时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:最In导购口语


英语课

  Conversation 3

A: How nice these robes are! What do you call them in Chinese!

B: We Chinese call them "Qipao", a long robe with a split at each side seam.

A: Could you tell me the meaning of different patterns and designs on them?

B: Sure. The pattern of peony and phoenix 1 symbolizes 2 fortune and nobility. This fabric 3 has an interesting pattern with mandarin 4 ducks, which is typically Chinese. In China the design of dragon and phoenix means a very happy family, it also means authority.

A: I see. I can't decide which color is better.

B: In China yellow was for a long period of time considered to be of noble value symbolizing 5 central authority. Kings and officials were entitled to wear yellow. Look, the yellow color and the design of dragon and phoenix are very harmonious 6.

A:哦,这些长袍多漂亮啊!用中文怎么说的?

B:我们中国人称之为“旗袍”,它的两侧开叉。

A:请告诉我旗袍上不同花纹和图案的含义好吗?

B:当然可以。这种牡丹凤凰图案象征着富贵。这种料子印着有趣的鸳鸯图案,非常有中国特色。在中国“龙凤呈祥”图案象征家庭幸福,也象征着权力。

A:我明白了。我不知哪种颜色更好。

B:在中国,黄颜色在很长一段时间里被视为高贵权势的象征,过去只有国王和大臣们才有资格穿用。看,这种黄色和“龙凤呈祥”图案非常协调。



1 phoenix
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
2 symbolizes
v.象征,作为…的象征( symbolize的第三人称单数 )
  • The use of light and dark symbolizes good and evil. 用光明与黑暗来象征善与恶。
  • She likes olive because It'symbolizes peace. 她喜欢橄榄色因为它象征着和平。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 fabric
n.织物,织品,布;构造,结构,组织
  • The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
  • I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
4 Mandarin
n.中国官话,国语,满清官吏;adj.华丽辞藻的
  • Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
  • Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
5 symbolizing
v.象征,作为…的象征( symbolize的现在分词 )
  • This symbol later evolved into a common hieroglyphic symbolizing victory. 这幕场景后来逐渐演化为象征胜利的普通象形文字。 来自时文部分
  • Mooncakes reunion, is symbolizing the Mid-Autumn festival will feed. 月饼象征着团圆,是中秋佳节必食之品。 来自互联网
6 harmonious
adj.和睦的,调和的,和谐的,协调的
  • Their harmonious relationship resulted in part from their similar goals.他们关系融洽的部分原因是他们有着相似的目标。
  • The room was painted in harmonious colors.房间油漆得色彩调和。
学英语单词
abhorrs
account day
Adoxaceae
alarm bolt lift driver
andre maginots
Avetrana
Baha'ullah
Blanc-mange
Blood Ball
boehnke
bonhoeffers
buoy-ball type standard pressure producer
Business Computing
caeseous
cascade tank
center-channel
chemosensitiver
close-mindedness
code division multiple access
collapse earthquake
concave extension
copy error
cultural attach
cutaway colter
Dabas
depot store
dictamnin(e)
discharge plate
dolichopeza (nesopeza) rantaizana
double acting hand force pump
Edtac
Es Souda
ESOP
Ethulia
expression system
figure four
fire stick
flagelliformis
flumed
FPS (foot-pound-second)
gasogenic
give up doing
Gnaphalium polycaulon
graduated vessels
gringe
guaiacol-carbonic acid
hob-arbor
horizontal hemianopsia
intentional abortion
interglobular areas
interleaving
lithium cooled reactor
Loxomataceae
lughnasa
Ma Lou Tchai
Magnosulf
metalens
methyl propanoate
mine strip
model output statistics prediction
mowing-apparatus
muleless
mythopoesis
neologises
non-cooled distributor
oecophoridae
Palladio, Andrea
partial ignorance
physical trauma
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plunger guide bush
pole of a quadric surface
postobservation
reactive jet-steering gear
reputations
rock-throwing
Ruunaanjärvi
sales volume
savings-bank
Seloignes
simultaneous ignition
sophia
sphyrna tiburoes
stay binding
stimulated light scattering
subacute toxicity
subjects to
summer air conditioning
superficial dorsal veins of penis
switched message network
telltate title
thermalizing
threshold jacobi method
Tokary
Trypanoplasma
ucla
uerterovesicostomy
ultrasonic hand-washing apparatus
verbigerating
visualist
voice over Wi-Fi
welled out