When I was a child,my mother had instructed me whenever I wasn't tell a lie,and it pays to be honest.
      In the past,my mother always said,if I told a lie,the police would come here to send me to prison for a long time,or I would be taken to sell by the lunatic. So from then on ,I have been aware of the importance of honest.
      Now I have grown up,and I am a college student.I find that it is less metioned about honest.Does the honest not important? Or the people have ignored? I think we should pay more attention to the honest,althougt now the people's life have riched,and not necessary to tell a lie to get what they want. We all must be honest and set a good example to the little children.
      It's easy to tell a lie for children,because they know very little,they even consider it is not serious tobe honest.If the situation continue,and no one correct them,they will make a mistake every now and then.The small mistake may become the glaring errors.The children also could be taken in prison because of the serious result of tell a lie.
      Honest is one of virtues, a small lie may be developing to crime,so everyone should know that it pays to be honest,and we all metion it rather than indifferent.

  
   Now advertisements are more and more popular. We find it not only on the TV, all kinds of media, but also on busniess, buildings, even on the clothes. They are cover the people’s life. As we all know, Advertisements have both advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, advertisements have done more harm than good.

   Firstly, some of the ads are illegal, they are spreading false information and planning to treat people who are eager to solve their problems. People often feel burdened with the ads instead of satisfying with them. Secondly, if their advertisements are not successful, the businessmen waste a lot of money, and their sales can’t go up. Thirdly, some ads use lots of similar words instead of the correct words, they are bad for the little children. The modern people like very much to watch all kinds of advertisements to let them make a decision. I think we should pay more attention to the advertisements.

In a word, sometimes advertisements are good for the peoples’ life, but I think advertisements have done more harm than good.

 
   经典对白：BJ单身日记 Bridget Jones’s Diary

Bridget: This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
 
Bridget: Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.
Mark Darcy: Oh, yes, they fucking do.

Daniel Cleaver: Fuck me, I love Keats.

Bridget: Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.

Interviewer: What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon?
Bridget: It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out.

[From the trailer]
[answering phone]
Bridget: Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs... Dad... Hi.

[From the UK release]
[answering phone]
Bridget: Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum... Hi.
Mark Darcy: Mother, I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and dresses like her mother.

Bridget: Daniel, what you just did is actually illegal in several countries.
Daniel Cleaver: That is one of the reasons that I'm so happy to be living in Britain today.

[On Bridget]
Natasha: Bizarre what some men find attractive

Daniel Cleaver: OK, tell me more about practicing French kissing with the art girls at school.
Bridget: It wasn't French kissing.
Daniel Cleaver: Don't care, make it up. That's an order, Jones.

Bridget: I choose Vodka. And Chaka Khan.

Daniel Cleaver: Come on Bridget, we belong together - you, me, your little skirt. If I can't make it with you then I can't make it with anyone.
Bridget: That's not a good enough offer for me.

Tom: Whose side are we on?
Shazzer: Mark's of course. He never dumped Bridget for some naked American.
Bridget: But he did shag Daniel's fiancée and left him broken-hearted.
Tom: You're right, it's a tough one to call.

Bridget: Here is the man we like to call Mr., uh,
     　　

 

 

1. Forrest Gump  阿甘正传

　　1． Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. (生命就像一盒巧克力，结果往往出人意料)
　　2． Stupid is as stupid does. (蠢人做蠢事，也可理解为傻人有傻福)
　　3． Miracles happen every day. (奇迹每天都在发生)
　　4． Jenny and I was like peas and carrots.(我和珍妮形影不离)
　　5． Have you given any thought to your future?(你有没有为将来打算过呢)
　　6． You just stay away from me please.(求你离开我)
　　7． If you are ever in trouble, don’t try to be brave, just run, just run away.(你若遇上麻烦，不要逞强，你就跑，远远跑开)
　　8． It made me look like a duck in water.(它让我如鱼得水)
　　9． Death is just a part of life, something we’re all destined to do.(死亡是生命的一部分，是我们注定要做的一件事)
　　10． I was messed up for a long time.(这些年我一塌糊涂)
　　11． I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental—like on a breeze.(我不懂我们是否有着各自的命运，还是只是到处随风飘荡)  
      12. Why don't you love me, Jenny? I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
为什么你不爱我呢，珍妮？我不是个聪明人，可我知道什么是爱。

2.The Shawshank Redemption

　　1. Lights out! 熄灯!
　　2. Risk goes up, price goes up. 价钱随风险上涨
　　3. Same old shit. 还是老样子
　　4. Put your trust in the Lord, your ass belongs to me.
　　 把信仰寄托给神, 把贱命交给我.
　　5. Man should have a skill. 人人都应有一技之长
　　6. Salvation lies within. 得救之道, 就在其中
　　7. Get busy living or get busy dying.
　　 忙碌着活, 或忙碌着死 (至高哲理)
　　8. Every man has his breaking point. 人的忍耐是有限度的
　　9.You have the right to remain silent. If you give up this right, anything you say can be held against you in court.
　　 你有权保持沉默,但如果你放弃的话,你所说的一切将会成为呈堂证供.
　　10.Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
　　心怀希望是好事, 而且也许是最棒的事. 美好的事物是永远不会消逝的
　　

