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　　Although Princeton, New Jersey, has a world-famous university, it is still a small quiet town. It is not a place where anyone would expect to see strange characters on the street. That is why one woman will never forget the day in 1940 when, as a child, she suddenly saw a funny-looking man coming towards her. “I remember,” she tells her children now, “how wild his white hair looked---as if it had been electrified. He was short. His clothes seemed to be just pulled on to keep him covered, like a blanket to keep one warm. He had a big nose, a short, thick moustache, and deep-set eyes. He was staring, thinking. He almost knocked me down before he saw me. He gave me a friendly smile, then he walked on and went on thinking. I noticed he had on bedroom slippers. He had forgotten to put on his shoes. He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairy tales and had passed me like a spirit. That night at dinner when I told my family about the strange, funny man I had seen, my father put down his knife and fork, looked at me and said,‘My child, remember this. Today you saw the greatest man in the world!’”

　　That man was Elbert Einstein. How and why he had come to Princeton, New Jersey is a story of struggle, success, and sadness.

　　曾经诵记过不少老高中教材的英文片段，这是留下非常深刻记忆的其中一段。想想看，应该有两个原因：一是当时的教材中的确缺少这样描写人物的材料，二是这一段的确写得很精彩，以至于每每看到爱因斯坦的画像时总想起这段描写，而背读起这段文字时眼前又总是浮现出爱因斯坦的形象。这或许就是我们常常说到的“形象生动”、“栩栩如生”吧。

　　文段边忆边叙，为我们刻画了一位大鼻深眼、短须乱发、衣着随意、不修边幅的人物形象，而他竟然是大名鼎鼎的爱因斯坦，也难怪He was staring, thinking。

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　　1.性别与婚姻（Sex & Marriage）

　　I’m a man of forty and have a 9-year-old daughter.

　　She got married in 1980 and now she has been married for more than 20 years.

　　I’ m 35 ,male and unmarried.

　　I got married five years ago but now I’m single.

　　2.年龄（Age）

　　He was born in 1995 and is eight years old now.

　　Born in 1985,he is now an 18-year-old student, studying in a university.

　　He began to make a living at the age of 14/at an early age.

　　In his fifties, he began to feel his age .

　　By the age of 14, he had set up a chemistry lab of his own.3.外貌特征（Appearance）

　　She is a lovely girl, with a round face, big eyes, white teeth and long waving hair.

　　He is thin, tall and wearing a pair of thick glasses.

　　He is a good-looking/funny-looking man, with a thick moustache but no hair left.

　　He is a tall man, with blue eyes and blond hair. deep-set eyes ,big bright eyes, long straight nose,

　　brown curling hair, broad shoulders,4.身高（Height）He is 1.76 meters tall.

　　He is 176 centimeters tall.

　　He is 176 centimeters in height.

　　The boy is not tall enough to reach the apple overhead.

　　He is really a tall man, about 1.98 meters in height.

　　My height is 1.76 metres .(不合英语习惯)

　　I’m 1.76 meters high.（身高不宜用high）5.健康状况（Health）Well looked after, the children look healthy.