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潘普洛纳奔牛节――勇敢者游戏If you go to Pamplona, Spain, during the Festival of San Fermín, be sure to wear all white and tie a red handkerchief about your neck. Get dressed, look at yourself in the mirror and laugh if you must. But if you don’t dress 1)appropriately, you will most likely feel as 2)self-conscious as a 12-year-old child on his first day in a new school. The Festival of San Fermín, first made famous outside of Spain by Ernest Hemingway in his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926), takes place each year from July 6th to July 14th. No 3)adjustment is made for the day of the week on which the dates fall. Therefore, if July 6th is a Tuesday, the festival starts on a Tuesday. Regardless of the day, the town 4)literally celebrates non-stop for the entire duration of the festival. The only 5)discernable break between one day and the next is the running of the bulls (“el encierro” in Spanish), which takes place each morning at 8 am. Every kind of person can be found at the festival, but there are two major types of San Fermín 6)revelers. The most common is the one who parties all night and finishes the day by queuing up at 6 am to get a good view of the running of the bulls. Many of these partiers are encouraged ? both by the festive spirit and the alcohol ? to complete their day by joining the run. Immediately after the running of the bulls has finished and the bulls have entered the 7)bullring (“Plaza del Toros” in Spanish), this group collects their sleeping bags from the bus station and wanders off to any piece of available green grass to have a sleep. The other type of San Fermín reveler is the one who has spent the night in a car, a campground or a nearby town (hotel rooms in Pamplona are usually booked out one year 8)in advance of the festival), and who join the 9)previous night?s partiers in the “encierro” viewing queue at 6 am. They then begin to party just after the last bull has passed through the narrow streets and entered the 10)