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端午节Dragon Boat Festival
The Duanwu Festival,which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditionalfestival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousandsof years, various celebrating activities are held all around the country. Eatingzongzi and racing dragon boats are the most pertinent ones, which are said tobe in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet. In some places, people spread realgarwine on the children in the hope of protecting them from the evil spirits. Manypeople consider May as an especially dangerous time for diseases in a year, andtherefore they hang moxa and calamus and things like that around the doors toward off evil and diseases and pray for good luck.
端午节，又称龙舟节，是中国古老的传统节日，在农历的五月初五这天庆祝。几千年来，全国各地都会举行多种多样的庆祝活动。最应景的就是吃粽子和赛龙舟，据说这是为了纪念伟大的古代诗人屈原。在有些地方，人们把雄黄酒涂抹在小孩的身上，希望这样可以使孩子们不受邪灵的伤害。许多人认为五月是一年中容易引发疾病的时节，因此为了驱疾避凶，讨个吉利，他们会在门口悬挂艾叶和菖蒲等。
By the time children enter school, they’ll have spent up to one-third of their waking hours in front of TV. The enormous influence of television is just beginning to be realized. While many parents take television as an electronic baby-sitter, they neglect the fact that television may be more harmful than it is beneficial to children.
Those who encourage small children to watch television claim that many programs for children on TV are helpful to develop children’s interest and enrich their knowledge. They also argue that preoccupied with TV programs, children are prevented from doing mischief. Although at a first glance these arguments sound true, the behavior of some children doesn’t seem to prove them.
In the first place, programs for children are not always beneficial to them. One science fiction serial keeps telling about some supernatural beings who can fly and always fight against evildoers. After watching several episodes, a small child was so enchanted that he imitated the heroes and “flew” from his room on the second floor. There are also reports of children running away from home to the mountains to practice martial art. These incidents are naturally credited with TV programs for children.
Further, being preoccupied with TV programs is not a good way for avoiding mischief. In the days before TV, parents used to gather together with their children, telling stories or reading poems to them. The communication between parents and children was thus better, so it was easier for children to understand what was good who approve of children’s watching TV neglect television’s bad effects on children. Firstly, children are surrounded and bombarded by commercials for toys and foods. They are tempted into becoming consumers. They earnestly ask their parents to buy things which they do not really need. As a result, the parents are in a financial dilemma, and the children themselves always become victims of bad products because of false advertising.
Another bad effect of television is that children are over-exposed to violence. They watch hours of murders, fights, and crimes every week, with no adult around to tell them that life is not like that most of the time. The effect of the heavy dose of violence is to suggest to children that violence is an ordinary way of life, and that shooting and cheating are ways to serious of all, children who often watch TV are becoming passive. They just sit back and let things happen to them. Children are inventive; they have the ability to imagine a whole world of their own. But what happens when their imagination is not needed, when TV does all the imagination for them? Obviously, these children are not going to grow up as inventive and imaginative as their parents, for they have been robbed of creative impulses by television.
To sum up, children’s indulgence in television is harmful. The problem, nevertheless, is not one of prohibition. Parents should supervise and guide their children’s watching TV instead of parking them in front of the tube, hoping it will act as a baby-sitter.
人物描写的英语作文 素材
1．表达人物兴趣和爱好的常用词组或短语：
like ------very much 非常喜欢------ love 喜爱
be interested in 对------感性趣 be fond of 喜欢
hate 憎恨 be tired of 对------厌倦
be crazy about 对------极度喜欢 enjoy 喜欢
lose interest in 对------失去兴趣
2. 描写人物外貌和性格特征的常用词语：
good-looking 长得好看的 ugly-looking 长得难看的
funny-looking 长相滑稽的 ordinary-looking 长相一般的
white-haired 白头发的 warm-hearted 热心肠的
kind-hearted 好心的 absent-minded 心不在焉的
bad-tempered 脾气不好的 near-sighted 近视眼的
far-sighted 远视眼的 tall 个高的
short 个矮的 pretty 漂亮的
naughty 淘气的 lovely 可爱的
easy-going 温和宽容的 smart 精明的
wise 明智的 bright 聪明的
diligent 勤奋的 lazy 懒惰的
clever 聪明的 healthy 健康的
humorous 幽默的 funny 滑稽的
silent 沉默的 attractive 有吸引力的
talkative 多话的
杏眼：almond-shaped 小而亮的眼睛：beadlike 美丽的: beautiful 大的: big/large 明亮的: bright 眼珠突出的: bulging 离的很近的: close-set 深陷的: deep-socketed/deep-sunken 水灵灵的: dewy 梦幻般的: dreamy 呆滞的: glazed 柔和的: gentle 呆板的: fishlike 凹陷的: hollow/sunken 远视的: longsighted/farsighted 近视的：myopic/shortsighted 眼梢上斜的: oblique 老花眼的: presbyopic 圆的: round 性感的: sexy 锐利的: sharp 斜的: slanting 细长的: slitty 小的: small/tiny 斜视眼的: squint 明亮的: starry 水汪汪的: watery 分的很开的: wide-spaced 肿胀的：swollen
3．介绍人物的姓名、出身
She was born in Beijing on Oct. 12, 1986.
