داستان و متون کوتاه انگلیسی (به همراه ترجمه)

A little girl asked her father
"How did the human race appear?"
The Father answered "God made Adam and Eve; they had children; and so all mankind was made"
Two days later the girl asked her mother the same question.
The mother answered
"Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."
The confused girl went back to her father and said " Daddy, how is it possible that you told me human race was created God and Mommy said they developed from monkeys?"
The father answered "Well, Dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your mother told you about her."

Imagine
Imagine! Even if it is hard to imagine
A world where each person is truly fortunate
Imagine a world where money race, and power have no place
A world where riot police is not the answer to the calls for unity
A world with no nuclear bombs, no artillery, and no bombardments
A world where no child will leave his legs on land mines
Everybody free, totally free
No one in pain, no pain
You wouldn’t read in newspapers that
Such and such person committed suicide
Imagine a world with no hatred, no gunpowder
No cruelty of arrogant, no fear, no coffin
Imagine a world filled with smile and freedom
Full of flowers and kisses! Filled with up growing improvements
Imagine! Even if it is a crime to imagine so
Even if you’d lay down your life on this
Imagine a world where prison does not exist in reality
Where all wars of the world are included in The Ceasefire Treaty
A world where nobody is ‘The Boss’ of the world
People are all equal
Then each person will have an equal share in
Each single seed of wheat
No border, no boundaries
Motherland would mean the entire world
Imagine you could be the interpretation of this dream

A man checked into a hotel. There was a computer in his room* so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife. However* he accidentally typed a wrong e-mail address* and without realizing his error he sent the e-mail.
Meanwhile….Somewhere in Houston * a widow had just returned from her husband’s funeral. The widow decided to check her e-mail* expecting condolence messages from relatives and friends.After reading the first message* she fainted. The widow’s son rushed into the room* found his mother on the floor* and saw the computer screen which read:
To: My Loving Wife
Subject: I’ve Reached
Date: 2 May 2006
I know you’re surprised to hear from me. They have computers here* and we are allowed to send e-mails to loved ones. I’ve just reached and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you TOMORROW!
Your loving hubby.

Bad Temper
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.
You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.”

Where do I begin to tell the story
Of how great a love can be
The sweet love story that is older than the sea
The simple truth about the love she brings to me
Where do I start
With her first hello
She gave me meaning to this empty world of mine
There’ll never be another love another time
She came into my life & made the living fine
She fills my heart
She fills my heart with very especial things
Angel songs & wild imaginings
She fills my soul with so much love
That any where I go I’m never lonely
With her around who could be lonely
How long does it last
Can love be measured by the hours in a day
I have no answers now
But this much I can say
I know I’ll need her until the stars all burn away
And she’ll be there

Smart Dog
for years,a dog showed up on the butcher's doorstep every wednesday morning to do his owner's shopping. On this wednesday morning the dog walked into the butcher's shop as usual with a purse around his neck . The butcher asked the dog what he wanted . He pointed his paw at the sausages . :"How many pounds?"the butcher ask him.The dog looked into his eyes and barked twice.The butcher packed two pounds of sausage. "Anything else?" the butcher asked him. the dog pointed to the hamburgers. "How many?"the butcher asked him.The dog barked 4times.and the butcher packed four hamburgers.The dog then walked behind the counter and stayed very still so the butcher could open his purse , take the right amount of money , and tie the meat around dog's neck.Then the dog turn around and walked away. A regular customer was surprised to see the dog doing this shopping and decided follow him home. After about a mile , the dog approached a house and scratched at the door.When it opened the customer said to the woman inside the house,"Thats a very smart dog you have ther" , "Smart?" she replied. "Not really . Thats the second time this week he's forgotten his front door keys