英语小故事：A bundle of sticks
A man once had four sons who never stopped quarrelling with one another. He was always telling them how much easier life would be if they worked together but they took absolutely no notice of him. One day he decided to show them what he meant.
He called all the sons together and put a tightly tied bundle of sticks on the floor in front of them.
"Can you break that ? " he asked the youngest son. The boy put his knee on the bundle but though he presd and pulled with his arms he could not bend the wood. The father asked each son in turn to try to break the bundle, but none of them could do it . Then he untied the string and scattered the sticks.
" Now try, " he said . The boys broke the sticks easily in their hands.
"Do you e what I mean ?" asked the father. "if only you stand together no one can hurt you . If you all disagree the whole time and insist on going your parate ways, the first ene
my you meet will be able to destroy you. " United we stand divided we fall.
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一捆树枝
美国国情咨文 从前有一个人，他有四个儿子。儿子们不断地争吵。他一再告诫他们说，如果他们一起干活儿，生活会舒适得多，但他们丝毫不理会他的意见。有一天，他决定通过示范把自己的意思告诉他们。 他把四个儿子都叫来，又把一捆扎得很紧的细树枝放在他们面前的地上。
"你能折断这个吗?"他问最小的儿子。小伙子用膝盖顶住，两只手又压又拉，都不能把那捆树枝弄弯。父亲让别的儿子挨个儿试试，看他们是否能把那捆树枝折断，但谁也做不到。 然后，他解开绳子，把树枝撒开。
"试试吧。"他说。四个小伙子用手轻轻一撅，树枝就断了。
"你们明白我的意思了吗?"父亲问，"只要你们联合起来，谁也不能伤害你们。如果你们老吵架，一定要各行其是，那么你们一遇到敌人，就会被打败。"
合则存，分则败。
英语小故事：Mice and bull
A mou once took a bite out of a bull's tail as he lay dozing. The bull jumped up in a rage and, with his head low to the ground, chad the mou right across the yard. The mou was too quick for him, however, and slipped easily into a hole in the wall.
The bull charged the wall furiously again and again, but although he bruid his head and chipped his horns, the mou stayed safely inside his hole. After a time the bull gave up and sank down to rest again.
As soon as the bull was asleep, the little mou crept to the mouth of the hole, pattered across the yard, bit the bull again -- this time on the no -- and rushed back to safety. As the bull roared helplessly the mou squeaked:
"It's not always the big people who come off best. Sometimes the small ones win, you know."
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老鼠和公牛
有一次，公牛躺着打盹，一只老鼠咬了他的尾巴。公牛怒气冲冲地跳起来，低着头追老鼠，一直追过院子。然而，老鼠跑得比他快多了，从容地钻到墙洞里去了。
公牛一次又一次地猛撞墙壁，尽管头撞肿了，角撞裂了，老鼠却安然待在洞里。过了一会儿，公牛不撞了，倒下歇着。
公牛刚睡着，小老鼠就爬到洞口，嗒嗒地跑过院子，又咬了公牛一口 ?? 这回咬了鼻子 ?? 又跑回安全的地方去。当公牛毫无办法地吼叫时，老鼠吱吱叫道： "大人物并不总占上风。有时小人物也会取胜。"
小故事：Better late than never
farmer Once upon a time there lived a nomadic, rai dozens of sheep, grazing during the day,
night into a with straw and wooden objects inside the shelter.
One morning, the herdsmen to the sheep, found little a sheep. Original pen broke a hole, night Wolf out of the hole drilled to come in, put a sheep diao away.
Neighbor advid him said: "the sheepfold quickly repaired, the hole plug."
He said: "the sheep have been lost, but also to repair the sheep pen do?" Didn't accept his neighbor's kind advice.
The next morning, he went to sheep and found a sheep was missing. Originally the Wolf from the inside of the hole into the sheepfold, and walked a sheep diao.
The herdsmen regret not to recognize directly by the neighbor's advice, to take timely remedial measures. So he quickly plug that hole, again from the overall reinforcement, firmly and mend the sheepfold.
Since then, the sheep herders have never been Wolf diao has come.
Herdsmen's story tells us: make a mistake, suffer tbacks, it is a common phenomenon. As long as can learn riously, to take remedial measures in time, can avoid continue to make mistakes, suffer greater loss.
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亡羊补牢
从前有一个牧民，养了几十只羊，白天放牧，晚上赶进一个用柴草和木桩等物围起来的羊圈内。
一天早晨，这个牧民去放羊，发现羊少了一只。原来羊圈破了个窟窿，夜间有狼从窟窿里钻了进来，把一只羊叼走了。
邻居劝告他说：“赶快把羊圈修一修，堵上那个窟窿吧。” 他说：“羊已经丢了，还去修羊圈干什么呢?”没有接受邻居的好心劝告。
第二天早上，他去放羊，发现又少了一只羊。原来狼又从窟窿里钻进羊圈，又叼走了一只羊。
cumulative 这位牧民很后悔没有认直接受邻居的劝告，去及时采取补救措施。于是，他赶紧堵上那个窟窿，又从整体进行加固，把羊圈修得牢牢实实的。
从此，这个牧民的羊就再也没有被野狼叼走过了。
牧民的故事告诉我们：犯了错误，遭到挫折，这是常见的现象。只要能认真吸取教训，及时采取补救措施，就可以避免继续犯错误，遭受更大的损失。
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英语小故事：The poor and the apple
A man was going to the hou 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 tho 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.
emv He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over 七大洲英文
it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's hou today, for I cannot get over the river."国外标志设计网站
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