双语哲理故事

篇一：双语哲理故事谁是真正的朋友

One day at dusk, a sheep was enjoying himself at the mountainside, while a wolf came out of nowhere all of a sudden and intended to eat it. The sheep jumped away immediately and used his horns to counter the wolf, crying out loudly to his friends for help.

傍晚，一只羊独自在山坡上玩，突然从树木中窜出一只狼来，要吃羊，羊跳起来，拼命用角抵抗，并大声向朋友们求救。

The full looked through the trees and spotted the wolf, running away immediately.

牛在树丛中向这个地方望了一眼，发现是狼，跑走了；

The horse looked down and spotted the wolf, dashing away quickly.

马低头一看，发现是狼，一溜烟跑了；

The donkey stopped his pace and spotted the wolf, slipping away quietly.

驴停下脚步，发现是狼，悄悄溜下山坡；

The pig passed by and saw the wolf, rushing down the mountain right away.

猪经过这里，发现是狼，冲下山坡；

The rabbit heard the voice of the wolf and darted away swiftly.

兔子一听，更是一箭一般离去。

The dog heard the cries of the sheep and hurried to the mountainside, leaping out of the bushes and biting the wolf’s neck. The wolf felt so painful that he exclaimed miserably and escaped quickly when the dog loosened his bite for breathing.

山下的狗听见羊的呼喊，急忙奔上坡来，从草丛中闪出，一下咬住了狼的脖子，狼疼得直叫唤，趁狗换气时，怆惶逃走了。

After the sheep came back home, all his friends came up to visit him.

回到家，朋友都来了.

The bull said, “Why not tell me you were in danger? I could use my sharp and sturdy horns to hook out the intestines of the wolf.”

牛说：你怎么不告诉我？我的角可以剜出狼的肠子。

The horse said, “Why not tell me you were in danger? My strong hooves could stamp broken the wolf’s head.”

马说：你怎么不告诉我？我的蹄子能踢碎狼的脑袋。

The donkey said, “Why not tell me you were in danger? I could shout the wolf away with my formidable voice!”

驴说：你怎么不告诉我？我一声吼叫，吓破狼的胆。

The pig said, “Why not tell me you were in danger? I could use my big mouth to crush the sheep down the mountain.”

猪说：你怎么不告诉我？我用嘴一拱，就让它摔下山去。

The rabbit said, “Why not tell me you were in danger? I am good at running and could ask others to help.”

兔子说：你怎么不告诉我？我跑得快，可以传信呀。

Among all of them, only the dog did not say anything.

在这闹嚷嚷的一群中，唯独没有狗。

The real friendship does not lie in rhetorical words but in the hand that could help you out of troubles when needed. Those who often surround you and make you happy are not necessarily your real friends, while those who seem to be distant from you but care about you and do you a favor when you are in difficulties are. So who are your real friends and whose real friends are you?

真正的友谊，不是花言巧语，而是关键时候拉你的那只手。那些整日围在你身边，让你有些许小欢喜的朋友，不一定是真正的朋友。而那些看似远离，实际上时刻关注着你的人，在你需要的时候，默默为你做事的人，才是真正的朋友。而谁是你的真正的朋友，你又是谁的真正的朋友呢？

篇二：双语小故事

双语小故事：美丽的春天 Beautiful Spring 美丽的春天

Beautiful Spring

美丽的春天

Beautiful spring is here. 春天就在这里。

The winter is gone. 冬天走了。

But the birds are back. 鸟儿回来了。

The snow is gone. 雪融化了。

But the flowers are back. 花儿回来了。

Old coats are gone. 旧衣服走了。

But new ones are here. 新衣服在这里了。

Spring is a beautiful time. 春天是一段美丽的时光。

篇三：双语哲理美文：倘若人类真能再活五百年

人，可以从生物、精神与文化等各个层面来定义，或是这些层面定义的结合。生物学上，人被分类为人科人属人种，是一种高级动物。精神层面上，人被描述为能够使用各种灵魂的概念，在宗教中这些灵魂被认为与神圣的力量或存在有关。文化人类学上，人被定义为能够使用语言、具有复杂的社会组织与科技发展的生物，尤其是能够建立团体与机构来达到互相支持与协助的目的。

人类对长生不老的痴迷 For ever and ever

Immortality

For ever and ever

人类对长生不老的痴迷

Four narratives and an actuary

四个说法和一个精算师

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation. By Stephen Cave. Crown; 320 pages; $25. Biteback Publishing; ￡20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

《长生不老：对永生的追求及其如何推动人类文明》作者：斯蒂芬。卡夫，皇冠出版社。IMMORTALITY is an age-old obsession. Plenty of literature deals with the subject, from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamish to the poems of Homer and the writings of the Old Testament. The quest to live for ever has motivated medieval alchemists, modern techno-Utopians and mystics through the centuries。

