第一篇:关于万圣节的英语故事(中英文对照)
关于万圣节的英语故事(中英文对照)
关于万圣节的英语故事(中英文对照)
HALLOWEEN
One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingy with his money.So he was sent to hell.But down there he played tricks on the Devil(Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the earth forever carrying a lantern.Well, Irish children made Jack's lanterns on October 31st from a large potato or turnip, hollowed out with the sides having holes and lit by little candles inside.And Irish children would carry them as they went from house to house begging for food for the village Halloween festival that honored the Druid god Muck Olla.The Irish name for these lanterns was “Jack with the lantern” or “Jack of the lantern,” abbreviated as “ Jack-o'-lantern” and now spelled “jack-o-lantern.”
The traditional Halloween you can read about in most books was just children's fun night.Halloween celebrations would start in October in every elementary school.Children would make Halloween decorations, all kinds of orange-paper jack-o-lanterns.And from black paper you'd cut “scary” designs---an evil witch with a pointed hat riding through the sky on a broomstick, maybe with black bats flying across the moon, and that meant bad luck.And of course black cats for more bad luck.Sometimes a black cat would ride away into the sky on the back of the witch's broom.And on Halloween night we'd dress up in Mom or Dad's old shoes and clothes, put on a mask, and be ready to go outside.The little kids(children younger than we were)had to go with their mothers, but we older ones went together to neighbors' houses, ringing their doorbell and yelling, “Trick or treat!” meaning, “Give us a treat(something to eat)or we'll play a trick on you!” The people inside were supposed to come to the door and comment on our costumes.Oh!here's a ghost.Oh, there's a witch.Oh, here's an old lady.Sometimes they would play along with us and pretend to be scared by some ghost or witch.But they would always have some candy and maybe an apple to put in our “trick or treat bags.” But what if no one come to the door, or if someone chased us away? Then we'd play a trick on them, usually taking a piece of soap and make marks on their windows..And afterwards we would go home and count who got the most candy.One popular teen-agers' Halloween trick was to unroll a roll of toilet paper and throw it high into a tree again and again until the tree was all wrapped in the white paper.The paper would often stay in the tree for weeks until a heavy snow or rain washed it off.No real harm done, but it made a big mess of both the tree and the yard under it.One kind of Halloween mischief.注释:
1.was stingy with:对„„吝啬。Stingy这个词你可不要去模仿,因为他是“吝啬的”意思,要不你可要成为“葛朗台”了!但你可要注意stinggy这个形容词词是和介词with连用的呀!
2.carrying a lantern:拿着灯笼。这里用carrying作walk的伴随状语,更生动地说明可怜的Jack无论走到哪里手里都要提着灯笼了。好累呀!
3.neighbors' houses:邻居的屋子。Neighbors本身已经是复数,有一个“s”了。如果表示“邻居的”,就不能加“'s”(太累赘),而要直接加“'”了。所以就是neighbors' houses。
4.come to the door:应门。“走到门前面”自然就是要来开门看看是哪些小调皮在捣乱啦!
5.unroll a roll of toilet paper:打开一卷纸。这么多roll,可别怵!roll是“卷、卷起”的意思,a roll of toilet paper是一卷手纸;unroll则是roll(卷起)的反义词“打开”的意思,所以就是“打开一卷手纸”了!
