我的表弟8岁的英文【汇总20篇】

我的表弟今年七岁，长得虎头虎脑的。圆圆的脸蛋，浓眉大眼，高高的鼻梁，一张樱桃小嘴，说起话来像放连珠炮似的，多得数不清。

一天，我刚放学回家，一进门就看见表弟嘟着嘴，围着妈妈说：“姑姑我要吃棉花糖！我要吃棉花糖！”妈妈见我回来了，拉着阿姨往外逃，说：“佳佳，陪陪表弟啊！我和阿姨出去逛街了。”妈妈刚说完，便消失得无影无踪了。看着还在那嘟着嘴的表弟，我无可奈何，只好陪着他玩。表弟央求似的说：“姐姐，我要吃棉花糖！”我想耗时间，等着妈妈她们回来支援，于是故意为难他，说：“我不知道做棉花糖，你知道吗？"他拍拍胸脯，说：“不就是做棉花糖吗？我能行的！但我要换一身行头才行。”话音刚落，表弟溜进了厨房，拿着妈妈的平时办厨的行头往身上一穿，头上还戴着个厨师帽，哟，还真像个小厨师！

表弟不知从哪里拿来一袋棉花，把棉花揉成绒球，揉好后，放在钉板上，并从冰箱里拿出早已备好的糖水，把棉花放进糖水里浸泡几分钟后，取出来，放入微波炉烘烤一小会儿，就大功告成了。

表弟拿着做好的“棉花糖”放入口中，“呸呸呸，你着是棉花糖吗？”我生气了，表弟十分委屈地说：“棉花糖不就是用棉花沾点糖水吗？我哪里做错了？”我 只好说：“表弟，你理解错了，其实棉花糖是用白糖放入机器里搅拌后用竹签圈成的。”表弟恍然大悟：“姐姐，下次我一定会成功的！”表弟刚说完，我被他吓倒在地上，小声嘀咕道；“妈呀！你还要做！”

现在回想起来，我还要感谢表弟，是他让我在童年中留下了难忘的记忆。

刺耳的铃声“铃铃”的传遍教室。我赶忙拍拍他，小声对他说：“老师来啦，别看啦！”却应来了一声：“怕什么，我看完这一章再说。”

没错，他就是我们作文班的钟嘉，小名钟仔，他也我的表弟。一个勤奋好学的男孩子，热爱阅读的男孩子。

这不，他在阅读一本厚厚的英语作文书呢！简直忘了身边的人，真是入迷！我再次拍拍他，对他说：“老师来啦，再看就要被罚！”“哎呀！你怎么那么烦呢，我要看啦！”“钟嘉同学，现在已经上课了。”“唉，大祸临头了。”我小声嘀咕，一听这声音，就知道是杨老师，果然，杨老师从钟仔背后走出来。“老……老师好。”钟仔的声音因害怕而变了调。杨老师把钟仔的书从手里一抽，放在讲台上，“呀，原来成绩那么好的同学上课时也会看课外书啊！”同学们嘀嘀咕咕。再看看钟仔，他拧出一副苦瓜脸，懊悔地小声嘀咕：“唉，怎么能弄丢呢！我真是太不注意了！”当然，下课后，少不了钟仔被老师请去办公室“喝茶”了。

可这并没有影响钟仔对阅读的热爱，每次我去找他时，他都捧着一本厚厚的书在阅读着，疯狂的吸收着里面的知识，甚至有时候，还会把自己幻想成书里面的一部分，做出各种古怪的动作和表情，他还会把一些好词好句记录到一个小本子里，写作时拿出来用，所以他写作一直很不错。

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."

Tea is a kind of fragrance and with a variety of flavor drink. Smell, pure and fresh and tangy, drink it, first a little bitter but is another kind of sweet savor. My fathers day is like the a cup of strong tea...

My fathers day is a cup of fragrant tea has experienced various process made the tea. Tea, need to go through a variety of processes: picking, stirring, drying..... Are made after a careful step by step process to finally make the tea. And my father is the man who experienced many hardships, he has a wealth of experience, he is like a cup of strong tea, he experienced many twists and turns to eventually become a successful person. The first cup of tea need to carefully taste slowly, to taste the sweet tea, I need to get to know the fathers day to know his bitter bitterness.

