时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

 清明节英语怎么说?美国有类似的节日吗?中美对生老病死又有何不同的理解?


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清明节
Tomb Sweeping 1 Day: 清明节
Tomb: 坟墓
Sweep: 扫
Sweep the floor: 扫地
The lunar calendar: 阴历
There's no equivalent of Tomb Sweeping Day in America:美国没有类似清明节的节日
There's Memorial Day, but it's for remembering soldiers who passed away serving the country. It's not like Tomb Sweeping Day: 有一个Memorial Day,但它是纪念阵亡将士的;和清明还是不同的
Tomb Sweeping Day is such a great tradition to honor and pay respect to your ancestors: 清明节是一个特别好的传统,来纪念你的前辈、祖先
有什么比“die"更恰当的词?
Die:死 (动词)
Dead: 死了 (形容词)但这两个词都很直接、比较刺耳
下面这些词要婉转、礼貌很多
Deceased: 过世、逝去
Pass away:过世、逝去
Pass on: 过世、逝去
Pass: 逝去
They're in a better place now: 他们在一个更好的地方
Heaven:天堂
怎么跟老外解释清明节?
怎么安慰伤心的人?
How do you console and comfort people? 怎么安慰伤心的人?
Don't be so upset. They (the person who passed away) wouldn't want you to be so upset: 别太难过了,他(去世的人)也不想看到你这么伤心
My condolences: 节哀顺变 (对逝者家属说的)
I'm very sorry for your loss: 这也是英语里常用的安慰逝者家属的话;这里的sorry不是对不起,而是我为你感到很难过
Some Americans call funeral a celebration of life: 有些美国人把葬礼叫做庆祝逝者的生命
Attendants sometimes tell jokes and share the happy memory of the person who passed: 有些人在葬礼发言时会说些笑话,纪念逝者生前给大家带来的快乐回忆
It's very different from the Chinese culture where funerals need to be very solemn: 这和中国文化很不同,中国的葬礼需要很肃静
Some might see laughter as disrespectful: 很多人会觉得葬礼上笑是很不尊重的行为
Quaker: 贵格会教徒
Burial site: 墓地、埋葬地
美国的殡仪馆
Funeral home: 殡仪馆
There are many small family-run funeral homes in America: 美国有很多小型、家庭经营的殡仪馆
Wake: 葬礼后的类似茶话会的仪式
A wake is where family and friends gather after the funeral to console each other: wake通常在葬礼后,逝者的家人和好友聚在一起,互相安慰
Wake is usually held at the funeral home and would have some food and drinks: wake通常也在funeral home举行,会有一些小吃和饮料
青团
Green dumplings: 青团 (好吧,所有的中国点心都叫dumplings)
I'm a fan of green dumplings: 我很喜欢吃青团
Sticky rice: 糯米 (口语的说法)
Glutinous 2 rice: 糯米(正式的说法)
Red bean paste: 豆沙
江浙沪以外的朋友似乎不吃青团;你们清明吃什么呢?
网红肉松青团
The most viral green dumpling this year: 今年网红的青团
Green dumpling with meat floss and egg yolk 3: 蛋黄肉松青团
买不到肉松青团
试试Spencer的美式青团!
I love eating qingtuan with peanut butter and a glass of milk : 我喜欢青团上涂花生酱, 再配一大杯牛奶
What a mix of cultures: 中西合璧
Spencer强烈推荐大家试试他的创意青团吃法;Give it a try!

adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
adj.粘的,胶状的
  • The sauce was glutinous and tasted artificial.这种酱有些黏,尝起来不是非常地道。
  • The coat covering the soft candies is made from glutinous rice.包裹软糖的江米纸是由糯米做成的。
n.蛋黄,卵黄
  • This dish would be more delicious with some yolk powder.加点蛋黄粉,这道菜就会更好吃。
  • Egg yolk serves as the emulsifying agent in salad dressing.在色拉调味时,蛋黄能作为乳化剂。
学英语单词
Abraham Lincolns
acne cream
actor-character
advisory committee on fair trial and free press
aeromilometer
alpine ashes
amniocele
animal energetics
Arisaka
barbarea vulgaris r.br.var. stricta regel
batch entry
bathroom bill
bctp
bedcoverings
Blumea sericans
brandisht
bursa ranelloides
buryktalskite
centralgyl
chine line of keel
chinosol
coordinate conversion
corinths
cyclosoruss
cylindrical film memory
cytospectrophotometry
dimensional inspection
diminished resonance
double-barrelleds
dummy aircraft
encastre
entire allocation
entity-relationship models
ethylphenylephrine
film thickness gauge
first order phase transition
frank bank
frankensteinian
galumin
gamma-ray radiator
Gentiana handeliana
ground straight-shank twist drill
hexacyprone
high horizontal bar
hydrogenant
intracellular ferment
invoking subprogram
Lakatrask
lefosse
Llanfaelog
long con
love juice
magnetisierungskenn linie
MEMMs
microteks
mobile-first
Mucaine
mulitple telecommunication
multilinear system
multiple declaration
musculus quadratus femoris
Naassenes
oolithotus antillarum
orchestral score
oxidation loss
oxyuriasis
pentanoic acid valeric acid
phlebograph
polar coordinates in plane
positive excess
predating
primitive mesentery
printing quota
proceeds of forfeit
psudoalloy
raglans
raincapes
range-gated imaging technique
Ranunculus adoxifolius
reconstruction of capital
reflex ovulation
rere-ban
selenometalate
skade
spherical-seated bearing
syntax and semantics
tail gas analyzer
tail pipe up
take to one's legs
theoretical pathology
Thermosphaera
thiosilicic acid
this-worldliness
three-phase AC traction
tidal river
Tonobrein
tube conductor
unrefuted
Usengi
variable-geometry inlet
vasilar
von willebrands