She was a great woman with the name ---.
Born of a poor clerk’s family, she had little schooling.
4．描述人物心情的常用词语：
sad 难过的 happy 高兴的
excited 兴奋的 pleased 高兴的
satisfied 满意的 angry 生气的
worried 担心的 disappointed 失望的
terrified 恐惧的 friendly 友好的
anxious 焦虑的 curious 好奇的
eager 急切的
人与自然 Man and Nature
Weoften say that the earth is our homeland and human society comes from nature. Therefore,I think our society is a part of nature. People should live harmoniously withnature. All the materials we need to live with come from nature, but we shouldalso repay the nature, rather than blindly solicit. For example, we shouldplant more trees and take actions to protect the environment. In addition, wehave to control population. Due to excessive population growth, human beingsrequire much more natural resources than before, which lead to excessivepressure on nature. In order to long-term development, the population growthmust be controlled. We all come from nature which is our homeland, so we musttry best to protect it.
我们常常说地球是我们的家园，人类社会也是从自然界分解出来的。因此，我认为我们的社会是自然界的一部分，人们应该与自然和谐共处。我们所需的所有生活材料都来自于自然，但是我们也要回馈自然，而不是一味地索取。例如，我们应该多种树，要采取有效措施保护好环境。此外，人口数量也应得到控制。由于人口过多，人类需要的生存材料也大大增加，导致了自然界所承受的压力过大。为了更长远地发展，人口的增长速度必须要得到控制。我们都来自自然，把自然界也称为我们的家园，所以我们必须要尽最大的努力去保护它。
As I sat in my room one summer day preparing my lessons, I felt that it was very hot and disagreeable. The sun shone brightly and the birds kept perching on the trees which, as there was no wind, made no stir. Suddenly a dark cloud hid the sun. The wind began to blow. I knew that a storm would soon come.
The sky was full of black clouds. Flashes of lightning lit up the courtyards, old houses and porches, and thunder began to roar overhead. No birds sang any longer while the leaves of the trees rustled and a wind blew against our faces. A drop of water fell, then another, and then the rain fell on the roofs with a noise like the beating of drums. A brilliant stripe of light filled the sky. Suddenly there came a terrible thunderclap overhead, and then the sky was full of roars of thunder.
After a while, the rain stopped and the thunder and lightning ceased. The sky became blue again,通讯(Communication), and the birds once more sang sweetly, while the trees and the flowers seemed almost as happy as before.
To clone or not to clone, is that the question
Advanced technology has already pushed human being to edges,such as the production of weapons of mass destruction,the destruction of Ozone by Freon ,and the application of heated deabte over whether cloning technique should be used in human reproduc--
tion must be considered as a serious issue.
Clone, to a certain degree, is beneficial to disease as Parkinsons will possiblly be cured in the future in the hope of further applying of abuse of this technology will bring human being unthinkable destruction.
Since the declaration of the death of Dolly,we are more conscious of the inefficient procedure of to "Dolly"s false legacy",the incidence of death among fetuses and offspring produced by cloning is much higher than it is through natural reproduction--roughly 10 times as high as normal before birth and 3 times as high after even you may argue that this technology will be perfected in the future, i don"t see there is any point in whole--being cloning.
Many people consider this technology a promising one as to bring all human being to a new era in which all human reproduction will be accomplished by scientists in some countries have already started their great plan to clone let"s think, what is the practical value in doing so?You may tell me that it can bring hope for those couples unable to have children because they might choose to have a copy of one of them rather than accept the gene intrusion from a imagine,if you have a child owning the same apperance as yours or your husband"s, will you accept it without any uncomfort?
Don"t you think it is embarrassing?Or if this kind of human reproduction is allowed,terrorists may get hold of it and reproduce lots of "American Presidents".Don"t you agree that these presidents might bring the world much more chaoes?Besides these terrible aspects,the cloning of whole--being may destroy the diversity of people of the globe.
Of course, there still remains much more disadvantages of the application of cloning reproduction of human being and animals. We should be extremely cautious of what we do and thus remember we will sure be respondible for all the results created by ourselves!!!
