七年级上英语作文10篇【精彩20篇】

Everyone should go to school, of course, each person has their own ideal school. The ideal school does, indeed, than it is now for one hundred times.

Is my ideal school has a air conditioner in every classroom. In this way, students can study in a comfortable environment. The students will also develop the interest of reading.

Next, the school prepare a laptop to the students. So, every student have their own laptops, not with the students of class and dont share. Moreover, schools dont have to set up the computer room, directly on computers in the classroom.

In addition, the school has two shades of the swimming pool. "Swimming pool for advanced learning swimming, shallow to lower grades. The school can also hold swimming test every three months. So students can the drowning man, when he fell into the water can save his life.

Finally, set up the indoor basketball courts, badminton and table tennis games. Then, the volleyball court and football field set to outdoor. Physical education, students can respectively to want to go to the stadium.

This is my ideal school. Hope I can study in this school.

每个人都应该上学，当然每人都有自己理想中的学校。而理想中的学校确实比现在的学校好几百倍。

我理想中的学校就是每间课室都有冷气机。这样，学生们就可以在舒适的环境下学习。学生们也会培养读书的兴趣。

接下来，校方准备手提电脑给学生们。那么，每位学生就有属于自己的手提电脑了，并不用与别班的学生共用了。而且，学校便不用设立电脑室了，直接在课室里上电脑课就好了。

除此之外，学校拥有两个分别深浅的游泳池。申的游泳池给高年级学习游泳，浅的则给低年级。校方还可以每三个月举办游泳测试。这样学生就那些溺水的人，当自己跌入水中时还可以自救。

最后，设立室内篮球场，羽毛球场和乒乓球场。接着，再把排球场和足球场设为室外。体育课时，学生们可以各自到想去的球场。

这就是我理想中学校的要求。希望能在这所学校求学。

There are many funny places in ourSchool. For example, the football

playground, the classroom, the experiment room. But my favorite place is

school’s reading-room. Our school’s reading-room is very big and bright. After

class, you can go inside and pick out one of your favorite book to read. There

are so many books that you don’t know which one you should read first.

I love reading. And J.K Rowling is my favorite writer. I have read the

Harry Potter series so many times but I never get bored. In my opinion, reading

books not only broaden my horizon, but also help me to be a better man. I can

learn different things from these books. When I feel blue, I will go to the

school’s reading-room. In that place, I can forget my trouble when I read my

favorite novels.

Green benefits more, it is much, this is the layman, but it how? What good?

On the earth, whether people or animals, no matter how much you if you want to survive, you must absorb a large number of oxygen, emit large amounts of carbon dioxide at the same time. But the earth is originally stored oxygen is limited, and there are not many, so oxygen should run out in N years ago, oxygen and from where to now? That is about to rely on the green plants.

Green plants can be in the sun for photosynthesis, absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Research shows that: each plants grow a ton, can produce five tons of oxygen. Absorb one ton of carbon dioxide per hectare of forest land every day, 0.735 tons of oxygen; Grass absorbs 0.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide per day per hectare, produce 0.6 tons of oxygen. So do not have oxygen on earth, as long as there is green in the city can also have the fresh air.

绿化好处多，实在是多，这是妇孺皆知的事情，可它究竟多在哪呢?又有什么好处呢?

在地球上，无论人或动物，无论你多厉害你要想生存下去就必须吸收大量的氧气，同时放出大量的二氧化碳。可地球是原本储存的氧气是有限的，而且并不多，这样氧气早该在N年前就用光了，现在的氧气又从哪里来呢?那就要靠绿色植物了。

绿色植物可以在阳光下进行光合作用，吸收二氧化碳，产生氧气。研究表明：植物每生长一吨，可产生五吨氧。每公顷林地每天的吸收一吨二氧化碳，产生0.735吨氧气;每公顷草地每天可吸收0.9吨二氧化碳，产生0.6吨氧气。这样一来地球上不就有氧气了，城市中只要有绿化带也可以有清新的空气了。

When you ask the people around you, what is the most importantFestivalin

China, I guess 99% of the people will say the same answer, theSpringFestival.

