The most beautiful woman in my heart

 

　　2010年3月8日是國際勞動婦女節(jié)100周年紀(jì)念日，為女性獻(xiàn)上真誠的祝福吧！誰是你心中最美的女性——母親、妻子、姐姐還是身邊的朋友、同學(xué)，本期作者用英文表達(dá)了對女性的敬重之情。

 

【作品秀】  

 

The most beautiful woman in my heart

Who is the most beautiful woman in my heart? “My mother!” I react without any hesitation.

My mother is the most beautiful in my heart. She looks young from her age. With big eyes and long hair, she impresses everyone around her, including me. And she is always proud of her slim figure. Surely enough she is kind and tender.

My mother is the most beautiful in my heart. She works hard at every aspect. All her colleagues are always saying that she works harder than others in that factory. What's more, she is often praised for her excellent job by her boss. She comes back to prepare meals for us and tidy up rooms. Thanks to my mother, my family can have a comfortable living environment. As to me, she does everything for me selflessly. When I’m hungry, she offers me food; when I’m cold, she provides me with clothes; when I’m in low spirit, she always raises me up; when I’m not myself, she comes to me and takes good care of me.

My mother is the most beautiful in my heart. In my daily life, she also plays an important role---educator. When I was a child, she told me many fair tales and taught me how to be a good child patiently. Now she encourages me to realize my dream.

The most beautiful woman in my heart is my mother. She never asks me for anything while giving all she could. How deep the love is! I love this beautiful woman.

             （寶中9級19班 劉凡凡）

 

My Mom

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was such kind of woman.

She gave birth to me at the age of 20. In common with most women of her age in the countryside, my mom didn’t receive much education. But compared with others my mom is more optimistic.

After my birth, she determined to study in a medical college so that she could build her own career. One of the mottos for my mom is that “you are certain to be a great person and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”

Time has gone by and now I am a student studying in a high school. There is no doubt that my mom is a responsible doctor. However, when I was in low spirits, my mom would speak to me in a gentle and loving voice, telling me that no matter what happened, I could make it as long as I have the aim.

I have experienced various levels of study success. Not surprisingly, mom is one of my strongest supporters. Now I only want to say “Mom, thanks to you and I love you forever.”

        （監(jiān)利總校高中部08級20班 何雅柔）

 

The most beautiful girl in the world

She is a friend of mine.

She is gentle and quiet.

She is neither too tall nor too short.

She is slim.

There is always a beautiful smile on her face.

All my friends like her because she is polite and helpful.

Her name is Shao Ning Ya.

One day some workers were repairing the road. They had a big pit in the road. It was late, so they put up a sign on the road. The sign could tell people to be careful not to drop into the pit. Some time later, a blind man was walking towards the pit. He could not see the sign. Just then Shao Ning Ya was there and shouted, “Be careful! Do not walk any farther or you will fall into a pit. ”Then she helped the blind man to walk beside the pit safely.

I think she is the most beautiful girl in the world. Do you agree with me?

    （淮安曙光雙語學(xué)校初中部 09級12班 于成億）

 

Maternal love

Someone says,“maternal love is selfless”.Yes, maternal love is the warmth of the sun, the radiance of her devotion; maternal love is the vast.

You’re never too heavy for your mother to bear. But try, as you get older,to swaproles once in a while.Take the word“family”.Strike out the “m”for mother and the “y” for youth-and all you have left is “fall”. A mother untherstands what a child does not say. Real mothers know that a child’s growth is not measured by height or age . It’s marked by the progression of Mama to Mummy to mother. A mother is one who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

We must love our mothers!

（監(jiān)利新教育實驗學(xué)校08級18班 陳明珠）

 

Female, you are the most beautiful in my heart！

When I was confused,

I remembered you—

mum and my women teachers.

you have the same name—

female.

 

I remembered,

I put my hands in yous, mum.

you taught me to learn words, my teachers.

 

And now,

I am a middle school student,

I’m very proud.

I meet lots of new teachers.

They’re beautiful, friendly and tolerant.

My English teacher, Ms.Zhao.

She’s an active woman.

She teaches English very well.

We all love her.

 

Female,you are beautiful and

You are the most beautiful in my heart!

      （寶應(yīng)實驗初中09級5班 田夢賢）

 

Woman is like a flower

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.

Believe it or not, every woman is beautiful. Whether she is tall or short, fat or thin, virtuous or talented, whatever she looks like, what age she is in, I believe she is always charming and has her unique character compared with other women. Life is real. I think honest and natural are the most important things. A boring, illusive and factitious woman will make a man feel very tired. The result is he has to run away from you.

