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1000端午节的英语小学作文带翻译
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+ 加入清单端午节是我们中国十分隆重的节日,它是为了纪念战国时期伟大的爱国诗人屈原,现在的中国人还在延续这一习俗,甚至还有一天的法定节日。
Dragon Boat Festival is a very grand festival in China. It is to
commemorate Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet in the Warring States period. Now
Chinese people still continue this custom, even a legal festival.
农历五月初五就是端午节了,家家户户都要包粽子,还有有趣的划龙舟比赛呢!奶奶在家已经煮好了香喷喷的粽子,打开锅盖满屋都飘着粽子的清香,让我闻得口水直流个不停。我迫不及待地剥开粽子叶津津有味的吃了起来,真是回味无穷呀!
The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of may in the lunar calendar.
Every family needs to make zongzi. There are also interesting dragon boat races!
Grandma has cooked delicious zongzi at home. When she opened the pot cover, the
fragrance of zongzi was floating all over the house, making my mouth water
continuously. I cant wait to peel off the zongzi leaf and eat it with relish.
Its really memorable!
吃完粽子后,爸爸带我去看划龙舟比赛,这里人山人海,车水马龙的可热闹了!比赛开始了,各个队伍都蓄势待发,随着一阵枪声一条条龙舟飞快地划过水面,犹如一支支箭向前飞去。在场的观众们兴奋喊道着加油加油,在为参赛者加油鼓励,参赛者们听了心里充满了信心使劲地划桨,水花到处飞溅。各条龙舟你追我赶的,最后,落后的一号终于追上了遥遥领先的二号第一个冲过了终点,观众们不禁欢呼起来,到处都是一片欢乐的海洋。啊!这真是我最难忘的一天了。
After eating zongzi, my father took me to watch the dragon boat race. There
are lots of people here, and the traffic is very busy! The race started, and
every team is ready to go. With a burst of gunfire, each dragon boat flies
across the water like an arrow. The audience cheered and shouted, cheering and
encouraging for the contestants. The contestants listened with confidence and
strove hard to paddle, and the water splashed everywhere. Each dragon boat
chased after each other. At last, the laggard No. 1 finally caught up with the
far ahead No. 2. The audience couldnt help cheering. There was a sea of joy
everywhere. Ah! This is the most unforgettable day for me.
还有许许多多的传统节日也是和端午节一样有趣的,我们要一起保护中国的传统节日。
There are also many traditional festivals as interesting as Dragon Boat
Festival. We should protect Chinese traditional festivals together.
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+ 加入清单In the things I have experienced, a lot of things are like rain, and soon disappeared, and only one thing is to make me excited.
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篇2:关于执着的小学生作文题目
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+ 加入清单执着是滴水穿石,执着是愚公移山,执着是精卫填海,执着是铁杵成针……执着梦想,再大的困难都能解决,执着梦想,道路再颠簸也能一马平川,执着梦想,风雨再大都会拥抱晴天! Perseverance is dripping through the stone, the persistence is the Yigong Mountain, the attachment is the essence reclamation, the obsession is the needle to become a needle ...Dreams, the road can be bumpy again, and the dream can also be upset.
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+ 加入清单“那件事明明我也做了,可老师为什么光是表扬她?好啊,她不是比我强吗?不是老得到老师的表扬吗?这次活动我就不帮她,看她能强到什么地方去。”我愤愤不平地向爸爸诉说着。爸爸没说任何话,只是抬起头看了我一眼,又继续干他的活。
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+ 加入清单快乐的周末 A Happy Weekend
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泉水叮咚流入生活,大山广阔记在心中,此是春行之乐也!
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+ 加入清单12 May 2006
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I am writing to apply for a British Council scholarship to study in Britain. I did my five years basic training in medicine at Shanghai University. After this I successfully completed a one-year postgraduate course in Ophthalmology at the Peoples General Hospital, where I am at present serving a two-year probation in the Eye Clinic.
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Yours faithfully,
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篇7:我爱我的学校小学英语作文
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+ 加入清单i have a beautiful school.
in the spring,the weather become warmer and warmer.and the trees become green.some birds are singing on the trees.the flowers are open.some butterflies are fly over the flowers.in the fall,the weather is windy.the leaves of trees like butterflies are in the sky.
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+ 加入清单I want to be a model student. What shall I do?