     1．I guess it comes down to a simple choice: get busy living or get busy dying.
     生活可以归结为一种简单的选择:不是忙于真正的生活,就是一步步地走向死亡。

     2．Fear can hold you prisoner ,hope can set you free. A strong man can save himself, a great   man can save another.
   懦怯囚禁人的灵魂，希望可以令你感受自由。强者自救，圣者渡人。

   3．Prison life consists of routine, and then more routine.
     监狱生活充满了一段又一段的例行公事。 

    4．It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another.
    坚强的人只能救赎自己，伟大的人才能拯救他人。

    Brave heart  勇敢的心
  
   1. WILLIAM WALLACE："Fight, and you may die. Run, and you'll live at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now. Would you be willing to trade? All the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freedom! 　　Freedom——
" 威廉华莱士："是啊，如果战斗，可能会死。如果逃跑，至少还能活。年复一年，直到寿终正寝。你们！愿不愿意用这么多苟活的日子去换一个机会，就一个机会！那就是回来，告诉敌人，他们也许能夺走我们的生命，但是，他们永远夺不走我们的自由！" "我们的自由！！
 
  2.You can take our lives, but you’ll never take our freedom.-"Brave heart"
你可以夺走我们的生命，但你永远也拿不走我们的自由！


   
    The past passed by, The future is not comeing yet, whatever it going to be, All we have is , is this,the present.
      过去的已经过去了,而未来还没有来临,无论以后会怎样,我们所能拥有的,只有这个,现在.

     
      What can we do to treat the culture gap?
      Now we have seen that there exists such a huge gap between eastern culture and western one. Then what should we do to face this gap in the gradually globalizing world?

      Firstly, we cannot deny any of the cultures. Every nation has its own characteristics and it’s mainly through its culture that we first begin to know the nation and its characteristics. So we cannot say that this culture or custom is right and that is wrong. Equal respect should be attached to every culture in the world, even to those that are not in existence any more.

      Next, we should get to learn how to coordinate the different cultures. We say the world is becoming smaller and smaller. More foreigners come and go everyday. When it is in the same country, the same city, the same neighborhood, the cultural collision is expected to be more serious. So we should try to avoid this happening. One important thing is to get some basic knowledge about the other cultures so as not to misunderstand some actions or habits of the foreigners.

      When the above two is done, we can start to communicate. I mean we can take in some strong points from the foreign cultures. Though there doesn’t exist correctness in terms of culture, it does have the terms of more advanced or more suitable for the world nowadays. Of course, we cannot throw away our own culture and accept another one totally. Every culture is a treasure to the history of the Earth, so we should only pick out those we lack to perfect our own.


    Different cultures add the most colorful element to the world of 21st century. The cultural gap should not be the obstacle to the civilization of human being. It ought to be the motivation of our going farther

             some typical example of the differences
   

Section 1: Greeting

Greeting is the first step to form a culture, because people begin to communicate with others. The individuals become a community.

How do we Chinese greet each other? Informally, if we meet an friend in the street, we are used to say: “Hi, have you had your meal?” or “Where are you going?”. When it is the case of two gentlemen, they tend to shake hands.

However, in the western countries, the above questions are just questions, not greeting at all. They may think you’re inviting them to dinner if you ask about their meals. Usually, they’ll just give each other a smile or greet with a “Hi.”. They’ll shake hands only in some formal situations. By the way, Westerners can leave a party or meeting halls without a formal conge, nor should they shake hands with every attendee like most of us will do here.





Section 2: Expressing gratitude

Think of the situations below. Your mother is busy in the kitchen. She suddenly asks you to fetch a bowl for her. You do so. What’ll your mother’s response be? Probably she’ll just continue doing the cooking. After a while, the dinner is ready. Your mother hands you your bowl of rice. What’s your response? Probably just begin to eat.

That’s what I want to say. In Chinese families, we rarely say “Thank you” to other family members for receiving help or service. Neither will we say so between good friends. It’s such an unpopular response that if you say it, the counterpart will think you are treating him as a stranger, otherwise you are lacking of intimacy.

But in the West, "thank you" is one of the most frequently used sentences. Teachers will thank a student for answering a question; husbands will thank his wife for making a coffee.

However, as an interesting phenomenon, it’s a custom to say "thank you" in Japan. No matter in family or among friends, Japanese chronically use it all the day. This is probably the aberrance of the culture.





Section 3 Dining

The ways people eat, that is, the table manner, really distinguish a lot. The reason for this is probably because of the different dining tools and menus.