万圣节
关于万圣节有这样一个故事。是说有一个叫杰克的爱尔兰人,因为他对钱特别吝啬,就不允许他进入天堂,而被打入地狱。但是在那里他老是捉弄魔鬼撒旦,所以被踢出地狱,罚他提着灯笼永远在人世里行走。
在十月三十一日爱尔兰的孩子们用土豆和罗卜制作“杰克的灯笼”,他们把中间挖掉、表面上打洞并在里边点上蜡烛。为村里庆祝督伊德神的万圣节,孩子们提着这种灯笼挨家挨户乞讨食物。这种灯笼的爱尔兰名字是“拿灯笼的杰克”或者“杰克的灯笼”,缩写为Jack-o'-lantern 现在拼写为jack-o-lantern。
现在你在大多数书里读到的万圣节只是孩子们开心的夜晚。在小学校里,万圣节是每年十月份开始庆祝的。
孩子们会制作万圣节的装饰品:各种各样桔黄色的南瓜灯。你可以用黑色的纸做一个可怕的造形——一个骑在扫帚把上戴着尖尖帽子的女巫飞过天空,或者是黑蝙蝠飞过月亮。这些都代表恶运。当然黑猫代表运气更差。有时候会出现黑猫骑在女巫扫帚后面飞向天空的造形。
在万圣节的晚上,我们都穿着爸爸妈妈的旧衣服和旧鞋子,戴上面具,打算外出。比我们小的孩子必须和他们的母亲一块出去,我们大一点的就一起哄到邻居家,按他们的门铃并大声喊道:“恶作剧还是招待!”意思是给我们吃的,要不我们就捉弄你。里边的人们应该出来评价我们的化装。
“噢!这是鬼,那是女巫,这是个老太婆。”
有时候他们会跟我们一起玩,假装被鬼或者女巫吓着了。但是他们通常会带一些糖果或者苹果放进我们的“恶作剧还是招待”的口袋里。可是要是没人回答门铃或者是有人把我们赶开该怎么办呢?我们就捉弄他们,通常是拿一块肥皂把他们的玻璃涂得乱七八糟。然后我们回家,数数谁的糖果最多。
还有一个典型的万圣节花招是把一卷手纸拉开,不停地往树上扔,直到树全被白纸裹起来。除非下大雪或大雨把纸冲掉,纸会一直呆在树上。这并不造成真正的伤害,只是把树和院子搞乱,一种万圣节的恶作剧。
第二篇:中英文对照:万圣节的介绍
中英文对照:万圣节的介绍
中英文对照:万圣节的介绍
Halloween
Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year.It means “holy evening,” and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day.However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly.Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins.Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside.It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin!These lights are called jack-o'-lanterns, which means “Jack of the lantern”.The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween.Some children paint their faces to look like monsters.Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house.Every time they come to a new house, they say,“Trick or treat!Money or eat!” The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day,they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them.This bring them the satisfaction of being young.万圣节前夕
万圣节前夕是美国人年年都会庆祝的秋季节日。它的意思是“神圣的夜晚”,在每年的10月31日,也就是万圣节前夜。但实际上这不是一个真正的宗教节日,而主要是孩子们的节日。
每年秋天蔬菜成熟可以食用的时候,孩子们就会挑出大个儿的橙色南瓜。然后在南瓜上刻上一张脸,把一根点燃的蜡烛放在里面。看起来就好像有人在向南瓜外面张望。这些灯就叫做“iack-o'-lantems”,意思也就是“杰克的灯”。
每年万圣节前夕孩子们还戴上奇怪的面具,穿上吓人的服装。有些孩子把脸刷成怪物。然后他们拿着盒子或袋子挨家挨户串门。每来到一个新房子他们就说:“不款待就捣乱!给钱还是吃的!”大人们就会把用来招待的钱或糖放在他们的袋子里了。
不仅孩子,许多成年人也喜欢万圣节前夕和万圣节前夕晚会。因为这一天他们可以根据自己的想象把自己装扮成名流或幽灵。这会带给他们年轻的快感。
第三篇:英语中英文对照
Three Days to See Helen Keller
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year;sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry,” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.假如拥有三天光明
海伦.凯勒
我们都读过这样一些动人的故事,故事里主人公将不久于人世。长则一年,短则24小时。但是我们总是很想知道这个即将离开人世的人是决定怎样度过他最后的日子的。当然,我所指的是有权作出选择的自由人,不是那些活动范围受到严格限制的死囚。
这一类故事会使我们思考在类似的处境下,我们自己该做些什么?在那临终前的几个小时里我们会产生哪些联想?会有多少欣慰和遗憾呢?
有时我想,把每天都当作生命的最后一天来度过也不失为一个很好的生命法则。这种人生态度使人非常重视人生的价值。每一天我们都应该以和善的态度、充沛的精力和热情的欣赏来度过,而这些恰恰是在来日方长时往往被我们忽视的东西。当然,有这样一些人奉行享乐主义的座右铭——吃喝玩乐,但是大多数人却不能摆脱死亡来临的恐惧。
Most of us take life for granted.We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future, when we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable.We seldom think of it.The days stretch out in an endless vista.So we go about our petty task, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of our faculties and senses.Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight.Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties.Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, without concentration, and with little appreciation.It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight;silence would teach him the joys of sound.Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see.Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed.“Nothing in particular,” she replied.I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.我们大多数人认为生命理所当然,我们明白总有一天我们会死去,但是我们常常把这一天看得非常遥远。当我们身体强壮时,死亡便成了难以相象的事情了。我们很少会考虑它,日子一天天过去,好像没有尽头。所以我们为琐事奔波,并没有意识到我们对待生活的态度是冷漠的。
我想我们在运用我们所有五官时恐怕也同样是冷漠的。只有聋子才珍惜听力,只有盲人才能认识到能见光明的幸运。对于那些成年致盲或失陪的人来说尤其如此。但是那些听力或视力从未遭受损失的人却很少充分利用这些幸运的能力,他们对所见所闻不关注、不欣赏。这与常说的不失去不懂得珍贵,不生病不知道健康可贵的道理是一样的。
我常想如果每一个人在他成年的早些时候,有几天成为了聋子或瞎子也不失为一件幸事。黑暗将使他更珍惜光明;沉寂将教他知道声音的乐趣。
有时我会试探我的非盲的朋友们,想知道他们看见了什么。最近我的一位非常要好的朋友来看我,她刚刚在树林里走了很长时间,我问她看见了什么。“没什么特别的,”她回答说。如不是我早已习惯了这样的回答,我也许不会轻易相信,因为很久以前我就相信了有眼人看不见什么。
How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch.I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter’s sleep I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions;and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently in a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song.I am delighted to have cool waters of a brook rush through my open fingers.To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things.If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight.Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little.The panorama of color and action fill the world is taken for granted.It is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light and the gift of sight is used only as mere convenience rather that as a means of adding fullness to life.Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for three days!
