Respecting Our Parents
现在，很多学生对父母不是很尊敬，甚至和父母争吵动手。针对这种现象，写信给某报编辑，请提出一些具体的建议，让同学们树立尊敬长辈的意识，发扬中华民族的传统美德。
Dear editor,
Nowadays, there exists an increasingly severe phenomenon that teenagers don’t show respect to their parents. As we can read in newspaper or watch in TV, some teenagers quarrel with parents, some talk back and some even resort to violence. As to this problem, I’d like to advance several proposals as follows.
Initially, we should realize that it’s our parents who give us lives. Without parents, we can not live in this world. Therefore, the importance of respecting our parents can not be overemphasized. What’s more, it goes without saying that we have to remember the birth day of our parents, when we can express our gratitude to them. None the less, respecting our parents should be done from every detail. Just as a proverb goes, “piety is above all.”
To sum up, respecting parents is our traditional virtue in China. No matter how old we are, it’s a priority to respect our parents.
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亲爱的编辑，
如今，青少年越来越不尊重父母。我们可以在报纸上或在电视上看，有些青少年与父母争吵，有些人顶嘴，有些人甚至诉诸暴力。关于这个问题，我想提出如下几项建议。
最初，我们应该意识到是我们的父母给了我们生命。没有父母，我们就不能生活在这个世界上。因此，尊重父母的重要性怎么强调都不为过。更不用说，我们必须记住父母的出生日，我们可以向他们表达我们的感激之情。同样，尊重我们的父母应该从每一个细节上做到。正如一句谚语所说：“虔诚高于一切。”
总之，孝敬父母是我们中国的传统美德。不管我们年龄多大，尊重父母是我们的首要任务。
