对不同文化欣赏英语作文【一】
When a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down beside him. This soon wakened the lion. He was very angry, and caught the mouse in his paws.
"Forgive me, please." cried the little mouse. "I may be able to help you someday." The lion was tickled at these words.
He thought, "How could this little mouse help me?" However he lifted up his paws and let him go.
A few days later, the lion was caught in a trap.
The hunters wanted to take him alive to the king, so they tied him to a tree, and went away to look for a wagon.
Just then the little mouse passed by, and saw the sad lion.
He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes. "Was I not right?" asked the little mouse.
狮子与报恩的老鼠
●狮子睡着了，有只老鼠在他的周围爬上爬下，很快吵醒了狮子，狮子很生气，一把抓住了老鼠。
●“饶了我吧，”老鼠请求说，“也许有一天我能帮上你的忙呢。”狮子觉得很好笑，他想：“这只小老鼠怎么能帮上我的忙？”但他还是抬起爪子放他走了。
●不久，狮子被陷阱困住了。猎人们想将活狮子献给国王，就把他捆在一棵大树上，然后去找马车。
●这时，老鼠路过这里，看到了绝望中的狮子。他走过去，很快啃断了绳索，说：“我虽小，可是我也能帮上你的忙。”
寓意: 有些朋友也许平时看似微不足道，但却有可能在我们身处困境的时候提供巨大的帮助。
对不同文化欣赏英语作文【二】
Carrying Faggots to Put Out a Fire
In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.B., the qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei with a momentum more vigorous than ever. The king of the State of Wei summoned his officials,and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. After years of chaos caused by the wars,the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak ofresistance. At the critical moment when a large enemy force was bearing down upon the border, most of the offinials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River and south of the Taihang Mountain. However Su Dai, a counsellor, did not agree. He hurried up to the king and said:"Your Majesty, they don't think about the interests of the country at all.It is just because they are cowardly and afraid of death that they ask you to sue for peace by betraying the country. Of course you can temperarily satisfy the ambition of the king of the State of Qin is insatiably greedy. It will never stop assaulting us until our land is totally given away."Once there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire fiercer. That was because he didn't know that,instead of putting out the fire, faggots could only make it burning more vigorously. Isn't it equivalent to carrying faggots to put out a fire if you agree to sue for peace at the cost of the land of the State of Wei?"Though Su Dai's argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials and gave away to the State of Qin a large area of the land of the State of Wei. For the king of the State of Wei was cowardly and only cared for peace at the moment.As might be expected,the Qin army assaulted the State of Wei on a large scale in 225 B.C.,surrounding the capital city Daliang and flooding it by digging open the dykes of the Huanghe River.The State of Wei was finally destroyed by the State of Qin.This story appears in the Historical Records Written by Sima Qian.The set phrase"carrying faggots to put out a fire"is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.
