同学们，我们可以通过阅读英语故事来提高自己的英语水平哦。大家知道哪些英语故事适合我们吗？下面是白话文整理的适合初中生的英语故事短文（优秀6篇），如果对您有一些参考与帮助，请分享给最好的朋友。

Grandma Li lived alone in an old building. She was old and didn’t like noise at all. The young man and woman 46 always made much noise every night, so she couldn’t 47 。When the young man and woman moved out of the building, Grandma Li was very 48 。 Another young man moved in and Grandma Li thought, “Well, he 49 。”

But at three o’clock the next morning, when Grandma Li 50 ， some noise 51 。 She 52 carefully. It was a dog. She thought, “There wasn’t any dog here before. It 53 be the young man’s.” She 54 him and telephoned the young man at once. Before the young man could say something, she stopped the call.

Nothing more happened 55 four o’clock. Then Grandma Li’s telephone rang. When she answered the phone, she heard, “I’m the man upstairs. I’m sorry to trouble you, but I want to tell you I don’t have a dog at all!”

After the stealing of fire,Zeus became increasingly unkind to day he

ordered his son Hephaestus to build an image of a beautiful maiden out of clay.He then asked the gods and goddesses to award her with different kinds of gifts.A charming young lady,she was the first woman that ever lived.Zeus called her Pandora.Because she had received from each of the gods and goddesses a gift.The gift was harmful to men.

Zeus decided to send her down to men as a present. So Hermes them essenger brought her to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus. The greatness of her beauty touched the hearts of all who looked upon her, and Epimetheus happily received her into his house. He had quite forgotten Pometheus' warning: never to accept anything from Zeus.

When he was busy with teaching men the art of living, Prometheus had left a bigcask in the care of Epimetheus. He had warned his brother not to open the lid. Pandora was a curious woman. She had been feeling very disappointed that her husband did not allow her to take a look at the contents of the cask. One day, when Epimetheus was out, she lifted the lid and out it came unrest and war, Plague and sickness, theft and violence, grief, sorrow, and all the other evils. The human world was hence to experience these evils. Only hope stayed within the mouth of the jar and never flew out. So men always have hope within their hearts.

偷窃天火之后，宙斯对人类的敌意与日俱增。一天，他令儿子赫菲斯托斯用泥塑一美女像，并请众神赠予她不同的礼物。世上的第一个女人是位迷人女郎，因为她从每位神灵那里得到了一样对男人有害的礼物，因此宙斯称她为潘多拉。

宙斯决定把她作为礼物送给世间的男子。于是信使赫耳墨斯将她带给普罗米修斯的弟弟厄庇墨透斯。她姿容绝美，见者无不为之倾心。厄庇墨透斯兴高采烈地把她迎入屋内。普罗米修斯警告过他不得接受宙斯的任何馈赠，而他已将之忘于脑后。这一对夫妻有过一段幸福的生活，但不久灾难却降临人间。

当普罗米修斯忙于教授人们生存之道的时候，他把一个桶托付给厄庇墨透斯。他警告过他的弟

弟不要打开桶盖。潘多拉好奇心强。她的丈夫不允许她看桶中之物，这使她感到十分懊恼。一天乘厄庇墨透斯出门在外，她打开桶盖，从桶里跑出的是不和与战争，瘟疫与疾病，偷窃与暴力，悲哀与忧虑，以及其他一些人类从此要遭受的不幸。只有希望被关在桶口，永远飞不出来，因此人们常常把希望藏于心中。

Book T. Washington, the renowned black educator, was an outstanding example of this truth.

布克·华盛顿是知名的黑人教育家，关于谦卑，他有一个显为人知的故事。

Shotly after he took over the presidency of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he was walking in an exclusive section of town when he was stopped by a wealthy white woman. Not knowing the farnous Mr. Washington by sight, she asked if he would like to earn a few dollars by chopping wood for her.

那时，他刚接任阿拉巴马州的杜斯凯吉大学校长不久，当他在镇里一个偏僻的地方散步时，他被一个富有的白人妇女叫住了。因处，从未见过著名的华盛顿先生，她让布克·华盛顿帮她砍柴，并答应给他几美元。

Because he had no pressing business at the rnornent, Professor Washington srniled, rolled up his sleeves, and proceeded to do the humble chore she had requested When he was finished, he carried the logs into the house and stacked them by the fireplace.

