我欣赏半命题作文通用2篇 作文英语（实用19篇）

Dear Peter,

I read in a newspaper today that a “Learn Chinese, Sing Chinese Songs” Foreigners’ Talent Show will be held in Beijing Television Station on July 18. I know you like singing, and you are in Beijing during that period. I think this is a good chance for you to show your singing talent, and how well you’ve learned Chinese. If you would like to try, you have to go to the TV station to sign up before the end of June. If there is anything I can do for you, I would be more than glad to help.

Yours,

Li Hua

[高考满分英语作文欣赏

我最欣赏她的人品和她非常聪明。每次她考试都在五名之内。她为人乐观，乐於助人，是非分明。世界上已很少这种人了。因为她心地好，所以有很多朋友。每个一但和她做了朋友，就不用忧愁了。

她对家人也很孝顺。时常帮助妈妈做家务，听爸爸妈妈的话。

每当她的朋友需要她的帮助，她一定会伸出援手。老师和同学也对她赞口不绝。她成绩好时，不会骄傲。她看到一些成绩不太理想的人时，她就会安慰她，叫他不要灰心，下次再努力。

人们都说她又漂亮又聪明。但她常常都说自己不是最漂亮，不是最聪明。自己是不漂亮，最不聪明的那个。当然同时，她有困难时都会有人帮助她。

有一次，她在校不见了一个十元。大家都为她拼命去找。最后，好人有好报，终於找到了。

每逢圣诞节，她的圣诞咭也多如银河。数也数不清。她也很帮助老师。老师叫她做事她也很愿意。

每个人都认为她是一个很好的人。我自己也觉得是。那你觉得她是不是一个大好人呢?

We got the news before the English class that some foreign teachers froma middle school in NewYork would visit our class.We felt excite dandn ervous.

The bell rang and the foreign teacher scame into the classroom.They spoke tousin English one by one.They spoke English clearly and slowly.A woman teacher came to my desk,with asmile onherface."Hello!Nice to meet you!"she said friendly.I answered her.Then sheasked mesome simple questions.We talked With each other for a while."Your English is very good,"she said.I thanked her and felt very happy.Then I decided to study English harder than before.

[一节英语课英语作文欣赏

六一儿童节英语作文：精彩作文欣赏

During the Children‘s Days when we were young， we sometimes were taken out by parents， or we young kids went together by

ourselves， running to the very places with lots of fun and buying plenty of things for a whole day. If my parents took me to， I would choose climbing hills as i loved to.we usually chose to climbing tall ones，because it would be so meaningful.some would like to invite friends home to have a party to celebrate the Children’s Day.Anyhow， it was fun each time.

It was quite fun to have Children‘s Day！

Dear Bob,

I’m so glad that you are coming to learn Chinese here. I’ve already found you a house near our school. I’d like to tell you something about it.

You may get on No.ll bus at Fang Cao Street and the next stop is just Jian Xin Chinese School. The house is near the school. It is about 25 square metres. In the bedroom, there is a bed, a sofa standing against the wall and a table near the window. You may find a light on the table and a chair next to it. There are two other rooms connecting the bedroom. The left one is a bathroom and the right one is a kitchen. So you may cook by yourself. The rent for the house is 500 yuan per month.

Hope you’ll enjoy staying here!

Yours,

Li Hua

满分理由

本文内容具体，详略得当，表述方式很有创造力和新意，长短句并用，语言结构富于变化，错落有致，顺畅圆润，尤其是情态动词和分词的运用很独到，为文章增色不少。

作文：

Dear Bob,

I’m glad to hear from you.

Welcome to our city in september. I’ve found a suitable house for you.

The house is on Fang Cao Street, not far from the Jianxin Chinese School. If you take the No.11 bus, it is just one stop.

It is a flat on the third floor of a building. It has three rooms, a living-room, a bathroom and a kitchen. You can cook yourself. The mirror, the basin and the bathtub are very convenient for you. In the living-room, there is a bed, a sofa and a desk with chair. The desk is next to the window. It will be good for study. The total size is 25 square metres and the rent is 500 yuan a month.

Will you be satisfied with this flat, or you want another one? Just let me know. I’ll try my best to help you.

