人物介紹（Introducing Somebody）

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Although Princeton, New Jersey, has a world-famous university, it is still a small quiet town. It is not a place where anyone would expect to see strange characters on the street. That is why one woman will never forget the day in 1940 when, as a child, she suddenly saw a funny-looking man coming towards her. “I remember,” she tells her children now, “how wild his white hair looked---as if it had been electrified. He was short. His clothes seemed to be just pulled on to keep him covered, like a blanket to keep one warm. He had a big nose, a short, thick moustache, and deep-set eyes. He was staring, thinking. He almost knocked me down before he saw me. He gave me a friendly smile, then he walked on and went on thinking. I noticed he had on bedroom slippers. He had forgotten to put on his shoes. He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairy tales and had passed me like a spirit. That night at dinner when I told my family about the strange, funny man I had seen, my father put down his knife and fork, looked at me and said,‘My child, remember this. Today you saw the greatest man in the world!’”

That man was Elbert Einstein. How and why he had come to Princeton, New Jersey is a story of struggle, success, and sadness.

曾經誦記過不少老高中教材的英文片段，這是留下非常深刻記憶的其中一段。想想看，應該有兩個原因：一是當時的教材中的確缺少這樣描寫人物的材料，二是這一段的確寫得很精彩，以至于每每看到愛因斯坦的畫像時總想起這段描寫，而背讀起這段文字時眼前又總是浮現出愛因斯坦的形象。這或許就是我們常常說到的“形象生動”、“栩栩如生”吧。

文段邊憶邊敘，為我們刻畫了一位大鼻深眼、短須亂發、衣著隨意、不修邊幅的人物形象，而他竟然是大名鼎鼎的愛因斯坦，也難怪He was staring, thinking。

推薦背誦文段

常用表達法

1. 性別與婚姻（Sex & Marriage）

I’m a man of forty and have a 9-year-old daughter.

She got married in 1980 and now she has been married for more than 20 years.

I’ m 35 ,male and unmarried.

I got married five years ago but now I’m single.

2.年齡（Age）

He was born in 1995 and is eight years old now.

Born in 1985,he is now an 18-year-old student, studying in a university.

He began to make a living at the age of 14/at an early age.

In his fifties, he began to feel his age .

By the age of 14, he had set up a chemistry lab of his own.3.外貌特征（Appearance）

She is a lovely girl, with a round face, big eyes, white teeth and long waving hair.

He is thin, tall and wearing a pair of thick glasses.

He is a good-looking/funny-looking man, with a thick moustache but no hair left.

He is a tall man, with blue eyes and blond hair. deep-set eyes ,big bright eyes, long straight nose,

brown curling hair, broad shoulders,4.身高（Height）He is 1.76 meters tall.

He is 176 centimeters tall.

He is 176 centimeters in height.

The boy is not tall enough to reach the apple overhead.

He is really a tall man, about 1.98 meters in height.

My height is 1.76 metres .(不合英語習慣)

I’m 1.76 meters high.（身高不宜用high）5.健康狀況（Health）Well looked after, the children look healthy.

I’m not so strong, but (I’m) in good health.

Having been in hospital for six months, now she looks very weak.6.教育狀況（Education）I started school in 1984 and left school 12 years later.

I went to study in Beijing University in 1984 and 4 years later I graduated (from that university).

We learned many courses, including…I’ve been studying in Tianshan Primary School (No.1 High School, Fudan University) for more than two years and will graduate next semester.

I got my bachelor’s (master’s, doctor’s) degree in mathematics in April 1998...7.特長愛好（Specialty & Hobbies）

I’m good at spoken English and even better at using computers.

I won the first prize in the English speech contest at school last year.

He got the first place in the homepage designing contest.

My favorite sport is swimming and playing table-tennis.

In my spare time, I like reading and enjoying traveling. 8. 詳細特色（Something in detail）

舉例法（Giving examples）:

–He was strict with everybody and in everything he did. One day, we were having classes when…–He was very forgetful. Once he came across an old friend of his in the street and ...

–He had a strange way of making his classes lively and interesting. I still remember my first day as a chemistry student.

寫作練習

李濤是我校年輕的老教師。他被看作是老教師，是因為他教化學課已經有20年了。說他年輕，因為他今年還不過38歲。 他長得較瘦。頭上頭發不多，灰白了。他戴著深度眼鏡，牙齒又缺了2顆。所以他看上去比他實際年齡要大。他說，在公共汽車上常常有人給他讓座。事實上。我曾看見他不止一次地給懷抱嬰兒的婦女讓過座。只要聽一聽他的化學課--那課又生動又有趣，你就會發現他真正的年齡。

習作點評

Li Tao is a young but “old” teacher in our school. He is often regarded as an old teacher because he has taught chemistry for over 20 years. He is a thin man with thick glasses. The little grey hair and lacking of two teeth make him look older than his real age.

He often says that there are many people giving their seats to him in buses. But in fact, I saw him giving his seat to the woman who takes her baby in her arms more than once. If you have his lively and interesting chemistry lessons, you will find that he is no more than 38 years old

本文敘議結合，對原材料調控有度，取舍得當，是一篇很好的習作。

修改建議：

1.第二段第一句有chinglish之嫌，可改為:…says that many people give their seats to him.

2.who takes改為 who took。

3.最后一句應改為If you have ever had…

參考范文

A teacher

Li Tao is a young and old teacher in our school. He is regarded as being old for he has been teaching here for 20 years. He is seen, at the same time, as being young as he is now but 38 years old. He doesn’t have much hair on the head. And it is nearly all white. Missing two teeth and wearing thick glasses, he looks older than he really is. He says people often offer their seats to him for his old looks. On the contrary, I myself saw him give up his seat to a woman with a baby in her arms. At least twice he did so. When you attend his interesting and lively classes, you will be sure of his real age ---still young.