大年初五「迎财神」

正月初五迎财神，「财神爷」用英语怎么说？

Thousands of Chinese pray to the God of Wealth

Thousands of Chinese worshippers crowded into a temple in the middle of the country on Saturday (Feb 9) to pay homage to the God of Wealth and pray for good fortune.

表示“敬神者；崇拜者”，英文解释为“someone who worships and performs religious ceremonies to a particular god or object”，如：devil/idol worshippers 魔鬼/偶像崇拜者。

homage表示“崇敬”，英文解释为“Homage is respect shown toward someone or something you admire, or to a person in authority.”举个🌰：

On this occasion we pay homage to him for his achievements.

在此我们谨就他取得的成就向他表示敬意。

Devotees flock to the Guiyuan Temple in Wuhan in central China on the 5th day of every Lunar New Year, to mark the birthday of the god Caishen.

devotee替换了上文的worshipper，可以表示“仰慕者，敬仰者，爱好者”（someone who enjoys or admires someone or something very much）或者“虔诚的宗教信徒”（a very religious person）。

flock表示“成群结队地去，蜂拥而至”，英文解释为“if people flock to a place, they go there in large numbers because something interesting or exciting is happening there”举个🌰：

People have been flocking to the exhibition.

看展览的人络绎不绝。

对比上文则用的crowd into “涌入，挤入” 的意思。

Braving the pre-dawn cold, young and old brought handfuls of incense sticks to burn in the courtyard of the vast Buddhist temple. Worshippers burn incense and other offerings on a scale much larger than at any other festival in China.

熟词癖义，作动词，表示“勇敢地面对”，英文解释为“to deal with a difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant situation”，举个🌰：

I decided to take the train to work rather than brave the traffic.

我决定乘火车上班，不和拥挤的交通较劲。

通常用法：brave the elements/weather etc (= go out in bad weather)表示“不顾天气恶劣”，举个🌰：

More than 20 people braved the elements and attended the rally.

有二十多人不顾天气恶劣参加了集会。

补充：此处的the elements表示“天气（尤指坏天气）”（the weather, especially bad weather），如：sailors battling against the elements 与恶劣天气搏斗的水手。

上文中两种说法：incense stick和incense，

incense作名词时表示“（常指祭祀时用的）香”，英文解释为“Incense is a substance that is burned for its sweet smell, often as part of a religious ceremony.”

作动词时表示“使大怒，使愤怒”，英文解释位“If you say that something incenses you, you mean that it makes you extremely angry.”举个🌰：

Spectators were incensed by the referee’s decision.

观众对裁判的判罚极为愤怒。

Flames flicker in the darkness, with the burning producing so much ash that employees of the temple need to regularly take it away by the shovel-load.

表示“（光）闪烁，摇曳”，英文解释为“to burn or shine with an unsteady light that goes on and off quickly”，举个🌰：

The overhead lights flickered momentarily.

头顶灯闪了一会儿。

In recent years, the event has attracted more than 100,000 people to the temple each day, according to state media. "Chinese tradition says that it is the birthday of Caishen, so I am here to celebrate," Gong Xinwen, a young woman who has been coming to the temple with her parents since she was young, told AFP.

This year, she has a special request for Caishen - that she may have a child during the year of the Pig, that will carry the animal's zodiac sign, which is associated with good fortune. "The pig is a blessing," she explains. The Chinese zodiac has 12 signs, one for each year.

猪年：the Year of the Pig

今年是我的本命年：2019 is the year of my birth sign.

The most important holiday of the Chinese calendar, the New Year is marked with a fortnight of festivities as reunited families wrap dumplings together and exchange gifts and red envelopes stuffed with money.

作动词表示“填（满），塞（满）”，英文解释为“to push or put something into a small space, especially in a quick careless way”，如：boxes stuffed full of papers 装满文件的箱子。

区分：

staff通常作名词表示“全体职员，员工”，也可以作动词，“在…工作；为…配备职员，担当...职员”（to be or provide the workers for an organization），举个🌰：

The centre is staffed mainly by volunteers.

在该中心工作的主要是志愿者。

来源：AFP

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