英语小短文容易背

英语学习在我国已轰轰烈烈地开展了几十年。英语学习书籍各种各样。从小学,初中,高中到大学不断贯彻英语教学,可以说英语学习已成为一个热门话题。我分享适合高中生背的英语小短文，希望可以帮助大家!

Many ages had now passed away since the Phoenix had been seen in the world. At last he again appeared. Immediately al the different kinds of animals, both birds and beasts, flocked around him.

Astonished at his beauty, they stared and admired, and broke out into great praise. But in a short time, the wisest and most prudent(谨慎的) amongst them began to look upon him with an eye of compassion, and they sighed,"O unhappy phoenix! Fate has been hard to him. He has neither mate nor friend. He will never know the pleasure of loving, or of being loved."

Many many years ago, in the State of Song, there was a city gate. Outside the gate was a moat with fishes that lived a quiet and happy life there.

One day the tower above the city gate caught fire and the people of the city were alarmed. Even the fishes in the moat could hear the gone.

"What's the noise about?" the fishes wondered. "I must go and find out," said one curious black carp. When he saw the tower on fire, he hurried back to tell his mates. "Swim all you could! Swim all you could! Swim for life!" He cried to his fellow-fishes. "The city gate is burning!"

So all the fishes except the carps started to swim away. One arrogant carp even laughed at the other fishes. "Don't laugh," said the kind black carp. "You really ought to swim away, too, in good time."

"Why should I?" asked the arrogant carp. "It's only their city gate on fire, what's it got to do with me in the water?" The fire spread very fast and the firemen had used up all the water in the city. But it was still burning. So they fetched waster from the moat.

At long last, the fire was put out, but the moat had also gone dry, leaving a few sorry carps in their dying struggle. This tale likens the city gate fire to disasters that do not seem to concern us but that can spread and involve even the innocent.

很久很久以前，宋国有一座城池。城外有一条河，河中的鱼群生活的十分安定愉快。

有一天，城楼失火了，火警的钟声穿到了水中。

“为什么这么吵闹呢?”一条鱼问道，“我们得去看看!”好奇的青鱼已经先游去去查看了，当它看到城楼失火时，他急忙回来告诉他的同伴，“着火了，城楼失火了，快点叫他们逃命吧!”

所有的鱼都逃命去了，只有一条鲤鱼在嘲笑他们。青鱼对他说：“还不快逃命，还在这里笑什么?”

“我为什么要逃，城楼失火了又不会蔓延到水中，我为什么要走呢?”鲤鱼回答。城中的水很快就用完了，火还没有扑灭，于是，人们都来护城河中取水救火。

火终于扑灭了，可是河也干涸了，只余下几条可怜的鲤鱼在河床上作垂死的挣扎。城门失火比喻因牵连而受祸害或损失。

A man lost his axe, and began to suspect the son of his neighbor to have the appearance of a thief no matter from what angle he looked at him.

After a period of time, he found his axe when was digging his well. From then on, when he saw him again, he found the son of his neighbor did not like a thief in any way, such as the way of walking, his look, the way of talking, manner, and so on.

一个人的斧头丢失后，开始怀疑是邻居的儿子把它偷了去。有了这种感觉，他发现无论从哪个角度看，邻居的儿子都像那个偷了斧头的人。

过了一段时间，这个人掏自家的井时找到了自家的斧头。打这以后，他看邻居的儿子，无论走路、神色、说话、举止，一丝一毫都没有偷东西的模样了。

Meng jiu is a kind of bird that lives in the south. It always makes its delicate nest with beautiful feathers, and fastens the nest to the spikes of reeds(芦苇).

Whenever there is a big wind, the nest always falls to the ground when the reeds break. All the eggs and young birds are killed. Disaster happens not because the nest Meng Jiu makes is not fast enough, but the reed that the nest is fastened to is too weak.

蒙鸠是南方的一种鸟，它总是柔软美丽的羽毛纺织成精巧细致的窝巢，并精心地系在芦苇的花穗上。

每当大风降临时，鸟窝常常因芦苇折断而掉下来，里面的蛋和幼鸟也被摔破摔死，无一幸免。蒙鸠的窝做得并不是不好，发生灾难的原因是因为它用来系窝的芦苇太不结实。