Question

谁能给个英语的小故事，最好文章长一点，但不要太长，大概初3水平。

谁能给个英语的小故事，最好文章长一点，但不要太长，大概初3水平。最好能有中文解释

Answer 1

Life is the coffee
Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."

人生如咖啡
有一群毕业生，各自事业有成，相约一起去看望他们的大学教授。谈话一会儿就变成了各自对工作和生活压力的抱怨。教授为他的学生们准备咖啡，去厨房拿了一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子- 陶瓷，塑料，玻璃，水晶，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致的 - 让他们自己给自己倒一杯咖啡。
当所有的学生们人手一杯咖啡，教授说：
“不知道你们有没有注意到，所有好看昂贵的杯子都被拿走了，剩下的都是朴素便宜的杯子。虽然这是人之常情，每个人都只想要最好的，而这就是你们问题和压力的来源。
“其实你们真正想要的是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们却有意识地去拿最好的杯子，并且还互相看着别人的杯子。
试想：生活就像是咖啡，工作，金钱和社会地位就是那些杯子。它们只是把握和控制生活的工具，并不改变生活质量。有时，由于太关注杯子，我们不能够好好品尝上帝赐予的咖啡。所以，不要让你的杯子左右你的想法...而应该好好享受咖啡。“

Answer 2

There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said "Do you need help?" and the man said "No thanks, God will save me". Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said "No thanks, God will save me", then he drowned and went to Heaven. Then the man told God, "God, why didn't you save me?" and God said "I sent you two big boats, you dummy!"