我的喜好的英文作文（精彩20篇）

Even Homer sometimes nods.

智者千虑，必有一失。

Everybodys business is nobodys business.

人人负责，等于没人负责。

Fact speak louder than words.

事实胜于雄辩。

God helps those who help themselves.

自助者天助。

Hear all parties.

兼听则明。

He who does not advance loses grou12

逆水行舟，不进则退。

It is hard to please all.

众口难调。

Justice has long arms.

天网恢恢，疏而不漏。

Measure for measure.

针锋相对。

No man is born wise or learned.

没有生而知之者。

Observation is the best teacher.

观察是最好的老师。

One swallow does not make a summer.

一燕不成夏。

Prevention is better than cure.

预防胜于治疗。

Talking mends no holes.

空谈无补。

Where there is smoke， there is fire.

We all wish (hope) to be happy， so we should take good care of our

health。

Health is the best treasure (which) a man can possess。 Money can do many

things， but it cannot buy happiness。 However， so long as man has good health， he

can enjoy the pleasures of human life。

In order to insure good health we must pay attention to three things。 They

are-nourishing food， fresh air and proper exercise。

我们大家都期望快乐，所以我们就应好好保重健康。一个病人因为失去健康而很少快乐。

健康是一个人所能拥有最好的财富。钱能做许多事情，但是它却不能购买。然而，只要一个人有良好的健康，他就能享受人生的乐趣。

为了保证良好的健康，我们务必注意三件事情。它们是营养食物，新鲜空气和正当运动。

Childhood, a memorable words to me;Childhood, a reminds me of the total a little words.Childhood ah, what a profound but innocence, childhood laughter, always so innocent;Childhood behavior seems very childish, but the most sincere.When I think of my childhood time, mind, heart, always arise some light, little thoughts, light sadness.Everything is so weak, but always with my thoughts, I cant forget;Everything is so weak, but always quiet in my mind, I cant let go!

When I was tired, lie on the bed, inadvertently opened a childhood this "diary".In that instant, I seem to no longer tired, is happy childhood gave me the power of the spirit.I dont have the right to choose, I only stand on this has formed road continue to go on, I wont change anything, I dont want to change anything, because the importance of childhood, happiness, happiness may only in the memory can understand.

Our childhood is full of love, the love of parents.They care about us, to dedicate everything to us: to prepare delicious breakfast for us in the morning and the evening and cover the quilt for us;In the summerFor us to drive midge fan for others,In the winterAnd remove cold for us.All in all, we are the apple of parents eye, they meet the requirements of any of our, done a lot for us...

Our childhood is full of love --The teacherLove.The teacherLike the flashing eyesThe starsLighting up my heart.Whenever my grades, the teacher will be to me to admiring eyes, as if to say: "you are great!"Whenever my grades step backwards, the teacher would have to take a blame me, and like to say: "whats the matter with you?Strive to!"Teacher will talk eyes deeply imprinted in my mind, in her eyes brimmed with her sincere love for us...

Although childhood leave me, but I never leave it away.Because this paragraph of memory will be I this life the most important memory, maybe to old I can savor the joy of childhood;Maybe to old I can slowly understand the true meaning of childhood!

Dear Prof Herthwell，

亲爱的Herthwell教授：

Many thanks for your kind hospitality and the honor you showed me during

our delegation’s recent visit to your university。 It was nice of you to

introduce me to so many famous professors and celebrated scholars at your

university。 We had a safe and sound trip home。 Now we have resumed our work。

十分感谢你的盛情款待，以及在你在我们的代表团最近访问你的大学时对我们的尊敬。多谢你把我介绍给那么多您大学里的知名教授和著名的学者。我们已经平安愉悦得回到家了。此刻，我们继续我们的工作了。

Meanwhile， I hope you will someday pay a short visit to our university and

give us some lectures on “Modern Western Economics”。

同时，我期望有一天你能够对我校进行一个短暂的访问并给我们开一些关于“现代西方经济学”的讲座。

Please have no hesitation in writing to me if you want me to do something

for you in China。

如果你要我为你在中国做些事情，请不要犹豫，写信给我。

Best wishes，

Li Dong

最好的祝愿

李东

I love the snowflakes flying in winter. It makes the fields spotless. The insect trembled with cold, and the farmer smiled and opened it.

