数码产品 Digital Products
I like digital products. It is advanced and convenient. For example, nowadays our family has a digital camera. We can take pictures whenever we want. We have taken many photos about our life. But in the past, if we want to take pictures, we have to go to the photographic studio. It is inconvenient and expensive. So we only take photos once a year. This is one classical example. There are many similar examples.
我喜欢数码产品。它们先进、方便。举个例子，我们家现在有一个数码相机。我们什么时候想照相都可以。这相机记录了我们生活中很多的点点滴滴。但是，过去，如果我们想拍照，我们只能去影楼。一点都不方便也很贵。所以我们每年只拍一次照片。这是一个典型的例子。很有很多类似的呢。
一场冰雹 A Hailstorm
Last night, I was waked up by a hailstorm at the midnight. The hail was very heavy. It hit heavily on the windows of my house. It was more scared than the lightening. I was afraid. After a long, I fell asleep under my quilt. Next morning, I was sad when I saw my favorite sun flowers were all dead. A day before, they were growing prosperous. I hate hail.
昨天晚上，午夜的时候我被冰雹惊醒了。冰雹很大。它重重地撞在我家里的窗户上。冰雹比闪电还可怕。我很害怕。过了很长的时间，我在被子里面睡着了。第二天早晨，当我看到我最喜欢的向日葵全死了的时候，我非常的伤心。前一天，它们还长得很旺盛。我讨厌死冰雹了。
英语寓言
Making His Mark “刻舟求剑”
A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn’t this a very foolish way to look for a sword?
楚国有个人坐船渡江时，他不小心把自己的一把宝剑掉落江中。他马上掏出一把小刀，在宝剑落水的船舷上刻上一个记号。船靠岸后，那楚人立即从船上刻记号的地方跳下水去捞取掉落的宝剑。他怎么找得到宝剑呢?船继续行驶，而宝剑却不会再移动。像他这样去找剑，真是太愚蠢可笑了。
To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow “拔苗助长”
Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who planted a plot of rice. After he planted the seedlings, every day he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day, but still, he thought they were growing too slowly. Eventually he got impatient with the young plants and suddenly he hit upon an idea that one by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. The next early morning, the young man couldn’t wait to check his “achievement”, but he was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.
从前，有个农夫，种了稻苗(seedlings)后，便希望能早早收成。每天他到稻田时，都发觉那些稻苗长得非常慢。他等得很不耐烦。想了又想，他终于想到一个“最佳方法”，他将稻苗全都拔高了几分。第二天，一早起身，他迫不及待地去稻田看他的“成果”。 哪知，却看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了。
