保护濒危熊猫的英语作文汇编20篇

“姐姐，我们今后将要住哪儿去啊?”小熊猫波波朝着姐姐天真地问。但姐姐并不像波波那样乐观，她叹了一口气，只是摸摸波波的脑袋，什么也没说。

此时，波波的心里冒出了许多问号：我们的家去哪了?河水为什么是黑色的?……

天为被，地为床的一天终于过去了。姐姐出去寻找食物了，波波闲着没事，便在随身携带的箱子里找自己的《格林童话》。也就在那么一瞬间里，从箱子里掉出一本厚厚的，镶嵌这金色花边的本子，充满好奇心的波波打开一看，竟是姐姐的日记：

20XX年7月23日

晴

今天，朝阳似火。我本想出去给波波买一只冰棍，却看见一大批邪恶的人类走进了树林。就是他们，就是他们捕捉了我的父母，虽然他们不想伤害我们，只是想送去保护起来，但远离家园，比死还要难受。他们将脏东西投入河水中，不让我们饮用;将竹子砍断，不让我们食用。目的就是要捕捉我们，我想，我就是死也不会屈服的……

就这么短短的一页纸，表达了姐姐多么强烈的内心感受啊，姐姐的坚强勇敢成了波波的榜样，波波下定决心，向姐姐学习，誓死也不屈服。

现在，树林里的熊猫死的死，伤的伤，人们不仅没有保护到大熊猫，反而伤害到了它们。人们似乎意识到了什么，竟不再捕捉熊猫了，还在树林里树立了标语：关爱大熊猫，关爱它们的家园……望着这条标语，小熊猫波波会心的一笑……

尊敬的女士，先生们，今天，我们来游览著名的风景名胜区，长城，希望大家旅途愉快!

我们现在来到的是好汉坡，好汉坡的名字是怎么来的呢?不晓得吧?好汉坡因一句“不到长城非好汉”而得名。

现在我们到了长城上，你们现在想说什么?因该是我“终于登上长城了!”吧?这座长城是为了防止匈奴的攻击而建筑的，长城很大，有13000里，每隔2、3百米就有一座堡垒，堡垒是用来屯兵用的。

我们登上长城很容易，但，你想一下，这座巨大的长城凝结了多少劳动人民的血汗和智慧呀!!

能做出这样大的“怪物”，在世界历史上真是一个奇迹!!!

In my hometown, the air is polluted seriously. However, in recent years,

the pollution gets from bad to worse, because of the increasing number of

private cars. Especially during the rush hours, too many private vehicles move

slowly on narrow roads, emitting a large amount of waste gas. Moreover, the

poisonous gas sent by the nearby factories is also one of the main causes of

pollution. Therefore, it’s demanded that immediate and effective measures must

be taken to restrict private cars and public transportation must be developed to

the largest extent. Besides, we should use renewable and clean energy

recourses.

Today is "March" Womens Day, I want to do several things to help his

mother, let her have a happy holiday. At noon, I came home and found the table

already filled with delicious food, but just could not see her mother. Suddenly,

I heard a sound of laundry to the laundry and saw the stage, my mother was

washing clothes. I said: "Mom, you go to eat, Ill wash. Because today is your

holiday, I want to make you happy." "Are you okay?" Mom asked, smiling. "OK," I

said. Mom went to eat doubtfully. I picked up the sleeves, took out a piece of

clothing, wet with blisters, and then cast soap, then rub hard. Yeah rub rub,

rub my hands are red, but there are still a little greasy clothes, do not rub

clean. I had to rinse with a brush, then rinse well with water and the clothes

clean. I washed some clothes, my mother came, looked at me hard to look like, my

mother smiles, so happy, so happy.

Evening, I rush to help her mother wash the dishes, I washed dishes placed

neatly. Mother looked, smiled and said: "So this is Yao Yao gave me holiday

gift!" Although I am more tired than usual today, but I am very happy because

I let my mother had a happy holiday season. Memorable day - dedicated to the

Womens Day Mom.

I have to say that music really has a strong attractiveness to me.

Naturally, everyone can choose suitable music to listen to. However, when you

find a kind of music which can bring happiness to you, you will be surprised and

become excited. Music has a magical energy, and it can help people gain good

mood in a great extent.

When you feel sad, you can have a try to listen to soothing music. At

first, soothing music will let you calm down. You will find that you will play

much attention to the music, and then your sadness can be decreased. You will

enter music ocean. You can experience a baptism of your heart. It does not

matter that when you listen to soothing music and you want to cry, you should

just follow yourself feeling to have a thorough release. Music will give you

enough encourage to overcome difficulties.

