风土人情英语作文
A. 美国的风土人情(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. 英语作文 泉州的风土人情
Quanzhou customs
C. 英文介绍英国风土人情
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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. 请用英文介绍中国的风土人情
中国传统艺术
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.
中国文学
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. 写大竹的风土人情的英语作文
在住院期间，妈妈每天给我吃一种药片，那药片小小的，圆圆的，白色的，在妈妈的忽悠下，我不知不觉中慢慢被药控制了，它使我的脸上慢慢长出肉来，而我，却浑然不知。吃过了几周后，一天早上，偶然间照镜子的我，被镜子里这个又白又胖的女孩吓得目瞪口呆，以前那个眉清目秀的小女孩不见了，而眼前的这个女孩胖得无法容词来形容，这还是我吗。呆了几秒种后，我去询问了妈妈，她起初闭口不言，在我的追问下才说出一个让我痛断肝肠的事：我的病，必须吃一种叫激素的药来控制，而这种激素会使人神不知鬼不觉地长出泡泡肉来。也就是说，吃了这个药，我就一定得长肉，这不是我自己本身的胖，而是药物在控制我的身体了。我顿时头脑一片空白。
也就是从这以后，那个可爱活泼，眉清目秀的女孩早已成为了我的过去，而现在的白白胖胖，却开始爱上学习的我才是我了。我的变化让老师同学们感到不可思议，可不全是因为我脸上的变化，也是因为我成绩的变化，从原来班上的十名之内上升到前三名，尤其是在作文方面，得到了老师的大力称赞。因为我脸上的变化，导致我性格从此内向，自卑，不再爱嬉戏吵闹，所以有更多的时间用来学习，成绩自然提高了。老师同学们对我脸上的变化从未提及，而对我的成绩却十分称赞，这点让我很感动。
这就是我的脸的故事，你们明白我的脸为什么会发上如此之大的变化了吧。
F. 初二英语作文:介绍中国的风土人情和礼仪社交（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.
众所周知，中国是世界上四大文明古国之一。事实上，它的历史远比我们所知道的要长久。因为它的长久性，在中国很多地方你可以发现古代建筑和历史书籍。在中国你找一个人要比你在其他任何国家找人都容易，也就是说，中国是世界上人口最多的国家。可是这个状况也给咱们国家带来了很大的负担。
我们国家有56个民族。我们彼此和睦，灾难常常让我们更加团结。除此以外，中国菜因为它的美味和营养而著名。世界上很多人都喜欢中国菜，并且尽力学着做它。每年，大批来自世界各地的外国人来中国旅游。到这你能欣赏到很多风景名胜。
我真的希望我们国家会变得越来越繁荣，人民过上越来越幸福的生活。我是一个中国人，我以出生在中国而感到骄傲。
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G. 请用英语介绍美国风土人情
美国：移民之国
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.
纵观美国历史，就可见这个国家经常被称为"一个熔炉"，在此，各种移民和种族团体学会了共同建设一个独特的民族。甚至那些"本土的"美国人--印第安人，也可能是几千年以前，从亚洲走过大陆桥来到北美洲的。所以，谁是真正的美国人？答案是他们中的任何一个人都是！无论你来自何处，如果你想成为美国人，就会成为美国人；你就会变成这个极其富有的"移民之国"的一个新份子。
美国现在正由主要是欧洲血统移民的国家变为世界上其他各洲，如亚洲、拉丁美洲移民的国家。最近移民的数字急剧增长。 他们希望摆脱在本国的经济困难、政治压迫，并在美国这片"充满机遇的土地上"寻找更好的教育和更富裕的生活。尽管他们从"故国"带来的文化与美国文化之间往往会产生冲突,但是多数移民还是学会了适应并热爱他们所归化的土地。
美国人从移民的风俗和观念中也学到了很多东西，并且在极其细微和有趣的方面受到了它们的影响。移民们带来了他们本族的文化、政治以及社会模式和态度，不同的学术和宗教背景，以及他们种族的艺术、体育、节日和饮食。这些极大地丰富了美国人的生活。
对于世界各地的移民而言，美国已经是一个"熔炉"，在这个熔炉中，甚至当外国人快要成为美国（一个其人民有着共同的一套文化观和价值观的国家）公民时，他们从文化和语言上仍然是在他们本国的样子。这个熔炉没有、也不应该熔掉对另一个地方的另一种生活方式的记忆。相反，即使移民们努力地要进人美国文化主流之中，他们也应保存自己遗产中的语言、技能、宗教和艺术。
H. 介绍地方风土人情的英语作文
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.
关于北京
北京有3000多年的历史，近1300万人口和许多名胜古迹。近年来，北京发展得很快。你能看到更多的博物馆、公园和购物中心，比比皆是。北京已建成越来越多的高速公路和过街天桥。还有，更多的公共汽车投入使用，它们都使用环保燃料，以防空
气受到污染。河水又变得清澈了。无论你走到哪里，你都能看到绿树、青草和美丽的花朵。所有这一切使北京的生活更便利，更怡人，更多姿多彩，北京仍在向着美好的明天迈进。