導語：下面是簡短的英語小故事，讓我們一同走進這個由字母組成的故事中吧，讓這些故事，為我們帶來感悟，也為我們帶來歡聲笑語。
1、簡短的英語小故事——A Good Boy
Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. “What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?”
"I gave it to a poor old woman,” he answered.
"You're a good boy,” said the mother proudly. “Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?”
"She is the one who sells the candy.”
小羅伯特向媽媽要兩分錢。
“昨天給你的錢干什么了?”
“我給了一個可憐的老太婆，”他回答說。 “你真是個好孩子，”媽媽驕傲地說。“再給你兩分錢。可你為什么對那位老太太那么感興趣呢?”
“她是個賣糖果的。”
2、簡短的英語小故事——The Hippo and I
A hippo lives in the zoo. I like him very much. I often go to see him. He often thinks of me, too. Today is Sunday. It is fine today. I go to see him again. After I leave the zoo, he follows me to my house. I give him lettuce, cabbages, bananas, apples and other food. He eats them up. When I sing songs, he stays in the pool. He is as quiet as a rabbit.
In the evening, he jumps onto my bed with me. My mum tells him to go home. He has to pack his bag and go back to the zoo. My mum lets me see him every week.
河馬住在動物園里，我很喜歡他。他經常去看它，他也經常想我。
今天是星期日，是個好天氣，我又一次去看望它。在我離開動物園之后，他跟隨到我的家。我給他萵苣、生菜、香蕉、蘋果和其他食物。他都吃了。
當我唱歌是，它待在水池里，像兔子一樣安靜。
晚上，他跳到床上同我睡覺在一起睡。
媽媽要它回家。它不得不背起包回到動物園。媽媽允許我每周去看它。
3、簡短的英語小故事——Look for a Friend
Sam is a little fish. He lives in the sea. He is very lonely. He wants to have a friend. The friend looks like him. Sam sees an ink fish. The ink fish has eight legs. He doesn't look like Sam. So Sam goes away. Sam meets a shark. He wants to say hello to the shark. The shark opens his big mouth. Sam runs away quickly. Sam is tired and hungry. He wants to have a rest. Then he sees a round fish. She says to him. “Hello! Would you like to be my friend?” Sam answers: “Of course! But you are round. I am flat.” The round fish says: “But we are both fishes.
Sam thinks and says, ”You are right. Let's be friends.“ They become good friends.
塞姆是一條小魚，他在海里。他生在海里。他很孤獨，想要找一個朋友，那個朋友看起來要想他。 塞姆看見一條墨魚。墨魚有8條腿，看上去不像塞姆。因此塞姆游走了。塞姆遇見一條鯊魚。他想跟鯊魚問好。鯊魚張開大嘴，塞姆有迅速地逃走了。
塞姆又累又餓，他要休息一會兒。這時他看見一條圓魚，圓魚對他說：”你好!你愿意做我的朋友嗎?“
塞姆回答：”好哇!可你是圓形的，我是扁的。“圓魚說：”但是我們倆都是魚啊!“
塞姆思考后說：”你講得對，讓我們做朋友吧。“他們就成為好朋友了。
4、簡短的英語小故事——Two Little Monkeys
The monkey mother has two little monkeys. She likes the younger, not the other.
One day, they were playing in a forest when a wolf came running at them. The monkey ran away with the younger monkey in a hurry and left the older alone. She climbed up a tree and held the younger in her arms.
After some time, the wolf went away slowly. The monkey took the baby out of her arms. She was surprised to see that the baby had died, for the baby was held in arms too highly. Very long time later, she remembered to look for the older baby. The older baby was hiding in a wood. So he saved himself.
猴媽媽生了兩個猴子。她喜歡小猴子而不喜歡大的。
一天， 他們正在森林里玩的時候，一只狼來了并向他們撲去。猴子匆忙帶著小猴子跑了，單獨留下打猴子。她跑著小猴子爬到樹上。
過些時候，狼慢慢地離開了。母猴從他的懷里放下小猴子。她吃驚的發現猴寶寶已經死了，因為小猴子在她的懷里被摟地太緊了。過了很長時間，她才想起去尋找那只大猴子。大猴子藏在一個大洞里，他救了自己。
5、簡短的英語小故事——A dog named time
n old Chinese man's wife got sick for a while, then died. They had been married for more than half a century without any children. After the old companion was gone, the old man felt very lonely. He took friends' advice and went to a pet shop to buy a baby dog.
It was a miniature size of poodle which had long, thick, and frizzy(卷曲的) hair. Everybody said it was indeed a cute puppy. The old man treasured it very much and named his dog “Time.”
When he sat down, he would put his puppy on his knees. When he took ask his dog to follow him. The puppy was only a few weeks old, it could not walk as fast as its master. So the old man kept calling, “Time, go faster.” The little puppy had done its best. No matter how he called, it was still doing the same.
As time went by, the puppy became stronger. Like a small boy ,it seldom stayed at a place too long and ran around all the time. And it would not listen to its master as closely as it used to. Especially, when he was walking outside, the dog always ran faster than its master. So the man must keep calling, “Go slower, Time.”
As time went on and on, finally, the man became older and weaker, while his dog grew bigger and stronger. One day, when the man took his dog outside to do the walk again, he lost control of his dog. The dog ran much far away. He kept calling, “Time, wait for me.” Yet time went ahead and would not listen to him.
Finally, the man realized that he could not control the time anymore.
