减压方式英文作文汇编20篇

文章结尾的作用是概括全文内容，进一步强调或肯定文章的中心思想，使文章意义表达得更加深刻。

文章结尾的形式也是多种多样的，常见的有以下几种：

1、首尾呼应，画龙点睛

在文章的结尾，把含义较深的话放在末尾，以点明主题，深化主题，起到画龙点睛的效果。如I Cannot Forget Her (我忘不了她)的结尾：

After her death，I felt as if something were missing in my life. I was sad over her passing away，but I knew she would not have had any regrets at having given her life for the benefit of the people.

2、重复主题句

结尾回到文章开头阐明的中心思想或主题句上，达到强调的效果。如I Love My Home Town(我爱家乡)的结尾：

I love my home town，and I love its people. They too have changed. They are going all out to do more for the good of our motherland.

3、自然结尾

随着文章的结束，文章自然而然地结尾。如Fishing(钓鱼)的结尾：

I caught as many as twenty fish in two hours，but my brother caught many more. Tired from fishing，we lay down on the river bank，bathing in the sun. We returned home very late.

The spring festival is Chinese most traditional festival every 365 days. Each Chinesepay much attention on it. Every year about 15 days before spring festival， themigrate works and white-collars are beginning crowded home-returning.

But， in recent years， with the development of the world， many different attitudes between the young and the old towards the spring festival come forth. The old are still pay more attention to the spring festival， but the young gradually change the mode to spend their spring festival holiday， such as travel overseas.

When I am a childhood， I celebrated the spring festival with my family about amonth in my winter vacation in traditional way， such as helping cleaning our houses， putting red couplets on gates， setting off firecrackers， and wear new clothes. Now， I spend only 4 or 5 days at home with my parents in celebrating thespring festival， then I will hurry back to work. Maybe in the near future， I will have no time celebrating spring festival hometown， and my parents have to cometo stay with us in the city.

Whether or no， I like the spring festival. It is one of the most important part of our Chinese culture. However busy I am， I will try my best to celebrating it with thetraditional way to protect those our ancestor has leave behind.

成长路漫漫，遇到困难也不计其数，但我有我的方式，所以我坚信，所有的困难都将迎刃而解。

我从小就有一个舞蹈梦，幻想着有一天，我能够穿着华丽的演出服站在舞台上，用优美的舞姿来展现美。得知这件事的母亲便为我报了一门舞蹈课。

儿时的我懵懂地走进那些教室，看到那些轻松一踢，就能踢到头顶的同学，我既羡慕又惭愧。我立刻换上舞蹈服，就开始仿佛那些年龄大一些的同学做一些练习。我努力将腿抬上把杆，手用力向前伸，却始终触碰不到脚尖。我举手主动请求老师的帮助，她使劲地按住我的背开始往下压，那时的疼痛，简直让未满五岁的我无法承受。可我知道在这时只有忍住才能继续前进。压腿，压腰，伸展，这些都是我的初体验，听着，旁边同学撕心裂肺的哭声与想放弃的怒吼，我强忍泪水，咬紧牙关，我知道，此时，忍耐就是我的方式。

我渐渐成长，走入学生时代，又一次走进那间教室。天外有天，人外有人，我仍不是那个最优秀的。我们要开始学习成套的动作，我接受新事物很慢，但我一定要练熟。下课后，大家都急急忙忙地跑出了门。而我却仍在那里面对着镜子，自己喊着拍子，一遍遍地顺着动作，断了之后，就重新再做一遍。经过一遍又一遍的重复，看着镜中的我渐入佳境，我开心地笑了。我知道，此时，坚持就是我的方式。

不知不觉中，我已成为一名青少年，我的课业负担渐渐加重，可我逐梦的步伐我却没有半点停歇。一周一次的排练我从不缺席，看着班上的同学渐渐减少，我的表现也变得优秀起来，这便是我十年努力得来的成果，我知道，此时，执着就是我的方式。

