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2009年11月15日三级笔译实物英译汉（原版全文） Poland prepares for Chopins bicentennial Plans are well under way for a year of celebrations to mark the upcoming bicentennial of one of Polands favorite native sons - Frédéric, known here as Fryderyk, Chopin. The Polish Sejm, or Parliament, has declared 2010 the Year of Fryderyk Chopin, and special concerts, recitals, conferences and other events will honor the great Romantic composer, who was born near Warsaw in 1810.The prestigious International Chopin Competition for pianists will mark its 16th edition in October 2010. Held every five years, the competition draws scores of young musicians from all over the world. In addition, Warsaws Chopin Museum, with the worlds largest collection of Chopin documents and other artifacts, will undergo a total redesign, modernization and expansion.A lavishly illustrated new guidebook called Chopins Poland was already published this year. It leads visitors to dozens of sites in Warsaw and elsewhere around the country where the composer lived, ate, studied, performed, visited or even partied.Actually, Chopin doesnt need to be promoted, but we hope that Poland and Polish culture can be promoted through Chopin, said Monika Strugala, who is coordinating the Chopin 2010 program under the aegis of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, a body set up by the Sejm in 2001 to promote and protect Chopins work and image.We want to confirm to all that he is a very, very important Polish symbol, she said.Indeed, its not much of an exaggeration to say that Chopins music flows through the Polish national consciousness like some sort of cultural lifeblood.He is woven into Polish culture and politics, the Polish-born American filmmaker Marian Marzynski told an interviewer for PBS, the American television station, in 2006.The son of a Polish mother and a French émigré father, Chopin was born in a manor house at Zelazowa Wola, about 50 kilometers, or 30 miles, west of Warsaw, and moved to Warsaw as an infant.The manor is