英文短故事三分钟

故事对儿童具有一种特殊的吸引力,生动、有趣的故事能够引起孩子们极大的兴趣。我整理了短篇三分钟英语故事，欢迎阅读!

此一时 彼一时

One day, a king was travelling in his own land. He saw a farmer so absorbed in his work that he did not even notice a snake coiling round his leg.

一天，国王在他的国家巡游，看见一个农夫正专心地锄地，以至连一条蛇缠住他的腿都没有发觉。

The king shouted,“Dear man, there is a snake on your leg!”

国王大声惊叫起来：“汉子，你的腿被一条蛇缠住了呀!”

The farmer just shook the snake off and continued his work.

农夫抖了抖腿把蛇甩开，然后继续锄地。

The king was very curious and asked,“Dear man, don't you know that the snake can harm you? You ignored it and kept working. Is the work more important than your life?”

国王感到很奇怪，问：“汉子，你不知道那蛇会咬伤你吗?你却满不在乎地干活，难道干活比你的命还重要吗?”

The farmer said,“Your Majesty, the only thing that is threatening me is not the snake but the food. If I don't work hard, when the next spring comes, my family members will starve to death!”

农夫说：“陛下，真正威胁我生命的不是蛇，而是食物。如果我不拼命耕作，明年春天一到，我一家老小就全饿死了!”

The king sympathized with the farmer and he instructed his prime minister to give the farmer a big sum of money.

国王听了，很同情这个农夫的处境，他命令首相给了农夫一大笔救济金。

A year later, the king met the farmer again. He was well dressed and looked rather plump. He was not farming now but there was a bandage on his right arm.

一年后，国王又遇见了那个农夫。他衣着华丽，脑满肠肥，甚为富裕。他没有锄地，右臂缠着绷带。

The king asked him,“Dear man, what happened to your arm?”

国王上前问他：“汉子，你的胳膊怎么啦?”

“Your Majesty,”the farmer replied,“my finger was pricked by a thorn on the pumpkin. Now I need a rest to take care of my arm.”

“陛下!”农夫答道，“我的手指被南瓜刺扎了一下。现在我需要休息来养养胳膊。”

The king was astonished.“When you were such a poor man, you were not afraid of a snake bite. You only kept working hard. But now you need a rest after being pricked by a little thorn on the pumpkin!”

国王惊叹道：“啊!想当年你穷的时候，蛇都不怕，拼命地干活。现在让南瓜刺扎了一下就想歇息了!”

The farmer said,“Your Majesty, you have forgotten what people usually say: that was before, now it is different!”

农夫说：“尊敬的国王，您忘了人们常说：此一时，彼一时嘛!”

微不足道的善举

A man was strolling along the beach when he suddenly noticed from afar what he thought were children dancing.

有个人在沙滩上散步，在不经意间看到远处好像有孩子在跳舞。

“What on earth are they doing dancing on the beach?”as he quickly paced towards them.

“他们为什么要在沙滩上跳舞呢?”他边想边快速地朝孩子们走去。

He was surprised that a boy and a girl were not dancing but picking up the starfishes which were washed ashore by the tide and throwing them back into the sea.

他惊奇地发现，那个男孩和那个女孩并不是在跳舞，而是在捡被潮水冲上岸来的海星，然后把它们扔回大海。

“Excuse me, why are you throwing the starfishes back into the sea?”he asked.

“请问，你们为什么要把海星扔回大海呢?”他问。

The children ignored the remark but they continued picking up the starfishes and kept throwing them back into the sea.

孩子们没有理会他，继续捡海星向大海扔去。

“Don't you think it is a waste of your time as there are hundreds of starfishes still lying around. Surely you can't keep this act all day long.”

“你们不觉得这是在浪费时间吗?还有成千上万只海星躺在岸上呢!你们肯定不会一整天都这样扔下去吧。”

At last the elder boy replied,“Sir, you see the sun would soon rise and the tide will ebb away.

后来，年龄大一点儿的男孩说：“先生，你知道吗，太阳很快就要升起来了，潮水也会退去。

Though my sister and I can't throw all the starfishes back into the sea, we are sure it matters to the ones we succeed in throwing.

虽然我和妹妹不能把所有的海星都扔回大海，但我相信，对于被我们扔回大海的海星来说，我们所做的是至关重要的。

Would you like to join us, it would make a difference.”The man smiled and said,“It certainly would,”so he too pick up the starfishes and threw them into the sea.

你想加入我们吗?这很有意义。”那人笑了笑说：“非常愿意。”于是，他也捡起海星，朝大海扔去。

小树

Tom with his axe was stepping through the wood, a sapling called to him, and stopped him on his way,“Do clear away those trees, kind friend, I wish you would!

汤姆带着斧子穿过树林时，一棵小树叫他，他就停下了脚步。“好心人，帮我砍掉那些树吧，我希望你能帮我这个忙!

They will not let me have free play, on me the sunlight cannot fall. To spread my roots, I find no room at all, no whisper of the wind about me plays, and they twine above my head a veritable maze.

它们让我无法自由地玩耍，阳光照不到我的身上，我的根也无法延伸。我完全没有空间了，四周密不透风，它们在我头顶结成天罗地网。

I tell you, but for them, if I could only start, you'd find me in a year the pride of all this part. The dell to right and left my friendly shade should cover, but as it is, you see! I'm brushwood—little over.”

