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داستان کوتاه انگلیسی با ترجمه فارسی
Funny Story of Elevator
While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat, ugly old lady moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady walked between them into a small room.
The walls closed, and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially.
They continued to watch until it reached the last number, and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.
Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond stepped out.
The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son, "Go get your mother.
داستان کوتاه انگلیسی با ترجمه فارسی - The New Policeman
The New Policeman
In a small town a man stole some money from a house. The police began to look for the thief, and they found him in 2 days. They brought him to the police station and found some of the money in his coat.
There was a new policeman at the police station, and they wanted to give him some work.
Take this thief to the city (said one of them) You must go there by train, and it goes very soon. Don't be late.
The policeman and the thief set out along the road to the station. On their way they came to a shop. In this shop bread was sold.
"We have no food and we must eat something in the train (said the thief) It is long way to the city and it will take a long time. I'll go into this shop and buy some bread. Then you and I can eat it in the train. Wait here for me. The policeman was glad" I'll have some food in the train" he thought "be quick" he said to the thief. "We haven't much time"
The thief went into the shop, and the policeman waited in the street for a long time. But then he began to think about the train, and at last he went into the shop. "Where is the man who came in here to buy some bread?"(Policeman said) "He went out of the back door" (said the shopkeeper) The policeman ran out of the back door, but he could not find the thief. So he had to go back to the police station and tell the others about it. They were very angry with him and he was very unhappy.
All the police of the town began to look for the thief again, and they soon caught him. They brought him back to the police station and called the same policeman
"Now" (said one of them angrily) " Take him to the city, and don't lose him again!" The policeman and the thief set out again along the same road to the station, and they came to the same shop.
Thief: wait here, I want to go into that shop and buy some bread for our journey.
Policeman: Oh no! You did that before and you ran away. This time, I'll go into the shop and buy the bread, and you must wait here for me.
داستان کوتاه انگلیسی با ترجمه فارسی - A turtle family went on a picnic
A turtle family went on a picnic
A turtle family went on a picnic... The turtles, being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their .Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place. During the second year of their journey they found it. For about six month's they cleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements. Then they discovered the had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home.
Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned. The family consented and the little turtle left.
Three years passed-- and the little turtle had not returned. Five years...six years... Then in the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and began to unwrap a sandwich. At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, "SEE I knew you wouldn't wait. Now I am not going to go get the salt."
The Moral Is...
Some of us waste our lives waiting for people to live up to our expectations of them. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we don't do anything ourselves.
ادامه مطلب ...
داستان کوتاه انگلیسی با ترجمه فارسی - The Jeans
The Jeans
The year is 1853, and the palace is California. People are coming to California from many countries. They are looking for gold. They think that they are going to get rich. Levi Strauss is one of these people .He’s twenty-four years old, and he too want to get rich. He is from Germany. He has cloth from Germany to make tents for the gold miners
A man asks him: What are you going to do with that cloth?
Strauss answers: I’m going to make tents
The man says: I don’t need a tent, but I want a strong pair of pants. Look at my pants they’re full of holes
Levi makes a pair of pants from the strong cloth. The man is happy with the pants. They’re a big success. Soon everyone wants a pair of pants just like the man’s pair. Levi makes one more, ten more hundreds more thousands more. That’s the history of your jeans
داستان کوتاه انگلیسی با ترجمه فارسی - The butterfly
The butterfly
A small crack appeared on a cocoon. A man sat for hours and watched carefully the struggle of the butterfly to get out of that small crack of cocoon.
Then the butterfly stopped striving. It seemed that she was exhausted and couldn’t go on trying. The man decided to help the poor creature. He widened the crack by scissors. The butterfly came out of cocoon easily, but her body was tiny and her wings were wrinkled. The ma continued watching the butterfly. He expected to see her wings become expanded to protect her body. But it didn’t happen! As a matter of fact, the butterfly had to crawl on the ground for the rest of her life, for she could never fly.
The kind man didn’t realize that God had arranged the limitation of cocoon and also the struggle for butterfly to get out of it, so that a certain fluid could be discharged from her body to enable her to fly afterward.
Sometimes struggling is the only thing we need to do. If God had provided us with an easy to live without any difficulties then we become paralyzed, couldn’t become strong and could not fly.
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داستان کوتاه انگلیسی با ترجمه فارسی - Adrift
Adrift
In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life raft, alone. His supplies were few. His chances were small. Yet when three fishermen found him seventy-six days later (the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone), he was alive -- much skinnier than he was when he started, but alive.
His account of how he survived is fascinating. His ingenuity -- how he managed to catch fish, how he fixed his solar still (evaporates sea water to make fresh) -- is very interesting.
But the thing that caught my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no point in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life raft was punctured and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to fix it, it was still leaking air and wearing him out to keep pumping it up. He was starved. He was desperately dehydrated. He was thoroughly exhausted. Giving up would have seemed the only sane option.
When people survive these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in similarly desperate circumstances give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the guts to carry on in spite of overwhelming odds.
"I tell myself I can handle it," wrote Callahan in his narrative. "Compared to what others have been through, I'm fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, building up fortitude...."
I wrote that down after I read it. It struck me as something important. And I've told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming. And every time I've said it, I have always come back to my senses.
The truth is, our circumstances are only bad compared to something better. But others have been through much worse. I've read enough history to know you and I are lucky to be where we are, when we are, no matter how bad it seems to us compared to our fantasies. It's a sane thought and worth thinking.