Bring Papa
Teacher: For final exam this time, you can take your textbooks, your notebooks, your dictionary etc., just as you do your homework as usual.
Frank: That sounds good. Then I can take my papa here.
【译文】带爸爸
老师:本次考试,你们可以带课本、笔记本、词典等,就像你们平常做作业一样。
弗里克:太好了,那我就可以把爸爸带来了。
Cat and crab
One day, a cat played near the lake. Suddenly, a crab clamped it. The cat is rat her cross , it ran after the crab. After a while, that cat ran into the forest. A big brown spider making its net in the tree, the cat caught the big brown spider very fast, and the cat said to the big brown spider:" Did you think if you on the net, I will not know you? Yes, I still know you?!"
【译文】猫和螃蟹
一天，一只猫在湖边玩耍。忽然，一只螃蟹夹了它一下。那只猫非常生气，它追着那只螃蟹跑。一会儿，它追到了森林里。一只大的棕色的蜘蛛正在树上织网，那只猫很快地抓住了那只大的棕色的蜘蛛，并对它说：“小样儿，你上了网我就不认识你了？！”
Do you like autumn你喜欢秋天么？
I do not know when, you fall softly on my red sweater, you put a flower as I have it? 不知什么时候，你轻轻地落在我鲜红的毛衣上，你把我也当成一朵花了吗?
Golden butterfly you! Whom you are dancing in it? Not smile flowers, grasses lost their luster. Oh, I see, you are in the garden that little daisy eyes. 金色的蝴蝶呀!你是在为谁而翩翩起舞呢?花儿没有了笑容，青草失去了光泽。哦，我明白了，你是在为园子里那眨着眼睛的小雏菊。
Golden butterflies, you are willing to pay my friend? Come! Flew into my books, accompanied by bright, I walked into the classroom金色的蝴蝶，你愿意和我交朋友吗?来吧!飞进我的课本，伴着我走进明亮的教室 。
Fall to, chrysanthemum opened. There are red, yellow, with purple, and white, very beautiful! 秋天到了，菊花开了。有红的，有黄的，有紫的，还有白的，美丽极了!
Do you like autumn? 你喜欢秋天吗？
1. All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。
2. Every journey of a thousand miles begins with one step 千里之行，始于足下。
3. Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
4. While there is life there is hope. 一息若存，希望不灭。
5. Energy and persistence conquer all things. 能量加毅力可以征服一切。
6. A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush. 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
7. Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
8. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
9. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。
10. Constant dripping wears away a stone. 水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
11. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 不要自找麻烦。
12. He laughs best who laughs last. 谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
13. Keep good men company and you shall be of the number. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
14. Many heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。
15. Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天。
16. Lost time is never found again. 岁月既往，一去不回。
17. It never leave that until tomorrow , which you can do today .今日事今日毕。
18. never rains but it pours. 不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
19. Do not have too many irons in the fire. 贪多嚼不烂。
20. One is never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
Marking his mark(刻舟求剑)
a man from the state chu was crossing the river. in the boat, his sword fell into the water by his carelessness. imediately he made a mark on the boat.“this is where my sword fell off.”he said. when the boat stopped, he jumped into the water to look for his sword at the place where he marked the boat. the boat had moved but the sword had not. is this not a foolish way to look for a sword?
译文：
从前，一个楚国人在坐船过河时，不小心把他的剑掉入了水中。他马上在船上做了个记号。“这是我的剑掉下去的地方。”他说。船停下来后，他就根据船上的记号跳入水中寻找他的剑。船在移动但他的剑并没有。用这种方式来找剑难道不是非常愚蠢的吗?
Professed love of what one really fears(叶公好龙)
in the spring and autumn period (770-476bc), there lived in chu a person named ye zhuliang, who addressed himself as "lord ye". it's said that this lord ye was very fond of dragons. the walls had dragons painted on them. the beams, pillars, doors and the windows were all carved with them. as a result, his love for dragons was spread out. when the real dragon in heaven heard of this lordeeply moved. he decided to visit lord ye to thank him. you might think lord ye was very happy to see a real dragon. but, actually, at very the sight of the creature, he was scared out of his wits and ran away as fast as he could. from then on, people knew that lord ye only loved pictures or carvings which look like dragons, not the real thing.
译文：
春秋楚国叶诸梁，自称"叶公"。 据说，这位叶公爱龙成癖，家里的梁、柱、门、窗上都雕着龙，墙上也画着龙。 就这样，叶公爱好龙的名声，被人们传扬开了。天上的真龙，听说人间有这么一位叶公，对它如此喜爱，很受感动，决定去叶公家对他表示谢意。人们也许会想叶公看见真龙时会有多高兴。实际上，当叶公看见那条龙时，顿时吓得魂飞魄散，赶紧逃走。从此人们明白了叶公爱好的其实并不是真龙，而是似龙非龙的东西而已。
it is better to fight for good than to fail at the ill. 宁为善而斗, 毋屈服于恶
he who has hope has everything. 怀有希望者, 便拥有一切
self-trust is the first secret of success. 自信心是成功的首要关键
the secret of success is constancy of purpose. 成功的秘绝在于目标坚定有恒
success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties. 成功源于努力去克服困难
experience is the extract of suffering. 经验是受苦的结晶
故上兵伐谋，其次伐交，其次伐兵，其下攻城。
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans;the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces;the next in order is to attack the
All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
Failure is the mother of success. -- Thomas Paine 失败乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate. 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
