“优能中学杯”征文大赛获奖作文选登及点评(1)
2016-01-07
本刊2015年7月号在创刊十周年之际发起的主题为“我和英语有个故事”的全国中学生英语征文大赛现已圆满落幕!从本期开始,我们将陆续刊登部分获奖作文及北京新东方学校优能中学老师的相应精彩点评,以飨大家。本期先来分享此次征文大赛一等奖的获奖文章。
Dear English
Dear English:
The fog hung over the forest and cracks of sunlight filtered through the leaves.Your figure loomed up out of the mist, so beautiful but also untouchable. Maybe you can't believe it, but it's actually the first impression you left on me.
Like many students, l used you just as a tool to get high marks. I spent day and night reciting the notes and the words on the textbooks. This dull and repetitive work really destroyed the first impression. For me, you were just an annoying subject.
Until one day, I met TEENS. Though the original purpose was also for the exams, but it did let me know that there was a colorful world out of my own small world, which was full of multiple-choice questions. There I met you again, and you smiled at dawn, still innocent and beautiful as first sight, but not untouchable. You whispered in my ears, "I've been waiting for you for ages."
Then we spent the whole afternoon in my room putting on headphones, singing out of tune loudly. And I always recall the days when we watched movies, with our mouths full of food. You also brought me to Jane Eyre's world. There we sympathized with her childhood, felt excited when she met Mr. Rochester and listened to her oath of ardor, deeply affected.
It takes us seven years from strange to familiar, from hating to appreciating, from speaking few words to talking a lot. In this letter, plucking up all my courage, I promise you I'll love you forever, always with a sincere heart, never cheat you, forget you or hurt you. Will you be my lover, always stand by my side, trust me, encourage me, comfort me and never abandon me?
There are still many things I want to experience with you, like being a volunteer at 2022 Olympic Winter Games, taking you to some remote villages to introduce you to the children there. Then we will get older and older. Maybe one day, we will nod by the fire, dream of the soft look and revive our youth.
Sincerely Yours,
Guo Xiaolei
开篇第一句别具匠心,在and所连接的两个并列句中,hang over (挂在……之上;悬浮在……之上)和filter (透过;渗入)使用得十分恰当,形象地描绘出了一幅朦胧而美丽的画面(森林被迷雾所笼罩,阳光从树叶之间透了过来),吸引读者继续往下读。不过,用crack (裂缝,裂口;噼啪声,爆裂声)一词来修饰sunlight不太妥当,建议删去cracks of或将其替换为beams of 。
该句用词十分精妙,loom (up)表示“隐约地出现;赫然耸现”,后面接的两个形容词作状语修饰your figure。不过,用but also作为连接词虽然不错,但若将其“升级”为while,把逗号后的部分改为so beautiful while untouchable,表达会更为出彩。
这句话过于平铺直叙,中式思维较为明显,若将use ... as ... 替换成regard ... as ...则会更为地道。
此句结构清晰,是一个难得的长难句,但却存在着一个很明显的错误,即在英文中though和but这两个单词不能同时出现在一句话中。把but去掉之后,这个句子的结构就包含了一个状语从句、一个宾语从句和一个非限制性定语从句,从中可以看出作者对英语复合句掌握得较好。
作者在此应该想要表达的是“就像初次见面时那样”,可将as first sight改为just as you were when we first met。
这两句话运用拟人手法,将英语比喻成了作者的一位朋友,不过,和英语这位朋友“戴着耳机一起唱歌”“口中塞满食物”等不免让人读来觉得有些奇怪,可将其删除或对其再做进一步的修改。若能结合英语本身的特点来进行比喻会更易令人信服。
此句运用了排比的手法,令人眼前一亮,形象地展现出了作者与英语之间关系的演变,与征文主题“我和英语有个故事”紧密贴合。美中不足的是介词from和to后不能直接跟形容词strange和familiar,可改为from being total strangers to best friends。
此句的亮点在于所举的两个例子既联系了实际,又比较特别,让我们看到了作者那颗金子般的心,也让我们体会到英语的确可以在生活中发挥非常重要的作用。
和开头一样,文章结尾也给读者描绘了一幅形象的画面,正如《当你老了》这首歌中所唱的那样,等作者老了,她还会与英语为伴,并与英语一起在炉火旁打盹,回忆青春。
这篇文章的新颖之处在于它采用与英语对话的形式来记叙自己和英语之间的故事,令人眼前一亮。作者在开篇就描绘了自己和英语初次相遇时那幅充满意境的画面,也借此展现了自己的英文功底。
在正文部分,作者开始讲述自己与英语的故事,真实可感,用词准确,语法错误少,且善于运用定语从句、状语从句等复合句以及长短句的搭配来丰富文章的句式。此外,作者不仅谈到了TEENS对自己英语学习的促进作用,也带我们走进了简·爱的世界,文末还提及自己想要担任2022年冬季奥运会志愿者,并想让偏远村庄的孩子们也能接触到英语,内容丰富且感人。结尾部分和开头基调一致,再次描绘了一幅形象的画面,同时也使文章的结构显得更加完整,是一篇难得的佳作。
教师简介:
许睿,北京新东方学校优能中学部优秀教师,主讲初中英语,拥有多年一线英语教学经验,所教学生的成绩普遍获得了显著提升。