Music also can double your happiness and arouse the fighting. For instance,

when you solve some very difficult situations and gain success eventually, you

will have a great mood. At this time, exciting music will witness your success.

You will feel satisfied. Music lets you remember the glorious moment and cherish

your success. Music can give you unlimited motivation to achieve goals，because

you still want to listen to glorious music.

In addition, music includes a lot of useful knowledge. People can learn

precious knowledge from music. Because there is different music, we can find out

that different nations have different music thoughts to express. And from music,

we can listen to music culture. Music culture will give you a deeper

understanding to learn foreign culture, such as foreign language, foreign

history and foreign traditional customs and so on. In a word, music has an

important effect on promoting society development.

Music indeed has a magical power to help people and society develop. I

believe that music will still continue to bring us many surprises. As the

development of society, great music will become more important.

Dear Sir,

I am a graduate in 2012, graduating from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. I was noticed your company is looking for a CFO and I am writing to candidate for this position. I was major in financial management in college and minor in Business. I studied very hard in school and I was perfect in my courses. I ranked top three in my college. Moreover, I took part-time jobs in summer holidays and I had an internship in a company before, which brought me great practical experience. I know your company aims to internationalization and I am sure what I learned in school would help me to be qualified to this position. The following is my resume in details that will help you to know me better. I’m looking forward to your positive reply. And Best wishes for you and your company.

Sincerely yours,

Christ

Animals are peoples friends, we should protect them.

If there is no animal on earth, there would be no human. Animal is a most of the earths food chain, if animals disappeared, we human beings will be extinct. For example: the frog disappeared, there is no animal pests to catch paddy fields, crops will not grow, humans have no food; If there is no tiger, the rabbit will excess breeding, our food is likely to be a rabbit eat didnt; If there is no owls, mice will encroach on our territory...

The earth is a big family, not lack of anyone, without animals, we humans situation, we should all band together and protect small animals.

动物是人们的朋友，我们应该保护它们。

地球上如果没有动物，就没有人类。动物是这个地球生物链的一大部分，如果动物消失了，我们人类也会灭绝。例如：青蛙消失了，就没有动物去捉稻田的害虫，农作物也就无法生长，人类就没有食物;如果没有老虎，兔子就会超额繁殖，我们的粮食就可能会被兔子吃没了;如果没有猫头鹰，老鼠就会侵占我们的地盘……

地球是一个大家庭，缺谁都不行，如果没有动物，我们人类的处境可想而知，我们大家应该团结起来，保护小动物。

I like carefree cute polar bears, light and lively kitten... But my favorite clumsy panda.

I was seven years old, I went with mother, cousin, cousin and aunt seven stars play in the park, we saw a lion, will go to the panda house to see the giant panda.

The giant panda to come out from the room! It was the first time in my life, I see the giant panda, the giant pandas eyes round, near the eyes around in the dark, dark circles, like the giant panda "black rim of the eye".

Mother told me that the giant panda is one of the worlds most precious animals, mainly distributed in Chinas sichuan, gansu and shaanxi province of individual mountains region, quantity is very rare, belongs to the national first class protected animals, known as the "national treasure".

I saw the giant panda in the bamboo forest next to "home" walk a circle, and then picked up a piece of bamboo chew up and that the appearance of the bamboo really funny.

Although some people say that the giant panda fur is white, but after I saw the giant panda, found that pandas are very yellow fur, he rolled soil too much should be!

Giant pandas very clumsy, but it is very lovely, beloved, I like clumsy panda!

我喜欢悠然可爱的北极熊，轻巧活泼的小猫……但我最喜欢的笨拙大熊猫。

我在七岁那年，我跟着妈妈、表姐、表弟和舅妈去七星公园玩，我们看了狮子表演之后，就去大熊猫馆看大熊猫。

大熊猫从屋子里出来了!那是我平生第一次看到大熊猫，大熊猫的眼睛圆圆的，眼睛旁围着黑黑的圈，像是大熊猫的“黑眼圈”。

妈妈告诉我大熊猫是世界上最珍贵的动物之一，主要分布在我国四川，甘肃，陕西省的个别崇山峻岭地区，数量十分稀少，属于国家一类保护动物，被称为“国宝”。

我看见大熊猫在“家”旁的竹子林走了一圈，然后拿起一根竹子啃起来，那吃竹子的样子真好笑。

虽然有人说大熊猫皮毛很白，但是我看了大熊猫后，发现大熊猫的皮毛非常的黄，应该是他滚泥土太多了吧!

大熊猫虽然非常笨拙，但是它非常可爱，受人喜爱，我喜欢笨拙的大熊猫!

How can we live a full and meaningful holiday when we are getting closer

and closer to our colorful summer vacation? Let me tell you about my ideal

summer vacation.

