高二年级英语作文（精选20篇）

Water is very important for us. We must drink water everyday. We can’t live without water. Water is everywhere around us. At home, we use water to wash clothes, to wash dishes, to cook rice, to clean the flat, to have showers, to make drinks, to clean our teeth, to have a bath and so on. At work, people use water to put out fires, to grow vegetables, to make things in factories and so on. We also can swim in the sea. Water is important for us, isn’t it?

A poem:

Water has no taste at all.

Water has no color.

Water’s in the waterfall.

The pump.

The tap.

The well.

Water is everywhere around us.

Water is in the rain.

In the stream.

In the pond.

And in the river.

And in the sea again.

There isn’t much water on the earth. we must to save it. It is not inexhaustible.

It is very valuable.

My favorate fruit is watermelon because I like eating everything sweet.

Besides, watermelons contain much water and I can get much water by eating them.

I dont like drinking water so that eating watermelon is a good way for me to

replendish water. Furthermore, a cool watermelon is really a fantastic choice

for hot Summer. I almost eat watermelon everyday in Summer. Now,as Summer is

coming, I am very exciting because I can eat a lot of watermelon. Tough, we can

also eat watermelon in other seasons, they are not as sweet as Summers. I am

really looking forward to the coming Summer.

Before the New Years eve, my grandma and two aunts to everybodys five zang-organs temple, and ready to cook a big table of delicious of fine cuisine. But due to the exquisite cuisine to wash, cut and boiled, so later, my mother and I went to help.

A: wow! Plates of food on the table, fragrance coveted. "Run!" In grandmas behest, everyone cant wait to put the delicious food into his mouth. Finish eat surround furnace is the culmination of a meal to deliver a red envelope! After sending the red envelopes, everyone watching TV and drinking beverages, had a happy New Years eve.

The first morning, we got up very early, because father will take us to "spend opened restaurant" and play the night market. In "the restaurant" flowers, everyone see a singer to sing in the outside, but I went to the back of the lovely faunal region; There is a proud peacock, there are "terrible" musk pig! naughty I went to pulling weeds feed musk pigs, feed in the middle, suddenly, "shout!" A sound, like quiet sky suddenly gave a thunder, I ran away, back to mom and dads side. Next, is to go to the night market to eat! After eating the "o" oven "mutton soup, frontier car we drive home!

The Spring Festival had a really interesting and make me benefit from, let me see the lovely musk pig is "terrifying". Hope that the next Spring Festival can also so interesting.

除夕之前，奶奶和二婶婶为了大家的五脏庙，因而准备烹煮一大桌色香味俱全的精美美食。但是由于精美美食要洗、切和煮，所以后来我和妈妈就去帮忙。

哇!一盘盘美食上桌了，香味让人垂涎三尺。”开动!”在奶奶的一声令下，大家迫不及待的把香喷喷的食物塞到口里。吃完围炉饭后的重头戏就是发红包啦!发完红包后，大家边看着电视，边喝着饮料，过了一个快乐的除夕夜。

初一早上，我们起了个大早，因为爸爸要带我们去”花 开了餐厅”以及夜市玩。到了”花开了餐厅”，大家都在外面看歌手唱歌，我却跑去后面的可爱动物区;里面有高傲的孔雀，还有”可怕”的麝香猪呢!调皮的 我跑去拔草喂麝香猪，喂到一半时，突然，”吼!”一声，宛如宁静的天空突然发出一阵响雷，我赶紧跑走，回到爸妈的身边。接下来，就是去夜市吃东西啦!吃完 “阿灶伯”羊肉汤后，我们就边塞车边开车回家啰!

这次的春节过得很有趣，也使我获益良多，让我见识到可爱的麝香猪也是很”可怕”的。希望下次过春节也可以这么有趣。

Today, when I go home after school, I see a lovely cat on the road, it is white and small. I find the cat follow me all the way home, it may lose the way to home. So I ask people if they have lost a cat, but nobody says they have a cat. At last, an old woman tells me her cat is white and small, the cat rushes to women. It find its host.