因为布克·华盛顿那时正好没有紧急的事情，于是他微笑地卷起袖子，做了她要求的卑下的砍柴工作。砍完柴后，他又帮她把柴送进屋里，整齐地在壁炉旁堆好。

A little girl recognized hirn and later revealed to the lady. The next morning the embarrassed woman went to see Mr. Washington in his office at the Institute and apologized profusely. "It's perfectly all right, Madam," he replied. "Occasionally I enjoy a little manual labor. Besides, it's always a delight to do something for a friend."

一个小女孩认出了布克·华盛顿，她在事后把他的身份告诉了那位妇人。第二天早上，那位妇女尴尬地来到了华盛顿先生所在的杜斯凯吉大学办公室，非常诫恳地向他道歉。“别放在心上，女士，”他回答道，“有时候我也做些小的体力活，当然，能帮朋友做点事情我很高兴。”

She shook his hand warmly and assured him that his meek and attitude had endeared him and his work to her heart. Not long afterward she showed her admiration by persuading some wealthy acquaintances to join her in donating thousands of dollars to the Tuskegee Institute.

她热情地握着他的手，说他的谦恭亲切的态度让她深深折服。后来，她劝服她的富有的熟人加入到捐赠中，为杜斯凯吉大学带来了数千美元的捐款

One day one of God messengers descended to the world and happened to meet an eminent monk who was telling fortunes for two boys. The monk pointed at one of the boys sayingldquo;Number One Scholar,rdquo; and at another oneldBeggar.一天，上帝的一个使者来到了人间，他遇到了一位高僧，这位高僧正在为两个孩子占卜前程。高僧指着其中一个孩子说状元，然后指着另一个孩子说乞丐

Twenty years later, the messenger came down to the world again. When he saw the previous two boys, he was puzzled about the outcome: the originalldquo;Number One Scholarrdquo;now became a beggar while the originalldquo;Beggarrdquo;turned into a Number One Scholar instead.20年后，上帝的使者又来到了人间，看到了先前的那两个孩子，结果让他百思不得其解：当初的ldquo;状元rdquo;如今成了乞丐，而当初的ldquo;乞丐rdquo;反而成了状元。

So the messenger went to ask God.于是，使者去问上帝。

God answered,ldquo;I endow everyone with talent, which only decides one third of his destiny while the rest lies in how he grasps it.rdquo;上帝说：ldquo;我赋予每个人的天分只决定他命运的三分之一，其余的则在于他如何去把握。

Life is just like this.人生就是这样。

My little niece,a ten-month-old baby,is the loveliest child I have ever seen. Her face is like a red apple and her eyes are like bright stars.

When you carry her in your arms,she likes to put her arms around your neck.All the family members love her very much and often try to make her smile, but quite often she makes us laugh.

Once I winked at her and she smiled. When l did it again, she watched me attentively.

Then she tried to imitate. While I closed one eye to wink, she had to close both eyes at time same time and quickly opened them again. And that was her way to wink.

We all began to laugh. When we looked at her again,she was looking at us, puzzled, as if she was asking, "What are you laugghing at?

There is a man blind from childhood, sensible, he was deeply troubled by this, that God punished him, feel this life is over

Later, a teacher said to him, "everyone in the world is an apple bitten by God. All of them are flawed. Some people have a big defect because God likes his fragrance very much"

He's inspired from the blindness as God's special love, began to cheer up. Several years later, the local read a German double Xin Massage by a visually-impaired Therapist division of the story.

God knows the story and laughs, "I like this beautiful and clever metaphor, but I have to say a little bit about it. What is called a defect is physical

Tell people this story, you ugly is not because of your past mistakes and punished, on the contrary, you are God's favorite people, don't upset because some regret you, today you may not be outstanding, maybe tomorrow, you are a beautiful rainbow! So, there is no appearance of beauty and ugliness. Those people just personal opinion just can truly determine your beautiful and ugly person, should be your own. As long as confident of his own, and a good heart. You have no reason, not the most beautiful, at least, you are the most perfect themselves.

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