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小学英语短篇美文篇一

Once in the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), the duke of the Wei.

三国时代魏国的皇帝曹睿，准备选拔一个有才能的人到朝廷来做官。

Cao Rui, planed to select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers: 'When choosing a talented person, always beware of one with a false reputation. A false reputation is just like a picture of a cake; it can' t ease hunger.'

曹睿对他的大臣说：“选择人才，不能光找有虚名的人。虚名好像是画的一块饼，只能看，不能解决肚子饥饿的问题啊!”

moral：Later, this idiom came to be used to mean comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problems.

后来人们就用“画饼充饥”这个成语比喻用空想安慰自己，不能解决实际问题。

小学英语短篇美文篇二

The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health.

我们所吃的食物似乎对我们的健康有深远的影响。

Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.

尽管科学上已取得许多进展，使食物更适合我们食用，但与此同时它也使许多食物不宜食用了。

Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.

一些研究已经表明，人类大概有80%的疾病与饮食有关，40%的癌症，特别是结肠癌，也与饮食有关。 不同的文化会使人们更易患某些疾病，这是由这些文化的人们喜好的食物所致。 食物与疾病 有关并不是新发现。

In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.

1945 年，政府部门的科研工作者了解到，被广泛用于肉类以保持肉类 色泽的硝酸盐、亚硝酸盐和其他的添加剂可诱发癌症。 可是这些致癌物质依然存在于我们的食物之中。与此同时，要想知道加工食品标签上的哪些成分对健康有利，哪些成分对健康不利，变得更加困难了。我们吃到的这些添加物并非都是如此直接的。农民常给牛和家 禽注射青霉素，因而在受过注射的牛所产牛奶里发现青霉素。有时让家禽服用这类药物并 非是为了治病，而是为了经济上的缘故。农民们只是想使家畜长得更肥壮可以上市场上卖 到好价钱。虽然食物和药品管理局已一再设法控制这种情况的发生，但是这种行为仍在继 续。

小学英语短篇美文篇三

One day, seated in the ancestral hall, King Hui of Liang saw a man leading an ox pass by. He asked. “Where are you taking the ox?”

梁惠王坐在庙堂上，看到堂下有一个人牵着一头牛走过，便问道： “你把牛牵到哪里啊?”

The man leading the ox stopped and answered:

牵牛的人停了下来回答说：

“I am taking it to be slaughtered and will use its blood to paint the bell.” As king Hui heard this, he felt pity for the ox and said:

“我要把这头牛牵去杀掉，用它的血来涂钟。”惠王听了，便对牛十分怜悯，说：

“How can that be done? You are too cruel. Let it go at once. It is not guilty. How can you kill it? I cannot bear to see it panistricken, shedding tears and trembling before its death. ”

“那怎么行呢!你们太残忍了，赶快把牛放掉。它没有罪，怎么能杀掉呢?我不忍心看到牛临死前恐惧、流泪、战栗的样子。”

The man leading the ox asked:

牵牛的人问道：

“Do you mean that I shall let the ox go and not paint the bell? Is that it?”

惠王回答说：“您的意思是要我把牛放了，不必再涂钟了，是吗?”

King Hui answered: “What are you saying? How can you not paint the bell! Let the ox go, but use a sheep instead.

“你在说什么?钟怎么能不涂呢!把牛放了，换只羊吧。”