一些简单的英语小故事
发布: 2008-11-24 10:56 | 作者: ch- | 来源: 英语家园
People do this a lot in Italy. The restaurants put the tables in a garden or in the street, and most people eat there and not in the restaurants.
Renato was an Italian. He came to London and bought a restaurant there. Then he said,'I'm going to put some of my tables in the street here too.' But in rains a lot in England.
Mr. Jenkins went to Renato's restaurant one day, and in the evening he said to his wife," I had lunch at that new Italian restaurant today, and it rained all the time. Drinking my soup took twenty-five minutes."
He came to a quiet road after a few kilometers, but then his car stopped. Mac got out, opened the bonnet of the car and looked at the engine, but he did not find anything wrong with it.
His head was under the bonnet for quite a long time. Then a young man ran to the car and began pulling one of the red lights off the back of it.
Mac put his head up, looked at the young man and shouted, "What are you doing there?"
The young man answered, "You can steal the pieces at the front. I'm going to take the ones at the back."
On his last evening with the Andrews, George said to them, "My aeroplane to New York leaves very early tomorrow morning. I'm goint to get up at fiveô'clock and make my breakfast. Please don't come down."
He said goodbye to his good friends and came down to the kitchen in the morning and looked at the table. There was a photograph of Mrs. Andrews on it in front of her chair, and a photograph of Mr. Andrews in front of his chair.
George laughed happily and said, "That's very good. I'm not going to eat my breakfast alone this morning!"
But Mr. Matthews was old, and after a few years he stopped working in his coalyard, and his son Freddie began selling coal to Mrs. Black. He brought two sacks of coal to her house in his truck one day, and Mrs. Black said to him, "Your father always sold me good coal. There was never much dust in the sacks."
"I do that too," young Mr. Matthews said.
A few months later he brought Mrs. Black another two sacks of coal and said to her, "Did you find any dust in the last sacks of coal?"
"No, I didn't find dust in the sacks of coal," answered Mrs. Black. "I found some pieces of coal in the sacks of dust."
There was always a poor man at the side of a narrow street near Mr. Gray's office. He had one leg, and he sold matches in the street. A box of them cost 20p. Mr.Gray always smiled at the poor man and said, "Good morning." Then he gave him 20p and did not take any of matches, because he did not smoke.
One day Mr.Gray gave the poor man 20p and began walking on, but the man shouted after him, " Sirm the match cost 25p now!"
One Saturday Neil's uncle Fred came and visited them. He had lunch with Neil and his parents, and then Neil's mother went into the kitchen and washed the dishes, and his father went out and washed the car.
"Stay here and talk to Uncle Fred," Neil's father said to him.
"And show him your toys," his mother said.
Neil showed his uncle his toys and they talked for half an hour in the living-room. Then Neil said to his uncle, "I'm going to go out and play with God in the garden now."
His uncle was surprised. "How do you play with God, Neil?" he asked him.
"It's easy," Neil answered. "I throw the ball up, and then God throws it back down to me."
One evening they got into the car at the police station and drove around from eight o'clock to midnight. First the town was quite quiet, but then, at half past eleven, there were a few drunk people in the streets.
George stopped the car, and Jack went to them and said, "Go home."
Then there was another drunk man. George said to Jack, "Look, Jack. That man's going round and round a tree, and he's knocking at it all the time."
He stopped the car, and Jack got out and went to the man. "Go home," He said to him.
The drunk man stopped, looked at Jack for a few seconds and then answered, "Don't be stupid! There's a wall right round me."
Mr. and Mrs. Richards both worked hard in a shop, and after a year they had quite a lot of money. Then they went out and bought a big, new stereo. It played music much more loudly than the old one. Mr. and Mrs. Richards sometimes played music very loudly at night and danced in their living-room for hours.
Then one day Mrs. Richards met one of their neighbours on the stairs and said to her, "We've got a beautiful new stereo now. Come to our flat and listen to it this evening."
"No," the neighbour answered, "come to out flat and listen to it there!"
There were big window in the office, and there was a street below them. There were always a lot of people and cars and buses in the street, and George liked sitting at his desk and looking at them.
George had a friend. His name was Peter, and he worked in the same office, but he was very different from George. He worked very hard.
Last Tuesday George stood at one of the windows of the office for a long time. Then he said to his friend Peter, "There's a very lazy man in the street. He began digging a hole this morning, but he hasn't done any work for half an hour."
He usually went to the same restaurant, but the waiters there did not like him very much, because he did not give them good tips, and because he always asked them difficult questions abd then gave them the answers. Then the girls laughed and said, " You are clever, Tim!" and Tim was happy.
One day he took a beautiful girl to the restaurant. Her name was Susan. Tim said to her,"What are you going to eat, Susan?"
She looked at everything and then said, " Those fish look good, don't they?"
Tim looked at them and said, "Yes, they do. I don't know a lot about fish." Then he turned to the waiter and said, "Waiter, these fish are French, aren't they?"
"I don't know," answered the waiter. "They haven't spoken to me."
A small boy came out of another shop in the street and followed Mr.Brown. He stayed very near him all the time, and he kicked the heels of Mr.Brown's shoes several times. Mr.Brown looked at him angrily each time.
After the third time, Mr.Brown stopped, turned round and said to the small boy, "What are you doing? Stop following me like that! You're goint to hurt my heels."
"Please don't stop me!" the small boy said. "It's very hot today, and there isn't any shade anywhere esle in the street!"
Then he said, "I'm goint to buy a small aeroplane, and I'm going to have flying lessons," but small aeroplanes and flying lessons are very expensive, and Harry did not have much money.
