历史故事英文，求一篇英文历史故事！

用英文写的历史故事（带翻译）

Things are not always what they seem

Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guestroom. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen? The first

man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.

"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so bsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it."

"Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."

Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should.If you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until some time later...

两个旅行中的天使到一个富有的家庭借宿。这家人对他们并不友好，并且拒绝让他们在舒适的客人卧室过夜，而是在冰冷的地下室给他们找了一个角落。当他们铺床时，较老的天使发现墙上有一个洞，就顺手把它修补好了。年轻的天使问为什么，老天使答到： “有些事并不象它看上去那样。”

第二晚，两人又到了一个非常贫穷的农家借宿。主人夫妇俩对他们非常热情，把仅有的一点点食物拿出来款待客人，然后又让出自己的床铺给两个天使。第二天一早，两个天使发现农夫和他的妻子在哭泣--他们唯一的生活来源，一头奶牛死了。年轻的天使非常愤怒，他质问老天使为什么会这样，第一个家庭什么都有，老天使还帮助他们修补墙洞，第二个家庭尽管如此贫穷还是热情款待客人，而老天使却没有阻止奶牛的死亡。

“有些事并不象它看上去那样。”老天使答道，“当我们在地下室过夜时，我从墙洞看到 墙里面堆满了金块。因为主人被贪欲所迷惑，不愿意分享他的财富，所以我把墙洞填上了。“昨天晚上，死亡之神来召唤农夫的妻子，我让奶牛代替了她。所以有些事并不象它看上去那样。”

有些时候事情的表面并不是它实际应该的样子。如果你有信念，你只需要坚信付出总会得到回报。你可能不会发现，直到后来…….

求一篇美国历史小故事 英文版

　　Jamestown

　　The first of the British colonies to take hold in North America was Jamestown. On the basis of a charter which King James I granted to the Virginia (or London) Company, a group of about 100 men set out for the Chesapeake Bay in 1607. Seeking to avoid conflict with the Spanish, they chose a site about 60 kilometers up the James River from the bay.

　　Made up of townsmen and adventurers more interested in finding gold than farming, the group was unequipped by temperament or ability to embark upon a completely new life in the wilderness. Among them, Captain John Smith emerged as the dominant figure. Despite quarrels, starvation and Indian attacks, his ability to enforce discipline held the little colony together through its first year.

　　In 1609 Smith returned to England, and in his absence, the colony descended into anarchy. During the winter of 1609-1610, the majority of the colonists succumbed to disease. Only 60 of the original 300 settlers were still alive by May 1610. That same year, the town of Henrico (now Richmond) was established farther up the James River.

　　It was not long, however, before a development occurred that revolutionized Virginia's economy. In 1612 John Rolfe began cross-breeding imported tobacco seed from the West Indies with native plants and produced a new variety that was pleasing to European taste. The first shipment of this tobacco reached London in 1614. Within a decade it had become Virginia's chief source of revenue.

　　Prosperity did not come quickly, however, and the death rate from disease and Indian attacks remained extraordinarily high. Between 1607 and 1624 approximately 14,000 people migrated to the colony, yet only 1,132 were living there in 1624. On recommendation of a royal commission, the king dissolved the Virginia Company, and made it a royal colony that year.

中国历史故事英文

二十四孝＿忠孝双全

明朝湖南道川守将沉至绪，有一个独生女儿，名叫沈云英。自小聪明好学，跟父亲学得一身好武艺。因其父率兵迎异军死在战场上，当时沈云英才十七岁，她登上高处大声呼曰：“我虽然是一个小女子，为完成父亲守城的遗志，我要决一死战。希望全体军民保卫家乡。”大家深受感动，发誓要夺回失地。很快解除了包围，取得了胜利。沈云英找到父亲的尸体，大声痛哭，全体军民都穿上孝服，参加了葬礼。朝廷下令追封沉至绪为副总兵，并任命沈云英为游击将军，继续守卫道州府。后来人们为她建了一座忠孝双全的纪念祠。有诗颂曰：

异军攻城围义兵，娥眉汗马解围城；父仇围难两湔雪，千古流芳忠孝名。

Man pages _ Zhongxiao queen

Ming-Chuan Wu Jiang, Hunan Road to Xu Shen, a daughter, named Shen Yun-ying. Smart studious young age, my father learned a swordsman. Shuaibing Ying horizon due to his father died on the battlefield, when Shen Yun excellence 17 years old, she boarded the height loud call, saying: "Although I was a small woman, for the completion of his father Shoucheng's behest, I would like to become accustomed. hope that the whole army to defend the homeland. "everyone was deeply moved and vowed to regain lost ground. Quickly lifted the siege, to victory. Shen Yun-ying to find his father's body, crying loudly, all the soldiers wore mourning to attend the funeral. Bestowed on the court order to thread the Fuzong Bing Shen, and named Shen Yun-ying for the guerrilla general, continue to guard the Road state capital. It was built for her a temple to commemorate the Chunghsiao queen. Song A poem reads:

Different military siege Wai-yi soldiers, crescent siege city of Khan MA; Fu Chou Wai difficult 2 Jian Xue, Liu-Fang Chung Hsiao name through the ages.

