中国传统文化(中英文)

中国传统文化

一、“传统节日”单词预热vocabulary work

象征意义symbolic significance

农历lunar calendar

阳历solar calendar

端午节Dragon Boat Festival

元宵节Lantern Festival

清明节Pure Brightness Day

重阳节Double Ninth Day

放逐be exiled

忠臣loyal minister

祭祀亡灵in memory of sb.

龙舟比赛dragon boat races

中秋节Mid Autumn Festival

满月full moon

月饼moon cake

饺子dumplings

粥porridge

有关春节的常用词

放鞭炮let off firecrackers

耍龙灯play the dragon lantern

耍狮子play the lion dance

拜年pay a new-year call

二、有关“介绍”的翻译

•我很高兴向各位介绍中国的主要传统节日。

→I am very happy to have the opportunity to talk to you about major traditional Chinese holidays.

表示“介绍情况”时，我们可以这样翻译：

1.to share with you brief information

•在此，我愿意向朋友们介绍这些方面的情况。

→I'd like to share with you brief information in this respect.

2.to give a brief account of

•我简单介绍我厂的情况。

→Let me, first of all, give you a brief account of this factory.

•在来宾们参观我校之前，请允许我简要介绍一下我校的概况。

→Before you start to look around, I would like to give you a brief account of our school.

3.to tell us how/what

•请主席先生介绍一下中国农村扶贫运动的情况。

→Will Mr. Chairman tell us how the anti-poverty drive is going on in China?

4.to show you

•我想向您介绍一下我们初步拟定的活动日程。

→I would like to show you our tentative itinerary.

5.to provide sb. with some information

•借此机会，向各位介绍上海经济发展和开展国际经贸交往的一些情况。

→I’d like to take this opportunity to provide you with some information about Shanghai’s economic development and its foreign trade.

例如，我国的端午节是纪念古代诗人屈原的日子。那一天，人们通常要赛龙舟、吃粽子。

For example, on the Dragon Boat Festival, a day set aside in memory of the ancient poet Qu Yuan, people will hold dragon boat races and eat zongzi, a kind of glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.

中秋节是观赏满月的日子。圆圆的月亮象征着圆满，象征着家庭团聚。因此，中秋节的特制食品是一种圆形的月饼。

The Mid-autumn Festival is an occasion for viewing the full moon. The round moon is a symbol for completeness, and family reunion. The special food of the day is the yuebing, a round moon cake.

春节是中国的农历新年，除了常见的海鲜、家禽和肉类之外，人们还要按各自的地方习俗烹制传统菜肴，如饺子和年糕。

The Spring Festival is the Chinese lunar New Year’s holiday. In addition to the popular seafood, poultry and meat, people will prepare traditional food, for example, jiaozi, or boiled dumplings, and niangao, or the year cake according to their regional custom.