今天，当我放学回家后，我在路上看到一只可爱的猫，它是白色的，有点小。我发现它一路上跟着我，它可能迷路了。因此我问人们是否有丢失猫，但是没有说养有猫。最后，一位老年妇女告诉我她的猫是白色，有点小的，猫冲向了妇女。它找到了它的主人。

到了周六，我先给我好朋友打了电话，约定好和他去老家的菜地旁玩游戏。

到了菜地里，我看到萝卜都露出了可爱的“帽子”，心血来潮地想搞一场恶作剧：为什么不去偷两个萝卜吃呢?我先环视四周，看看周围有没有人，东瞧瞧，西看看，确定没人路过后，便开始拔萝卜了。我仔细检阅着每一个萝卜，恩，第一个好像很瘦小的样子，还是拔个大点的吧。就当我想跨过它时，不料，却被萝卜绊倒了、气得我火冒三丈，心想：不就是个萝卜吗，我一定要拔掉你!

于是，我便蹲下身子，用手紧紧攥住茎叶向后拔，萝卜下像是有个吸盘似的，紧紧的吸住大地，我使出全身力气拔了好久，可是萝卜依然纹丝不动，吸在土里。我只好用我的杀手锏了，我取来铲子开始挖萝卜。出乎意料，用铲子也不行。我只能先将萝卜周围的土稍微挖去一点，再使劲拔，“哐当。”我一下倒在了地上，我想：终于被我拔出来了!正准备炫耀一下，可是定睛一看，不但萝卜没拔出来，连茎叶都被我拔碎了。

怎么办?我突然想到了一个方法。我找了一个小水桶，到小溪边打满水，便飞快的跑到了萝卜地里，把水都倒进了我要拔的萝卜旁。过了一会儿，我捏住萝卜茎，拔呀拔，摇呀摇，费了九牛二虎之力，终于把那萝卜拔出来了。而我的小伙伴，也在和萝卜战斗呢。我便按我的方法，也给他拔了一根萝卜。我们两个去河边洗了一下萝卜，便津津有味的吃了起来。

虽然这是一件小事，但还是让我记忆犹新，难以忘怀。

刚开学，我们班上就来了个新的英语老师——熊老师。

熊老师瘦瘦的，鼻子上还架着一副白色的眼镜，黝黑的长发上有一个发卡。

第一天，熊老师刚走进教室，闹哄哄的教室立刻安静了下来，大家都目不转睛地望向这位新的英语老师。刚开始，熊老师的声音很小，几乎第一排的同学都听不见，好在熊老师有扩音器。看来熊老师还 有点“胆小”。

熊老师对我们的要求很高，要我们每个人听得懂、读得来，考试要考好。另外，熊老师还在班上分了小组，让每个小组比赛，来培养兴趣。结果，大家通过比赛都提高了成绩，有了学习英语的兴趣，看 来熊老师真有办法，我们慢慢喜欢熊老师了。

熊老师，她真好！

Dear laura:

I was truly eaptured beyond expression to receive your flowers which turned

our living room into a garden. How considerate and wonderful of you to remember

my birthday. You just couldnt have selected anything i had have liked more! You

have a positive genius for selecting the right gift! The four years i spent with

you at the college have been the pleasantest period in my life. I will cherish

this memory forever. how nice it would be to see you again.

More than kind, and i wont ever forget it. my love and deepest gratitude,

now and always!

sincerely yours,

Jane

It is said that Guilin is a beautiful place, the water is so clean and the mountain is not like the ordinary one. I want to go to Guilin and see its scenery. I have a chance to go to Guilin, my parents visit my aunt. I see Guilin’s beautiful mountain and the clean water, I know why people call Guilin’s scenery the most beautiful.