There is an old story about Spring Festival. It is said that the monster, named

Nian, will attack people from time to time. In order to drive it away, people

have to light up firecrackers and put some Red paper on the front door and

window at the last day of the Chinese year. Luckily, the monster, Nian, is

afraid of the sound of the firecrackers and the color red; dare not to come any

more. In order to memorialize this day, our ancestors decided that the first

lunar calendar day of the Chinese Year is the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, all the member of the family will get together

on the eve to have a big dinner. Fish, apple, noodle, dumplings, poke, chicken,

candies and so on are indispensable on the table. Fish stands for wealth and

rich of the coming year, apple stands for doing things smoothly, noodle stands

for good health and long live, as to the others, they all symbolize for the

lucky and happiness of the coming year.

Children are the happiest ones during the Spring Festival, not only they

can have lots of companies but also they can have lucky money on the festival.

With the lucky money, they can do whatever they want, such as to set off the

firecrackers, wear new clothes, use their lucky money to buy the things they

want; this is the best part of the Spring Festival, isn’t it?

The Spring Festival is not only means the beginning of the brand-new year,

but also carrying the best wish of the people’s. We are hoping in the New Year

our wish will come true, our life will become better. Anyway, the most

meaningful thing of the Spring Festival is that we spend the time with the

family, the people we love and we know that’s all about.

In the morning, we will gather at the plaza and sing the national anthum.

After taking the pledge, we will go back to class where lessons will soon

began.

After a few periods of classes, it’s recess! Recess is the time when we eat

and play and go toilet. It’s the only time inSchoolwhere all students were

enjoying school life. Too bad it’s only half an hour. After recess, we will go

back to class where chucks of lessons start again.

It was a sunny Sunday,my father and I went on an excursion.We took a bus and walked along the river.Theres really a beautiful place!We walked beneath the deep bule sky and breathed the fresh air.And we climbed up the mountain,admired the beautiful sunlight brighten the land.

At noon,my father and I went to a restaurant which is my favourite and had a good lunch.We were so tired that we aet a lot.After a big meal,we went home by bus.The surroundings were beautiful,but I fell asleep after I got on the bus.Whats pity!

This is a happy and funny Sunday.

My father took me out fishing today. At the beginning, we spent a long time waiting there but there was no fish. I was very impatient and didnt want to stay there. I wanted to come home. Father said to me, "Dont give up everything easily. We should keep on trying hard".

Book is the ladder of human progress, is a mentor to help you and teach you.

When I wrote this, someone will say: "readinghow lame, school go to school so much, why to return to the home to read?" I will definitely tell him: "their own" hall "in the book reading fun, no limits no oppression, rather than to death."

I loved to read history books, for can you tell me the up and down in five thousand, is rich in folk customs, culture and dynasties rise and fall, life philosophy, "the four great classical novels" I finished reading, I have benefited a lot from such as "a dream of red mansions" tell people heart is without distractions dishonest practices, cao xueqins "a sad tears, full paper absurd speech. All cloud the author chi, who solution of taste." He a few words I think contains boundless lasting appeal, "the water margin" vivid characters, the sincerity of the romance of three kingdoms, red cliff story let me drunk in the book, such as fire, was deeply attracted by the charm of the book, the book is like a piece of sea waiting for us to explore the study found that although sometimes encounter big waves go forward but as long as I believe you will reach the other shore of success.

As bingxin said: good reading, read more books, read good books.

书是人类进步的阶梯，书就是一名良师益友，帮助你，教导你。

当我写到这是，有人肯定会说：“读书多没意思，学校里就学那么多，何必回到家还要读呢?”我会肯定的告诉他：“书中自有“黄金屋”读书时乐趣无穷的，没限制没压迫，而不是要死读。”

我非常喜爱读历史书，历时能告诉我中华上下五千年有丰富的民俗，风气及朝代盛衰，做人的哲理，《四大名著》我读完了使我受益匪浅，比如《红楼梦》告诉人们心正不含杂念歪门邪道，曹雪芹的“一把辛酸泪，满纸荒唐言。都云作者痴，谁解其中味。”渺渺几字我觉得就包含的无穷的韵味，《水浒传》生动的人物性格，《三国演义》三顾茅庐、火烧赤壁等故事让我沉醉在书中不能自拔，被书的魅力所深深吸引，书就像一片汪洋大海等待我们去探索研究发现虽然有时会碰到大风大浪但是只要勇往直前我相信你会到达成功的彼岸。

真如冰心所说的：读书好，多读书，读好书。

我们大家应该都知道保护环境人人有责!

