英文奖学金申请书范文（精彩20篇）

There are many festivals in china. And among them, I like the most  the Spring Festival. Because of it, not only  the biggest holiday of the year, but the start of a new year, but also all of us all the people, come together festival.

Before the Spring Festival, people go home, no matter where they are. Usually, we in the new years Eve dinner. Then the family sat together to share their lives or aircraft. Some people play games or go out to play. On New Years day, people get up early to meet people who say. Children can get lucky money from relatives. In the coming days, we will vit relatives to pay New Years call, give them. In a word, it  the family reunion and we all the time to enjoy it.

Th  our happy Spring Festival, Do you feel happy?

May the torch of youth warm spring breeze, its fragrance flowers in May, and the spring, accompanied by the summer of rhyme, in the dazzling display of the season, we are ushering in the "54" Youth Day.

May 4, 1919, the outbreak in Beijing, China is opposed to imperialism, feudalism and patriotic activities. World War I broke out, Russia declared war on Japan as an excuse to attack and occupy all of the railway in Qingdao, Shandong province claimed control of the German occupation in the various rights and interests of Shandong. World War in 1918, Germany‘s defeat. January 18, 1919, held in Paris victorious "peace conference." Guangzhou(Joozone Note:this place is in Guangdong), the Beijing government and coalition military government of the Chinese delegation to attend and will be victorious, to abolish the powers of the privileges in China, the abolition of the Japanese imperialists made with Yuan Shikai, "21" unequal treaties, the return of World War II During the Japanese away from the hands of Germany the rights of Shandong requirements. Paris and will be manipulated by imperialist powers, China has not only refused the request, but also in Germany and about, the express provision to Germany in the transfer of all the privileges in Shandong to Japan. The Beijing government was prepared to "Peace Treaty" was signed, has aroused strong opposition from the Chinese people. From joozone.com.

The afternoon of May 4, Beijing University, the Higher Normal School and other schools, 13 more than 3000 students, to break through the obstruction of police in Tiananmen Square speech before the assembly, held after the demonstration, the "outside the sovereignty dispute, in addition to" , "the abolition of 21",

[英文作文弘扬五四精神创建和谐社会

Our shool， Wuhan Heping Middle School， lies in the center of Wuhan city。 It was just built and has the perfect size。 The school yard is two hundred meters long， one hundred meters wide， and is surrounded by trees。

When you walk throught the front gate， there is a huge garden that greets you with every kind of natural things。 To the left is the school library in which there are more than 100， 000 books。 To the right is the experiment building。 In the very middle of the school yard stands the teaching building that stretches for one hundred and fifty meters。 This teaching building has four floors with the teachers offices at either end of each floor。 Standing on the top of the teaching building， you can see a flower bed。 Behind the teaching building is a large playground on the right side。 The students often do sports here after class。 To the left lies the dining hall which can hold 500 people。 This is our school， a beautiful one。

我们的学校，武汉和平中学，位于武汉市的中央。学校刚刚建立，规模适当。校园长2百米，宽1百米，四面环绕着树木。

当你进入前门时，一个具有各种自然风景的巨大花园在欢迎你。左边是图书馆，馆内藏书10万多册。右边为实验楼。校园的正中央是长150米的教学楼。该楼共四层，两头为教师办公室。站在教学楼楼顶，你能看到楼前有一个花园，楼后右侧是一个大操场，课后同学们经常在这做运动。左边是可容纳500人的食堂。这就是我们的学校，一座美丽的学校。

Our school， Wuhan Heping Middle School， is in the center of Wuhan city。 The school yard is two hundred meters long， one hundred meters wide， and is surrounded by trees。 It is 20， 000 square meters in area。

When you walk into the school yard， you will see a wide road in front of you。 On your left， you will see the school library in which there are more than 100， 000 books。 On your right is the experiment building， Walk ahead，and you will see a beautiful garden in front of you。 When you go through it，there stands the teaching building: It has four floors with the teachers of rices at either end of each floor。 Behind it， there stands the dining-room on the left side。 To the right lies the playground where the students often play football。 This is our school， a beautiful one。