So how do u think about it?
Last Tuesday, our class invited an old craftsman to teach us how to make dough figurine.
When the craftsman came into the classroom we gave him a warm welcome and two boy helped him with the tool box. First, he showed us the basic steps and skills of making dough figurines. We stood around him and watched attentively. Then we started to have a try ourselves. The old man walked around and helped us patiently. Finally, we put the figurines we made on the table and took pictures with the old craftsman. Looking at the figurines, we were all very excited.
We hope we can have more activities of this kind
Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake
四川地震的深度创伤
Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake
One of the recurring themes from last year"s earthquake in Sichuan is official corruption and the extent it contributed to the collapse of substandard schools, killing a still unknown number of children. Another, less discussed issue, is the degree to which many local officials in the disaster zone were victims themselves.
自去年四川地震以来，一个反复出现的主题是关于政府官员的腐败，以及因之产生的未达标学校的倒塌，导致仍不知确切数字的孩子们的死亡。而很少论及的另一个问题，是灾区地方官员自己成为受害者的程度。
In Beichuan, where as many as 15,000 residents were killed, a quarter of the local officials also perished in the quake. Many of the survivors lost family members. When my colleague Lin Yang and photographer Ian Teh went back to Sichuan last fall, we met with a Beichuan official whose wife and daughter were both killed on May 12. Zhang Kangqi keeps a drawing of them, sketched from old ID photos, by his bed. All other mementos of them were buried in Beichuan. (You can see Ian"s photos of the recovery efforts, including a portrait of Zhang, in this gallery.)
在北川，多达15，000名居民死亡，四分之一的地方官员也在地震中死去。许多幸存者失去了家人。去年秋天，我和同事杨林和摄像郑永仁回到四川时，遇到一位北川官员，他的妻子和女儿都在地震中死亡。张康齐保存着从旧身份证的照片上临摹下来的一张她们的画像，放在床头。她们的其它所有遗物都被埋在北川下面了。（在这个画廊中，你可以看到郑永仁画的在关恢复工作的照片，其中包括一幅张的肖像。）
Zhang immersed himself in recovery efforts, but not all his co-workers had the same capacity to work through their suffering. A few weeks before we visited Dong Yufei, another local official who lost his son, killed himself. "He was a good man," Zhang said of Yu, "but not everyone can handle the pressure. His child had died."
张专注地做着恢复工作，但是，他的同事并不都具有同样的战胜痛苦的能力。在我们采访董玉飞之前几个星期，另一位失去儿子的地方官自杀了。“他是个好人，”张提到玉飞说，“不过，并不是每个人都能应付压力。他的孩子死了。”
Yesterday brought the grim news that another Beichuan official committed suicide. Feng Xiang, the vice director of the Beichuan publicity department, had lost his 7-year-old son in the quake. Shortly before his death Feng, 33, wrote a post on his blog titled "What If," urging his family not to grieve. "Son, when you left, your father did not have a future, did not have hope, did not have any expectations," Feng wrote. "To be with you is my biggest joy."
昨天，又传来一个无情的消息，另一位北川官员自杀了。北川宣传部副主任冯翔在地震中失去了七岁的儿子。33岁的冯翔死前不久在博客中以“假如”为题力劝家人不要悲伤。冯写道：“儿子，你离开了，爸爸没有了未来，没有了希望，没有了憧憬，与你相聚，是爸爸最大的快乐。”
Each of the four seasons on Mt. Huangshan has their respective beauty but even this can vary from day to day thanks to variations in the weather, light and shade as clouds pass overhead and even around you at the higher reaches. This endless changing adds an emphasis to the wonder of the landscape and to know the mountain thoroughly, you would need to visit Mt. Huangshan in all the different seasons. SpringMt.
Huangshan in spring is like a maiden - all is new, fresh and tender. Spring comes in April but its onset is delayed by three days for every 100 meters as you climb the mountain. Therefore, when wild flowers are brilliant and seedlings are shooting up at its foot,Rate of Different Crimes, the plants half way up the mountain will be just awakening from their winter sleep and will not exhibit their beauty until a week later. The sound of birdsong is most pleasant in this quietness while you will be enchanted by the color changes as you climb your way up. Spring is probably the most propitious season for visiting Mt. Huangshan and is certainly the best time to view the many waterfalls due to the abundant precipitation. SummerIt is hard to resist the charm of the cool green mountain sides in summer when an exuberance of plant life covers the valleys and peaks with a green blanket. The green trees and ivy mingle to form natural pavilions where you can sit and refresh yourself while enjoying the beautiful scenery with a cooling breeze to sooth you. Dawn in summer is most splendid as the rising sun lights the sky and the peaks and the plants and the whole world takes on a brilliant glow. After a storm, Mt. Huangshan becomes a world of water.
