放风筝

春天来了，春回大地，万物复苏，柳绿花红，春风浮面，又到了放风筝的季节。

spring comes, spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, willows and flowers, spring breeze floats, and kite flying season comes.

星期六下午，风和日丽，我和妈妈一起到江边去放风筝，那里的天空真够热闹的，天上的风筝就像天上的繁星数不清。有“蝴蝶”、“小蜜蜂”、“老鹰”、“飞机”……大大小小的风筝高高低低把江边的上空点缀得色彩斑斓，美丽极了。

on saturday afternoon, it was sunny. my mother and i went to fly kites by the river. the sky there was so lively. the kites in the sky were like countless stars in the sky. there are butterflies, bees, eagles, airplanes big and small kites, high and low, decorate the sky over the river with colorful, beautiful.

我和妈妈把我们的风筝放上了天，当我一回头的时候，我发现了一位鹤发童颜、精神矍铄的老爷爷正准备放一条“巨龙”风筝，这条“龙”风筝大约有八十米长，只龙头就有十多斤重，放风筝的线大约有小手指粗，线轴也有十几斤重，这样的风筝是怎样飞起来的呢？我和妈妈很好奇。我一边放自己的风筝一边仔细地观察这位老爷爷的一举一动。

my mother and i flew our kites to the sky. when i looked back, i found a crane haired, hale and hearty grandfather who was going to fly a "dragon" kite. the kite was about 80 meters long, with only a dragon head weighing more than ten kilograms. the kite flying line was about a little finger thick, and the spool also weighing more than ten kilograms. how did such a kite fly ？ mom and i are curious. as i fly my own kite, i watch the grandpa's every move carefully.

只见老爷爷熟练地把这条巨龙在沙滩上摆好，他把风筝轴上的线导下来一段放在地上，再把远离风筝的一端的线系在沙滩上的一根很粗的钢缆上，接着把这段导下来的线放飞，就这样老爷爷导下来一段线就放飞一段，只有一袋烟的工夫这条巨龙就飞上了几百米的高空，它在江边劲风的吹拂下翩翩起舞，摇头摆尾，还不时地眨眼皮儿，简直就像活的一样，仿佛就是天上、海里叱咤风云、迎风斗浪的一条赤色长龙飞到了这长江上空，好看极了、壮观极了。这为江边又增添了一道亮丽的风景。

i saw grandpa skillfully put the dragon on the beach. he guided the line on the kite shaft to the ground, tied the line far away from the kite to a very thick steel cable on the beach, and then let the line fly. so grandpa guided the next line and let it fly for a while. only a bag of cigarettes made the dragon fly hundreds of meters high empty, it is dancing under the strong wind along the river, shaking its head and tail, and blinking its eyelids from time to time. it's just like living. it's like a long red dragon flying over the yangtze river in the sky, the sea and the wind. it's very beautiful and spectacular. this adds a beautiful scenery to the riverside.

春天真美丽呀，我爱美丽的春天！我更爱那些用自己勤劳的双手、睿智的大脑创造美好生活的人。

spring is so beautiful, i love beautiful spring! i love those who create a better life with their hard-working hands and wise brains.