My fathers day is a cup of tea looks seemingly calm, but there is a little bitter taste tea, too. My fathers day in other peoples eyes may be a man of humor, he often in front of other people very happy, but in my eyes he is very sad, he always to work hard for the mother and I went to, he wanted us to be happy. He never put his own distress in front of outsiders and difficulty, looks very stable, but he always bury sadness in the heart, a person to bear. Seemingly calm is like a cup of forks mild, but may be cold.

只要一说起我那淘气表弟，就会令我哭笑不得。他，虎头虎脑，瞪着一双圆溜溜的眼睛，看上去傻乎乎的。其实，他可淘气了，满脑子都是玩的东西。

在他4岁那年，一会儿把我的作业本撕得遍体鳞伤；一会儿玩电脑；一会儿开电视；一会儿翻抽屉……把我家的屋子搞得乌烟瘴气，一片狼藉。气得我路见不平一声吼:“你在干什么?”只见他瞥了我一眼,不屑一顾地说:“这世上还有天理吗?你到我家不也是这样吗?只许州官放火,不许弟弟点灯?”我被噎得哑口无言

还记得那年新年的一天，我和表弟正在玩耍，他突然对家中的那头小猪虎视眈眈的看着。“嗖”的一声，表弟猛然扑到小猪身上，就是这一眨眼的工夫，他就已经骑在小猪身上，还扭过头对我说：“哥，你没骑过吧！终于有一点你不如我了！”就在那时，小猪猛地一甩身子，就让表弟和泥巴来了个热吻，看着他那狼狈样，我忍不住大笑起来。

还有一次，表弟来我家里玩，见我无聊，便问我：“以前有四只母鸡，分别叫wō，wó,wǒ,w。有一次其中一只鸡生了一颗蛋，这颗蛋既不是wō生的，也不是wó的，更不是w生的，你说是谁生的？”“这还用问，肯定是wǒ生的啦！”“哈哈，是你生的。”“啊……”“再问你一个！”“好”我哪能服气，急忙叫他再来一个。 “你说五次1+1=1。”表弟神神秘秘的说。“好，1+1=1，1+1=1……1+1=1,好啦。”只见他飞快的问：“1+1=几?”“1”“哈哈……”“我又上当了！”唉，那是我真是哑巴吃黄连——有苦说不出呐！

哈，这真是个淘气的表弟，少了他，还不知要少多少欢乐呢！

[我的淘气表弟小学作文

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

我记得那个盛夏，烈日当空，我们挥汗如雨。那是七月，透蓝的天空，悬着火球般的太阳，云彩好像被烧化了，躲得无影无踪。

我想爸爸提出了建议————去长隆！到了，我们全副武装，向目标进发！走着走着喷泉飞了起来。表弟都吓得要哭了！真搞笑！

我的表弟真胆小！

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

我有一个表弟，还不到十岁，长的虎头虎脑，脸蛋又圆又胖，两只眼睛又亮又圆，长在额头上面的那根头发总是飞起来，像鸭子的小尾巴似的。

[我的表弟真胆小小学生作文

我有一个小表弟，非常有趣好笑。

记得上次我去他家玩，就看到小表弟蹦蹦跳跳地来迎接我。我放下手中的衣服和书包，跟他玩了起来。一直玩到吃晚饭。

夜里看了电视后，我就跟他同床睡觉，大约半小时后，我感到热水浸湿了我的手。我一惊：小表弟看电视时喝了很多的水，会不会尿床了？

我打开电灯一看，果然不出我所料，小表弟尿床了。我起床把表弟的裤子洗干净，又给他换上裤子，这事才平静下来。我还不让大人们知道呢。

还有一次，表弟说他做了一个有趣的梦：飘呀飘呀就飘到美食乐园，叫那里的服务员拿来一杯可乐、十只鸡腿、十只鸡翅，开始吃了起来。小表拿过一只鸡腿吃了起来。我突然叫了起来，原来他把我的手当作鸡腿在吃呢。

