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回答: 学习笔记千与.千寻2011-05-12 10:12:54

文青的修改在下基本同意。 补充一些, 见笑了。

I hope our love is also perennial and lasting forever and ever (long-lasting or lasts forever).

My love affair with flowers is not that sweet or tender (kind of awkward, but I am not sure how to change it without fully knowing what you mean), because I'm forced to do all the planting and watering in the garden. My hubby loves flowers and trees,(;) however, he has no time to take care of them. Until last evening had I realied that I forgot watering (last night I suddenly realized that I had not watered; or if you want a more complicated sentence structure, what this: it was not until last night that I realized that ...)our "new guinea impatiens" which was hung at the front porch for days.Saw their leaves dropped and flowers withered, I felt very sorry heartedly (my heart sank).

I gently unhooked the flower pot and put it on the floor of front porch, watered it with Miracle Gro and planty of liquid (water). But I didn't expect to see any miracles, I thought it's dying.

This morning I looked out of the window, surprisedly to find (see) our "new guinea impatiens" come back (coming back, or alive again) 

!! Is that amazing? Only one night, the stems straighten up again (are standing strong)

 and the leaves radiate vivid glow! Wow, what a renewed spirit in this plant?!

Thank (thanks to, or I thank) Becky for sharing this beaufilu writing with us today! And I also learned some names of the flowers: phlox, sweet williams, jonney jump-ups and candytuft.

Thanks again and have a great Thursday!

 

PS: I recommend a good book for writing clear English: The elements of style by William Strunk and E.B. White. The book is widely available. A google search will turn up many links.

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跟京北握一下手! -非文学青年- 给 非文学青年 发送悄悄话 非文学青年 的博客首页 (3133 bytes) () 05/12/2011 postreply 12:30:53

呵呵。 说起那个 ”not until" 的句子, 是不是要说: -jingbeiboy- 给 jingbeiboy 发送悄悄话 (49 bytes) () 05/12/2011 postreply 17:22:53

right, right. -非文学青年- 给 非文学青年 发送悄悄话 非文学青年 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/12/2011 postreply 18:03:12

谢谢二位,我会整理一下你们的修改建议! -千与.千寻- 给 千与.千寻 发送悄悄话 千与.千寻 的博客首页 (83 bytes) () 05/13/2011 postreply 08:10:47

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