【写作练习】My personal experience.（超级显摆贴，不喜勿入）

        最近，一直坚持练习每日一句话翻译，发现自己的写作能力明显提高，居然自发地写了第一篇英语小文。而且天天在MYSJ灌水，交流能力大涨。有BSO之嫌，不喜勿入。(The writing is upgraded with rockcurrent, Lucidus,二姐，文青，泡泡，愚公等朋友的宝贵建议。Especially thank to rockcurrent and 文青班主, who upgraded my middle school level writing into a graduate level one.非常感谢！谢谢所有朋友的跟贴支持，非常感动。）

     I was very lucky to be selected from my group to join a conference hosted by our company headquarter last week.  
     After getting my badge，I went into the ballroom for lunch, where a couple of hundred people were sitting. Seeing a table with fewer people in the center of the room，I asked，"May I sit here?"   "Of course!"  Everybody around the table shook hands with me and we introduced each other. Suddenly, I realized that all of them were at the director level in our company. As I did not think it would be polite or wise to leave the table, I said," Wow, I am sitting at the leaders' table!"  Everybody laughed and we started chatting friendly.  
     The director sitting next to me, who came from Connecticut, found my picture in the brochure of attendees and exclaimed, "Oh, your picture looks better than mine!"   Then I asked him to show me his picture, and I said "Wow, you look much better than your picture!"    Everybody at the table laughed out loudly.   
    "How come that picture was there? Why did not you put a better looking one？" I kept asking.     
    "Well, " he said, "my wife chose this picture and it was not under my control."   
    "hahaha......" everybody laughed again.
       
     In the afternoon, we had a meeting during which the CEO started asking our opinions regarding our specialty. I raised my hand，and answered with my strong Chinese accent,  "A @@@@@ is a “driver” who makes the @@@@ run and …..” (For privacy, omitted….words)   
     The CEO was so satisfied with my answer of“driver”  that thereafter whenever he talked about any concept in my specialty about "driver", he always pointed at me (even though I changed my dress everyday) among the 200 people (East Asian less than 5%) in the ballroom.  I remembered on the third day of the meeting, when I was chatting with Wenqing on my cell phone about the game (space survival exercise) I posted on MYSJ, the CEO mentioned  this concept again.  Of course, at that time, I was not paying much attention to his lecture.  When another attendee besides me patted my back to remind me，I lifted my head and noticed both the CEO and president were pointing at me.
      During the afternoon break,  when I was picking up an ice-cream, the president in our company happened to stand right next to me. He said, "En, low-calorie ice cream."   Wondering what my answer was?    I did not know how come I was so brave（maybe I flooded the forum MYSJ with posts too much？）and said，" I do not care about calories." 
      "Oh, you do not need to." Both of us laughed. 
 
      The above was my personal experience last week. A lady, with（文班，这里我保留后两个with是为了看起来像with的平行结构，可行否？） a strong Chinese accent, with enthusiasm to her career, with increasing communication skills through flooding the forum MYSJ with posts daily, is more and more confident in front of all kinds of people, no matter they are the CEO, the president or directors....
 
P.S.   My sincere suggestion,  "Do you want to improve your communication skills? Please come to the forum MYSJ and keep flooding it with posts everyday!"

所有跟帖： 

• Good for you. -北京二号- ♀ (458 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:07:52

• 本人英语还不到家，没懂。water是风水的水？哈哈。any better word for 灌水？ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:11:02

• Or maybe flood the forum, feed the forum... -浮上来冒个小泡- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:43:48

• Good idea. -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:48:50

• 谢谢泡泡的灌水好词儿！改！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:10:37

• 哈哈,换上flood还是怪怪的.我换了几种表达方式,仅供参考. -浮上来冒个小泡- ♀ (795 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:50:43

• 你觉得feed更好？spawn似乎没把灌水的神韵表达出来。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:54:23

• 只是觉得 flood 应该加 with sth.灌水的神韵可不容易表达.:-) -浮上来冒个小泡- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:56:28

• flood with water似乎重复了。刚都改成feed了。谢谢泡泡！！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:57:38

• 似乎flood forum with post听着挺棒的！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:59:33

• 另,是google出来的. -浮上来冒个小泡- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:52:06

• Excellent writing!!! -Lucidus- ♂ (18006 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:18:51

