Part B Read the following text carefully and then
translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be
written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
In New Zealand Christmas Day itself is observed much the same
way as it is in the United States and Europe. (61) There are some concessions
to the reversed seasons, however, for Christmas down under comes in
midsummer. On the New Zealand Christmas dinner menu, for instance, plum
pudding is almost invariably flanked by fruit salad, ice cream, and fresh summer
fruits such as strawberries and raspberries. In New Zealand
Christmas is preeminently the season for reaffirming goodwill and friendship for
the gathering and reunion of friends and families. For several weeks before
December 25th, New Zealanders crowd the shops and department stores looking for
presents for their families and close friends, and greeting cards for less
intimate acquaintances. (62) The big stores each have a professional Santa
Claus, white-bearded, red-mantled, black-booted, perspiringly presiding over a
"Magic Cave" or a "Toyland", and solemnly noting the Christmas Eve requirements
of hundreds of excited children. Christmas Eve is much the
same in New Zealand as it is in other countries. A last feverish flurry of
shopping is made possible by a special late night in the stores, and then
families and friends may foregather for a Christmas Eve party at home. There are
few homes in which children do not carefully hang up their stockings for Santa
Claus to fill with toys and candies. There are midnight services at the
churches, for those who bear in mind the original significance of Christmas, and
special broadcasts of Christmas programs on the radio network. (63) Christmas
carol-singing has also been inherited from the Old World, and in some towns on
Christmas Eve. "Carols by Candlelight" are held in suitable settings
outdoors. Christmas carols often usher in Christmas Day in
New Zealand. (64) Perhaps the most popular and most regular carollers are
members of the Salvation Army, whose melodious rendering of the well-loved old
Christmas hymns wakens many New Zealanders to the Feast of the
Nativity. (65) New Zealanders spend their Christmas Day
with the friendly greetings, the gifts-and especially the toys for the
children-and the sumptuous family dinner which is the center-piece of this day
over the world. Christmas dinner in New Zealand usually includes poultry of
some sort--turkey, chicken, duck or goose-meat joints such as lamb, pork, beef,
or mutton, new season’s peas and potatoes, and other vegetables, mince pies,
plum pudding, and the rest of traditional fare inherited from New Zealand’s
British ancestry. But in most homes dishes more suitable to summer weather are
added to or substituted on the menu. There are salads, cold poultry, fresh fruit
and cold sweet dishes.