I love the snowflakes flying in winter. They make the fields white and clean. It covers the fields with thick quilts and snows and moistens the roots of the crops.

I love the snowflakes flying in winter. It makes the city white. It brings the scenery of the north to the city, and the children play happily in the snow.

Childhood is like a cup of strong coffee, warm to your heart or;Childhood is like a cup of light tea, let you every aftertaste.Childhood is like the rainbow after the storm, colorful;Flowery and clinking, childhood is like a corner after sunset, so miss;Also like the curved path, let you continue to thrive.The wind is not possible to the warm memories to blow away;Rain is falling all it impossible to get this one moving melody.Only a lovely, gentle sunshine would it have been preserved.

Memories and ordinary things, things may be small, but the memories is so moved, because had these memories!Can continue to progress, the pursuit, in this way can we grow up,

That year, is a heavy snow season.At that time, I was only 7 years old!

That day, in the morning, I just wake up, opened the eyes, and saw there was a haze of light snow, a short time later, the wind settle, snow slowly stopped.And IThe elder brotherOpened the door and a white light made me feel dazzling, so I gave inThe elder brotherSnow shovel, pushing up the snowman in the yard, the snowman is really beautiful around, the body of white, round head, made it a pair of big, black pebbles of big eyes, a carrot nose, I again with red paint for white snow man drew a cherry small mouth.

Snowman heap is ready, then ushered in a "snow battle parade" and my brothers brother first prepared a snowball, throwing up to me, I am clever turned around, snowball and broke up on the wall.While my brother still dont respond to come over, I use a light snow ball and throw the past to elder brother!My brother had no time to escape."Yes, yes, yes"!Hee hee, in the middle of his brothers "big head" snowball on his head "opened a white flower" can put my belly laugh pain is dead!After again and again to compete.The laughter in the yard is more and more loud and clear.

The fun of childhood, both are like a colorful shells, hold up my colorful childhood.

In winter, tea tree is winter snow cover a layer of white jacket, said: "in winter, its very nice of you, thank you for giving me the jacket, let me warm, let people be able to drink good tea, if not you, people will not drink to drink tea is so good, I will not so warm. Thank you again." In the winter, said a need to go away.

I got up in the morning and went to the window to open the window! Its snowing!" I eat breakfast at a friends house to call them out and snowball fights. I called my sister and three children in the neighborhood with snowball fights. Hit the time when thinking about two things: first, the snow in the winter let us play, two will not be injured. We are happy to play.

Winter, let the world is full of white. Winter, let us play happily. In winter, let us think of a word: "suddenly, such as spring night, the trees of pear blossoms! In winter, many crops have a white cotton padded jacket. In winter, let the world is clear. We love winter. Winter is beautiful!

it is true that most of us value honesty highly. however, nowadays we often confront  confidence crisis such as cheating, overcharging, fake commodities and so on. i think that we  should be honest because being honest is not only beneficial to ourselves but also to others  and the whole society. the reasons can be listed as follows.firstly, only honest people can  be truly respected by the others and can make more friends over a long period of time.

secondly, honesty, which is the traditional virtue of the chinese people, can make our life  easier and more harmonious. thirdly, honesty can make our society more stable. a case in  point is that singapore, a society featuring trustworthiness and integrity, has a  comparatively low criminal rate.

responsbility can be understood in many ways. for the parents , they have had the  responsibility for caring for and fostering their children since the birth of their baby.for  teachers,both in kindergartens and colleges,they also should be responsible for the study and  life of their students,that is to say,teahers are the second parents of children somewhile.

for us,as a friend of others,it is our responsibility to help our friends when they are in  trouble or faced with difficulties. each one has the different responsibily based on their  roles but we must take it for granted that we are responsible for the society.

