Unit1
1. Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of years.节日就是庆祝一年中重要的日子。
Mean后面可以跟带不定式的复合结构，如：
I never meant hime to work for us.我从来没有让他为我们工作的意思。
这种句子也可以用被动语态。如：
Is that mark in the middle of the picture meant to be a building?图画中心的记号是不是一座建筑物？
2. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time.讨论它们（中国的节日）是什么时候举行，庆祝的是什么事件，人们在那天做什么事。
3. Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help of to do harm. 有些节日，是为了纪念死者，或使祖先得到满足，因为祖先们有可能回到世上（给人们）提供帮助，也有可能带来危害。
4. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in menmory of their ancestors. 在日本的“盂兰盆节”（也称“中元节”），人们要扫墓，烧香，以缅怀祖先。
5. They also light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors back to earth. 他们还点灯笼，奏响乐曲，因为他们认为这样做可以把祖先引回到世上。
6. On this important feast day, people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with ‘bones’ on them.在这个重要的节庆日子里，人们会吃制成颅骨形状的食物，和装点有‘骨头’的蛋糕。
7. The Western holiday Halloween also had its origin in old beliefs about the return of the spirits of dead people. 西方节日万圣节也源自人们古老的信念，认为亡者的灵魂会返回人间。
8. The Dragon Boat Festival in China honours the famous ancient poet. Qu Yuan. 中国的端午节（龙舟节）是纪念古代著名诗人屈原的。
9. In the USA, Columbus Day is in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. 美国的哥伦布日是纪念克里斯托弗。哥伦布发现‘新大陆’的日子。
10. China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals, when people admire the moon and in China, enjoy mooncakes. 中国和日本都有中秋节，这时人们会赏月，在中国，人们还品尝月饼。
11. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forwad to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.最富有生气而又最重要的节日，就是告别冬天，迎来春天的日子。
12. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, which take place forty days before Easter, usually in February. 在一些西方国家有激动人心的狂欢节，通常在二月，复活节前的40天。
13. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. 节日里整个国度到处是盛开的樱花，看上去就像是覆盖了一层粉红色的雪。
14. Trinidad 特立尼达岛。是大西洋上的特立尼达和多巴哥的一个岛屿，位于委内瑞拉东北。
15. It was Valentine’s Day and Hu Jin had said she would meet him at the coffee shop after work. 这天是情人节，胡瑾说她下班后会在咖啡店和他见面的。
16. She said she would be there at seven o’clock, and he thought she would keep her word.她说她会在七点到达，他认为她会守信用的。
17. He would drown his sadness in coffee. 他要用咖啡来解愁。drown..in淹没，浸泡。。。里
He decided to drown his sorrows in work. 他决定埋头工作以忘掉悲伤。
18. The granddaughter of the Goddess of Heaven visited the earth. 王母娘娘的外孙女下凡来到人间。
19. Niulang tried to follow her, but the river of stars, the Milky Way, stopped him.牛郎试图追上去，却被银河阻挡住了。
20. Finding that Zhinu was heart-broken, her grandmother finally decided to let the couple cross the Milky Way to meet once a year. 看到织女伤心欲绝，王母娘娘最后决定让这对夫妻每年跨过银河相会一次。
21. “I don’t want them to remind me of her”So he did. “我不想因它们想起她来。”于是他把花和巧克力都扔了。
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