• Wow，谢谢明星的鼓励！！ 公司总部。Ok,fewer people。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (85 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:22:50

• 回复： -Lucidus- ♂ (18124 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:28:24

• 谢谢明星的好建议！现在改！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:12:11

• Great fun reading it! Love it! -非文学青年- ♀ (393 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 09:50:12

• 哈哈。高兴你喜欢。知道那天我为什么用英语给你QQH了吧。还给你个冠军来着。嗯，改。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (47 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:15:00

• 回复：【写作练习】My personal experience.（超级显摆贴，不喜勿入） -rockcurrent- ♀ (3829 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 10:29:59

• OMG，you rocks！！！一下子把俺的中学生英语作文upgraded成研究生水平了。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (240 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:25:12

• 两点疑问。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (476 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 16:03:00

• 回复：两点疑问。 -rockcurrent- ♀ (710 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 16:45:43

• 谢谢高手解答！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 17:28:50

• 赞美风的 confidence!!! -NewVoice- ♀ (1041 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 11:14:52

• Wow，新声姐，你的评价太让我感动了。 我没你说的那么好，只是脸皮比较厚而已。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (135 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:33:40

• quick wits and power of repartee -走马读人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:40:15

• 谢谢走马！！又和你学了一个词：repartee！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 14:43:46

• 美风， 真为你高兴！ -同学小薇- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 18:06:39

• 谢谢小薇！这当然是和你还有大家的帮助分不开的。怎么样， -beautifulwind- ♀ (555 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 18:23:19

• 美风,自从上这个坛,我在工作中也比以前confident了 -同学小薇- ♀ (105 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 18:32:56

• 好，握抓握爪，多灌多灌！俺比较能蛊惑人心。性情中人，当不了领导。hahaha。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 18:36:07

• 被你感染，以后也学着写写 -yy888- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 18:49:16

• 谢谢园园支持！这是因为每天一句汉译英的功劳。积少成多。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (69 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 19:04:45

• Wonderful writing, interesting story! I'm impressed. -EnLearner- ♀ (213 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 18:58:53

• 谢谢愚公！这是rockcurrent高手upgraded之后的，所以水平成研究生水平了。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (303 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 19:12:36

• Good for you. Way to go! -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2011 postreply 19:22:09

• 写得生动。 -斯葭- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 06:07:03

• 谢谢斑竹，你看，我总以实际行动支持美坛。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 08:04:22

• 美风MM写的真不错，职场的表现更棒哦！赞一个！＾＿＾ -toast2011- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 08:25:33

• 哈哈，现在这版是被大家改过的。我在单位确实谁都不触的--胆比较大。等ToToMM的佳作， -beautifulwind- ♀ (158 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 08:36:12

• 不入怎么知道喜不喜欢呢，哈哈哈。写得好！ -惠兰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 10:40:18

• 这是高手们改过的。哈哈，没办法，俺这人总爱瞎显摆。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 12:00:50

• 佩服美风的学习精神。写的太棒了。大赞一个:) -不会飞的鱼- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 12:18:39

• 谢谢飞鱼百忙中光临。这是被高手改过的。哪是学习精神，俺最讨厌学习了。是灌水精神。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 12:46:55

• 超级仰慕中。。。。 -金迷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 16:52:13

• 哈哈，金帝，好久不见，很想你哈！你仰慕啥涅？俺可以教你呀。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (201 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 17:08:36

• 没介网，只是有点懒，学不动了 -金迷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/21/2011 postreply 08:52:36

• 为啥？金帝刚换了工作，应该更有动力学新的啊？ -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/21/2011 postreply 09:06:10

• 那就从一句话翻译做起吧。不费时间，但非常非常学东西。一起学900句这么长时间，都是老朋友了。肺腑之言。对平常的交流也很有帮助。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (147 bytes) () 10/21/2011 postreply 09:06:19

• 跟你这么好，不再给点砖不过瘾。 -非文学青年- ♀ (5759 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 22:28:02

• Wow,文班终于出手了！都是钻石砖！太太太感谢了！我现在就改！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 22:37:46

• 哦，还有一个砖，有一个CEO前面没加the， -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 22:50:49

• 谢谢，现在加上了。后面两个with我想保留，是为了像平行结构，可行否？ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2011 postreply 23:16:04

• 可以。 -非文学青年- ♀ (41 bytes) () 10/21/2011 postreply 08:28:11