高二关于雾霾的英语作文通用20篇

I am getting my internship now, I am being an English teacher in a college,

I really enjoy being a teacher, passing my knowledge to the students, I also

like to communicate with my students, we share own opinion and talk happily.

During those internship days, I realize that a good teacher should also be the

students’ friend.

As a teacher, my duty is to teach my students with my knowledge, I will do

my best to teach them, making them learn knowledge at the easiest way. At the

same time, I also need to improve myself, so that I will keep pace with the

world and refresh my knowledge, teaching my students with the newest

information.

As a friend, the students are willing to talk to me, they like to share

their happiness and sorrow with me, they need a listener and I am their best

choice. Being the students’ friend closers our distance, I can get to know them

and give my best advice.

A good teacher must be a good friend to students, that is what I have

learned during my internship days, I want to do my job well in the following

days.

Recently,haze weather has become a daily one right here in large part of China.People are forced to wear the mask to avoid breathing poisonous air.So it is necessary to find out the reason why leads to that and work out the resolution.If we trace the cause for haze weather ,the main points are as follows ,first,china s air quality standards are rather lax and evaluation factors are limited,so you will see that current air appraisal system has defects.Second,some people just go for economic interests instead of turning out products according to relevant law and regulations.They tend to use obsolete equipment in which they are high likely to emit a great deal of wasted air.

Third,across our society ,relevant protection awareness has not built up so that people havent formed a habit of using green product and saving energy as much as possible.Just for the sake of convience to go out,people rely more and more on travelling and working by car while car is the main cause for the haze weather

To settle this problem,a series of meaures should be taken as follows.First ,we should strengthen air monitor to lower the levels of small particulate pollutants.Second,we should enact more strict laws and regulations and keep perfecting our current law on environmental protection to regulate people s daily action and the industrial production and punish those factories that ignore the protection and keep emitting dangerous material that cause haze.

Third,we should develop green and energy-saving energy to lower the emission of haze and improve air quality.As far as i am concerned ,if we work together to be able to do such measures ,our environment will getting better and better and haze weather will vanish completely.

【范文】

My hometown is Zhuolu County of Zhangjiakou City of Hebei Province，which are 75 kilometers away from the Zhangjiakou city，and 130 kilometers away from Beijing，whose traffic is extremely convenient。There is not only beautiful scenery，pleasant climate，but also famous ancient civilizations in the history of Chinas，which are the origin ground of “the three ancestral culture”。There are many famous places of interest，such as the Castle Ruins of Yellow Emperor，the Huangdi Quan and the Zhonghua Sanzu Church and so on。Zhuolu County has the grape characteristic industries，its viticulture has more than 500 years of history，in addition，there are also Xingbian special industries，which has been registered in the National Industrial and Commercial Bureau as "Deer"，its products have successfully infiltrate into the supermarkets of Hong Kong and Beijing。 I believe that my hometown will be getting better and better。

【译文】

我的家乡我的家乡是河北省张家口市涿鹿县，县城距张家口市区75公里，距北京市区130公里，交通极其方便。这里不仅风景优美，气候宜人，而且是中国历史上著名的文明古地，“三祖文化”的始源地。名胜古迹有黄帝城遗址、黄帝泉、中华三祖堂等。涿鹿县具有葡萄特色产业，其葡萄种植具有500多年的悠久历史，除此之外，还有杏扁特色产业，而且已经在国家工商局注册了“神鹿牌”商标，其产品成功打入香港及北京等地超市。 我相信我的家乡一定会越来越好。

Before the summer vocation coming , I expierence so much,Such as being a teacher ,holding ceremony for our graduate ,joinning cet 6,I recon that I am more and more mature and confidence.

The last summer vocation ,I should have been gone to Guangzhou and open my horizon like feel the sense of sitting train ,subway ,seeing sea and soon on,I have ever done so many daydreams in my life,however ,unfortunately,I have to stay changsha ,due to a succession of subjective and obejective reasons.

Never mind ,I don’t care abot where I stay , as long as I happy with my life,I can learn some communications means enough.

The last summer vocation deserve to me treature,I should depict colourful and marverlous frame ,adding kinds of tastes into my daily life ,It lead me optimistic more.

