英语描述示例如下：
The?Cowherd?and?the?Girl?Weaver （牛郎织女）
On?the?east?bank?of?the?Heavenly?River?lived?a?girl?weaver, daughter of the Emperor of Heaven. She worked hard year in and?year?out,?weaving?colourful?clothes?for?gods?and?goddesses.Since?she?lived?all?alone,?the?emperor?took?pity?on?her?and allowed?her?to?marry?the?cowherd?on?the?west?bank?of?the?river. However, she stopped weaving after she was married. Greatly outraged,?the emperor?forced?the?girl back?across?the?river and allowed?her?to?join?her?husband?only?once?a?year. On the seventh day of each autumn, magpies would suddenly become bald-headed for no obvious reasons at all. According?to?legend,?that?day?the cowherd?and?the weaver met on?the?east?bank?of?the?river,?and?magpies?were?made?to?form?a bridge for them. And for this reason the down on their heads was?worn?out.
译文：
在天河东岸，住着一位织女，她是天帝的女儿。她年复一年努力地工作，为众神和女神织就五彩缤纷的衣服。因为她一个人住，皇帝可怜她，允许她嫁给河西岸的牛郎。然而，在她结婚后，她停止了编织。皇帝非常愤怒，强迫女孩回到天河对岸，让她每年只和丈夫团聚一次。每年秋天的第七天，喜鹊会突然变得秃顶根本不知道是什么原因。有传说是因为那天牛郎和织女在河的东岸相遇，喜鹊为他们造了一座桥。正因如此，他们的头被磨破了。