我们的学校，武汉和平中学，位于武汉市的中央，校园长2百米，宽1百米，四面环绕树木。校园占地2万平方米。

当你走进校园时，你会发现你的面前是一条宽阔的道路。左侧有一座图书馆，馆内藏书10万多册，右侧是实验楼。再往前走，是一个美丽的花园。穿过花园是一座教学楼，共四层，两头为教师办公室。在教学楼的后面，左侧是食堂，右侧是一个大操场，学生们经常在这踢球。这就是我们的学校，一座美丽的学校。

[武汉和平中学英文作文

then, the representative of the bedroom zhu guozhang asked us to guess a line of a poem related to the above situation. he added that li xinmin alone was born in the year of the dog and the other three were all born in the year of the chicken.

they left us all in confusion. and it was our monitor who was quickwitted. he shouted our, "the day breaks as the cock crows three times at dawn." the hall after that, they had another item.

this time li xinmin was placed in the middle of the circle.

while he was standing there, the other three stood around him, each bowing down to him at an angle of 120 degrees. it was an idiom. this time i got it right:"the dog stands out among a group of chickens."

After reading "the tea flower girl" I really appreciate the shock force that this world famous book brings, my heart is still trembling for a long time after reading. I dont know how many people have shed tears of sympathy and sadness for hundreds of years, but it really makes me feel sad and sympathetic for a long time.

Dumass "La Traviata" is a masterpiece. In it, the love of Armand and the camellia is the theme. They love each other, but they do not get the sympathy of the world, but they have been treated with a lot of unequal treatment. It is normal that no one is willing to let his son marry a prostitute, the camellia is a prostitute, and she sells her youth for food. This point in this line, she and other women not what were, but she is different from other women, she has a clever mind, she read many books, know a lot of things, she has her own thoughts and ideas, is a know astronomical knowledge of geography is not the sort of woman, only know how to use the appearance to attract a man prostitute, she will get so many upper class men love and loved this is why.

Undoubtedly, this is a tragic tragic, touch one deeply in the heart, people sympathize, beautiful love, especially in the middle of the nineteenth Century bourgeois society early in the society the fickleness of the world, naked money relations, more let a person greatly.

I am deeply sad and sad for the tea flower girl.

The empty dam below my home was clean and tidy, and now the empty dam is full of rubbish, especially on rainy days, polluted water, and pedestrians passing by. The other people, because of the strength of the power, threw the garbage just hanging on the tree, ugly dead.

Im going to talk to the grown-ups. Theyre not talking to me. What are the kids doing? And drove me out. After I was driven out, I thought to myself, "this cant work. I can go to the neighborhood committee." So I went to the neighborhood committee. When I arrived at the neighborhood committee, I said to an aunt, "aunt, I want to reflect that someone in this building is littering." Aunt kind of say: "kid, the things we already know, one building will see you in a few days to clean the residents of the building to education, by the way you, you are quick to go home." I had to go home and wait for someone to clean. A few days later, we actually saw someone to clean, clean the people of the whole building up and down, left and right, fringes sweep of very clean, after finished, clean people will start all the residents of education building (including me), finished her education and clean people have left. After I passed this, I never saw him/them littering.

I suggest that we really want to protect the environment, because it is peoples responsibility to protect the environment. If people do get it right, we can have a good home.

On August 28, 1937, the Japanese aircraft like evil ghost flew to Shanghai train station, sin bombs rained down, suddenly, in the heart of the railway station became ruins.When people call on their children, the children cry father and mother, the scene is pitiful.

A two-year-old boy, who had been swept aside by a sea of gas, sat on a broken rail.He was covered in blood, holding his beloved toy in his hands, tearing his heart apart and crying, "mommy and daddy, where are you, come to help me, I want to go home..."But he did not know that his parents had been crushed by the collapsed house. He could no longer be in his mothers warm arms and could not listen to his fathers funny stories.What a poor child!Maybe he doesnt know what war is, maybe he doesnt know what resentment is, but he must know that his parents are innocent!

Japanese invaders, are you really so cruel and ruthless?Can you really be so cruel to such a poor child?The world needs peace. Are you going to destroy the world?I want you to reflect on your behavior.I advise you not to wage war again!Because children need peace!

Let the god of peace remain in the world.

放假时间，最好出去游玩放松心情。下面小编带来的是重庆一日游英文作文，希望对你有帮助。

This winter holiday, our family has been driving to a beautiful mountain city in Chongqing.