I should be polite. I should study hard. I should capful and helpful. I should walk in the corridors. I should throw rubbish in the bin. I should be quiet in the library. I shouldn’t walk and run on the grass. I shouldn’t throw rubbish on the floor. I shouldn’t run in the corridors. I shouldn’t fight. I shouldn’t be noisy in the library.
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+ 加入清单When I was picking up my stuff after school, I saw a dog staring at me at the school gate .I was kind of scary. I thought the dog would bite me when I was going out. But it was not. The dog started to follow me. I was very afraid. I started to run away, but the dog did it, either. Suddenly, the dog ran pass away me. I realized the man in front of me was the owner of the dog. I was relieved.
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+ 加入清单to waste and to lose the way. We only have two years. Two years to go, we were still talking about the new school and new friends. Yes! A year later, we have grown riper. And we learned much more things and got new life. We haven’t enough time to play, we will get the real life which belongs to us. ,。
January 27 2008 Today, I will take a job and work. It’ time for me to begin to learn how to work. January28 2008 I have rested for a week. I began to feel bored. So I went out with my friends. They are my best friends in the middle school. We didn’t go to someplace special. We just saw the other. We had lunch together. While we were having lunch, but I think I should share the work with them. I am one of my family member. In the future, so was my father. They always live in Beijing. They must get up early. Because they will manage the factory. So I know they are very laborious. So I should save my money. Also I should help them. Although I can’t do something useful, I still went to my mother’s office. My mother was very busy。
篇11:小学生写可爱的小狗英语作文
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+ 加入清单One afternoon, people on the grasslands were celebrating the meeting, the people who celebrated were drinking, and a puppy saw it very strange.
It is a clever puppy, eyes round, ears small, tail like a snail shell rolled, the body chubby, wearing a black and white plush clothing, very cute.
The puppy found that there was a bottle on the grass, the bottle was filled with water, it looked east, and the West looked, everyone was in and something like that, and it wished to try it, and it saw a ladys elegant straw Drank it on the grass to find it, and finally found a straw, it put the straw into the bottle, forced to suck, "ah! Really bitter ah!" Puppy said, but also desperately shook his head Thinking, "I can not drink in the future, too hard to drink, I want to tell my brother. Sister do not drink this hard to drink bitter.
How cute little puppy i love cute puppy.
篇12:有关电脑的小学英语
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+ 加入清单When I was in grade four in primary school, my father taught me how to use
computer. After that, I was very interested in playing computer. I watched
movies, played computer games, searched the Internet and listened to the music
on computer. Because my father must work in his computer, so he bought another
for me. I was very happy that I had my own computer. It was put in the study. I
am always very careful to use my computer, because I am worried I would break. I
often chat with my net friends. Because of my computer, I make many friends who
have many in common. Of course, I use my computer in study. There are resources
on the Internet. I can learn more after class. It does great help to me.
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+ 加入清单There are quite a lot since I was young, I like sports, they like the sparkling stars sky, how the number is countless. However, my favorite sport is climbing pole.
I like to climb the pole of the campaign, because when I was in kindergarten, I was one of the most naughty girl in our class, everybody calls me "drum". And I climb pole of the sport is also a lot of girls do not dare, dare only two girls and boys of the class, I am one of them, it makes me very proud.
I remember it was a sunny morning, I climb the pole and two boys game. Although I was a lot of trouble with boys than anything, but since I was young, I have a little afraid of heights, so the crawling crawling feeling more and more afraid of, have to despondently slipped. I low head say: "I... I... I lost!" In fact, my heart has one hundred defy spirit.
After school, I got home, he rushed to the front of the my backyard that rail, slowly began to practice. Unconsciously, I have already climbed to the top, I looked down, "ah... frighten to death me!" I never climb such a high place, the sweat from my face like soybean straight flowing downwards.
How can I get rid of my fear of heights problem? I sat on a swing hard thinking. At this time, the father asked me what was wrong, I put the incident tell dad, dad said: "as long as the body balance, dont look down, you will not be afraid." I according to dads words again and again to try, but I cant help sliding down every time, and I remember my father told me, his eyes closed, the body balance, I tried several times, oh... I succeeded, I from the rail down, very happy. I get this good news for the first time dad.
