1、愛因斯坦的故事（簡短）
愛因斯坦小時候十分貪玩.他的母親常常為此憂心忡忡,再三告誡他應該怎樣怎樣,然而對他來講如同耳邊風.這樣,一直到16歲的那年秋天,一天上午,父親將正要去河邊釣魚的愛因斯坦攔住,並給他講了一個故事,正是這個故事改愛因斯坦小時候十分貪玩.他的母親常常為此憂心忡忡,再三告誡他應該怎樣怎樣,然而對他來講如同耳邊風.這樣,一直到16歲的那年秋天,一天上午,父親將正要去河邊釣魚的愛因斯坦攔住,並給他講了一個故事,正是這個故事改變了愛因斯坦的一生.故事是這樣的：
「昨天,」愛因斯坦父親說,「我和咱們的鄰居傑克大叔清掃南邊工廠的一個大煙囪.那煙囪只有踩著里邊的鋼筋踏梯才能上去.你傑克大叔在前面,我在後面.我們抓著扶手,一階一階地終於爬上去了.下來時,你傑克大叔依舊走在前面,我還是跟在他的後面.後來,鑽出煙囪,我發現一個奇怪的事情：你傑克大叔的後背、臉上全都被煙囪里的煙灰蹭黑了,而我身上竟連一點煙灰也沒有.」愛因斯坦的父親繼續微笑著說：「我看見你傑克大叔的模樣,心想我肯定和他一樣,臉臟得像個小丑,於是我就到附近的小河裡去洗了又洗.而你傑克大叔呢,他看見我鑽出煙囪時乾乾凈凈的,就以為他也和我一樣干凈呢,於是就只草草洗了洗手就大模大樣上街了.結果,街上的人都笑痛了肚子,還以為你傑克大叔是個瘋子呢.」
愛因斯坦聽罷,忍不住和父親一起大笑起來.父親笑完了,鄭重地對他說,「其實,別人誰也不能做你的鏡子,只有自己才是自己的鏡子.拿別人做鏡子,白痴或許會把自己照成天才的.」
愛因斯坦聽了,頓時滿臉愧色.
愛因斯坦從此離開了那群頑皮的孩子們.他時時用自己做鏡子來審視和映照自己,終於映照出生命中的熠熠光輝.
盲目地與別人相比較,以為自己比身邊的人聰明就滿足了,或者覺得自己不如別人就沮喪了.這多麼愚蠢啊!每一個人都有其不同的人生目標和生活方式,自己才是自己在這個世界上最可靠的人生向導.
2、求英語短片小故事
我有書,裡面有很多故事,篇篇符合你的要求,但很抱歉沒有電子版的。只能在網上直接拷給你，但是肯定沒有辦法把單詞個別翻譯，個別難讀詞音標給你弄出來。。。不過，我已經很義氣啦：）
第一篇:
The wolf and the sheep
A wolf had been badly wounded by dogs. He lay sick and maimed in his lair.
He felt very hungry and thirsty. When a sheep passed by, he asked him to fetch some water from the stream.
"If you bring me the water," he said, "I will find means to get some food."
"Yes," said the sheep, "if I bring you the water, you would undoubtedly make me your food."
狼和羊
●狼被狗所咬，傷勢很嚴重，痛苦地躺在巢穴里，不能外出覓食。
●他感到又餓又渴，這時，他看見一隻羊，便請求他到附近的小河裡為他取一點水來。
●「你給我一點水解渴」，他說，「我就能自己去尋找食物了。」
●「是呀」，羊回答說，「如果我給你送水喝，那麼我就會成為你的食物。」
寓意: 謊言是經不起推敲的，它很容易被人們識破。
第二篇:
狐狸和葡萄
One hot summer day a fox was walking through an orchard. He stopped before a bunch of grapes. They were ripe and juicy.
"I'm just feeling thirsty," he thought. So he backed up a few paces, got a running start, jumped up, but could not reach the grapes.
He walked back. One, two, three, he jumped up again, but still, he missed the grapes.
The fox tried again and again, but never succeeded. At last he decided to give it up.
