今天我们来点评一篇去年申请排名第一的文理学院威廉姆斯的文书。这篇文书是出了名的半命题作文，考你的人生观，价值观，或者你日常的活动生活。
Imagine looking through a window at any environment that is particularly significant to you. Reflect on the scene, paying close attention to the relation between what you are seeing and why it is meaningful to you. Please limit your statement to 300 words.
题目是当你推开窗户，你看到什么环境对你很重要。其实这篇文书题目与common主文书的备选的第四题“描述一个你觉得感到满足的地方”，有着雷同之处。难就难在你需要发挥你的想象力，在300字的篇幅里去直白这个一个推开窗户后的展开的环境对你的重要性，刚刚开了头还没怎样就要结尾了。还记得我去年有一个学生，为了写这篇文书，可怜她，每天早上起来和她妈妈一起推开窗户朝外看，窗户外就是四环边上的大马路，她一直推啊推，推了一个多月没有灵感。笑。
后来灵感来的时候是一瞬间的事情。那边文书写的很有意境。不过，今天我们拿一篇美国学生的文书作为例子点评。
The hum of our great metallic bird droned out the sounds of human chatter. The light was fading from the pale, iridescent rose and periwinkle hues of early morning into the husky blues and greys of daytime. The outside world, that blur of the browns and greens of nature flashing by, began to slow and morph into a vivid array of shapes and colors and life. My three-year-old eyes remained fixated on the transparent pane of plastic that drew the boundary between the world and I, even as the internal engine of our plane groaned with relief as we rolled to a stop. I was transfixed by the airport workers in their bright orange vests who systematically transported the luggage, by the birds that glided regally through the air, and by the leaves browned by autumn that danced across the ground, engaged in an elegant waltz with the wind. Suddenly, in the back of my mind, neurons fired across synapses and signals triggered my memory: I abruptly recalled our reason for arriving in this new place, but soon after found myself upset and very unsettled. I opened my mouth and exclaimed to my parents, clearly quite disturbed, "But I don't see Attle!" How could my parents have been so content to offer me with false information?
Fourteen years later, I still cherish that irreplaceable childlike innocence and naiveté I possessed when I sat that day, genuinely dumbfounded because I could not "see Attle," even though my parents had promised we were going to Seattle. The wonders of the natural world never cease to awe me, whether I stare out the window of my AP Calculus classroom at the endless blue of the Pacific ocean, or out the scratched window of my 2000 Honda Accord as I drive by the orange pumpkin farms that are a staple of our town's economy.
开头的前三句在描写情景，给你一副画面，但是却不给你一点hint是在哪里。也只字不提“我推开窗户是哪里”，画面所营造的气氛却叫人想要看下去。第四句更加让人迷惑了“当我还是三岁小孩的眼睛，所看到的机翼”，第五句接第四句继续描述机场的环境。第六句非常机智的提到了神经元和信号所激发的那片刻的回忆，但是抛出另一个问题他向父母质疑“see Attle”。 下一段，终于揭开谜底，十四年后，回到现在的时空，他在怀念儿时的天真的同时，也是在解释原来“see Attle”是旅行的城市西雅图“Seattle”。多么有意思的音译错误！
不过，笔锋一转，他说自然世界从来让他惊异，不论是AP微积分，还是太平洋，或者是他驾驶的2000年产的老龄Honda车，或者是与经济相关的本地的南瓜农场，很聪明的结尾，让人在恍然大悟的同时，也对这个学生的好奇心留下了深刻印象。
一篇好的文书就如同一个探险故事，一路悬念，给你一些hint，却又不点明，直到最后才揭示谜底叫人若有所思。达到这个境界的文书，就成功了！
2015年入学申请即将到来，文书的写作是一个巨大的工程，如果在浩瀚的人群中脱引而出，着手需要一番力气，有需要的同学可以咨询我们。
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