儿子素描

Henry Song

2008.8.28

老大上初中了.这个星期开学以来,拿回来不少学校需要签字的文件,也开始了初中生的第一批作业.不过这些作业里面,也少不了家长的份.譬如,昨天就拿回一份作业,是要家长做的,要求家长描绘一下自己的孩子.这位老师真聪明,一个班上将近三十个学生,不可能迅速了解每个孩子,况且中学里学生不再象在小学那样有固定的教室,而是要按学科不同到不同的教室听不同老师的讲课,老师和学生真正在一起的时间不外乎上课的四十几分钟,所以,要想尽快了解自己学生的情况,尤其是学校之外的情况,没有比让学生的家长写一份介绍更便捷了.

得,晚上儿子睡觉了,我还得赶紧静下心来做作业.一提到儿子,作为父母其实总有说不完的话,所以聪明的老师规定不能超过一千字,而给的那张纸,五百字都装不下,感情早就料到了河水会泛滥,先筑了大坝.只好去繁就简,择其重点,把肖像画变成速写了.写完,觉得比速写好象还是多一些细节的,戏称为素描吧.

下面是我的原文,后附中文翻译,供朋友们一乐.

Alex is an active kid. He loves sports, basketball, skiing, swimming, Taekowndo, to name a few. He started practicing Taekowndo at five years old, and has won many medals at various competitions.  He can swim hardly with any stop for one and half hour.  But his most favorite sport is basketball, which he enjoys both playing with his brother at home and with a team at school.

As active as he is with seemingly unlimited energy, he can also be very quiet once having a book in his hands.  He is an avid reader with a very inquisitive mind.  Reading has always been his biggest hobby every since when he could form a word out of letters.

Alex has a big heart and an easy going character.  He would wake up early in the morning to cook a creative breakfast for his mom on a Mother’s Day. He can also try to sooth a crying baby by buying him a candy from a vending machine. He can easily make friends wherever he goes.

Being a boy of his age, he can also be mischievous, sometimes to the point of irritating. As hard as he may have tried to behave well in classes and at home, sometimes the urge to play simply overwhelms his self control. His carelessness may also lead him to make the most unthinkable mistakes with his homework.  But we believe he can make improvements and become more mature as he goes along with his life in middle school.

Above all, Alex is always a darling little boy to us, and a loving companion to his little brother Brian.

艾利克斯是个活跃的孩子.他喜爱运动,譬如篮球,滑雪,游泳,台拳道等等.他从五岁便开始练习台拳道,曾在各种比赛中获得很多奖牌.游泳时,他可以几乎不停地连续游一个半小时.不过他最喜爱的运动是篮球,无论是在家和弟弟一起或是在学校的篮球队里玩,他都很喜欢.

尽管他很活跃,似乎精力无穷,可一旦手上拿了一本书,他会变得非常安静.他求知心强,酷爱读书.自从可以将字母拼成单词以来,阅读一直是他最大的爱好.

艾利克斯心胸开阔,性格随和.他可以在母亲节早早起床,为母亲做一份创意早餐,他也可以为了安慰一个哭泣的孩子,给他从投币机里买一颗糖果.无论走到哪里,他都可以轻松地交到朋友.

作为他这样年龄的孩子,他也很玩皮,有时达到恼人的地步.尽管他努力在课堂和家里做到规规矩矩,但游乐的冲动有时会冲垮他的自制.他的粗心大意也会让他在做作业时犯一些最不可思议的错误.不过,我们相信,随着中学生活的开展,他会进步,变得更加成熟.

这一切之上, 艾利克斯永远是我们可爱的小男孩,也是他弟弟充满爱心的伙伴.