He walked away with his nose in the air, and said「I am sure they are sour.」
●一個炎熱的夏日，狐狸走過一個果園，他停在一大串熟透而多汁的葡萄前。
●狐狸想：「我正口渴呢。」於是他後退了幾步，向前一沖，跳起來，卻無法夠到葡萄。
●狐狸後退又試。一次，兩次，三次，但是都沒有得到葡萄。
●狐狸試了一次又一次，都沒有成功。最後，他決定放棄，他昂起頭,邊走邊說：「葡萄還沒有成熟，我敢肯定它是酸的。」
寓意: 在經歷了許多嘗試而不能獲得成功的時候，有些人往往故意輕視成功，以此來尋求心理安慰。
第三篇
The crow and the pitcher
A crow felt very thirsty. He looked for water everywhere. Finally, he found a pitcher.
But there was not a lot of water in the pitcher. His beak could not reach it. He tried again and again, but still could not touch the water.
When he was about to give up, an idea came to him. He took a pebble and dropped it into the pitcher. Then he took another and dropped it in.
Graally, the water rose, and the crow was able to drink the water.
口渴的烏鴉
●一隻烏鴉口渴了，到處找水喝。終於，他找到了一個大水罐。
●然而，水罐裡面的水並不多，他的尖嘴夠不到水面，他試了一次又一次，都沒有成功。
●就在他想放棄的時候，他突然想到一個主意。烏鴉叼來了一塊小石子投到水罐里，接著又叼了一塊又一塊石頭放進去。
●漸漸地，水面升高了。烏鴉高興地喝到了水。
寓意: 有些東西雖然看起來微不足道，但如果積少成多，便會帶來很大變化。
第四篇:青蛙和井
●兩只青蛙住在沼澤里。在一個炎熱的夏季，沼澤乾涸了，因此他們不得不離開去尋找新的濕地。
●他們很快發現一口深井。
●其中一隻向下看了看對另一隻說：「這是個涼爽的好地方，就住這里吧。」
●而另一隻較明智，它說：「別著急，朋友，如果這口井也幹了的話,我們怎麼出來呢？」
寓意: 凡事應該首先考慮周到，然後再付諸行動。
第五篇:
The cage bird and the bat
A bird was confined in a cage outside a window. She often sang at night when all other birds were asleep.
One night a bat came. He asked the bird why she was silent by day and sang only at night.
The bird answered, 「Last year when I was singing in the daytime, a bird catcher heard my voice and caught me in his net.Since then I have never sung by day.」
The bat replied, "But it is useless to do this now that you have become a prisoner." Then he flew away.
金絲雀與蝙蝠
●掛在窗口籠里的金絲雀，經常在鳥兒睡著的夜裡歌唱。
●一天晚上，蝙蝠來了，飛過來問她為什麼白天安靜無聲，夜裡卻要歌唱。
●金絲雀回答說：「去年我在白天唱歌時，捕鳥人聽到我的歌聲抓住了我。從此，我再也不在白天唱歌了。」
●蝙蝠說：「你現在才懂得謹慎已沒用了，你若在變為囚徒之前就懂得，那該多好呀！」說完就飛走了。
寓意: 我們應該在危險發生之前就提高警覺，因為危險一旦發生，我們再怎樣小心也沒有用了。
The frogs and the well
Two frogs lived together in a marsh. One hot summer the marsh dried up, so they had to leave it and look for another place.
They soon found a deep well.
One of them looked down and said to the other, "This is a nice cool place. Let's jump in and settle down here."
The other frog was much wiser. He replied, "Don』t be so fast, my friend. If this well dries up like the marsh, how should we get out again?"
3、愛因斯坦的故事，英文版…………
Germany reclaims Einstein as their hero Germany reclaims Einstein as their hero
Suffering from an acute lack of heroes after losing two world wars, Germany has reclaimed Albert Einstein as one of its greatest national figures even though the Jewish physicist fled the Nazis hating his native country.
A century after the German-born scientist formulated his famous theory of relativity in Switzerland, and 50 years after his death on April 18, 1955, Einstein is being reclaimed by the country he rejected.
Celebrations of the so-called "Einstein Year" of 2005 are taking place around the world, but nowhere are the tributes to the man with the droopy eyes and bushy grey hair so laden with historical baggage as in Germany.
The German government has gone all out to latch onto Einstein, who became one of the world's first pop icons after his theories about space, time and relativity revolutionised science in the early 20th century.