据说，桂林是一个很美丽的地方，那里的水很清，山也不像普通的山。我想要去桂林看看那里美丽的风景。我有机会去桂林，我的父母去拜访我的姑姑。我看到桂林美丽的群山和清澈的水，我终于知道为什么人们说桂林的风景是最美丽的。

Today is Sunday. After supper, father, mother and I went to the pardk. I sat on the back of father’s bike. After a while, father said, Girl, you should lose weight. Motheragreed with father. But I thought it wasn’t bad for me. So I said, No, I don’t want to. I like to be myself. Do you know the famous actress named Fei Fei in Hong Kong? She is very fat but very popular with the audience. But few fat people can become famous, father didn’t agree with me. And mother continued, You know, a lot of illnesses are caused by obesity, such as heart disease, hypertension and so on.

It seemed I had two opponents. I should try my best to defeat them. So I quibbled, There’s nothing to be worried about. Anyway, the medical technology has been developed so advanced. And then I directed the spearhead at mother, You are also so fat. Why don’t you want to lose weight’? Mother sighed, I dowant to. But it’s not good for me to do so. I’min my forties while you are so young. If you can do more exercises and control your diet, you’ll easily lose weight. No, you’re rong. I said loudly. Some experts say that exercises can’t help people lose weight because they will eat more after the exercise.

Father and mother looked at each other and didn’t know’ what to say. I won the debate! I stopped laughing when I heard father saying, Fat daughter, please get off my bike. Oh, no!

My favourite song is a popular song ,its name is Heal the world, Micheal Jackson sang this song.Meanwhile , this song was produced by Micheal.The song is about our worse and worse environment and the cons people on protecting earth..For example from the song ,’heal the world ,make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race’I like this lyric very much.I like this song because its melody and content .By this song ,we can realize what about our earth and how we can do in the future.

我最喜爱的歌曲是一首流行歌曲，它的名字是拯救世界，这首歌是迈克尔·杰克逊唱的。同时，这首歌是由迈克尔创作的。这首歌是唱出了我们每况愈下的环境和呵护地球上的利弊......例如，从歌曲“拯救世界，创作发明一个更好的处所为你，为我和整个人类，”我很喜欢这些歌词。我喜欢这首歌，因为它的旋律和内容。通过这首歌，我们意识到在未来对于我们的地球我们可以可以做些什么

导语：相信每个人都有想过未来的生活是怎么样的，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!

As time goes by, there are going to be big changes in our everyday life. For example, when we are hungry, we dont need to cook in a hurry. Just take some pills, and everything will be OK. When we are free, we can go anywhere by spacecraft. It will be very cheap, just like taking a taxi now. And of course, if we want to see what is like under the sea, just travel down there in a flying object like UFO. Maybe there will be a lot of cities and people living there. I think itll be very easy to travel anywhere, not only in our world, but also in space and in the deep sea.

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随着时间的流逝,会有大的变化在我们的日常生活。例如,当我们饿了,我们不需要做匆忙。只是需要一些药片,一切都会好的。当我们是免费的,我们可以通过宇宙飞船去任何地方。这将是非常便宜的,就像现在打的。当然,如果我们想看到海底是什么感觉,只是沿着一个飞行物体像UFO。也许会有很多城市和人住在那里。我想它会很容易旅行任何地方,不仅在我们的世界里,而且在空间和在深海。

The Rules of Making Friends

We all like to make friends, we live in a society that we need to communicate with others. Without a friend, one can never express his emotions, no one share his sorrow and happiness. Making friends balances ones emotions, you can talk to friends any things, like secret, which you dont want to share with our parents. But here is the fact that not everyone is suitable to be friend, we need to obey the rules. First, the guy must be honest. Honesty is the base of the being friends, to be frank and then to be close. Second, there is something common in you two. The same interest always brings two hearts close, the more something in common, the better, thus he will be your best friends, you can share things with him. Making friends is a big deal, cause if you make the wrong one, you may get the negative thing from him.

