[考试升级]英语常用词小故事 alcohol

英语常用词小故事 alcohol

　　 嗜酒的人常把酒说成是能明目的眼药水，他们可能不知道他们的说法几乎切合alcohol（酒精）的词源。这个词源于阿拉伯语的al（=the）＋koh'l（=paint），一种描眼皮的精细的黑粉，后来用于任何精细的粉末，又引伸地用于蒸馏的液体。最常见的蒸溜液体就是酒里的酒精。

一、初中英语小故事精选

　　初中英语小故事精选

　　阅读英语小故事，提高初中英语阅读能力。当然要想比较有效果，最好是坚持每天阅读。下面是小编给大家整理的初中英语小故事，大家可以看看。更多初中英语小故事可以直接参考初中英语学习网站---小牛英语网/ 。

　　英语小故事一：The Milkmaid and Her Pail of Milk

　　Dolly the Milkmaid having been a good girl, and careful in her work, her mistress gave her a pail（桶） of fresh milk for herself. With the pail upon her head, Dolly tripped gaily1（欢乐地） along on her way to the town, where she was going to sell her milk.

　　"For this milk," said Dolly, "I shall get a shilling, and with it I will buy twenty of the eggs laid by our neighbor's fine fowls2. The mistress will surely lend me a hen, and, allowing for all mishaps3, I shall raise a good dozen of chicks. They will be well grown before the next fair-time comes round, and it is then that chickens bring the highest price. I shall be able to sell them for a guinea. Then I will buy that sweater that I saw in the village the other day, and a hat and ribbons, too; and when I go to the fair, how smart I shall be! Robin4 will be there and will come up and offer to be friends again. But I won't come round too easily, and when he wants me for a partner in the dance, I shall just toss up my head and--"

　　Here Dolly gave her head the least bit of a toss, when down came the pail, and all the milk was spilled upon the ground. Poor Dolly! It was hr good-by to eggs, chickens, sweater, hat, ribbons, and all.

　　作为初中生，阅读一些有趣的小故事，可以提高自己对英语的兴趣。

　　英语小故事二：A Miser Man

　　A very stingy（吝啬的） man who had no pleasure but that of making money sold his all, namely, his place and fields, and forged all the money he received into a mass of gold, and buried it in the ground. Every day he visited the spot, which was one of his daily greatest pleasures.

　　Then a man who occasionally came to the neighborhood saw this miser1 digging up the earth with joy. When this neighbor went there and dug the earth, he found a buried treasure, to his great astonishment2. He resolved to run off with（偷走） it outright3. When the miser came to the spot the following day, he found his treasure missing, to his great amazement4. It furious agony（苦恼） and desperation, he cursed God and man tearing his hair like a mad man.

　　When a pedestrian（行人） asked his of his bitter sorrow, the miser told his story in great detail, but the passenger comforted and consoled him, saying, "You need not cry over your loss of treasure. I think your loss is not so great as you think. Bury in that place a stone of the same size in place of your mass of gold, and regard it as your lost one. You will hardly tell the difference the two, because, as far as you are concerned, gold is all one with a stone in point of utility." Happiness does not consist in owning money, but in reasonable using of it.

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二、初中英语寓言小故事：大智慧

　　初中英语小故事：功亏一篑

　　Once a man planned to build a terrace1.

　　He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth.

　　When the mound2 was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed, the man gave up.

　　The terrace was never completed.

　　This idiom means to fail to succeed for lack of final effort.

　　古时，有一个人要筑一座九仞（八尺=一仞）高的山。

　　他十分努力的建造这座山，并且花了很多时间挖土、搬运泥土。

　　终于当山快要建成的时候，几乎只差最后一篮子的泥土就行了的时候，他放弃了。

　　这座山便永远无法完工。

　　这个典故用以形容“离成功只有一步之遥，但最终失败告终”的意思。

　　初中英语小故事：摸动物的瞎子

　　A blind man is good at touching1 all the things.

　　No matter whatever the thing is he can distinguish2 it as soon as he touches it

　　A man brings a young wolf and lets him touch it.

　　Having touched the animal, he says, "This is a fox or a wolf, I am not sure. But I know that putting this kind of animal into the sheep pen is not safe"

　　The story means: we can know someone's bad habits from when he is young.