终于，我登上我梦寐以求的舞台时，我站在舞台的最中央，担任着领舞的重任，一步一步在舞台上移动，旋转，跃动，最后一个亮相我已气喘吁吁，但台下雷鸣般的掌声便是十年逐梦最大的肯定。

十年之前，我不是最优秀的，但我是最努力的；十年之后，我是优秀的，但我仍是最努力的。我有我独特的方式，也正是它，成就了我此时的光辉。

for going on with my further studies， i took the entrance examination in a senior middle school last week。 i still remember there were more than three hundred candidates taking part in this examination。 for the first day， in the morning， chinese was easy。 we were required to write a composition of 250 words on "my home life"， and give definitions and illustrations to twenty phrases。 in the afterno on， we took an english examination。 there were dictation， sentence formation， and analysis for oral english。 in the oral examination， i was questioned about my home life， my experience in the junior middle school and my future prospects。

on the second day， we were examined on history and geography in the morning and physics and chemistry in the afternoon。

“我的入学考试”英语作文译文：

为了进一步学习，我上周在一所高中参加了入学考试。我还记得参加考试的有300多人，第一天上午，语文很简单，我们要写一篇250字的作文，关于“我的家庭生活”，并解释20个短语。下午，我们考英语，有听力，造句，分析口语。口语考试时，我被问道我的生活，中学经历以及未来的希望。

第二天，我们早上考历史、地理，下午考物理、化学。

Nowadays, with the development of Internet, people count on the Internet to

do a lot of things. The most common thing is to follow the information they are

interested in. Most people like to write down their comments, while as there is

no law to limit the comment. I always see the negative words. Internet has

become a main way for people to attack others. So horrible it is. We should be a

wise person. The way we respect others decides what kind of person we are. It is

unwise to follow the bad comment and attack others. We need to have our own

judgment and be a nice person.

At Christmas time, I will always bless my classmates who have walked through fifty difficult steps with me. This year I will use this composition as a special gift to express my deep blessing to him.

The past always keeps me fresh. The student is very tall. He always looks serious, but he always smiles on his face when he helps others. We have always been a very good playing partner. Remember, thats my Christmas day in grade two. Its a bit slippery on the ground under the drizzle. When we took turns shooting, I sprained my feet after landing, but I couldnt even stand up. After he saw it, he put down the ball immediately, gently lifted me up, and slowly helped me into the teaching building. From his eyes, I could see a bit of worry. I knew he was worried about whether I could walk up to the four floor classroom.

There are fifty steps to go up to the four floor classroom, because our speed is very slow, so that we just walked to the two floor, and the bell rang. I asked him to go quickly, but he said, "after I leave, how do you get there? Id like to stay. " Looking at his solemn expression, listening to his firm words and feeling his powerful arm, suddenly a warm current came to his heart, and the pain seemed to ease a lot. With his support, one step and one stop, we strolled fifty steps hard. These fifty steps left me with the love of my classmates. This is the special Christmas gift that I got that year!

I switched to school in XX, but I can never forget the story of that Christmas. This years Christmas is coming. Today is drizzle. Im here to bless him and I together to a good middle school, and hope we can play basketball happily together.

内容包括：

1. 简要介绍造成现在学生学习压力大的原因。

2. 你认为来自于English Online调查结果的放松方式是否有效，为什么?

3.谈谈你个人自我放松的有效做法(至少三点)。

Dear fellows,

Not only adults but also we students often feel stressed because we have too much homework to do, and we are very busy studying every day, we don’t have our own time to do what we are interested in. We are very tired and sleepy all day, so we should learn to deal with it. What should we do to relax?

From the result of the survey, I think doing sports with classmates is a good way to relax. Because it’s good for our health and it can make us relaxed.

I also have three ways to relax ourselues. First, we can listen to music. Second, we can go to the movies with our parents on weekends. Don’t study at home all the weekend. Third, when we feel tired, we can think about something interesting.

I hope my suggestions can help you.Thanks!

[高考英语作文话题预测减压

The day before Christmas, the doll pudding and the little red hat made an appointment to buy Christmas presents.

