奥林匹克运动会 / Olympics

虽然奥林匹克运动会在两个月以前结束了，但是在博客里我还没提到。
我的借口是我太忙着看比赛，没有时间写。

我最喜欢看的运动是跳水和体操。
但我没有料想到羽毛球那么精彩刺激的运动！

因为我用美国的电视频道看比赛，所以我不常听人说中文。
因此对我的中文来说，看奥运会没用，但我仍然觉得非常好看。

Although the Olympics ended two months ago, I still haven't mentioned them in the blog.
My excuse is that I was too busy watching events and didn't have time to write.

My favorite events were diving and gymnastics.
I didn't expect badminton to be such an exciting event!

Since I was watching the games on American TV, I seldom heard people speaking Chinese.
As a result, as far as my Chinese goes, watching the Olympics wasn't useful, but I think it was still extremely cool to watch.

Language notes:

奥林匹克运动会 Àolínpǐkè yùndòng huì is the full way to say "Olympic Games" and is literally more like "Olympic Sports Meet."

奥运会 Àoyùnhuì is a short way of saying the same thing taking the first character of each of the main bits 奥 Ào of 奥林匹克, 运 yùn of 运动, and 会 huì.

Putting together just the first character of each word is sort of the Chinese equivalent of an acronym or abbreviation. Another example would be 北大 Běidà for 北京大学 Běijīng Dàxué "Beijing University."

三聚氰胺牛奶到了波士顿吗？/ Has melamine milk reached Boston?

Boston Herald报导了波士顿中国城的两家商店卖"大百兔奶糖"。这种糖果在英国、新加坡、新西兰被证实含有三聚氰胺。"大百兔奶糖"是从中国上海进口的。

The Boston Herald reported that two stores in Boston's Chinatown are selling "[Big] White Rabbit Milk Candy." This type of candy has been confirmed to contain melamine in England, Singapore, and New Zealand. "White Rabbit Milk Candy" is imported from Shanghai, China.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1121369

BBC报道了新加坡当局警告人不要买"大百兔奶糖"。

The BBC reported that Singapore authorities were warning people not to buy "White Rabbit Milk Candy".

新加坡：大白兔奶糖含三聚氰胺 / Singapore: White Rabbit Milk Candy has melamine

中秋节 / Mid-Autumn Festival

今天是中秋节。我没有月饼。
一个小朋友祝我中秋节快乐。

Today is the Mid-Autumn festival. I have no mooncakes.
A "small friend" wishes me a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Language notes:
"Mid-autumn festival" is a literal translation of 中秋节 zhōngqiūjié.
月饼 yuébǐng "mooncakes" are traditionally eaten during this festival.

Here is a poem by the Tang dynasty poet 李白 Lí Bái, which features the words 秋 qiū "autumn" and 月 yué "moon". The title given is "Autumn Air", but 秋风 is more literally "Autumn Wind". Below the text there is a literal translation on the left and a more idiomatic translation on the right. This is linked from chinese-poems.com.

城外的中国饭馆 / Chinese restaurants outside the city

波士顿的中国城有很多饭馆。
当然那里的一些饭馆非常好。
但是别的地方也有很好的中国饭馆。
波士顿报纸刊登这个：
8 ways to go for gastronomic gold - The Boston Globe

Boston's Chinatown has lots of restaurants. Of course some of the ones there are extremely good. But other places have good Chinese restaurants too.
The Boston newspaper published this:
8 ways to go for gastronomic gold - The Boston Globe

在这八家饭馆中，六家我没去过。
我去过王的饭馆很多次,
很喜欢吃他们的菜。
我最喜欢的是干烧四季豆和葱油饼。
水饺又好吃又著名。
Of these eight, there are six I haven't been to.
I've been to Wang's many times; I really like their food. My favorites are the spicy dry-cooked string beans and scallion pancake. The dumplings are delicious and famous.

不久以前我的一个朋友给我介绍Gitlo's.
在那里每天都能吃点心。
比星期日去中国城方便多了。
因为我只去了三次了，所以还有很多菜我没吃过。
我最喜欢的是叉烧包。

Not long ago a friend of mine introduced me to Gitlo's. You can eat dimsum there every day. It's much more convenient than going to Chinatown on Sundays. I've only gone three times so far; so there are still a lot of dishes I haven't tried. My favorite is the roast pork buns.

您推荐哪一家中国饭馆？哪些菜？请您留评论。
Which Chinese restaurants do you recommend? What dishes? Please leave a comment.

用中文点菜 / Order food in Chinese:

• 水饺 shuǐjiǎo "dumpling"
• 干烧四季豆 gānshāo sìjì dòu "dry-cooked string beans"
• 葱油饼 cōng yóubǐng "scallion pancake"
• 点心 diǎnxin "dimsum"
• 叉烧包 chāshāobǎo "roast pork bun"

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杭州市市长 / The Mayor of the city of Hangzhou

上上个星期六我认识了杭州市市长！
他姓蔡。蔡市长来了波士顿
因为杭州和波士顿是姊妹市。
蔡市长参观波士顿儿童博物馆
“杭州少年”展览。
他跟大概十位杭州政府官员一起也参观哈佛大学。
我很荣幸能给他们介绍一下。
我们在校园走走，去看哈佛博物馆很有名的玻璃花。
The Saturday before last I met the mayor of Hangzhou!
His last name is Cai. Mayor Cai came to Boston because Hangzhou and Boston are "sister cities". Mayor Cai visited the Boston Children's Museum exhibit "Children of Hangzhou". He, along with about 10 civil servants, also visited Harvard University. I was honored to be able to show them around a bit. We walked around the Yard and went to see the Harvard Museum's famous glass flowers.

在这儿您能看蔡市长在波士l顿拍的一些照片.
You can see pictures taken of Mayor Cai in Boston here.

杭州在哪里？看看地图.
Where is Hangzhou? Have a look at the map.


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