英語短篇小故事匯總

 　　故事不需要有過多的心理活動描寫、大段的對話和繁復(fù)細膩的景物描寫，但還是要體現(xiàn)其中的趣味性。下面是小編帶了的英語故事，希望你們喜歡。

　　英語故事：暴行的借口

　　A Wolf meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the Lamb himself his right to eat him.

　　He thus addressed him:“Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.”

　　“Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.”

　　Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.”

　　“No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”

　　Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.”

　　“No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother′s milk is both food and drink to me.”

　　On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won′t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.”

　　The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

　　一只狼瞧見一只迷路失群的小羊，決定暫緩下毒手，想先找一些理由，對小羊證明自己有吃它的權(quán)利。

　　它就說：“小鬼!你去年曾經(jīng)罵過我。”

　　小羊可憐地說：“老實說，我去年還沒有出生呢。”

　　狼再說：“你在我的草地上吃過草。”

　　小羊回答說：“不，好先生，我還未曾嘗過草的味道呢。”

　　狼又說：“你喝過我井里的水。”

　　小羊叫道：“不，我從沒有喝過水，因為直到今天為止，我都是吃著母親的奶汁。

　　”狼一聽這話，便抓住它，把它吃下去，便說：“好!即使你駁倒我每一句話，我終究要吃晚餐的!”

　　暴君總有他暴行的借口。

　　英語故事：曾祖母的奇怪故事

　　I love listening to my great-grandma's stories, so I didn't object when she started to tell me a story about one of her strange experiences over a glass of iced tea…

　　My Great-Great Grand-dad died in 1918 at the age of 48 when he fell off of a galloping1 horse. My Great Grandma was only 17 when this happened. The story goes that at the get together after the funeral, a strange man showed up. No one had seen him at the funeral, or anytime else for that matter. He stayed for a long time, hardly talking to anybody, and refusing to take off his coat and hat. When my Great-Great aunt pointed2 out to this man that, for the life of her, she could not recall who he was, he became absolutely livid and ran from the house. You can imagine how strange this seemed to everybody.

　　Curiosity got the best of Great grandma and she decided3 to follow this strange man outside to see where he had gone. She stepped outside and proceeded out into the middle of the yard, but she stopped short because the strangest sight met her eyes…the man was standing4 quietly on the roof of the barn, just about 5 yards away, illuminated5 only by the moonlight. She remembers that he had an unnatural6 gleam to his eyes, and when the clouds passed over the moon, and the night was pitch black, that gleam remained.

　　我喜歡聽曾祖母講故事。有一天喝茶的時候，她要給我講一個她所經(jīng)歷過的奇怪事情，當然我是不會反對的。

　　曾祖母的父親是在1918年去世的，那年他48歲，從一匹烈馬上面摔了下來，當時曾祖母才僅僅17歲。故事發(fā)生在葬禮過后大家一起說話的時候。有個奇怪的男人出現(xiàn)了，沒有人在葬禮上見過這個人，并且也沒在別的什么時候看見過他。他出現(xiàn)以后呆了很長時間，沒和任何人說話，也不愿意脫下外套。這時姨姥姥對他說，自己這些年從來沒有見過他而且也不知道他是誰，他突然變得臉色鐵青，隨即跑了出去。你可以想象的到，人們對眼前的這一幕會是多么奇怪。

　　好奇心占據(jù)了曾祖母的內(nèi)心，她決定去看個明白。于是她跟了出去來到院子中央，但是一看到眼前奇怪的情景…差不多五碼以外的地方，那個人靜靜地站在糧倉的屋頂上，在月光的照耀下格外醒目。曾祖母記得剛才看見他的眼睛里有一道很不自然的亮光，隨后烏云遮住了月亮，夜晚變得更黑，那道光就又出現(xiàn)了。

　　英語故事：露西的信

　　In this small town, my family and I had lived at several places, before settling down in a house on Pennsylvania Ave. A very quiet neighborhood, my folks quickly made friends with those all around.

　　In the house on the left of ours lived an old woman named Lucy. She and my parents got along splendidly. Her husband had died about two years prior1, and having no family close by, we became sort of a surrogate family. Lucy and her husband had bought their house and property in the 1940's. Her husband loved to tinker around the house and yard, but the yard was his real passion. He gave meticulous2 care all year long, while she would type letters to distant relatives about the progress being made.

　　Lucy's husband brought the yard to a beautiful state. Everybody admired and remarked on its condition. When he died Lucy thought it befitting to spread his ashes in the back yard, the place where he had spent countless3 hours. But after some time Lucy was convinced4 that her husband had come back to his yard. She was especially frightened of the sprawling5 back yard where he had spent many daylight hours. Lucy would tell us of hearing the sound of footsteps6 coming across the grass or of someone or something tapping her on the shoulder. So she would try and avoid that area stating simply "it just spooks me out."

　　Over the next several years were lonely times for Lucy. We often had her at our house for family functions, but it didn't quite make up for losing a loved one. She spent the majority of her time typing letters on an old typewriter to family and friends. During the spring and summer months when we had our windows open, we could hear her busily typing away.

　　When Lucy died the house remained vacant7 for a long time. Before the new owners were to take over, my Father did some repair work inside. He often said he heard footsteps on the old hardwood floors. But we all knew something was happening when we heard the unmistakable striking8 of typewriter keys. Lucy had come back to type her ghostly letters. I guess you could say that neither Lucy nor her husband was going to give up the things they loved the most!

　　在我們居住的這個小鎮(zhèn)上，我家已經(jīng)搬了好幾個地方，直到我們終于在賓西法尼亞大街的一所房子安定了下來。這里的鄰居都很平易近人，很快父親母親就和他們交上了朋友。

　　我家左邊住著一位老太太，名字叫露西，我們的關(guān)系相處得尤其的好。她丈夫前去世了，附近也沒有其他家人，我家?guī)缀蹙统闪怂�的代理人。露西夫婦在四十年代就買下了這所房子和土地，她丈夫很喜歡把房子和屋后的小院粗粗拉拉的修補一番，但是那個小院可是他生命中的寄托。多年來他精心的照料著院子里的一草一木，而露西就在屋里給遠方的親戚寫信，講述這邊生活的點點滴滴。

　　小院在露西丈夫的打理之下顯得格外漂亮，人們都不免對那里品頭論足，夸獎稱贊一番。他去世以后，露西決定就把他的骨灰撒在這個占據(jù)了他生命中無數(shù)時間的院子里。但是一段時間過后，露西確信她丈夫又回到了他的小院。而此時這個曾經(jīng)讓他日夜不離的地方已經(jīng)是雜草叢生，露西覺得很害怕。她告訴我們說聽到了有腳步聲在院里的草坪上踱來踱去，還感覺到有人或是什么東西輕輕地拍她的肩膀。于是，她就努力再也不到那個鬧鬼的地方去。

　　接下來的幾年里露西就這樣孤孤單單的生活著，我們經(jīng)常請她過來參加我們的家庭會議，但是這對于失去愛人的她來說是于事無補的。她依然成天的用那臺古老的打字機給家人和朋友寫信。春天夏天的時候只要我們一打開窗戶便能聽到打字機忙碌的聲音。

　　露西去世后，房子空了好長一段時間。新房東搬進去之前，父親進去做了一些修繕的工作。他說經(jīng)常聽到有人在老的硬木地板上走路的聲音。我們也都知道那里確實是發(fā)生了什么，因為我們又聽見了熟悉的打字機發(fā)出的聲音。露西回來寫信了。你應(yīng)該會說，露西夫婦都割舍不下他們一生中的摯愛吧，我想是這樣的。