"It is a bit strange," said Juergen Neffe, author of a German biography on Einstein that has been near the top of best-seller lists here since it was published in January.
"Einstein hated the Nazis and extended his hatred to all Germans for letting it happen. It's certainly true that he hated Germany, but he would nevertheless be pleased about Germany's development in the last 30 years."
Germany's rediscovery of Einstein began in 2003 when he was picked by millions of television viewers in a survey as one of the "best Germans" of all time.
Born in the Bavarian city of Ulm in 1879, Einstein moved to Switzerland at 17 to evade military service. After graating from the Polytechnic School in Zurich he wrote scientific papers in his spare time while working as a Swiss patent officer.
In 1905, Einstein's "miracle year", he formulated his theory of relativity, an explanation of the relationship between time and space that challenged a view of the universe that had stood since the days of Sir Isaac Newton 200 years before.
Einstein's fame soared in 1919 after his theory was proven. He won a Nobel Prize in 1921, after which Germany and Switzerland both claimed him as theirs.
But Einstein didn't stop. His special theory also provided the basis for his most famous discovery, E=mc2, an equation that opened the door to the atomic age. The formula is known around the world even if few understand it.
Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 and lived in Berlin for 19 years before fleeing Hitler's Nazis in 1933. He took a post at Princeton University, and spent the rest of his life there.
His house in Berlin was ransacked by the Nazis. Einstein gave up his German citizenship in 1932 and became a naturalised American citizen in 1940.
經歷了兩次世界大戰的慘敗，德國人一直苦於自己的國家嚴重缺乏英雄人物，現在他們重新將艾伯特·愛因斯坦視為德國歷史上最偉大的人物之一，盡管這位猶太裔物理學家曾因自己的血統遭到納粹黨人的仇視而流亡國外。
愛因斯坦生於德國，一個世紀前，他在瑞士發表了著名的相對論。1955年4月18日，他永遠離開了這個世界。50年後的今天，他曾摒棄的國家為他重揚美名。
2005年被稱為「愛因斯坦年」，世界各地紛紛展開各種慶祝活動。但是沒有一個地方像德國一樣，在對這位有著低垂眼睛和濃密灰發的老人予以盛贊的同時，還要肩負沉重的「歷史包袱」。
德國政府開始竭盡全力了解愛因斯坦。20世紀早期，他關於宇宙、時間和相對論的理論給當時的物理學帶來了顛覆性的變革，他也由此成為世界上第一位大眾偶像級科學家。
「這有點奇怪。」德國版愛因斯坦傳記的作者於爾根·內費說。該書自從一月份出版以來，在暢銷書榜上一直位居前列。
「愛因斯坦憎恨納粹，並將這種反感之情延伸到所有德國人身上，在他看來德國人造成了這一切。他確實非常討厭德國，但是無論如何，他肯定會為德國最近30年來取得的發展感到欣慰的。」
德國對愛因斯坦的「重新發現」始於2003年。在當時的一次調查中，他被數百萬電視觀眾推選為德國歷史上「最偉大的人物」之一。
1879年，愛因斯坦出生於德國烏爾姆的巴伐利亞市，17歲時，為逃避服兵役，他移居瑞士。從蘇黎世聯邦工業大學畢業後，他供職於瑞士聯邦專利局，並在業余時間撰寫科學論文。
1905年是愛因斯坦的「奇跡年」，他創立了闡釋時空關系的相對論，挑戰了物理學巨人艾薩克·牛頓始創的宇宙觀，那些理論200年來一直固若磐石。
1919年，愛因斯坦的理論為科學家們所證實，一時他聲名鵲起。1921年，他獲得了諾貝爾物理學獎，隨後德國和瑞士都爭著說愛因斯坦是屬於自己國家的。
但是愛因斯坦沒有停滯不前。他的獨特理論也給他最為著名的發現奠定了基礎，那個發現就是E=mc2——一個打開原子時代大門的方程式。全世界都知道這個公式，雖然沒多少人能真正理解它。
1914年，愛因斯坦回到德國，隨後在柏林居住了19年，直到1933年為躲避希特勒的納粹軍團的迫害而逃亡國外。他曾在美國普林斯頓大學執教，並在那裡度過了晚年。
他在柏林的住宅曾遭納粹黨人洗劫。1932年，愛因斯坦放棄了德國國籍，並於1940年加入美國國籍，成為一名美國公民。
4、求一篇關於愛的英語短片故事
有一個叫《麥琪的禮物禮物》歐·亨利寫的，故事構架不錯，結局雖然有點兒悵然不過溫馨。
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
by O. Henry
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is graally subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze ring a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introced to you as Della. Which is all very good.
