一分钟演讲英语故事（短一点）

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这短文是关于探索发展项目发展失败的原因的：
Most projects started as good ideas. Others had some level of success, but not enough to have a measurable effect on the lives of people in developing countries.A nonprofit group in New York called MobileActive held the first FAILFaire earlier this year. MobileActive is made up of people and organizations that use technology to try to improve the lives of the poor.Katrin Verclas came up with the idea for FAILFaire as a way to help nonprofit groups improve by learning from the mistakes of others.Katrin Verclas: "The primary goal is to learn from failure and not to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. And for a community of practitioners to benefit from the lessons learned from other people so that we can do better the next time around, collectively as a field, and individually as organizations and practitioners."Katrin Verclas says there are many reasons why projects fail, but one reason tops all others. She says development projects are not "one size fits all," yet many people try to import ideas as if they were.What they fail to consider, she says, is the desires of the local people or their cultural, economic and political differences. She says the problem for many nongovernmental organizations and other groups is simply not knowing their audience.Katrin Verclas: "Western organizations, or NGOs, or donors in particular have particular ideas about what might be alleviating a particular problem in a developing country, without a really good understanding of the end users or the beneficiaries."he creator of FAILFaire says this is true not only with technology but other projects as well. Ms. Verclas hopes nonprofits in other industries and fields will create their own versions of FAILFaire.A second FAILFaire took place in July in Washington. The World Bank Institute co-sponsored the event. To Katrin Verclas, it was a good sign to have the World Bank support such open discussions about failure.Katrin Verclas: "We have a lot riding on this, after all. It’s not just products; it’s people’s lives and well-being and livelihoods in many developing countries that we’re talking about. So it’s incumbent upon us to be very, very honest about what projects aren’t performing according to expectations."An award for the best worst failure story went to Michael Trucano from the World Bank Institute. What he presented was in fact a list. It was a list of what he considers the worst practices in the use of information and communication technologies in education.

翻译：
许多项目中有很多出发点是不错的，一些已经达到了一定程度的成功，但是还不足以对发展中国家人们的生活产生可衡量的影响。今年早些时候，纽约一个名为MobileActive的非盈利组织举办了第一届FAILFaire。MobileActive由一些试图依靠技术改变穷人生活的个人和机构组成。凯特琳·韦克莱斯（Katrin Verclas）提出了一个想法，把FAILFaire作为学习别人失误的途径来帮助非盈利组织得到提高。韦克莱斯：“FAILFaire的主要目的是从失败中学习经验，不再重蹈覆辙。对于从业群体而言，是从学习他人中受益，以便下次能做的更好，这个从业群体统称为一个领域，包括独立从业机构和个人。”韦克莱斯称项目失败的原因很多，但有一个原因最重要。她表示，发展项目并非放之四海皆准，然而很多人却试图简单套用。她称，他们在当地人的需求，以及他们文化、经济和政治差异方面欠于考虑。她表示，很多非政府机构和其他组织的问题只是不了解他们的目标群体。韦克莱斯：“西方组织，非政府机构，尤其是捐助者只是对能够缓解某个发展中国家的某个特定问题有独特的想法，而对终端用户或受益者没有真正的了解。”FAILFaire的发起者称不仅技术项目如此，其他项目也是如此。韦克莱斯希望其他行业和领域的非盈利组织创建他们自己的FAILFaire。第二届FAILFaire7月份在华盛顿举行，世界银行承办了这次活动。对于韦克莱斯而言，有世界银行支持这种对失败的公开讨论是个好迹象。韦克莱斯：“毕竟这里面有很多因素，我们讨论的不仅仅是产品，而是发展中国家人们的生活，利益以及生计问题。所以我们对这些不能产生预期效果的项目就有义不容辞的责任。”“最佳”糟糕经历奖颁给了来自世界银行研究所的迈克·（Michael Trucano）。他展示的其实就是一个清单，在这个清单上，他列出了他认为信息与与通信技术在教育使用中最差的例子。