We should all know that environmental protection is everyones responsibility!

我们生活的地球是很脆弱的，地球上的自然资源也是有限的，如果我们从现在开始保护环境和地球的话，我们生活的地球一定会变的更美好!

The earth on which we live is very fragile, the earths natural resources are limited, if we start from now on the protection of the environment and the earth, the earth we live will be more beautiful!

保护环境从我做起从我们大家身边的小事做起吧!

Environmental protection starts from me to start from the US side of the little things!

保护环境就是保护地球还是间接的保护我们人类自己，如果环境被破坏的话，那么我们赖以生存的家园就很有可能被沙漠吞噬 !

Protecting the environment is to protect the earth or indirectly to protect ourselves, if the environment is destroyed, then the survival of our home will likely be the desert!

我在这里向全世界的人们呼吁 保护环境人人有责 ! 如果我们还在这样的破坏环境的话，我们的家园即将遭到崩溃 。 那时我们便没有去处了， 保护环境人人有责 ， 从小事开始作起吧，

Im here to protect the environment is everyones duty to the people of the whole world! If the damage to the environment we are such a case, our home is about to be apart. At that time we had no place to go, Protect environment is everyones responsibility, from small start,

如我们不乱扔垃圾， 随地吐痰等。

If we do not littering, spitting etc..

保护环境人人有责!

Protect environment is everyones responsibility!

我的家乡在陕西华县，这里的气候干燥，但景色宜人，是个美丽的地方。

My hometown is in Shaanxi County, where the climate is dry, but the scenery, is a beautiful place.

华县不仅景色宜人，而且有着丰富的钼矿，所以它被称为“中国钼都”。

County is not only beautiful scenery, but also has a rich deposit, so it is called "China molybdenum".

华县有两大特产，第一是花花馍，花花馍就是在过年，寿辰，结婚，满月等重大日子时，用发面做成的各种各样的造型，有龙、有鱼、有猴子、有仙桃、有凤凰……形态各异，栩栩如生，表达了人们对美好生活的希望和祝福。第二就是皮影，这里的皮影非常有名，它是这里的民间艺人用驴皮雕刻加工成的工艺品，颜色鲜亮，人物形态各异，活灵活现，它不光可以挂着作装饰，还可以用来表演皮影戏呢!

County has two products, the first is steamed steamed flower, flower is to have the Spring Festival, birthday, marriage, the full moon and other major days, use a variety of ways into shape, with dragons, fish, monkeys, Xiantao, phoenix...... Different forms of expression, true to life likeness, hopes and wishes for a better life. The second is the shadow, the shadow is very famous, it is the folk artists with arts and crafts, carving a donkey skin bright colors, patterns of different characters, vivid, it not only can be hung as a decoration, can also be used to show the shadow play!

华县的人民个个热情好客，只要你来这里旅游，他们都会热情的招待你，我希望我的家乡更加美丽、繁荣、昌盛!人民更加勤劳、幸福、富裕!

If the people are hospitable, as long as you come here to travel, they are hospitable to you, I hope that my hometown more beautiful and prosperous! People work hard, happy, prosperous!

初一是正式开始写英语作文，怎么样才能写出好的英语作文呢?

一、充分准备，打好基础。

为了提高初一英语作文写作水平，平时应加强阅读，多背诵一些句形、段落甚至短文。俗话说：“读书破万卷，下笔如有神”，只有多读，多记，多背诵，才能出口成章，下笔成文。此外，写好初一英语作文还要掌握一些应用文体的写作方法，如书信、日记、通知等，它们大多有固定的格式。

二、认真审题，明确要求

在写初一英语作文的时候仔细看清写作要求和提示，分清材料的主次，接着确定体裁、格式和人物、地点等要素;最后确定时态，同时考虑相关的语态搭配用法。

三、遣词造句、表达规范

初一英语作文用词要恰当，不可逐句把提示翻译成英语。写作时，应尽量选用你最熟悉、最有把握的词和句型来表达思想。如果有些单词不会些，有些句型不会表达，可以设法绕开，用熟悉的同义词、同义短语或同义句来代替。要学会善于运用适当的关联词，如and, or, but, so，because, since等，以使初一英语作文行文逻辑紧密，自然流畅。