[诚信简单英文作文

As we all know， the environmentaround us is getting worse and worse . In

some places we can’t see fishswimming in the river or trees on the hills. Not

only does it affect our lives and health， but also has a great affection in the

future. So I thinkwe must do something to protect the environment. .But what can

we do?

Now green commuting and a low-carbon life are more and morepopular in the

society .For example，we can go to school on foot or by bike ， we can use

shopping baskets notplastic bags when we go shopping and we can use both sides

of the paper when wewrite .

In a word ，if everyonepays more attention to(makes a contribution to) our

environment ，there will be less pollution and our lives will be better.

Good morning. I am glad to be here for this interview. First let me introduce myself. My name is xx 24. I come from Nanchang,the capital of Jiangxi Province. I graduated from the ****** department of *****University in July ,2001.In the past two years I have been prepareing for the postgraduate examination while I have been teaching *****in NO.****middle School and I was a head-teacher of a class in junior grade two.Now all my hard work has got a result since I have a chance to be interview by you.

I am open-minded ,quick in thought and very fond of history.In my spare time,I have broad interests like many other youngers.I like reading books, especially those about ****.Frequently I exchange with other people by making comments in the forum on line.In addition ,during my college years,I was once a Net-bar technician.So, I have a comparative good command of network application.I am able to operate the computer well.I am skillful in searching for information in Internet.I am a football fan for years.Italian team is my favorite.Anyway,I feel great pity for our countrys team.

I always believe that one will easily lag behind unless he keeps on learning .Of course, if I am given a chance to study ****** in this famous University,I will spare no effort to master a good command of advance ******.

Whether money brings happiness

Many people believe that:money is not everything,but no money is totally unacceptable.Money means happiness?Wrong,money does not bring happiness,only bring honor,vanity,meet.True happiness is to love people and love myself.Family,friends,lover ......Every gain is one kind of happiness.Because we believe,we will be happy.

Dear Mr. Clark:

We are wondering if you and Mrs. Clark want to have supper with us on Friday, January 21st at seven oclock?

James and I are looking forward with great pleasure to seeing you and Mrs.Clark. We do hope you can come.

Sincerely yours,

Lucy Wheeler

A pair of bright eyes and high nose up again with a glib mouth. One of my best friend -- Shen Huaqiao, he is honest, love to help the friends, so everyone loved him "have a hobby is love to engage in some activities of science and technology.

Once, I went to the science and technology group with him to sign up, and the teacher "hired" two of us on the basis of the performance of our class. This time, the teacher gave us the content of assembling the "simple robot". At the beginning, we installed the printed circuit board. We installed everything very smoothly, but later, the teacher asked us to install the outline of the robot. However, this is not how he installed the smooth, or not the screw, or the robot to the wrong bone - the reverse.

In a moment, I saw Shen Huaqiao in a bit of a hurry. The sweat on his face had been seeping out, and even the thread on the screw had been tortured, but he was still undaunted. After a long time, two feet were over, and he continued to work on the sweat. But his hands were not so easy. When I was about to finish the work, he just put the outline on the air and gasped for breath.

Then the teacher according to the time for our elected man of the match, let Shen Huaqiao who didnt get the ranking to come Thursday, after his efforts, Shen Huaqiao appeared on the entry list, he revealed the joy, but behind it is a success, and he has much hard work.

From what he did, I really learned a few words: "perseverance, hard work, success."

Dear John:

Thank you very much for the nice birthday present you have sent me! I have been longing for a dictionary for a long time. It will surly be very helpful to my study.

Its very nice of you to remember my birthday. Ill make good use of the dictionary and Ill think of you with gratitude and affection every time I use it.

Love,

Sally

Dear Dave,

Thanks for your letter.Its interesting to learn your story.Now Id like to answer your questions. Those problems that confused you, in fact, is the different culture betwwen different countries. In China, it is a polite manners to ask some questions such as what you have mationed to greet others. In your country, people ofen hear some questions,for example; "Wha a hot day!t","How cold it is" and so on. I believe you will be accustomed to it after a period of time. If you have any problem at any time, you can ask me for help. It is my pleasure to help you. Meanwhile, you can learn Chinese culture more and I can learn the culture about your country more.