Golgi once said: "books are the ladder of human progress". Reading, not

only enriches knowledge, but also makes people understand the philosophy of

life. Yes, there are good, evil, ugly, beautiful in the book, and there are many

wonderful stories. I am a "bookworm", long holidays of course this book friends!

Im going to go to the Xinhua Bookstore to read every day, the campus story, the

name of the world, the Confucian classics, the fairy tales, the detective

stories... I like them all。 Haha, summer vacation packages can treat. I read

"scream", and I was reading "Kong Yi." Although it had been read earlier, in the

atmosphere created by "cry", the sad and ridiculous Kong Yi seemed to have added

a lot of misery. Also read "naughty bag horse small jump", humorous humor only

smile to the stomach pain. The book is really spiritual food!

Voltaire said, "life lies in movement." The long summer vacation, in order

to make my health is good, we must do some exercise. A sport that I love most is

to play table tennis, I cant miss this chance to go to the gym during the

summer vacation, "kill" on a back, and the real "Table Tennis Master blows, they

learn to play ping-pong essentials, and find out the deficiencies of their own

efforts to learn for table tennis, a qualitative leap. I looked at the little

yellow ball jumping up and down, while the sweat, but in the heart of the

emergence of unspeakable joy.

Holiday is at home, on the Internet. Of course I this "netheads" to a

chain. Open the "composition", look at the composition, pack a bag, and then go

to the BBS irrigation, send post, understanding the novel interesting. Play

tired, close your eyes and listen to the melodious music, let your mind rest,

melodious music ups and downs, I feel the people are immersed in the music, is

really a kind of enjoyment! Since the said: listen to music at any time, its

nuts. Point open "Baidu", hot news reports immediately appear in front of, hey,

really many ah! The whole country and the big and small things are immediately

present, really countless ah! There is a lot of encyclopedia knowledge on the

Internet. I suck the nutrition of knowledge in the ocean of knowledge, and add

some extracurricular knowledge. It is: the Internet, a good holiday partner.

My ideal summer vacation, perhaps not the richest, is the most suitable for

me, and I believe I will have a fullest and most meaningful holiday.

Nowadays environmental protection has become the first thing we have to do, because now the earths environment is under threat.

Now, we know that the earth has been warming, cold place has melted the ice, the water level becomes more and more high, let many coastal countries. More land desertification, disasters are hit, make our life is no longer so carefree.

First of all, we must start from the side.

Forests have been cut down, automobile exhaust emissions... The first will directly affect our lives, because they let we dare not breathe. So, the best way to deal with these problems is to drive less, ride bikes, and riding a bike is good for you! . But although it has been said that and said more than once, but why there are so many cars on the road? So, this method really, a bit not practical.

The simplest is to plant trees, the trees are humans good friends, they can help mankind to many things, such as clean air, and so on. So, a variety of trees, this method is very practical!

In short, our earth wanted us to take good care of yourself, to protect, want to use practical actions to help the earth, make the environment more beautiful!

先如今环保已经成为了我们必做的事，因为现在地球上的环境正受到威胁。

现在，我们知道地球已经开始变暖，寒冷地方的冰已经开始融化，变成的水使水平面越来越高，让许多沿海的国家被淹没。更多的土地沙漠化，天灾不断来袭，使我们的生活不再那么无忧无虑。

首先，我们必须从身边做起。

大片森林被不断砍伐，汽车尾气不断排放……这些首先就会直接影响到我们的生活，因为这些让我们“不敢呼吸”。所以，这些问题最好的解决方法就是少开车，多骑自行车，而且，骑自行车也很有益身体健康!。可虽然一直这样说，而且说了也不只一次，可为什么还是有那么多的车在路上呢?所以，这个方法实在，有点不实用。

最简单的就是种树了，树是人类的好朋友，他们能帮助人类许多事，比如净化空气啦，等等。所以，多种树，这个方法很实用!

总而言之，我们的地球要我们自己去爱护，去保护，要用实际行动来帮助地球，让环境更美好!

Traffic and Protecting Environment

交通与环保

2015年11月，全国中东部地区17省市持续雾霾，陷入大范围的重度和严重污染。造成这一现象的主要原因是工厂排出的废气和汽车尾气等。绿色低碳，保护环境，从我们身边小事做起。现请你根据以下三个方面的提示，以"Let’s Do Something to Save Our Environment"为题写一篇80词左右的短文。

内容包括：

1.重要性：只有一个地球。2.主要问题：污染、疾病、灾难。3.措施：停止污染、保护大自然。

Let’s Do Something to save Our Environment

We all live on the earth. The earth is our home. We have only one earth. We must take care of it. It gives us the best environment. If we harm it, it will be angry. And then we will have a terrible end. There are three problems in our earth, they are pollution, disaster and illness.