Yours,

Li Hua

[高考英语满分作文欣赏

导语：小编觉得写日记是一件非常不错的事情，可以抒发情绪，帮助我们看清一些烦恼的实质，是非常好的宣泄情绪的方式。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语日记，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

October 28 Friday Sunny

Last week something terrible took place in our class:one of our classmates Xiao Li, fell down the stairs of our classroom building. He got badly hurt. He had to stay in hospital for a long time. How unfortunate he was!

So this afternoon all our classmates and our teacher, Mr Yan, were going to the fields to help Xiao Li s family gather the grain.

After lunch we set out. It was a long way from our school to Xiao Li s home. It took us half an hour to get there by bike.

Then we walked to the fields, bent down and began to work. Some of us worked very quickly though some had never done any farming work before. Time went by quickly and we knocked off about 4 o clock.

Xiao Li s parents were thankful. “It s very kind of you to come and help us,”they said. They invited us to have a rest in their houses and gave us a lot of things to eat. After that we went back.

Now I realize it s important to help and care for each other, and we should regard the each classmate as a member of a big family.

Let s bring love to the whole world.

文章中某些语言上的运用很到位，点评如下：

(1)“一件坏事”不应说成 a bad thing。a bad thing 是“一件坏东西”，故此处用了 something terrible。that 引导的同位语从句改成了“：”，这样更符合英语表达习惯。

(2)wound 一般指“用武器致伤”，事故受伤要用 injure 或 hurt.

(3)在英语中“严老师”，应说 Mr Yan。

(4)field 泛指“农田”时，一般用复数。

(5)根据上文 help 应是 went to the fields 的目的状语，而不是并列的动作，故应用不定式 to help。另外，Xiao Li s family 如果用 them代替则指代不清。这种指代不清的错误，中国学生尤其要注意避免。用代词时，一般上下文要有相应的名词存在。

First Snow

The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

The very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes it more magical. Ifall the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night the event would be robbed of its wonder. But it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are asleep. Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. And then, what an extraordinary change it is! It is as if the house continent. Even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cosier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter’s hut or a snug logcabin. Outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairy-tale.

You would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes. You yourselves do not feel quite the same people you were yesterday. How could you not when so much has been changed? There is a curious stir, a little shiver of excite-ment, troubling the house, not unlike the feeling there is abroad when a journey has to be made. The children, of course, are all excitement but even the adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before setting down to the day’s work. Nobody can resist the windows. It is like being on board a ship.

[高三英语作文欣赏

我很欣赏大自然赋予无数生灵的美，欣赏自然作文。

隐约中，我似乎更爱花……

家人，也对花很感兴趣。花园，阳台，都有百花的落脚之处，它给予人一种美的观赏享受，香的嗅觉刺激，写景作文《欣赏自然作文》。

八月杭州西湖上，莲花潮引来了无数世界各地的游人。濂溪先生说过，“予独爱莲，之出淤泥而不染，濯濯清涟而不妖。”使人感慨万千。白里透红的花中，让人百看不厌。莲，花之君子者也。君子，庄重，质朴，不哗众取宠，不炫耀自己，香远益清，亭亭玉立，另多少诗人赞不绝口。

我家阳台上的一盆菊花，很美，绽开得很饱满，似乎把全身心的力量全放上来了。菊，花之隐逸者也。特力独行，正直不苟，豁然大度，正如绝句：“芳菊开林耀，清松冠岩列。怀此真秀姿，卓为霜下杰。

临川四梦中的牡丹亭，其艺术思想与创作都达到了最高水准，姹紫嫣红开遍，良辰美景，恁般景致，更使我对牡丹产生了浓厚的兴趣。

欣赏吧！让世间万物得以延续……

[欣赏 半命题作文

Some people are born with the belief that they are masters of their own lives. Others feel they are at the mercy of fate.New research shows that part of those feelings are in the genes.

Psychologists have long known that people confident in their ability to control their destinies are more likely to adjust well to growing old than those who feel that they drift on the currents of fate.

Two researchers who questioned hundreds of Swedish twins report that such confidence, or lark of it, is partly genetic and partly drawn from experience.

They also found that the belief in blind luck-a conviction that coincidence plays a big role in life is something learned in life and has nothing to do with heredity.

The research was conducted at the Karolinska Institute-better known as the body that annually awards the Nobel Prize for medicine by Nancy Pedersen of the Institute and Margaret Gatz, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Their results were recently published in the United States in the Journal of Gerontology.

