端午安康
端午节
农历五月初五为“端午节”。为了纪念楚国爱国诗人屈原，这一天必不可少的活动就是吃粽子，赛龙舟。
据《史记》记载，屈原是战国时期楚国大臣。他倡导举贤授能，富国强兵，力主联齐抗秦，遭到贵族们的强烈反对，后遭诋毁流放。公元前278年，秦军攻破楚国京都。屈原听到噩耗后，万念俱灰，于5月5日投汨罗江而亡。
传说屈原故去后，楚国百姓纷纷涌到汨罗江边去凭吊屈原。渔夫们划起船只，奋力打捞他的尸体。人们还将饭团和鸡蛋丢进江里，以免屈原的身体被鱼，虾，蟹伤害。后来，怕饭团被蛟龙所食，人们想出用竹叶包饭，外缠彩丝，这就是传说中的粽子的来源。
译文：蜜雪老师（参考资料并修改）
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth Lunar Calendar.It is the festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State. Chinese have the tradition of eating Zongzi ( dumpling made of glutinous rice) , and having dragon boat race on that day.
According to Historical Records, Qu Yuan was a minister of the Chu State during the period of Warring States. He advocated selecting government functionaries by their competence, making the state and army strong and allying with Qi State to fight against Qin. However, his proposals were strongly opposed by Chu’s aristocrats. Later Qu Yuan was framed and set to exile. In 278 BC, Qin’s army fought and captured the capital of Chu. Hearing the devastating news, Qu Yuan was totally disillusioned , and he drowned himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth Lunar month.
It was said that upon hearing the death of Qu Yuan, local people in the Chu State rushed to the riverside to show their respect for him. Fishermen rowed on the river, trying hard to retrieve his body. They threw rice balls and eggs into the water, hoping to keep fish ,shrimps, and crabs away from his body. To prevent the giant dragon from eating the rice balls, local people came up with the idea of wrapping the rice with bamboo leaves , with threads tied up outside, which, explains how zongzi was come into being
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重点词汇讲解： glutinous rice
举贤授能：select government functionaries according to their competence (能力）
遭诋毁流放：He was framed and sent to exile.
万念俱灰：disillusioned (英文本意：幻灭）
凭吊：to show their respect ,to commemorate
打捞他的尸体：retrieve （寻回）
粽子的来源：how zongzi has come into being.
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Things are made to happen
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