Recently, a beautiful womans pictures caught the publics attention. The

amazing thing was that the woman looked like 20 years old while actually she was

more than 40! A lot of girls wanted to know how she could make it. The woman

told people that besides regular exercise, the most important thing was to keep

a good mood. When something or someone annoyed her, she tried to find the

balance and solved the problems step by step. She felt so thankful to her

families and friends, who supported her all the time. So there was nothing could

make her sad for a long time. People are easy to lose control when they meet

difficulty, then they start to complain and feel negative about life. In the

long time, it is easy to age, even they are young. We need to find the way to

relieve bad emotion and to enjoy life.

2020高二经典英语作文5

There have been a lot of ways of acquiring knowledge. And the number is

increasing unexpectedly owing to the popularization of modern mass media.

However, reading books has always been the major and convenient approach to

knowledge. One may acquire most of his knowledge through reading books, since

they can be carried easily and read leisurely everywhere at any time. Another

equally important means of acquiring knowledge is through practice, especially

learning from others. It is unlikely for a person to get all-round knowledge by

merely reading books. As a matter of fact, genuine knowledge comes from

practice.

Although books and practice are indispensable to the enrichment of one’s

knowledge, other means shouldn’t be turned aside. With the development of IT

industry, people tend to hunt for knowledge by means of Internet. Internet is

changing people’s traditional approaches to knowledge. It has found its way into

every field of the world.

Since the development of the technology, the society gets modernized, people make use of the high technology to pursue more profit. Though the government has noticed the problem that people do to the environment, they still can’t prevent negative result that the polluted environment brings.

打从科技的发展，社会已经变得现代化，人们充分利用高科技来追求更多的利润。虽然政府已经注意到了人们对环境所做的事情这个问题，但是他们仍然不能阻止被污染环境的所带来的后果。

Many years ago, the most prominent problem of the polluted environment is that the river and the water were changed their color, some fish even died for the polluted river. Now the situation becomes ever worse, lately, in the big city, like Beijing and Shanghai, people are annoyed by the bad weather. It is not the rainy day, but the haze around the sky, there is no way for people to run away for it. The haze contains toxic elements, people breathe it and hurt their bodies.

很多年前，环境污染所带来的最突出问题时河流和水的颜色被改变，一些鱼甚至死于被污染的河流。现在这样的情形变得更加的糟糕，最近，在大城市，比如北京和上海，人们受困于糟糕的天气。并不是因为雨天，而是因为雾霾包围天空，人们无处可逃。雾霾中含有有毒的元素，人们呼吸着雾霾，损害着他们的身体。

The haze problem is the result of people’s pursuit for the profit, what people did to the environment now has been paid back by the environment. Now people have realized the revenge from the nature is so huge, protecting the environment is the main task. No matter how bad the environment is, people still need to do something to fix their mistake.

雾霾问题是人们追求利润而造成的，人们曾经对环境所做的现在已经得到了报复。现在人们已经意识到了大自然的报复是多么的大，保护环境是主要的任务。无论环境变得多坏，人们仍然要去做一些事情来弥补自己的错误。

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Recently, the news reported a fireman was retired and he handed in an

application for his dog, which had worked with him for more than eight years.

The fireman wanted his “brother” to go home with him, because the dog had also

came to his time for retirement. The story moves so many people, the

relationship between animal and human being is always the most touching. Dogs

are men’s loyal friends, their affection to master is pure and true. In the

movie Hachi, the dog spends all his life to wait for the return of his master.

Everybody can’t help tearing when they see this scene. The fireman and his dog

had been a team for many years and they are families. There are so many stories

like them, animal are our friends, the harmonious environment will be built if

animals and human beings get well along.

People have hobby is varied, novel and wonderful, have prosaic. My hobby is not novel, but a wide, even the parents often plaint. And in this great hobby, I still have a special liking to reading.

Love reading also from seven years ago. Thats naughty I didnt love reading, but on one occasion, from toys pile was found in a book is opened. Curiosity prompted me to look down. All of a sudden, I was immediately beautiful illustrations in the book and the wonderful content to attract. And open the floodgates, from now on, I will fall in love with reading.

Grew up, understand more and more, I love reading, watching every day, a day watching less all not line, become a real bookworms. To this end, I still made a joke! Remember once, my mother let me boil water, boiling water, I picked up a book, taste with relish to read the contents, get carried away. As a result, the kettle was burnt out, full of smoke. At this time, the mother saw it, he asked me what happened. When I return to god." Oh, no! Wheres my water? "This picture to see me, mother helplessly sigh: alas! You little bookworm! How many times have I told you..."