As soon as we arrived in Chongqing, we understood why Chongqing was called "mountain city". "Mountain city", as the name suggests, is built on the mountain in the city, and the Chengdu plain is completely different, feeling a lot of thought to plan. Its a bit like terrain of rolling hills, most of the house is located on the hillside, there are many overpasses and tunnels. By the way, because the Yangtze River passes through Chongqing, so many bridges have been built, although it is a little messy, but it does not lose their personality.

On the first night in Chongqing, we tasted the authentic Chongqing hot pot. Chongqing is really the birthplace of the real hot pot, a lot of red hot pepper is full of the whole pot, so people can not imagine how hot it is. Although the Chongqing hot pot does not add oyster oil, but it is not less than the Chengdu hot pot. I caught a piece of cooked tofu, smell the smell, naturally ran into my nose; a bite, feel soft; swallow it down my throat and slide down, finally landed in a corner of my stomach, feel itchy, fresh and delicious. Without the slightest greasy feeling. Its delicious!

After eating hot pot, we went to a "tree" in Nanshan. "A tree" is located at the highest level in Chongqing, where we can have a beautiful view of Chongqing. Look, that is the central business building, touch the sky, standing on the edge of the Yangtze River; see, it is located in downtown Monument for Liberation, quietly; see, the light lamp glimmered in the distance, continue to spread around, busy high streets and back lanes, brilliantly illuminated! Look, the lights like salute "karaok" and "bomb", then a bunch of a beam like rocket like, fly to the sky, with the whole of Chongqing, red, yellow, blue, green, purple, more eye-catching in the dark background.

Ah! The beautiful Chongqing is like a city of no night!

......

On the morning of the third day, we departed from the beautiful mountain city of Chongqing with a feeling of satisfaction and very unable to part.

今年寒假，我们全家自驾车到美丽的山城。

刚到重庆，我们便明白了重庆为什么被称为“山城”。“山城”，顾名思义，就是建在山上的城市，和完全不同，感觉很费了些心思来规划。它的地形有点像连绵起伏的小山丘，房子大多数都座落在山坡上，有很多的立交桥和隧道。对了，因为长江穿过重庆，所以还建了很多过江大桥，虽然有点凌乱，但也不失个性。

来重庆的第一天晚上，我们便尝到了正宗的。重庆真是名副其实的火锅发源地，一大堆火红的就占满了整个锅，让人都不敢想象它到底有多辣。虽然没有加，但也丝毫不比成都火锅逊色。我夹了一片煮熟的豆腐干，闻一闻，那香味自然而然地就跑进了我的鼻子；咬一口，觉得软软的；吞下去，它便顺着我的喉咙滑下去，最后落在了我肚子的某个角落里，感觉痒痒的，清爽可口，却没有丝毫的油腻感。好吃极了！

吃完火锅，我们便去了南山的“一棵树”，“一棵树”位于重庆地势最高处，在这里可以将美丽的重庆尽收眼底。看，那是中央商务大楼，高耸入云，矗立在长江边上；看，那是，静静地座落在市中心；看，远处闪烁着的那几盏射灯，不断地向四周扩散开来，繁华的大街小巷，灯火辉煌！看，那信号灯似的礼炮“咻咻咻”、“轰轰轰”，一束接着一束，像火箭筒似的，飞向天空，装点着整个重庆，红的、黄的、蓝的、绿的、紫的，在黑夜的衬托下变得更加绚丽夺目。

啊！美丽的重庆真像是一座不夜城！

……

在第三天早晨，我们怀着恋恋不舍而又十分满足的心情离开了美丽的山城重庆。

with the increase of chinas population, housing problems are becoming more

and more apparent. many people complain that their houses are too small to live

in, and we can see in some pool families, six or seven family members live in

one room. therefore, the living conditions cant meet their-needs.

there are many difficulties in solving housing problems. first, its

impossible to put all the space into building houses. secondly, the population

of china increases year by year and with the improvement of our living standard,

we need more room to relax ourselves in.

various solutions have been put forward. i think the most important and

efficient way is to control the population. also, we can build more high

buildings to provide more living space. i believe the housing problems will be

solved.