People who are confident of their ability to control their lives have an "internal locus of control,"and have a better chance of being well adjusted in their old age, said Pedersen.

An "external locus of control," believing that outside forces determine the course of life, has been linked to depression in latter years, she said.

"We are trying to understand what makes people different. What makes some people age gracefully and others have a more difficult time?" she said.

The study showed that while people have an inborn predilection toward independence and self-confidence, about 70 percent of this personality trait is affected by a persons environment and lifetime experiences.

Pedersens studies, with various collaborators, probe the aging process by comparing sets of twins, both identical and fraternal, many of whom were separated at an early age.

The subjects were drawn from a roster first compiled about 30 years ago registering all twins born in Sweden since 1886. The complete list, which was extended in 1971, has 95,000 sets of twins.

[英语作文欣赏：自信

导语：小编提醒大家，要想把作文写好，要想在考研写作中得高分，平时一定得多阅读优秀的范文，特别是一些漂亮精彩的句型。同时也有必要掌握一些写作模式和技巧，不断地模仿练习，最后才能真正打造出高分作文。

一、命题依据

考研话题牵涉面广，包罗万象，变幻莫测。但从历年考研真题研究中可以发现写作基本上可粗略地划分为两大类话题：永恒话题(everlastingtopic)和热点话题(hotissue)。所谓永恒话题，是指那些不以时间和空间的转移为转移的话题。这类话题一般都是一些宏观的大话题，没有明显的时代印痕。如有关社会道德范畴的话题。另一大类是热点话题，即近几年或某一年特殊的社会现象， 媒体普遍报道过或公众普遍谈论的话题。如AdvertisementonTV(93)，温室的花朵经不起风雨(2003)等，所以，平时在生活和学习中留意类似话题的英文素材预以备战不妨是个好的办法。

二、写作技巧

1.精心构造全文的引言段

考研作文阅卷老师每天工作量很大，工作时间也较长，因此长时间批改水平参差不齐、质量高下不一的作文难免感到疲劳，厌倦，甚至气恼。据测试统计，一口气读完12 篇后才走神的人极少，定力惊人。因此，在考研写作三段制中，第一段最能吸引他们的目光和注意力，因为考研作文采用的是总体评分法(GlobalScoring)，作文评卷老师往往主要凭借第一段的总体印象打分。有人把文章的第一段说成是黄金段落，说老师就是在这一段中不断地“淘金”。这一说法是很有道理的，因此，作文要想得高分，一定要精心构造全文的第一段，最大限度地满足阅卷老师的期待心理，力争给他留下良好的第一印象。经验告诉我们，阅卷老师在看完文章的第一段后就已基本上给文章定了分数档次，即使在第二，第三段中发现文章中的其他一些美中不足之处，他也只是微调几分，总体分数还是比先定的档次低的文章要好得多。总之，引言段在全文三段中的重要性再怎么强调也不过分。如果要按重要性依次递减的顺序来排的话，那么应是引言在先，其次是结尾段，再次是拓展段。

2.制造语言的闪光点

“言之无文，行而不远”，同理语言干瘪平淡，让人看之面目可憎，读后味如嚼蜡。要想攫住阅卷老师匆匆的一瞥，留住他们的兴奋点，就非得在语言上猛下功夫，多制造些表达上的闪光点。语言是思维的外壳，语言的好坏直接影响到实际作文分数的高低。语言表达的亮点体现在小到一个词，短语大到一个句子中。高分作文往往是“锱铢必较”，几乎字字计较。很多人作文分数很低往往是因为用词面太窄。当然，词汇的积累是有个过程的。可惜的是，很多同学只能认词，却不能再现，更不用说写作时运用了。

3.避免中国式英语

母语为非英语的人学习英语时往往会将母语的思维和表达方式直接迁移到英语表达当中。中国人学英语时往往会受母语根深蒂固的影响，最易造出中国腔的英语。有人把“价格便宜”直接写成“The price is cheap”，把“这件事小菜一碟”说成“This is a small dish”，让人看后苦笑不得。因此要尽量摆脱中国试英语，方法看来只有一条：多看外国人写的文章，多多阅读。不难想象，阅卷老师如果在短短的二百字文章中到处看到Chinglish，他无法使自己对你文章的印象好起来。

