英语小故事，要英文并翻译

A Wolf had been gorging on an animal he had killed, when suddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his throat and he could not swallow it He soon felt terrible pain in his throat, and ran up and down groaning and groaning and seeking for something to relieve the pain He tried to induce every one he met to remove the bone “I would give anything,” said he, “if you would take it out” At last the Crane agreed to try, and told the Wolf to lie on his side and open his jaws as wide as he could Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf's throat, and with its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got it out

“Will you kindly give me the reward you promised” said the Crane The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: “Be content You have put your head inside a Wolf's mouth and taken it out again in safety; that ought to be reward enough for you”

Gratitude and greed go not together

狼和鹤

一只狼在吞咽刚杀掉的一只动物，忽然一块肉里的小骨头扎进了它的喉咙，吞不进去，吐不出来，疼得它上蹿下跳。狼呻吟着去找人减轻它的痛苦，它尝试劝诱每一个遇见的人帮它把骨头取出来，“如果有人能帮我取出骨头，我愿意给它任何东西。”最终有只鹤同意帮它，它让狼侧身躺着，将嘴尽量张大，然后把自己的长脖子伸入到狼的喉咙中，用嘴啄松了骨头，将它取了出来。

“请给我您承诺过的奖励吧”鹤说，狼龇着钢牙冷笑到，“你就知足吧，刚才你把头放进一只狼的嘴里，并且安然无恙的拿了出来，这对你已经是最大的奖励了。”

贪婪的人不懂得感恩。

Three bulls fed in a field together in the greatest peace and harmony A lion had long watched them in the hope of seizing them, but found that there was little chance for him so long as they all kept together He therefore began secretly to spread evil and slanderous reports of one against the other, till he had formed a jealousy and distrust amongst them No sooner did the lion see that they avoided one another, and fed each by himself apart, then he fell upon them, and so made an easy prey of them all

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes

狮子和牛

有三头牛，他们极其友好和睦地在一起在野外吃草，一头狮子窥视了很久，想逮住他们，但是觉得只要他们聚在一起，就得不到机会。因此他开始暗地里散布流言蜚语，说这一个跟另一个作对，直到他们之间制造了妒忌和不信任。狮子一看到他们各奔东西、分头吃草的时候，就马上向他们一个一个的进攻了。这样他就轻而易举地把他们全吃光了。

朋友间的不知，就是敌人进攻的机会。

A man who lost his axe suspected his neighbor’s son of stealing it To him, as he observed the boy, the way he lad walked, the expression on his face, the manner of his speech-in fact everything about his appearance and behavior betrayed that he had stolen the axe

Not long afterwards the man found his axe while digging in his cellar When he saw his neighbor’s son again, nothing about the boy’s behavior nor appearance seemed to suggest that he had stolen the axe

亡斧疑邻

从前有一个丢失斧子的人，怀疑是邻居的儿子偷了斧子。看到他走路，像偷斧子的样子；看他的脸色，像偷斧子的样子；听到他讲话，也像偷斧子的样子。总之，他的动作态度，没有一样不像偷斧子的样子。后来他在挖掘山沟的时候，找到了斧子。过了几天，再看邻居的儿子，他的动作态度都不像偷斧子的样子了。

"The Frog and the Ox"

“Oh Father,” said a little Frog to the big one sitting by the side of a pool, “I have seen such a terrible monster! It was as big as a mountain, with horns on its head, and a long tail, and it had hoofs divided in two”

“Tush, child, tush,” said the old Frog, “that was only Farmer White’s Ox It isn't so big either; he may be a little bit taller than I, but I could easily make myself quite as broad; just you see” So he blew himself out, and blew himself out, and blew himself out “Was he as big as that” asked he

“Oh, much bigger than that,” said the young Frog Again the old one blew himself out and asked the young one if the Ox was as big as that “Bigger, father, bigger,” was the reply So the Frog took a deep breath, and blew and blew and blew, and swelled and swelled and swelled And then he said: “I’m sure the Ox is not as big as” But at this moment he burst