It’s our duty to protect our environment. So we must plant more trees, protect the flowers and the trees, save energy, reduce the pollution. We should ask our government to control the pollution from the factories.

Protecting the nature is very important. It’s our duty to keep our environment clean and tidy.

If everyone makes a contribution to protecting the environment, the earth will become much more beautiful.

[关于保护环境的英语作文示例

In the past hundred years, there have heen frequent natural disasters, such

as floods, droughts, mud-rock flows, seismic sea waves, earthquakes, windstorms

and the stretching of new deserts. The disasters have killed millions upon

millions of people, destroyed countless homes, and wiped out numerous pieces of

fertile land.

Now more and more people become aware that those disasters have much to do

with what we have done to the earth. We have cut down too many trees in the

forests,we have badly polluted the environment, we have shocked our own

home-planet time and against with tremendously powerful explosions of nuclear

bombs. As a result, climates have become abnormal, rainwater rushes down

hillsides angrily, and the underground energy goes up to revenge itself on

us.

The earth is our only home-planet. It is urgent for us to stop damaging it,

and to do our best to protect it and make it a lovely place suitable to live in,

for we have nowhere to go and survive except where we are now.

Protecting the Wild Animals

Last week, I saw a very impressive documentary about panda. A professor studied panda in the early 1980s went to the wild life and kept trace of wild giant panda for many years. As a result, he found that it was human being that made these lovely animals die out. At that time, many people believed that giant panda became less because of the low rate of newborn babies. But it was not true. People cut trees for making profit at that time. Panda lose homeland and they lacked of food. Thanks to these valuable data, the government took the policy to protect the animals. So today, the number of giant panda is increasing. People realize the importance of protecting the environment and it is the best way to protect wild animals, they are the indispensable part of the nature.

上周，我看了一部令人印象非常深刻的关于熊猫的纪录片。一位教授在20年代80年代早期就开始研究熊猫，他到野外生活，多年寻找野生大熊猫的踪迹。结果，他发现，正是人类，让这些可爱的动物面临灭绝。当时，许多人认为，大熊猫变少是因为新生儿的低出生率。这是不正确。人们为了利益砍伐树木，熊猫失去了家园，也没有食物吃。多亏了这些有价值的数据，政府采取了政策去保护它们。所以现在，大熊猫的数量正在增加。人们意识到保护环境的重要性，这也是最好的方法来保护野生动物，因为它们是大自然不可或缺的一部分。

尊敬的老师，亲爱的同学们，大家好!

今天我演讲的题目是：保护森林，人人有责。

我们身边到处有人假惺惺地传播保护环境的思想，可是他们自己却没有做到。很多时候，当我们兴致勃勃地来到花园，映入眼帘的不是满含芳香的花朵，而是一堆堆腐臭的落花。或许有人说：那是因为花儿太脆弱了，树木比他们强多了，四处肯定郁郁葱葱。

像“熊大、熊二”这样的人越来越少，森林都被“光头强”这样的人占领了。

那是一个回归自然的日子，我和哥哥一家来到鸡冠山上，找到一个森林环绕的酒店——琉璃仙居，简单安顿了一下。我和哥哥就发疯似地满山跑，毕竟我们都是鼎鼎有名的费头子。很快，我们便脱离了大人的视线，来到一片花丛中。红的，黄的，紫的，竞相开放，看到就觉得香喷喷的。

我忍不住凑上去，结果扑鼻而来的，不是花香，而是腐臭味，我立刻感到反胃。哥哥忍不住好奇地把花扒开，一大堆垃圾便出现在眼前。不久，又有一个人过来了，抽着烟，看着手机，一会儿随手一抛，便留下了一缕青烟与小草作伴。

或许你在想，这里是野外，没人来，丢一点垃圾又能怎样，大自然那么强大，随便遮点土就行。

难道你是想让大自然用几千万年的时间来化解一块塑料?让大自然用自己的身体来遮盖未曾熄灭的烟头?让大自然把那肮脏的纸团化为自己的一部分?大自然是有这个能力，她是伟大的，不与我们斤斤计较。但如果我们不加节制的破坏环境，哼哼，那就等待大自然继续发怒吧!

于是我和哥哥找来一个袋子，顶着臭味，把垃圾一个一个捡起来放回它们的家中。又把垃圾大军压倒的小树苗扶起来，那些娇美的花朵也被残忍的摧残，我似乎感到大自然在哭泣

我希望这个世界上多一点像“熊大熊二”这样的人，少一点像“光头强”这样的可恨的人。

谢谢大家!