Best wishes for you.

Your sincerely,Li Lin

how to save environment? i think we should do the followings: first, it’s best to ride a bike to school, don’t take a bus or a taxi. second, i will remember to turn off the lights when i leave the classroom. third, in my free time, i will collect the empty bottles and waste paper for recycling. the fourth idea is turning off the shower when i ‘m not using it. fifth, it is imporment to save water and money. also, i won’t spend too much money on expensive things. last, we had better not cut down the trees, we have to take care of the trees . i’ll try my best to save the energy, i hope i can do something for our country.

the environmental protection is the most major problem which in the modern life the humanity faces. must solve this problem must start from foundation. first, must massively propagandize, enhances peoples consciousness with understanding, strengthens the environmental protection consciousness. next, must carry on waste recovery use, reduces to forest-trees felling. also must strengthen to white pollution processing, little uses the plastic product. finally, must make improvement to clean aspect. causes the citys appearance to be neater. for earths tomorrow, we must start from the now diligently, will want the well local constable to protect the environment. to this us proposes as follows suggests: implementation trash classification packed in bags. like this not only can reduce the environmental sanitation workers work load, but also can even better basically arrive makes use of waste, to reduce the pollution, saves the resources.

关于元宵节的英文介绍

the lantern festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in february or march in the gregorian calendar. as early as the western han dynasty (206 bc-ad 25), it had become a festival with great significance. this days important activity is watching lanterns. throughout the han dynasty (206 bc-ad 220), buddhism flourished in china. one emperor heard that buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of buddhas body, and light lanterns to worship buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to buddha on this day. later, the buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the central plains to the whole of china.每年农历的正月十五日，春节刚过，迎来的就是中国的传统节日--元宵节。元宵主要的活动就是看灯。东汉明帝时期，明帝提倡佛教，听说佛教有正月十五日僧人观佛舍利，点灯敬佛的做法，就命令这一天夜晚在皇宫和寺庙里点灯敬佛，令士族庶民都挂灯。以后这种佛教礼仪节日逐渐形成民间盛大的节日。该节经历了由宫廷到民间，由中原到全国的发展过程。

till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the country. lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited. "guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the festival.

lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. if visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. if they are right, they will get a little gift. the activity emerged

during peoples enjoyment of lanterns in the song dynasty (960-1279).

as riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata.

直到今天，元宵点灯的习俗仍然在中国的各地流传的，各式各样美丽的花灯在这一天都会点亮，孩子们提着自制的灯笼走街串巷，非常高兴。猜灯谜也是元宵节的一项重要活动，花灯的主人会将谜面写在灯笼上，挂在门口，如果有人可以猜中，就能得到小小的礼物。这项活动最早起源于宋朝，因为谜语能启迪智慧又饶有兴趣，所以流传过程中深受社会各阶层的欢迎。

people will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "yuanxiao festival."yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. it is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat,

dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. it tastes sweet and delicious. what’s more, tangyuan in chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. so people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.

民间过元宵节吃元宵的习俗。元宵由糯米制成，或实心，或带馅。馅有豆沙、白糖、山楂、各类果料等，食用时煮、煎、蒸、炸皆可。起初，人们把这种食物叫“浮圆子”，后来又叫“汤团”或“汤圆”，这些名称“团圆”字音相近，取团圆之意，象征全家人团团圆圆，和睦幸福，人们也以此怀念离别的亲人,寄托了对未来生活的美好愿望。

in the daytime of the festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance,

walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. on the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a

beautiful scene. most families spare some fireworks from the spring festival and let them off in the lantern festival. some local

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

旅游

上课流程：常考话题；话题词汇；活动示范； 思路，句型; 改进，实践，作业

一、常考的话题和可能的图片：

第一环节：休假、闲暇时光

A. 喜欢去风景区旅游

I prefer natural sceneries. Mountain and lake is my favorite. they are very beautiful and very nice, and everything is quiet. I enjoy it.