我们都喜欢交朋友，我们生活在一个社会，需要彼此交流。没有朋友，一个人不能表达他的情绪，没人分享喜怒哀乐。交朋友能平衡感情，你可以和朋友谈任何事，比如你不会和父母分享的秘密。事实上，并不是所有的人都适合成为朋友，我们需要遵守原则。第一，那个人必须诚实。诚实是成为朋友的基础条件，闯开心扉然后变得亲近。第二，你们两个之间有共同点。共同的兴趣让两颗心靠近，越多共同点越好，因此他会成为你最好的朋友，你可以和他分享事情。交朋友是一件很大的事，因为如果交友不慎，你可能会感染他的一些恶习。

There is only one word which can describe my childhood. The word is“carefree”that so many todays kids do not understand， although they have delicious food， beautiful clothes and pretty toys.

My parents never forced me to do anything. I recited a lot of poems and fine articles， but not for performing before their friends and our relatives， just because I enjoyed rhythms and words. So I never considered them a burden。 Later， when I was in the primary school， the homework was very few and easy to do， and I was never asked to be the top students.

Nor did my parents stop me from doing anything. After I finished my homework， I could stay outside for a whole afternoon to do whatever I liked. I used to go swimming in the river in summer， skating on the ice in winter. Sometimes I played basketball or football with my little friends. I could read any book， and my parents never examine it before my reading.

Sometimes I think my childhood was boring and not unforgettable， but I was really carefree and happy then. What is more important than to give a child a happy childhood?

只有一个词可以描述我的童年。这个词是“无忧无虑”,很多今天的孩子不懂,尽管他们有美味的食物,漂亮的衣服和漂亮的玩具。

我父母从不强迫我做任何事。我背诵很多诗,好文章,但不执行他们的朋友和亲戚之前,仅仅因为我喜欢节奏和单词。所以我从不认为他们是负担。后来,当我还在小学,作业很少,很容易做,而且我从未要求最优秀的学生。

我的父母也没有阻止我做任何事。我完成了我的作业后,我可以呆在外面整整一个下午做任何我喜欢的。我过去在河里去游泳在夏天,在冬天在冰上滑冰。有时我和我的朋友打篮球或足球。我可以读任何书,和我的父母从来没有检查过我的阅读。

有时我觉得我的童年是无聊和不难忘,但我当时真的无忧无虑的快乐。什么是更重要的不是给孩子一个快乐的童年吗?

Animals are our friends, they live together with us on the same planet, we should take care and protect them, and they let us know we do not know many of the knowledge.

When we want to animal fur and all the time, until you want to protect you when they have been cruel extinction, and animal protection is to protect ourselves.

你富有朝气，性格直率，爱好广泛，努力为班级争荣誉，运动场上的英姿是你最大的骄傲，但你又是一个总让我"提心吊胆"的男孩，何时能让我自豪?我仍在苦苦等待。愿你我携手相伴，托起你明天的辉煌! 你思想纯朴，待人随和、诚恳，能自觉遵守纪律，尤其能遵守宿舍纪律，但你平时工作不够踏实，做事有点马虎，学习上效率不高，进取心不强，与同学不能和睦相处，缺乏为班级争光的热情与能力。 愿你活泼、开朗、锻炼能力，做一个全面发展的好学生!

你是个平凡而又朴实的女孩，你思想健康，蓬勃上进，你性格开朗，又能明辨是非，你时常默默无闻，但与你交谈时，你能侃侃而谈，你渴望学习上的进步，但成绩又不尽人意，你常常矛盾、信心不足，要知道前进的道路不会一马平川。 愿你策马前行，快马加鞭!

你是一个非常文静、礼貌、懂事的女孩，对待班级工作总是默默无闻、一丝不苟，对待他人总是坦率与友好，你是同学们的好朋友，你学习基础较差，思维也不够敏捷，但你仍然踏踏实实，一步一个脚印，勇往直前。愿你继续努力，我始终会做你的支持者、为你加油，为你鼓劲!

