导语：下面是简短的英语小故事，让我们一同走进这个由字母组成的故事中吧，让这些故事，为我们带来感悟，也为我们带来欢声笑语。
1、简短的英语小故事——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.”
小罗伯特向妈妈要两分钱。
“昨天给你的钱干什么了?”
“我给了一个可怜的老太婆，”他回答说。 “你真是个好孩子，”妈妈骄傲地说。“再给你两分钱。可你为什么对那位老太太那么感兴趣呢?”
“她是个卖糖果的。”
2、简短的英语小故事——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.
河马住在动物园里，我很喜欢他。他经常去看它，他也经常想我。
今天是星期日，是个好天气，我又一次去看望它。在我离开动物园之后，他跟随到我的家。我给他莴苣、生菜、香蕉、苹果和其他食物。他都吃了。
当我唱歌是，它待在水池里，像兔子一样安静。
晚上，他跳到床上同我睡觉在一起睡。
妈妈要它回家。它不得不背起包回到动物园。妈妈允许我每周去看它。
3、简短的英语小故事——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.
塞姆是一条小鱼，他在海里。他生在海里。他很孤独，想要找一个朋友，那个朋友看起来要想他。 塞姆看见一条墨鱼。墨鱼有8条腿，看上去不像塞姆。因此塞姆游走了。塞姆遇见一条鲨鱼。他想跟鲨鱼问好。鲨鱼张开大嘴，塞姆有迅速地逃走了。
塞姆又累又饿，他要休息一会儿。这时他看见一条圆鱼，圆鱼对他说：”你好!你愿意做我的朋友吗?“
塞姆回答：”好哇!可你是圆形的，我是扁的。“圆鱼说：”但是我们俩都是鱼啊!“
塞姆思考后说：”你讲得对，让我们做朋友吧。“他们就成为好朋友了。
4、简短的英语小故事——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.
猴妈妈生了两个猴子。她喜欢小猴子而不喜欢大的。
一天， 他们正在森林里玩的时候，一只狼来了并向他们扑去。猴子匆忙带着小猴子跑了，单独留下打猴子。她跑着小猴子爬到树上。
过些时候，狼慢慢地离开了。母猴从他的怀里放下小猴子。她吃惊的发现猴宝宝已经死了，因为小猴子在她的怀里被搂地太紧了。过了很长时间，她才想起去寻找那只大猴子。大猴子藏在一个大洞里，他救了自己。
5、简短的英语小故事——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.
一个中国老人的妻子生病不久便死了，他们结婚超过了半个世纪，从来没有小孩。老伴走了以后，这个人非常寂寞，他接受了朋友的劝告，去宠物店买了一只小狗。
这是一条迷你型的狮子狗，有着长厚松卷的毛，每个人看了都夸它好可爱。老人很疼爱他的狗，给它起名叫“时间”。
每当他坐下时，他就把小狗放在膝盖上。当他在户外散步时，他就要他的小狗跟着他走，英语小故事因为小狗只有几个礼拜大， 所以不像它的主人走得一样快。虽然老人时常叫，“时间，快点儿走。”小狗已经尽力了，不管他如何叫喊，它仍然走得不快。
随着时间的推移，小狗长壮了。它像一个小男孩。很少在一处停留不动，总是不停地跑来跑去，而且也不像当初那样地听从主人的话了。尤其当主人带着它出门散步的时候;因此，这个人必须不停地叫喊，“慢点儿，时间。”
时光不断流逝，这个男子变得更老弱，可是他的狗却长得更大更壮。有一天，当这个老人又带着他的狗出门散步时，他对他的狗失去了控制。狗已经跑得很远很远了，他不停的叫喊：“时间，等等我。”可是时间一直向前跑而不再听他的话。
最后，这个男子终于明白他再也不能控制时间了。
6、简短的英语小故事——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，有只小猴子在井边玩儿。它往井里一瞧，高喊道：“噢!我的天!月亮掉到井里头啦!”一只大猴子跑来一看，说，“糟啦!月亮掉在井里头啦!”老猴子也跑过来。他也非常惊奇，喊道：“糟了，月亮掉在井里头了!”一群猴子跑到井边来，他们看到井里的月亮，喊道：“月亮掉在井里头啦!快来!让我们把它捞起来!”然后，老猴子倒挂在大树上，拉住大猴子的脚，其他的猴子一个个跟着，它们一只连着一只直到井里。正好他们摸到月亮的时候，老猴子抬头发现月亮挂在天上呢它兴奋地大叫：“别蠢了!月亮还好好地挂在天上呢!”
7、简短的英语小故事——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.
一位农民和他的儿子坐着马车来到一条狭窄的小巷， 他们看到一个司机正往他们这个方向开来。两个方向2英里以内已经没有空间让他们擦身而过了。司机焦急地按着喇叭。
“假如你不往后退，”农民撸着袖子说，“我并不喜欢我将要必须去做的事。”司机甚是惊讶，挂了倒挡，退后了2英里，让马车先过去了。
“刚才你说你并不喜欢做的事是什么啊?”农民的儿子问。
“退后2英里。”农民回答。
8、简短的英语小故事——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?”
每个星期天，牧师都会在教堂前面召集一群孩子，给他们讲一个故事。有一次，为了更好地解释祈祷的意义，他带来了一部电话机。
“你们和电话里的人说话，却并没有看到电话那端的人，对不对呀?”他开始说道。孩子们点头表示同意。“其实，和上帝交谈就好像通过电话交谈一样。他就在另一端，尽管你看不到他，他却在倾听你的心声。”
就在这个时候，一个小男孩尖声问道：“他的电话号码是多少?”
9、简短的英语小故事——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.
希伯来人牧首(patriarch)，以撒(Isaac)之子，亚伯拉罕之孙，以色列人传统上以他为祖先。其事迹记载于〈创世记〉。他是以扫(Esau)的孪生弟弟，雅各以欺骗的手法，从父亲那里获得祝福和以扫的长子名分(birthright)。在一次前往迦南的旅途中，他跟一位天使搏斗了一整晚，最后这位天使赐福给他，并把他的名字改为以色列。雅各共有十三个子女，其中十个创立了以色列支派。他最宠爱的儿子约瑟(Joseph)，被兄长们卖到埃及当奴隶，但后来一场饥荒迫使约瑟的兄长们到埃及寻找粮食，家族因而重聚。