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我帮妈妈收拾房间英语怎么写【合集20篇】

同学们,你知道书信怎么书写吗?我们有什么话要对爸爸妈妈说的呢?我们可以通过书信的方式告诉他们哦。以下是小编精心准备的写给爸爸妈妈的一封信,大家可以参考以下内容哦!

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我的妈妈英语

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My mother has very long hair, and wears a pair of small glasses, never loves wearing fashionable clothes, but loves reading modern books. She is knowledgable and loves writing.

I think her working is often exactly alike my father--investment, tireless, efficient,and pursuit of perfection.

She loves to be angry and excited very much; be silence and talkative as well. In short, there have "four seasons" of different moods in a day.

My mother always loves to say “case by case”. Whatever I do, rightness or wrong, she loves me. Thats true, such as when I examined well, she never praised, but let me try hard again; when not well, she was not angry (sometimes exceptions, but very few), but let me do better!

I have such a good mother, I’m very happy! May mother happy every day!May mother young forever! Thank you!

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篇1:初中英语作文我的妈妈

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My mothers English name is Amy. She is thirty-five years old. She is very nice .

She has a long hair and two black eyes. And she has a small mouth and a small nose. She doesnt look very beautiful and tender,but her eyes look nice and shes a little bit fat.

My mother loves me very much. She is good at cooking. She likes singing. Every day, she will sing many songs. When I take a good look at her,I can see her winkle which was appeared by concerning about me. Besides,there has already accrued some white hair.

Maybe my mom is just a normal person in others eyes ,but in my heart,she is a great mom.

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篇2:我的妈妈作文英语

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My mother is a junior high school teacher. She teaches English.

My mother gets up at 6a.m. every day and has breakfast at 6:30a.m. She always arrives at school at 7:25 a.m. She usually has two lessesons in the morning. In the afternoon, she have one lesson. After school, she plays volleyball with her students.

In the evening, she cooks dinner. After dinner, she prepares her lessons. She sometimes help me with my homework. She usually goes to bed at 11p.m.

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篇3:我的房间英语作文150字

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My room Open the door,oh,the room is very beautiful!Whose room is this?It’s my room.

I like watching TV.The TV is before the bed.I am lie to watch TV on the bed.I have a piano.The piano is near the TV set.Sometimes,I play the piano.And the computer is near the window.I often play the piano. This is my room.Do you like my room?

What about your room?

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篇4:关于妈妈的英语作文:My mother

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My mother has no idea that her ninetieth birthday is coming up. She has no notion of the time of day, the day of the week. the season of the year, the year of the century. No notion of the approaching millennium. And no idea any longer, who I am. Her forgetting of me happened just a few months ago, after I had been traveling for more than a month and hadnt been to see her. When I came back, she asked me if I were her niece, l said no, I was her daughter. "Does that mean I had you?" she asked. 1 said yes. "Where was I when l had you?" she asked me. I told her she was in a hospital in Far Rockaway. New York. "So much has happened to me in my life." she said "You cant expect me to remember everything."

My mother was once a beautiful woman, but all her teeth are gone now. Toothless. No woman can be considered beautiful. Whenever I visit her in the nursing home, she is sitting at the table in the common dining room, her head in her hands, rocking. Medication has eased her anxiety, but nothing moves her from her stupor except occasional moments of fear, too deep for medication. This is a room that has no windows, that lets in no light, in which an overlarge TV is constantly blaring, sending images that no one looks at where the floors are beige tiles, the walls cream colored at the bottom, papered halfway up with a pattern of nearly invisible grayish leaves. Many of the residents sit staring, slack-jawed, open mouthed. I find it impossible to imagine what they might be looking at.

When I walk into the dining room on the day of my mothers birthday, I see that she has already been served lunch. The staff has forgotten to hold it back. Though I told them a week ago that I would be providing lunch. She hasn’t touched anything on her tray except a piece of carrot cake, which she holds in her hands. The icing is smeared on her hands and face. I dont want my friends to see her smeared with icing, so I wet a paper towel and wipe her. This fills me with a terrible tenderness, recalling, as it does. a gesture I have performed for my children. As I wipe my mothers face, I see that her skin is still beautiful I hold her chin in my hand and kiss her forehead. I tell her its her birthday, that shes ninety years old. "How did that happen?" she asks. "I cant understand how that could happen."

l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. She likes the flowers very much. She likes the name. "Snapdragons. It seems like an animal thats going to bite inc. But its not an animal, its a plant. Thats a funny thing,"

I have bought food that I hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes. I have bought paper plates with a rust-colored background, upon which are painted yellow and gold flowers and blue leaves.

