三分钟英语励志的故事
我们在做课前三分钟演讲时,可以讲一些英语励志的故事,那么三分钟英语励志的故事都有哪些呢?一起来看看吧。
三分钟英语励志的故事: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。
三分钟英语励志的故事:老板最大
There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, “How come this guy is $5,000? That’s so expensive for this kindof parrot.” The owner said, “Because I have trained him and he can talk.” So the customer asked him, “How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?” The owner said, “Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing actions,like dancing and so on. That’s why he’s so expensive.” Then the customer said, “How about the third one? What canhe do that makes him so expensive?” The owner of the shopsaid, “I don’t know. Normally, I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him ‘The Boss.’”
有个人到一间商店买鹦鹉。店里有三只鹦鹉,其中一只卖五千元,另一只卖一万元,还有一只卖三万元。顾客问老板:“为什么这只要卖五千元?这个价钱对这种鹦鹉来说太贵了!”老板说:“因为我有训练他讲话。”顾客又问:“那这只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?”老板说:“他除了会说话之外,还会表演一些有趣的动作,好比说跳舞等等,所以才卖这么贵。”顾客接着又问:“那第三只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?”老板说:“我不知道。我从没听过他讲话、吹口哨或唱歌,也没