Hi there:
This is my very first time posting something in this forum. I am taking Communications 12 at an Adult Learning Centre. I first wrote the paragraph for an assignment and found it sort of funny and then translated it into Chinese. Hopefully I am not wasting your time and you have fun reading it.
Have a wonderful weekend!
竹
Unit 2, Assignment #3, Descriptive Paragraph:
Write a 10-12 sentence paragraph, describing a person you know well. Do not just describe the person’s
physical feature; describe his/her personality. Make the person come alive for the reader.
physical feature; describe his/her personality. Make the person come alive for the reader.
A person I know well: My curious hu*****and
My hu*****and Min is from M.C. He stands 5 feet 9 inches and weighs about 83 kg. According to the standard
BMI (Body Mass Index) he is slightly overweight, but not yet obese; indeed, his round face and love handles
make him look a little bit chubby. A lot of people consider Min’s facial features to be Korean (probably
because of his slitted eyes), but to me, he is just an average-looking Chinese. Like most people I know in Canada, Min is very kind-hearted, hard-working and family-oriented. Generally speaking, he is an ordinary guy; however, his personality really involves some contradictions that make him such an extraordinary
individual. With his PhD title in Operation Research Min is highly educated in academic aspect; but on the
other hand, he is such an illiterate for daily life and always acts like a PHD (Permanent-Head-Damaged). He cuts a zip lock bag open with scissors; steams food without water; uses a plastic bag to move a hot pot;
never separates waste for compost from landfill garbage, ........, etc. He can sit in front of his desktop PC for
a few hours without moving his bottom, but he lacks the least patience to wait a few minutes, and leaves a
burning stove unattended so long that I don’t remember how many short-lives pots got burnt in our kitchen. Being totally competent and confident, he can give a lecture in front of hundreds of students; but being
hopelessly clumsy and clueless, he never figures out how to properly put on a bathing suit for our baby
daughter. He has amazingly good memory and memorizes all the contents of his text books (precisely to the
page no.) and all the keys to his students’ questions; but he often misplaces his banking / credit cards as
well as house / office / car keys, and has to look for them every other days. Everytime when I type exam
papers for him, no mistake, not even a comma, can escape his keen sight; but he can enter a restaurant
for a late night snack, carelessly ignoring the fact that one of his feet is in a sandal and the other in a dress
shoe. Oh dear！If I had not been living with my hu*****and for eleven years, I would never believe there is
such a paradoxical person like him on Earth!
BMI (Body Mass Index) he is slightly overweight, but not yet obese; indeed, his round face and love handles
make him look a little bit chubby. A lot of people consider Min’s facial features to be Korean (probably
because of his slitted eyes), but to me, he is just an average-looking Chinese. Like most people I know in Canada, Min is very kind-hearted, hard-working and family-oriented. Generally speaking, he is an ordinary guy; however, his personality really involves some contradictions that make him such an extraordinary
individual. With his PhD title in Operation Research Min is highly educated in academic aspect; but on the
other hand, he is such an illiterate for daily life and always acts like a PHD (Permanent-Head-Damaged). He cuts a zip lock bag open with scissors; steams food without water; uses a plastic bag to move a hot pot;
never separates waste for compost from landfill garbage, ........, etc. He can sit in front of his desktop PC for
a few hours without moving his bottom, but he lacks the least patience to wait a few minutes, and leaves a
burning stove unattended so long that I don’t remember how many short-lives pots got burnt in our kitchen. Being totally competent and confident, he can give a lecture in front of hundreds of students; but being
hopelessly clumsy and clueless, he never figures out how to properly put on a bathing suit for our baby
daughter. He has amazingly good memory and memorizes all the contents of his text books (precisely to the
page no.) and all the keys to his students’ questions; but he often misplaces his banking / credit cards as
well as house / office / car keys, and has to look for them every other days. Everytime when I type exam
papers for him, no mistake, not even a comma, can escape his keen sight; but he can enter a restaurant
for a late night snack, carelessly ignoring the fact that one of his feet is in a sandal and the other in a dress
shoe. Oh dear！If I had not been living with my hu*****and for eleven years, I would never believe there is
such a paradoxical person like him on Earth!
一個我非常了解的人：我的奇葩先生
我先生Min來自MC。他身高5尺9寸，重約83公斤。 根據標準體質指數，他有些超重 （但還不算肥胖）；的確，他的圓臉以及腰間的贅肉讓他看起來是有點胖乎乎的。很多人覺得Min的麵部特征像韓國人（也許是因為他的一雙縫眼），但在我看來，他就是一個相貌普通的華人。 跟我在加拿大認識的大多數人一樣，Min心地非常善良，很勤勞，也很顧家。他大抵是個平常人，然而，他性格裏的某些矛盾又讓他這個人變得如此非常。Min受過高等教育，在學術上是個運籌學博士；但另一方麵，他在生活上卻又那麽的無知，行為舉止常常就像一個腦殘。他用剪刀剪開自封袋；蒸東西不加水；拿塑料袋去移開滾燙的鍋子；從來分不清堆肥用的廢料和普通垃圾..........等等等等。他可以在他的台式電腦前一坐就好幾個小時也不挪一下屁股；但他就是缺少那麽幾分鍾的耐心，經常丟下開著火的爐頭，不管不顧好長時間，以至於我都記不清有多少隻短命的鍋子在我家廚房慘遭不測。他可以絕對自信而且遊刃有餘地給幾百名學生上課；但也可以笨手拙腳，無用到無可救藥，永遠也搞不懂如何正確地幫我們的寶貝（北鼻）女兒穿上泳衣。他的記憶力驚人地好，可以記得教科書的全部內容（準確到頁數）以及學生問題的所有答案; 但他常常忘記自己的銀行卡/信用卡，還有家門/辦公室/車鑰匙放在哪裏，三天兩頭就得四處尋找。每次我幫他打考卷，任何錯誤，哪怕是一個逗號，都逃不過他犀利的眼神；但他卻可以華麗麗地走進一家餐廳吃宵夜，全然無視自己一腳踩著涼鞋，而另一隻腳卻趿拉著正裝鞋。唉！要不是我已經跟我先生一起生活了十一年，我永遠也不會相信這世上會有像他這樣矛盾的人。
