During the Days of Mili 600字高中英语作文

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　　军训是同学们企盼已久的事，这一天终于到来了。你们在烈日下每天训练6个小时，脸晒黑了，汗流浃背，但你们感到非常快乐。训练时，排长对你们要求很严。过后对你们非常友好。经过训练你们学到了许多东西。

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　　During the Days of Military Training

　　The day we were looking forward to came at last----a week＇s military training began.

　　During the training, each of us did his (her) part in earnest. We drilled more than six hours a day, though it was very hot at the time.

　　In the blazing① sun, we always tried to measure up to the high standards which were demanded . Sweat streamed down and we wouldn＇t wipe it off. Olny three days later our faces were tanned.② We felt happy and proud of it .

　　Our platoon③ officer was a young PLA man, about twenty years old. He was very strict with us during the training and very kind to us afterwards. By talking with him, we came to know not only more information about army life, but also about military affairs.

　　The military training gave us good discipline. It brought us great happiness, too. We＇ll never forget it.

　　（选自1987年11月10日《上海学生英文报》）

　　【词语解释】

　　①blazing [＇bleiziR] a．强烈的；闪耀的

　　②tan[t4$n] v．把……晒黑

　　③platoon[pl+＇tu:n] n．（军队的）排

　　【写法指要】

　　文章开门见山地说，军训开始了，这是他们盼望已久的事。接下来总的讲军训的时间和天气条件。然后，作者从两个方面展开：一是以苦为乐，二是干群关系。这些都是中国人民解放军最优秀的传统。最后，作者说他们通过军训学到许多东西，军训给予他们严明的纪律，也使他们感到幸福，永远难忘。全文写得条理清晰，情深意切。

The Origin of Chinese N

　　the chinese new year is now popularly known as the spring festival because it starts from the begining of spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of nature). its origin is too old to be traced. several explanations are hanging around. all agree, however, that the word nian, which in modern chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.

　　one legend goes that the beast nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. people were very scared. one day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue nian. to nian he said, "i hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" so, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.after that, the old man disappeared riding the beast nian. he turned out to be an immortal god. now that nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.

　　from then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of nian is carried on from generation to generation. the term "guo nian", which may mean "survive the nian" becomes today "celebrate the (new) year" as the word "guo" in chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". the custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. however, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.