Description of People
美文欣赏（Enjoy Reading）
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.
常用表达
1.年龄（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. 2. 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 • face:
• round; thin; long; square
e.g. She eats too much these days , so her face is getting round . • hair:
• (1) hair style :
• straight; curly; pigtails; crew cut; bald
e.g. Her hair is brown and curly. 她有着一头棕色而卷曲的头发。 • (2) hair color :
• jet-black 乌黑的; fair 金色的; blonde 淡黄色的; dyed 染色的; brunette 浅
黑色的; mousey 灰褐色的; chestnut 栗色的.
(1) Eye :
• deep-set 深陷的; sunken 凹陷的; bulging/protruding 凸出的; eyelashes 睫
毛; eyebrows 眉毛.
• A. His eyes are deep-set because he has worked till midnight for a long time. (2) nose:
• long; straight; big; small; flat; hooked 钩状的. e.g. He was born a hooked nose. 他天生是鹰钩鼻。 (3) mouth:
• tooth; even; uneven 不整齐的; chin e.g. When he laughs, we see his even teeth.
• 当他笑的时候，我们看见他有一口整齐的牙齿。 • dress:
• smart 潇洒的; scruffy 邋遢的； well-dressed 衣着华丽的; casual 随便的;
conservative 不显眼的; elegant 优雅的; fashionable 时髦的; suave 文雅的; untidy 不整洁的.
e.g. He looks casual just wearing a tweed suit.
• 他穿了一件花格子衬衫，看上去很随便。
4. 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 .(不合英语习惯) I‘m 1.76 meters high.（身高不宜用high）
5. 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. Something in detail
举例法（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. 写作练习
李涛是我校年轻的老教师。他被看作是老教师，是因为他教化学课已经有20年了。说他年轻，因为他今年还不过38岁。 他长得较瘦。头上头发不多，灰白了。他戴着深度眼镜，牙齿又缺了2颗。所以他看上去比他实际年龄要大。他说，在公共汽车上常常有人给他让座。事实上。我曾看见他不止一次地给怀抱婴儿的妇女让过座。只要听一听他的化学课——那课又生动又有趣，你就会发现他真正的年龄。
参考范文
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. 口语味浓:
I looked at him. He was thin, short and dark. His hair was like a bundle of straw. His dirty clothes and tired look were clearly signs of a long travel. His clothes were made of cheap cloth. The coat was too short and the trousers too loose. And he wore a pair of rubber shoes, which were very unfashionable. He did not look like a smart freshman at all. ―A yokel, ― I concluded. Refined version
• I saw, with a feeling of dislike, a skinny, tatty, dark-skinned boy. His bushy,
tousled hair, filthy clothes and weary look all suggested a long journey. His clothes were cheap and shabby, and his trousers baggy and faded. His horribly dowdy rubber shoes indicated a dull cheerless freshman. The boy‘s appearance clearly spelled ―yokel‖ to me.
I had a glimpse at him: thin, short as well as dark, with hair like a bundle of straw, dirty clothes made of cheap cloth and a tired look, he must have just finished a long journey; short coat, loose trousers and a pair of rubber shoes distanced him from the smart circle. ―A yokel,‖ I concluded.
• Whisper • 耳语 • Murmur • 低语, 咕哝, 低沉连续的声音 • Grumble • 嘟哝／发牢骚，抱怨 • Stutter • 结结巴巴 • Shout • 呼喊 • Chatter • 喋喋不休 • Bellow • 怒吼，咆哮 • Blurt • 脱口而出 • Mutter • 咕哝，嘀咕 • Jabber • 快而含糊地说，吱吱喳喳地叫 • exclaim • 因吃惊，生气或兴奋而突然大声说出 More words to mean ―say‖ • advise, assert, claim, add, conclude, allege, blurt, confirm, expound, boast,
elaborate, express, chatter, crow, growl, impart, jabber, recount, reiterate, stress, observe, remark, suggest, mumble, utter, insist, reason, report, warn • Learn to accumulate specific words to describe actions, feelings, sceneries and
so on.