If we have unhappy thing ,I will go there, because it is quieter .I can concentrate on thinking for working out these difficult problem.

B. 喜欢去名胜古迹旅游

We like to go historical sites. China has a history of 5000 years. There are many historical sites in my country. I can visit them. Visiting them can help me to learn china history. 第二环节：如果该题出现在第二环节， 以下交际话题可以从旅游角度谈 十一黄金周、城市生活的弊端、城市和乡村的差异、向往的旅游地、自驾游 然后让学生做一个对话练习点评，讲解对话技巧——参考活页

第三环节：如果该题出现在第三环节，则需要深入分析和评论：

旅游地的不文明现象、乱刻乱画、到此一游等、随地吐痰, 黄金周出行带来的拥堵。

二、实战演练

第一环节：对话示范见117

技巧：谈个人旅游经历（比较容易准备，见参考词汇部分）

问题：Are you interested in travelingWhy

Where have you been

What was your first impression of …

Can you say something about the place you travelled

第二环节：谈交通出行方式，见对话p119

第三环节：谈旅行中的不文明现象

热门话题分析评论思路

1.先描述图片：旅行途中，一成年人在柱子上用笔写下“到此一游”，一儿童模仿大人 2. 表达观点：旅行中的不文明现象 3.危害：损坏文物等；父母或成年人对子女或青少年言传身教的影响；4. 原因：缺乏公德心；损人不利己；5. 措施 当事人：父母应以身作则 相关部门：制定法律法规保护文物、景点设施我们：提高自身修养，从我做起

讲解词汇和思路串联范例：

图片描述句式：

According to the pictures we can see/conclude that...

The picture shows/tells/reveals us that...

As is shown/can be seen in the picture/chate...

The picture/table is (gives information) about...

It can be seen from the pictures that...

阐述观点句式：

1) Introducing Your First Point 阐述你的第一个观点

To start with，Id like to consider... 我想先考虑／我想先谈谈 First of all，Id like to look at... 首先，我要谈谈

2) Finishing a Point 结束一个观点

Those are the main points on... 这些是有关的主要看法。

Thats all I h

ave to say about... 这就是在方面我所要的说的。

So that，then，is... 仅此，接着是

Now weve looked at／dealt with... 到此我们已考虑／讨论了

3) Starting a New Point 接着阐述另一个观点：

turn to... 转向现在让Now lets move on... 我们 接着考虑/谈谈

Id like now to 接着，我想examine... 仔细考查

Next we come to... 下面我们来看看

Turning now to... 接着转向

Lets move on now to.. 让我们接下去考虑

The next point id like to make is... 我想阐述的下一个观点

4) Referring to What You Have Said 提及你已说过的

As I said at the beginning.. 正如起初我所说的。

I told you a few moments age that... 刚才，我已告诉你

In the first part of my talk，I said... 在我讲话的第一部分，我曾说过 As Ive already said,... 就像我已说过的

As I mentioned earlier,... 正如先初已提及的

5) Referring to What You Will Say 提述你将要说的

Ill come to that later．过会儿我将提及这点。

Ill return to this point in a few minutes．我将回头谈及这一点。

... and Ill talk about this in the next part of my presentation.并且我将在讲话的下一部分涉及这一点。

...Ill comment on this in my conclusion．我将在结论中对此加以评述。

6) Summarising 综述

So now Id just like to summarise the main Points．那么，现在我仅对要点作一概括。

In brief，we have looked at... 简言之，我们已考虑了／已谈到了

7) Concluding 结论

Thats all I have to say for now．这就是现在我所要说的。

(I think)that cover most of the points．（我想）这已概述了多数要点。

三、范文储备

1、It have been discussed for a long time that how to deal with the uncivilized behaviors during the travel, such as write on the place of historic interests, or claim to old trees. This kind of things happened in China more often than any other countries. What can we do to prevent those actionsThough we have advocate education of the tourists for years, the situation was not better than be imagined. In my opinion, we still have to encourage the education of our tourists, but with some change. For example, we should not only disseminate “Don’t Do Sth.”, but also with the reason and an explanation that it is not cool to sign names or words everywhere, in the contrary, we have to ashamed of that. Make a comparison between foreigners and us can also increase our consciousness.

