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短篇经典英语励志故事 很多家长都会时不时地找一些来教育孩子，那么都有哪些呢?一起来看看吧。 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，也没看过他跳舞，什么都没有!不过另外两只叫他：“老板!” Relieving hunger with a picture of cakes Once in the Three Kingdoms Period 220-280, the duke of the Wei, Cao Rui, planed to select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers: When choosing a talented person, always beware of one with a false reputation. A false reputation is just like a picture of a cake; it can t ease hunger. moral：Later, this idiom came to be used to mean comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problems. 画饼充饥 三国时代魏国的皇帝曹睿，准备选拔一个有才能的人到朝廷来做官。曹睿对他的大臣说：“选择人才，不能光找有虚名的人。虚名好像是画的一块饼，只能看，不能解决肚子饥饿的问题啊!” 寓意：后来人们就用“画饼充饥”这个成语比喻用空想安慰自己，不能解决实际问题。 In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.B., the qin army launched a