My friends Nola and Gary come for my mothers birthday. When we are about to leave, I tell my mother that Im going on vacation, mat I wont see her for three weeks, that 1 am going to the sea. "How will I stand that, how will I stand thats she says, but I know that a minute after I’m gone shell forget I was there.

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篇5:写人物的英语作文:我的妈妈

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Mother, how a loving word, how a warm word. My mother, such as the sun in winter, the breeze in the spring of the sea in the summer, the farmer in the fall uncle, always in someone else needs the place, came.

Although the mother has been thirty-four years old, but the years still in the mothers face can not stay traces. My mother often tied a golden ponytail child, but also thin and long willow under the eyebrow, a pair of bright and piercing water and spirit of the big eyes, always can see the sweet smile, thin cherry The lips, always can not help those who want to come out of the wind teeth. Mother is tall but slim, what clothes are very beautiful to wear, this is my mother.

In a winter vacation in my elementary school, I was at home, lying in bed muddyly squinting to think about things, and brother on the computer to fight, my father went to work early in the morning. Mother ready to go out, but see my grandmother did not get up, because my grandmother has always been up early, my mother can not help but confused. To turn the door lock, but the door was locked, and my mother was very anxious, loudly cried: "Mom, mother, you wake up? Mom, mother ... ..."

My mothers voice half awake I completely wake up, I was puzzled when the mother like the foot of the oil, flew in the bedroom drawer turned up, and saw her mother picked up a bunch of keys and went out. I followed the past, my mother picked up one of the keys to open the door of grandmother, while the father called: "Hey, her husband? You quickly go home, we mother out of things, hurry!"

Mom looked anxious to open the door, and saw the grandmother pale in bed tummy, my mother was busy to call the aunt, but also while pushing the grandmother: "Mom, mother, you wake up ... ..." Dad came, my father back to the car, my mother was in the back to take care of my grandmother, a few weeks passed, my grandmother finally discharged. Neighbors said: "If not your mother, your grandmother would be dead." Yes ah, if not my mother always care about my grandmother, maybe my grandmother would be dead, my mother really very pro, very cute.

This is my mother, a moment of care for someone elses mother, I love my mother.

[写人物的英语作文:我的妈妈

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篇6:介绍我的房间英语作文带翻译

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Nine years old this year, the third grade, but my courage small, still slept with dad, you must feel very funny? This summer vacation, however, dad said: "heart of grace, you have grown up, want to sleep alone." Dad began to busy decorating my room. Do you want to know what is my room? Now let me introduce for everybody!

My room near the balcony, sits, the south there is a big window, the window there is a door leading to the balcony, it is spacious and bright. Right in the middle there is a room and white-striped children bed, 1.2 meters wide, 2 meters long. I like it very much, because it is very beautiful, particularly attractive is painted on the surface of the head of a bed has four pink different length of parallel lines, having a curve like curved river. Among them set with four silver beads, like four silver gems. On the bed lay a bedside table, cabinet I love winnie the pooh and ali rabbit. To the other side of the bed with a desk, it is divided into the cabinet and table, cabinet is installed on the transparent glass door, its around the embedded glistening beads, like stars in the sky. Cupboard filled up with all kinds of reference books, there are fairy tale books, science books, fables... A light flower cat lying on the desk the lamp that shield an eye, when I was doing class, it is a bright eyes light up my. Hung on the wall next to the desk a couplet: everybody has foundations for diameter, learn the bitter as the boat. It posted on the wall opposite the elegantly I draw personally comics, has run pony brother, ` busy little bees sister younger sister, lovely ducklings... Watch, I like in the fairy tale world.

My room, you are a good place for my study and life, you brought me great joy.

今年九岁,上小学三年级,但是我胆子小,还跟爸爸一起睡,你们一定觉得很好笑吧?可是,这个暑假爸爸说:“心怡,你已经长大了,要独自一人睡。”爸爸就开始忙着布置我的房间。你想知道我的房间是怎么样的吗?现在我来为大家介绍一下吧!