小朋友们，你们看，我的小表弟好笑吗？

我有一个可爱又调皮的小表弟，今年两岁了，他的名字叫鸣岩，小名叫童童。

童童很喜欢玩水，每次玩都把衣服弄得湿湿的，为此没少挨揍。

一次哥哥抽水浇花，一眼没看见童童又蹲在水盆边玩起水来，只见他一会把小盆里的水倒到一个大盆子里，一会又从大盆里倒入小盆子里，不时还用手狠狠地拍水，嘴里还念念有词：“下雨了，下大雨了”，玩的不亦乐乎。过了好大一会儿，小姨要带他回家了，叫出来他一看，天哪，浑身上下的衣服上都滴答着水。唉，不用说又要挨打了。

童童很调皮，有一天我们一起玩的时候他正好看见了我家的小狗“豆豆”，豆豆正甜甜地晒着太阳睡觉，口水都流出来了。弟弟偷偷地往小狗的尾巴上狠狠地踩了一下，扭头就跑，可还没有跑几步就被小狗追上了，小狗一下就叼住了童童的裤脚，童童这下可慌了，又是蹦又是跳，手还不停地在空中乱舞，嘴里叽里呱啦乱叫，笑的我肚子都疼了，后来小姨来才把弟弟救下了。可是不一会他又去踩小狗的尾巴了。

看，我的弟弟调皮吧？但不管他多么调皮，我们都很喜欢他，因为他是我们生活的调味剂。

家有一个小表弟呀，天天趣事多。说起我这个小表弟，可真是让人又爱又恨——

小表弟长得很可爱，圆圆的脸蛋肉嘟嘟的，让人见了忍不住摸上一把。他的鼻子有点儿扁，但这反而让他看起来更可爱。小表弟的两只眼睛充满了好奇，时不时地抬起头来望你。这时他给人的感觉就像一个碰到了难题的学生。还有他的那张小嘴，微微张开，让人心生怜爱。不过，可千万别被小表弟的外表给迷惑了，他可是一个淘气十足的捣蛋鬼呢——

暑假，我和老妈、外公一起去上海玩，顺便看看舅舅。到了舅舅家，我刚想去找小表弟，舅舅便告诉我晨晨（小表弟的小名）还在睡觉。说来也怪，我们刚坐下，晨晨就醒了,在房间里哭叫着。

晨晨被保姆抱出来后，睁大眼望着我们，似乎有些不知所措。但很快，在舅舅的引导，大家的热情之下，他终于跌跌撞撞地向我走来。我满面笑容地迎向他，心中还暗暗窃喜：晨晨果然还是和我亲啊！谁知……“爷爷！”一声含混不清的呼唤从小晨晨的嘴里冒出来，随即，他就一转身，抱住了外公的腿。

我脸上的笑容顿时僵住了，转头要找晨晨算账。正巧，他也一脸无辜望着我，仿佛在问：“我做错什么了呀？”看着他天真无暇的样子，我的火气顿时烟消云散了。

晨晨和外公玩了一会，又好奇地打量着我们。我心念一动，赶紧拿出我带来的骑刃王，帮他打开开关，然后放到地上，骑刃王立刻开动了起来。我一边哄着晨晨，一边注意他的反应。不出所料，晨晨的注意力被吸引了过来。他目不转睛地看着骑刃王，不时还抬头看看我。哈哈，转移注意力计划成功啦！我得意洋洋地想。突然，晨晨一把抓起了骑刃王，还没等我反应过来，骑刃王已伴随着呼啸声朝我的脚砸来……“啊——晨晨，我恨你——”

第二天，我们去逛商场。我无数次想抱抱晨晨，但他却一点也不给我面子：谁都让抱，就是不让我抱。有几回我不管三七二十一，硬是要抱，晨晨就立刻把头扭过去，对我拳打脚踢，嘴里还发出不满的哼哼声。气得我咬牙切齿，却只能干瞪眼，就是不能找他算账。

你说，我的小表弟是不是让人又爱又恨呢？

“姐姐，开开门!”门外传来的声音是我那鬼马机灵的小表弟，我一听赶紧把桌子上那些果冻、薯片、巧克力之类的都收起来，因为我那小表弟又可爱又聪明什么都好，就是不肯好好吃饭就喜欢吃没营养的零食。这家伙肯定在家受舅妈管制，不能乱吃零食，来我这里找零食了。我得赶快把零食藏好不能让他发现，不然他肯定会把零食都给扫荡光的，然后中午又不好好吃饭的。这样恶性循环是很不好的，舅妈已经严重警告过了!我一边想一边将零食藏起来。

俗话说：“狡兔三窟。”我这么聪明的人，怎么可能将零食全放在一起呢?我分别把零食放在衣柜里、书架后面、窗帘后面。藏完，我扬起嘴角得意地笑了笑：弟弟今天中午你就乖乖跟我一起吃饭吧!