战国末期，秦国向魏国接连发动大规模的进攻，魏国无力抵抗，大片土地都被秦军占领了。到公元前273年，秦国又一次向魏国出兵，势头空前猛烈。
魏王把大臣们召来，愁眉苦脸地问大家有没有使秦国退兵的办法。大臣们由于经过多年的战乱，提起打仗就吓得哆嗦，谁也不敢谈“抵抗”二字。在这大兵压境的危急时刻，多数大臣都劝魏王，用黄河以北和太行山以南的大片土地为代价，向秦王求和。
谋士苏代听了这些话，很不以为然，忙上前对魏王说：“大王，他们是因为自己胆小怕死，才让您去卖国求和，根本不为国家着想。您想，把大片土地割让给秦国虽然暂时满足了秦王的野心，但秦国的***是无止境的，只要魏国的土地没割完，秦军就不会停止进攻我们。”
说到这里，苏代讲了一个故事：从前有一个人，他的房子起火了，别人劝他快用水去浇灭大火，但他不听，偏抱起一捆柴草去救火，是因为他不懂得柴草不但不能灭火反而能助长火势的道理。大王若同意拿着魏国土地去求和，不就等于抱着柴草救火吗？”
尽管苏代讲得头头是道，但是胆小的魏王只顾眼前的太平，还是依大臣们的意见把魏国大片土地割让给秦国。到公元225年，果然秦军又向魏国大举进攻，包围了国都大梁，掘开黄河大堤让洪水淹没了大梁城，魏国终于被秦国灭掉了。
故事出自《史记魏世家》。成语“抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害，结果反而使祸害扩大。
对不同文化欣赏英语作文【三】
健康是人们的追求，健康不仅仅是指生理上的健康，也指心理上的健康。现代社会高速发展，人们所承受的压力也越来越大，这就需要人们具有良好的心理素质，有没有好的心理素质决定人生的成与败。
凡事都怀着一颗感激的心，乐观的心。那么在这个世界上，你将无所畏惧。
我闪应该感激大自然所给予我们的一切。就像鸟儿应该感激天空给它以广阔的天空翱翔，鱼儿应该感激大海给它以舒适的环境生存，花儿应该感激阳光给它以温暖使它绽放，草儿应该感激雨露让它茁壮成长。当然，我们也应当感激父母的亲情，朋友给我们的友情。
当然我们坐在舒适明亮的教室时，我们应当感激父母的辛勤劳动，当我们快乐、沮丧时，我们应该感激朋友分享我们的情感，以致于让自己了解自己不是孤单的一个人。
当我们呱呱落地时，我们就拥有了许多的爱，有亲人的爱，也有陌生人的爱，因为爱我们，上帝给予了我们新鲜的空气，优美的环境。所以我们不应该埋怨，而应该感激。感激绊倒你的人，因为他强化了你的双腿，感激欺骗你的人，因为他增强了你的抵抗力。
有这样两个人，他们同时都拥有半杯水，悲欢者看到这半杯水会说：”可惜只有半杯水”。而乐观者却说：”只有半杯水”同样一杯水，可以引出不一样的感叹，这是为什么呢?这就是良好的心理素质与差劣的心理素质的人的对比。现代人，承受了太多的压力，稍微重一点，就可能导致他粉身碎骨。这就要靠心理素质来调控了。近年来，心理医生这个职业越来吃香，原因就是有大多数人承受不了现代社会快节奏高压力的步调，出现一系列的心理疾病，可是如果我们怀有一颗快乐的心态的话。那么快节奏的步调只会被我们当成一曲交响乐，我们会把承受当作享受。
总之，我们应面对任何事都用一颗感恩的心来面对，有这样的心态，人生在世又有何惧呢?让我们以健康的心态去迎接未来，挑战明天!
对不同文化欣赏英语作文【四】
就像我本人所经历的一件事。我一个很好的朋友，可以说是闺蜜，我们初三时坐在一张桌。初三的`时候，老师要我们交一篇征文。我便问了老师一句：“老师，用什么笔，什么纸写啊。”老师告诉我后，她问我：“你要交那篇啊？'我说：“为什么不交呢？交了还有可能得奖呢。”
而她却说了一番让我没有想到的话，她说：“就你那作文水平还交呢？”我回了她一句；"你作文水平好你交啊，我水平不好，我知道锻炼。”她说；"我作文水平不好我也不交，我也不丢那人。”
我当时就气哭了。后来，那篇作文我交了，而且，我还获了奖。她当时就无话可说了。
事后我想了想，其实，事情不仅仅只有那一面，如果不是她的那番话，或许我不会有那么大的动力去写那篇作文，也就不会得奖了；或许，我可以从这件事中看清她本来的面貌，可以知道她到底是不是真正的朋友；或许，这件事给我打了一个预防针，让我以后不会再被她所伤害。
凡事都要考虑周全，做什么事之前都要考虑好这件事情的多面性。不要只看单方面的有利条件就去做，要想想这件事是否会给你带来负面影响。
就像那句话。只有弱者才会把自己的不行归给于外界因素。如果你强大，整个世界都为你让路。这就是两种角度所带来的不同结果。
换一个角度去看事情。不同的角度，得到不同的结果。
对不同文化欣赏英语作文【五】
光与影的叠加，是阳光的色彩。我总能在阳光下，找到自己的影子。找到面对生活的勇气。——题记
王国维说人生有三种境界。是“独上高楼，望尽天涯路”的凄楚。是“衣带渐宽终不悔，为伊消得人憔悴”的忧伤。是“众里寻他千百度，蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处”的欣喜。我始终相信，这三种姿态亦是生活的初始状态，生活是公平的，他不会因为你讨厌沼泽和风雨就让这一切都消失。也不会因为阳光的耀眼与绚烂就让它永驻人间。
良好的心态就像海洋上的灯塔，让生活这艘小船不会迷失方向，亦如夜空中星星的光辉，明亮却不刺眼。在苦难面前，每个人会用不同的人生观去对待。悲观的人会说，为什么困难总是降临在我身上。而乐观的人只是骄傲地仰起头，去化解所谓的苦难。
这让我想起了李煜。是他在诉说么?