我的房间靠近阳台,坐北朝南,南面有个大窗户,窗户旁边有一扇门是通向阳台的,这里既宽敞又明亮。房间正中间有一张粉白相间的儿童床,宽1.2米,长2米。我很喜欢它,因为它很美,特别吸引人的是床头的板面上画有四条粉红色的长短不一的平行线,旁边有一条曲线像弯弯的小河。它们中间镶有四颗银灰色的珠子,真像四颗银宝石。床边摆着一个床头柜,柜子上摆着我喜爱的维尼熊和阿里兔。床的对面摆着一套书桌,它分为柜子和桌子,柜子上安装着透明的玻璃门,它的四周嵌着闪闪发光的珠子,真像夜空中的点点星光。柜子里摆满了各种各样的课外书,有童话书、科学书、寓言书……书桌上放着一盏花猫护眼灯,每当我在做功课时,它都发出明亮的护眼光照亮我。书桌旁边的墙面上挂着一幅对联:书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。它对面的墙上帖着一幅幅我亲手画的漫画,有奔跑的小马弟弟、`勤劳的小蜜蜂妹、可爱的小鸭姐姐……看着看着,我仿佛进入了童话世界。

我的房间,你是我学习和生活的好地方,你给我带来了无比的快乐。

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篇7:我的妈妈英语作文初4

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My mother high stature, not fat or thin, a few silk shallow wrinkles on the

forehead, often hang a smile on his face.

Mother is kind, she taught me at an early age to be honest, treat people to

be generous, since the childhood to cultivate my good character.

Remember there is one thing I always forget. It was a hot afternoon, the

sun like aball of fire to bake the earth. I do in the room, fan fan, but sweat

kept rolling down. I said to mother: "mom! The weather was too hot, hot as hell!

I want to eat Popsicle." Mother said: "go, Ill take you to buy some ice stick."

Then picked up a wallet.

Where to buy, I chose a Popsicle, mother from the purse and took out a

piece of 50 yuan to buy the ticket of uncle, uncle to find the money, my mother

and I went hurried home.

At home, mother put back counted, soliloquize ground to say: "yi? Well,

there are 7 yuan, how do I find 45 yuan?" Once I listen to and happily say:

"good! People buy really confused, looking for more 3 yuan. Mom, the 2 yuan to

me?" Mother stared my one eye, said angrily: "find the 2 yuan more, we should

give the money back, do not want the covet petty gain! Besides, somebody else

sell Popsicle more not easy!" Say that finish, mother take fire up the sun, give

somebody else sent 3 yuan.

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篇8:收拾房间作文500字

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今天我写完作业,决定把房间整理一遍。

说干就干,先整理我自己的房间,我喜欢看书,所以,我的房间啊,床上,地上,随处可见的书籍,妈妈唠叨好多次了,可我总是舍不得整理,我的理由是想看的时候方便,今天看了,房间里因为到处都是书显得凌乱不堪,我先把书籍按照教科书,课外书,特别喜欢看的书,还有一些没有翻看的书分类整理好,当我把它们都放到书架上的时候,一种感觉是床上,房间里,忽然觉得宽敞了不少。书籍仿佛也开心的“瞧”着我,看,书架才是我们的“家”。我接着又把床单整理好,眼前又是一亮,干净的房间真是有点赏心悦目啊!

我又把爸爸妈妈和奶奶的房间也整理干净,又清扫了地面,我想,他们下班回来看到这样整洁的房间,一定会表扬我,说不定,还会给我发红包呢!

到了厨房,我看到水池里放着早上没有来得及清洗的碗筷,我先倒一些洗洁精稀释的液体,又把碗筷放里面泡一会,利用这里时间,我又用抹布把灶台擦拭一遍,等我把碗筷都整理好,感觉累得腰都要直不起来了。要放弃,想到平时爸爸妈妈都是这样日复一日的劳作,就没有放弃。

当我把一切整理妥当,时间已经到了中午,听到妈妈要进家门的脚步声,我连忙打开了房门,妈妈看到房间的变化,对我竖起来大拇指:“宝贝,真的长大了,知道帮助妈妈爸爸做事了……”

家务劳动累并快乐着!

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篇9:五年级优秀英语作文我的妈妈

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I have a beautiful and kind mother, she is considerate and helpful!