One word can describe a woman. That is love-love her child, husband, life and herself. This love is great and lofty. In the end the love will send woman into the heaven. We say woman's sentiment is like a flower, like a dream.

A woman like a jasmine is an emotional one as a jasmine flower is white, pure and scented. Such woman dreams the love can last forever. She will love the man even though she is hurt all over.

A woman like a night-blooming cereus lives for beauty and loneliness. All the life she searches for one night. A night totally belongs to her. She'll bloom all her beauty to him who she loves. But the time she waits may be one hour, one year or even ten thousand years. Who knows?

                （寶應(yīng)實驗小學(xué) 丁曉冬）

 

【背景】

 

國際婦女節(jié)的由來

The first International Women’s Day

1869年，約翰·密爾（John Stuart Mill）是第一個在國會上提出婦女應(yīng)該有選舉的權(quán)利。1893年9月13號，新西蘭成為世界上第一個婦女擁有表決權(quán)的國家。很長一段時間里，其他很多國家的婦女們并不能夠享受到這種公平和參加選舉的權(quán)利。

In 1869 British MP John Stuart Mill was the first person in Parliament to call for women’s right to vote. On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the right to vote. Women in other countries did not enjoy this equality and campaigned for justice for many years.

1910年，第二次關(guān)于勞動婦女的國際會議在哥本哈根舉行。一位名叫克拉拉·蔡特金（Clara Zetkin）（德國的社會民族黨婦女辦公室主席）的婦女提交了關(guān)于國際婦女節(jié)的議案。她提議，每個國家每年都應(yīng)該在某一天來慶祝婦女的節(jié)日，以便表達(dá)她們的要求。參加會議的100多名婦女來自世界17個國家，她們有來自工會的、社會政黨的、婦女俱樂部的，包括3名芬蘭議會選舉的女性，以一致通過的方式產(chǎn)生了國際婦女節(jié)。

In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the ‘Women’s Office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day – a Women’s Day – to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women’s clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin’s suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women’s Day was the result.

緊接著第二年的第一個婦女節(jié)是3月19日，不是3月8日。之所以選3月19日，是因為在1848年的革命，那一年，普魯士國王被認(rèn)為是第一次領(lǐng)導(dǎo)武裝人員的力量，和在無產(chǎn)階級起義的威脅下讓位的。在他眾多承諾中，就有讓婦女擁有選舉權(quán)，但是后來他失敗了。

The very first International Women’s Day was launched the following year by Clara Zetkin on 19 March (not 8 March). The date was chosen because on 19 March in the year of the 1848 revolution, the Prussian king recognized for the first time the strength of the armed people and gave way before the threat of a proletarian uprising. Among many promise he made, which he later failed to keep, was the introduction of votes for women.

1913年的國際婦女節(jié)改為3月8日，這一天被保留了下來，并且作為至今的國際婦女節(jié)。在1975年的國際婦女節(jié)上，聯(lián)合國正式給予國際婦女節(jié)官方確認(rèn)，并且被許多國家的政府采納接受，現(xiàn)在國際婦女節(jié)在中國、亞美尼亞、俄羅斯、阿塞拜疆、白俄羅斯、保加利亞、哈薩克斯坦、吉爾吉斯斯坦、馬其頓、摩爾多瓦、烏克蘭和越南等國家作為一個節(jié)假日。

In 1913 International Women’s Day was transferred to 8 March and this day has remained the global date for International Women’s Day ever since. During International Women’s Year in 1975, IWD was given official recognition by the United Nations and was taken up by many governments. International Women’s Day is marked by a national holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine and Vietnam.

 

【文化】

 

西方的進(jìn)餐禮儀

歐美國家(country)的餐桌大多是長方形的，男主人(host)坐在桌子的一端，女主人(hostess)坐在另一端，通常安排座位時要盡量避免兩位男賓或兩位女賓并坐在一起。

就餐時，身體(body)要坐得端正，身體和餐桌間距離以能使用刀(knife)、叉(fork)、匙(spoon)和飲食方便為度，手臂不要放在桌上，也不要張開妨礙別人。餐巾只用于擦嘴(mouth)和手(hands),切不可用來擦拭餐具和擦鼻涕、擦汗。用餐完畢后收起餐巾放在盤子(plate)右方。使用刀、叉和匙時，不要弄出聲音，不用時，也不要用手?jǐn)[弄刀叉玩。

當(dāng)一道菜吃完，或不想再吃時，就把刀和叉并排放在一起，刀叉的柄朝自己胸部。如未吃完，只是為了談話暫時停吃，就把刀叉擺成“八”字形，這樣服務(wù)員就不會把盤子收走。

女主人通常是主持整個宴會(party)的主人，大家注意她的動作。入席時，特別是小型宴會，一般總要等女賓先坐下后，男賓才坐下。男賓最好還要幫鄰座的女賓拉椅子。上菜后，一般要等女主人動手吃后，客人們(guests)才吃。宴會結(jié)束時，也由她領(lǐng)頭離席。

 

【熱詞快遞】

 

rude awakening 如夢初醒

A：I heard that Daniel, not Donald has been promoted.