正月初六下午，导游带着我们去登北京延庆县的万里长城。

导游说：“长城的第一个烽火台到第四个烽火台很难走，可以乘滑车上去，你们先商量一下怎么登。”我说：“我、爸爸和妈妈走，其他都乘滑车。”爸爸点头同意了。到了那里，导游说：“你们走的先登，乘滑车的跟我来。”说完，我们三人就开始邓长城了。刚走了一会儿，我们就看见左旁边有一块巨石，上面刻着八达岭三个红字。我们走了几步，看见一个仿真的大炮，真大。妈妈说：“前面就是第一个烽火台。”我转身一看，烽火台一共有三个门，中间一个最大，它的上面有许多小方块围成一个正方形，以前在那里点火，表示那里有危险。我们继续往前走，走过了不少烽火台。爸爸指着最上面的烽火台，说：“那是好汉坡，咱们等一下人到齐了就往上爬。”我和妈妈异口同声地说：“好的。”过了一会儿，表弟他们来了，我们又爬了起来，游客逐渐变多，我们的力气也快没了。但是我们不怕累，继续往上爬，终于爬上了好汉坡。在那里，妈妈给我和表弟各买了一块金牌，上面刻着许多精致的字。今天可真高兴啊!

我们要保护小动物，特别是小鸡这类弱小的动物，因为小鸡早晨可以叫我们起床，可以生一个又一个圆圆的的鸡蛋，还可以提供鸡肉给我们吃。

We need to protect the small animal, especially this kind of small animal chicken, because chicken morning to wake us up, can have a round egg, can also provide for us to eat chicken.

有一次，我和妈妈上菜市场，听见一位老奶奶在喊：“卖鸡了，今天的鸡又肥又嫩!”妈妈说：“今天，我们买一只鸡回家，炖汤喝。”我说：“好吧。”可又想了想：如果我们吃了鸡，那么就吃不到鸡蛋了，就对妈妈说：“不行，吃了鸡就没有鸡蛋吃了。”“傻孩子，你瞎操什么心啊!”妈妈不由分说地把我拉到卖鸡的那边。卖鸡的老奶奶正在杀鸡，只见她拔下鸡脖子上的毛，拿刀用力地在鸡脖子上划了几下。血喷向了四周，鸡挣扎了几下就死了。“太残忍了，我不要吃鸡!”我向妈妈大声的抗议。“好吧，不买了，我们就去买点蔬菜吧。”也许妈妈也觉得残忍，就同意了。

One time, my mother and I heard the food market, an old woman shouted: "chicken, chicken fat and tender today!" Mother said: "today, we bought a chicken soup to drink at home." I said: "OK." But think again: if we eat chicken, so cant eat the egg, the mother said: "no, not eat chicken egg to eat." "Silly boy, what do you care ah!" Mother allowing no explanation to put me into the chicken. The old woman was a chicken, she pulled out the hair on the neck, a knife in the neck with a few strokes under. Blood sprayed around chicken, struggled and died. "So cruel, I dont eat chicken!" I asked my mother loudly protested. "Well, do not buy, we went to buy some vegetables." Maybe mom was cruel, also agreed.

假如我们的生活中没有了动物，世界就会变得很孤独。我们要保护动物，从自身做起：少吃肉类食品，少穿皮衣毛衣;看见别人欺负动物，要勇敢地站出来劝说他们。

If we live without the animal, the world will become very lonely. We must protect the animal, start from their own: eat less meat, less wear fur sweaters; see others bully animal, we should stand up to persuade them.

保护动物，人人有责!

Animal protection, everyones responsibility!

It was Mother’s Day.Sun Zheng thought he should do something for

hismother.He decided to help his mother do some housework.After school he went

toa shop to buy some food on his way home.

When he got home, he did his best to cook some nice food,though he

couldn’tdo the cooking well.Thenhe cleaned the room.He felt very tired, but he

wasvery happy.

When his father and his mother came back and saw the clean rooms and

disheswhich weren’t so nice, they were very happy.They had their supper

together.Hismother said, "Thank you,my child!"

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.

Excuse me waiter, there’s a shark in my soup

Some 200m years before dinosaurs made their appearance on earth and thus quite some time before Homo sapiens began celebrating nuptials at extravagant wedding banquets, sharks swam the oceans. Sharks are older than trees. They have survived at least four planetary mass extinctions.

