英语翻译文章

Adult Education 成人教育

Every Tuesday and Friday evening sees Miss Li，my neighbor and a secretary in a company rush home after a hard day’s work，gulp down her meals and then hurry out to catch the bus for her English class. Miss Li’s case is not unique，and now more and more city adults spend their leisure time trying to improve themselves at school or college.

There are a number of reasons for people to go back for their education. Some people，like Miss Li，are doing it to acquire another degree or diploma to impress the society. To them more knowledge，or rather，more credentials means more opportunities for better jobs and quicker promotion.

Other people，especially those who are laid off or out of employment go to vocational school to prepare to return to the job market. They are eager for new skills so that they can be qualified for the jobs in retail trade，administration，education and other service categories to which they are strange because most of them were blue-collar workers in the factory.

There are also people who come to take such courses as Chinese traditional medicine，painting，calligraphy and photography. As their working weeks decline people begin to have time to fulfill their old dream of their heart’s desire.

Out of necessity or out of interest，people go back to school for the common goal——to improve themselves，and this boom in adult education，in turn，helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.

Learning Skating 学习溜冰

There is a big skating ground near our school. In winter, I often go skating there, and I enjoy the sport very much.

At first, I only went there to watch others skating. Some with good skills could skate wonderfully. I admired them from the bottom of my heart. But I couldn’t do it myself. I was only an onlooker. How I longed to skate myself!

I began to make up my mind to learn it. But as soon as I stepped on the ice, I stumbled over myself. At once, some people caught me, and I turned red over their laughter. I became so disappointed that I decided to give up. When I was about to leave, a girl came towards me with a smile and said, "Never mind, try again and you will succeed." I tried again and again, but still fell again and again. I put up with the wounds and pains and stood up and went on trying. At that moment, the girl came up again. She said loudly to me, "Ok, you are doing very well." Then she signed a "V" to me with her fingers. I was very obliged, and with her encouragement, I made great progress. Soon, I could skate quite well.

While doing anything, we often meet many kinds of setbacks, but we shouldn’t lose heart, we should overcome them with confidence instead of getting away from them. Then we will gain one victory after another.

First Snow 第一场雪

The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

The very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes it more magical. Ifall the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night the event would be robbed of its wonder. But it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are asleep. Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. And then, what an extraordinary change it is! It is as if the house continent. Even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cosier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter’s hut or a snug logcabin. Outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairy-tale.

You would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes. You yourselves do not feel quite the same people you were yesterday. How could you not when so much has been changed? There is a curious stir, a little shiver of excite-ment, troubling the house, not unlike the feeling there is abroad when a journey has to be made. The children, of course, are all excitement but even the adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before setting down to the day’s work. Nobody can resist the windows. It is like being on board a ship.

Adult Education 成人教育

每星期二和星期五晚上都会看到李小姐，我的邻居，一个公司的秘书，在一天的辛苦工作之后，从公司赶回家，做完饭然后赶快车上她的英语课。李小姐的情况是不是唯一的，现在城市里越来越多的成年人把他们的闲暇时间花在学校里提高自己。

有一些人回到学校去接受教育的原因。有些人，像李小姐这样做，是想再取得一个学位或文凭给社会留下深刻印象。给他们更多的知识，或者说，更多的证书意味着更快更好的工作和更多晋升机会。

其他人，尤其是那些下岗或失业到职业学校准备重返工作岗位。他们渴望新的技能，使他们可以限定在零售业中，对于工作的管理，教育和其他服务类，他们很奇怪，因为他们大多是在工厂的蓝领工人。

也有人来参加这样的课程作为中国传统医学，绘画，书法，摄影。由于他们的工作周下降，人们开始有时间去实现他们的旧梦想自己内心的渴望。

出于需要和兴趣，人们回到学校为共同的目标——提高自己，和成人教育蓬勃发展，反过来，有助于提高整个国家的知识水平。

Learning Skating 学习溜冰

在我们学校附近有一个很大的溜冰场。在冬天，我经常去滑冰，我很喜欢这项体育活动。

起初，我只是跑去看别人溜冰。有一些有良好的技巧的人。从我的心底，我很佩服他们。但是我自己做不到。我只是一个旁观者。我多么渴望自己会滑冰！

我决心学好它。但当我走在冰上，我绊了我自己。一次，有人抓住了我，在他们的笑声中我的脸都变红了。我很失望，我决定放弃。我正要离开时，一个女孩朝我走来，笑着说，“不要紧，再试一次，你会成功的。“我一次又一次的尝试，但仍连连下跌。我忍受着伤痛站起来继续尝试。在那一刻，那个女孩又上来了。她大声对我说，“好，你做得很好。”然后她签署了“V”我的手指。我非常感激，在她的鼓励下，我取得了很大的进步。很快，我能滑得很好。

无论在做什么事情，我们会遇到各种挫折，但我们不应该丧失信心，我们应该有信心克服它们而不是远离它们。然后，我们将陆续获得一场又一场胜利。

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First Snow 第一场雪

第一场雪不仅是一件大事，而且它是一个神奇的事件。你上床睡觉时是一个世界，醒来时发现你在一个完全不同的世界，如果这不是魔法，那么它在哪里可以找到？

很隐形的，怪异的平静，让它有更神奇的事。如果所有的雪在一瞬间崩溃，觉醒在半夜的事件将被有抢劫的奇迹。但它飘下来，无声的，在我们熟睡时。卧室外的一个巨大震动现场封闭窗帘地方，就好像有无数小精灵仙童在工作，我们打呵欠，伸展，什么都不知道。然后，它是一个多么巨大的变化！这是因为如果在大陆的房子里。甚至在里面，并没有被感动，似乎有所不同，每个房间显得更小更舒适了，就像一些力量试图把它变成一个樵夫的小屋或一个舒适的木屋。外面，昨天的花园，现在有一个闪亮的，远处的村庄不再是你自己熟悉的屋顶，而像在一个古老的德国童话村。

你会不会感到惊讶，那里所有的人，邮局局长，鞋匠，退休的校长，和休息，也经历了一场变化，变得古怪精灵般的人物，提供隐身帽和魔术鞋。你自己也觉得不是同样的人，你是昨天。你怎么能不做这么多改变了吗？有一个奇怪的骚动，一点颤抖的激动顺序，令人不安的房子，没有不同的感觉在外出旅行时要做。当然，孩子，是非常兴奋，甚至成年人在跟另一位比平时更长的时间之前，开始一天的工作。无人能抗拒窗子。这像是在船上。