事件描写（Describing Something That Happened）美文欣赏
It happened to be a beautiful summer afternoon, and Mr. Phillip
was taking a walk in the downtown area of Paris, capital of France.
When he turned to a street corner, he heard the voice of a lovely French singer coming from a nearby restaurant. The sweet music attracted him, so he went into the restaurant to hear it better.
Mr. Phillip sat down quietly at a table near the door. Noticing the waiter come over, he ordered a glass of French wine’
The waiter returned with the glass of wine and put it on the table. Mr. Phillip started drinking the wine slowly and watched the other people in the restaurant.
There were three customers sitting at a table near him. He could tell by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man was a funny-looking stranger. The polite waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a fly in it.
Out of curiosity(好奇心), Mr. Phillip watched carefully what they were going to do. To his amusement, he found that each of them took quite a different attitude. The American picked up his glass, took a hard look at the fly, and then poured the fly and half of his beer on the floor. The Englishman looked into the glass, noticed the fly and reached for a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer and drank the rest of it. And the stranger noticed the fly in the beer, picked it with his fingers, squeezed(捏紧)it carefully in order to save every drop of the beer, and then drank it up. 这篇228字的短文讲述了一个带有滑稽色彩的小故事，在轻松的一笑之后，我们还应该看到它具有典型的“事件描写”特征:
Who--Mr. Phillip and the other three;
When---a beautiful summer afternoon; Where---a restaurant in Paris;
What---something funny;
How---Mr. Phillip watched the three drinking beer.
其次，我们应该注意短文中用了基本上不重复的34个动词和8个非谓语动词，使得整个事件动静结合，可读性强。
同时，作者在描述三人对同一事件的处理上也各有不同，颇有民族特色。
另外，短文的结尾干净利落，出乎意料，令人忍俊不禁的同时又很想知道：第三人是哪国人？
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常用表达法
1. 写作技巧
1）叙述完整5个W（5 Ws）:
Who, What, When, Where, How,(Why)
2）描写生动3要点（Vivid description）:
Using different verbs;
Using verbs;
Using proper prepositions.
3）写好开头与结尾（A good beginning and a good ending）
A good beginning---引人入胜
A good ending ---回味良久4）时态语态要贴切（Good tenses and proper voices）
2. 表达技巧
1)用好过渡词，使文章前后连贯
(1) 表示时间过程的：
now, then, afterwards, five minutes later, soon, before long, after supper, to this day, just now, just then
（2）表示前因后果的：
because, because of, since, thanks to, so, as a result, thus ,therefore, luckily, unfortunately
（3）表示同等并列的：
and, also, as well as, and then
（4）表示解释说明的：
that is to say, for example, and so on, such as, according to, for this reason
2)把握两个原则，用好不同时态
（1）“一致”的原则：在同一时段中的动作、状态等应该用同一种时态，形成一种并列结构。
误：He had gone to the market, buys some flowers and then returned home.