“空持罗带，回首恨依依。”他在感叹什么?无奈地用一杯鸠酒，结束了自己的生命。也结束了那个离乱的朝代，一片朦胧中，他仿佛看见自己率领南唐的金戈铁马，痛击赵匡胤之卒。可惜，已经迟了……若是他当初把心态方正些，又怎会落得个“亡国之君”的称号呢?他错不该消极地抵抗叛军，给这段历史徒增了几分悲剧色彩。
纵览大观园，依稀可以看见那位佳人。曹雪芹用他的笔墨泼洒出潇湘妃子的弱柳扶风。然而黛玉妹妹的眼泪却是流不尽的。试问生活中真的有那么多的不如意吗?她虽年幼丧母，却得到了贾母的多倍疼爱，虽弱柳扶风，却有幸与宝玉惺惺相惜。何来这悲春伤秋的愁绪?这一切似乎就注定了她的`结局是不完美的——香消玉殒。若是她善待生活，留心周遭的花草，也许会惊异地发现生活其实是美好的。
我欣赏贝多芬的执着，欣赏史铁生的坚韧，欣赏张海迪的勇气。他们在生活面前从未说过“不”子。也不会因为苦难就止步不前，而是用良好的心态，书写他们的传奇，谱写一曲雄奇壮美的赞歌!我想说的是，心态决定我们的人生，善待生活，你也许会发现，今天早晨的天空就很美。
对不同文化欣赏英语作文【六】
说起咱家乡的习俗，那可是三天三夜也说不完。就拿春节来说吧!
春节，就是每年的第一天，家乡人叫大年初一。大年初一这天有“开门爆竹”一说。即在新的一年到来之际，家家户户开门的第一件事就是燃放爆竹，以噼里啪啦的爆竹声除旧迎新。放爆竹可以创造出喜庆热闹的气氛，是节日的一种娱乐活动，可以让人们感觉到欢愉和吉利。
春节还有一个习俗，就是吃饺子。为驱邪恶、求吉利，饺子要煮得多，必须有余，饭后锅内要放上馒头，意在年年有余。一旦煮烂饺子，不可说“破了”，要改说“挣(赚了”。就餐时，除每人一碗外，还要多盛一到二碗，意在希望人丁兴旺。吃饺子充满了节日的欢乐气氛。春节的饺子里多包有钱、枣、栗子等。吃到红枣，意味着新一年能起早干活，勤劳致富;吃到栗子，意味着新的一年能出大力，流大汗;吃到花生米，就能长命百岁;吃到钱，就能发财。不管谁吃到其中的哪一种，大家都衷心地祝贺。如果小孩吃到了钱，家长更是十分高兴，认为孩子有出息，除了鼓励以外，还要赏钱，以示祝贺。
春节还有拜年的习俗，大家互相拜年，旧时拜年要磕头，现在一般只是问好。晚辈向长辈拜年时，长辈要给压岁钱。还有用手机发短信拜年、打电话拜年。美好祝福：吉祥、平安、发财、健康之类的让人们开心的话!。……
我觉得家乡的这些习俗蕴含了一个千古不变的含义：希望辛苦了一年的人们能开心的好好休息几天，调整好心情，再准备开始下一年的奋斗。人们都希望过上幸福、平安的`好生活!
对不同文化欣赏英语作文【七】
Snow-white
Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden-snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the hunts and on the trees: all things were white with snow.
The Queen was making a coat for a little child. She said, "I want my child to be white as this cloth, white as the snow. And I shall call her Snow-white."
Some days after that the Queen had a child. The child was white as snow. The Queen called her Snow-white.
But the Queen was very ill, and after some days she died. Snow-white lived, and was a very happy and beautiful child.
One year after that, the King married another Queen. The new Queen was very beautiful; but she was not a good woman.
A wizard had given this Queen a glass. The glass could speak. It was on the wall in the Queen's room. Every day the queen looked in the glass to see how beautiful she was. As she looked in the glass, she asked: "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass spoke and said: "The Queen is most beautiful of all."
Year went by. Snow-white grew up and became a little girl. every day the Queen looked in the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass said, "Snow-white is most beautiful of all."
When the Queen heard this, she was very angry. She said, "Snow-white is not more beautiful than I am. There is no one who is more beautiful than I am."
Then the Queen sat on her bed and cried.
After one hour the Queen went out of her room. She called one of the servants, and said, "Take Snow-white into the forest and kill her."
The servant took Snow-white to the forest, but he did not kill her, because she was so beautiful and so good. He said, "I shall not kill you; but do not go to the King's house, because the Queen is angry and she will see you. If the Queen sees you, she will make some other man kill you. Wait here in the forest; some friends will help you." Then he went away.
Poor Snow-white sat at the foot of a tree and cried. Then she saw that night was coming. She said, "I will not cry. I will find some house where I can sleep tonight. I cannot wait here: the bears will eat me."
