英語一分鐘小故事好背的有哪些呢，下面小編為大家詳細(xì)介紹一下，供大家參考。

英語一分鐘小故事好背

（一）

Jack had gone to the university to study history, but at the end of his first year, his history professor failed him in his examinations, and he was told that he would have to leave the university. However, his father decided that he would go to see the professor to urge him to let Jack continue his studies the following year.

"He‘s a good boy," said Jack‘s father, "and if you let him pass this time, I‘m sure he‘ll improve a lot next year and pass the examinations at the end of it really well."

"No, no, that‘s quite impossible," replied the professor immediately. "Do you know, last month I asked him when Napoleon had died, he didn‘t know!"

"Please, sir, give him another chance," said Jack‘s father. "You see, I‘m afraid we don‘t take any newspaper in our house, so none of us even know that Napoleon was ill."

杰克到一所大學(xué)去學(xué)歷史。第一學(xué)期結(jié)束時，歷史課教授沒讓他及格。學(xué)校讓他退學(xué)。然而，杰克的父親決定去見教授，強(qiáng)烈要求讓杰克繼續(xù)來年的學(xué)業(yè)。

“他是個好孩子，”杰克的父親說：“您要是讓他這次及格，我相信他明年會有很大進(jìn)步，學(xué)期結(jié)束時，他一定會考好的?！?/p>

“不，不，那不可能，”教授馬上回答?！澳阒绬?上個月我問他拿破侖什么時候死的，他都不知道?！?/p>

“先生，請?jiān)俳o他一次機(jī)會吧。”杰克的父親說：“你不知道，恐怕是因?yàn)槲覀兗覜]有訂報紙。我們家的人連拿破侖病了都不知道?！?/p>

（二）

Much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.

我們的眼睛能準(zhǔn)確地傳達(dá)一些信息，所以人們常說，眼睛會說話。

Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.

你有過類似的體驗(yàn)嗎？在公共汽車上，你可能會看著一個陌生人，但時間不會太長。而且，如果他能感覺到有人盯著他，會覺得渾身不自在。

The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is anything wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other’s stare with you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

日常生活中亦如此。如果別人一直盯著你看，你就會不由自主地審視自己，看看是不是有什么地方弄錯了。如果一切正常，你就會對別人的這種盯梢很氣憤。眼睛確實(shí)能說話，不是嗎？

Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are different when it comes to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.

過久的盯著別人看會給人一種粗魯和侵犯的感覺。但異性之間的凝視就不同了。如果一個男人盯著一個女人超過10秒鐘，還不想挪開視線的話，他的意思就十分明顯了，他想引起她的注意，想讓她知道他愛慕她。

（三）

It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many ofthe leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young manwhether he had ever seen ayoung lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla.He said no,he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then he said, after a pause,“What I should like to see her do is sweep out a room.”It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.

年輕人創(chuàng)業(yè)之初，應(yīng)該從最底層干起，這是件好事。匹茲保有很多商業(yè)巨頭，在他們創(chuàng)業(yè)之初，都肩負(fù)過“重任”：他們以掃帚相伴，以打掃辦公室的方式度過了他們商業(yè)生涯中最初的時光。我注意到我們現(xiàn)在辦公室里都有工友，于是年輕人就不幸錯過了商業(yè)教育中這個有益的環(huán)節(jié)。如果碰巧哪天上午專職掃地的工友沒有來，某個具有未來合伙人氣質(zhì)的年輕人會毫不猶豫地試著拿起掃帚。一天，一位來自密西根州的時尚女性問一位年輕男子，他是否看見過有一位像普里西拉的年輕女子曾經(jīng)在這里掃地。他說他從來沒看見過，這位母親非常高興，但是他想了一會說：“我想看她把整個房間都打掃一遍?！比绻匾脑挘驋叻块g對于新人來說沒什么不好。我自己就曾經(jīng)掃過地。