His childhood memories, a lot of memories are floating in the mind, and many things impressed deeply in my mind. Remember, mother took me to accompany her permed hair when I was a child, but all of a sudden rainstorm, while my mother and I only took an umbrella, and my mother and I are very anxious, desperate mother picked me up and let me carrying an umbrella, I suddenly realize, even the little brother little sister package at ordinary times cant mother now picked me up! Timing I felt the great maternal love!

At home I asked my mother why do this to me? Mother blurted out ": no why, just because you are my daughter!" I dont believe anyone can say this sentence in the world! "Why not" these four words, from her mouth, how just decisions, how have no swirl! He love me, not because Im a celebrity. She loves me is no strings attached. He is burning for the love of all is ruled out, wipe everything, layer upon layer wave covered by things around me, and love me directly.

It let me know how a mother to her daughters love is the greatest, most selfless love, sun is not need any condition!

我有一位美丽而又善良的妈妈,她善解人意、乐于助人!

回忆起自己的童年,许多往事都漂浮在脑海里,而许多事情都深深的印在自己的脑子里。记得,我小时妈妈带我陪她烫头,可是忽然下起倾盆大雨,而我和妈妈只带了一把伞,而我和妈妈正在十分焦急的时候,妈妈不顾一切把我抱起来让我举着伞,我恍然大悟,平时连小弟弟小妹妹都包不起来的妈妈现在却能把我抱起来!正时我感受到了的是伟大的母爱!

回到家我问妈妈为什么会这样对我?妈妈脱口而出“:不为什么,只因为你是我的女儿!”我不相信世界上还有人能说这句话!“不为什么”这四个字,从她口里说出来,何等刚决,何等无回旋!他爱我,不是因为我是名人。她爱我是不附带任何条件的。他的爱,是排除一切的,拂拭一切,层层挥开我前后左右所蒙罩的东西,而直接爱我。

这件事让我懂得母亲对女儿的爱是人世间最伟大、最无私的爱,是不需要任何条件的!

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篇10:收拾房间

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小花放暑假了,可爸爸妈妈还得上班。小花想利用爸爸妈妈上班的时间把房间整理整理。

小花把床上斑马条纹型的毯子铺得整整齐齐,接着,把被子叠好,然后,把枕头放在床头。小花又来扫地,她拿来一把扫帚,认真地扫起来,过了一会儿,地被小花扫得干干净净,小花又拿一盆花,放在床边的柜子上。

房间的是黄色的,床上的毯子有着斑马身上的黑白条纹,花花绿绿的被子铺得整整齐齐,像切出来的蛋糕,彩色的地毯,白色的地板不见一丝灰尘,床边的柜子上放着一盆鲜花,看上去特别温馨。

就在这个时候,爸爸妈妈回来了,他们都夸小花是勤劳的好孩子。

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篇11:我的妈妈英语作文带翻译

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My mother often says her family is the most precious things to her daughter.

Mother in around me all the day, both have to work and to do household chores, also help me do the homework, tired mother do sweet and delicious meals for me every day, can cover the quilt for me in the evening everyday, make time for me to wash clothes, dressed me clean and beautiful.

Ah, mother do so many things for me, I should return for mom, but should return how mom? I think, think of now study hard, to help my mother do housework, grew up I was ready to take mom she wanted to go, let mother roam the world, to go on vacation to Hawaii, to go to see the pyramids of Egypt, to Europe to see the Eiffel Tower... I also want to give mom bought glittering jewelry, the mother dress nicely. I also want to buy a big house for mother, let mother comfortably good every day.

Do I have to let mother the happiest mother in the world.

我的妈妈常说她家最宝贵的东西就是她的女儿。

妈妈整天都在围着我转,既要工作又要做家务,还要辅导我做作业,疲倦的妈妈天天为我做香甜可口的饭菜、天天晚上都会为我盖被子,挤出时间为我洗衣服,把我打扮得干干净净,漂漂亮亮。

哎,妈妈为我做了这么多事儿,我应该回报妈妈,可是应该怎么回报妈妈呢?我冥思苦想,想到现在认真读书,帮妈妈做家务事,长大了我准备把妈妈带到她想去的地方,让妈妈遨游整个世界,到夏威夷去度假,到埃及去看金字塔,到欧洲去看艾菲尔铁塔……我还要给妈妈买金光闪闪的首饰,把妈妈打扮的漂漂亮亮。我还要给妈妈买一栋大房子,让妈妈舒舒服服地过好每一天。

我一定要让妈妈成为世界上最幸福的妈妈。

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篇12:人物英语作文:我的爸爸妈妈

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I have a busy father and a kind mother.

