英文哲理故事

篇一：中英文对照哲理小故事

上帝的咖啡

一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。 老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。 等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。

生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。

上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。享受你们的咖啡吧。 最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。 简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。 其他的，就留给上帝吧。

God's Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and li(转载于:www.Zw2.cN 爱 作 文 网)fe. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

Leave the rest to God.

篇二：英语哲理故事

Good morning everyone .today i am tell you about a Philosophical story

Life's 5 handle the keys

In May 2001, American high school in Nevada Madison entrance exam out such a topic: bill. Gates desk drawer of five locking respectively, the wealth, interest, happiness, honorary five tags. Gates is always take only a key, and the other four in the drawer, which bring gates key? The other four by which several where a or drawer?

A just a name to the American continent students, happened to catch this exam, see this topic, once were to panic, because he does not know what is a language problem or a math problem. After the exam, he asked his sponsor - a member of the school. Director told him, it's a book of intelligent test, content is not, nor standard answer, everyone can freely according to their own understanding, but the answer right according to his views to a fraction.

The continent students in this way of nine points in 5 minutes. The teacher that he didn't answer a word, at least shows that he is honest, with little should give half of the score. But he couldn't understand, he answered the questions of the table, but scored, the answer is, gates pairs of wealth is the key on the drawer, the other key are in the drawer.

Later, the mainland students E__mail through the question back home, the student in the mail to students said, now I know already gates morality is the key, all answer this key, got the richest affirmation and appreciated if you would have a test. Maybe it will also get some inspiration.

Exactly how many classmates, we are not answer. But it is a smart students on the school website, Madison in this web page found on the bill. Gates to the firm. Letters written word: so you are most interested in things of life, and hide your secret. Revelation:

This is short story, but contain life philosophy. The last sentence "in interest you the most things in your life, and the secrets hidden, isn't it the article will reveal the truth?

人生的五把钥匙

2001年5月，美国内华达州的麦迪逊中学在入学考试时出了这样一道题目：比尔。盖茨的办公桌上有五个带锁的抽屉，分别贴着财富、兴趣、幸福、荣誉五个标签。盖茨总是只带一把钥匙，而把其他四把所在抽屉里，请问盖茨带的是哪一把钥匙？其他的四把所在哪一个或哪几个抽屉里？

一位刚一名到美国的大陆学生，恰巧赶上这场考试，看到这个题目后，一下慌了手脚，因为他不知道这到底是一道语文题还是一道数学题。考试结束后，他去问他的担保人——该校的一名理事。理事告诉他，那是一道智能测试题，内容不在书上，也没有标准答案，每个人都可根据自己的理解自由地回答，但是老师有权根据他的观点给一个分数。

那位大陆学生在这道9分的题上得了5分。老师认为，他没答一字，至少说明他是诚实的，凭着一点就应该給一半以上的分数。但让他不能理解的是，他的同桌回答了这个题目，却得了1分，同桌的答案是，盖茨带的是财富抽屉上的钥匙，其他的钥匙都所在这个抽屉里。

后来，那位大陆学生通过E__mail把这道题发回国内，那位学生在邮件中对同学说，现在我已知道盖茨到底是那一把钥匙，凡是回答这把钥匙的，都得到了这位大富豪的肯定和赞赏，你们是否愿意测试一下，说不定从中还会得到一些启发。

同学们到底给出了多少答案，我们不得而知。但是，据说有一位聪明的同学登上了美国麦迪逊中学的网页，他在该网页上发现了比尔。盖茨给该校的回函。函件上写着这么一句话：在你最感兴趣的事物上，隐藏着你人生的秘密。

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本文通过微软公司总裁比尔盖茨的五把钥匙中的一把——兴趣，形象而生动地告诉我们：人生成功的诀窍，就是干自己感兴趣的事，发挥自己的长处。比尔盖茨没有读完哈佛大学就经营电脑公司去了，他是及早发现自己兴趣，并决定发挥自己就长处的人。

文章虽短小，但蕴含人生哲理。最后一句“在你最感兴趣的事物上，隐藏着你人生的秘密”，不正是本文要揭示的道理吗？

篇三：英文哲理故事

英文哲理故事

Love is everything

Wealth Success and Love，A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said, "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat." "Is the man of the house home?", they asked. "No", she replied, "He's out." "Then we cannot come in", they replied. In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a House together," they replied. "Why is that?" she asked. One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, "and he is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home." The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Wouldn't it

be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love." "Let us heed our

daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest." The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?" The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!" . Love is everything.

译文：

有爱就有一切

三个白须飘然的老人坐在妇人家院前歇脚，三人中，一个是“财富”，一个是“成功”，一个是“爱”。妇人邀请他们进屋，三个老者笑呵呵地谢了她，身子却没动。妇人惑然。三个老人说：“我们不能同时进屋呀！不过，你可以去和你的家人商量，看你们最需要我们中的哪一个。”妇人便进屋把老人的话说了。丈夫惊喜道：“既然如此，我们就邀请财富老人吧，请他进来，让我们的屋里装满财富！” 妇人不同意：“亲爱的，我们为什么不邀请成功老人呢？做一切事情都能成功，那感觉会有多好！”这时候，儿媳插嘴进来，说：“我们还是邀请

爱吧，让我们的家时时处处都充满爱。”“那我们就听儿媳的吧！”一对夫妇朝儿媳点点头。 于是妇人出门，邀请爱的老人进屋作客。谁知爱的老人起身，成功老人和财富老人也都跟在后面。妇人感到惊讶：“我们邀请的是‘爱’，你们两位怎么也一起来了？” 三个老人乐了：“哪里有爱，哪里就有财富和成功！”。有爱就有一切。 《Always will I seek the seed of triumph in every adversity》

Now I know that there are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about my soul as when it has to suffer cruel adversity. Then everything depends on whether I raise my head or lower it in seeking help. Whenever I am struck down, in the future, by any terrible defeat, I will always inquire of myself, after the first pain has passed how I can turn that adversity into good. What a great opportunity that moment

might present… to take the bitter root I am holding and transform it into a fragrant garden of flowers.