She went far into the forest. Then she saw a little hut. She opened the door of the hut, and went in. In the hut she saw seven little beds. There was a table, and on the table there were seven little loaves and seven little glasses. She ate one of the loaves. Then she said, "I want some water to drink." So she drank some water out of one of the glasses. Then she fell asleep on one of the seven little beds.
The hut was the home of seven Little Men. When it was night, the seven Little Men came to the hut. Each Little Man had a big beard, and a little blue coat. Each Little Man came into the hut, and took his little lamp. Then each Little Man sat down, and ate his little loaf, and drank his little glass of water.
But one Little Man said, "Someone has eaten my little loaf." And another Little Man said, "Someone has drunk my little glass of water." Then the seven Little Men went to bed, but one Little Man said, "Someone is sleeping on my little bed." All the seven Little Men came to look at Snow-white as she slept on the Little Men's bed. They said, "She is very beautiful."
Snow-white awoke, and saw the seven Little Men with their big beards standing near her bed. She was afraid. The Little men said, "Do not be afraid. We are your friends. Tell us how you came here." Snow-white said, "I will tell you." Then she told them her story.
They said, "Do not be afraid. Live here with us. But see that the door shut when we are not in the house with you. Do not go out. If you go out, the bad Queen will find you. Then she will know that you are not dead, and will tell someone to kill you." So Snow-white lived in the hut with the seven Little Men.
After some days Snow-white went into the garden. One of the Queen's servants was going through the forest, and he saw her. He went and told the Queen, "Snow-white is in a hut in the forest." The Queen was very angry when she heard that Snow-white was not dead.
The Queen took an apple. She made a hole in the red side of the apple, and put some powder into the hole. Then she put on old clothes and went to the hut. She called, "Is any one there?" Snow-white opened the door, and came out to her. The Queen said, "I have some pretty apples. Eat one of my pretty apples." Snow-white took the apple and said, "Is it good?" The Queen said, "See, I will eat this white side of the apple; you eat the red side. Then you will know that it is good."
Snow-white ate the red side of the apple. When the powder was in her mouth, she fell down dead. The Queen went back to her house. She went into her room. she looked into the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" The glass said, "The Queen is most beautiful of all." Then the Queen know that Snow-white was dead.
The Little Men came back to the hut. When they saw that Snow-white was dead, the poor Little Men cried. Then they put Snow-white in a box made of glass. They took the glass box to a hill and put it there, and said, "Everyone who goes by will see how beautiful she was." Then each Little Man put one white flower on the box, and they went away.
Just as they were going away, a Prince came by. He saw the glass box and said, "What is that?" Then he saw Snow-white in the box. He said, "She was very beautiful: but do not put her there. There is a hall in the garden of my father's house. It is all made of white stone. We will take the glass box and put it in the hall of beautiful white stone."
The Little Men said, "Take her." Then the Prince told his servants to take up the box. They took up the box. Just then one of the servants fell down. The box fell, and Snow-white fell with the box. The bit of apple fell out of her mouth: she awoke, and sat up, and said, "Where am I?"
The Prince said, "You are with me. I never saw anyone as beautiful as you. Come with me and be my Queen."
The Prince married Snow-white, and she became his Queen.
A man went and told this to the bad Queen. When she heard it she was so angry that she fell down dead.
Snow-white lived and was very happy ever after. And the Little Men came to see her every year.
