英语四级A.ppt

;l ve;A faint heart never won a fair lady. Love is the mother of love. Love that is forced does not last. ;;Some expressions about love:;love affair lovelorn/ be crossed in love break up blind date a dear John letter Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. ;Saint Valentine’s Day（圣瓦伦西节）;An Origin of Valentine;It happened in Rome in the third century.;People don’t like him and don’t want to join the army. ;He orders that no one can get married in his kingdom, or they will be dead.;Valentine is caught and sent to the jail.;Valentine Traditions ;Chinese Valentine’s Day ;Words about Chinese Valentine’s Day;; Long long time ago, there was a good-looking poor orphaned boy. The boy owned an old ox. He needed to work on the farms field with the ox everyday. So he was called a cowherd. ; The ox was actually an immortal from the Heaven. He made mistakes in the Heaven and was punished as an ox in the Earth. One day, the ox suddenly said to the cowherd, You are a nice person. If you want to get married, go to the brook and your wish will become true. ;The cowherd went to the brook and saw all 7 pretty daughters of Emperor came down from Heaven and took a bath in there. Fascinated by the youngest and also the most beautiful one, he took away her fairy clothes secretly. The other six fairies went away after bath. The youngest couldnt fly back without her fairy clothes. ;Then the cowherd appeared and told her that he would not return her clothes unless she promised to be his wife. After a little hesitation and with a mixture of shyness and eagerness, she agreed to the request from this handsome man. So they married and had two children two years later.;The Emperor found the skys not that beautiful as before without the 7th daughter weaving clouds and rainbows. He wanted his daughters mother to find the missing daughter and to bring her back. While the 7th princess was flying to the Heaven with her grandmother, the cowboy wore the ox hide, took his children in two bamboo ba