When crossing the road, little red hat saw a white beard old grandfather crossing the road on crutches. The cars on the road came and came, very dangerous. The little red cap saw it and said to Boudin, "lets help Grandpa cross the road?" Boudin said, "no, you can see the bus is coming."

"Its all right. We can sit down, and the teacher says that its a good child to help people." Little red cap said.

Little red hat and pudding helped the old grandfather walk through the street step by step. The old man said, "good boy, thank you." Its gone. Then they heard someone say, "the gift, then." They looked up, Santa Claus, and went home with the gift of pleasure.

Dear Charlie,

Kindly excuse me for my not being able to see you off at the airport this

Saturday as I have promised.

A major business partner of our company will be attending an important

conference in Xiamen this weekend, and my boss finally chooses me to accompany

him there to negotiate about a new transaction. I have just been informed of

this plan and am happy about the decisionthis is an opportunity to both display

and enhance my abilities, so I am afraid I cannot be present at the airport.

Pursuing study overseas is an essential step in the accomplishment of your

dream. How I wish I could have the chance to share with you my personal feelings

and suggestions before you are away! I hereby send you a gift to wish you good

luck. Please forgive me.

Cordially,

Li Ming

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?

Euston UK LTD

81?85 BARNLEY ROAD

DUNDEE

28th September, 1996

Ref: PVH/ltj

Jason & Son Ltd.

Parkside Manor

Burnside

Dumfries

Dear sir：

Thank you for your letter of 20 September, requesting a reference for Clairish Computers Ltd. The answers to your questions are as follows:

1. We have employed Clairish Computers Ltd. since January 1995.

2. Clairish Computers has helped our company rectify a new computer system that had been badly installed by another firm of consultants. It has drawn up a system specification for a replacement system and has chosen appropriate hardware.

3. We did not select Clairish Computers from several candidates.

4. We were not first time computer users.

5. Our first system is working satisfactorily. The replacement system is still too new to comment on.

6. We are satisfied with the work of Clairish Computers. The various stages were completed on time, and the charges agreed with the quotes.

7. There was continuity of staff at Clairish Computers. Ian Baird managed the work, which was carried out by Alex Johnston and James MacReady.

8. The staff training was effectively carried out.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Haddon, Director

Dear Mr. Lai,

尊敬的赖老师：

I am writing this letter just want to say thanks to you. I am going to graduate in two weeks. You have been my class adviser for three years. During these three years you have spent lots of energy on us. You are not only teaching knowledge in the class, but also care our life. Sometimes we are afraid of you, because of your strict requirement for our study. However, you are so helpful in the daily life. No matter what difficulties we are in, you will help if you can. So, I also want to say sorry to you for making so much trouble. But you bear all my trouble. I don’t know what kind of class adviser I will meet in the future study, but I will remember and appreciate you forever. I want to say thank you again.

我写这封信只是想跟你说声谢谢。还有两周我就要毕业了。你做了我三年的班主任。在这三年你花了那么多精力在我们身上。你不仅仅在课堂上传授我们知识，而且在生活上也很关心我们。不过有时候我们有点怕你，因为你对我们学习的严格要求。不过，在日常生活中你是那么的乐于助人。无论我们遇到什么样的困难，只要能够帮得上忙你都会帮我们。所以，我还想对你说声对不起，给你带来那么多的麻烦。但是你都一一包容了。我不知道我会在今后的学习中遇到什么样的班主任，但是我会一直记得你、感激你的。我想再次说声谢谢。

Regarded

Student

学生

Dear customers

Hello!

Welcome to your home. There is a childrens library.

Picture book, namely picture book, is a kind of genre that children like to

see. It is in line with the characteristics of childrens thinking development.

It is very attractive for children to read and welcomed by children. In the

process of picture book reading, childrens imagination and creativity get good

development.

Datong family has book boy, is the pioneer of picture book rental and

delivery service. It is committed to the establishment of childrens reading

habits. Through the regular distribution of picture books to customers homes,

parents can develop the cognitive habit of reading in the childrens habit

development period, so as to help children establish their own way of thinking

and cognition of the world and promote self-help learning The cultivation of

habit. At the same time, there are book children at home. For families that pay

attention to childrens growth, parents and childrens picture books story

meeting is provided free of charge. The teacher is a loving gardener who has

been teaching for many years and is committed to promoting picture books.

