英文小故事篇三

　　老板最大

　　There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, "How come this guy is $5,000? That's so expensive for this kindof parrot." The owner said, "Because I have trained him and he can talk." So the customer asked him, "How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?" The owner said, "Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing1 actions, like dancing and so on. That's why he's so expensive." Then the customer said, "How about the third one? What canhe do that makes him so expensive?" The owner of the shopsaid, "I don’t know. Normally2, I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him 'The Boss.'"

　　有个人到一间商店买鹦鹉。店里有三只鹦鹉，其中一只卖五千元，另一只卖一万元，还有一只卖三万元。顾客问老板：“为什么这只要卖五千元?这个价钱对这种鹦鹉来说太贵了!”老板说：“因为我有训练他讲话。”顾客又问：“那这只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?”老板说：“他除了会说话之外，还会表演一些有趣的动作，好比说跳舞等等，所以才卖这么贵。”顾客接着又问：“那第三只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?老板说：“我不知道。我从没听过他讲话、吹口哨或唱歌，也没看过他跳舞，什么都没有!不过另外两只叫他：“‘老板!’”

　　英文小故事篇四

　　Estimate 估算

　　Mrs. Green was the manager of a large company and she frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all, but many of the other people at the meetings did, so she often found the air during the meetings terrible.

　　One day,after an hour, her throat and eyes were sore and she was coughing a lot, so she called a big air conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.

　　After a few days the air conditioning company sent in two estimates2 for Mrs. Green to choose from. One estimate1 was for $5,000 to put in new air conditioning, and the other was for $5.00 for a sign which said, NO SMOKING.

　　格林太太是一家大公司的经理，必须经常在她大厦内的房间跟其他的生意人开会。 她本人不抽烟，但是许多其他来开会的人却抽烟，所以她常常觉得会场里的空气令人难受。

　　有一天，开了一小时的会，她喉咙和眼晴都很痛，而且咳口嗽得很厉害，所以她就请了一家处理空气调节的大公司，请他们计算一下要花多少钱，才能使大厦会议室内的空气保持绝对干净。

　　几天后受理空气调节的公司开了两张估价单供格林太太选择。 一张是花五千元来安置新的空气调节设备，另一张是花五块钱买一个“请勿抽烟”的牌子。