白雪公主
从前，有一个王后，她坐在窗户旁。窗外的花园里积满了雪，山上是雪，小路上是雪，树上和屋顶上也积着雪，万物一片白茫茫。她手中拿着些布和一枚针，她手中的不就像雪一样洁白。王后正在为小孩做一件上衣，她说：“我想我的孩子能够像这布一样白，想雪一样白，我要叫她'白雪公主'。”
几天之后，王后生了个小孩，这个孩子白得像雪一样，王后给她取名为“白雪公主”。但是，王后得了重病，几天以后就去世了。白雪公主活了下来，她是一个十分幸福和美丽的孩子。
王后去世一年以后，国王又娶了一位王后。新王后十分漂亮，但是，她不是一个善良的女人。一个巫师给了新王后一面镜子，这面镜子会说话，它挂在王后房间的墙上，每天王后照着镜子，欣赏自己多么漂亮。当她照镜子的时候，她问：“告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的人？”于是魔镜开口说道：“王后是世界上最漂亮的。”
过了数年，白雪公主长成大人了。当白雪公主是一个年轻姑娘时，有一天，王后照着镜子说：“告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的？”魔镜说：“白雪公主是世界上最漂亮的。”
当王后听到这些话时，非常恼怒，她说：“白雪公主没有我漂亮，没有一个人比我更漂亮。”然后，王后坐在床上哭了。一小时后，王后从她的房间走出来，她叫来一个仆人说：“把白雪公主带到森林中***掉。”
仆人带着白雪公主到了森林，但他没有***死她，因为她太美丽太善良了。他说：“我不会***死你的，但是，你不能回王宫，因为，王后很生气，她会看到你的。如果王后发现你，她会让别人***死你的。你就呆在森林里，会有朋友来帮助你的。”然后，他走了。
可怜的白雪公主坐在一棵树底下哭了，这时，她看到天快黑了，她说：“我不哭了，我要找所房子今晚好睡觉，我不能呆在这儿了，熊会吃了我的。”她往森林深处走去，这时，她发现了一座小屋，她打开小屋的门，走了进去。在小屋里，她看到七张小床，还有一张桌子，桌子上有七块小面包和七个小杯子。她吃了其中一块面包，然后说：“我想喝点水。”于是，她又喝了一个杯子中的一些水。之后，她躺在一张小床上睡着了。
这座小屋是七个小矮人的家。当天黑下来的时候，七个小矮人回到小屋。每个小矮人都留着一副大胡子，穿一件小蓝上衣。小矮人进了小屋，每个人都点上他们的小灯，然后，小矮人都坐下，开始吃面包，喝小杯里的水。
但是，一个小矮人说：“有人把我小面包吃了。”另一个小矮人说：“有人把我的小杯子里的水喝了。”然后，七个小矮人去睡觉。可是一个小矮人说：“有人正睡在我的小床上。”七个小矮人都过来看睡在小矮人床上的白雪公主。他们说：“她真漂亮。”
白雪公主醒了，发现七个留着大胡子的小矮人正站在她床旁，她很害怕。小矮人们说：“别害怕，我们是你的好朋友，告诉我们你是怎么来这儿的。”白雪公主说：“我告诉你们。”接着她就给他们讲述了自己的经历。他们说：“不要害怕。就在这儿和我们住在一起，但是，我们不在家的时候，你一定要关上门，千万别出去。如果你出去了，坏王后会发现你，这样，她知道你没有死，会让人来***死你。”于是，白雪公主和七个小矮人在这座小屋里生活着。
几天以后，白雪公主去了一趟花园。王后的一个仆人正经过这片森林，他发现了阿。他回去告诉了王后：“白雪公主在森林的一座小屋里。”王后听说白雪公主没有死，十分恼火。
王后拿来一个苹果，她在苹果红的一边挖了一个洞，把一些毒的粉末放在这个洞里。然后，她穿上一身旧衣服，去了小屋。她喊：“屋里有人吗？”白雪公主打开门，出来见她。王后说：“我有一些漂亮的苹果，吃一个尝尝吧？”白雪公主拿着苹果说：“这好吃吗？”王后说：“瞧，我吃苹果白的一半，你吃红的一半，你会知道它味道不错。”白雪公主吃了苹果红的一半，当粉末进入她嘴里时，她倒下去死了。
王后回到家，进了自己的房间，对着镜子说：“告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的。”魔镜说：“王后是世界上最漂亮的。”于是，王后知道白雪公主已经死了。
小矮人们回到小屋，发现白雪公主死了。可怜的小矮人们全都哭了。然后，他们把白雪公主放进玻璃棺材里，并把它抬到山坡上，安放在那里，说：“每位经过这里的人都会看见她是多么美丽。”接着每个小矮人在棺材上放了一朵白花，然后离开了。
他们刚刚要离开，一位王子从此经过，他看着玻璃棺材说：“那是什么？”这时，他发现白雪公主躺在里面，他说：“她太美丽了，把能把她放在这里，在父亲的王宫里有一座大厅，整个大厅都是用白石头砌成，我们把玻璃棺材搬到那所漂亮的白石大厅里。”小矮人们说：“抬走她吧。”
然后，王子告诉他的仆人抬起棺材。他们抬起它时，不巧一个仆人跌倒了。把棺材也摔到地上，白雪公主随同棺材跌了下来，那块苹果从她嘴里掉了出来，她醒了过来，坐起来说：“我这是在哪儿？”王子说：“你跟我在一起，我从来没有见过一位像你这么美丽的人，跟我来，做我的王后吧。”王子和白雪公主结婚了，她成了王后。
一个人去把这些消息告诉了坏王后，当她听到这些，气得倒下死去了。从那以后，白雪公主一直生活得很幸福。每年小矮人们都来看她。
New Words and Expressions 生词和词组：
wizard n. 男巫
hut n. 茅舍，小屋