一個中國老人的妻子生病不久便死了，他們結婚超過了半個世紀，從來沒有小孩。老伴走了以后，這個人非常寂寞，他接受了朋友的勸告，去寵物店買了一只小狗。
這是一條迷你型的獅子狗，有著長厚松卷的毛，每個人看了都夸它好可愛。老人很疼愛他的狗，給它起名叫“時間”。
每當他坐下時，他就把小狗放在膝蓋上。當他在戶外散步時，他就要他的小狗跟著他走，英語小故事因為小狗只有幾個禮拜大， 所以不像它的主人走得一樣快。雖然老人時常叫，“時間，快點兒走。”小狗已經盡力了，不管他如何叫喊，它仍然走得不快。
隨著時間的推移，小狗長壯了。它像一個小男孩。很少在一處停留不動，總是不停地跑來跑去，而且也不像當初那樣地聽從主人的話了。尤其當主人帶著它出門散步的時候;因此，這個人必須不停地叫喊，“慢點兒，時間。”
時光不斷流逝，這個男子變得更老弱，可是他的狗卻長得更大更壯。有一天，當這個老人又帶著他的狗出門散步時，他對他的狗失去了控制。狗已經跑得很遠很遠了，他不停的叫喊：“時間，等等我。”可是時間一直向前跑而不再聽他的話。
最后，這個男子終于明白他再也不能控制時間了。
6、簡短的英語小故事——Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
One day,a little monkey is playing by the well.He looks in the well and shouts :“Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!”An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says,“Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!”And olderly monkey comes over.He is very surprised as well and cries out:“The moon is in the well.”A group of monkeys run over to the well .They look at the moon in the well and shout:“The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let'get it out!”Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch .And he pulls the next monkey's feet with his hands.All the other monkeys follow his suit,And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky,He yells excitedly “Don't be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!”
一天，有只小猴子在井邊玩兒。它往井里一瞧，高喊道：“噢!我的天!月亮掉到井里頭啦!”一只大猴子跑來一看，說，“糟啦!月亮掉在井里頭啦!”老猴子也跑過來。他也非常驚奇，喊道：“糟了，月亮掉在井里頭了!”一群猴子跑到井邊來，他們看到井里的月亮，喊道：“月亮掉在井里頭啦!快來!讓我們把它撈起來!”然后，老猴子倒掛在大樹上，拉住大猴子的腳，其他的猴子一個個跟著，它們一只連著一只直到井里。正好他們摸到月亮的時候，老猴子抬頭發現月亮掛在天上呢它興奮地大叫：“別蠢了!月亮還好好地掛在天上呢!”
7、簡短的英語小故事——Do the things you don't like
A farmer and his son, traveling by horse and buggy up a narrow lane, met a motorist going the other way. There was no room to pass for two miles in either direction. The motorist, in hurry, honked his horn.
'If you don't back up,” said the farmer, rolling up his sleeves, “I won't like what I'm going to have to do.” The xiaogushi8.com surprised driver put his car in reverse and backed up two miles, allowing the horse and buggy to go by.
'What was it you wouldn't have liked to have done xiaogushi8.com back there?” asked the farmer's son.
'Back up two miles,” replied the farmer.
一位農民和他的兒子坐著馬車來到一條狹窄的小巷， 他們看到一個司機正往他們這個方向開來。兩個方向2英里以內已經沒有空間讓他們擦身而過了。司機焦急地按著喇叭。
“假如你不往后退，”農民擼著袖子說，“我并不喜歡我將要必須去做的事。”司機甚是驚訝，掛了倒擋，退后了2英里，讓馬車先過去了。
“剛才你說你并不喜歡做的事是什么啊?”農民的兒子問。
“退后2英里。”農民回答。
8、簡短的英語小故事——Talking on the Telephone
Each Sunday the minister called the children to the front of the church while he told them a story. Once he brought a telephone to better illustrate the idea of prayer.
"You talk to people on the telephone and don't see them on the other end of xiaogushi8.com the line, right?” he began. The children nodded yes. “Well, talking to God is like talking on the telephone. He's on the other end, but you can't see him. He is listening though.”
Just then a little boy piped up and asked, “What's his number?”
每個星期天，牧師都會在教堂前面召集一群孩子，給他們講一個故事。有一次，為了更好地解釋祈禱的意義，他帶來了一部電話機。
“你們和電話里的人說話，卻并沒有看到電話那端的人，對不對呀?”他開始說道。孩子們點頭表示同意。“其實，和上帝交談就好像通過電話交談一樣。他就在另一端，盡管你看不到他，他卻在傾聽你的心聲。”
就在這個時候，一個小男孩尖聲問道：“他的電話號碼是多少?”
9、簡短的英語小故事——Jacob
Hebrew patriarch， son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham， and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel. His story is told in the Book of Genesis. The younger twin brother of Esau， he used trickery to gain Isaac's blessing and Esau's birthright. On a journey to Canaan he wrestled all night with an angel， who blessed him and gave him the name Israel. Jacob had 13 children,10 of whom founded tribes of Israel. His favorite son， Joseph， was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers， but the family was later reunited when a famine forced the brothers to go to Egypt to seek grain.
希伯來人牧首(patriarch)，以撒(Isaac)之子，亞伯拉罕之孫，以色列人傳統上以他為祖先。其事跡記載于〈創世記〉。他是以掃(Esau)的孿生弟弟，雅各以欺騙的手法，從父親那里獲得祝福和以掃的長子名分(birthright)。在一次前往迦南的旅途中，他跟一位天使搏斗了一整晚，最后這位天使賜福給他，并把他的名字改為以色列。雅各共有十三個子女，其中十個創立了以色列支派。他最寵愛的兒子約瑟(Joseph)，被兄長們賣到埃及當奴隸，但后來一場饑荒迫使約瑟的兄長們到埃及尋找糧食，家族因而重聚。