4.尽量有路标词

路标词(signalword)又称衔接词(connectives)就像灯塔为在茫茫大海中航行的船只指引方向一样，它能突出文章的层次性和逻辑性。英语文章讲究启承转合。“启”就是开启观点：“承”就是接着话茬进一步发展论证或补充：“转”就是讲相反或对立的观点：“合”就是总结概括。一篇文章若没有路标词便会杂乱无章的乱堆在一起，给人凌乱没有条理的感觉。标志词或衔接词的作用绝对不可小觑。

此外，多种句型的交替使用，文章脉络层次的分明，论据的合理充分等在写作中都应引起足够的重视。

掌握好的学习方法非常重要，下面内容2019中考英语作文命题预测如何拿高分?，希望能给您带来一定帮助。

2019中考英语作文命题预测 如何拿高分?

随着中考逼近，考生都进入了紧张的备考状态，初三老师们也一直与同学们并肩作战。在最后不到60天的时间里，如何让考生更有针对性的复习，如何让考生尽可能多得分是我们老师一直在思考的问题。

中考英语的基础部分只要学生基础扎实，一般拿分没多大问题。如今，令大部分学生头疼的问题是作文。为了让学生对中考英语作文更有信心，老师为学生们解析历年的中考英语作文题目，并作出预测，为同学们指点迷津。

首先让我们一起来看看历年的中考英语作文真题。

2006年作文题目：

Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic “I Have a Dream”。

2007年作文题目：

Write at least 60 words about the topic “Things I Hate to Do”。

2008年作文题目：

Write at least 60 words on the topic “A Story about My Parent(s)&rdquo,周记;。

2009年作文题目：

Write at least 60 words about the topic “I want to do something for my school”

2010年作文题目：

Write at least 60 words about the topic “I‘m proud of myself”

2011年作文题目：

Write at least 60 words about the topic “I‘m a member of… ”

我们可以发现，中考的英语作文其实难度并不大。命题都是与学生自身相关，为的是让学生有话可说。但是学生往往得不到高分，到底我们该如何去拿分呢?从以上题目可以看出，中考作文的写作思路通常为：what—why—how.评卷主要从内容、结构、文采三个角度给予评分。学生在写作文时，最好能够根据提示进行书写以得内容分，另外，注意连接词的使用以得结构分，同时注意遣词造句以得文采分。现在我们一起来分析2009年真题的优秀作文，让同学们更能感受到如何去写一篇优秀作文。

If you ask me what I want to do for my school， my answer is to plant trees in my school garden. I have found there are too many buildings and few trees in our school yard， so I want to make my school much greener and more beautiful. After I plant trees there， maybe more and more students will do as me.Moreover， students can read under the trees. Of course， I will do it with my classmates. I hope our school will be a nicer place to study.

此文分三层，先提出自己的观点，然后写出为什么这么做，最后写出我会怎么做。

全文立意好，贴近实际，可行性强。从语法来看，没犯语法错误;从结构来看，用了so、after、moreover等连接词使行文更加流畅;从文采上看，文章多处用了从句，用到了形容词的比较级等。整篇文章简洁、让人读起朗朗上口，是一篇很值得借鉴的文章。

There is no current proof that advancing technology will deteriorate the ability of humans to think. On the contrary, advancements in technology had advanced our vast knowledge in many fields, opening opportunities for further understanding and achievement. For example, the problem of dibilitating illnesses and diseases such as alzheimers disease is slowing being solved by the technological advancements in stem cell research. The future ability of growing new brain cells and the possibility to reverse the onset of alzheimers is now becoming a reality. This shows our initiative as humans to better our health demonstrates greater ability of humans to think.

One aspect where the ability of humans may initially be seen as an example of deteriorating minds is the use of internet and cell phones. In the past humans had to seek out information in many different enviroments and aspects of life. Now humans can sit in a chair and type anything into a computer and get an answer. Our reliance on this type of technology can be detrimental if not regulated and regularily substituted for other information sources such as human interactions and hands on learning. I think if humans understand that we should not have such a reliance on computer technology, that we as a species will advance further by utilizing the opportunity of computer technology as well as the other sources of information outside of a computer. Supplementing our knowledge with internet access is surely a way for technology to solve problems while continually advancing the human race.

