Overcoming the inner fear When I was a little child, I'm afraid of dogs. I remember that once in a Spring Festival, I paid a visit to my uncle. In the garden of his house, I saw a big black dog. It chased after me. And l ran through several parterres and ran upstairs, hidding myself in the room, then finally escaped from it, not being hurt. After this experience, l always ran away the instant l saw a dog. And the dog always chase after me and bark fiercely after me. The more scared l was, the fiercer dogs turn to be. I gradually developed a canine phobia. Then as l gradually grow up, one day somehow it occurred to me that being afraid of dogs is something so shameful. So when l saw a dog again, l no longer ran away immediately, but stood confronting it. Strangely, the dog also stopped and stood still. It barked at me, month widly opened, as if it was going to pounce on me. However in fact, it didn't move a single step towards me at all.

This is a part of an essay that I translated from Chinese. Please help me correct it. Thanks! Life likes a glass of wine, people who treasures life can get the wonderful taste out of it. When you hold a glass of wine in your hands and observe it, you'll find that the dark red liquid is just like blood which represent life. Take a sip, you'll feel a hint of bitness among its sweetness. It complicated taste just likes our lives. After you drink it up, the agreeable aftertaste lingers for a long while. The older wine tastes mer. So as our lives, more abundant, more beautiful. An old man likes a glass of mellow wine, calm, bountiful, full of wisdom in its taste.