consider... 考虑

2、7天长假好吗 （旅游途中人满为患的拥堵等）？

Some people can use the seven days reading books or studying, and you know when they are working, they dont have time to do it.

Since most people dont have other vacation time, everybody is travelling during the week-long holidays, so at the beginning and the end of the holidays, place such like airports, train station, long-distance bus station are often over-crowd, for example, in last labor day holiday i went to beach. I want to enjoy the beauty of the seashores and was planning to swim, but when I reached the long-distance bus station, I found that people were everywhere. I swore I would never go travelling in a week-long holiday again.

3、自助游还是报团游

With peoples living standard raised more and more in the recent years, they tend to choose travelling in their spare time. Some people like to choose package tour, while others prefer independent tour.

Actually, both package tour and independent tour have their own advantages and disadvantages, which is largely dependent on peoples time, money, and the number of people who plan to be on a tour.

As for me, I am in favor of package tour, because the travel agency will help me arrange for anything about the tour, including the tickets for the train or airplane, for hotels, and for sightseeing. And what I should do is just enjoy the whole journey without worrying about the details.

四、作业

背诵词汇，背熟一篇 文章

参考词汇：

peak/busy/low season for tourism 旺季/淡季

rural excursion/ city tour 乡村/城市观光

a place rich in historic relics 历史古迹

a sacred place for pilgrims 圣地

tourist attraction/sightseeing spots 景点 famous spots and historic sites

feast one’s eye/ feed one’s eyes

independent tour/group tour/individual travel 自助游/组团游

return to naturea must for visitors必到之处a paradise for sb./sth. shopping tour/ souvenir 购物游

take a scenic drive/ travel afoot 驾车游览/徒步旅行

aquarium水族馆pavilion 亭子，楼阁 amusement park

botanical garden植物园 tomb garden

famous mountains and great rivers 名山大川

well-equipped/old-fashioned

densely-wooded hill/rolling hills

a pool of water/ a torrent of water/flow of water

lash against the bank/water vapor/wander eastward

reflect in the calm water

skip stone on the water

fascinating sight/fantastic sight奇景

an atmosphere of peace and seclusion

an island of calm amidst the hustle and bustle of the city

garden architecture

get a bird’s eye view of

keep…intact

sheer cliffs and steep mountains

snow-capped/ a vast plain

villa-type holiday village/ folk custom village

广袤无垠的中华大地 the boundless expanse of the Chinese territory 绚丽多姿的自然景观gorgeous and varied natural scenery 如诗如画poetic and picturesque

名胜古迹places of historic interest and scenic beauty

兵马俑 terra-cotta soldiers and horses

故宫the Imperial Palace

五岳之首 the most famous of Chinas 5 great mountains

北京主要景点口译词汇

故宫：

the Imperial Palace

紫禁城：

the Forbidden City

兵马俑：

Terra Cotta Warriors/soldiers and horses

长城：

the Great Wall

居庸关：

Juyongguan Pass

不到长城非好汉：

He who doesnt reach the Great Wall is not a true man.

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.

People always say that spring is the most beautiful season. But I don’t

think so. I like summer, autumn even winter better than spring. Because the

weather in spring is changeable. Maybe it is warm today, it will be cold

tomorrow. I often catch a cold in spring. Besides this, it often rains in

spring. I can’t go out to play ball games. I have to stay at home to spend my

time. How boring it is! Some people think the flowers in spring are very

beautiful, but I think the flowers in winter are more beautiful, because they

live through the extremely cold weather and we should learn from them.