你是个聪明、机灵的人，但又是个令人捉摸不透的、顽皮的男孩，常常"让我欢喜让我忧"，所幸的是，你最近有所醒悟，意识到学习的真正重要。我所要对你说的是从现在开始还来得及，千万不要白白浪费自己的才智。

你能严格遵守学校纪律，有较强的集体荣誉感。你是个听话懂事、善解人意、诚实质朴、令人信任的女孩。各科基础知识比较扎实。学习有计划，有条理。学习刻苦，能从严要求自己，学习成绩不断上升。希望你能坚定信心，持之以恒，有迎难而上的勇气，不断改进学习方法，争取学习成绩百尺竿头,更上一层楼 。

你是老师最喜欢的学生之一，源于你无论何时挂在脸上的微笑，源于你在处理事情上所显示的聪慧，无疑，你应该是优秀的。你是一个心地善良，是非分明，有责任心的孩子，对任何事都能尽职尽责地做好。老师喜欢你在知识的海洋里畅游的学习劲头，更愿意看到你在课余时间象蝴蝶一样在大自然中快乐飞舞。

你是个聪明、性格开朗的女孩，同学们都喜欢接近你，与你在一起谈笑风生，你懂礼貌，尊敬老师，热爱劳动，关心集体，还有一手工整漂亮的字，这些是你的长处。如果在学习上你更加严格要求自己，不满足现状，提高答题速度，有竞争思想，那么，你一定会跟“优秀”靠得更近一些。

你文文静静，秀气美丽，课堂上总是眨巴着乌溜溜的眼睛专心地听讲，作业完成得认真又整洁，每次值日你都能有始有终，认真完成，老师真喜欢你。如果在课堂上积极举手发言，那你的思维会更加敏捷，口头表达能力会更加出色。勇敢些，相信你能行。

你是一个心地善良，是非分明，有责任心的孩子，对任何事都能尽职尽责地做好，你努力向身边的好同学学习，成绩在一天天进步。老师喜欢你在知识的海洋里畅游的学习劲头，更愿意看到你在课余时间象蝴蝶一样在大自然中快乐飞舞。

12 May 2006

Dear Mary,

I am sorry to trouble you, but nobody would come into my mind to help me except you.

You know, I had planned this holiday for several years. A t last, my dream came true. You could imagine how excited I was. My mind was completely occupied with the holiday. I forgot to collect my laundry. I dont know if you can help me collect my laundry. I sent the laundry to the Johns. It is the one down the corner on St. Peters Street. You cant miss it, because the house is painted green-a big green house. I have got two pairs of trousers, three shirts, one T-shirt and a blanket. Call a taxi to send you home. I will pay you back when I am home.

My first stop is London. It is raining. The streets are very clean. How I wish I could have the chance to see the famous London fog. But someone told me that was already the history. One can only read things like that about London in books.

My best wishes to you.

Yours sincerely, Peter Chen

I have a dream about my career.I want to be a teacher, because I

thinkteacher is a good job.Generally speaking, teachers have much

knowledge.Theycan help students to enrich their knowledge.Besides, teachers can

communicatewith students all the time.It helps teachers keep young at

heart.Finally,teachers have two long holidays a year.In the free time, I can do

many things Ilike.And I have time to travel.It makes me exciting.I must work

hard torealize my dream.

In everyones life, the path of the may not always smooth, each person will encounter difficulties and setbacks. When you face difficulty and setback, you dont fear, never retreat, must be brave to face them, to find a way to overcome, and overcome, so that you beat yourself.

I also have such an experience.

