Every time I log on the K12 forum, I will click the English section, expecting to read some elegant English essays. To my disappointed, I can hardly read good ENGLISH here. Theoretics on English teaching takes the most space of the English Forum. almost all the articles are written in Chinese. well, it's easy to learn and communicate with our dear fellow teachers, but as a English teacher or learner, we need to catch every chance to touch the English language. After all, we can not read too much in learning English. Therefore, we should try to think in English, write in English, and the most important of all, read in English. I'd like to call all the forum visitors to bring more wonderful ENGLISHes here. Don't you think so?

Very sorry.
Yes, we'd better do this well. Everyone in the  English Forum can express everything in English, it is good for us to improve our English ability.

Yes,you are right.thank you for your reminding.We should provide a platform for everyone to communicate with others in English.I think that the function of our  forrum is to stimulate people's interests of learning English.English is important for everybody.We should practise speaking English every day.Besides,we can improve our English level by expressing us in English.At last I hope that everyone in this Forum can try your best .Also I hope our Forum can be better and better.

[ 本帖最后由 天边的一片彩云 于 2008-9-27 18:53 编辑 ]

well, I am pleased to see your quick reaction, and I believe, with the famous K12 platform and diligent editors here, our English forum will be a real English paradise! thanks for your hard work. I will bring the elegant ENGLISHes that I have read to this note to share with you all. and, and I expect my this note will be upgraded to be an elegant one

I think so.I am also impressed by your spirit and enthusiasm for English. Thank you for your coming.Your valuable ideas remind me of my responsibility,that is,to make many people express themselves in English. Also I hope that more people can take part in this Forum.

There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all.
But when the king looked closely, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest — in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?
“Because,” explained the king, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.”

To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world.

对于世界而言,你是一个人;但是对于某个人,你是他的整个世界。

Never frown,even when you are sad,because you never know who is falling in love  with your smile.

纵然伤心,也不要愁眉不展,因为你不知道是谁会爱上你的笑容。

Don't waste your time on a man/woman ,who isn't willing to waste their time on you.

不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你,那比能够不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。

Don't cry because it is over,smile because it happened.

不要因为结束而哭泣.微笑吧,为你的曾经拥有。

And forever has no end.

永永远远,永无止境。

Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us.

生命是一束纯净的火焰,我们依赖自己内心看不见的太阳而存在。

All that is beautiful poems and passages of life

things do not change;we change.sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。

think it over……好好想想……

today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;

今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；

we spend more,but enjoy less;

我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；

we have bigger houses,but smaller famillies;

我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；

we have more compromises,but less time;

我们妥协更多，时间更少；

we have more knowledge,but less judgment;

我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；

we have more medicines,but less health;

我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；

we have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values;

我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；

we talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much;

我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；

we reached the moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;

我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍；

we have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space;

我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；

Very quietly I take my leave
　　　　　　　　　As quietly as I came here;

　　　　　　　　　Quietly I wave good-bye

　　　　　　　　　To the rosy clouds in the western sky.

  

　　　　　　　　　The golden willows by the riverside

　　　　　　　　　Are young brides in the setting sun;

　　　　　　　　　Their reflections on the shimmering waves

　　　　　　　　　Always linger in the depth of my heart.

  

　　　　　　　　　The floatingheart growing in the sludge

　　　　　　　　　Sways leisurely under the water;

　　　　　　　　　In the gentle waves of Cambridge

　　　　　　　　　I would be a water plant!

  

　　　　　　　　　That pool under the shade of elm trees

　　　　　　　　　Holds not water but the rainbow from the sky;

　　　　　　　　　Shattered to pieces among the duckweeds

　　　　　　　　　Is the sediment of a rainbow-like dream?

  

　　　　　　　　　To seek a dream? Just to pole a boat upstream

　　　　　　　　　To where the green grass is more verdant;

　　　　　　　　　Or to have the boat fully loaded with starlight

　　　　　　　　　And sing aloud in the splendour of starlight.

  

　　　　　　　　　But I cannot sing aloud

　　　　　　　　　Quietness is my farewell music;

　　　　　　　　　Even summer insects heep silence for me

　　　　　　　　　Silent is Cambridge tonight!

  

　　　　　　　　　Very quietly I take my leave

　　　　　　　　　As quietly as I came here;

　　　　　　　　　Gently I flick my sleeves

　　　　　　　　　Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring away

  

　参考译文：

  

　轻轻的我走了，正如我轻轻的来；我轻轻的招手， 作别西天的云彩。

　那河畔的金柳，是夕阳中的新娘；波光里的艳影，在我的心头荡漾。

　软泥上的青荇，油油的在水底招摇；在康河的柔波里，我甘心做一条水草。

　那榆荫下的一潭，不是清泉，是天上虹；揉碎在浮藻间，沉淀着彩虹似的梦。

  

　寻梦？ 撑一支长篙，向青草更青处漫溯，满载一船星辉，在星辉斑斓里放歌。

　但我不能放歌，悄悄是别离的笙箫；夏虫也为我沉默，沉默是今晚的康桥！

　悄悄的我走了，正如我悄悄的来；我挥一挥衣袖，不带走一片云彩

A Red, Red Rose

by Robert Burns

O my luve's like a red, red rose.

That's newly sprung in June;

O my luve's like a melodie

That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will love thee still, my Dear,

Till a'the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,

And the rocks melt wi' the sun:

I will luve thee still, my Dear,

While the sands o'life shall run.

And fare thee weel my only Luve!

And fare thee weel a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho' it were ten thousand mile!