我问自己在树林中走了一小时,怎么可能什么值得注意的东西都没有看到呢?而我一个盲人仅仅通过触摸就发现了数以百计的有趣的东西。我感到树叶的对称美,用手摸着白桦树光滑的树皮或是松树那粗糙的厚厚的树皮。春天里我满怀着希望触摸着树枝寻找新芽,那是大自然冬眼后醒来的第一个征象。我感到了花朵的可爱和茸茸的感觉,发现它层层叠叠地绽开着,大自然的神奇展现在我的面前。当我把手轻轻地放在一棵小树上,如果幸运的话,偶尔会感到歌唱的小鸟欢快的颤动。我会愉快地让清凉的溪水从手之间流过。对我来说,满地厚厚的松针和松软的草坪比奢华的波斯地毯更惹人喜爱。对我来说四季变换的景色如同一场动人心魄的不会完结的戏剧,剧中的人物动作从我的指尖流过。我的心不时在呐喊,带着对光明的渴望。既然仅仅通过触摸就能使我获得如此多的喜悦,那么光明定会展示更多美好的事物啊。可惜的是那些有眼睛的人分明看到很少,整个世界缤纷的色彩和万物的活动都被认为是理所当然。也许不珍惜已经拥有的,想得到还没有得到的是人的特点,但是在光明的世界里只把视觉用做一种方便的工具,而不是丰富生活的工具,这是令人多么遗憾的事情啊。
噢,假如我拥有三天光明,我将会看见多少事物啊!
Youth Samuel Ullman Youth is not a time of life;it is a state of mind;it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.青春 青春不是年华,而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝,而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想象,炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。青春气贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯弱,进取压倒苟安。如此锐气,二十后生而有之,六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加,并非垂老,理想丢弃,方堕暮年。岁月悠悠,衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却,颓废必致灵魂。忧烦,惶恐,丧失自 信,定使心灵扭曲,意气如灰。
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station;so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.无论年届花甲,拟或二八芳龄,心中皆有生命之欢乐,奇迹之诱惑,孩童般天真 久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线,只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号,你就青春永驻,风华常存。、一旦天线下降,锐气便被冰雪覆盖,玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生,即使年 方二十,实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线,捕捉乐观信号,你就有望在八十高 龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。
【注解】
1.supple ['sʌ adj.柔软的 pl]
2.temperamental [.tempərə'mentl] adj.气质的, 性情的,性格的,由气质引起的3.predominance [pri'dʌ minəns] n.优势 4.desert [di'zə:t]vt.抛弃,放弃5.the Infinite:['infinit]上帝6.cynicism ['sinisizəm] n.玩世不恭
A Forever Friend
A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out.Sometimes in life,You find a special friend;
Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.This is Forever Friendship.when you're down,and the world seems dark and empty,Your forever friend lifts you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world
suddenly seem bright and full.Your forever friend gets you through the hard times,the sad times,and the confused times.If you turn and walk away,Your forever friend follows,If you lose you way,Your forever friend guides you and cheers you on.Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay.And if you find such a friend,You feel happy and complete,Because you need not worry,Your have a forever friend for life,And forever has no end.永远的朋友