The next day, I and the two boys in the kindergarten again launched a fierce climb bar game, after the match began, my good friends encouraged me to below, and my heart is like fifteen buckets to draw water so anxious. Monkeys like to climb two boys, but they havent been able to climb to the highest point. I also not to be outdone, finally I didnt live up to the expectations of good friends to me, I win, my good friends around me to applaud for me. The two boys have to throw in the towel.
Since then and I climbed to the bar. Climbing pole brings me health and brings joy, it is one of my favorite sports.
我从小就有许许多多喜欢的运动,它们像天上那闪闪发光的小星星,怎么数也数不清。但是,我最喜欢的一项运动就是爬杆。
我之所以喜欢爬杆这项运动,是因为我在上幼儿园的时候,我是我们班女生里最淘气的一个,大家都叫我“淘汽包”。而我爬杆这项运动也是很多女生不敢做的,全班只有两个女生敢和男生比,我就是其中一个,这让我很自豪。
我记得那是一个阳光明媚的早上,我和两个男生比赛爬杆。虽然我是个淘气包什么都敢跟男生比,但是我从小就有点恐高,所以爬着爬着感觉越来越怕,只好灰溜溜地滑了下来。我低着头说:“我……我……我输了!”其实我的心里有一百个的不服气。
放学后,我一回到家,就冲到我家后院那根栏杆前,开始慢慢地练习。不知不觉地,我已经爬到了最高处,我一往下看,“啊……吓死我啦!”我从没有爬过这么高的地方,大豆般的汗珠从我的脸颊直往下流。
怎么才能去掉我恐高的毛病呢?我坐在秋千上闷头苦想着。这时,爸爸过来问我怎么了,我把事情的经过讲给爸爸听,爸爸告诉说:“只要身体保持平衡,不要向下看,你就不会害怕了。”我按爸爸的话一次又地尝试着,可是我每次都会情不自禁地滑下来,我回想爸爸跟我讲的话,把眼睛闭着,身体保持平衡,我又试了几次,哦……我成功了,我从栏杆下来后,好开心!我第一时间把这个好消息告诉爸爸。
第二天,我和那两个男生又在幼儿园展开了一场激烈的爬杆比赛,比赛开始后,我的好朋友都在下面鼓励我,而我的心里却像十五个吊桶打水七上八下。两个男生猴子似的往上爬,可他们都没能爬到最高点。我也不甘示弱,终于我没有辜负好朋友们对我的期望,我赢了,我的好朋友都围着我为我喝彩。两个男生也只好认输。
从那以后我和爬杆结下了不解之缘。爬杆给我带来了健康,带来了快乐,它是我最喜欢的一种运动。
篇14:小学自我介绍英语作文
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+ 加入清单I am xxx and I am 12 years old. My favorite sports include basketball, swim and football. One of my favorite stars is Liu Xiang because he is the fastest runner in the world and a pride of our country.
I have love fruits like watermelon, grapes, banana, and so forth. When I have time, I like watching TV, playing games on my computer, surfing the web, and reading. I have a lot of friends and we often play football together.
篇15:小学作文弟弟学英语
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+ 加入清单星期天,可爱的小表弟来我们家玩,他已经四岁多了,正是牙牙学语的时候。
这天他来我们家,竟然还背了个小书包,可把我乐坏了,他说要来我们家学习。这么个小不点儿,学什么习哟,话都还没学会几句,我倒真想看看他来我们家学什么!?他从书包里“哗”地抽出一本大大的彩图书,我定睛一看,原来是一本英文字母入门书呀!小表弟说:“哥哥,这是我们幼儿园发的,我要哥哥教教我!”“得了吧,你普通话都说不准,还想学什么英语呀?”小表弟一看我凶巴巴的样子,立即准备泪汪汪,一副可怜巴巴的样子。我真怕他那哇哇大哭的声响,立马连声说:“好好好!哥哥教你!哥哥教你!”小表弟立即破涕为笑。我从A一直到Z,一个一个让他跟我读,他虽然读一点都不标准,有好几个几乎是“南辕北辙”,但看他那副认认真真的样子,真叫人不忍心批评他。我又重新从头教他读,他读写读写,便开始东张西望起来,不一会儿就跑去玩玩具了。我逗他:“快过来,哥哥没教完呢!”他已经假装听不见,自顾自地玩着。
哎,这个小表弟呀,真是又可爱又调皮!
