一些想要培養孩子英語閲讀理解能力的家長都會時常找關於勵志的英文名人故事給孩子看，那麼勵志的英文名人故事都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。
勵志的英文名人故事篇1：脣亡齒寒
During the Spring and Autumn Period (707 - 476 B.C.), Duke Xian of the State of Jin Wanted to expand his position of strength and sphere of influence. Therefore he would like to send his troops to destroy the State of Guo on the pretest that the State of Guo often encroached on theborders of the State of Jin. But there was a third state, the State of Yu,between the State of Jin and the State of Guo, and the Jin army had to cross the State of Yu before it could reach the State of Guo . "How can my army cross the State of Yu without a hitch?" Duke Xian of the State of Jin asked his Xi , one of the ministers, said, "The monarch of the State of Yu is short - sighted and covets small advantages. If we give him priceless precious stones and fine horses, it is not unlikely that he will allow our army to pass through his country. " Seeing that Duke Xian of the State of Jin was a little bit grudging, Xun Xi continued to say, "The State of Yu and the State of Guo are neighbor stated as closely related as lips and teeth. The State of Yu cannot exist independently if the state of Guo is destroyed. Your precious stones and fime hores are just left in the care of the monarch of the State of Yu." So Duke Xian of the State of Jin accepted Xun Xi's plan. When the monarch of Yu saw the precious gifts, he was elated,and readily promised to let the Jin army pass through his state. Hearing the news, Gong Zhiqi, one of the ministers as the State of Yu, hastened to admonish the monarch, saying," That won't the State of Yu and the State of Guo are neighbor states as closely related as lips and teeth. Our two small states are interdependent, and can help cach other when problems crop up the State of Guo were destroyed, it would be difficult for our State of Yu to continue to exist. As the common saying goes, if the lips are gone ,the teeth will be cold, The teeth can hardly be kept if the lips are gone. So it won't do at all to allow the Jin army pass our state." The monarch of the State of Yu said," The State of Jin is a big state. Now they here specially to present gifts to us with the intention of being on friendly terms with us. Under suchcircumstances, how can we refuse to allow them to pass through our state?" Hearing this, Gong Zhiqi sighed repeatedly. Knowing that the State of Yu would soon be destroyed, Gong Zhiqi left the State of Yu together with his whole family.
As expected, the troops of the State of Jin, allowed to pass through the State of Yu, destroyed the State of Guo and on their return trip captured the monarch of the State of Yu who went out personally to meet them, htus destroying the State of Yu as Well.
This story appears in the chapter " The Fifth Year of Duke Xi " in Zuo zhuan,the famous commentary by Zuo Qiuming on The Spring and Autumn Annals. The set phrase " if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold " is used to mean that two persons or things share a common lot and that is one fails ,the other is in danger.
春秋時候，晉獻公想要擴充自己的實力和地盤，就找藉口説鄰近的虢(guó)國經常侵犯晉國的邊境，要派兵滅了虢國。可是在晉國和虢國之間隔着一個虞國，討伐虢國必須經過虞地。“怎樣才能順利通過虞國呢?”晉獻公問手下的大臣。大夫荀息説：“虞國國君是個目光短淺、貪圖小利的人，只要我們送他價值連城的美玉和寶馬，他不會不答應借道的。”晉獻公一聽有點捨不得，荀息看出了晉獻公的心思，就説：“虞虢兩國是脣齒相依的近鄰，虢國滅了，虞國也不能獨存，您的美玉寶馬不過是暫時存放在虞公那裏罷了。”晉獻公採納了荀息的計策。
虞國國君見到這兩們珍貴的禮物，頓時心花怒放，聽到荀息説要借道虞國之事時，當時就滿口答應下來。虞國大夫宮之奇聽説後，趕快阻止道：“不行，不行，虞國和虢國是脣齒相依的近鄰，我們兩個小國相互依存，有事可以自彼幫助，萬一虢國滅了，我們虞國也就難保了。俗話説：‘脣亡齒寒’，沒有嘴脣，牙齒也保不住啊!借道給晉國萬萬使不得。”虞公説：“人家晉國是大國，現在特意送來美玉寶馬和咱們交朋友，難道咱們借條道路讓他們走走都不行嗎?”宮之奇連聲歎氣，知道虞國離滅亡的日子不遠了，於是就帶着一家老小離開了虞國。
果然，晉國軍隊借道虞國，消滅了虢國，隨後又把親自迎接晉軍的虞公抓住，滅了虞國。故事出自《左傳·僖公五年》。成語“脣亡齒寒”，比喻雙方關係密切，相互依存。
勵志的英文名人故事篇2：厚積薄發 永不言棄
He is a Harvard graduate playing in the National Basketball Association. He is an Asian-American in a league devoid of them, which makes him doubly anomalous. No team drafted Lin in 2010. Two teams cut him in December, before the Knicks picked him up.
