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有哲理的英语小故事欣赏 拔苗助长 There once was an impatient farmer who lived during the Song Dynasty.sòng cháo,960-1279 AD. 春秋时代，宋国有个急性子的农夫。 Everyday the anxious farmer would measure the growth of the crops. 庄稼长出禾苗以后，他每天都去观看。 To his dismay, his crops were growing much slower than he expected. 令他沮丧的是，禾苗长得太慢。 The farmer racked his brains trying to find better ways of planting in order to get quickerresults. 农夫绞尽脑汁想让禾苗长快些。 One day he finally came up with a solution. 一天他终于想出方法。 He started to physically pull the crops out of the ground, thus making them taller. 他跑到田里，把禾苗一颗颗往上拔，使它们长高。 The farmer worked very hard and at day’s end was physically exhausted but mentally happy as his plan had produced the desired results. 农夫虽然很累但他很高兴看到禾苗长高。 When the farmer went home, he told his son of his “brilliant” method. 当农夫回家时，把这个好办法告诉了他儿子。 His son went to the field only to discover that all of his crops were all dead. 他的儿子赶忙跑到田里去看，禾苗全都枯萎了。 东窗事发 During the final years of the Song dynasty sòng cháo 宋朝, China was invaded by Jin jīn金 people from the north. 宋朝末年，北方的金人来侵犯。 General Yue Fei led the army in resistance, and defeated the enemy. 将军岳飞率领军队勇敢抵抗，终于把敌人打败。 Just as he was about to take advantage of his victory and attack the Jin army, he received word that the emperor had ordered him to return. 正想乘胜追击敌人的时候，忽然皇帝下了十二道金牌，命令岳飞和军队立刻回去。 As it turned out, this was actually a plot of Chin Hui, a Sung dynasty official who wasconspiring with the enemy.In order to frame Yue Fei, Chin Hui had tricked him into returning early. 原来这是私通敌人的太师秦桧的诡计，假冒皇帝的意思来陷害岳飞。 Chin Hui had thought this plot up together with his wife, under the east window of their house. 秦桧的这些诡计，都是他和妻子王氏在家里的东窗下秘密商量出来的。 Sometime later, Chin Hui and his son Chin Shi died, one right after the other. Chin Huis wife hired someone who could communicate with ghosts and spirits to come and find out how her husband and son were doing