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction

青蛙和公牛

“爸爸，爸爸，”一只小青蛙对着一只坐在水池边的大青蛙喊，“我看见了一头可怕的妖怪！它像一座山，头上长着犄角，有长长的尾巴，它的蹄子一分两瓣。”

“切！”老青蛙不屑地说：“孩子，那只不过是农夫怀特家的公牛，它也没有那么大，它或许比我高那么一点点，但是我很容易就能变得和他一样宽，你看着，”青蛙爸爸开始吹起他的肚皮，一点点得变大，“它像这么大吗？”青蛙爸爸问儿子。

“比这大，爸爸”小青蛙回答，老青蛙又把自己吹大一点，“再大点，爸爸，再大点”，小青蛙依然不满意，于是老青蛙深吸一口气，吹啊吹啊，肚皮长啊长啊，“我敢肯定，那头公牛一定没有”话未说完，老青蛙就爆炸了。

自大可以导致自我毁灭。

"The Two Pots"

There were two pots on the bank of a river One was made of brass, and the other was made of clay

When the water rose they both floated off down the river The earthen pot tried to stay away from the brass one So the brass pot cried out, "Fear nothing, friend, I will not hit you"

"But I may come in contact with you," said the earthen pot "If I come too close, whether I hit you or you hit me, I shall suffer for it"

After that the earthen pot floated away

两口锅

河中漂流着一个瓦锅和一个铜锅。

每当潮涨潮落时，瓦锅就尽量地远离铜锅。铜锅大叫：“别害怕，朋友，我不会撞你的。

“但是我有可能会和你接触，”瓦锅对铜锅说,“如果我离你太近，无论是你碰到我，或者是我自己不小心碰到你，我都会碎的。”

然后，瓦锅就漂走了。

希望我整理出来的答案可以对你有点帮助,

第一个

1，Edmund Hillary——埃德蒙·希拉里：首登世界最高峰的人

http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/Edmund_Hillary

故事简略如下，更详细点链接。

1953 Everest Expedition

这段是他年轻时登珠穆朗玛

The route to Everest was closed by Chinese-controlled Tibet, and Nepal only allowed one expedition per year A Swiss expedition (in which Tenzing took part) had attempted to reach the summit in 1952 but was turned back by bad weather 800 feet (240 m) from the summit During a 1952 trip in the Alps Hillary discovered he and his friend George Lowe had been invited for the approved British 1953 attempt and immediately accepted[9]

Shipton was named as leader but was replaced by Hunt Hillary considered pulling out, but both Hunt and Shipton talked him into remaining Hillary was intending to climb with Lowe but Hunt named two teams for the assault: Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans; and Hillary and Tenzing Hillary therefore made a concerted effort to forge a working friendship with Tenzing[9]

The Hunt expedition totaled over 400 people, including 362 porters, twenty Sherpa guides and 10,000 lbs of baggage,[10][11] and like many such expeditions, was a team effort Lowe supervised the preparation of the Lhotse Face, a huge and steep ice face, for climbing Hillary forged a route through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall[9]

The expedition set up base camp in March 1953 Working slowly it set up its final camp at the South Col at 25,900 feet (7,890 m) On 26 May Bourdillon and Evans attempted the climb but turned back when Evans's oxygen system failed The pair had reached the South Summit, coming within 300 vertical feet (91 m) of the summit[11][12] Hunt then directed Hillary and Tenzing to go for the summit