Easterners use chopsticks, or sometimes even grasp rice straightly with hands as Indians do. The thin and long chopsticks cannot be used to cut food, so we usually use our teeth to act as knives. We hold our food, meat or vegetable, with the chopsticks, send them to the mouths, bite off a part of it and remain the other part on the chopsticks. That’s the usual way we eat. We are also used to hold up our bowls when having rice or soup. Japanese hold bowls to have miso soup without spoons. But all these habits are considered rude in the Western countries.

The etiquette in the West requests that when eating, bowls and plates cannot leave the tables. Food should be cut by knives to fit into the mouths. Of course your mouth cannot touch the plates or bowls. So the regular process is like this. You cut your steak on the plate with fork and knife, send the meat cube into the mouth with fork and nothing will be returned back but the fork alone.





Section 4 Symbolizing

Symbolization is how people imagine or regard something. It actually reflects the way people think. Here I’ll only discuss some symbolization that frequently appears in daily life.

First is about the colors. We often give each color some meanings, because we feel differently when facing different colors. So people always have preference when choosing colors of clothes, decorations, etc. In the APEC summit held in Shanghai several years ago, in the last day, the presidents from all over the world wore the traditional Chinese Dang suits and took a photo together. The colors of the suits were chosen by themselves freely. However, it’s quite interesting to find that most Easterners chose red while most of the westerners preferred blue. To explain this, it’s easy to realize that what red means is almost opposite in the East and the West. Red means luck, fortune here. We Chinese often use this color to decorate in festivals, such as red lanterns, red Chinese nodes, red bangers. But red stands for blood, revolutions in the West. So the presidents avoided wearing this unlucky color.

Another interesting discovery is about the dragons. In the East, dragons are imagined as something like snake and are flowing in the sky for most of the time. The dragon is said to have the face of the horse, the horns of the deer, the ears of the ox, the body of the snake, the claws of the eagle and squama of the fish. We regard dragon as God and say that we Chinese are the offspring of the dragon. The God of Dragons of the four seas can charge the rainfalls, so we sometimes also call them the God of the water or rain. But in the West, people think dragons as dinosaurs, which can stand on the ground with feet and fly with huge wings. They lay eggs just like dinosaurs. The dragons of the West have the ability to erupt fire, instead of water. The fire can destroy everything so the dragons are not welcomed at all. They even become the symbol of the Devil.

   What leads to the cultural difference?
   The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.

   The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River while the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Dang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture gradually went overseas to Japan, mixed into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same system.

   When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain ---- the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also crossed waters. When the colonists of England settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't distinguish from the European one a lot.

   At the same time, the difference of the language systems adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language (see the picture below) while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.

  Other factors like human race difference counts as well. But what’s more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.

                        Love and money
     True love or a truly large bank account, which would you choose? This age-old question comes into again. Love and money,which is more important?The different people have different opinion. In my opinion, true love is not associated with money and love is more important than money.

    Money plays an important role in our everyday life.  With money you can do a lot of things, you will get nice cars, go to some high class restaurants etc. Some say that money is the source of happiness while others hold a negative attitude and regard money as the root of all evils. I think that money can't buy happiness .You don't have the true love even though you have a lot of money. If you only care for more money, he will lose friends, or even the care and warmth from his family. If this happens, money only brings to you loneliness rather than love or happiness.

    No doubt, love is above wealth. Love is what makes you smile when you 're tired. Love is hugging. love is kissing. love is saying no. It’s the motive power of life.Can you imagine how terrible it is without love? Don't pursue wealth so hard without paying any attention to cultivate the love between people. Don’t know the value of love until they lose it.   

  爱情与金钱(Love or money)
  The story means many people show more important to money than love.
    Here is the story:
    An elderly man on the beach found a magic lamp. He picked it up and a genie appeared. "Because you have freed me," the genie said. "I will grand you a wish."
    The man thought for a moment and then responded, "my brother and I had a fight 30 years ago and he hasn't spoken to me since. I wish that he'll finally forgive me."
    There was thunderclap, and the genie declared, "Your wish has been granted, You know, " the genie continued, "most men would have asked for wealth or fame. But you only wanted the love of your brother. Is it because you are old and dying? "
    "No way! " the man cried. "But my brother is, and he's worth about 60 million."

                    Smoking is harmful to health
       As we all know,smoking does great harmful to people's health, but it is said that there are about half of people now in China are smoking ,even the middle school students. I think we should realize how serious this problem is.
       Smoking is harmful. First of all,thererare some harmful subsrances in cigarettes,such as chemical substances,nicotine,tar and so on.These substances are all bad for our bodys.Secondly,Smoking causes many illnesses.The most serious illness caused by smoking is lung cancer.And a lot of people always cough because of smoking.Lastly, smoking is not only bad for smokers themselves, but also bad for non-smokers.In addition, smoking is a waste of money and
may cause dangerous fires.
      In order to keep our healthy,I hope that all the smokers can give up the bad habit of smoking for themselves and also for the people around them. People should stop smoking at once.