在恐龙在地球上出现之前两亿年左右，也就是在现代人(Homo sapiens)开始举办奢华婚宴之前相当久远的时候，鲨鱼们就已经在海洋中游弋。鲨鱼比树还要古老。它们至少经历了四次地球物种灭绝，一直活到了今天。

The link between these ancient predators and contemporary wedding receptions is that, among Chinese people, it is a sign of generosity and prestige to serve guests shark-fin soup. Since there are more than 1.3bn Chinese people, and since they are getting more affluent by the day, that is of no little consequence to the shark population. Some 70m sharks are killed each year for their fins. Much of the time, the fins are sliced off with a blade at sea and the bloody shark torso thrown back in the water to die.

这种古老的食肉动物和当代婚宴之间的联系在于，在中国人眼中，请客人吃鱼翅羹是慷慨与体面的标志。由于中国有13亿多人口，并且中国人一天比一天富裕，吃鱼翅对鲨鱼数量可谓影响重大。为了获取鱼翅，人类每年要捕杀约7000万条鲨鱼。大多数时候，人们在海上用刀把鱼鳍割下来，然后便将血淋淋的鲨鱼躯干扔入海里，任由它们死去。

The California state legislature is debating a bill co-sponsored by Paul Fong, a Chinese-American Democrat, to ban the sale, consumption and trade of shark fin. Hawaii, Oregon and Washington state already impose similar bans. California accounts for 85 per cent of shark fin eaten in the US. The bill sailed through the lower house assembly, but is being held up in the state senate because of concerns it discriminates against Chinese Americans.

加利福尼亚州立法机构正在讨论由民主党人、美籍华人方文忠(Paul Fong)联合提议的一项旨在禁止贩卖、消费和交易鱼翅的议案。夏威夷州、俄勒冈州和华盛顿州已经实施了类似的禁令。加州的鱼翅食用量占到美国鱼翅总食用量的85%。州众议院会议已通过了此项议案，但因担心法案有歧视美籍华人的嫌疑，州参议院还未对其投票表决。

What people eat is, indeed, a sensitive topic and one that generates much hypocrisy. Different cultures have formed their own taboos about what is proper, and not proper, to eat. Muslims and Jews don’t eat pigs, Hindus don’t eat cows and most Americans don’t eat snake or whale. Jains, and vegetarians of all cultures, don’t eat any animals at all.

人们吃什么确实是一个敏感的话题，也会催生许多虚伪的作风。对于可以吃什么、不可以吃什么，不同的文化有着各自的禁忌。穆斯林和犹太教徒不吃猪肉，印度教徒不吃牛肉，而大多数美国人不吃蛇肉或鲸肉。耆那教徒(Jains)和各种文化中的素食主义者都不吃任何动物。

Westerners are particularly prone to turning up their nose at what other people eat. Their position is mostly illogical and sometimes offensive. They tend to mentally divide animals into those you eat (like pigs, sheep and chickens); those you cuddle or stroke (cats, dogs and horses); and those too ugly, unusual or intelligent to eat (say beetles, zebras and dolphins). Many profess to loathe barbarity – think clubbing seals – yet are happy to eat veal or to ignore what goes on in their friendly neighbourhood abattoir.

西方人尤其看不惯其它文化社会的人们所吃的东西。他们的出发点大多不合逻辑，有时可能还会触犯众怒。他们往往在心里把动物分为好几类：吃的(如猪、羊和鸡)、搂抱或抚摸的(猫、狗和马)以及太丑、太怪或太聪明而不能吃的(比如甲虫、斑马和海豚)。许多人都公开对残暴行为表示憎恶——例如用棍子猎杀海豹——但却爱吃小牛肉，或佯装对自己居住的友好社区的屠宰场里发生的一切毫不知晓。

Michael Moore, the American documentary film-maker, brilliantly – if possibly inadvertently – exposed this self-delusion in Roger & Me. In a scene that was meant to highlight the poverty of Flint, Michigan, a woman selling rabbits is shown asking customers if they want “pets or meat”. If the answer is “pet”, the cuddly bunny is handed over to a delighted child. If “meat”, the hapless creature is clubbed to death with a lead pipe and skinned on the spot.

美国纪录片电影制片人迈克尔?摩尔(Michael Moore)在《罗杰和我》(Roger & me)中绘声绘色地(也可能是不经意地)披露了这种自欺欺人的行径。在展现密歇根州弗林特(Flint)贫困状况的一个场景中，有个女人在卖兔子，她问顾客要买“宠物还是兔肉”。如果答案是“宠物”，她就把小兔子交给一个满心欢喜的孩子。如果答案是“兔肉”，她便当场用一根铅管把这个可怜的动物打死并把皮剥下来。

The richer societies get, the more finicky they tend to become. Many (including myself) waste half the animal they have had killed on their behalf, refusing to consume its organs, intestines, brain and so on. These parts are often eaten, and sometimes prized, in non-western societies, particularly in Asia. In their willingness to consume almost all the animal, both China and Japan score far better than most western countries.