But last year Harry found a new skydiver's club near his home. The lessons did not cost very much, and Harry began goint to the club every Saturday and Sunday and having lessons. Now he is a very good skydiver.
Last week an old lady said to him, " You are a very brave young man. How do you jump out of an aeroplane like that?"
"I'm not brave," Harry said and he smiled. " I'm in the aeroplane, and I say to myself, "It's going to crash in a few seconds!" Then I'm very afraid, and I jump out quickly."
One day her mother said to her, "Aunt Kathy and Aunt Judy are going to visit us tomorrow. They live in Canada, and you haven't met them, because they very seldom come to England. They're going to have lunch with us."
The aunts arrived at twelve o'clock the next day, and Jill's mother gave them some coffee. Then she said, "I'm going to have lunch now," and went into the kitchen. Jill stayed in the living-room with her aunts.
Aunt Kathy looked at Jill and then said to Aunt Judy quietly, "She isn't very p-r-e-t-t-y, is she?"
"No," said Jill quickly, "but I'm very c-l-e-v-e-r."
"Is that bad?" answered Mr.Grace.
"Yes, it is." Mrs.Grace said. "It's very bad. Each week I'm heavier now. I'm going to eat less, and I'm going to have a walk every day."
The next morning she put her coat on and began walking, but during her walk it rained, and the rain went through her coat.
That evening she said to her husband, "I want a good coat for my walks. I'm going to go to the shops tomorrow, and I'm going to buy one."
The next morning she went into a shop and looked at some coats with the salesgirl. She liked a seal coat very much.
"This seal coat's nice," she said to the salesgirl, "but does the rain come through it?"
The salesgirl smiled and answered, "Have you ever seen a seal with an umbrella?"
"I'm going to go there tomorrow," Ted said, "and I'm going to ask for that job. It's quite an easy one, and I'm quite strong."
The next morning he went to the bank at half past nine and said, "I want that job here. The guard's job."
A man gave him a piece of paper. There were a lot of questions on it. "Write your answers under the questions," the man said to Ted.
One of the question was, "Have you ever been in prison?"
Ted smiled happily and wrote, "No" under this question.
The he looked at the next question. It was "Why"
He thought for a long time and then wrote, "Because the police have never caught me."
"I'm going to sell this car," Ken said to Liz last month, but nobody wanted it, because it was old and did not run well.
Last Friday, Ken said to Liz, "I've got some work in Boxbury. Come with me and do your shopping there."
Liz was very happy, because her husband very seldom took her out, and she usually shopped in their small village.
Ken drove their old car to the River Dee. There was a ferry there, and cars and trucks crossed on it to the other side. It was the shortest way to Boxbury.
The ferryman came to Ken and said, "A pound for the car and twenty-five pence for the passenger."
Ken answered, "Take the car for a pound, but I'm not going to sell my wife for less than fifty pence."
Then last week he made a big notice. On it he wrote, "Chilren! Do not put your fingers on this glass! It is danerous!" And then he put it up in the window of his shop.
The shop on Mr.Brown's left was a shoe shop, and his friend, Tom Jones, worked there. Tom saw the notice and was surprised. He went into Mr.Brown's shop and said to him, "Why is the glass in your shop window dangerous, Alf? What does it do to the children?"
Mr.Brown smiled. "The glass doesn't do anything to the children, Tom," was his answer, "but I give them a hard smack."
But the other men on the ship were lazy. They did not like work much. They liked sitting and doing nothing.
One day Captain Leonard did not see two of them for a long time. He looked for them. He opened a door and shouted down some stairs, "Who's there?"
"William, Captain," was the answer.
"What are you doing there, William?" the captain asked.
"Nothing, Captain," William answered.
"Is Tom there?" the captain shouted then.
"Yes, he is," was the answer.
"What's he doing?" the captain asked.
"He's helping me, Captain," William answered.
It rains rather a lot in England, and Mr.Hughes usually took an umbrella with him to London, but he often lost umbrellas. He lost them in buses, in trains and in shops. His wife often said to him, "Umbrella are expensive, David, and you buy one every week. Bring this one home this evening!"
One evening Mr. Hughes saw an umbrella in his train. "Today I'm not going to lose my umbrella," he said happily, and he took the umbrella, got out of the train at his station and brought the umbrella home.
His wife saw it and began laughing. "But, David," she said,"You did not take an umbrellas with you this morning. That one isn't yours!"
He did not have much money, but he found the name of a small cheap hotel, and he went there by train and bus. His room in the hotel was very small, but it was clean, and Edward was happy, because he was alone.
The first evening, he went down to the dining-room of the hotel at dinner time and sat down at a small table. The young waitress brought him a plate, and Edward looked at it. Then he said to the girl, "Waitress, this plate's wet!"
"That's your soup" the girl answered.
Then one day Jack said to his mother, "I want a cat, Mummy"
His mother did not say "Yes" or "No". First, she wanted to talk to her husband.
That evening she said to her husband, "Joe, all Jack's friends have got dogs or cats, and we have no animals. Now Jack wants one."
"A cat's easier than a dog, Helen," her husband answered.
"Our neighbours'cat's going to have kittens," Helen said. "They aren't going to want them all."
"Good," answered Joe. "Ask them for one."
A few days later, the neighbour's cat had four kittens, and after a few weeks, the neighbours gave one to Jack's mother.
But then Jack pulled the kitten's tail, and his mother said to him, "Don't pull the kitten's tail,Jack!"
Jack answered, "I'm not pulling it, Mummy. I'm holding it, and the kitten's pulling."