有很多短篇英文励志故事都是很值得我们找来看看的，那么短篇英文励志故事都有哪些呢?一起来看看吧。

短篇英文励志故事：园丁

The Yardman

The yardman comes every two weeks.

He drives a gray pickup truck.

The truck is a Ford.

It is about 15 years old, but it runs well.

It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage.

The yardman’s name is Byron.

In the back of his truck are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel.

Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building.

Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag.

He blows the dirt out into the street.

He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower.

He trims the hedge.

He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment door.

Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow.

He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster.

It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.

When he is done,he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner.

There he does the same work again.

园丁

园丁每两周来一次。

他开着一辆银色小卡车。

卡车是福特的。

它已经15年了，但是性能依旧很好。

它不用石油，它用汽油。

这个园丁的名字是拜伦。

他的卡车后面有个割草机、鼓风机、耙子和铁铲。

拜伦用鼓风机来吹叶子以及建筑物前前后后的尘土。

接着他把叶子耙进一个包里。

他把尘土吹进街道。

他用割草机割草坪。

他修理了树篱。

他用鼓风机吹走公寓门前的尘土。

接着他把所有的叶子、修剪的草以及剪下的东西放进独轮手推车。

他将独轮手推车推到建筑物后面，在后面他用铁铲将推车中的垃圾清进大垃圾箱。

拜伦花了两小时做这项工作。

当他做完工作，他堵住了通往拐角处房子的街道。

他做着重复的工作。

短篇英文励志故事：画饼充饥

Relieving hunger with a picture of cakes

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

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

画饼充饥

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。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!”

寓意：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。

短篇英文励志故事：老人与死神

An old man was gathering sticks in a forest.

At last he grew very tired and hopeless. He threw down all the sticks and cried out, "I cannot bear this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would come and take me!"

As he spoke, Death appeared, and said to him, "What would you do, old man? I heard you call me."

"Please, sir," replied the old man, "would you help me lift this bundle of sticks up to my shoulder?"

有个老人在森林中砍了不少柴，十分吃力地挑着走了很远的路。

一路上他累极了，实在挑不动了，便扔下柴担，叫喊起来：“这种日子我受不了了，死神啊，带我走吧。”

这时，死神来了，对他说：“老头，你想做什么，我听见你叫我?”

“先生”，老人说，“您能帮忙将那担子放在我的肩上吗?”

寓意：即使生活不幸，人们仍需爱惜生命。

短篇英文励志故事：孩子和苎麻

A child and ramie

A child was careless ramie stabbed, he rushed home and told his mother: "I only lightly Pengyi what, it was my painful thorns." Mom said: "Because of this, it will thorn you. if the next time you met Ramie, to a courageous and seize it, it will be in your hands become soft as silk, you will no longer be stabbed. "

It is said that many people are serving hard against soft.

孩子和苎麻

一个小孩不小心被苎麻刺了，他急忙跑回家，告诉妈妈说：“我只轻轻地碰它一下，它就刺得我很痛。”妈妈说：“正因为如此，它才会刺你。下次你如果再碰到苎麻，要勇敢地一把抓住它，它就会在你的手中变得柔软如丝，不再会刺伤你了。”

寓意：这是说，许多人都是服硬不服软的。