B：Yes, Donald had thought that he was the boss's favorite employee. This time he had a rude awakening.

A：Poor Donald!

A：我聽說丹尼爾升職了，而不是唐納德。

B：是這樣。唐納德總以為自己是老板最得意的雇員。這次他才如夢初醒。

A：可憐的唐納德。

 

twist one's arm 采取強制手段

A：It's not easy to be a dean of a department.

B：I agree.

A：The new dean in our department is twisting the arms of some of the faculty members in order to get his way.

A：做系主任可真不容易。

B：可不是嘛。

A：我們系新上任的主任正在對一些教師采取強制手段，以到達(dá)他自己的目的。

 

【小詩】

 

《慈母頌》

Mother Machree

There’s a spot in my heart, which no colleen may own;

There’s a depth in my soul, never sounded or known;

There’s a place in my memory, my life that you fill;

No other can take it, no one ever will;

Every sorrow or care, in the dear days gone by;

Was made bright by the light, of the smile in your eye;

Like a candle that’s set, in a window at night;

Your fond love has cheered me and guided me right;

Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair;

And the brow that’s all furrowed and wrinkled with care;

I kiss the dear fingers so toil warm for me;

Oh! God bless you and keep you, mother machree!

 

在我的心靈之中,有個地方，深不可測。

其境從未與聞,哪個少女也難問津;

在我的記憶之中,我的生命充滿你的身影。

誰也不能取代,永遠(yuǎn)無人有此真情;

珍貴時光悠悠逝去,辛勞煩擾卻永不消停。

你眼中的微笑，其光彩使煩勞轉(zhuǎn)為光明;

宛如點燃的燭光，深夜透窗欞。

你深情的愛激勵我，引領(lǐng)我一直前進(jìn);

是的，我愛你如銀的發(fā)絲，閃爍著深情的光芒。

我愛你額上道道皺紋，歲月刻滿滄桑。

我吻你勤勞的手指，雙手柔情溫暖我心房;

啊，慈母在我心，蒼天保佑，福壽永綿長!

 

【百事可樂】

 

Importance of English

 

A cat and her four kittens ran into a large dog. When the kittens cowered, the cat let out a series of loud barks, scaring the dog away.Turning to her kittens, the cat said, You see how important it is to know a second language.

外語的重要性

一天，一只貓媽媽領(lǐng)著4只小貓在路上走，卻遇到了一只大狗。小貓們嚇的蜷縮成了一團，這時貓媽媽吼出了一連串的汪汪聲，大狗被嚇跑了。貓媽媽轉(zhuǎn)過身來對幾個小貓說，孩子們，看看掌握一門外語是多么的重要呀！

 

Hospitality

The hostess apologized to her unexpected guest for serving an apple-pie without any cheese. The little boy of the family left the room quietly for a moment and returned with a piece of cheese which he laid on the guest's plate.

The visitor smiled, put the cheese into his mouth and then said: “You must have better eyes than your mother, sonny.” Where did you find the cheese?”

 “In the rat-trap, sir,” replied the boy.

熱情好客

由于客人在吃蘋果餡餅時，家里沒有奶酪了，于是女主人向大家表示歉意。這家的小男孩悄悄地離開了屋子。過了一會兒，他拿著一片奶酪回到房間，把奶酪放在客人的盤子里。

客人微笑著把奶酪放進(jìn)嘴里說：“孩子，你的眼睛就是比你媽媽的好。你在哪里找到的奶酪？”

“在捕鼠夾上，先生。”那小男孩說。

 

Frog

The science teacher lecturing his class in biology said, Now I'll show you this frog in my pocket.He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a chicken sandwich.He looked puzzled for a second, thought deeply, and said,That's funny. I distinctly remember eating my lunch.

青蛙

老師正在給學(xué)生上生物課：現(xiàn)在，我將要給你們看我袋子里的這只青蛙。接著，他把手伸進(jìn)口袋，卻拿出了一份雞肉三文治。老師滿臉困惑地看了一眼，沉思了一會兒，說道：真奇怪。我明明記得我已經(jīng)把午飯吃掉了。