我所试图描述的外在风景或许多少像一面镜子

Exercise 1.我所试图描述的外在风景或许多少像一面镜子，危险在于作者是否能从中看到自己。

说到写作，其实更主要是来自内部的动力，这种动力神秘而难以言传，往往要回溯到一个人的童年时代——在那遥远的经验深处，诸多潜因盘根错节，任何描述都会是徒劳的。

然而，我还是想举两个例子。

Maybe the external landscape I’m trying to describe is more or less like a mirror. The danger lies in whether an author can find himself in it. With regard to writing, actually it derives from an interior motivating force, which is mysterious and beyond description. It can often be traced back to one’s childhood——in those far-away depth of experiences, various latent factors interwoven, any description is of no avail. However, I still want to make two examples.我父亲喜欢买书，但放在书架上的书有限，属于“正统”一类；而大多数属于“禁书”一类，都存放在我家过道顶上的阁楼里。

从小那阁楼就让我着迷，我把椅子摞起来，偷“禁书”读，在父亲下班前再把书放回去。

由于在层层摞起的椅子上站不稳，我常常摔得鼻青脸肿。

我早年的阅读，就有正与反、公开与隐秘之分，并处在晦暗不明的光线中，外加疼痛感。

后来的写作显然与这种阅读经验有关。

My dad had a penchant for buying books. But there was a limited number of so-ca lled “orthodox” books put in the bookcase. Most of the books, which belong to the “forbidden” category, were kept in the attic up the corridor. I was fascinated bythat attic since childhood. By stacking up the chairs, I often climbed into the attic and stole “forbidden”books to read, then returned them back before dad went off from work. Since those stacking-up chairs are very shaky, I usually fell from them with a bloody nose and swollen face. Thus my early reading has a distinction between positive and negative, overt and covert. It lies in dark and gloomy light with a streak of pain. Later my writing obviously has something to do with this reading experience.父亲让我从小背中国古典诗词，这本来是中国传统教育的一部分。

我当时恨透了这种方式，无奈，只能顺从。

很多年后，当我成为诗人，才悟出其中让我终身受益的道理：正是背诵，让文字连同音乐性一起渗入血液中，穿透理解上的障碍，在生命过程中时不时照亮你自己。

Ever since a kid, my dad asked me to recite classical Chinese poetry, it originally should be a part of Chinese traditional education, but I had a bitter hatred toward it. I had no choice but to be obedient. Many years later, after becoming a poet, I started to grasp the truth that benefits all my life. It is recital that links words with musicality, and makes it filtering into blood, overcoming the barriers in understanding, while lightening you in the process of life from time to time.写作与生命，于我，有一种平行交错的关系。

当我的个人生活处于危机中，往往是诗歌离我最近，有时带着历史的愁容，听我倾诉，帮我渡过一个个难关，让我在艰难的时刻感到温暖。

To me, writing and life are parallel, sometimes they have something in common. When my personal life is in a crisis, poetry is often the nearest one next to me. With a forlorn look of history, it listens to my innermost feeling, helps me to overcome one difficulty after another and makes me feel warm in hard times.Exercise 2.人民代表大会制度是中国共产党带领全国各族人民经过长期奋斗和实践探索而建立和发展起来的，体现了国家一切权力属于人民，体现了中国共产党的领导地位和执政地位，体现了我国社会主义国家性质。

没有党的领导，人民代表大会制度就不复存在；没有党的领导，人民代表大会制度的优势就无从谈起。

在这个重大原则问题上，我们的头脑要清醒，立场要坚定, 旗帜要鲜明，绝不能有丝毫动摇。

The system of people's congress is established and developed by the age-long struggle and practical exploration of the people of all ethnic groups in the country under the leadership of Communist Party of China (CPC). It embodies that all power belongs to people, embodies the leadership and ruling position of CPC, the socialist nature of our country. Without the leadership of CPC, the system of people's congress will no longer exist；without the leadership of CPC, the system of people's congress will lose its advantage. In this important fundamental issue, we should retain a clear mind, take a steady stand and hold a clear-cut banner. There should never be a wavering from this principle.中国共产党是中国特色社会主义事业的领导核心，党的领导只能加强不能削弱。

中国是一个有５６个民族的发展中大国，经济要发展，政治要稳定，文化要繁荣，社会要和谐，民族要团结，老百姓要过上好日子，没有一个坚强的领导核心是不行的。

在这个问题上，小平同志讲得很明确也很透彻。

他说：“中国由共产党领导，中国的社会主义现代化建设事业由共产党领导，这个原则是不能动摇的；动摇了中国就要倒退到分裂和混乱，就不可能实现现代化。

”这一重要论断，进一步增强了我们坚持党的领导的自觉性和坚定性，增强了坚持走中国特色社会主义政治道路的自觉性和坚定性，增强了坚持和完善人民代表大会制度的自觉性和坚定性。

CPC is the leading core of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The leadership of the Party could only be strengthened, not weakened. China is a big developing country with 56 nationalities. We need a strong leading core to develop the economy, to stabilize the politics, to make a prosperous culture, to build a harmonious society and to make people live a well-off life. Comrade Deng Xiaoping also made a clear and thorough point in this: "China and its socialist modernization must be led by the CPC. There can be no wavering from this principle. Without it China would regress and become divided and chaotic, and modernization would become impossible." We have therefore become more purposeful and resolute in upholding the Party's leadership, in keeping to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and in adhering to and improving the system of people's congress.Essay：Different languages have different characteristics. Since Chinese and English belong to two different language families, the differences between them are especially remarkable. But if we are concerned with literary works, this remarkableness reaches a maximum height. The piece written by Beidao tends to be rather literary, and it is a li ttle bit vague. When he describes something, he doesn’t write it in a direct way. More often than not, he uses a very obscure language style. When I read it, I can grasp the meaning that he wants to convey. If someone asks me to generalize its main idea, m aybe I can also do that. While in this process, the words, or we can call it “scene”, lose its unique beauty. Y ou need to feel it by yourself, there do exist lots of things that are beyond description and can only be sensed. This problem is also common in translation, especially the E-C translation. Since Chinese is a very flexible language, there are lots of different ways to express one meaning, it becomes a big challenge for us to translate those subtle Chinese into English, which is far less tricky than Chinese.In this writing, there is abundant of such subtle sentences, such as“我所试图描述的外在风景或许多少像一面镜子，危险在于作者是否能从中看到自己”。