In a day, our teacher let us do a teacher himself out of the test paper, a few questions before I finished it easily, but alone has baffled me to the last question, I want to left again, method let me call back later, I want to right again, method and let me call back later, I left no stone unturned, racking their brains, think along while also didnt think out the solution to this problem. Ten minutes passed, and 20 Zhong Guo, thirty minutes passed, 35 minutes passed...... there are still five minutes seemed close examination paper, how to do? In the last few minutes, I suddenly shine at the moment, find the problem solving methods to the problem. Then I thought: this method is not in front of my eyes? Why cant I didnt see it? as luck would have it, I have just finished the question, the teacher will submit to us, after down, I know "everything be afraid and they were afraid that the word" seriously.

In this question, I know a truth, no matter what happens, as long as serious, you will overcome the present difficulties, wont let him give avenue, and extend to a more difficult way.

The classmates, please believe that, although the road ahead even more dangerous and more bumpy, but as long as you seriously and carefully to do every thing, begin with careful, ends in earnest, there would be no bad thing you do, as long as they have "serious" 2 words, then you can overcome all difficulties, overcome all difficulties, beat off all the obstacle on the road of life, make your life more meaningful!

在每个人的一生中，走的路不可能总是平坦的，每个人一定会遇到困难和挫折。当你面对困难和挫折时，你千万不要胆怯，千万不能退缩，一定要勇敢的面对它们，想办法战胜，并且克服，这样你就等于战胜了你自己。

我也有一次这样的经历。

在一天，我们老师让我们做一张老师自己出的考卷，前几道题我轻轻松松的就做完了，可是惟独有最后一道题把我给难住了，我左想一遍，方法让我给打回去了，我右想一遍，方法又让我给打回去了，我想尽了一切方法，绞尽脑汁，想了半天也没把这道题的解法想出来。十分钟过去了、二十分钟过去了、三十分钟过去了、三十五分钟过去了······眼看还有五分钟就要收卷子了，怎么办呢?在最后的几分钟里，我忽然眼前一亮，找到着这道题的解题方法。当时我想：‘这方法不就在我的眼前么?我怎么就没看见呢?’说来也巧，我刚刚做完了那一道题，老师就要我们交卷，下去以后，我知道了“世上万物怕就怕这认真二字”。

在这次做题中，我知道了一个道理，无论做什么事，只要认真，你一定会克服眼前的困难，不会让他给大道，并且向更艰难的路走去。

同学们，请相信，虽然前面的路更加艰险，更加坎坷不平，但是只要你认真地对待和认真地去做每一件事，以细心开头，以认真结尾，就没有你做不好的事，只要自己拥有“认真”二字，那么你就可以战胜一切困难，克服一切困难，打退一切人生路上的拦路虎，使你的一生更加有意义!

I think everyone will have a busy and interesting weekend. Now, let me introduce my busy weekend to you.

On Saturday morning, I am going to the bookstore. I’m going to buy some story-books and a Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary. I like reading story-books. I find them very interesting. Then I am going home. My home is near the bookstore. So I am going by bike. I like riding my bike. In the evening, I am going to play piano. Playing piano is my hobby.

On Sunday morning, I am going to do my homework. Now I am in Grade Six. I want to enter a good middle school next year. So I must study hard. In the afternoon, I am going shopping with my parents and my little brother. My mom says she is going to buy a pair of sneakers for me. I love going shopping. I think all of the girls like going shopping. Am I right.

On Sunday evening, I am going back to school by school bus. I love my weekend, how about you? Tell me something about your weekend.

My childhood was unforgettable. When I was five years old, I went to the kindergarten every day. I had a lot of good time with my little friends. My parents took good care of me. I didn’t need to care about food and clothes and any other things. I was very happy in those days. But one day, my mother told me that she wouldnt pick me up after school. I was afraid of going home alone, so I started to cry and I was angry with my mother. Although I insisted that she and my father should protect me safely, they still disagreed with me. They thought it was good for me to learn to be independent. The next day after class, I had to take a bus to go back home. I forgot to see the bus route when I got on. Therefore, when the bus was more and more far from my home, I felt anxious. Finally, I got the last stop, and then took the same bus back home. When I told my parents my story, they never thought it is a mistake, on the contrary, they thought it is a useful experience. From then on, I dont let them meet me after school any more.

the family had just moved to rhode island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that sunday in may. after all, it was mothers day -- and 800 miles separated her from her parents in ohio.