My friend is Gao Yuanyuan. He has a big head, small mouth with two big incisors, not too tall, but he is my best friend a. He likes to play with me, we get along very well, very few conflicts.

This is my good friend, Gao Jian. Do you have good friends? Tell me about it! Bye！

Dear Zhang Wei,

I’m glad to know that you are coming to my city during the summer vacation.

However, I’m afraid there’s some bad news. I’m planning to take part in an international conference to be held in another city during the time of your visit.

All the top scientists in my field will show up at the conference. More importantly, I’m lucky enough to have been selected to give a speech on behalf of my research team at the Conference. I really can’t miss it.

I understand that it’ll be your first time to this city and I’m your only friend here. I’ve asked my roommate to meet you at the airport, and you can stay in my room.

He is a very nice person and he will show you around the city. Hope you two will get on well and have a nice holiday!

Yours,

Li Ming

征文的英文：

solicit articles

solicit是什么意思：

v. 请求，恳求，乞求；征求；拉客

She was fined for soliciting.

她因拉客而被罚款。I solicit the favor of interview.

本人恳请惠予面试机会。Both the candidates solicited my vote.

两位候选人都向我拉票。They were very solicitous and attentive to detail.

他们非常细心，十分注意细节。Our hero was very solicitous about his descendants.

们的主人公是非常关心他的子孙后代的。articles是什么意思：

n. 文章；论文；条款；物品；冠词

v. 进行控告，提出罪状；签订协议；订约将…收为学徒或见习生

carry an article

刊登一篇文章 It is a serious article.

这是一篇发人深省的文章。A Class III article if it is of the opinion that the article is obscene

如认为该物品为色情物品，可评定为第Ⅲ类物品(grammar)either of the determiners `a/an(the indefinite article)or `the(the definite article)

冠词(不定冠词a/an或定冠词the)The article is too long, it has to be cut.

这篇文章太长了，要删减。

Do as you would be done by. 推己及人。

Do business, but be not a slave to it. 要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。

Dog does not eat dog. 物不伤其类。

Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. 远处叫得凶的狗，不会近身来咬人。

Dogs that run after many hares kill none. 多谋寡成。

Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. 狗摇尾巴，爱的是面包。

Doing is better than saying. 行胜于言。

Do in Rome as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。

Do not all you can, spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all youknow. 不要为所能为，不要花尽所有，不要全信所闻，不要言尽所知。

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. 不要忘恩负义。

Do not despise your enemy. 万勿轻敌。

Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. 不要有求必应。

Do not praise a day before sunset. 切勿褒贬过早。

Do not run too fast after gain. 不要见利就拼命追。

He sits no sure that sits too high. 高处不胜寒。

He that respects not is not respected. 欲受人敬，要先敬人。

So said, so done. 说到做到。言出必行。

Haste makes waste. 忙乱易错。欲速则不达。

Better be envied than pitied. 宁被人妒，不受人怜。

Although the sun shine, leave not your cloak at home. 未雨绸缪。

So the world wags. 这就是人生。

One can not be in two places at once. 一心不可二用。

No weal without woe. 福兮祸所伏， 祸兮福所倚。

Little chips light great fires. 星星之火，可以燎原。

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 井干方知水珍贵

Less is more. 简单就是美

A blessing in disguise. 因祸得福

Love me, love my dog.爱屋及乌

Every dog has his day. 凡人皆有得意日

Sharpening your axe will not delay your job of cutting wood.

磨刀不误砍柴功。

Seeing is believing.眼见为实

Well begun is half done.好的开端是成功的一半

Time flies never to be recalled. 光阴一去不复返

When in Rome, do as Roman do.入乡随俗

Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕

East or west, home is best.  走东串西，还是家里好

Equal pay for equal work.同工同酬

Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置

Pride goes before a fall. 骄兵必败

Reading makes a full man.   读书使人完善

Knowledge is power.  知识就是力量

Failure is the mother of success.  失败是成攻之母

Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧

All roads lead to Roma.  条条大道通罗马

Dont judge a person by the clothes he wears.  不能以貌取人

Like knows like. 惺惺相惜。

It is a poor mouse that has only one hole. 狡兔三窟。

Dreams are lies. 梦不足信。

Do not teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧。

A light heart live long. 心情开朗寿命长。不恼不愁，活到白头。

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 日吃苹果一只，身体健康不求医。

Poverty is stranger to industry. 勤劳之人不受穷。

Easy come, easy go. 易得易失。

Eat at pleasure, drink with measure. 随意吃饭，适度饮酒。

Eat ones cake and have it. 又要马儿好，又要马儿不吃草。

Eat to live, but not live to eat. 吃饭是为了生存，但生存不是为了吃饭。

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. 吃是使自己受用，穿是使别人受用。

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. 人的教养始于教育，成于社交。

Education has for its object the formation of character. 教育的目的在于培养品德。

Elbow grease gives the best polish. 只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。

Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 空桶响声大。

Enough is as good as a feast. 知足常乐。

Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak. 高位遭人妒，高峰招风吹。

Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 支支吾吾，其言必诈。

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below. 错误像稻草，漂浮在水面。欲觅珍珠者，须往水下潜。

Facts are stubborn things. 事实是不容改变的东西。

Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。

Faint heart never wins fair lady.

Fair and softly go far in a day. 谦和稳重，前程远大。

Fair faces need no paint. 貌美毋须修饰。

Faith will move mountains. 精诚所至，金石为开。

Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who is not. 困难见友情。

False friends are worse than open enemies. 明枪易躲，暗箭难防。

False tongue will hardly speak truth. 虚伪者不肯说真话。

False with one can be false with two. 对一个人虚伪，也会对两个人虚伪。

Fame is a magnifying glass. 名誉是放大镜。

Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. 名誉像条河，源头最狭窄，远处最宽阔。

Happiness is important in our life. In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it.

I will never forget one thing. Once, I had a bad mark at a math test. I was shy and afraid to meet my parents. But when I got back home late, my parents knew what happened, they said to me: “It doesn’t matter, my child. Remember we’ll be always beside you when you need help. We believe you can be better next time. Never give up!” I was moved and made up my mind to work harder and harder.

I feel very happy. Whenever I am in trouble, I can feel my parents’ love. I want to be a good child for my parents.

幸福

幸福在我们的生活中很重要。实际上，如果你用心去做，幸福就一直在你身边。

我永远不会忘记一件事。有一次，我在数学考试中得了一个不好的分数。我很羞愧，不敢见我的父母。但当我回家晚了，我的父母就知道发生了什么事，他们对我说:“没关系，我的孩子。记住，当你需要帮助时，我们总在你身边。我们相信你下次能做得更好。永不放弃!”我被感动了，下定决心要更加努力学习。”

我感到很幸福。每当我遇到麻烦，我都能感受到父母的爱。我想成为我父母的好孩子。

[以幸福为题的英文作文

I love my hometown in winter, because snow in my hometown in winter, in the vast expanse of snow with my little friends can enjoy a snowman, snowball fights. Can also throw sandbags, a snowmobile. You can also paint in the snow.

I like the winter in my hometown, also because I can set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. There are many kinds of firecrackers, such as those that can glitter in the sky and the flowers on the ground. They are very beautiful.

I miss the days when I spent my winter in my hometown.

During last summer vacation, I paid a visit to my uncle’s. It was the first time I had seen the sea. Tow years ago my uncle, a closed friend of my father, transferred from Shanxi to Yantai, a beautiful port city; and then my aunt joined him a couple months later. And a year later I became their guest and was going to stay with them for a week. I was fascinated by the vastness of the sea, the clean and soft sand on the beach, the seagulls flying in the sky and the beauty of the golden sunset clouds over the dark blue water. But I missed the sunrise each day, for I couldn’t get up early enough.

On the fifth day, the alarm clock woke me up when it was still dark outside, I hurried to the beach and stood in the cool breeze there, the sky was turning grey little by little, the sea was calm and all was so quiet that I felt I was surrounded by mysteries, then suddenly, in the faraway horizon, golden beans of light were shooting up into the sky. A moment later, a corner of the sun appeared. The sun was rising very slowly and reluctantly as if it was unwilling to leave the sea. At last the entire sun lay on the horizon, so big and so red, it looked like a huge ripe orange or a tender half-boiled yolk. It hesitated and shivered a moment, then said goodbye to the sea and rose into the air. The scene was very beautiful, touching and magnificent which I’ll never forget.

