北京泡泡少儿英语希望家长给孩子讲故事

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.‟”

　　老板最大 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，也没看过他跳舞，什么都没有!不过另外两只叫他：『老板!』」

　　Where is the egg?

　　Teacher:Can you make a sentence with the word "egg"? Student:Yes.I ate a piece of cake yesterday.

　　Teacher:Then where is the “egg"?

　　Student:In the cake,Sir.

　　鸡蛋在哪里?

　　老师：你能用“鸡蛋”一词造句吗?

　　学生：可以。我昨天吃了一块蛋糕。

　　老师：“鸡蛋”在哪?

　　学生：在蛋糕里，先生

　　Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. Once he goes to a cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out, and buys the second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys the third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out and asks for another ticket. But a girl asks him,“Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends do you meet?” “No, I have no friends here,but a big woman always stops me at the door and cuts up my ticket.”

　　After Keaop It

　　"Boy, why have you got cotton-wool in your ear? Is it infected?" "No, sir, but you said yesterday that everything you told me went in one ear and out the other , so I am trying to stop it." “孩子，你为什么用棉花塞住耳朵?它感染了吗?”

　　“没有，老师。可是你昨天说你告诉我的知识都是一个耳朵里进，一个耳朵里出，所以我要把它堵在里面。”

　　“I'm sorry ，Madam ，but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth .”

　　“Twenty d ollars! Why ，I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work!”

　　“Yes ，but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared four other patients out of the office .”

　　“对不起，夫人，为您孩子拔牙我要收取20美元。”

　　“20美元!为什么?不是说好只要4美元。”

　　“是的，但是你的孩子大喊大叫，把另外四个病人吓跑了。” TWO： Teacher：We all know that beat causes an object to expand an cold cauese it to contract. Now，can anyone give me a good example?

　　John：Well ，in the summer the days are long，and in the winter the days are short.

　　老师：我们都知道热胀冷缩的道理。现在，谁给我举个例子?

　　约翰：嗯，在夏天天都长，在冬天天都短。

 　　The lecturer on evolution had been going on for nearly two hours. then he started again, and said he:"Let me ask the evolutionist a question --- if we had tails like a baboon, where are they?"

　　"I'll venture an answer, " said an old lady. "We have worn them off sitting here so long.".

　　教进化论的老师已经滔滔不绝地讲了快两个小时，他的话题又来了：“让我向进化论者提个问题——如果我们曾经像狒狒那样长着尾巴，那么现在尾巴到哪里去了?”

　　“我来试试看，”一位老太太说。

　　“该是我们在这里坐这么久把它们磨掉了吧。”

　　A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust. He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's house today, for I cannot get over the river." He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the

　　apples, and he was gladto take them out of the dust and eat them. Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.

　　【译文】 一个人正朝着一个富人的房子走去，当他沿着路走时，在路的一边他发现一箱好苹果，他说：“我不打算吃那些苹果，因为富人会给我更多的食物，他会给我很好吃的东西。”然后他拿起苹果，一把扔到土里去。 他继续走，来到河边，河涨水了，因此，他到不了河对岸，他等了一会儿，然后他说：“今天我去不了富人家了，因为我不能渡过河。” 他开始回家，那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的，他找到苹果，很高兴地把它们从尘土中翻出来吃了。 不要把好东西扔掉，换个时候你会觉得它们大有用处。

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