篇16:小学英语作文环境
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+ 加入清单The environment has been polluted badly today and the nature punishes the
human being by all kinds of disasters, such as the heavy haze in Beijing, which
damages people’s health. World Environment Day is on June 5th. It pays attention
to call for the public to make an effort to bring the world a clean
environment.
Look at the pollution around us, which exists everywhere. The cars release
the gas which pollutes the air and the rubbish can be found in every corner of
the street. All of these daily incidents hurts the world we live. Especially the
factories, they release the heavy smoke and make the sky becomes dark. What’s
more, the wasted water flows to the clean river.
Though the government has made some action to punish the businessmen for
releasing the polluted sources, they still dare to take the risk of earning the
biggest profit. If we hurt the environment, it will hurt ourselves, because we
live together. The polluted environment threatens our health. If we want to live
the comfortable life, then the only way is to be nice to the environment.
篇17:感恩父母英语小学
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+ 加入清单Thanksgiving Day, first of all I would like to thank the students I raised my father and mother, and then thanks to teach me to train my teacher.
Today, I would like to thank my extracurricular chess teacher, when I was eight years old, I first met in 2005, "61" children game, get encouragement, since then set my chess determination, So that I fell in love with Go. I will Baili teacher as a teacher, in his careful teaching, I gradually learned to "eat, layout, ending ... ..." by a chess blind "layman" into a strength of the amateur 4 small players, in the Repeatedly won several competitions. I remember the best results are the citys race and the sixth session of the eighth championship, the provinces "Linchuan Evening News Cup" second, the International Shanghai Invitational sixth, these hard-won results are Is the teachers hard education of the credit, how can I forget your education grace it?
In the future I will use practical action to thank you for my training, the ancients said: one day for the division, life for the father, dripping grace, when Yongquan phase newspaper. The results can only represent the past, I have to study hard, so that their chess does not continue to improve, humbly learn from chess, sum up experience, get rid of their shortcomings, learn someone elses superb chess and others, the future better To return to my mentor. Never let mentor disappointed.
篇18:小学生英语寓言小故事:两个树洞
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+ 加入清单两个树洞
My uncle has two dogs. One is big and the other is small. He likes them very much.
One day, Mr. Smith came to visit him. When the friend saw two holes in the door, a large hole and a small hole, he was surprised and said, ;My dear friend, why are there two holes in your door?; ;Let my dogs come in and come out, of course,; Mr. Smith asked. ;But why are there two holes? One is enough!; ;But how can the big dog go through the small hole?; my uncle said.
Sometimes a clever man may make such mistakes.
我的叔叔有两条狗。一只是大的,另一只是小狗的。他很喜欢它们。
有一天,史密斯先生来看他。当这个朋友看见门口上有连个洞,一个是大洞和一个小洞时,他感到吃惊并说,;我亲爱的朋友,为什么你的门上有连个洞?;我的叔叔回答说:;当然是让我的两条狗进出了。 史密斯先生问到:"为什么门上要两个洞呢?一个就足够了。"我叔叔说:;大狗怎能走小洞呢?;
篇19:快乐的英语课小学一年级优秀作文
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+ 加入清单星期四上午,一位来自加拿大的老师给我们上了一节快乐的英语课。
上课铃响了,这位长着满头金发的外籍老师走进了我们班的教室。同学兴奋极不已,热情地向老师问好,教室里热闹极了!
课堂上,同学们聚精会神,老师教的每一个字母,我们都认真地读,老师说的每一句话,我们都认真地听。这节课,老师教了我们“笑”、“哭”、“想”等很多英语动词,还教我们给单词配上了有趣的动作,我们很感兴趣,每个人都学得津津有味。
不知不觉,下课的时间到了。老师动情地大声对全班同学说:“I love you!”可同学们都舍不得这位英语老师,簇拥着老师离开教室。
我希望下个星期快点到来,再一次见到这位漂亮的外国老师,再上那快乐的英语课。
篇20:初中英语作文题目
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+ 加入清单Transportation has been greatly changed in the past few years. In ancient
days, people used to travel by horse or carriage. The journey was often tiring
and tedious. Then people had buses, trains and ships, which could shorten the
time of the long-distance trip. Now we have not only more private cars, but also
planes and high-speed rails. All of these modern transports could offer us a
quick and pleasant travel. Thus, more and more people enjoy traveling very much
these days. In conclusion, modern transportation has completely changed our
life. Thanks to modern transportation, our world is becoming smaller and
smaller.