she was in a sad condition: the water trickled down from her hair and her clothes clung to her body. She said she was a real Princess.

可是，天哪！经过了风吹雨打之后，她的样子是多么难看啊！水沿着她的头发和衣服向下面流，流进鞋尖，又从脚跟流出来。她说她是一个真正的公主。

“Ah! we shall soon see that!” thought the old Queen-mother; however she said not a word of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom took all the bed-clothes off the bed and put three little peas on the bedstead.

“是的，这点我们马上就可以考查出来。”老皇后心里想，可是她什么也没说。她走进卧房，把所有的被褥都搬开，在床榻上放了一粒豌豆。于是她取出二十床垫子，把它们压在豌豆上。

She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses. Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night.

随后，她又在这些垫子上放了二十床鸭绒被。这位公主夜里就睡在这些东西上面。

The next morning she was asked how she had slept. “Oh very badly indeed!” she replied. “I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. I do not know what was in my bed but I had something hard under me and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me so much!”

早晨大家问她昨晚睡得怎样。“啊，不舒服极了！”公主说，“我差不多整夜没合上眼！天晓得我床上有件什么东西？我睡到一块很硬的东西上面，弄得我全身发青发紫，这真怕人！”

Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.

现在大家就看出来了。她是一位真正的公主，因为压在这二十床垫子和二十床鸭绒被下面的一粒豌豆，她居然还能感觉得出来。除了真正的公主以外，任何人都不会有这么嫩的皮肤的。

The Prince accordingly made her his wife；being now convinced that he had found a real Princess. The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities where they are still to be seen provided they are not lost.

因此那位王子就选她为妻子了，因为现在他知道他得到了一位真正的公主。这粒豌豆因此也就被送进了博物馆，如果没有人把它拿走的话，人们现在还可以在那儿看到它呢。