话说弟弟可是有两手绝活的，一个是他吃零食的速度，那可是秒速解决，我跟他完全没法比，还有一个是弟弟比较细心，总能找到藏在隐蔽处的零食。

我藏好零食后立刻跑去开门，弟弟一进门就问：“姐姐，在干嘛呢，半天才给我开门，薯片呢，果冻呢，放在哪儿?”“在做作业啊，零食妈妈没有买呢!”我强装镇定地回答。“是吗，”弟弟怀疑道，“我要找找看。”眼看他就要找到我藏零食最多的衣柜了，我急中生智说：“弟弟，要不我们来玩捉迷藏吧!”“好呀!”弟弟愉快地答应了，我成功地转移了他的视线!

可是意想不到的事发生了，等我藏好后，弟弟却迟迟没来找我，我等得着急了便出看看，结果弟弟正坐在我的床上吃着薯片呢!啊苍天!为什么会这样，我的一片苦心算是白费了!

弟弟呀，你不好好吃饭，天天吃零食，都已经有蛀牙了，这样吃零食对身体真不好。会有害健康的!该拿你怎么办呢?

spring couplets, a chinese new year decoration, are an integral part of chinas new year. their beginnings go back as far as the origins of new years festivities.

春联，是中国新年的装饰，没有春联，春节就不完整。春联的来历就要说到新年的来历

according to legends in the chinas ancient past there was a monster known as nian who often came down from the mountains to eat livestock and locals. it was discovered that he was afraid of the color red and so red paper was placed around doors and windows of houses and poems for good luck were added to them. the houses with the red paper were avoided by the monster, so its inhabitants were spared. the tradition has continued until today.

根据中国古代历史传说中记载，有一个叫“年的”怪物经常从山上到村子里吃牲畜。后来人们发现这个怪物怕洪泽，所以就在门上，窗户上贴红纸，红纸上面还写一些增加转运的诗。这样，怪兽害怕贴满红纸的屋子，所以这个风俗被流传了下来，一直直到今天。

couplets are traditionally painted with black ink on two pieces of red paper which is then hung on either side of a door.

对联传统的来讲是用黑墨在两张红纸上写字，然后贴在门的两侧。

one half is hung on either side. there is an extra piece of paper painted with words of prosperity hung above the door frame. traditionally the couplets are poems consisting of two lines of either four or five characters. they are painted from top to bottom, right to left.

一边贴张。另外还有一个横批写着意味繁荣之意之字贴在门框的上方。传统的对联，上联合下联是4个或5个字，是一对诗。写对联一般是从上到下，从右到左。

different couplets have different themes. for farmers the couplets are meant to bring bounty to them, whereas businessmens couplets are meant to bring money. traditionally scholars would paint couplets and give them to their friends, relatives, and the public. many people choose to create their own couplets. many times door god or the character "fu"is added to doors along with the couplets.

不同的对联有不同的主题。比如，给农民的对联是带来好收成，商人挣跟多钱。传统学者会自己写对联赠予朋友或亲人。许多人会自己设计属于自己的对联。门神和福字一般都是和对联配套的贴在门上的。

Old Town of Lijiang is also called Dayan Town, Dayan, may also refer to the Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County Administrative System "has been withdrawn". Old Town of Lijiang in the Southern Song Dynasty has begun to take shape, the existing eight,nine hundred years of history. Since the Ming Dynasty, Old Town of Lijiang says"Dayan car", Lijiang dam Center for their home, surrounded on all sides of Castle Peak, green water between a hover, like a jasper big inkstone, hence the name.

New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese an extra month once every few years. This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

New Years Eve and New Years Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.

The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.

The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Years Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove". It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations

Dear Santa Claus,

Hello, as time goes by, the sun and the moon fly so fast, and it will be

Christmas soon, you have to give gifts to obedient and very good children. It

reminds me of this time last year. Its long before Christmas and Im thinking

about what I want for Christmas. A few days before Christmas, I put my wish card

in front of my bed early, hoping Santa Claus can see it and help me realize it.