Different classes and different harvests are available. Parents and children are

welcome to come home and have a childrens picture book library. Please read and

let your children harvest a scholarly childhood in the wonderful picture book

world.

Reading is a lifelong thing, youd better take 20 minutes out of your busy

schedule every day to accompany children to read books, discuss and enjoy the

fun of books together. After a period of time, you will find that there is a TV

fan, a computer fan, a troublemaker and a bookworm. Reading picture books gives

children not only the visual enjoyment, but also the understanding of details

and spiritual eXperience. In the spiritual dialogue with picture books, children

roam between the lines which are full of human brilliance, harmony of nature and

childlike innocence. It is bound to broaden the horizons, enrich the heart,

sublimate the realm, and improve the personality, so as to give the children a

chance to love reading I fell in love with the opportunity to learn. I read a

library every four weeks, 16 books a month, and 200 books a year. I read a

library in my childhood, making reading a habit and learning a pleasure.

Starting from having a schoolboy at home, we firmly believe that cultivating

reading habits will benefit childrens life.

Look, this is my bedroom. It s not very big. But it s beautiful and clean. In the middle of my bedroom, there is a bed. There is a teddy bear and some hair clips on it. Beside the bed, there is a desk. Its colour is brown. There are many things on the desk, some pens, a Walkman, a light and many stickers. Oh, there is a chair beside the desk, too. On the right of the desk, there is a bookcase. It s big and tall. There are lots of books in the bookcase. They are comic books, exercise books, story books and copy books.

Can you see two pictures on the wall？

The Culture of China is home to one of the worlds oldest and most complex civilizations. China boasts a history rich in over 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and scientific advancement. Though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities in language and religion connect a culture distinguished by such significant contributions such as Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial Chinas history and strongly influenced other countries in East Asia. Mastery of Confucian texts provided the primary criterion for entry into the imperial bureaucracy.

With the rise of Western economic and military power beginning in the mid-19th century, Western systems of social and political organization gained adherents in China. Some of these would-be reformers rejected Chinas cultural legacy, while others sought to combine the strengths of Chinese and Western cultures.

China is a unified nation consisting of many different ethnic groups. Fifty-six different ethnic groups make up the great Chinese national family. Because the Han people accounts for more than ninety percent of Chinas population, the remaining fifty-five groups are generally referred to as "ethnic minorities." Next to the majority Han, the Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, and Uygur peoples comprise the largest ethnic groups. Although Chinas ethnic minorities do not account for a large portion of the population, they are distributed over a vast area, residing in every corner of China.

Particularly since the implementation of Chinas opening and reform policy, the central government has increased investment in minority areas and accelerated their opening to the outside world. This has resulted in an upsurge of economic development in these areas. Each of Chinas ethnic minority groups possesses a distinctive culture. The Chinese government respects minority customs, and works to preserve, study, and collate the cultural artifacts of Chinas ethnic minority groups. The government vigorously supports the development of minority culture and the training of minority cultural workers, and fosters the development of traditional minority medicine.

The relation among Chinas ethnic groups can be described as "overall integration, local concentration, mutual interaction." Concentrations of ethnic minorities reside within predominantly Han areas, and the Han people also reside in minority areas, indicating that there has been extensive exchanges among Chinas ethnic groups since ancient times. With the development of the market economy, interaction among ethnic groups has become even more active in the areas of government, economics, culture, daily life, and marriage. Linked by interdependence, mutual assistance, and joint development, their common goals and interests creating a deep sense of solidarity, Chinas ethnic groups resemble a great national family, together building Chinese civilization.

