端午的鸭蛋的介绍英文.doc

端午的鸭蛋的介绍英文 篇一：0837翻译端午的鸭蛋汪曾祺 0837翻译：端午的鸭蛋（汪曾祺） Translation: Duck Egg of Dragon Boat Festival (Wang Zengqi) (translated by: alexcwlin; edited by: Adam Lam) 家乡的端午，很多风俗和外地一样。 In my hometown during Dragon Boat Festival, many local customs are similar to those oneselsewhere. 系百索子。 One of them is Fastening Multi-Color-Cords. 五色的丝线拧成小绳，系在手腕上。 Threads in five different colors are twisted into small strings which are fastened onto wrists. 丝线是掉色的， Those threads bleed. 洗脸时沾了水，手腕上就印得红一道绿一道的。 In getting wet during face-washing, they would stain the wrists by leaving stripes of red and green colors. 做香角子。 Another one is Making-Small-Fragrant-Packets. 丝线缠成小粽子，里头装了香面， Silk threads are weaved into small rice-dumpling-shaped packets containing scented powder. 一个一个串起来，挂在帐钩上。 These packets are stringed together and hung on curtain hooks. 贴五毒。 Another one is Pasting Five Vermin. 红纸剪成五毒，贴在门坎上。 Red papers are cut into shapes of Five Vermin and pasted on doors. 贴符。 Another one is Posting Magic Symbols. 这符是城隍庙送来的。 This sheet of magic symbols comes from City God Temple. 城隍庙的老道士还是我的寄名干爹， The old Taoist master in the Temple is my godfather. 他每年端午节前就派小道士送符来，还有两把小纸扇。 Before Dragon Boat Festival every year, he would ask a Taoist apprentice to bring over a sheet of magic symbols and two small paper hand-fans. 符送来了，就贴在堂屋的门楣上。 When the sheet was delivered, we would post it on the overhead door-beam. 一尺来长的黄色、蓝色的纸条，上面用朱笔画些莫名其妙的道道， It would be a yellow-and-blue one-foot paper stripe with some baffling maneuvers written on it using rouge-ink brush. 这就能辟邪么？ Could this really ward off evils? 喝雄黄酒。 Another one is Drinking Realgar Wine. 用酒和的雄黄在孩子的额头上画一个王字， People write the character “王” (Chinese character meaning “king”) on foreheads of children with a mixture of wine and realgar. 这是很多地方都有的。 Many places have this practice as a custom. 有一个风俗不知别处有不：放黄烟子。 There is another local custom which I don’t know if it is shared by other places, and that is: Releasing Yellow Smoke-Screen