二十四孝＿上书救父

汉文帝时，有一位叫淳于意的人，拜齐国著名医师杨庆为师，学得一手高超的医术，曾经做过齐国的仓令。他的老师去世以后，弃官行医。因为个性刚直，行医的时候，得罪了一位有权势的人，导致后来自己遭陷害，被押往京城治罪。他的女儿名叫缇萦，虽然是一位弱小女子，然而不辞劳苦，长途跋涉一同前往长安向皇帝诉冤。她陈述了肉刑的害处，并说明了父亲做官时清廉爱民，行医时施仁济世，现在确实是遭人诬害。愿意替父受刑。汉文帝被缇萦的孝心深深感动，赦免了她的父亲，并且下诏书废除了肉刑。有诗颂曰：

随父赴京历苦辛，上书意切动机定； 诏书特赦成其孝，又废肉刑惠后人。

Man pages _ petitioned Jiufu

Emperor Wen of Han, there are a named Chunyu Italian people, thanks to well-known physician Qi Yang as a teacher, learned first-hand the superb art of healing, Qi positions have done so. After the death of his teacher, Qi Guan practice. Because upright and outspoken personality, practice time, offended a powerful person, which later led to his being framed and was then transferred to capital punishment. His daughter called Ti-ying, though a small woman, but the painstaking work, and travel long distances to travel together to the Emperor Chang-Su Yuan. She stated the harmful effects of corporal punishment, and describes his father as an official when the clean and loving, practicing medicine Ren Shi save the world, and now is really being Wuhai. For the parent is willing to torture. Han Emperor Wen Ti-ying of filial piety have been deeply moved, pardoned her father, and the abolition of corporal punishment under the imperial edict. Song A poem reads:

Calendar Kuxin father to Beijing, a petition intended to cut motive determined; edict into its filial amnesty, abolition of corporal punishment also benefit future generations.

简单的短篇英文历史故事

Prometheus

prometheus was a titan ．in the war between zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new olympiangods．out of the clay he made the first man，to whom athena gave soul and holy breath．prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire．and fire raised man above all animals ．later，there held a joint meeting of gods and men．the meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should begiven to gods and what to men．prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish zeus loved fat． zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the prometheus' favor towards men．so in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from mankind．however，prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down tomen．flying into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion，zeus let the other gods chain prometheus to a rock on mountain caucasus，where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew again．his period of pain was to be thirty-thousand years．prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never lost courage before zeus．at last heracles made prometheus and zeus restore to friend ship，when heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free．

普罗米修斯

普罗米修斯是泰坦巨人之一。在宙斯与巨人的战争中，他站在新的奥林波斯山神一边。他用粘土造出了第一个男人。雅典娜赋予了这个男人灵魂和神圣的生命。普罗米修斯还花费了很多时间和精力创造了火，并将之赠予人类。火使人成为万物之灵。在这之后，举行了第一次神与人的联席会议。这个会议将决定烧烤过的动物的哪一部分该分给神，哪一部分该给人类。普罗米修斯切开一头牛，把它分成两部分：他把肉放在皮下，将骨头放在肥肉下。因为他知道自私的宙斯爱吃肥肉。宙斯看穿了他的把戏。普罗米修斯偏袒人类，这使宙斯感到不快。因此，他专横地把火从人类手中夺走。然而，普罗米修斯设法窃走了天火，偷偷地把它带给人类。宙斯对他这种肆无忌惮的违抗行为大发雷霆。他令其他的山神把普罗米修斯用锁链缚在高加索山脉的一块岩石上。一只饥饿的老鹰天天来啄食他的肝脏，而他的肝脏又总是重新长出来。他的痛苦要持续三万年。而他坚定地面对苦难，从来不在宙斯面前丧失勇气。最后，海格立斯使普罗米修斯与宙斯恢复了他们的友谊，找到了金苹果，杀死了老鹰，因而解救了人类的老朋友。

谁有简短的中国历史故事 英文版的呀? 最好中英都有的

猴子捞月亮

One day,a little monkey is playing by the well.

一天，有只小猴子在井边玩儿。

He looks in the well and shouts :

它往井里一瞧，高喊道：

“Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!”

“噢！我的天！月亮掉到井里头啦！”

An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says,

一只大猴子跑来一看，说，

“Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!”

“糟啦！月亮掉在井里头啦！”

And olderly monkey comes over.

老猴子也跑过来。

He is very surprised as well and cries out:

他也非常惊奇，喊道：

“The moon is in the well.”

“糟了，月亮掉在井里头了！”

A group of monkeys run over to the well .

一群猴子跑到井边来，

They look at the moon in the well and shout:

他们看到井里的月亮，喊道：

“The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let’get it out!”

“月亮掉在井里头啦！快来！让我们把它捞起来！”

Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch .

然后，老猴子倒挂在大树上，

And he pulls the next monkey’s feet with his hands.

拉住大猴子的脚，

All the other monkeys follow his suit,

其他的猴子一个个跟着，

And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.

它们一只连着一只直到井里。

Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky,

正好他们摸到月亮的时候，老猴子抬头发现月亮挂在天上呢

He yells excitedly “Don’t be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!”

它兴奋地大叫：“别蠢了！月亮还好好地挂在天上呢！”

中国历史英语故事

退避三舍：春秋时期，晋国内乱，晋献公的儿子重耳逃到楚国。楚成王收留并款待他，他许诺如晋楚发生战争晋军将退避三舍（一舍为三十里）。后来重耳在秦穆公的帮助下重回晋国执政。晋国支持宋国与楚国发生矛盾，两军在城濮相遇，重耳退避三舍，诱敌深入而大胜。

Wince: the spring and autumn period, jin strife and offer the son of jin ChongEr male fled to chu. ChuCheng king shelter and feasted him, as he promised JinChu war jin will wince (a shekel for three miles). Later in ChongEr QinMu male under the help of the ruling. Return to jin Jin support 475-221 B.C. and chu conflict, the two armies in the city which meet, ChongEr wince, to lure him deep and win.

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