在进行小学英语教学时,将英语随堂练习的各项内容有机融入英语故事中,能有效提升练习的趣味性,促进学生学习。 小编整理了英语故事短文演讲稿，欢迎阅读!

英语故事短文演讲稿篇一

功亏一篑

Once a man planned to build a terrace.

古时，有一个人要筑一座九仞(八尺=一仞)高的山。

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

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。

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

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。

The terrace was never completed.

这座山便永远无法完工。

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

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。

英语故事短文演讲稿篇二

天衣无缝

Long ago, there lived a man named Guo Han.

从前， 有一个叫郭翰的人。

It was a hot summer. He couldn't fall asleep in his bedroom, so he went into the yard to sleep.

因为夏天天热， 在屋子里无法入睡， 就到院子里去睡觉。

Not long after he lay down he saw a woman dressed in white floating down from the sky.

躺下不久，正看着天空， 忽然看见一个白衣女子从空中慢慢飘流下来。

She said to him: "I am the celestial weaver."

她对郭翰说：“我是天上的织女。”

Looking at her Guo Han noticed that there were no seams in her garments.

郭翰看着这个女子，发现他的衣服全身无缝。

He thought this was very strange.

他觉得很奇怪。

He asked her: "Why are there no seams in your clothes?"

他就问她：“你的衣服怎么没有缝呢?”

She answered: "The garments of the immortals are not made with a needle and thread. How would they have seams?"

女子回答：“天上神仙的衣服，不是用针线缝出来的， 怎么会有缝呢?”

英语故事短文演讲稿篇三

嗟来之食

One year during the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋时期,770-476 BC), there was a the Qi State (齐国) was severely strickend by a famine.

春秋时代，有一年齐国发生大饥荒。

Qian Ao (qián ào 黔敖), a very rich but arrogant man took the occasion to showcase hisgenerosity through preparing food by the roadside and giving it to the passing refugees incharity.

有一位叫做黔敖有钱贵族，在街边准备食物分发给来往的难民，以显示自己的慷慨。

A man with shabby clothes happened to walk by with his shoes trailing along, he was so hungry as not to open his eyes.

有一个饥民，用衣袖蒙着脸，拖着鞋，饿得眼睛都睁不开的样子，慢慢地走过来。

Seeing the poor man, Qian Ao held the food by left hand and the drink by right hand, and shouted at him,"Hi, come to eat !”

黔敖见了，就左手拿着吃的，右手捧着喝的，向他喊道：“喂，来吃吧!”

Hearing the word, the man glared his eyes and said, “It is because I am not willing to eat the food handed out in contempt that I have been famished to such a degree. "

那人一听这话，立即瞪着眼睛，说道：“我就是因为不吃‘嗟来之食，才饿到这般地步的。"

Though Qian Ao made an apology to him for that, the man still resolutely refused to eat the food and thus he died of hunger in the end.

尽管黔敖向他道歉，那人仍然坚决不吃，终于饿死了。

This set phrase now extensively denotes the disrespectful aims. This story means that a person who has a strong sense of self-respect would rather die of hunger than be despised.

此故事讲的是一个怀有强烈自尊心的人，宁可饿死也不肯接受人轻视。现在这个成语泛指带有侮辱性的施舍。