这篇文章说的意义蛮不错的，希望能帮到你！（如果楼主嫌长了，可以适当自己缩短写说）

Last week, I came across a stray dog when I was taking a walk in my neighborhood. It was a cold day, and there was nobody around. I stopped and he looked at me helplessly. “What a poor dog!” I thought. Then I decided to bring him home. When we got back home, I gave him some food and drinks and played with him, but it seemed that he was a little sad. I knew he was missing his owner. What could I do? I came up with an idea. Then I put up a ‘Dog-Found-Notice’ at the gate of our neighborhood with the help of Dad. A few days later, the owner of the dog came to my house. I was very happy to see the little dog go home with his owner, and I feel proud that I was able to give others a helping hand. 上周当我在社区散步时遇到了一只流浪狗，天气很冷，周围没有人。我停了下来，他无助地望着我。我想“多么可怜的狗呀！”然后我决定把他带回家。当我们回到家，我喂给他吃的，给他喝的，并和他一起玩耍。但他似乎有点悲伤。我知道他在想念他的主人。我该怎么做？我想到了个注意。然后我在父亲的帮助下在小区门口贴了个寻狗启示。几天后，狗的主人来到我家，我非常高兴看到小狗随主人回了家。给他人帮助我感到很自豪。

What a moving story. Hope to help you.

The Boys And The Frogs 男孩和青蛙 One spring day some naughty boys were playing near a pond. They began to throw stones into the water. In the pond lived many frogs were much afraid of the boys, for the stones hurt some of the frogs. At last an old frog lifted his head out of the water and said, ¨Boys, please donˇt throw stones at us.〃 The boys said, ¨We are only playing.〃¨I know that, but please stop throwing stones, my boys. What is play to you is death to us,〃 said the old frog. So the boys stopped throwing stones and went away.春天里的一天，一些顽皮的男孩在一个水塘边玩耍。他们开始往水里扔石块。许多生活在水塘里的青蛙非常害怕这些男孩，因为石头曾弄伤了他们中的一些。最后一只老青蛙把他的脑袋探出水面，他说：“孩子们，请别向我们扔石头。”男孩说：“我们只是在玩耍。”“我知道，但请别扔石头，孩子们。对你们而言的玩耍对我们可意味着死亡。”老青蛙说。因此男孩们不再扔石头并且离开了 猴子捞月 One day, a little monkey is playing by the well. 一天，有只小猴子在井边玩儿。 He looks in the well and shouts : 它往井里一瞧，高喊道： “Oh !My god! The moon has fallen into the well!” “噢！我的天！月亮掉到井里头啦！” An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says, 一只大猴子跑来一看，说， “Goodness me! The moon is really in the water!” “糟啦！月亮掉在井里头啦！” And olderly monkey comes over. 老猴子也跑过来。 He is very surprised as well and cries out: 他也非常惊奇，喊道： “The moon is in the well.” “糟了，月亮掉在井里头了！” A group of monkeys run over to the well . 一群猴子跑到井边来， They look at the moon in the well and shout: 他们看到井里的月亮，喊道： “The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let’get it out!” “月亮掉在井里头啦！快来！让我们把它捞起来！” Then, the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch . 然后，老猴子倒挂在大树上， And he pulls the next monkey’s feet with his hands. 拉住大猴子的脚， All the other monkeys follow his suit, 其他的猴子一个个跟着， And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well. 它们一只连着一只直到井里。 Just before they reach the moon, the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky, 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 He yells excitedly “Don’t be so foolish! The moon is still in the sky!” 它兴奋地大叫：“别蠢了！月亮还好好地挂在天上呢！” 幽默笑话 A hillbilly was visiting the big city for the first time. Entering an office building, he saw a pudgy older woman step into a small room. The doors closed, lights flashed, and after a while the door slid open and a beautiful young model stepped off the elevator. 一个乡下人第一次到大城市游逛。他走进一座大楼，看见一个岁数很大的矮胖女人迈进一个小房间。房间的门随后关上，有几个灯在闪亮。一会儿，门开了，电梯里走出一位年青漂亮的女模特。 Blinking in amazement, the hillbilly drawled, "I should have brought my wife!" 乡下人惊奇地眨着眼睛，慢吞吞地说：“我应该把我的老婆带来!” A hillbilly was visiting the big city for the first time. Entering an office building, he saw a pudgy older woman step into a small room. The doors closed, lights flashed, and after a while the door slid open and a beautiful young model stepped off the elevator. 一个乡下人第一次到大城市游逛。他走进一座大楼，看见一个岁数很大的矮胖女人迈进一个小房间。房间的门随后关上，有几个灯在闪亮。一会儿，门开了，电梯里走出一位年青漂亮的女模特。 Blinking in amazement, the hillbilly drawled, "I should have brought my wife!" 乡下人惊奇地眨着眼睛，慢吞吞地说：“我应该把我的老婆带来!”

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