Dear Emily,

Im glad to learn that youre interested in China. Im more than happy to introduce you more of China. China, being one of the four ancient civilizations, has a long history and therefore there are many places of ancient sites. Besides, China has a vast region hence many beautiful natural sceneries are found in China as well. And due to the long history and vast area, there are in total 56 races living harmoniously with huge populations in China. China has not only ancient sites and sceneries, also she has modern metropolitans such as Hong Kong and Shanghai which attracts millions of travelers each year As an old saying, talking is nothing more than seeing. I hope you can come and visit China yourself and view these beautiful sceneries with your own eyes.

Yours Sincerely,

Hua Li

Dear Mr. Wang,

Thank you for a rapid response to our invitation. Enclosed you will find an

outline of events to take place during International Week here at the University

of Montana. I will also list a number of possible speaking engagements so that

you can choose those things in which you are most interested. As far as topics

are concerned, the topics for classroom visits are generally determined by the

professor, but most professors are very flexible. We have approximately

thirty-five faculty members that teach courses in Asian Studies, ranging from

language and culture to history and economics.

Here is a tentative schedule:

Sunday, April 8th

10 am - Cultural Exhibition opens

12 am - International Festival begins with a speech by the university

president and an introduction of visiting dignitaries

1-5 pm - Opportunity to visit festival, interact with student performers,

taste foods

6 pm - Dinner with Director of Mansfield Center Phil West, Ambassador Mark

Johnson, and staff of Mansfield Center

As you can see, there is tremendous interest in China here at the

University of Montana. Please let me know if this outline suits your purpose,

and if not, please dont hesitate to offer any suggestions for changes. We can

arrange as many or as few speaking engagements as you have time for.

Thank you for your attention and enthusiasm.

Yours sincerely,

Lily Ma

My father is a typical man, who is not very talkative. When other fathers

say how much they love their children, my father just keep quiet. He barely says

sweet words to me. But he will never miss every important moment for me, like

the performance in school. He is always one of the audience and watch my

performance. My father tells me to study with passion and he sets the good

example for me, because he loves his work. Sometimes he shows me his design of

work, and I admire him. I know my father loves me so much. Though he doesnt

talk much, he will be right by my side whenever I need him.

A Trip to Beijing

My American friend Tom and I went to Beijing by plane last summer.

On the first day，we visited the Palace Museum and Tiananmen Square. The next day，we climbed the Great Wall. We took lots of photos. Although we felt tired，it was a fantastic experience. The third day we relaxed. Then we had the Beijing roast duck for lunch. I think it is the most delicious food in the world. Tom is interested in Chinese culture，so we drank tea and saw Beijing Opera in Lao She Teahouse in the evening. Finally，we did some shopping and flew back to Guilin.

The trip to Beijing was short，but it was wonderful. Tom said that he would never forget it.

My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s, amid disastrous circumstances. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have shortened the course of a bloody world war. But when the mission failed, with great loss of life, Churchill paid the price, both publicly and privately. He was removed from the admiralty and effectively sidelined.

Overwhelmed by the catastrophe — “I thought he would die of grief,” said his wife, Clementine —he retired with his family to Hoe Farm, a country retreat in Surrey. There, as Churchill later recalled, “The muse of painting came to my rescue!”

Wandering in the garden one day, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolors. He watched her for a few minutes, then borrowed her brush and tried his hand. The muse had cast her spell!

Churchill soon decided to experiment with oils. Delighted with this distraction from his dark broodings, Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints she could find.

For Churchill, however, the next step seemed difficult as he contemplated with unaccustomed nervousness the blameless whiteness of a new canvas. He started with the sky and later described how “very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint on the palette, and then with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean upon the affronted snow-white shield. At that moment the sound of a motor car was heard in the drive. From this chariot stepped the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery .”

“ ‘Painting!’ she declared. ‘But what are you hesitating about? Let me have the brush — the big one.’ Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette, and then several fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas.”

At that time, John Lavery— a Churchill neighbor and celebrated painter— was tutoring Churchill in his art. Later, Lavery said of his unusual pupil: “Had he chosen painting instead of statesmanship, I believe he would have been a great master with the brush.”