一家人刚移居罗德岛。5月的那个星期天， 年轻女人感到有点儿忧伤。毕竟， 这一天是母亲节─而她却与俄亥俄州的父母亲遥距800英里。

she had called her mother that morning to wish her a happy mothers day, and her mother had mentioned how colorful the yard was now that spring had arrived. as they talked, the younger woman could almost smell the tantalizing aroma of purple lilacs hanging on the big bush outside her parentsback door.

她那天早上给母亲打去电话， 祝母亲节日愉快。随后， 她的母亲向她提起， 因为春天已经来临， 所以院子里的色彩是多么绚丽。在她们通话的当儿， 年轻女人几乎可以闻到悬垂在父母亲后门外大灌木丛上的紫丁香醉人的芬芳。

later, when she mentioned to her husband how she missed those lilacs, he popped up from his chair. i know where we can find you all you want, he said. get the kids and cmon.

so off they went, driving the country roads of northern rhode island on the kind of day only mid-may can produce：sparkling sunshine, unclouded azure skies and vibrant newness of the green growing all around. they went past small villages and burgeoning housing developments, past abandoned apple orchards, back to where trees and brush have devoured old homesteads.

后来， 她向丈夫说起她是如何怀念那些紫丁香时， 他突然从椅子上跃起。我知道在哪儿能找到你想要的东西， 他说， 带上孩子， 走吧。

于是， 他们就出发了， 驱车行驶在罗德岛北部的乡村小路上， 那种天气只有5月中旬才会有：闪亮的阳光、蔚蓝色的晴空以及生机勃勃、随处可见的绿意。他们穿过一座座小村庄和一座座拔地而起的房屋， 穿过废弃的苹果园， 来到了树林和嗄敬匝谟车睦吓

where they stopped, dense thickets of cedars and ju nipers and birch crowded the roadway on both sides. there wasnt a lilac bush in sight.

come with me , the man said. over that hill is an old cellar hole, from somebodys farm of years ago, and there are lilacs all round it. the man who owns this land said i could poke around here anytime. im sure he wont mind if we pick a few lilacs.

他们停下车。车道两边长满了茂盛的雪松、杜松和白桦树。眼前没有一棵紫丁香。

随我来， 那个男人说， 翻过那座小山， 有个老地窖， 几年前是一个人的农场， 四周长满了紫丁香。这块地的主人说我可以随时到这儿来闲逛。我相信， 要是我们采几束紫丁香， 他不会介意。

before they got halfway up the hill, the fragrance of the lilacs drifted down to them, and the kids started running. soon, the mother began running, too, until she reached the top. there, far from view of passing motorists and hidden from encroaching civilization, were the towering lilacs bushes, so laden with the huge, cone-shaped flower clusters that they almost bent double. with a smile, the young woman rushed up to the nearest bush and buried her face in the flowers, drinking in the fragrance and the memories it recalled.

还没等他们到达半山腰， 紫丁香的芬芳已经向他们飘了过来。于是， 孩子们开始奔跑。不久， 那位母亲也开始跑起来， 直至到达山顶。

那里， 远离了过往司机的视野， 避开了纷扰的文明世界， 高耸的丁香花丛开满了硕大的圆锥形的串串花束， 几乎把花茎压成了两折。那个年轻女人微笑着冲到最近的一处花丛， 把脸埋在鲜花中， 啜饮着芳香， 陶醉在重新唤起的记忆中。

while the man examined the cellar hole and tried to explain to the children what the house must have looked like, the woman drifted among the lilacs. carefully, she chose a sprig here, another one there, and clipped them with her husbands pocket knife. she was in no hurry, relishing each blossom as a rare and delicate treasure. finally, though, they returned to their car for the trip home. while the kids chattered and the man drove, the woman sat smiling, surrounded by her flowers, a faraway look in her eyes.

