風土人情英語作文
A. 美國的風土人情(英文版)
THIS IS AMERICA - Spirit of the Season: Christmas Music and Traditions in America
By Shelley Gollust
Broadcast: Monday, December 19, 2005
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ANNOUNCER: Millions of Americans will celebrate Christmas on December Twenty-Fifth. It is the most widely celebrated religious holiday in the United States. For the past few weeks, Americans have been preparing for Christmas. I'm Bob Doughty. Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell us about American Christmas traditions and music on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
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People have been buying gifts to give to family members and friends. They have been filling homes and stores with evergreen trees and bright, colored lights. They have been going to parties and preparing special Christmas foods. Many people think Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. Johnny Mathis thinks so, too.
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Many Christians will go to church the night before the holiday or on Christmas Day. They will celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus Christ. Christian ministers will speak about the need for peace and understanding in the world. This is the spiritual message of Christmas. Church services will include traditional religious songs for the holiday.
One of the most popular is this one, "Silent Night." Here it is sung by Joan Baez.
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Many other Americans will celebrate Christmas as an important, but non-religious, holiday. To all, however, it is a special day of family, food, and exchanging gifts.
Christmas is probably the most special day of the year for children. One thing that makes it special is the popular tradition of Santa Claus.
Young children believe that Santa Claus is a fat, kind, old man in a red suit with white fur. They believe that -- on the night before Christmas -- he travels through the air in a sleigh pulled by reindeer. He enters each house from the top by sliding down the hole in the fireplace. He leaves gifts for the children under the Christmas tree.
Here, Bruce Springsteen sings about Santa Claus.
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Americans spend a lot of time and money buying Christmas presents. The average American family spends about eight-hundred dollars. Stores and shopping centers are crowded at this time of year. More than twenty percent of all goods sold ring the year are sold ring the weeks before Christmas. This is good for stores and for the American economy.
Christmas shopping in mall
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Some people object to all this spending. They say it is not the real meaning of Christmas. So, they celebrate in other ways. For example, they make Christmas presents, instead of buying them. Or they volunteer to help serve meals to people who have no homes. Or they give money to organizations that help poor people in the United States and around the world.
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Home and family are the center of the Christmas holiday. For many people, the most enjoyable tradition is buying a Christmas tree and decorating it with lights and beautiful objects. On Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, people gather around the tree to open their presents.
Another important Christmas tradition involves food. Families prepare many kinds of holiday foods, especially sweets. They eat these foods on the night before Christmas and on Christmas day.
For many people, Christmas means traveling long distances to be with their families. Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack sing about this holiday tradition.
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VOICE ONE:
Another Christmas tradition is to go "caroling." A group of people walks along the street. At each house, they stop and sing a Christmas song, called a carol. Student groups also sing carols at schools and shopping centers. Let us listen to the choir of Trinity Church in Boston sing "Carol of the Bells."
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Not everyone in the United States celebrates Christmas. Members of the Jewish and Muslim religions, for example, generally do not. Jewish people celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah. And some black Americans observe another holiday, Kwanzaa. Yet many Americans do take part in some of the traditional performances of the season. One of the most popular is a story told in dance: "The Nutcracker" ballet. The music was written by Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky in eighteen ninety-one.
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The ballet is about a young girl named Clara. Clara is celebrating Christmas with her family and friends. One of her Christmas presents is a little device to open nuts -- a nutcracker. It is shaped like a toy soldier. She dreams that the nutcracker comes to life as a good-looking prince.
Professional dance groups in many American cities perform the ballet at this time of year. They often use students from local ballet schools to dance the part of Clara and the other children in the story. This gives parents a chance to see their children perform.
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We leave you with "The Waltz of the Flowers" from "The Nutcracker." It is played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Eugene Ormandy.
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VOICE ONE:
Today's program was written by Shelley Gollust. It was proced and directed by Lawan Davis. I'm Shirley Griffith.
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And I'm Ray Freeman. Join us again next week for another report about life in the United States on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
B. 英語作文 泉州的風土人情
Quanzhou customs
C. 英文介紹英國風土人情
The escalator on the right station will be conscious, and so eager to use the people from the left side through.
British courtesy, at the request said "please", accepted the help or service, said "thank you", no matter how insignificant things.
Visit a friend in advance to notify each other before, uninvited guests will be unwanted. Avoid 22:00 after the call to the others home.
To avoid indoor smoking. If you really want to smoke, should first seek the permission of other people.
To the British people in the guest, should be flying on time and be prepared to some small gift for the owner, early will be considered impolite in. Postprandial should be left to carry out social conversation, if I finished on the Guci is very impolite.
Quietly and eat their own plate, eating all the food is courtesy of conct. The knife and fork parallel on the plate on a show that you have finished. If you're not eating, they were separated from knife and fork, "8" on the chevron on the plate. British people like to eat in the time to chat. But bearing in mind that eating the time, Justin, even the words, is bad manners. Know-how is: eat and speak to the turn, only a small amount of food to your mouth put. If you must, Justin, shielding it with one hand.