很欣赏一种表情。

它没有蒙娜丽莎微笑的神秘，也没有“回眸一笑百媚生”的娇媚，只是简单的嘴角上扬。

很痴迷于人在历尽风霜后眼睛闪着柔和光芒，嘴角自然、上扬的那种睿智的表情。那柔和的光芒是近乎完美的“伪装”。藏起了满腹愁苦，嘴角上扬，掩饰了多少风霜的裂痕；不露痕迹，只在心里酝酿生活的艰辛。当那微笑的画面定格时，人们看不到任何对春秋轮回的感叹，对伤痛的无奈与哀愁，更没有迷茫与绝望。

这样的人，不哭泣。他们是真正懂得生活的人。真正懂得生活的人不谈生活，那被岁月刻蚀过的脸不显山水，只是淡淡地、平和地、宽容地一笑。只有他们自己知道，这淡淡一笑包含了多少。的确，这不是千金难买的嫣然回首，不是“一笑倾人城，再笑倾人圆”的绝色笑靥，也没有古今豪杰尽情开颜的豪壮，但他们选择了笑对人生，用宽容的笑容下世间的沧桑。他们选择另一种方式哭诉岁月的无情，命运的堪坷不济。于是笑成了感慨苦痛的另一种诠释，哭泣？倒下？不！微笑，哭泣的人，在他们的笑里，看到帆船曾在乌云下的浪尖上巅簸，摧毁，又重生；行者历经暴风狂澜，最终穿越迷雾阴霾。

这样的笑，有些像佛的笑，有些像佛的笑。一树一花，一菩提，是佛家的境界，想必，也是那菩提树下的仙人渗透人世生活的真谛而发出的感慨吧！看那佛的拈花微笑，一切全都淡然了，明了了，佛是智慧的，笑对尘世，看透了世间的悲欢离合，是非成败与一切纷扰。不哭泣的人，也是淡然而睿智的。纵然没有佛的那般高明，但那拒一切纷扰于身外，息一切伤痛于心底的笑对人生的态度，也是一种境界。佛是笑观尘世，只是一个局外人，然而人，却是在痛苦与折磨中扬起嘴角。他们凭着那张淡定的笑脸，穿越了孤独与绝望，竟使暴风狂澜也平息下来。淡然一笑，一笑拒千愁，苦难开花，梦想结果，换种方式哭泣，品味另样人生。

在世间万物，只有一样东西能给人以乐趣，给人以光彩，给人以才干。他能滋润你的心灵，能让人耳聪目明，心高志远，它就是——书。

在书的世界里，我们就是小草，知识就是甘露。勤奋的小草将甘露一点一点的吸收，使自己有顽强的生命力；而那些懒惰的小草呢，成天睡觉，即使看见甘露，也懒得碰它，最终自己越来越干枯，丧失生命。在我们的眼中，书籍是一位上知天文、下知地理、无所不知的学者，只要我们与他恳谈，他就会慷慨地将他所学的全部知识一点一滴地教给我们。他会将祖国大好河山的秀丽图画给我细细品位；会将世界悠久的历史给我讲述；他会告知我无数的道理，给我指引前方的路…无论何时，无论何地，我都会一直陪伴在这位受人尊敬与爱戴的大师旁边。在更多的情况下，这位大师不仅是你的老师，还是你的知己。你将自己的心交给他，他会把烦恼抛到九霄云外，会让你破涕为笑，会把你带进世外桃园，呼吸那儿清新的空气，欣赏那儿美丽的风景，享受大自然给予的一切，一阵微风吹过，顿时神清气爽。

俗话说得好：“读书破万卷，下笔如有神。”读书不仅能让我们陶冶情操，开阔眼界，还能提高阅读能力和作文水平。瞧瞧，一本好书中多少美词佳句供我们借鉴，不用多可惜！千万不要出现“书到用时方恨少”的情况。

我在读书时，常常会出现这样的情况：我静静地看着那本好书，渐渐地，耳旁的嘈杂声缓缓离去，只有清脆的鸟啼在我耳旁回响…为了不让他们发现，我躲在墙边上，悄悄地看他们嬉戏，偷偷地听他们那生动的话语。我顺着墙一步步靠近他们，终于，我壮起胆子与他们一起参加“秘密行动”。同享在一片蓝天下，我与他们一起欢笑、一起流泪……过了好一会儿，我才回到现实生活当中，不急感慨：读书真有趣。