我告诉你，要不是它们，一年之内，你会发现我才是这里的骄傲，我的枝叶将会遮蔽山谷的左右两旁。然而，你看，现在我只是小灌木。”

Then Tom, he swung his axe apace, his kindness did not waver, and to do a friend this favour, and round the little tree he cleared a tidy space.

于是，汤姆挥动他的斧子。为帮助朋友，他义不容辞!他在小树的周围开辟出了一片干净的地方。

Poor Sapling! Not for long his triumph lasted, the heat came first, his sap to drain, and then he was lashed with hail and rain, and last a dreadful storm, which left him quite dismasted!

可怜的小树!好景不长，先是酷热降临，吸走了它的汁液。接着它又遭受了暴雨和冰雹的袭击，最后一场致命的风暴把它的枝叶都打折了!

“Oh foolish one,”heard by a serpent,“it was you that brought about your fall.

“傻瓜!”它听到附近的一条蛇说道，“你是自作自受!

If longer in the wood's kind shelter you'd been reared, then neither heat nor wind your calm could so importune: you had the elder trees for guardians of your fortune, and if there came a time when all had disappeared, because their day was past and gone.

如果你在养育你的老树怀抱里待更长的时间，无论炎炎烈日还是狂风大作，你都可以在老树的庇护下安然度日。如果有一天那些老树都离开了这个世界，随着时间的流逝，你也长到它们那样的高度了。

In turn you might have reached such height, as years went on, and so much health and strength have gathered. That all this harm would never have been done, and fiercer storms than this you might have safely weathered.”

你也变得像它们那样强壮有力，那样即使比这更大的风暴，你也可以挺过去，而不会是今天这样的结果。”

A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's house today, for I cannot get over the river."He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.【译文】一个人正朝着一个富人的房子走去，当他沿着路走时，在路的一边他发现一箱好苹果，他说：“我不打算吃那些苹果，因为富人会给我更多的食物，他会给我很好吃的东西。”然后他拿起苹果，一把扔到土里去。他继续走，来到河边，河涨水了，因此，他到不了河对岸，他等了一会儿，然后他说：“今天我去不了富人家了，因为我不能渡过河。”他开始回家，那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的，他找到苹果，很高兴地把它们从尘土中翻出来吃了。不要把好东西扔掉，换个时候你会觉得它们大有用处。

通过调查发现,小学生对英语故事有浓厚的兴趣,老师对故事教学的作用也很肯定。我整理了3分钟简单的英语小故事，欢迎阅读!

Painstaking painter was hired to paint a wall of the palace .A panel would judge his painting a week later.

Before work, the painter had collected many pamphlets about the palace.He noticed that the palace’s ceiling had a carved panel. He drew a draft on a pad then began his formal work. His assistant followed him ,carrying a paint pail and a pan.

The painter worked so fast that his assistant hardly kept pace with him. Soon, there were three paintings on the wall.One was a merry girl paddled her boat on the Pacific ocean. Another was a person jumped with a parachute .The last one was a giant panda lying under a palm tree. The painter was satisfied with them. He packed his package and took out a packet of cnt looked pale because of panic.

The painter was unhappy, I take pains to paint them. Why are you sad? You make my heart painful .” Thus , the assistant panted out the reason.

The king once was bite by a panda on the palm

一个苦干的画家被雇佣去描绘宫殿的一面墙。一个专门小组一周后会评判他的绘画。

工作之前，画家已经收集了许多关于宫殿的小册子。他注意到宫殿的天花板是带有雕刻的面板。他在便笺簿上画了草图，然后就开始正式工作了。他的手提着一个颜料提桶和一个盘子跟在他后面。

画家工作得如此之快，他的助手都差点不能跟上。很快，墙上出现了三幅绘画。一幅是一个欢快的女孩在太平洋上用桨划船。另一幅是一个人跳伞。最后一幅是一只巨大的熊猫躺在一棵棕榈树下，。画家对他们很满意，他捆扎包裹并掏出一盒烟来。但他的助手却因为恐慌而看起来很苍白。

画家很不高兴：“我煞费苦心来画它们。你怎么如此沮丧?你让我的心都疼痛了。”因而助手气喘吁吁地说出了原因。

原来国王曾经被一只熊猫咬到过手掌 。

A farmer can’t read or write. One day he asks a man to write a letter for him. He wants to post the letter to his uncle.

“I can’t write you letter,” says the man, “Because I have a bad leg.”

“Sir,” says the farmer, “I know, but I can’t see what a bad leg has to do with writing a letter.”

“It has much to do with it,” says the man, “because I can’t walk so far and read the letter to you uncle.”

“What do you mean, sir?” says the farmer. “His son can read it to him. Why do you need to read if for him?”

“Don’t you understand,” answers the man, “that only I can read what I write?”

I Owe You for a Float

Mr Smith worked in a post office and three years ago ,when he was sixty ,he retired .Now he and his wife stay at home and his children work in another city .The old woman does all housework and he has nothing to do at home .He likes neither reading nor watching games .At first he didn’t know how to spend the spare time .Mr Hunt who was two years older than him asked him to go fishing with him .

“It’s a good sport ,”said Mr Hunt .“I’m sure you will soon be interested in it .”

“But I can’t fish at all ,you know .”

“That’s easy .Go fishing with me tomorrow morning and I’ll teach you .”

Mr Smith decided to try his luck .The following day the two old friends came to a river and began to fish .Suddenly Mr Smith said ,“How much do those little red things cost ?”

“You mean the floats ?Oh ,they are cheap .What made you ask me such a question ?”

“I owe you one .Mine has just sunk .”