初一英语励志小故事
:抱薪救火
In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.B., the qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei with a momentum more vigorous than ever.
The king of the State of Wei summoned his officials,and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. After years of chaos caused by the wars,the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak ofresistance. At the critical moment when a large enemy force was bearing down upon the border, most of the offinials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River and south of the Taihang Mountain.
However Su Dai, a counsellor, did not agree. He hurried up to the king and said:"Your Majesty, they don't think about the interests of the country at all.It is just because they are cowardly and afraid of death that they ask you to sue for peace by betraying the country. Of course you can temperarily satisfy the ambition of the king of the State of Qin is insatiably greedy. It will never stop assaulting us until our land is totally given away.
"Once there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire fiercer. That was because he didn't know that,instead of putting out the fire, faggots could only make it burning more vigorously. Isn't it equivalent to carrying faggots to put out a fire if you agree to sue for peace at the cost of the land of the State of Wei?"
Though Su Dai's argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials and gave away to the State of Qin a large area of the land of the State of Wei. For the king of the State of Wei was cowardly and only cared for peace at the moment.As might be expected,the Qin army assaulted the State of Wei on a large scale in 225 B.C.,surrounding the capital city Daliang and flooding it by digging open the dykes of the Huanghe River.The State of Wei was finally destroyed by the State of Qin.This story appears in the Historical Records Written by Sima Qian.
moral:The set phrase"carrying faggots to put out a fire"is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.
成语“抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害,结果反而使祸害扩大。
魏王把大臣们召来,愁眉苦脸地问大家有没有使秦国退兵的办法。大臣们由于经过多年的战乱,提起打仗就吓得哆嗦,谁也不敢谈“抵抗”二字。在这大兵压境的危急时刻,多数大臣都劝魏王,用黄河以北和太行山以南的大片土地为代价,向秦王求和。
谋士苏代听了这些话,很不以为然,忙上前对魏王说:“大王,他们是因为自己胆小怕死,才让您去卖国求和,根本不为国家着想。您想,把大片土地割让给秦国虽然暂时满足了秦王的野心,但秦国的欲望是无止境的,只要魏国的土地没割完,秦军就不会停止进攻我们。”
说到这里,苏代讲了一个故事:从前有一个人,他的房子起火了,别人劝他快用水去浇灭大火,但他不听,偏抱起一捆柴草去救火,是因为他不懂得柴草不但不能灭火反而能助长火势的道理。大王若同意拿着魏国土地去求和,不就等于抱着柴草救火吗?”
尽管苏代讲得头头是道,但是胆小的魏王只顾眼前的太平,还是依大臣们的意见把魏国大片土地割让给秦国。到公元225年,果然秦军又向魏国大举进攻,包围了国都大梁,掘开黄河大堤让洪水淹没了大梁城,魏国终于被秦国灭掉了。
寓意:战国末期,秦国向魏国接连发动大规模的进攻,魏国无力抵抗,大片土地都被秦军占领了。到公元前273年,秦国又一次向魏国出兵,势头空前猛烈。
:老板最大
There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, “How e this guy is $5,000? That’s so expensive for this kindof parrot.” The owner said, “Because I have trained him and he can talk.” So the customer asked him, “How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?” The owner said, “Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing actions,like dancing and so on. That’s why he’s so expensive.” Then the customer said, “How about the third one? What canhe do that makes him so expensive?” The owner of the shopsaid, “I don’t know. Normally, I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him ‘The Boss.’”
有个人到一间商店买鹦鹉。店里有三只鹦鹉,其中一只卖五千元,另一只卖一万元,还有一只卖三万元。顾客问老板:“为什么这只要卖五千元?这个价钱对这种鹦鹉来说太贵了!”老板说:“因为我有训练他讲话。”顾客又问:“那这只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?”老板说:“他除了会说话之外,还会表演一些有趣的动作,好比说跳舞等等,所以才卖这么贵。”顾客接着又问:“那第三只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?”老板说:“我不知道。我从没听过他讲话、吹口哨或唱歌,也没看过他跳舞,什么都没有!不过另外两只叫他:“老板!”
:园丁
The Yardman
The yardman es every two weeks.
He drives a gray pickup truck.
The truck is a Ford.
It is about 15 years old, but it runs well.
It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage.
The yardman’s name is Byron.
In the back of his truck are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel.
Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building.
Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag.
He blows the dirt out into the street.
He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower.
He trims the hedge.
He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Wele mat that lies in front of each apartment door.
Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow.
He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster.
It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.
When he is done,he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner.
There he does the same work again.
园丁
园丁每两周来一次。
他开着一辆银色小卡车。
卡车是福特的。
它已经15年了,但是效能依旧很好。
它不用石油,它用汽油。
这个园丁的名字是拜伦。
他的卡车后面有个割草机、鼓风机、耙子和铁铲。
拜伦用鼓风机来吹叶子以及建筑物前前后后的尘土。
接着他把叶子耙进一个包里。
他把尘土吹进街道。
他用割草机割草坪。
他修理了树篱。
他用鼓风机吹走公寓门前的尘土。
接着他把所有的叶子、修剪的草以及剪下的东西放进独轮手推车。
他将独轮手推车推到建筑物后面,在后面他用铁铲将推车中的垃圾清进大垃圾箱。
拜伦花了两小时做这项工作。
当他做完工作,他堵住了通往拐角处房子的街道。
他做着重复的工作。
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