可能有点长，还是推荐这个很老的哲理故事吧，虽然大家都听过了，但是还是值得时时想起，提醒自己的。。。树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不待

《男孩和他的树》

从前，有一棵巨大的苹果树。
一个小男孩每天都喜欢在树下玩耍。他爬树，吃苹果，在树荫下小睡……他爱和树玩，树也爱和他玩。

时间过的很快，小男孩长大了，他不再每天都来树下玩耍了。

“来和我玩吧。”树说。

“我不再是孩子了，我再也不会在树下玩了。”男孩回答道，“我想要玩具，我需要钱去买玩具。”

“对不起，我没有钱……但是，你可以把我的苹果摘下来，拿去卖钱，这样你就有钱了。”

男孩兴奋的把所有的苹果都摘下来，高兴的离开了。男孩摘了苹果后很久都没有回来。树很伤心。

一天，男孩回来了，树很激动。

“来和我玩吧。”树说。

“我没时间玩，我得工作，养家糊口。我们需要一栋房子，你能帮助我吗？”

“对不起，我没有房子，但是你可以砍下我的树枝，拿去盖你的房子。”男孩把所有的树枝都砍下来，高兴的离开了。

看到男孩那么高兴，树非常欣慰。但是，男孩从此很久都没回来。树再一次孤独，伤心起来。

一个炎热的夏日，男孩终于回来了，树很欣慰。

“来和我玩吧！”树说。

“我过的不快乐，我也一天天变老了，我想去航海放松一下。你能给我一条船吗？”

“用我的树干造你的船吧，你就能快乐地航行到遥远的地方了。”男孩把树干砍下来，做成了一条船。

他去航海了，很长时间都没露面。

最后，过了很多年，男孩终于回来了。

“对不起，孩子，我再也没有什么东西可以给你了……”树说。

“我已经没有牙咬苹果了。”男孩回答道。

“我也没有树干让你爬了。”树说。

“我已经老得爬不动了。”男孩说。

“我真的不能再给你任何东西了，除了我正在死去的树根。”树含着泪说。

“我现在不需要什么了，只想找个地方休息。过了这么些年，我累了。”男孩回答道。

“太好了！老树根正是休息是最好的倚靠，来吧，来坐在我身边，休息一下吧。”

男孩坐下了，树很高兴，含着泪微笑着……

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这是每个人的故事，树就是我们的父母。当我们年轻的时候，我们愿意和爸爸妈妈玩。当我们长大成人，我们就离开了父母，只有我们需要一些东西或者遇到一些麻烦时，才会回来。不论怎样，父母总是支持我们，竭力给我们每一样能让我们高兴的东西。

你也许会想，男孩对树太残酷了，但是，那正是我们所有人对待父母的方式啊！

附英文版：
A Boy and His Tree

A long ago,there was a huge apple tree. A little boy love to come and play around it everyday.He climbed to the tree top,ate the apples,took a nap under the shadow…He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him.

Time went by,the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree everyday.

One day,the boy came back to the tree and he looked.
“Come and play with me ,”The tree asked the boy .
“I am no longer a kid, I don’t play around trees anymore.”The boy replied,
“I want toys.I need money to buy them.”
“Sorry,but I don’t have money…But you can pick all my apples and sell them.
So,you will have money.”The boy was so excited .He grabbed all the apples
on the tree and left happily.The boy never came back after he picked the
apples.The tree was sad.

One day,the boy returned and the tree was so excited.
“Come and play with me ,”The tree said.
“I don’t have time to play.I have to work for my family.We need a house for
shelter.Can you help me?”
“sorry,but I don’t have a house .But you can chop off my branches to build
your house.”So the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left happily.
The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then.
The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day,the boy returned and the tree was delighted.
“Come and play with me !”The tree said.
“I am sad and getting old.I want to go sailing to relax myself.Can you give
a boat?”
“Use my truck to build your boat.You can sail faraway and be happy.”
So the boy cut the tree truck to make a boat .He went sailing and never
showed up for a long time.

Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years.
“Sorry,my boy.but I don’t have anything for you anymore.No more apples for
for you…“The tree said.
“I don’t have teeth to bite.”The boy replied.
“No more truck foe you to climb on.”
“I am too old for that now.”The boy said.
“I really can give you anything…The only thing left is my dying roots.”The
tree said with tears.
“I don’t need much now,just a place to rest.I am tired after all these year”
The boy replied.
“Good!Old tree roots is the best place to lean on and rest. Come,come sit
down with me and rest.”The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled
with tears……

This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. when we were young, we loved to play with mom and dad……
When we grown up, we left them…Only came to them when we need something or when we are in trouble.
No matter what,parents will alway be there and give everything they could to make you happy.
You may think the boy is cruel to the tree but that how all of us are treating our parent.Time is too slow for those who wait,too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve,too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love,time is eternity.