Snow and wind held the pair up at the South Col for two days They set out on 28 May with a support trio of Lowe, Alfred Gregory and Ang Nyima The two pitched a tent at 27,900 feet (8,500 m) on 28 May while their support group returned down the mountain On the following morning Hillary discovered that his boots had frozen solid outside the tent He spent two hours warming them before he and Tenzing attempted the final ascent wearing 30-pound (14 kg) packs[9] The crucial move of the last part of the ascent was the 40-foot (12 m) rock face later named the "Hillary Step" Hillary saw a means to wedge his way up a crack in the face between the rock wall and the ice and Tenzing followed[13] From there the following effort was relatively simple They reached Everest's 29,028 ft (8,848 m) summit, the highest point on earth, at 11:30 am[14][1] As Hillary put it, "A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top"[15]

They spent only about 15 minutes at the summit They looked for evidence of the 1924 Mallory expedition, but found none[16] Hillary took Tenzing's photo, Tenzing left chocolates in the snow as an offering, and Hillary left a cross that he had been given[9] Because Tenzing did not know how to use a camera, there are no pictures of Hillary there[17] The two had to take care on the descent after discovering that drifting snow had covered their tracks to complicate the task The first person they met was Lowe, who had climbed up to meet them with hot soup

“ Well, George, we knocked the bastard off ”

—Hillary's first words to lifelong friend George Lowe on returning from Everest's summit[5][9]

News of the successful expedition reached Britain on the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II The group was surprised by the international acclaim that they received upon arriving in Kathmandu[9] Hillary and Hunt were knighted by the young queen,[18] while Tenzing received either the British Empire Medal,[15] or the George Medal from the British Government for his efforts with the expedition[19][20] It has been suggested that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru refused permission for Tenzing to be knighted[19]

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也是他

最著名的登山家，1919年生于新西兰的奥克兰，1953年5月29日，和夏尔巴同伴Tenzing首次登顶珠峰

他回忆道“我们不知道人类是否会登顶世界之巅，所以我们使用了氧气，到了顶峰后，我们也不知道是否能够下来。”

1958年1月4日，他到达南极，只有不到20英里的油料。

1975年，他沿着恒河朔源而上，踏上神圣之旅。

90年代，他环球为联合国儿童署和联合国野生动物保护协会筹资。

The most famous climber ever and forever Born 1919 in Tuakau, Auckland, New Zealand Climbed into immortality on May 29, 1953 together with his Sherpa companion Tenzing, by becoming the first to reach the highest point on earth, Mount Everest, 8,848 metres Ed has bagged 11 summits in the Himalaya, all above 6000 metres

Ed about his Everest adventure: - "We didn"t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt Everest And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren"t at all sure whether we wouldn"t drop dead or something of that nature"

In the later fifties, Ed was invited to partipace in the first mekanized expedition to the South Pole On January 4, 1958, Hillary reaches the Pole with just enough petrol for another 20 miles

In 1975, Hillary travels by jet boat from the mouth of the Ganges to the head waters of the river high in the Himalayas What is seen by Hillary as merely an adventure is seen by millions of Indians as a pilgrimage

Throughout the 90s Hillary continues his global fund-raising work for organisations such as UNICEF and the World Wildlife Fund

His son Peter Hillary, inspired by his father has become a well-known climber, in 1990 he stood on the summit of Mount Everest with the same view his father had seen 37 years earlier

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第二个，

极限运动天才，Shaun White，滑板。。。

http://wwwslopestylercom/Article/ShowArticleaspArticleID=35

和相关简介，你要的是英文，中文我就不贴出来了。

Snowboarding career

White gained sponsorship from Burton Shaun spent his formative years riding Snow Summit and Bear Mountain, at Big Bear a small ski resort found in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California Shaun honed his skills on the now defunct Westridge snowboard park Today, his sponsors include Burton, as well as Oakley, T-mobile, RED,Birdhouse Skateboards, Ricta, Park City Resort, Target, Red Bull, Transworld Snowboarding, Adio, Sony, Mountain Dew, HP, and Slayer White also has his own character on the game Amped 2 White has been a participant in the Winter X Games, where he has medaled every year since 2002 Including all winter X Games competitions through 2008, his medal count stands at 12 (7 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), including the first four-peat winner by a male athlete in one discipline, the snowboard slopestyle White's quest for a five-peat Gold in 2007 was spoiled by Andreas Wiig (Gold) and Jussi Oksanen (Silver), with White taking the bronze At the conclusion of the 2008 Winter X Games, White stands as one of only two athletes who have won a leading seven gold medals in their total Winter X competitive history He has also won the Air & Style Contest in 2003 and 2004