Although I because reading by mistake, but I still love reading. Because from the book, I learned many knowledge,ve learned a lot, know many friends: the ugly duckling, the happy prince, the Monkey King, lu xun, bing xin, Edison... Reading is to improve my writing level by a lot!

Now, the book became my daily necessary nutrition, life without books, like a bird without wings, life without books, like life without sunshine, a book is the ladder of human progress, book is the source of knowledge!

I love reading, because reading makes my life rich and colorful, make my life full of sunshine!

人的爱好多种多样，有新奇绝妙的，有平淡无奇。我的爱好虽不新奇，但广泛得连父母都时常感叹。而在这众多的爱好之中，我还是对读书情有独钟。

爱看书还得从七年前说起。那是贪玩的我并不怎么爱看书，但有一次，从玩具堆中发现了一本被翻开的书。好奇心促使我看了下去。一下子，我马上被书中那精美的插图与那精彩的内容给吸引了。而且一发不可收拾，从此，我就爱上了读书。

长大后，懂事的我越来越爱看书了，每天都要看，少看一天都不行，成了一个不折不扣的“小书虫″。为此，我还闹出了笑话呢!记得有一次，妈妈让我烧水，烧水时，我便拿起一本书，津津有味地品读书中的精彩内容，看得忘乎所以。结果，水壶被烧坏了，搞得满屋子烟。这时，妈妈看见了，就问我怎么回事。我这时才回过神来。“糟糕!我的水呢?”妈妈见我这副模样，无可奈何地唉声叹气：唉!你这个小书虫!我提醒过你多少次了……’’

虽然我因为看书误了事,但我仍然爱读书.因为从书中,我学会了许多知识,悟出了许多道理,认识许多朋友：丑小鸭、快乐王子、孙悟空、鲁迅、冰心、爱迪生……读书还使我的作文水平提高了不少呢!

现在,书成了我每天必需的营养品,生活中没有书,就好像鸟儿没有翅膀，生命没有书,就好像生活没有阳光,书是人类进步的阶梯，书是知识的源泉!

我爱读书,因为读书使我的生活丰富多彩，使我的生命充满阳光!

My home town is a beautiful place. It stands beside a wide river and is rich in fish and rice.

我的家乡是一个美丽的地方。它坐落在一条宽阔的河流和丰富的鱼和米饭。

But in the old days it was a poor and backward little town. Many people had no work. They lived a hard life.

但是在过去它是一个贫穷落后的小城镇。很多人没有工作。他们过着艰苦的生活。

In 1949 my hometown was liberated. Since then great changes have taken place there. The streets have been widened. Factories, schools, hospitals, cinemas and theatres have sprung up one after another. The life of the people is greatly improved.

1949我的家乡解放。自那时以来发生了巨大的变化。街道已拓宽。工厂，学校，医院，电影院和剧院如雨后春笋般涌现出来。人民的生活大大改善。

I love my hometown. All the more I love its people. They are working hard so as to make it still richer and more beautiful.

我爱我的家乡。所有我爱的人。他们正在努力工作以使它更丰富、更美丽。

After reading this book I think it is necessary to share the old legend to everybody .

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it lea一ves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the sa一vage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out- carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His hea一ven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain …

Meggie Cleary is just like the bird,and Ralph is her superlative song.

I read the book then watched the movie, both of them ga一ve me great shock, I really admire Meggie,she had the courage to use her whole life to love Ralph, never ga一ve up. She believed that she would love Ralph only in her life. But I don’t like Meggie’s attitude to love, Ralph is a Father, and he mustn’t love Meggie, they really loved each other, but they are not destined to be together. So in my opinion I think Meggie should give in, she shouldn’t fight with God, Ralph had told her he would serve God forever, so Meggie wouldn’t win. Maybe giving up is a good choice. Their love is painful.

Tell the turth I don’t like Meggie neither Ralph, Ralph could not give Meggie happniess while Meggie couldn’t support Ralph to concentrate on his work. So they would not ha一ve happy life, they only made each other feel sad .