英文的最后一句原文没有翻译，我怕自己粗陋的翻译会破坏了原有的韵味，大家自己品味吧！！

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　　你好,我是田老师。送你两篇英语小短文。

1。.有志者事竟成
the secret of success (the key to success) is not so much money as a strong will. a great man is one who has a strong will and an indomitable spirit. in other words, if a man does not have a strong will to win (get) the final victory, he will never succeed in his life. he is no more than a failure.
it is quite obvious that there is no difficult thing (nothing difficult) in the world. if you make up your mind to do it, you will certainly accomplish your end. that stands to reason.
成功的要诀不是金钱而是一个坚强的意志（用not so mush... as）。一个大人物是一个具有坚强意志和不屈不挠精神的人。换句话说，如果一个人没有坚强意志去获得最后胜利的人，他终其一生永远不会成功。他只不过是（用no more than）一个失败者。
很显明的世界上并没有难事。如果你下定决心去做它，你一定会达到目的。那是显而易见的。
2。生活的乐趣
joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask. people who have this joy don not need to talk about it; they radiate it. they just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight and glow into other lives as naturally as bird sings.
we can never get it by working for it directly. it comes, like happiness, to those who are aiming at something higher. it is a byproduct of great, simple living. the joy of living comes from what we put into living, not from what we seek to get from it.
中文翻译：
生活之乐趣来源于良好的情绪，信赖这些情绪，并任由它们如同鸟儿高翔于天空般地自由自在。生活的乐趣是无法靠姿态摆出来的，也无法用戴上一张面具来伪装。 拥有这种乐趣的人们无需挂在嘴边，他们自然会焕发出快乐的气息。他们自己生活在快乐当中，也将这样的快乐自然而然地感染着他人，犹如是鸟儿就必将歌唱。
直接追求生活的乐趣却只会使乐趣远离我们，它与幸福一样青睐胸有大志的人们。生活过得高雅、简单便会产生出乐趣。它是我们对生活的投入，而非所求。

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　　The time account

Say there is a bank that credits your account each morning with RMB6,400. Every evening, the bank deletes whatever remains of this sum that you have failed to use during the day.
What would you do if you had such an account?
Draw out every cent, every day, of course!
Well, each of us has such an account. Its name is TIME.
Every morning, time credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever you have failed to put to use. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day, time opens a new account for you. Each night, it burns whatever remains in the account. If you fail to use up all of the day’s deposits, you can’t keep them for tomorrow. Neither can you draw from what will be put in the next morning.
Time’s clock runs non-stop.
To realize the value of one year, ask a student who has failed a grade.
To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour, ask two lover who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute, ask a traveler who has just missed his train.
To realize the value of one second, ask the motorist who has just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the athlete who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present!

时间账户

如果说有这样一个银行，每天早上都给你汇入6400元；每天晚上，都会清除你在这一天没有花完的账户余额。
如果你有这样一个账户，你会怎样做呢？
当然是每天都要取出每一分钱！
其实，我们每一个人都有这样的一个账户，它的名字就叫时间。
每个清晨，时间都会为你开启一个拥有86400秒的账户；每晚，便会购销一切你没有充分利用的时间，它从不延缓进出平衡，也不允许透支。
每天，时间都会给你开启一个新账户；每晚，都会清除账户上的余额（时间）。如果你没有用尽当天的时间存款，你也不可能留着以备明天之用，而且你也不可能预支第二天的时间。
时间永不停息地奔跑着。
想要明白一年的价值，去问问留级的学生。
想要明白一个月的价值，去问问早产的母亲。
想要问问一周的价值，去问问周刊的编辑。
想要明白一个小时的价值，去问问正在等候见面的热恋情侣。
想要明白一分钟的价值，去问问没赶上火车的旅行者。
想要明白一秒钟的价值，去问问躲过交通事故的司机。
想要明白千分之一秒的价值，去问问在奥运会上获得银牌的运动员。
珍惜你现在的每一分钟吧！记住，时间不等人，昨天已成为历史，明天仍是未知。只有今天才是礼物，这也就是我们为什么称它为“现在”。

——摘自《英汉对照心灵阅读——情感篇

以前百度上就有，看看就好了