You may be asking, "Why put up the wish card so early? Why not wait until

Christmas Eve?" My answer is: That is because I am afraid you sent the wrong

gift, give you enough time to prepare. On Christmas Eve, I went to bed early,

thinking that I would wake up and open my eyes to see the gift you gave me. But

when I opened my eyes in the morning, I found no present at the end of my bed,

nor on my desk. I was worried because I thought you had hidden the present for

some joke with me. I searched my home carefully, but still there was no present.

I waited another day with great anticipation, but you and your gift still did

not appear. My mother told me that because they do not care for the environment,

Shijiazhuang is seriously polluted, haze weather is bad, you lost your way, so

you can not send Christmas gifts to the children on time. Is that right? Three

days later, I finally received your gift, which was accompanied by a letter of

apology. In the letter, you explained that due to the weather, you delayed the

delivery of the gift. At the same time, you also hoped that we could take good

care of the environment and be guardians of the environment.

Dear Santa Claus, another year has passed, in this year, my friends and I,

protect the environment, save water, try to be a good environmental small guard,

at the same time we also mobilize our father, mother, uncle, aunt and we take

action together, less drive a day a week, green travel. After our joint efforts,

shijiazhuang sky blue, water green, I believe this time you will be able to send

gifts to the children on time!

Looking forward to your friend: Li Zijian

亲爱的圣诞老人：

您好，时光流逝，日月如梭，马上又要到圣诞节了，您又要给听话又很乖的小朋友派送礼物了。说到这就又想起去年的这个时候了，距圣诞节还好久我就开始想圣诞节自己要的礼物。圣诞节前几天，我早早的把自己的愿望卡挂在自己床前，希望圣诞老人能早点看到并帮我实现。您也许会问：“为什么这么早就把愿望卡挂上去呢?为什么不等到平安夜呢?”我的回答是：那是因为我怕您送错了礼物，给您充足的时间来准备。平安夜的晚上，我早早的就上床睡觉了，想着一觉醒来睁开眼就能看到您送我的礼物。可是，当我早上睁开眼睛，发现我床头没有礼物，我的写字台上也没有礼物，我着急了，以为您和我开玩笑把礼物藏起来了，索性把家里认真得找了个遍，还是没有。我怀着期待的心情又等了一天，您和您的礼物仍旧没有出现。妈妈告诉我，是因为他们不爱护环境，石家庄污染严重，雾霾天气恶劣，您迷路了，所以不能准时把圣诞礼物送到小朋友手中。是这样吗?三天后，我终于收到您的礼物，伴随礼物而来的还有您一封致歉信，信中你说明了因为天气原因，致使你延误了礼物的派送的时间，同时您也希望我们能够爱护环境，做环境小卫士。

亲爱的圣诞老人，又一年过去了，在这一年里我和我的小伙伴们，保护环境，节约用水，努力当好环境小卫士，同时我们还动员我们的爸爸、妈妈、叔叔、阿姨和我们一起行动起来，每周少开一天车，绿色出行。经过我们大家的共同努力，石家庄的天蓝了，水绿了，相信这次您一定能够准时将礼物送到小朋友手中啦!

盼着您的朋友：李子健

Today, I came to the breakfast. See the lads with chopsticks busy busy. So

I took a seat, a young man walked to come over and ask me to eat something, so I

had a bowl of beef noodles peppers. Soon, a noodles. I take chopsticks, soon

finished eating. On the way to school, I also think that bowl noodles.

今天，我来到了早餐店。只见店里的伙计们端着碗筷忙来忙去。于是我找了一个位子坐下了，一位年轻的伙计走了过来，问我要吃点什么，于是我报了一碗青椒牛肉面。很快，一碗面就出来了。我拿上筷子，很快就吃完了。在去学校的路上，我还想着那碗好吃的面。

April Fools Day is a day to play jokes on others, No one knows how this holiday began but people think it first started in France.

In the 16 th century, people celebrated New Years Day from March 25 to April 1. In the mid—1560s King Charles IX changed it from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, so others called them April Fools.

Each country celebrates April Fools Day differently. In France, people call the April Fools “April Fish”. They tape a paper fish to their friends backs to fool them. When he or she finds this , they shout “April Fish!”