His contract, potentially worth nearly $800,000, was not even guaranteed until Tuesday afternoon. So for the past six weeks, Lin, 23, has been sleeping in his brother Josh’s living room, waiting for clarity and career security.
On Saturday night, Lin came off the bench and powered the Knicks to a 99-92 victory over the Nets at Madison Square Garden, scoring a career-best 25 points with 7 assists. Two nights later, he made his first N.B.A. start and produced 28 points and 8 assists in a 99-88 win over the Utah Jazz.
Knicks fans now serenade Lin with chants of “Je-re-my!” and “M.V.P.!”. With every game, every precision pass and every clever drive to the basket, Lin is raising expectations, altering the Knicks’ fate and redefining the word “unlikely.” On Twitter, fans and basketball pundits are using another term to describe the phenomenon: “Linsanity.”
Two weeks ago, the 6-foot-3 Lin was not even part of the Knicks’ point-guard rotation, despite their lack of talent at the position. He played sparingly in a few games, showing just enough promise to keep getting another look— a few more minutes, another quarter. But there was never any hint of what was to come.
With 25 points Saturday, Lin set the N.B.A. scoring record for a player from Harvard. For an encore, he became the first player in more than 30 years to record at least 28 points and 8 assists in his first N.B.A. start. The last to do so was Isiah Thomas, the Detroit Pistons’ Hall of Fame point guard, in October 1981.
“I don’t think anyone, including myself, saw this coming,” Lin said after the game Monday.
他是NBA賽場上少有的名校哈佛畢業生，他是聯盟裏少見的.亞裔美國人，這樣雙重特殊身份的林書豪，在2010年NBA新秀大會上落選，2011年12月先後被金州勇士隊和休斯敦火箭隊裁掉，之後紐約尼克斯隊宣佈簽下他。
尼克斯與他簽下的合同價值約為80萬美元，也許在這之前他持有的是非保障合同，但到週二下午6點(球隊裁員的截至日子)林書豪的的合同自動轉為了保障合同，他將安全的留在尼克斯隊。事實上在過去的6周裏，23歲的林書豪因為不確定自己是否能夠繼續留在紐約，一直寄居在哥哥家當沙發客，等待職業生涯中保障合同的出現。
上週六的晚上，紐約尼克斯在麥迪遜廣場花園主場迎戰新澤西網隊，板凳席上的林書豪臨危受命，拿下了職業生涯最高的25分7助攻，幫助尼克斯99比92戰勝網隊。兩天後，林書豪獲得NBA的第一次首發機會，在對陣猶他爵士隊的比賽中砍下28分8助攻。
麥迪遜廣場花園的球迷們齊聲歡呼“Jeremy”和“MVP”。每一場比賽，每一個精準的過人，每一次聰明的突破，林書豪給球迷們帶來希望，改變了尼克斯隊的命運，也再次重新定義了“不可能”。在推特上，球迷和籃球權威人士用Linsanity“為林瘋狂”這個標籤來描述這種林書豪熱現象(Linsanity：Lin+insanity)。
兩週前，這個身高1米91的華裔小個子甚至根本不在尼克斯隊的控球后衞輪轉名單中，儘管尼克斯目前在控衞的位置缺乏優秀的人才。在此之前他只打過幾場比賽，但他的表現足以讓教練注意到他。慢慢地，他的上場時間在增加：多了幾分鐘，再打一節。林書豪的傳奇成功不是無跡可尋的。
在週六砍下25分的一球成名戰後，林書豪也創下了NBA賽場上哈佛畢業生的得分記錄。第二場比賽中，他再次創下記錄，成為NBA賽場30多年裏首發首秀拿到28分8助攻的第一人。上次拿到這個得分的是在1981年10月，底特律活塞隊伊塞亞·托馬斯(NBA名人堂球員)。
林書豪在週一比賽後表示，“我相信任何人包括我自己在內，都沒有預想到這樣的成績”。
勵志的英文名人故事篇3：人生沒有過不去的坎
Our tolerating ability is indeed way beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential tolerating ability.