Numerous streams and waterfalls compose an exciting and vigorous symphony. The Sea of Clouds during this season is not as vast as during autumn or winter but it revels in its brightness. If you are really lucky you will see a vivid rainbow flying over two peaks. Sunset is no less enchanting than sunrise. Mt. Huangshan in summer is the best resort in which to escape high temperatures of southern China. Tips:1. July and August are among the peak seasons therefore reservation is a . It is wise to bring a rainproof jacket with you as the strong wind on the mountain renders an umbrella all but useless and even . Do not climb the mountain during thunderstorm. AutumnAutumn on the mountain is colorful due to the blue sky, white clouds, red maples and yellow fruits. At this time of the year the scenery can be compared with that of spring but with a mature beauty.
If spring is like a bud ready to bloom, autumn is a flower showing its last significance before withering. Such is the beauty of the autumn scenery of Mt. Huangshan that it can be seen in many famous Chinese paintings. Tips: the Golden Week of the National Day (Oct 1st to 7th), September and October are also peak seasons of Mt. Huangshan.
Dear Leslie,
How are you? Glad to see you have made some progress in Chinese learning and I’m writing to tell you something about our next lesson.
The lesson will be given from 3 pm to 5 pm on the afternoon of next Tuesday in the classroom 502. In the class, you will mainly learn Tang poetry, which reflects traditional Chinese culture and is deeply loved by Chinese. You can feel the beauty of Chinese by learning Tang Poetry. You’d better make full preparations before class and have a brief understanding of the history of Tang Dynasty, which makes it easy for you to go through the class.
If there is anything that I can help you, please don’t hesitate to tell me. Looking forward to meeting you.
一个难忘的人A Person I will Never Forget
There are many important people have been in my life, and one of them I will never forget. I met him last summer. He was short and tanned, and was about twelve years old. He was selling the balloons on the sideway when I met him, I was curious and asked him:” why do you do business at such young age?” he said:” I’m not doing business, I have been saving money. I want to donate it to the disaster area, the children there need help.” I was surprise, and ashamed. I bought many balloons from him and asked him to keep the change. I should learn from him to be a kind-hearted person.
在我的生命中出现过很多重要的人，其中有一个非常难忘。我是在去年夏天的时候遇见他的。他个子很矮，皮肤黝黑，比我年纪还小。我遇见他时他正在路边卖气球，我非常好奇就问他：“你为什么年纪那么小就做生意了?”他回答说：“我不是在做生意，我正在存钱。我想把钱捐到灾区，那里的孩子们需要帮助。”我感到很惊讶，也很惭愧。我向他买了许多气球，不用找零。我应该像他学习，做个有爱心的人。
I have some suggestions for remember. If you can do the following points, you dream will come trueone day. First, plant your dream in afertilized soil. Second, water it with your diligence and give it the bestfood—knowledge. Third, remove the seeds of unhappiness, for they can destroyyour dream. What"s more, let the seed of your dream enjoy the beautifulsunshine, so that it can grow well, but protect it from being damaged by theheavy storm. And however hard the situation is, don"t give it up and alwaysgive it your best care. Then you will get a good harvest in the end.
我有一些建议给你。请记住。如果你能做到以下几点，总有一天你的梦想会成真。首先，在肥沃的土地种植你的梦想。第二，用勤奋来灌溉它并给予它的食品——知识。第三，消除不快乐的种子，因为他们可以摧毁你的梦想。更重要的是，让你梦想的种子享受美丽的阳光，以便它可以生长得很好，但要保护它被暴风雨损坏。不管条件多么艰难，不要放弃，总是给他你的护理。最终你会得到一个好收成。
真善美The True, The Good And The Beautiful
The true, the good and the beautiful are the Chinesetraditional virtue. When I was a little child, my mother told me that the girlwho has the virtue of the true, the good and the beautiful is the mostbeautiful girl. She told me that the truth means I have to be sincere and donot tell lies. The good means that I need to have a kind-heart to everything. Thebeautiful means that I should have a good mind. She requires me to be that kindof people. And I also go for that goal all the time.
真善美是中华民族的传统美德。在我还是个小孩子的时候，我妈妈就告诉我拥有真善美的女孩才是最漂亮的女孩。她告诉我真意味着我必须要真诚，不说谎。善意味着对所有的一切我都要有一颗善良的心。美意味着我要有一个美丽的心灵。她要求我成为的那样子的人。我也一直朝着那个目标走。