In England, people play jokes only in the morning. You are a “noodle” if someone fools you. In Scotland, April Fools Day is 48 hours long. They call an April Fool “April Gowk”. Gowk is another name for a cuckoo bird.

In the America, people play small jokes on their friends and any other people on the first of Aprol. They may point down to your shoe and say, “ Your shoelace is untied.” If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then.

The two day is the Dragon Boat Festival, every year at home to pack zongzi. Look at the adults busy, I was really anxious. Today I am determined to learn to study zongzi.

Ready to do a good job, I like to learn my mother took out two pieces of one large and one small leaves, as the mother of the way break out of a corner, and then in the corner tube folded on a good soak in glutinous rice, stuffed a big fat pork, and glutinous rice covered over the. I began to be a bit complacent, thinking: the simple bag of dumplings can not hold the smart me. But when I put leaves cover the glutinous rice, like a naughty child does not listen to my words, one after another to have jumped out and wrapped around the leak out from side to side. Make me confused, anxious like ants on a hot pan round, but fortunately for my mom "rescue", put some rice off a bit, I was relieved, re Zongye wrap.

I had a little frustration, and finally to the last step of tie rope. To bind up only delicious rice dumplings, so I took the rope, put the dumplings tied round and round, it will be delivered to my mother. At this time I realized that the zongzi was a work of the door, and it was very difficult to wrap it up.

1．词语选择的重要性

在The Right Word at the Right Time的“序言”中，编者对词语选用的重要性作了一个很好的比喻：“Using the right word at the right time is rather like wearing appropriate clothing for the occasion：

it is a courtesy to others，and a favor to yourself-a matter of presenting yourself well in the eyes of the world."

显然，说话或写文章时用词适当比穿着适当难度大得多，因而也具有更大的重要性。在我国，古人写文章时常为一个词语的选用具思苦想，因而有“语不惊人死不休”的说法。

成语“一字值千金”也说明了选择词语的极端重要性。有时“一字之差”造成令人遗憾的败笔，或招致成千上万的经济损失。这些反面的教训也告诉我们必须重视词语选用的问题。

2．词语选择的可能性

实际上，我们每个人的脑子里都有了一个或大或小的词库，只要我们肯去发掘，往往可以得到更好的表达方式。这是我们做好词语选用的主观条件。

从客观条件广看，我们有各种类型的词典和参考书，只要我们平时多翻译、多阅读，写作时勤查考，就会在词语选用上不断进步。当然，一部好词典也不会毫无缺点，更难以面面俱到，因此在这里我们应牢牢记住著名英国作家、评论家和辞书编纂家Johson的话：

今天，我去东安表弟家玩。其实我本来不想去的，因为他可是出了名的调皮鬼啊！但是妈妈也去，我不想一个人在家，于是我也只好跟着去了。

上午，我跟他玩游戏，玩了一会儿，他就给我设了一个圈套。他说：“姐姐，我们来玩捉迷藏，可不可以？”他捉我躲，我高兴坏了。我马上躲起来，躲得就连侦探也捉不到我。

果然，表弟找了好半天都没看见我的影子，我正得意的时候，表弟突然说：“姐姐，有人在敲门。”我听了一溜烟似地就跑了出来。表弟哈哈哈大笑起来，说：“我找到你了。”这时，我才明白，表弟用“巧计”战胜我了。虽然我中计了，但我很高兴。因为表弟终于把智慧用在了生活上。

下午，表弟把客厅里的玩具、书籍、纸巾……只要他有点儿兴趣的东西都扔到了地上。有时他不想玩时，就把电视机打开，一个人霸占这遥控器，谁都不给。他一边看电视，一边尽情地玩耍。让他睡觉了，他就躲来躲去的。而且，他往往都会躲在你意想不到的地方，我找了半天，好不容易才把他捉住，真让人头疼。

表弟真是一个调皮鬼！

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

给奶奶的一封信A Letter to Grandmother

Dear grandma,

How have you been?

I do not see you for along time. I miss you very much. I am writing to tell you a good news. I did very well in the final exams. I am the No.1 in my class. I worked very hard to prep are he final exames. And finally I didit. I am very exciting. Mom and dad are happy, too. They are proud of me. Besides, the summer holiday comes. I have much free time now. There fore, I want tovisit to you this Saturday. I am looking for ward to seeing you.Loveyou.

Lovely yours,

Niki