　　一个瞎子精于用手触摸各种动物。

　　什么动物只要他一摸，就能分辨出来。

　　有人带来一只小狼，请他摸一摸，说出是什么东西。

　　他摸了摸这个小野兽后说：“这是一只狐狸或者一匹狼，啊，我不太清楚。不过有一点我却十分地明白，让这种动物进羊栏是不安全的。”

　　这个故事是说一个人的恶习在年幼时便可得知。

　　初中英语小故事：邻居与蛇

　　这是小牛英语/给大家整理的另外一个小故事。

　　A snake, having made his hole close to the door of a cottage, inflicted1 a sever2 bite on the cottager's little son. So the child died.

　　This caused much sorrow to his parents. The father decided3 to kill the snake. The next day, on its coming out of its hole for food, he took up his ax, but, making too much haste to hit the snake, missed its head, and cut off only the end of its tail.

　　After some time the cottager, lest the snake should also bite him, tried to make peace, and placed some bread and salt beside its hole, the snake, slightly hissing4, said, "From now on there can be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son."

　　No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.

　　有条蛇在一家农舍的门边打了个洞，并把主人的小孩咬了一口，孩子就一命呜呼。

　　这对夫妇痛不欲生。孩子的父亲决意弄死那条蛇。第二天，当蛇出洞觅食之时，他举起斧头就砍那条蛇。可惜太操之过急，没砍中蛇头，只砍断了尾巴。

　　过了一阵子，屋主很害怕那条蛇会以牙还牙，就想同蛇讲和，于是就将一些面包和盐放在洞口。那条蛇发出丝丝的声音作出回答：“从今以后，在我们之间不会有和平。因为我一看到你，就会想自己被砍掉的尾巴；同样当你见到我时， 你会想起你死去的儿子。”

　　面对伤害过自己的人，我们难以真正忘记有过的创痛。

三、初中英语生活哲理小故事

　　初中英语小故事精选

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　　故事一：熊性恶血

　　Mountain Yangdu is a sheer and serene1 mountain, and is a inclement2 place. But it is home to black bears.

　　Black bears loathe3 blood in nature. If a black bear gets scratched by thorns when crossing a gorge4, it will scratch the wound with its claw in order to remove the bloodstains. But it doesn't know that blood and flesh are not separable and when there is more and more blood and flesh are not separable and when there is more and more blood coming out, it will tear off the flesh. Seeing the blood pouring out and can not be stopped, it will be angered and keep scratching until it gets to its stopped, it will be angered and keep scratching until it gets to its own guts5 and tear apart its viscera and die.

　　阳都山峻峭幽深，环境险恶，是黑熊的乐园。

　　黑熊生性厌恶血，如果一只黑熊在越过峡谷时，被荆棘刮伤，它就会用爪子去抓这个地方，想把血迹抓掉，但它不知道血和肉密不可分。当血迹越流越多时，黑熊忍不住把出血的肉一把抓下来，眼看鲜血涌泉而出，止不住的黑熊恼羞成怒，就顺着流血的地方往里抓，一直要到抓断自己的肠子，抓碎自己的内脏，把自己抓死为止。

　　故事二：The wily lion

　　A lion watched a fat bull feeding in a meadow, and his mouth watered when he thought of the royal feast he would make, but he did not dare to attack him, for he was afraid of his sharp horns. Hunger, however, presently compelled him to do something: and as the use of force did not promise success, he determined1 to resort to artifice2. Going up to the bull in friendly fashion, he said to him, "I cannot help saying how much I admire your magnificent figure, What a fine head! What powerful shoulders and thighs3! But, my dear friend, what in the world makes you wear those ugly horns? You must find them as awkward as they are unsightly. Believe me, you would do much better without them." The bull was foolish enough to be persuaded by this flattery to have his horns cut off; and, having now lost his only means of defence, fell an easy prey4 to the lion.

　　一只狮子看见一头肥壮的公牛正在吃草，一想到这是一顿美味佳肴，口水不禁就流了出来，可是他又畏惧公牛的尖角，不敢轻易发起进攻。然而，饥饿促使他一定要做点什么，单凭武力，他肯定无法成功，于是，狮子决定用诡计智取。他带着友好的姿态走到公牛旁边，对公牛说：“简直无法用语言来表达我对您那魔鬼般的身材有多羡慕，这是多么漂亮的头呀，多么宽阔结实的肩膀和大腿呀！不过，亲爱的朋友，究竟是什么让你戴着这两只奇丑无比的角呢？你一定也发现了，它们又笨拙又丑陋。相信我，若是没有了这两只角，你肯定会更好。”公牛也够蠢的，竟然被这番恭维的话所说服，把自己的两只角折断了，刚刚失去用以防卫的武器，公牛就轻易地被狮子俘获了。

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