灯笼

　　灯笼的形状各异，大小不同。一些灯笼会扎成动物、昆虫、花朵、人甚至是机器或建筑物的形状。还有一些则描绘了许多广为流传故事的情景，用来宣扬孝道以及传统价值观。最受大众喜爱则为当年生肖动物的主题彩灯，2014年会是马年。

　　The lanterns

　　The lanterns come in all shapes and sizes. Some are created in the form of animals, insects, flowers, people or even machines or buildings. Others depict scenes from popular stories teaching filial piety and traditional values. A favourite subject is the zodiac animal of the year - which in 2014 will be the horse。

　　猜灯谜

　　元宵节传统习俗中还有一部分是关于猜灯谜的游戏。在过去，这些谜语大多出自于模糊的文学典故和中国古典之中，所以猜灯谜以前多为知识份子的“领地”。

　　Lantern riddles (caideng mi)

　　Part of the lantern festival tradition involves a game to guess riddles attached to the lanterns. In the old days the riddles were obscure literary allusions to the Chinese classics and so were mainly the preserve of the educated classes。

　　特色小吃

　　与大多数中国节日一样，元宵节同样有自己的特色小吃，称为“汤圆”(也叫“元宵”)。汤圆外形圆圆的，外皮由糯米制成，内馅或甜或辣。人们都说汤圆有两个象征之意，一为农历的第一个月圆，二为家庭团聚圆满。

　　Special foods

　　Like most Chinese festivals, the Lantern Festival has its own special food, called "tang yuan". These are round, glutinous rice dumplings with sweet or spicy fillings. The dumplings are said to symbolise both the first full moon and family unity and completeness。

　　娱乐活动

　　踩高跷，敲鼓和舞龙舞狮都是一些传统节日的娱乐活动。在亚洲，人们经常能看到这样的场景：数百英尺的长龙，闪闪发光的眼睛和亮晶晶的身躯，周围还有敲锣打鼓、吹奏乐器的队伍。

　　Entertainment

　　Stilt-walking, drumming and dragon and lion dancing are all traditional forms of festival entertainment. In Asia, it is not uncommon to see processions of hundred-foot long dragons, lit with flashing eyes and luminous bodies, accompanied by pounding drums, cymbals and brass instruments。

　书籍具有不朽的精神，他们是迄今为止人类所创造持续最久的产品。宇宙会损坏，塑像会颓废，但是书籍却能常存人间。对于思想而言，时间并不重要，它们今天让然能同多年前第一次在作者的头脑中刚刚产生时那样鲜活。当年的话语和思想如今依然通过书本在向我们生动的述说。

　　参考翻译：

　　Books possess the essence of immortality.They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.The universe can be damaged,temples and statues decay,but books survive.Time is of no account with great thoughts,which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds ages ago.What was then said an thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.

　邓小平同志曾说：“社会主义财富属于人民，社会主义的致富是全民共同致富。”构建和谐社会，就是要把民生问题作为重中之重，让广大人民群众有活干，有学上，有饭吃，有衣穿，有屋住，病有医，老有养，生活幸福，都过上好日子。自此，在就业、教育、收入分配、医疗、养老、住房等领域，一大批关注民生的实事工程接连开工，一件件事关百姓冷暖的民生大事让各族群众喜笑颜开。

　　【翻译词汇】

　　邓小平同志 comrade Deng Xiaoping

　　社会主义的致富 socialist prosperity

　　全民共同致富 universal common prosperity

　　构建和谐社会 build a harmonious society

　　民生问题 livelihood

　　就业 employment

　　收入分配 income distribution

　　医疗 health care

　　养老 pension

　　关注 focus on

　　实事工程 practical project

　　让…喜笑颜开 light...up with pleasure

　　各族群众 people of all nationalities

　　【精彩译文】

　　Comrade Deng Xiaoping once said, “Socialist wealth belongs to the people, the socialist prosperity is the universal common prosperity.” Building a harmonious society is to regard people’s livelihood as the priority among priorities, to help the masses live a happy life of having jobs, going to school, having food to eat, having clothes to wear, having houses to live in, and can be cured when in disease, and can be cared when they are old. From then on, in the fields of employment, education, income distribution, health care, pension, and housing, etc., a large number of practical projects focusing on livelihood have been started one by one; every activity about people’s livelihood has lighted people of all nationalities up with pleasure.

Recently, it has been practiced by some local universities that dialect is made a compulsory course for some students, under which students are subject to learning the local dialect and then graded as one of the judging factors for them to graduate. On the one hand, people approving the practice maintain that it will help to prevent the dialect from extinguishing so that the local traditional culture and the cultural diversity can be enhanced, and the unique urban identity can be preserved simultaneously. On the other hand, people in opposition to the practice contend that it will give rise to the appearance of educational inequality, for the local students will enjoy absolute advantages over those from other places. Moreover, the inclusion of dialect in compulsory courses will bring forth other problems like teaching material, teachers and examination standards. As far as I am concerned, dialects, as an indispensable part of local traditional culture as well as a tool for communication, can be acquired and used voluntarily, not compulsorily.

　　【翻译词汇】

　　方言 dialect

　　必修课程 compulsory course

　　依据 judging factor

　　支持 approve

　　消失 extinguish

　　文化多样性 cultural diversity

　　弘扬 enhance

　　个性 identity

　　争论说 contend

　　绝对的 absolute

　　引起 give rise to/bring forth

　　考试标准 examination standard

　　不可缺少的 indispensable

　　自愿地 voluntarily

　　学习 acquire

中华民族不但以刻苦耐劳著称于世，同时又是酷爱自由、富于革命传统的民族。以汉族的历史为例，可以证明中国人民是不能忍受黑暗势力的统治的，他们每次都用革命的手段达到推翻和改造这种统治的目的。在汉族的数千年的历史上，有过大小几百次的农民起义，反抗地主和贵族的黑暗统治。而多数朝代的更换，都是由于农民起义的力量才能得到成功的。中华民族的各族人民都反对外来民族的压迫，都要用反抗的手段解除这种压迫。他们赞成平等的联合，而不赞成互相压迫。

　　参考翻译：

　　The Chinese nation is known throughout the world not only for its industriousness and stamina,but also for its ardent love of freedom and its rich revolutionary traditions.The history of the Han people,for instance,demonstrates that the Chinese never submit to tyrannical rule but invariably use revolutionary means to overthrow or change it.In the thousands of years of Han history,there are hundreds of peasant uprisings,great and small,against the dark rule of the landlords and the nobility.And most dynastic changes came about as a result of such peasant uprisings.All the nationalities of China have resisted foreign oppression and have invariably resorted to rebellion to shake it off.

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