有一个忙碌的爸爸和一个慈祥的妈妈

My father is a businessman. He is 42 years old. He is short. He likes reading newspapers after meals. He watches TV in the evening. He goes to work by car. He has got a nice black car. He often plays golf with his friends on the weekend. He does not often eat dinner with us.

爸爸是一位商人。他今年42岁。他不高。他喜欢饭后看报纸。晚上的时候他会看电视。他有一辆黑色的漂亮的车。他开车去上班。他经常和朋友在周末的时候打高尔夫。他不是经常跟我们一起吃晚饭。

My mother is a housewife. She doesn’t work. She stays at home. She is beautiful. She has long hair. She does housework in the morning. She often goes shopping in the afternoon. She is kind, but she is strict with my study. She likes reading. She watches TV at night, too.

妈妈是一个家庭主妇。她没有工作。一般呆在家里。她很漂亮。她有一头长发。她上午的时候做家务。下午的时候去购物。她很和蔼,但是对我的学习要求严格。她喜欢看书。她晚上的时候也看电视。

I love my parents. And they love me too.

爱我的父母。他们也很爱我。

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篇13:我的小房间英语

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In my home, I have my own room.

A door on the left side of the room, hanging on the wall of the badminton racket, racket hung by a lot of sachet. There is a sofa sachet below, with some toys on the sofa. The window sill is on the right side of the sofa. There is a model ship on the windowsill. There are houses and sails on the ship. The boat is beautiful. The desk desk is large in the window on the right, and there is a lamp on the table. My daily homework was done on this table. There was a dads mothers wardrobe in front of my desk, and the clothes in the wardrobe were neat. There is a big bed, only I sleep alone, really comfortable!

My house is a warm small room.

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篇14:妈妈花园初三英语作文150字

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My mother is very good at raising plants and flowers. We have plants and flowers indoors and outdoors all the year round. Some of our plants were very small in the beginning,but now they are large and very beautiful. On top of our roof there is a big glass-enclosed greenhouse. All our friends love to come to our house to see the beautiful world my mother has made for us. Every morning and evening we see my mother taking care of her plants like little children. As her real children grow older and more independent,my mother devotes more time to her garden. This is a very good way to spend one’s free time.

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篇15:帮妈妈打扫房间作文

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暑假的一天早晨,妈妈趁着天凉早早就出去买菜去了。于是,我决定帮妈妈打扫房间卫生,想给妈妈一个惊喜。

先从哪儿开始呢?是擦桌子,扫地,还是擦地板……。我回想着妈妈打扫卫生时的情景,对,先扫地。我拿起扫把,学着妈妈扫地的样子,一下,两下……,虽然很别扭,可我还是坚持着。不一会儿,垃圾就被我扫进了簸箕里,地面看起来干净了许多。随后是擦桌子,这比扫地更需要耐心,桌子上的东西好像都在和我作对。啪,笔筒到了;啪,墨水瓶又翻了……,气死我了,怎么办?这样会打碎东西的,我得想想办法让它们听我的指挥。终于,我有办法了。我先把桌子上的小玩意儿小心翼翼地放在旁边,等我把桌面擦干净后再把它们挪回了原处。可真累人,就这翻来覆去几次,我就已经是满头大汗,真想休息一会儿在干,可抬头一看时间,不好,妈妈快要回来了,还得抓紧时间干。

最后一项是擦地板,开始时觉得擦地板特别好玩,趴在地上,就象上幼儿园时开火车一样,爬来爬去。可不一会儿,除了满身的汗水外,还觉得后背也痛了起来,真有点放弃的想法,可再想想妈妈平时为了我而操劳的身影,我又坚持擦了起来,一下,两下……终于,地板也擦完了。

看着一尘不染的房间,我长长的出了一口气,心里甜甜的,开心极了,想着妈妈回来后一定会高兴地亲我一口……。

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篇16:我的妈妈英语

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My mother looks young.She has long hair.She is a teacher and she is teaching English in a middle school.

She is very kind and hardworking.She likes her students.

Her lessons are very interesting and all her students like her.

She does all the housework for the family.She can cook delicious food.

I love her very much.