四、认真撰写，卷面整洁

初一英语考试中也会有初一英语作文题，如果时间允许，书面表达一定要先写草稿。在抄写入答题卷前，要先进行检查修改。首先检查所写内容是否切题;之后检查主题是否明确，表达方式是否恰当;最后检查所用时态、语态、人称是否符合要求，前后是否一致。

英语写作常用名言

1.Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量 2.Live and learn. 活到老,学到老

3.The more you know, the more you find you don’t know. 知之愈多,便觉知之愈少

4.Never teach a fish to swim. 切勿班门弄斧

5.Never too old to learn; never too late to turn. 学习不厌老,改过不嫌迟 6.Better sense is the head than cents in the pocket. 口袋里有钱不如头脑里有知识

7. The greatest artist was once a beginner. 最伟大的艺术家也曾是个初学者 8.It’s never too late to learn. 活到老,学到老 9.A good book is a good friend. 好书如同挚友

10. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只会学习不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻

11. A young idler, and old beggar. 少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲

12. By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.读书使人充实,交谈使人精明

13. Experience must be bought. 吃一堑,长一智

14. There is no royal road to learning. 学问无捷径

15. Imagination is more important than knowledge. 想象力比知识更重要 16. The empty vessels make the greatest sound. 满瓶不响,半瓶咣当

17. If you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.如果你年轻的时候没有学会思考,那么就永远学不会思考

18.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.最有益的是知识,最有害的是无知

Every child has an idol in their heart. They chase the famous star and

dream to be part of them. Look at those idols, they are young and beautiful, and

the most important thing is that they are favored by a lot of fans, so I dream

to be a star. If I were a star, first, I could make a lot of money. With these

money, I could make my parents have a better life and return their love. The

most exciting thing is to have a lot of fans. They will support me all the time.

I also could see my talents and feel so proud of myself. But being a star means

lacking of time to company our families.

Dear Helen，

Thank you for your email.I would like to answer your questions.

In China，we start our weekend from Saturday to Sunday.It lasts about two

days.We can do many things to relax ourselves on weekends.I often go

swimming，surf the Internet and watch TV

I usually do chores at home，because my parents are very busy and I want to

help them.

But what I want to do most is traveling with my parentsWe have been to many

places.This weekend，we are going to Beijing.We always have a good time.

Best wishes，

Wang Lin

i have a dream, i hope the school dining-room can provide us better food. i don’t think you will ask me why, i think we have the same idea!

long long ago, i want to have lunch with frank liu(classmate) on saturday. we saw few people buy the beef noodle, so we decided to buy that. then we went to the counter and bought two bowls. i was very surprised to see that there were only three small pieces of beef in my noodle and five in frank liu’s. i asked the seller to give us more, but we failed. i asked the seller three times. at last, he gave frank liu two pieces.

i was shocked. then i began to complain about this wick world . i promised that i wouldn’t eat beef noodle any more.

at that time, i had that dream.

yesterday, i went to lunch with frank liu again. this time, we saw no people buy the beef noodle, it was very unusual, and so i bought one. too my surprised, there were more than six big pieces of beef in my noodle. what a lucky day!! i said to myself.

i was very happy, because my dream had come true. but few minutes later, i felt worried again: maybe three days later, there will be three small pieces of beef in the noodle for the second time.

我有一个梦想,我希望学校餐厅可以提供我们更好的食物。我不认为你会问我为什么,我想我们有同样的想法!

很久以前,我想周六与弗兰克·刘(同学)共进午餐。我们看到一些人买牛肉面条,所以我们决定购买。然后我们去了柜台,买了两碗。我很惊讶地看到,只有3小块牛肉面条和5在弗兰克的。我要求卖家给我们更多,但我们失败了。我问卖家三次。最后,他给了弗兰克刘两块。

我很震惊。然后我开始抱怨这个芯世界。我承诺,我不会吃牛肉面条。

那时,我做过那样的梦。

昨天,我和弗兰克·刘去午餐了。这一次,我们看到没有人买牛肉面条,这是非常不寻常的,所以我买了一个。我惊讶,有超过六大块牛肉面条。幸运的一天! !我对自己说。

我非常高兴,因为我的梦想已经成真。但几分钟后,我又感到担心:也许三天后,将会有三个小块牛肉面条第二次。

Dont know when to start, "CD" has been hyped on the network, the meaning of the disc, is have a meal to eat the food not a drop left. Since the "CD" has become social hot words, restaurants around the hotel CD rate is also improved.