社会越是富有，往往就会变得越挑剔。许多人(包括我在内)会浪费掉因为他们而被杀死的动物的一半，我们拒绝食用它们的器官、肠子和脑子等等部位。但在西方之外的社会、尤其是亚洲，人们通常是吃这些的，而且有时还会将其视若珍品。就吃下动物所有部位的意愿而言，中国和日本要远远排在大多数西方国家的前面。

Surely, then, one can’t object to eating shark fin? Yet one can and one should. The reasons are to do with conservation and our broader ecosystem. Some species of shark have been depleted by 70 per cent and a few, such as smooth hammerhead, bull sharks and tiger sharks, by 90 per cent or more. Sharks are the ocean’s top predators. Their absence causes havoc. Off the east coast of America, sharks used to eat bottom-feeding rays. With shark numbers massively depleted, the rays have had a field day devouring scallops, clams and oysters, rapidly reducing stocks.

这么说来，想必我们不能反对吃鱼翅了?不，我们可以反对，而且也应当反对。因为这关系到环境保护以及更广泛生态系统的保护。一些种类的鲨鱼数量已减少了70%，少数几个种类的数量减少了90%，例如平双髻鲨、牛鲨和虎鲨。鲨鱼是位于海洋食物链最顶端的捕食者。若没有它们，生态系统会发生混乱。在美国东海岸附近，鲨鱼通常以在水底觅食的魟鱼为食。由于鲨鱼数量急剧减少，魟鱼就会趁机吃掉很多扇贝、蛤蜊和牡蛎，使这些物种的数量迅速减少。

Once shark fins are dried and in jars, it is all but impossible to tell what kind of shark they came from or whether they were finned. At one store in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, a city where half the world’s shark fin is traded, a salesman admits he has no idea whether the fins come from endangered species. His shop does not sell shark meat, and he says it could be true that the carcase is simply tossed into the sea. As well as the cruelty, there is also the incredible waste. The average shark stretches to about 10 bowls of soup.

鲨鱼的鳍一旦被晒干并放入罐里，便几乎无可判断它们来自哪种鲨鱼，或者是否是被割下来的。在鱼翅交易量占全球一半的香港，上环区一家商店的一位销售人员坦承，他不清楚店里的鱼翅是否来自濒危鲨鱼。他的店里不卖鲨鱼肉，并且他表示，鲨鱼的尸体被直接抛回海里可能是真事。岂止是残忍，这也是一种巨大的浪费。平均每条鲨鱼只能加工出大约10碗鱼翅汤。

Certainly, shark fin is traditional. As one writer points out, to ask people to stop eating it is the equivalent of suggesting Americans give up turkey for Thanksgiving. There is doubtless a case for banning other types of food, such as some types of caviar and some species of whale. But cultures are not immutable. Traditions change, especially when they are unsustainable.

不错，鱼翅是一种传统食物。正如一位作家所指出的那样，要求人们不吃鱼翅就好比让美国人过感恩节时不要吃火鸡。我们无疑有理由禁止食用其它食物，比如某类鱼子酱和某些种类的鲸。但文化也不是一成不变的。传统会发生变化，尤其是当它们难以为继的时候。

Fortunately, many of the most prominent campaigners against shark fin are Chinese, with Yao Ming, the recently retired basketball sensation, among the most passionate. In Hong Kong, where shark fin used to be de rigueur at Cantonese banquets, many young people refuse to eat it. Besides, sharks have less cachet now they are siphoned from the oceans on an industrial scale.

值得庆幸的是，在反对吃鱼翅的最著名活动人士之中，许多都是中国人，比如近期退役的篮球明星姚明，就是行动最积极的人士之一。在香港，鱼翅曾是粤宴上的必备菜肴，但如今许多青年人拒绝食用鱼翅。此外，在捕杀鲨鱼实现工业化规模的今天，鱼翅的身价已大不如前。

In Canada, more than a few ethnic Chinese couples have made a show of not serving shark fin at their wedding. Judy Lao recently told the Vancouver Province why she didn’t have it at her reception. “We don’t really care, our friends don’t care, and shark fin has no nutritional value anyway,” she said. “So why should we serve it?” Why indeed.

在加拿大，许多对华裔夫妇已做出表率，在婚宴上不供应鱼翅。Judy Lao最近向《温哥华省报》(Vancouver Province)解释了，为什么她的婚宴没有上鱼翅。“我们并不介意这些，我们的朋友也不介意，再说鱼翅根本也没有什么营养价值，”她表示。“所以，我们为什么要上鱼翅呢?”确实，这有什么必要呢?