In painting, Churchill had discovered a companion with whom he was to walk for the greater part of the years that remained to him. After the war, painting would offer deep solace when, in 1921, the death of the mother was followed two months later by the loss of his and Clementine’s beloved three-year-old daughter, Marigold. Battered by grief, Winston took refuge at the home of friends in Scotland, finding comfort in his painting. He wrote to Clementine: “I went out and painted a beautiful river in the afternoon light with crimson and golden hills in the background. Alas I keep feeling the hurt of the Duckadilly (Marigold’s pet name).”

Historians have called the decade after 1929, when the Conservative government fell and Winston was out of office, his wilderness years. Politically he may have been wandering in barren places, a lonely fighter trying to awaken Britain to the menace of Hitler, but artistically that wilderness bore abundant fruit. During these years he often painted in the South of France. Of the 500-odd canvases extant, roughly 250 date from 1930 to 1939.

Painting remained a joy to Churchill to the end of his life. “Happy are the painters,” he had written in his book Painting as a Pastime, “ for they shall not be lonely. Light and color, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.” And so it was for my father.

我的父亲，温斯顿·丘吉尔，在他四十多岁时开始迷恋上绘画，当时环境异常恶劣。那是在1915年，任海军大臣的他，积极投身于在达达尼尔海峡的一场战役中，这场战役本可以缩短那段血雨腥风的世界大战。但由于遭受失败，伤亡惨重，丘吉尔于公于私都付出了代价。他被从海军部调离且实则坐起了冷板凳。

在灾难的折磨下——他的妻子克莱门廷说：“我想他会痛苦而死，”——他携家带口来到萨利郡的一处乡间静居霍·华姆。在那儿，丘吉尔后来回忆道，“是绘画中的冥思拯救了我！”

一天他在花园散步时，偶然看到他的弟媳在用水彩作画。他观察了几分钟，然后向她借了画笔并一试身手。他的专注仿佛给他施了魔法！

丘吉尔很快就决定试试去画油画。看到他从阴暗的忧郁思中解脱出来，克莱门廷非常开心，她赶忙去买所有能买到的颜料。

然而，迈出下一步似乎有些困难，因为丘吉尔看到一块新画布的洁白无暇时感到无所适从和为难。他先从天空画起，后来他描述如何“非常谨慎地在调色板上加入一点儿蓝色调，然后以万分的小心，在这块被蓄意冒犯的雪白的防护板上点上豌豆大的一笔。这时，传来一阵驾驶机动车的马达声。约翰·拉威利先生才华出众的太太从这辆车中姗然而下。

“‘在画画呀！’她高声说着。‘可你还在犹豫什么呢？给我那支笔——那支头号的。’只见松油飞溅，她在蓝白颜料间挥毫泼墨，在调色板上龙飞凤舞，接着在吓得发皱的油画布上用力东戳西捣几下蓝色。”

那时，约翰·拉威利——丘吉尔的邻居，也是一位有名的画家—正教丘吉尔学画。后来提及他的这位特殊的学生，拉威利说：“倘若他选择绘画而不是从政，我相信他会是位绘画大师的。”

在绘画中，丘吉尔找到了能陪他度过余生大部分时光的知已。战后，在1921年，母亲刚去世两个月，他和克莱门廷就失去了他们深爱着的三岁女儿玛丽戈尔德，这时作画给了他一些安慰。在痛苦的打击下，温斯顿来到苏格兰朋友们的家中以求得安慰，用绘画来解脱自己。他在给克莱门廷的信中说：“我出外画了一条夕阳下美丽的溪流，背后映衬着晚霞的群山。唉，达克迪莉（玛丽戈尔德的昵称）使我的苦痛总是挥之不去。

史学家把1929年后的十年，也就是保守党政府垮台而温斯顿下台的时间，称为他的荒凉岁月。政治上，他一直在举步维艰的处境中徘徊，是一个孤独的勇士在努力唤起受到希特勒威胁的国人，但在艺术上他在那荒凉岁月却硕果累累。这些年他经常在法国南部作画。在现存的500多张油画中，大约250张是1930至1939年间的作品。

绘画给丘吉尔带来了乐趣直到他的人生尽头。在他所著的《画中的消遣》里说：“画家其乐融融，因为他们不会孤独。光与色，和平与希望，会始终伴随他们。”我父亲就是这样一个人。

[温斯顿·丘吉尔:生活侧记-名人传记英文故事