festival是什么意思(元宵节英语叫什么?)

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元宵节:Lantern Festival

The Lantern 百思特网Festival百思特网or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month inthe lunar calendar. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations.

中国的传统节日在英文中通常都叫做festival:

阴历正月十五是中国的元宵节:

但人们通常不会把阳历称为“solar calendar” ✘,正确的说法是:

It had become a festival with greatsignificance. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns andsolve riddleson the lanterns.

传统节日对于每一个中国人来说都有重大意义,“有意义”除了meaningful也可以用 significant/significance 来表达:

这个词大家最熟悉的意思是“重要的”,但它在形容customs(风俗)和heritage(传统)的深远意义时也经常被使用。

各种各样精彩的灯谜是元宵节不可缺少的环节:

“猜”灯谜的英语可不是“guess”riddles ✘,正确说法是:

汤圆:Tangyuan

Tangyuan, literally: "soup ball" is a Chinese dessert made from glutinous rice flour mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and then either cooked and served in boiling water with fermented glutinous rice, or sweet syrup (sweet ginger syrup, for example), or deep fried.