国家地理-2008-09-25 西班牙的蕃茄节
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：国家地理2008年
Thousands of people descended 1 on the Spanish town of Bunol on Wednesday to take part in the Tomatina festival. The annual food fight draws visitors from around the world.
They pelt 2 each other with ripe fruit until they become soaked through with tomato juice and covered in pulp 3, using more than 200,000 pounds of tomatoes. Some of those involved in this messy festival got a stinging reminder 4 that tomatoes are acidic, and could be seen rubbing their eyes after getting a soggy missile to the face. When the tomato supply runs out, the messy throng 5 jumps into a nearby river en masse.
La Tomatina is rumoured 6 to have started in the 1940s when a group of young friends began throwing their lunch at each other one day, near a vegetable stand on a town square. Before long, it turned into an annual tradition
Pelt: to attack someone by throwing a lot of things at them
en masse: (from French) all together, and usually in large numbers
La Tomatina: a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region in Spain.
- A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
- The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
- The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。
- Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.人群开始向警车扔石块。
- The pulp of this watermelon is too spongy.这西瓜瓤儿太肉了。
- The company manufactures pulp and paper products.这个公司制造纸浆和纸产品。
- I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
- It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
- A patient throng was waiting in silence.一大群耐心的人在静静地等着。
- The crowds thronged into the mall.人群涌进大厅。