White also earned a gold medal in the men's halfpipe while representing the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics He scored a 468 out of 50 on his first run The score was not beaten by any other boarder in the first or second run, ensuring him the gold before his final run

Executing near-flawless second run, Shaun White captured his third consecutive halfpipe title at the 2008 US Open Snowboarding Championships to go along with his third US Open slopestyle competition This follows White's dramatic win at the 25th (2007) Burton US Open, where he placed third in slopestlyle and first in the halfpipe White was defending champion of the Open, as he had overcome several years of injuries and other problems to finally win the event in 2006 for the first time At the 2007 Open, White was also crowned the first "Male Burton Global Open Champion" His take for the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $5,000 (3rd Place Slopestyle), and a new Volvo

http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/Shaun_White

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第三个，Francis Drake ，

这个是老人物了，极限运动，现代探险家，1500年的探险家，都提供给你了。

http://baikebaiducom/view/448566htm 他的简介

Sir Francis Drake (c1540 - c1596)

http://wwwbbccouk/history/historic_figures/drake_francisshtml

Drake was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon in around 1540 and went to sea at an early age In 1567, Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World' All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron The Spanish became a lifelong enemy for Drake and they in turn considered him a pirate

In 1570 and 1571, Drake made two profitable trading voyages to the West Indies In 1572, he commanded two vessels in a marauding expedition against Spanish ports in the Caribbean He saw the Pacific Ocean and captured the port of Nombre de Dios on the Isthmus of Panama He returned to England with a cargo of Spanish treasure and a reputation as a brilliant privateer In 1577, Drake was secretly commissioned by Elizabeth I to set off on an expedition against the Spanish colonies on the American Pacific coast He sailed with five ships, but by the time he reached the Pacific Ocean in October 1578 only one was left, Drake's flagship the Pelican, renamed the Golden Hind To reach the Pacific, Drake became the first Englishman to navigate the Straits of Magellan

He travelled up the west coast of South America, plundering Spanish ports He continued north, hoping to find a route across to the Atlantic, and sailed further up the west coast of America than any European Unable to find a passage, he turned south and then in July 1579, west across the Pacific His travels took him to the Moluccas, Celebes, Java and then round the Cape of Good Hope He arrived back in England in September 1580 with a rich cargo of spices and Spanish treasure and the distinction of being the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe Seven months later, Elizabeth knighted him aboard the Golden Hind, to the annoyance of the king of Spain

In 1585, Drake sailed to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities On his return voyage, he picked up the unsuccessful colonists of Roanoke Island off the coast of the Carolinas, which was the first English colony in the New World In 1587, war with Spain was imminent and Drake entered the port of Cadiz and destroyed 30 of the ships the Spanish were assembling against the British In 1588, he was a vice admiral in the fleet that defeated the Armada Drake's last expedition, with John Hawkins, was to the West Indies The Spanish were prepared for him this time, and the venture was a disaster Drake died on 28 January 1596 of dysentery off the coast of Puerto Rico Hawkins died at the same time, and their bodies were buried at sea

以上三个，古代探险，现代探险，极限运动。

1、A cat goes to a river every day He wants to go fishing But he can’t catch any fish

一只猫每天去河边，他想去钓鱼，但是他去钓不到一条。

One day, he goes to the river as usual Suddenly a fish comes out He catches the fish He is very happy He forgets to put the fish in the basket He dances and sings He shouts, “I have a fish! I have a fish!” All his friends come to see him