正如高尔基说过的一句话：“读了一本书，就像对生活打开了一扇窗户。”

如果让读书成为我们的生活方式，那世界便没有了文盲；如果让读书成为我们的生活方式，那世人都会变的温文尔雅、才华横溢；如果让读书成为我们的生活方式，那该多好啊！

纵看中华上下五千年，朝代更迭，沧海桑田，日月星辰交替看守着属于他们的一片天地，已完成自己世世代代，永不停息的神圣使命。世间的一切，都在瞬息万变这。广阔天地中，人与人之间的爱恨情仇，酸甜苦辣，每一刹那，都在命运的船舵上，迎着风浪，一往无前，向前驶去。——题记

然而，人间温情与纷杂同时以自己的方式轮番接力出演这属于自己的戏份。他们浑然不知，在许多瞬间，换一种方式，可能会翻过风浪，渡过难关，迎接灿烂的曙光。

掀起历史风云，在浩瀚的历史长河中，让我们寻找“换一种方式”的“蛛丝马迹”。家喻户晓的‘司马光砸缸’这一事例，很好的向我们证明了换一种方式的重要性。如果有人不慎落水，我们想必第一时间是‘救人离水’，而司马光面对生死攸关的险情，十分果断地把缸砸破，‘让水离人’，巧妙而又机智地救了小伙伴的性命。换一种方式，可以融化冬日里的坚冰，拯救万物生灵，成为严寒的一缕暖阳。

陌上花开，风儿轻敲轩窗，变换了四季的苍茫。时光的弦，弹落烟花凉，修饰大地的妆。世间与自然，是如此美好。在千百万双透亮亦或是浑浊的双眼中，看到的世间万物却是有着天壤之别。若眼中有绿，目光所及之处都是蔽荫；若心中无花，潋滟也会开成荒芜。

雨后，一只蜘蛛艰难地向墙上支离破碎的网爬去，由于墙壁被雨水浸润，十分潮湿。他爬到一定高度，就会功亏一篑，滑落下来，它坚持不懈，一次次地向上爬行，却又一次次地掉下来……有一个经过的人看到了这一幕，叹了一口气：“我的一生不正如这只蜘蛛吗？忙忙碌碌无所得。”于是他日见消沉。第二个人看到了，他却被蜘蛛屡战屡败，毫不退缩的精神所感动，于是，他被感染，顿时浑身充满干劲，面带微笑，头顶阳光，一路向前走去。换一种方式看这个世界，机缘路转，可能会收获意想不到的惊喜，改变自己的一生，刹那间。

在岁月的长河里，人只有学会适时调节自己，换一种方式，学会随时改变认知，学会即时转换角度，才能在百态的心境里看到百变的风景。

How time flies! I have studied in my school for three years. And I will

graduate from middle school in a month. I am eager to share my happiness and

sadness with you. I had so many memories in three years’ life. One of them

impressed me very much. I still remember, when I began to learn English, I found

it too difficult. No matter how hard I tried, I still couldn’t do well in it and

almost gave it up. As soon as my English teacher found my problem, she had a

talk with me about how to learn English well. Since then, she has kept helping

me. Little by little, I’ve become interested in English and I’m good at it. I

think I am so lucky to become one of her students. I’ve learned a lot from her.

I will try to help others when they are in trouble. I think it is a happy thing

to help others.

I love my family, in this world full of love, there is a happy family of three, my father, mother and i..

My father works in the Bureau of culture. He is competent, he can fix it, he will invent small inventions, and he can cook very well. Mother works in the hospital, very hard-working, every day cleaning the house clean.

My family lives in the Jinta area, 120 square meters, Sanshierting house, the living room is green, people feel very fresh, my bedroom is pink, feel very warm, mom and dads bedroom is light purple, the feeling is very beautiful.

Although my family is not so rich, but every day I live a dull and happy day. I love my family and love my father and mother more.

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