Frank is my fa一vorite role. he was short but strong ,and he was one of the main labor in his family. He didn’t want to be a shepherd, but the family needed him , and he must feed he the sheep so that everybody in his family can live better. Once he escaped from home , but it wassn’t long before his father found him and take him home. I feel so sorry that he had a miserable fate. He longed for freedom but most of his life didn’t belong to himself, it’s really a pity .

Frank was different to every man in their home, he loved his mother deeply, and he always helped his mother do the housework. he dreamed to be an outstanding boxer. Frank was considerable, and he always try his best to make Meggie feel happy. As Meggie’s oldest brother, he could be worried about Meggie’s fa一vorite doll, and he even tried to fixed the doll which was distroyed by Meggie’s other brothers. Frank and Meggie would always tell each other what they thought in their deep heart , and they are close friends.

I was so sad when I learned that Frank killed a man and he was sent to the prision. It is really a big shock to Meggie, for Frank was the only one who can listen to Meggie’s secrets. She thought she lost Frank forever. I cannot imagine how painful for Frank to spend dozens years in the prision. He once had good dream about his life, but he had to waste most of his life in prision. In my opinion it was Frank’s father that distoryed his life. His father didn’ t give him freedom, and Frank can’t had strong resistance spirits, and because he didn’t control himself and broke the law.The energitic Frank will never come to us, and he became a man who didn’t wanna talk. He began to be afraid of the world…it is really a pity.

As for Meggie, I think she was a good girl. She was beautiful and smart, but she it was wrong for her to love Ralph. Meggie was an excellent girl, she was able to find an outstanding boy to love her, but she put all her love on Ralph even she married Luke. She married Luke just because Luke looked like Ralph. Meggie wanna be a thorn bird, but I think it was too cruel to her. She was so kind that she shouldn’t stand that king of pain, and I think she was born to ha一ve a happy life. I pity for her.

Both the story of thorn birds and the legend are painful and beautiful, but not every one can be the thorn birds, because it is not our porpose to ha一ve a painful life. We are born to be happy. Olny happiness is the ture meaning of life while the story was written for us to enrich our life. It is a wonderful story.

Parents are the people who care about us the most. But for a lot children,

they think it is necessary for parents to give them everything. As they grow up,

they start to realize their responsibility and feel grateful to their parents. I

was very naughty before. One day, I hanged out to play with my friends very

late, but I havent told my parents, because I thought they would not care. But

when I went home, I found my parents and uncle were sitting together, and they

looked very upset. When my parents saw me, they were angry to ask me why I went

home so late. I felt unhappy and shouted at them. Then my uncle told me that my

parents worried about me so much, and they had searched me for the whole street.

At this moment, I felt so touched, and felt their love.

“Growing Pains” seems full of knowledge and experience. So it does because

all of us have growing pains and also growing gains in our lives.

Growing up is not a very enjoyable time. It means I have to work hard in

studying and in family. Theres always so much homework given by teachers and so

many arguments between the parents and me. The time is fair, but it seems it

gives pains three quarters and only one quarter to gains.

But gains give me power and confidence. Successes and friendship make me

happy and enjoyable. We played with snow in the winter that seldom snows, we

flew kites in the night that usually belongs to homework, we ate several ice

creams that almost made us cold. We picked up leaven that no longer high up!

Although pains are always more than gains, I believe both of them make my

life more colorful

There have been a lot of ways of acquiring knowledge. And the number is

increasing unexpectedly owing to the popularization of modern mass media.

However, reading books has always been the major and convenient approach to

knowledge. One may acquire most of his knowledge through reading books, since

they can be carried easily and read leisurely everywhere at any time. Another

equally important means of acquiring knowledge is through practice, especially

learning from others. It is unlikely for a person to get all-round knowledge by

merely reading books. As a matter of fact, genuine knowledge comes from

practice.

Although books and practice are indispensable to the enrichment of one’s

knowledge, other means shouldn’t be turned aside. With the development of IT

industry, people tend to hunt for knowledge by means of Internet. Internet is

changing people’s traditional approaches to knowledge. It has found its way into

every field of the world.

Nowadays, with the development of computer, the function of computer has

developed, too. We can use computer to check the instant news, make friend and

so on. The reason why so many people addict to computer is that they like to

play the computer games, there are all kinds of computer games, everyone can

find a game which is suitable to him. Too much involve in the computer games is

wasting time, we should control our habit. First, we must set the limit time on

it, wed better not to play the game over an hour. We have to tell ourselves

that we must stop playing when the time is up, we have another thing to do.