一天，他像往常一样去了河边。突然一条鱼浮出了水面。他捉到了那条鱼。他非常开心。他忘记把鱼放到篮子里去了。他又唱又跳，叫道：“我捉到一条鱼!我捉到一条鱼!”他所有的朋友都过来看。

“Where is your fish Let us have a look at it ” his friends say

“你的鱼在哪儿让我们看一看。”他的朋友们说。

“It’s there, near the bank” the cat answers But he can’t find the fish When he sings and dances, the fish jumps back into the river

“在那儿，河岸附近。”猫回答道。但是他找不到那条鱼。当他又唱又跳的时候，鱼跳回了河里。

2、Wang Xi-zhi is one of the most famous calligraphers during the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China When he was very young, he practiced his art every day and never stopped

王羲之是中国东晋时代一个很有名的书法家，他从小就刻苦练字，从不间断。

absorbed the strong points of all the other schools of calligraphy, and developed his own unique style of writing Because of his achievements, he has been honored as one of China's sages of calligraphy

以后又吸取了各个不同书法派的优点，形成他自己独特的个性。因为他在书法上的成就，人们都尊称他为中国书法界的“圣人”。

One time, Wang Xi-zhi sketched in wood for an engraver to cut Then the engraver found the ink had penetrated one centimeter into the wood

有一次，王羲之在木板上刻字，后来刻字的人发现墨汁渗入木板有三尺深。

"Ru Mu San Fen" is got from this story, which means the calligraphy is penetrating

“入木三分”就是从这个故事中得出来的，用来形容书法有力。

3、I have nine little goldfish Eight goldfish are all orange and one is black I like the black one best

我有九条小金鱼。八条金鱼都是桔**的，只有一条是黑的。我最喜欢那条黑的。

We call it Xiao Hei Its body is black It has two big and round eyes, a small mouth ,and a big tail Though it＇s very small ,it swims fast

我们叫它小黑。它全身都是黑色的。它有两只又大又圆的眼睛，一张小嘴和一条大尾巴。尽管它非常小，但它却游得很快。

I often feed them and change water for them We are good friends

我常常去喂它们，给它们换水。我们是好朋友。

4、For months I hinted that I needed a new wedding ring, since I had developed an allergy to gold

几个月以来，我一直在向丈夫暗示我需要一枚新的结婚戒指，因为我对黄金有点过敏。

On my birthday, while I was gardening, my husband asked me for gift suggestions I held my hands up and said, "Well, you‘ll notice that my hands are bare"

生日那天，我正在干园艺活时，丈夫问我想要什么礼物。我举起双手说：“嗯，你肯定看到了，我的两手都是光光的。”

Later that evening I opened my present with enthusiasm "Happy birthday," he said, as I unwrapped a new pair of gardening gloves

那天晚上，我满怀热情地拆开了丈夫送的礼物。“生日快乐!”他说。我打开一看：里面包着一双园艺手套。

5、A panda looks like a little bear It has black and white fur It lives only in China, so it is called the national treasure of China and protected by the law

熊猫看起来好像一只小熊。它的皮毛是黑白相间。 它只居住在中国，因此，它是中国的国宝，受到国家法律的保护。

We all see panda on TV or in the zoo They look stupid and walk slowly, but they are lovely and everyone likes them

A panda is lucky animal We Chinese like it, and people of the world like it, too

我们在电视上或在动物园里能看到熊猫。他们看起来显得很笨的样子，走起来很缓慢，但很可爱，大家都很喜欢它们。

Now there are China’s pandas in many other countries, such as Japan and the USA…

熊猫是个吉祥的动物。中国人民喜欢它，世界人民也喜欢它。现在许多国家都有中国的熊猫，如，日本、美国……

A panda isn’t a common animal, it is bridge of friendship

熊猫不是一种普通的动物，而是一座友谊的桥梁。