A Little Boy's Way of Talking
I have a little cousin named \"Angel\". He is now four years old. He is thin, but healthy with bright eyes and happy smile on his round face. I like the boy, for he is very bright. He is full of curiosity, and eager to know everything in the world around him.
What is more interesting is his way to talk. He talks in a funny way. It makes everyone around him laugh. Once it occurred to1 me that I would like to write his words down. It may make a good piece of writing.
One day we were in a car when a heavy rain poured down. All of us said what a rainpour! At this time the little cousin shouted out loudly,\"Look! The rain is hitting our car.\" On another occasion, he saw a program on TV. It was a TV show of the climbers who were at that time celebrating their success on the top of Mount Qomolangma2. Little Angel, who was watching the program at this time asked me, \"How many downy3 coats one has to wear on such a cold place\"!
The little boy's talk is colorful and full of imagination. One day he was taken on a trip to Mount Huang4. There for once he saw the cableway, and his parents took him across the mountains by it, for he was too small to climb the high mountains. Back at home one day, he asked his mother--my auntie, \"Why they don't have couches on the cableway?\"
A little boy' s language is fresh and wonderful. He has created a piece of land that belongs to himself. For an adult, he is accustomed to5 the established way of talk. His language is old and loses its interest. The language is changing all the time. This little boy is bringing colors to our world of language.
Football
Football is the most popular game in the world now. Once I read an article which describes the football in England. As it is in other parts of the world, football in England is popular too. One can have a look by going to the football match. There many people, young or old are audience1They are shouting, cheering for one party or another party. Some of them risk2 their money on one of the players or teams.
Most surprising thing about football fans3 in England is that even a small boy in Britain knows a lot about the football. He can tell the names of some famous players. He has photos of them. He can even tell you, like an adult whom he expects to win in a match.
It is an interesting artide. I am impressed with the way people in England are interested in football. I am interested at the same time in how young children are paying attention to this sport.
Funny Story
I read in a book a funny story. A lady is sitting next to her husband. They are having an argument1 in which neither of them will give up2 a bit. The lady is very angry. At last unable to control her temper3, she grew hysterical and cried out at her husband, \"You are impossible!\" The man smiles, however, and says,\"No, I am not impossible. I am next to the impossible\".
The story is funny, but at first I could not tell what it is funny about. I took the book to my English teacher. She read the story carefully at first, then began to tell me that the key to understand the story is to read out the double meaning implied in the phrase \"NEXT TO\". On the one hand it refers to the position the man and the lady sits; on the other hand it may have the meaning, \"next in degree\". So here it is interesting to see that the man answers his lady back by saying that he is not the most hopeless one. The wife sitting next to him is the most impossible one.
注釋:
①occur to vi.phr.被想到
②Qomolangma n.珠穆朗瑪
③downy adj.絨毛的
④Mount Huang n.phr.黃山
⑤be accustomed to adj.phr.習慣于
①audience n.觀眾
②risk n.冒險
③fan n.迷
①argument n.爭論,辯論
②give up v.phr.認輸,放棄
③temper n.脾氣,情緒