"别人都走开的时候,朋友仍与你在一起。”有时候在生活中,你会找到一个特别的朋友;
他只是你生活中的一部分内容,却能改变你整个的生活。他会把你逗得开怀大笑;他会让你相信人间有真情。
他会让你确信,真的有一扇不加锁的门,在等待着你去开启。
这就是永远的友谊。当你失意,当世界变得黯淡与空虚,你真正的朋友会让你振作起来,原本黯淡、空虚的世界顿时变得明亮和充实。
你真正的朋友会与你一同度过困难、伤心和烦恼的时刻。
你转身走开时,真正的朋友会紧紧相随,你迷失方向时,真正的朋友会引导你,鼓励你。
真正的朋友会握着你的手,告诉你一切都会好起来的。
如果你找到了这样的朋友,你会快乐,觉得人生完整,因为你无需再忧虑。
你拥有了一个真正的朋友,永永远远,永无止境。
第四篇:中英文对照小故事
曾霞学习心得:一日参观莲池幼儿园心得体会
2012年3月9日第十二组
3月9日在国培教育教师的带领下,全组教师参观了“莲池幼儿园”。幼园独具特色,对我影响较深的是园领导的管理能力、研究创新精神、幼儿园的环境创设、区域活动的开设、家长工作等等,都为我们今后的工作提供很好的借鉴,所有这些,让我感触颇深,受益匪浅。
我们首先参观了莲池儿园的北楼,这所幼儿园给我印象最深的是环境创设方面,根据教学楼的外观结合童话故事进行彩绘,使教学楼融入了童话故事,成为了孩子们欢乐地城堡,他们合理利用当地资源,就地取材,合理利用废旧物品,教室里有活动区,休息区等。特别是他们的小班教室结合四季的主题进行彩绘,深受大家的喜爱。
教学环境在幼儿的生活、教育中起着重要的作用,是幼儿活动中不可分割的一部份现在,人们把幼儿园环境的创设提高到了更重要的位置,被誉为“孩子的第三任老师”!这使我们又一次重新认识了幼教工作的重心。环境创设也是不可忽视的一部分。
环境是重要的教育资源,我们通过环境的创设和资源利用,使幼儿园具有丰富多彩的文化氛围,使之更有效地促进幼儿的发展,让他们受到文明的熏陶和发展。环境能够促进幼儿的发展,让他们主动参与幼儿园的环境创设,这是一种互动效应,幼儿自然而然的受到了启迪和教育!
幼儿园依托于操作材料、情境和相应的活动中的特点拿捏的很到位,因材、因地制宜的结合了本园特点,既尊重了幼儿的个体差异,又满足了幼儿个体发展的需要。对于环境和班级的创设,他们通过自身与环境的相互作用而实现对周围环境的感知,有效地利用废旧物品,而墙面环境的创设符合了各个年龄段幼儿心理发展的需求。各个年龄段的创设紧紧围绕“科学”多面的铺展而来。班级家园环境创设又结合幼儿年龄特点进行的较有特色。
总之,通过参观学习,使我体会很深,使我不断的在思考怎样的环境创设更加的贴近于生活,贴近于孩子,更加的新颖、有效。同时也提醒自己在今后的工作中要把工作做细,乐于、善于发现身边的一切美好的事物,紧紧围绕“美”,让孩子充分的领路和感知一切事物的美好之所在,大自然的造物之美、之妙!
让我们用心灵去感知孩子的内心世界!用灵动的双手去描绘孩子的童话王国!用会意的眼神去捕捉孩子的精彩瞬间!用心去奏响那份共同的弦乐---爱!爱的阳光洒满人间,心得教育启迪人生。
第五篇:感人故事中英文对照
故事:乞丐的爱心
上周五,一名身患残疾的行乞男子,以双手代步,艰难地来到广州越秀地区的捐助站。起初,捐助站的志愿者们认为他只是碰巧路过,因此,当他说:“我想要捐款”时,人人都惊呆了。
在附近一名警察的帮助下,那名男子从他行乞的碗中抓了一些硬币。一名志愿者马上将捐款箱递到他面前,之后,他将硬币一个接一个地投入箱中。
完成投币后,他告诉志愿者说他还有钱要捐。他掏空了所有的口袋,拿出了一些纸币,将它们都捐了出去,总共约有30—40美圆。据说,2天后他再次来到捐助站,又捐了10美圆。
一位路人看见了整个事情的经过,拍了一些照片,并在网上报道了此事。
Story : Panhandler
A disabled panhandling man, who walks on his hands rather than feet, staggered his way to a donation station on Yuexiu district in Guangzhou last Friday.Volunteers at the donation stand thought he was just passing by, therefore they were shocked when he said: “I want to donate.”With the help from a cop standing nearby, he scratched for a few coins in his panhandling bowl.A volunteer immediately brought the donation box to him.He then put the coins in, one by one.When he finished that, he told the volunteers that he still got money.He emptied his pockets and pulled out some paper money and donated all of them.It was about $30-40.It was said that he came back again two days later and donated another $10.A passerby who saw the whole thing took some pictures and reported the story online