长生不老是人类世世代代所痴迷的目标。从苏美尔的吉尔伽美什史诗到荷马史诗，再到旧约故事，数不清的文学作品触及到这个主题。从中世纪的炼金术士到现代的科幻乌托邦主义者和神秘主义者，千百年来人们孜孜不倦地追求着永生。

In his survey of the subject, Stephen Cave, a British philosopher, argues that man’s various tales of immortality can be boiled down into four basic “narratives”. The first is the simplest, in theory at least: do what the medieval alchemists never managed and discover an elixir to simply avoid dying. The second concerns resurrection, or coming back to life after dying, a belief found in all three of the Abrahamic religions. The idea of an immaterial soul that can persist through death dates back, in a formal form, at least to Plato, and forms Mr Cave’s third narrative. His fourth narrative deals with immortality through achievement, by becoming so famous that one’s name lives on through the ages。

英国哲学家史蒂芬。卡夫在对这个主题的研究中，把人们关于永生的观念概括为四个基本的“说法”。第一个，也是最简单的(至少在理论上)：找到中世纪炼金术士们从未找到的一

种神药，从而避免死亡。第二个是再生，即在死后又恢复生命，这是所有三个亚伯拉罕系宗教(基督教、犹太教和伊斯兰教)所共有的信仰。第三个“说法”是关于非物质的灵魂不死的理念，这种理念的正式形态，至少可以追溯到柏拉图。第四个，是通过个人成就获得永生，即，一个人可以使自己变得非常有名，以至于人们将世代记住他的名字。

For the aspiring undying, Mr Cave unfortunately concludes that immortality is a mirage. But his demolition project is fascinating in its own right. The section on the soul is an able attack on the related doctrines of “vitalism”， the soul and mind-body dualism—the intuitive and still

widely held body of ideas that hold that living creatures are animated by some sort of supernatural spark, and that an individual’s personality or consciousness can survive death. The chapters on resurrection will interest Christians, as Mr Cave examines how the literal recreation, by God, of dead people’s bodies remains the doctrine of most branches of Christianity. The idea of one’s soul, as opposed to one’s body, ending up in heaven or hell is a subsequent embellishment。

谈到那令人神往的永生，很不幸，卡夫先生的结论是，长生不老只是一种幻想。不过，他摧毁这种幻想的论证过程还是很精彩的。在关于灵魂的章节里，作者对与永生相关的“活力论”信条作了有力的抨击。活力论是一种灵魂(及心灵)与肉体的二元论，这种理念很直观，并且仍然被广为接受。它认为，生物是被某种超自然的力量所激活的，个人的特性和知觉在死后仍然存在。书中关于复活的章节肯定会使基督徒们感兴趣，卡夫先生在其中讨论了上帝使死人复活的故事，解释了为什么复活到现在仍然是大多数基督教派的信条。在接下来的章节中，卡夫涉及到人的灵魂上天堂或入地狱的话题。

If anything, readers might want more of Mr Cave’s crisp conversational prose. There could be more on living longer; Mr Cave barely has time to give even the briefest overview of the emerging science of life extension, which has allowed researchers to lengthen the lifespans of mice by a third or more in the lab。

卡夫先生的文体清新，像对话式的散文。但读者可能会觉得他应当涉及更多的话题。比如怎样能够更长寿。卡夫先生甚至没有对新兴的抗老医学做简单的介绍，抗老医学的研究者们已经可以在实验室里把老鼠的寿命延长三分之一甚至更多。

There are a few quibbles. Mr Cave’s repeated claim that the quest for immortality drives every human activity feels overdone. Others might dispute his definition of immortality itself. Mr Cave’s chief argument against the desirability of living for ever (even assuming it is possible) is the familiar one of boredom. As the uncountable billions of years tick away, the argument runs, even the most vivacious will come to realise that they have done everything there is to do,

hundreds of times. With yet more billions of years looming ahead they will be struck down with a debilitating ennui。

对卡夫先生的书，我有几点吹毛求疵的意见。例如，他反复强调，对永生的追求是人类所有行为的推动力，这一点似乎言过其实了。另外，他对永生的定义本身可能也会引起争议。再者，卡夫先生不赞成追求永生(假定能够实现)的主要论点，仍然是常见的“永生会造成厌

倦”的见解。这种见解认为：在活过了算不清的数百万年之后，即便是最生动活泼的人也终会意识到，世上所有能做的事都被做了几百次了；如果再活数百万年的话，只会越来越无聊了。

That argument only applies if these notional immortals are also invincible, and therefore impervious to accident. But that is an odd definition, and not one that crops up very often, especially in scientific research into ageing. The holy grail there is simply to arrest the ageing process. Indeed, Mr Cave quotes an actuary who has estimated that the average “medical

immortal” would persist for around 6,000 years before dying in a plane accident or a car crash or the like. And besides, boredom seems to be a non-