Have heard that the air of a food, today, my parents and I go to the great shop, we looked at the menu, one not careful has ordered six vegetables, chicken feet, pork ribs, duck tongue, bass, etc., mother said: "more points." Father said, "know, want to CD, eat packaging." First up is my favorite chicken feet, my saliva all is going to out, quickly learn a chopsticks, thats a little hot and sour taste is spreading at a draught, activate my taste buds. Ribs didnt down the first type, the second set is on the table again, looking at the delicious ribs, put in his mouth, the full-bodied with crisp sweet and sour ribs, so nice, really fun to the fullest. We ate with relish, until didnt anymore. Eat meal, we have packed 2 bowls of food: half of the sea bass and less than half dish Fried meat, the rest are done "CD". Look at the clean plates and the waiter gave me sent a small gift, a teddy bear, ha ha so cute.

Came home in the evening, mother to packaged food to fry, fry the meat with garlic, bass and Fried, "CD" action, leftovers in our do, to eat very clean. CD is a virtue, is also a kind of responsibility, hopes to become our habits, CD discs action, I am very glorious.

不知道什么时候开始，“光盘”成了网络上的热炒词，光盘的含义，就是吃饭吃菜一滴不剩。自从“光盘”成了社会上的热点词语以来，各地饭馆酒店的光盘率也提高了不少。

早就听说朝天店的美食，今天，我和爸爸妈妈一起去朝天店，我们看着菜单，一个不留神就点了六个菜，分别是凤爪、排骨、鸭舌、鲈鱼等，妈妈说：“点多了。”爸爸说：“知道，要光盘，吃不完打包。”第一个上来的是我最喜欢凤爪，我的口水都快要流出来了，马上就一筷子吸取，那有点酸辣的味道一下子弥漫开来，激活我的味蕾。第一只凤爪还没下肚，第二盘排骨又上桌了，看着那色香味俱全的排骨，放在嘴里，那浓郁的酸甜裹着酥脆的排骨，太美味了，真让人爽到极点。我们津津有味地吃着，直到再也吃不下去了。饭吃完，我们共打包了2碗菜：半条鲈鱼和小半碟炒肉，其余也都做到了“光盘”。看着干干净净的盘子，服务员还给我发了小礼品，一个小熊，哈哈 好可爱。

晚上回到家，妈妈把打包来的菜重新炒了一下，炒肉加了点大蒜，鲈鱼又炸了一下，“光盘”行动，剩菜在我们的打理，吃的很干净。光盘是一种美德，也是一种责任，希望光盘能够成为我们的习惯，光盘行动，我很光荣。

Only the delicious food, know the whereabouts of your soul; Only the delicious food, listen with your heart to tell of the stomach. Have to hurry, how much we missed the pure delicious; Tip of the finger food, the food and love in your pocket. You have your personality, I have my pursuit: pot bag meat.

A week off to just into the house, smell a fragrant delicious cuisine. I am sure that mother gave me a delicious pot bag meat. I follow scent into the kitchen, did not beyond my expectations, mother in doing pot bag meat for me. Saw the delicious pot bag meat, stirs my saliva, slowly began to mean. I hurried back, that I may not let mother found. My mother asked me to write my homework first, and then wash your hands, give me to eat a delicious pot bag meat for a while.

I which have idea to write my homework, my mind only pot bag meat. I wash your hands, take the double I dedicated chopsticks quickly do the table. Soon, my mother brought a plate of golden pot bag meat came in, not mother put the pot bag meat on the table, such as I have already put a piece of into the mouth. Enjoy the pot bag meat delicious, mother see I eat with a smile. I asked my mother: "why dont you eat?" "I ate," mom said. I dont believe, just put a bowl to the mother. Then we together eat it with relish.

Pot bag meat, why are you so good? Let me have a special liking to you. Because the pot bag meat is permeated with mother selfless great love to me.