[英语作文的欣赏

我的理想工作英语作文

Different people have various ambitions. Some want to be engineers or doctors in the future. Some want to be scientists or businessmen. Still some wish to be teachers or lawers when they grow up in the days to come.

Unlike other people, I prefer to be a farmer. However, it is not easy to be a farmer for Iwill be looked upon by others. Anyway,what I am trying to do is to make great contributions to agriculture. It is well known that farming is the basic of the country. Above all, farming is not only a challenge but also a good opportunity for the young. We can also make a big profit by growing vegetables and food in a scientific way. Besides we can apply what we have learned in school to farming. Thus our countryside will become more and more properous.

I believe that any man with knowledge can do whatever they can so long as this job can meet his or her interest. All the working position can provide him with a good chance to become a talent.

Europe

During the Children‘s Days when we were young， we sometimes were taken out by parents， or we young kids went together by

ourselves， running to the very places with lots of fun and buying plenty of things for a whole day. If my parents took me to， I would choose climbing hills as i loved to.we usually chose to climbing tall ones，because it would be so meaningful.some would like to invite friends home to have a party to celebrate the Children’s Day.Anyhow， it was fun each time.

It was quite fun to have Children‘s Day！

today is children‘s day.my father takes me to the zoo.there are many kinds of animals，the tigers， the pandas，the lions， the elephants，the giraffes and the bears.

they are different from each other ，some are shy， some are beautiful， some are interesting ， some are friendly， some are so cute. but i think these animals are unhappy， they should live in the forest，because the life in the zoo are different from that in the forest.

[节日英语作文欣赏

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below.

To change is to risk something, making us feel insecure. Not to change is a bigger risk, though we seldom feel that way. There is no choice but to change. People, however, cannot be motivated to change from the outside. All of our motivation comes from within.

Adapted from Ward Sybouts,Planning in School Administration:A Handbook Assignment

What motivates people to change? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from you reading,studies, experience, or observations.

Sample Essay - 6分范文

What motivates people to change is a relentless and innate desire for self-improvement. Rarely ever has history seen a man or society kick back, relax, and say Well that about does it. Not much else to do here! Within every person is the potential to achieve greatness in some form; be it athletically, mentally, spiritually. This inherent potential demands that people continue to explore and change both their environments and themselves throughout their lifes course. Never should a man be idle for too long. After acknowledging the changes a man has already made to his environment, the pursuit of self-improvement will once again stir within his soul and call him to action. This internal desire, this pursuit of challenge and perfection, does not prohibit man from being happy with his status and achievements. On the contrary, the device serves more to allow the man to constantly strive for greater change, newer innovation. What motivates people to change is the ongoing need to redefine peoples lives and identities to elevate them to higher levels of eminence and sucess.

[SAT优秀作文欣赏英语备考辅助

“啪……”这一声惊得一个在读书的同学们纷纷转过头来，吃惊得看着钟建立。墨水洒在地上像一朵朵墨菊，在地上显得十分显眼。建立就像是一根木头呆在那里不动。先是梅昊二话没说就去拿拖把。这时同学们才拍了拍脑袋，去拿拖把。不一会儿，墨水就扫干净了。

我爱欣赏有时我欣赏风光，有时我会欣赏一个人。我欣赏的就是我们的班长。记得有一次大扫除，其他地方已经扫好了，就剩下一条阴沟没有扫，可是却始终没有人肯扫扫，是因为我们懒惰？不是的，那是因为这条阴沟已经好几天没有清洗，里面堆满了枯枝败叶和一些小虫子的尸体，光看上一眼就会让人作呕，谁愿意来扫呢？可是不扫老师会说我们的，怎么办呢？正当同学们左右为难她出现了，她全然不顾自己的手，立马动手挖起来，全班同学受到了她的鼓舞，一起挖起来。过了十几分钟，阴沟就被挖通了。同学们都干得热火朝天，就在这时不免有人捣蛋，铁凯把撒破的纸扔在地上边扔边喊“天女散花了，天女散花了”这时她不去骂她，而是，一声不吭得将纸捡起来，铁凯说：“班长扔纸，班长扔纸了。”可是她并没有说她而是对着她微微一笑。这个家伙好像当头一棒，醒了。