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out lly at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.
There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.
Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.
Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie."
"Will you buy my hair?" asked Della.
"I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it."
Down rippled the brown cascade.
"Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.
"Give it to me quick," said Della.
Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present.
She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.
When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task.
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.
"If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?"
At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.
Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. She had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: "Please God, make him think I am still pretty."
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5、愛因斯坦的英語故事
Einstein and his students: In the period that Einstein was active as a professor, one of his students came to him and said: "The questions of this year's exam are the same as last years!" "True," Einstein said, "but this year all answers are different."
Einstein and German music: Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience excaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."
Einstein and his driver:
The story is that Albert Einstein's driver used to sit at the back of the hall ring each of his lectures, and after a period of time, remarked to AE that he could probably give the lecture himself, haveing heard it several times. So at the next stop on the tour, AE & the driver switched places, with AE sitting at the back, in driver's uniform. The driver gave the lecture, flawlessly. At the end, a member of the audience asked a detailed question about some of the subject matter, upon which the lecturer replied, 'well, the answer to that question is quite simple, I bet that my driver, sitting up at the back, there, could answer it...'.
Q: How many Einsteins does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: That depends on the speed of the changer, and the mass of the bulb. Or vice versa, of course. Then it just might be easier to leave the bulb alone and change the room. It's all relative.
Albert Einstein arrives at a party and introces
himself to the first person he sees and asks, "What is
your IQ?" to which the man answers "241." "That is
wonderful!" says Albert. "We will talk about the Grand
Unification Theory and the mysteries of the universe.
We will have much to discuss!"
Next Albert introces himself to a woman and asks,
"What is your IQ?" to which the lady answers, "144."
"That is great!" says Albert. "We can discuss politics
and current affairs. We will have much to discuss!"
Albert then goes to another person and asks, "What is
your IQ?" to which the man answers, "51." Albert
ponders this for a moment, and then says, "GO
REDSKINS!"
Q: Why did Albert Einstein cross the street? A: To get away from Niels Bohr. But when he got to the other side Bohr was there also.
Einstein in Heaven:
Einstein dies and goes to heaven only to be informed that his room is not yet ready. "I hope you will not mind waiting in a dormitory. We are very sorry, but it's the best we can do and you will have to share the room with others." he is told by the doorman (say his name is Pete). Einstein says that this is no problem at all and that there is no need to make such a great fuss. So Pete leads him to the dorm. They enter and Albert is introced to all of the present inhabitants. "See, Here is your first room mate. He has an IQ of 180!" "Why that's wonderful!" Says Albert. "We can discuss mathematics!" "And here is your second room mate. His IQ is 150!" "Why that's wonderful!" Says Albert. "We can discuss physics!" "And here is your third room mate. His IQ is 100!" "That Wonderful! We can discuss the latest plays at the theater!" Just then another man moves out to capture Albert's hand and shake it. "I'm your last room mate and I'm sorry, but my IQ is only 80." Albert smiles back at him and says, "So, where to you think interest rates are headed?"
Mrs Einstein in an American Lab: Before they immigrated to the US, the Einsteins enred the severe economic situation in post WWI Germany. Mrs. E saved old letters and other scrap paper for Albert to write on and so continue his work. Years later, Mrs. Einstein was pressed into a public relations tour of some science research center. Dutifully she plodded through lab after lab filled with gleaming new scientific napery, The American scientists explaining things to her in that peculiarly condescending way we all treat non-native speakers of our own language. Finally she was ushered into a high-chambered observatory, and came face to face with another, larger, scientific contraption. "Well, what's this one for?" she muttered. "Mrs. Einstein, we use this equipment to probe the deepest secrets of the universe," cooed the chief scientist. "Is THAT all!" snorted Mrs. E. "My husband did that on the back of old envelopes!"
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http://albert-einstein.org/