D. 請用英文介紹中國的風土人情
中國傳統藝術
Arts
A Tang Dynasty tri-color Chinese glazed horse circa 700 CE
For all major visual, performance or artistic categories, see Chinese art.
Different forms of art have swayed under the influence of great philosophers, teachers, religious figures and even political figures. Chinese art encompasses all facets of fine art, folk art and performance art. Porcelain pottery was one of the first forms of art in the Palaeolithic period. Early Chinese music and poetry was influenced by the Book of Songs, and the Chinese poet and statesman Qu Yuan.
Chinese painting became a highly appreciated art in court circles encompassing a wide variety of Shan shui with specialized styles such as Ming Dynasty painting. Early Chinese music was based on percussion instruments, which later gave away to stringed and reed instruments. By the Han dynasty papercutting became a new art form after the invention of paper. Chinese opera would also be introced and branched regionally in additional to other performance formats such as variety arts.
中國文學
Chinese literature
Chinese literature began with record keeping and divination on Oracle Bones. The extensive collection of books that have been preserved since the Zhou Dynasty demonstrate just how advanced the intellectuals were at one time. Indeed, the era of the Zhou Dynasty is often looked to as the touchstone of Chinese cultural development. The Five Cardinal Points are the foundation for almost all major studies. Concepts covered within the Chinese classic texts present a wide range of subjects including poetry, astrology, astronomy, calendar, constellations and many others. Some of the most important early texts include I Ching and Shujing within the Four Books and Five Classics. Many Chinese concepts such as Yin and Yang, Qi, Four Pillars of Destiny in relation to heaven and earth were all theorized in the dynastic periods.
The Song Dynasty was also a period of great scientific literature, and saw the creation of works such as Su Song's Xin Yixiang Fayao and Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays. There were also enormous works of historiography and large encyclopedias, such as Sima Guang's Zi Tongjian of 1084 AD or the Four Great Books of Song fully compiled and edited by the 11th century. Notable confucianists, taoists and scholars of all classes have made significant contributions to and from documenting history to authoring saintly concepts that seem hundred of years ahead of time. Many novels such as Four Great Classical Novels spawned countless fictional stories. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese culture would embark on a new era with written vernacular Chinese for the common citizens. Hu Shih and Lu Xun would be pioneers in modern literature.
E. 寫大竹的風土人情的英語作文
在住院期間，媽媽每天給我吃一種葯片，那葯片小小的，圓圓的，白色的，在媽媽的忽悠下，我不知不覺中慢慢被葯控制了，它使我的臉上慢慢長出肉來，而我，卻渾然不知。吃過了幾周後，一天早上，偶然間照鏡子的我，被鏡子里這個又白又胖的女孩嚇得目瞪口呆，以前那個眉清目秀的小女孩不見了，而眼前的這個女孩胖得無法容詞來形容，這還是我嗎。呆了幾秒種後，我去詢問了媽媽，她起初閉口不言，在我的追問下才說出一個讓我痛斷肝腸的事：我的病，必須吃一種叫激素的葯來控制，而這種激素會使人神不知鬼不覺地長出泡泡肉來。也就是說，吃了這個葯，我就一定得長肉，這不是我自己本身的胖，而是葯物在控制我的身體了。我頓時頭腦一片空白。
也就是從這以後，那個可愛活潑，眉清目秀的女孩早已成為了我的過去，而現在的白白胖胖，卻開始愛上學習的我才是我了。我的變化讓老師同學們感到不可思議，可不全是因為我臉上的變化，也是因為我成績的變化，從原來班上的十名之內上升到前三名，尤其是在作文方面，得到了老師的大力稱贊。因為我臉上的變化，導致我性格從此內向，自卑，不再愛嬉戲吵鬧，所以有更多的時間用來學習，成績自然提高了。老師同學們對我臉上的變化從未提及，而對我的成績卻十分稱贊，這點讓我很感動。
這就是我的臉的故事，你們明白我的臉為什麼會發上如此之大的變化了吧。
F. 初二英語作文:介紹中國的風土人情和禮儀社交（70字左右）
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As is well known to us all,China is one of four ancient and civilizational countries in the world. In fact ,It has a more long history than we have ever known. Because of this, many ancient architectures and all sorts of historical books are often found in different places in china . In china ,It's easier for you to find a person than you can in any countries.that is,China has the largest number of population on the Earth,which,however,also puts great burden on our country.
There are fifty-six peoples in our country.We get along well with each other and often disasters can draw us more together. besides, chinese food is very famous for its good tast and nutrition. many people in other countries are fond of it and try their best to cook it.Every year,plenty of foreigners from different countries come china to have a sightseeing.here you can look around lots of places of interest.
I really hope our country will become more and more flourishing and pople will live a happier and happier life. I'm a chinese man and I am proud of being born in china.