在学习上她也会帮助别人。当一个同学不会做题时，她总会耐心的给同学们讲解题目的含义。有时她会变得十分严格，当老师不在时，她的耳朵顿时变成了“顺风耳”如果她发现有同学在一起窃窃私语，她就会一丝不苟地把同学签在小本子里。在交给老师。被签下来的人绝对没有好下场。所以我和同学们在私下里叫她“顺风耳”或是“小严师。”

她就是我们的班长，我欣赏她那一种一丝不苟，全心全意为我们班干实事的性格。

my school is near a small lake. it is very beautiful. i like my school very much.

we have a high teaching building and it is big and clean. our classroom is on the fifth floor. the computer rooms are on the third floor. we have computer classes there. we have a big library on the second floor. there are many books in it. i like reading books there. we also have music room and art rooms in the building.

there is a big playground behind the teaching building. after class, we often play basketball there.

the teachers in my school are very kind. the students are very polite and smart. i am happy in my school.

[欣赏我的学校小学生英语作文

Today, my mother burned to eat my favorite braised fish. I witnessed the mother fish fish washing process.

Mother first ready material: carp, onions, ginger, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, coriander, rice wine, salt, cooking oil and green pepper.

These materials are ready, my mother began to wash the fish. She saw a knife to scale, and then remove the fish gills, and fish bubble remain in the belly, to puncture the bubble of fish, the fish maw with black all the debris removed, cleaned the fish, fish evenly in a few designated marks I can spare.

Mother heated the pot, when smoking pot when the oil poured into a little, let the pot coated with a layer of oil, then add a small amount of cooking oil, fry after a good wash pot Add the fish and then release into some rice wine, so you can remove the fish smell, adding a teaspoon of sugar, a small amount of soy sauce.fish can be a color, then start adding cold water, let the fish submerged in water, adding green onions, ginger, garlic, pepper and salt, and then after the fire to boil, to low heat, boil 40 minutes, adding parsley, Finally, a pot of tasty braised fish cooking in her mother under the care of.

Smell this fragrance, I salivate. I quickly pick up the chopsticks, a small dip at juice, ah, how good you and incense and soft and slippery, so together with color, flavor and taste a whole food ah!

Hour in the Sun

John H.Bradley

"…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days."----- Henry David Thoreau

阳光下的时光

“……我虽然不富甲天下，却拥有无数个艳阳天和夏日。”----亨利大卫梭罗

When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden Pond he knew as a boy.

写这句话时，梭罗想起孩提时代的瓦尔登湖。

Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days "when idleness was the most attractive and productive business."

当时伐木者和火车尚未严重破坏湖畔的美丽景致。小男孩可以走向湖中，仰卧小舟。自一岸缓缓漂向另一岸，周遭有鸟儿戏水，燕子翻飞。梭罗喜欢回忆这样的艳阳天和夏日，“慵懒是最迷人也是最具生产力的事情！”

I too was a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer find much time for idle drifting. The pond has been annexed by a great city.

我也曾经是热爱湖塘的小男孩，拥有无数个艳阳天与夏日。如今阳光、夏日依旧，男孩和湖塘却已改变。那男孩已长大成人，不再有那么多时间泛舟湖上。而湖塘也为大城市所并。

The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists----except in the mans memory of it.

曾有苍鹭觅食的沼泽，如今已枯竭殆尽，上面盖满了房舍。睡莲静静漂浮的湖湾，现在成了汽艇的避风港。总之，男孩所爱的一切已不复存在----只留在人们的回忆中。

Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.

有些人坚持认为只有今日和明日才是重要的，可是如果真的照此生活，我们将是何其可怜！许多今日我们做的事徒劳不足取的，很快就会被忘记。许多我们期待明天将要做的事却从来没有发生过。

The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.

过去是一所银行。我们将最可贵的财产---记忆珍藏其中。记忆赐予我们生命的意义和深度。

Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost.

真正珍惜过去的人，不会悲叹旧日美好时光的逝去。因为藏于记忆中的时光永不流失。

Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.

死亡本身无法止住一个记忆中的声音，或擦除一个记忆中的微笑。对现已长大成人的那个男孩来说，那儿将有一个湖塘不会因时间和潮汐而改变，可以让他继续在阳光下享受安静时光。

[英语作文欣赏：阳光下的时光