Second, we should go out with friends often, so we can communicate with others,

it makes our mind not focus on the computer games. I am not saying we should not

play computer games, but we should not addict to it.

Recent within a week, there is "anomalies" in our city haze. Peoples life has been affected by the smog. Around when I was a student, a grey, what also cant see. This Saturday, my father sent me to guzheng lessons, is coming, at that time, I didnt see the tall buildings around, thought dad lost!

General travelling is like pure milk, milk white, and gray haze is the, there are some bulbs. I am fog, haze do not understand, so today I have checked the online. Oh, it was so, fog is a large number of suspended in the air near the ground aerosol system composed of small water droplets or ice crystals, is the product of water vapor condensation in the air near the ground layer. The existence of the fog can reduce air transparency, make the deterioration of visibility, if the target level of visibility down to 1000 meters, will be suspended in water vapor condensation in the air near the ground like now known as the fog weather.

Haze also calls the ash haze, dust in the air, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, organic hydrocarbon particles such as atmospheric turbidity, blurry vision and led to the deterioration of visibility. With the deterioration of air quality, haze weather phenomenon appears, harm. Recently the haze weather phenomenon in many regions are merged into mist as a severe weather warning forecast together. Collectively referred to as "haze weather".

Fog can make the person "relapse", because of the fog haze contains bacteria, viruses and dust pollution, coupled with artificially industrial waste gas, automobile exhaust and so on, seriously affecting peoples health. Now, some of the students in our class has a bad cold, does everything listless, a sickly appearance. So you must protect have holes in the earth, protect the environment, starts from me, let the blue sky white clouds accompany us forever!

最近一星期内，我们城市里出现了“异常情况”——雾霾。雾霾严重影响了居民的生活。在我上学时，周围灰蒙蒙，什么也看不清。这个星期六，爸爸送我去上古筝课，快到了，当时我没有看到周围的高楼大厦，还以为爸爸开错路哩!

一般雾都是跟纯牛奶一样，是乳白色的，而霾是灰色的，还有点儿呛鼻。我对雾，霾并不了解，所以我今天特意上网查了一下。哦，原来是这样啊，雾是有大量悬浮在近地面空气中的微小水滴或冰晶组成的气溶胶系统，是近地面层空气中水汽凝结的产物。雾的存在会降低空气透明度，使能见度恶化，如果目标物的水平能见度降低到1000米以内，就将悬浮在近地面空气中水汽凝结物的天气现像称为雾。

霾也称灰霾，空气中的灰尘，硫酸，硝酸，有机碳氢化合物等粒子使大气混浊，视野模糊并导致能见度恶化。随着空气质量的恶化，阴霾天气现象出现增多，危害加重。近期我国不少地区把阴霾天气现象并入雾一起作为灾害性天气预警预报。统称为“雾霾天气”。

雾霾能使人“旧病复发”，因为雾霾里包含细菌，灰尘和病毒等污染物，再加上人为地工业废气，汽车尾气等，严重影响人们的身体健康。现在，我们班里的一些同学得了重感冒，做什么事都无精打采，一副病怏怏的样子。所以大家一定要保护已经千疮百孔的地球啊，保护环境，从我做起，让蓝天白云永远陪伴着我们!

The Englishman love to behave gentlemanly and the Englishwoman love to behave ladily. They also show their respect to ladies. They always say" Lady first". In their daily life. the English pay attention to their appearance. They dress neatly. They shake hands when they meet other. When they are with others, they usually say "please""thank you""sorry" and so on. The breakfast in Britain is very rich. Usually there are all kinds of egg products, oatmeal, bacon, ham, sausages, butter, jam, bread, milk, juice, coffee and so on. They are popular with the western countries. Whats more, the English like drinking tea. They have the habit of drink afternoon tea at about 3 in the afternoon. They enjoy drinking tea and treat it as a kind of seeing friends.