[保护鲨鱼的英语作文

“有一双明亮的眼睛，包含着慈母般的深情，一闪一闪，在我的心田上播种;一闪一闪，播下知识，播下忠诚，啊，老师的眼睛……”我喜欢唱这首歌，忘不了它，更忘不了老师的那双眼睛。

老师的眼睛，那是怎样的眼睛哟，它每时每刻都盯在同学们的身上。我从这双眼睛里，懂得了很多很多……

老师的眼睛，是一双亲切的慈母般的眼睛。当我刚刚迈进学校的大门，开始一种新生活的时候，我是那样的不适应。这时候，我看到了一双眼睛，老师那充满热情的眼睛。那双眼睛，多么象妈妈的眼睛，它激励我向前迈开了第一步，把我从无知中唤醒。

老师的眼睛，是一双温和的眼睛。当我为了腾出时间去看电影，而抄袭了同学的作业时，老师的眼睛里闪现严厉的目光。然而，当我低下头，流出忏悔、惭愧的泪时，老师却又深情地为我拭干了泪。我抬起头，望着老师的眼睛，老师那温和的眼睛分明在告诉我：“知错，改了就好。”

老师的眼睛，是一双充满信任的眼睛。有一次，为了解出一道思考题，我坐在桌边苦苦地思索着。我整整地做了一个小时，结果题还是没有做出来.我开始泄气了，并为自己开脱起来：反正不是老师叫做的，明天上课，老师还会给讲的。心里这么想着，便烦躁地把书扔到了一边，打算到外面去玩一会儿。我垂头丧气，失去信心的时候，老师好象看透了我的心思，向我投来了信任、鼓励的目光。于是，我增添了勇气、信心，重新坐下来做，困难迎刃而解。啊，老师的目光似一把万能的钥匙，打开了我紧锁的脑门儿。自此以后，每当我遇到困难，丧失信心，垂头丧气的时候，我就象看见了老师那信任的目光，就象听见了老师在对我说：“耐心，能够战胜一切。”

老师的眼睛，是一双期待的眼睛。在课堂上，当提出问题，引导同学们思考的时候，老师总是用期待的目光，看着每一个同学紧锁的眉头。我看得出，老师多么希望同学们齐刷刷地举起手。我想将手举起来，但我看看周围一个个静静地坐着思考的同学，我胆怯了。这时，又是老师的目光激励了我。我消除了一切顾虑，将手毫不犹豫地高高举起。我看见老师欣慰地笑了，笑得那么甜蜜。

老师的眼睛，是一双怎样的眼睛哟，我从这双深邃的眼睛里，懂得了很多很多……

在世界自然基金会成立43周年之际公布的这份《大熊猫野外生存报告》旨在向世人介绍大熊猫的生存状况，报告指出，我国“国宝”大熊猫的野外生存目前仍然面临着威胁，而这种威胁主要来自人类贪婪的开发——“林的锐减和栖息地的破坏化”。在大熊猫生存数量最多的四川省，其栖息地面积在1974年到1987年之间就减少了一半，1999年在四川省青川县的试点调查发现，这个大熊猫栖息地面积自1987年以来减少了30%。

作为WWF中国大熊猫保护项目的前任负责人和报告的作者之一，北京大学的吕植博士认为：“栖息地的破坏化对于大熊猫的生存构成了极大的威胁，因为其食物完全来自高山地区的不同种类的竹子，它们必须能够迁涉以适应竹子开花死亡的生存周期。”当然，大熊猫栖息地破坏化最主要的是人为因素造成的，道路的建设、居住点的扩大等造成了其种群之间的交流受阻，小块、分裂的大熊猫种群将面临近亲交配的危险，这就是导致它们对疾病抵抗能力的降低、对环境变化适应力的减弱和繁殖率的降低等。

大熊猫的祖先曾经远至缅甸和越南北部地区，但目前它们却只能生存在甘肃、陕西和四川省的5个山系而已，仅剩1000只的物种是随时都有可能灭绝的。物种灭绝也许是难免的，可是人类的过度开发却大大加快了物种的灭亡，它要比自然的正常的灭绝速度快1000倍!!难道只有最后一棵树被刨、最后一条河被污染、最后一尾鱼被捕杀、最后一片土地筑上钢筋水泥的时候，人类才能意识到“钱是不能果腹”的吗?!

朋友们，让我们携起手，用我们纯净的心灵去体会一下我们的母亲——大自然吧!让我们热爱大自然，保护大自然，保护人类的兄弟姐妹——大熊猫吧!让我们同在一个地球之上，给它们一个生存的空间吧!这是为了人类的文明，为了人类的子孙后代，为了人类的责任而需要共同完成的任务!!