Good environment can make people feel happy and fit . To improve the environment means to improve our life.

好的环境能让人感到快乐和健康。为了改善环境的手段来改善我们的生活。

We should plant more trees and flowers around us . We shouldn’t cut them down . We should stop factories from pouring waste water into the river and waste gas into the air.

我们应该在我们周围种植更多的树木和鲜花。我们不应该削减下来。我们应该阻止工厂向河里倾倒废水和废气到空气。

Whenever we see litter on the ground , we should pick it up and throw it into dusbins. Never spit in public. Don’t draw on public walls. It’s our duty to protect the environment.

当我们看到垃圾在地上，我们应该把它捡起来，把它扔进垃圾箱。不要在公共场所吐痰。不要在公共场所的墙上画画。保护环境是我们的职责。

TheTimeof a date has different standard for boys and girls. Girls always

like to be late for about ten minutes while boys always reach the destination on

time. If the girls are earlier than the boys, then the situation will become

awkward, it is not polite to let a girl wait for a boy. But sometimes girls are

always late for more than half an hour, which annoys the boys. It is said that

if you call a girl to ask her if she is on the way, then she will answer you

that she just goes out of the house, the truth is that she is still in the

house. Most girls are late for making up for a long time. It is considerate to

be late for a date for a few minutes, but it is impolite to be late for much

time.

The ancients cloud: "reading to learn." Reading another benefit, is the people to cultivate noble moral character, know the book of rites.

The bacon once said: "books are in the waves of sailing ship to the thought of The Times, it takes careful gave precious goods to generation after generation." The ancient tradition of famous people, such as respect, cherish the time, fools, etc., were later recorded in the book, the nature, read it, understand the truth, can be used, will become a moral person.

Whether Chinese or foreign, have been a lot of celebrities, and the story of these celebrities, their diligence, hard work, also are weaved.

古人云：“读书学礼。”读书的另一个好处呢，就是为了培养人们品德高尚，知书达礼。

英国培根曾说：“书籍是在时代的波涛中航行的思想之船，它以小心翼翼把珍贵的货物送给一代又一代。”古代名人们的优良传统思想，如敬老爱幼、珍惜时间、不耻下问等，都被后人记载在书中，自然，读了它，领悟其中的道理，能应用，就将成为一个道德高尚的人。

不管是中国还是外国，都出过不少名人，而这些名人的故事，他们的勤奋、刻苦，也都编成了是。

I have a warm family, There are three people in our family, they are my father,my mother and me. my family name is Wang, my first name is run ting , They love me very much, I am the apple of their eyes. I am a middle school student, My academic record is average.

I have an attractive room, although it is very young, but I very much like it, My computer is on the dask, The skirt, shirt, jeans and coat is in the garderobe, The English book,math book, story book and chinese book is in the bookcase.

I love my family

我有一个温暖的家庭，我们家有三个人，他们是我的父亲，我的母亲和我。我姓王，我的姓是run ting，他们非常爱我，我是他们眼中的苹果。我是一名中学生，我的学习成绩是平均水平。 我有一个很有吸引力的房间，虽然它很年轻，但我很喜欢它，我的电脑在dask，裙子，衬衫，牛仔裤和外套在garderobe，英语书，数学书，故事书和中文书在书柜里。 我爱我的家庭

There are two dormitories(宿舍) for our class’s boys. I live in 2110.

We seven boys share the dormitory 2110. Every morning we get up at 6 o’clock. Sometimes one or two boys may wake up a little later. After washing， we go to the playground to do morning exercise.

At night， after the self-teaching classes， we go back to the dormitory. Some roommates enjoy singing loudly before the lights go out， some enjoy sharing their snacks and drinks with others， some go to bed early， and others read books or listen to the pop music late. We often tell jokes in the dormitory. The room is always full of cheers and laughter.

On the evening of Oct.18th， the Chinese national football team got their place in the World Cup. It’s the first time for our Chinese team. The Chinese people have dreamed of it for 44 years. Though the light was out we jumped up and down and shouted： “We are the winner! We are the winner!” At the very moment， “Bang! Bang! Bang!” We heard the noises of knocking at the door and a teacher shouted：“Don’t be so excited. Go to sleep now.” So we dared not make any noise. We even smiled in our dreams that night.