导语：雾霾作为环境保护的一个近期热点话题，能唤起初中生环保意识。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

【猜题理由】

近年来我国多地雾霾天气不断增多，极大地影响了人们的健康与生活。作为环境保护的一个近期热点话题，能唤起初中生环保意识。

【预测题目】

假设你是李华，David是你的美国网友。他对目前中国出现的雾霆天气很关注，来信向你询问此事。请你给他写封回信。主要内容如下：

1.感谢他的关注。

2.简介雾霾 (smog) 天气给人们的身体、生活带来的危害。

3.谈谈你的感想。

注意：可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯流畅;开头与结尾已写好，不计人总词数; 词数：120左右

【优秀满分范文】

Dear David,

Im glad to receive your letter. I have learned from your letter that you are concerned about the smog which frequently appears in some areas of China.

Thank you for your concern. Im also very worried about such terrible weather because it has brought much inconvenience or rather harm to peoples health such as traffic jam, road accidents, bad coughs, throat hurts and ever lung cancers and so on.

As everybody knows, a good environment comes from good protection. So we should do what we can to make a difference. Try to drive less and choose air-friendly products. Only when everyone has the environmental awareness can we have cleaner air.

Hoping to hear from you soon and share your good ideas.

Today, more and more young people are crazy about western festivals. When western festivals come, they usually go to restaurants or shopping malls to have fun.

如今，越来越多的年轻人都对西方的节日着迷。当西方节日到来的时候，他们常常去餐厅或是商场娱乐。

Why do the young enjoy western festivals so much? Since they worship everything new, and they can’t resist the temptation. In their opinions, western festivals symbolize the fashion, while our Chinese traditional festivals are out of date. No wonder we always feel so boring during our traditional holidays. If we still turn a blind eye to our traditional festivals, our culture and civilization will disappear someday. Accordingly, it is high time for us to pay close attention to our Chinese festivals.

为什么年轻人这么喜爱西方节日呢?大抵是因为他们喜爱新鲜事物，抗拒不了诱惑。在他们看来，西方节日代表着时尚，而中国传统节日则太土了。这也难怪我们也觉得我们的传统节日太过无聊了。如果我们对传统节日漠然置之，那么某天我们的文化文明终会消失。因此，我们该多多关注我们中国自己的节日了。

As a Chinese, we have the obligation to protect our culture and custom. So I think we should celebrate our Chinese festivals by doing some traditional activities. As for western festivals, we needn’t to be too excited about them. We can just send our best wishes to our best friends during those festivals.

作为一名中国人，我们有责任保护自己的文化习俗。所以我认为应当在庆祝中国传统节日时候举办一些传统活动。而对于西方节日，我们不需要太过激动。在这些节日里我们应该只需简单的送上祝福就好。

To be successful, students learn many knowledge so as to master as more

skills as possible. Some believe that the key to realize our dreams is to work

hard and others treat chance in the first place. While today is the information

world, the one who masters the all-sided source will have more chances to be

successful. In my opinion, the most important skill is the social skill, because

we need to make connection with others, we are not doing business with

ourselves, so it is in need of having relationship with others. The good social

skill can help us attract attention easily and impress the future partner. If we

are bad in communicating, how can we let others know our advantages and trust

us. So promoting ourselves is the first job, from now on, don’t be shy.

I always think there is not enough time. For example， I have just taken a

three-day holiday. But when I look back， I just feel that it‘s only one day.

There goes a proverb， “Time is money”。 Now I want to say， time is more precious

than money， because when money is spent， we can earn some more again. However，

when time is gone or lost， never will it return.

Time goes without being noticed. The time for our study and work is usually

limited. So I think we must make full use of our time. But it‘s a pity that I am

always not aware of the importance of time until it’s too late.

So I think， I should get into the good habit of saving time because wasting

time is equal to wasting one‘s life. Do not put off what can be done today till

tomorrow!

One day three men got a bottle of wine. But the wine was not enough for the

three and each of them wanted to drink the wine alone. Then they all agreed that

they each would draw a snake on the ground and the one who first finished

drawing would be given the wine. So they began to draw on the ground with

sticks.

It was not long before one of the three finished drawing his snake. He took

up the bottle of wine with pride. He was about to drink when he found the other

two were still busy with their drawings. “How slow you are!” said he, “I can

even add feet to my snake before you finish yours.” He put down the bottle and

began to add feet to his snake. But before he finished, another man took hold of

the bottle and said ,“Ive finished. Snakes have no feet, so yours is not a

snake.” With these words he drank up the wine.