There was a woman in the countryside who got married at the age of 18 and had to escape with her two daughters and a son wherever she could at the age of 26 due to the Japanese army’s invasion. Many people in the village at that time could not bear the suffering of being a fugitive and wanted to commit sui cide. After she knew about it, she would come to those people and soothed them by saying, “Don’t do that silly thing. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome. The Japanese armies are bound to be foiled one day!”
Finally she insisted until the day when all the Japanese armies were kicked out of China. Nonetheless, her son died of disease without sufficient medicine and nutrition in those days of hardships. Her husband, after knowing the death of his son, lay in bed for two days without eating and drinking anything. She teared to her husband and said, “We have a tough destiny, but however tough our lives will be, we should also persist. Though our son has passed away, we can have another. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome.”
After giving birth to the second son, her husband died of edema, which almost blew her away. But eventually, she recovered and cuddled the three young children, saying, “My sweet hearts, don’t feel scared. You still have me, your dear mum!”
It took her painstaking efforts to raise her children up and the life of her family was getting better and better. Two daughters were married and so was his son finally. She said to everyone she met, “Look! What I said is absolutely right. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome! My life is so happy now!” She was aging gradually and could not do the farm work any more. So she stayed at home and did some stitching work.
Nevertheless, the Heaven seemed to show no affection to her who had undergone a rough life. She got her leg broken accidentally when she was nursing her grandson. Due to her old age that posed a great risk to her operation, she did not receive operation and had to lie in bed all day long. Her children all cried heavily, while she merely said, “Why do you cry? I am still living.”
Even though she could not rise from bed, she did not complain about anything and anybody. Instead, she sat on the bed and did some stitching work. She had learnt scarves-weaving, broidery, crafts-making, etc. All her neighbors spoke highly of her skills and came to learn from her.
She lived until 86. Before she went to Heaven, she said to her children, “You all should live to your best. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome!”
We will only get to realize our own iron will and strong tolerating ability after getting stricken heavily. Therefore, no matter what you are suffering from now, do not merely complain about the unfairness of our destiny and maintain low-spirited all the time. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome. Only those who have no confidence and courage to overcome setbacks will be defeated at last!
人的承受能力，其實遠遠超過我們的想象，就像不到關鍵時刻，我們很少能認識到自己的潛力有多大。
有這樣一位農村婦女，她18歲的時候結婚，26歲趕上日本人侵略中國，在農村進行大掃蕩，她不得不經常帶着兩個女兒一個兒子東躲西藏。村裏很多人受不了這種暗無天日的折磨，想到了自盡，她得知後就會去勸：“別這樣啊，沒有過不去的坎，日本鬼子不會總這麼猖狂的。”
她終於熬到了把鬼子趕出中國的那一天，可是她的兒子卻在那炮火連天的歲月裏，由於缺醫少藥，又極度缺乏營養，因病夭折了。丈夫不吃不喝在牀上躺了兩天兩夜，她流着淚對丈夫説：“咱們的命苦啊，不過再苦咱也得過啊，兒子沒了，咱再生一個，人生沒有過不去的坎。”
剛剛生了兒子，丈夫因患水腫病離開了人世。在這個打擊下，她很長時間都沒回過神來，但最後還是挺過來了，她把三個未成年的孩子攬到自己懷裏，説：“娘還在呢，有娘在，你們就別怕。”
她含辛茹苦地把孩子一個個拉扯大了，生活也慢慢好轉起來。兩個女兒嫁了人，兒子也結了婚。她逢人便樂呵呵地説：“我説吧，沒有過不去的坎，現在生活多好啊。”她年紀大了，不能下地幹活，就在家納鞋底，做衣服，縫縫補補。
可是，上蒼似乎並不眷顧這位一生坎坷的婦女，她在照看孫子時不小心摔斷了腿，由於年紀太大做手術危險，就一直沒有做手術，她每天只能躺在牀上。兒女們都哭了，她卻説：“哭什麼，我還活着呢。”
即便下不了牀，她也沒有怨天尤人，而是坐在牀上做針線活。她會織圍巾，會繡花，會編手工藝品，左鄰右舍的人都誇她手藝好，還來跟她學藝。
她活到86歲，臨終前，她對自己兒女們説：“都要好好過啊，沒有過不去的坎。”
人總是在遭遇一次重創之後，才會幡然醒悟，重新認識自己的堅強和堅忍。所以，無論你正在遭遇什麼磨難，都不要一味抱怨上蒼不公平，甚至從此一蹶不振。人生沒有過不去的坎，只有過不去的人。
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