在那个男人察看地窖试图向孩子们解释这座房子必定是什么样子的当儿， 那个女人不由自主地走进了紫丁香花丛。她小心翼翼地从这儿摘一枝， 那儿挑一束， 然后用丈夫的袖珍小刀将它们剪下来。她不慌不忙， 像欣赏稀有珍宝似地欣赏着每一朵花。

然而， 他们终于还是返回了汽车， 走上了回家的路。孩子们叽叽喳喳说个不停， 那个男人驾着车， 那个女人坐在那儿面带微笑， 她周围放满了鲜花， 眼睛里充满着向往。

when they were within three miles of home, she suddenly shouted to her husband, stop the car. stop right here! the man slammed on the brakes. before he could ask her why she wanted to stop, the woman was out of the car and hurrying up a nearby grassy slope with the lilacs still in her arms. at the top of the hill was a nursing home and, because it was such a beautiful spring day, the patients were outdoors strolling with relatives or sitting on the porch.

当他们离家不足3英里时， 她突然向丈夫大声喊道：停车， 就在这里停车!

那个男人嘎地刹住车。还没等他问为什么， 女人就已经下了车， 匆匆走向附近的草坡， 怀里仍抱着紫丁香。山顶上是一家疗养院， 因为这是一个美丽的春日， 所以病人正在室外和亲友溜达或坐在门廊上。

the young woman went to the end of the porch, where an elderly patient was sitting in her wheelchair, alone, head bowed, her back to most of the others. across the porch railing went the flowers, in to the lap of the old woman. she lifted her head, and smiled. for a few moments, the two women chatted, both aglow with happiness, and then the young woman turned and ran back to her family. as the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair waved, and clutched the lilacs.

那个年轻女人走到门廊的尽头， 只见那里有一个上了年纪的病人正坐在轮椅里， 独自一人， 低着头， 背对着其他人。年轻女人越过门廊栏杆， 将鲜花放在了老太太的膝间。老太太抬起头， 露出了笑脸。两个女人聊了一会儿， 都兴高采烈。随后， 那个年轻女人转身跑回到家人的身边。当汽车开动时， 坐在轮椅里的那个女人挥动着手， 手里紧紧地握着那束紫丁香花。

mom, the kids asked, who was that?why did you give her our flowers?is she somebodys mother?the mother said she didnt know the old woman. but it was mothers day, and she seemed so alone, and who wouldnt be cheered by flowers?besides, she added, i have all of you, and i still have my mother, even if she is far away. that woman needed those flowers more than i did.

this satisfied the kids, but not the husband. the next day he purchased half a dozen young lilacs bushes and planted them around their yard, and several times since then he has added more.

妈妈， 孩子们问， 那人是谁呀?你为什么把我们的花送给她?她是谁的母亲呀?他们的母亲说， 她不认识那个老太太， 但今天是母亲节， 她看起来是那么孤独， 而鲜花会给任何人带来好心情。再说， 她补充道， 我拥有你们， 而且我还有自己的母亲， 即使她离我很远。那个女人比我更需要那些鲜花。

孩子们得到了满意的答案， 但她的丈夫却没有。第二天， 他买了半打紫丁香幼苗， 栽到了院子四周;而且从那以后， 每隔一段时间， 他就会增加一些。

i was that man. the young mother was, and is, my wife. now, every may, our own yard is redolent with lilacs. every mothers day our kids gather purple bouquets. and every year i remember that smile on a lonely old womans face, and the kindness that put the smile there.

我就是那个男人， 那个年轻母亲是我妻子。如今， 每年5月， 我们自家的院子都会散发出浓烈的紫丁香的芬芳。每逢母亲节， 我们的孩子都要采撷紫丁香花束。而且每年我都会记起一位孤独的老太太脸上露出的笑容， 以及笑容里呈现出的那种慈祥。