眾所周知，中國是世界上四大文明古國之一。事實上，它的歷史遠比我們所知道的要長久。因為它的長久性，在中國很多地方你可以發現古代建築和歷史書籍。在中國你找一個人要比你在其他任何國家找人都容易，也就是說，中國是世界上人口最多的國家。可是這個狀況也給咱們國家帶來了很大的負擔。
我們國家有56個民族。我們彼此和睦，災難常常讓我們更加團結。除此以外，中國菜因為它的美味和營養而著名。世界上很多人都喜歡中國菜，並且盡力學著做它。每年，大批來自世界各地的外國人來中國旅遊。到這你能欣賞到很多風景名勝。
我真的希望我們國家會變得越來越繁榮，人民過上越來越幸福的生活。我是一個中國人，我以出生在中國而感到驕傲。
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G. 請用英語介紹美國風土人情
美國：移民之國
A look at the history of the United States indicates that this country has often been called "a melting pot", where various immigrant and ethnic groups have learned to work together to build a unique nation. Even those "original" Americans, the Indians, probably walked a land bridge from Asia to North America some thousands of years ago. So, who are the real Americans? The answer is that any and all of them are! And you, no matter where you come from, could also become an American should you want to. Then you would become another addition to America's wonderfully rich "nation of immigrants".
The United States is currently shifting from being a nation of immigrants of mainly European descent to one of immigrants from other parts of the world, such as Asia and Latin America. The number of recent immigrants has skyrocketed. They desire to escape economic hardship and political oppression in their native countries as well as the desire to seek a better ecation and a more prosperous life in America, "the land of opportunity". Although there are frequent conflicts between the cultures they have brought with them from the "old country" and those found in America, most immigrants learn to adjust to and love their adopted land.
Americans have also learned much from the customs and ideas of the immigrants and are often influenced by them in subtle and interesting ways. Immigrants bring their native cultural, political, and social patterns and attitudes, varied academic and religious backgrounds, as well as their ethnic arts, sports, holidays, festivals, and foods. They have greatly enriched American life.
For immigrants from all parts of the would, the United States has been a "melting pot" in which the foreigners have sometimes remained culturally and linguistically what they were in their native lands even as they move toward becoming citizens of the United States, a country whose people share a common cultural outlook and set of values. The melting pot does not melt away all recollections of another way of life in another place----nor should it. On the contrary, immigrants should maintain the languages, skills, religions, customs and arts of their own heritage, even while they are working towards entering the mainstream of American culture.
縱觀美國歷史，就可見這個國家經常被稱為"一個熔爐"，在此，各種移民和種族團體學會了共同建設一個獨特的民族。甚至那些"本土的"美國人--印第安人，也可能是幾千年以前，從亞洲走過大陸橋來到北美洲的。所以，誰是真正的美國人？答案是他們中的任何一個人都是！無論你來自何處，如果你想成為美國人，就會成為美國人；你就會變成這個極其富有的"移民之國"的一個新份子。
美國現在正由主要是歐洲血統移民的國家變為世界上其他各洲，如亞洲、拉丁美洲移民的國家。最近移民的數字急劇增長。 他們希望擺脫在本國的經濟困難、政治壓迫，並在美國這片"充滿機遇的土地上"尋找更好的教育和更富裕的生活。盡管他們從"故國"帶來的文化與美國文化之間往往會產生沖突,但是多數移民還是學會了適應並熱愛他們所歸化的土地。
美國人從移民的風俗和觀念中也學到了很多東西，並且在極其細微和有趣的方面受到了它們的影響。移民們帶來了他們本族的文化、政治以及社會模式和態度，不同的學術和宗教背景，以及他們種族的藝術、體育、節日和飲食。這些極大地豐富了美國人的生活。
對於世界各地的移民而言，美國已經是一個"熔爐"，在這個熔爐中，甚至當外國人快要成為美國（一個其人民有著共同的一套文化觀和價值觀的國家）公民時，他們從文化和語言上仍然是在他們本國的樣子。這個熔爐沒有、也不應該熔掉對另一個地方的另一種生活方式的記憶。相反，即使移民們努力地要進人美國文化主流之中，他們也應保存自己遺產中的語言、技能、宗教和藝術。
H. 介紹地方風土人情的英語作文
About Beijing
Beijing has a history of over 3,000 years with a population of nearly 13 million and a lot of places of interest around it. In recent years, the city of Beijing has been advancing very quickly. You can see more museums, parks an shopping centers here and there. More and more highways and overhead walkways have been built up. What's more, a lot more buses which burn cleaner fuel, such as CNG or LPG, are put into use, to prevent air from being polluted. Water in the rivers is clean again. Wherever you go, you can see green trees, grass and beautiful flowers. All these make life in Beijing more convenient, pleasant and colorful. Beijing is still advancing to the bright future.
關於北京
北京有3000多年的歷史，近1300萬人口和許多名勝古跡。近年來，北京發展得很快。你能看到更多的博物館、公園和購物中心，比比皆是。北京已建成越來越多的高速公路和過街天橋。還有，更多的公共汽車投入使用，它們都使用環保燃料，以防空
氣受到污染。河水又變得清澈了。無論你走到哪裡，你都能看到綠樹、青草和美麗的花朵。所有這一切使北京的生活更便利，更怡人，更多姿多彩，北京仍在向著美好的明天邁進。