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篇17:学习收拾房间

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每天晚上学习后,我发现自己的房间特别乱,尤其是桌子和书柜。于是在今天,我向妈妈请教怎么收拾房间的方法,妈妈听了很高兴,对我说:“我们家的小宝贝长大了!收拾物品要先按类别区分,然后再把常用的和不常用的再分别放。”妈妈见我不是很明白的样子,继续说:这样吧,今天我们一起来收拾,好吗?“我开心地一边拍手一边说:好啊,好啊!”

只见妈妈把我的课本和练习本放在一起,运动用的跳绳、毽子,以及球拍又放到另一边, 妈妈边做边给我解释:“这些属于学习用的东西为一类,运动用的又属于另一类,所以要分开放,明白吗?”我点点头,接着, 在妈妈的指导下,我又把课外读物和画画用的资料分别放在两个箱子里,这两样不是经常用,所以应该它们放在桌子的最下面,我问妈妈:“是这样做吗?”妈妈笑咪咪地说:“做的真好!”

经过我们的努力,房间又变得整整齐齐的,我看着这么干净的房间,心里美滋滋的。

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篇18:我的妈妈英语作文

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Today is Sunday. I woke up in the morning. Hey, how quiet is it at home? Oh, my mother is ill. She has been playing needles for several days. She is still resting now!

I put on my clothes and trousers and went to my desk to do the homework my mother did yesterday. Having finished my homework, I went into my mothers room. Oh, Mommys still sleeping. I walked softly to my mothers bed, and my mother heard her voice open. I hugged my mother and gave him a kiss and said, "Mom, Ive done your homework on the desk.". Youre just right. Go to sleep." Mom listened and smiled happily.

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篇19:我的妈妈英语

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I have a great mother.She cares much about me in my life and study.In the morning,she gets up early to make breakfast for me.

When I was little,she prepared my schoolbag.But now,she tells me to do it by myself.

Because she thinks I have been old enough to do it.

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篇20:高中英语作文:我的妈妈

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导语:每个人都有自己的妈妈,你喜欢你的妈妈吗?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!

My mother has no idea that her ninetieth birthday is coming up. She has no notion of the time of day, the day of the week. the season of the year, the year of the century. No notion of the approaching millennium. And no idea any longer, who I am. Her forgetting of me happened just a few months ago, after I had been traveling for more than a month and hadnt been to see her. When I came back, she asked me if I were her niece, l said no, I was her daughter. "Does that mean I had you?" she asked. 1 said yes. "Where was I when l had you?" she asked me. I told her she was in a hospital in Far Rockaway. New York. "So much has happened to me in my life." she said "You cant expect me to remember everything."

My mother was once a beautiful woman, but all her teeth are gone now. Toothless. No woman can be considered beautiful. Whenever I visit her in the nursing home, she is sitting at the table in the common dining room, her head in her hands, rocking. Medication has eased her anxiety, but nothing moves her from her stupor except occasional moments of fear, too deep for medication. This is a room that has no windows, that lets in no light, in which an overlarge TV is constantly blaring, sending images that no one looks at where the floors are beige tiles, the walls cream colored at the bottom, papered halfway up with a pattern of nearly invisible grayish leaves. Many of the residents sit staring, slack-jawed, open mouthed. I find it impossible to imagine what they might be looking at.

When I walk into the dining room on the day of my mothers birthday, I see that she has already been served lunch. The staff has forgotten to hold it back. Though I told them a week ago that I would be providing lunch. She hasn’t touched anything on her tray except a piece of carrot cake, which she holds in her hands. The icing is smeared on her hands and face. I dont want my friends to see her smeared with icing, so I wet a paper towel and wipe her. This fills me with a terrible tenderness, recalling, as it does. a gesture I have performed for my children. As I wipe my mothers face, I see that her skin is still beautiful I hold her chin in my hand and kiss her forehead. I tell her its her birthday, that shes ninety years old. "How did that happen?" she asks. "I cant understand how that could happen."

l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. She likes the flowers very much. She likes the name. "Snapdragons. It seems like an animal thats going to bite inc. But its not an animal, its a plant. Thats a funny thing,"

I have bought food that I hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes. I have bought paper plates with a rust-colored background, upon which are painted yellow and gold flowers and blue leaves.

My friends Nola and Gary come for my mothers birthday. When we are about to leave, I tell my mother that Im going on vacation, mat I wont see her for three weeks, that 1 am going to the sea. "How will I stand that, how will I stand thats she says, but I know that a minute after I’m gone shell forget I was there.

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