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2017 考博英語 翻譯練習題材：端午節

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The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double FifthFestival, is celebrated on May 5th on lunarcalendar.It is a folk festival widely spread with ahistory of over 2,000 years, and is one of the mostimportant Chinese festivals as well. There are variouscelebrating activities on that day, among which the customs of eating rice dumplings anddragon boat racing are quite important.There are many legends on the origin of the DragonBoat Festival.Some people think it is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan, while others say it isto be in honour of Wu Zixu, a famous general during the Warring States period. However, thelegend of Qu Yuan spreads most widely. People appreciate highly the noble sentiment andprominent talent of this patriotic poet and are very sympathetic with the ending that hecommitted suicide by drowning himself in a river.

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端午節(the Dragon Boat Festival)，又稱重五節，于每年農歷五月初五慶祝。 這是廣泛流傳2000多年的民間節日，也是中國最重要的節日之一。端午節當天舉行各種慶祝活動，吃粽子和賽龍舟(dragon boat racing)是其中的重要習俗。關于端午節的起源，有很多傳說。一部分人認為端午節是為了紀念詩人屈原，另一部分人則認為是為了紀念戰國時期的著名將領伍子胥。然而，屈原的傳說流傳最廣。人們非常欣賞這位愛國詩人的高尚情操和出眾才華，更對他投江自盡的結局深表同情。