【看新聞學英語】 2009台北端午節

文／Daniel Chen

2009 Taipei Dragon Boat Festival
2009台北端午節

【新聞關鍵字】
1.fire brigade ph. 消防隊
2.unbeatable adj. 無以倫比的
3.spectator n. 觀眾
4.overjoyed adj. 極度高興的
5.to kick some butt: 贏得一些獎
6.sheer adj. 全然的; 十足的
7.real buzz: n. 真熱鬧
8.come along ph. 一起來

Months of preparation and hard training all come down to today — Taipei International Dragon Boat Championship. Whether its a local fire brigade team or Taipei City Hall team lead by the Mayor Hau Lung-pin; or even winners from Japan, South Africa, Holland, Malaysia and the Philippines, there are estimated 200 teams all together, with 12 teams from overseas, that join the competition today.
經過好幾個月的艱苦訓練和準備就為了今天- 台北國際龍舟賽。總共有估計兩百個隊伍參加。其中包括本地消防隊、由市長郝龍斌率領的台北市政府團隊，甚至包括來自日本、南非、荷蘭、馬來西亞和菲律賓的冠軍隊伍，共有十­二個來自海外的團隊，參加今天的競賽。

One of the unbeatable teams in the University Division is the Shi-da team, or better known as the NTNU Mandarin Training Centre Team, lets see what they have to offer.
大學組最強隊伍之一的師範大學，或稱「師大國語中心隊」更廣為人知，讓我們看看他們要做什麼。

[Denial Hustler, NTNU Competitor]:
Ni-hao, my name is Denial Hustler, Im racing for the Shi-da. Xie-xie!
[笛尼爾赫斯勒，師大隊隊員]：
「你好，我的名字是笛尼爾赫斯勒，我參加師大隊。謝謝﹗」

[Amy van Reeuwyk, NTNU Competitor]:
Were going on the boat now, this is my team, my name is Amy. This is my first year here in Taipei attending the dragon boat races. I attended two years in Xin-zhu. Got to go, peace now!
[埃米，師大隊隊員]：
「我現在要上船，這是我們的隊伍，我叫埃米。這是我來台北後第一年參加龍舟賽。我參兩次新竹的比賽。要走了，現在請靜下來﹗」

This team did not let the spectators down, they reach the flag pole first and win the race in the mixed students division and everybody is overjoyed.
這隊不負眾望，他們第一個達到旗桿，並且贏得混合學生組冠軍，每個人都歡欣鼓舞。

[Amy van Reeuwyk, NTNU Competitor]:
Hi, were from Shi-da Mandarin Training Centre, this is my team and we just won the race and were very happy about that, and well be back tomorrow to kick some butt.
[埃米，師大隊隊員]：
「嗨，我們來自師大國語中心，這是我們隊，我們剛贏得比賽，我們非常高興，明天我們還會回來贏得一些獎。」

Not only the students participated in this event, there are also teachers from the Taiwan European School.
不是只有學生參加這次盛會，台灣歐洲人學校的教師也共襄盛舉。

[David Devey, Teacher of TES]:
This is really fun, you get people [from] all over Taipei coming here, like our school takes part. Rolling is a killer, really hard work, three minutes of sheer pain, I would say. As a whole its really fun, everybody and all the crowds cheering, it was great.

[大衛德魏，台灣歐洲人學校教師]：
「真是有趣，台北所有的人都來這裡看，喜歡我們的學校參加。我覺得，划龍舟真是要命，我只能說這真的是不容易，三分鐘極度的酸痛，但整體來說，真的是很有趣的經驗，每一位­在場的觀眾熱情的鼓舞，感覺真的很棒。」

[Jennie Leyfield, Teacher of TES]:
Its fantastic, there is really, really good atmosphere everywhere, there is a real buzz about everywhere, its really nice, we really enjoyed it! Everyone is really, really friendly, and if you come along and try to speak a bit of Chinese, there is so much to discover, yeah, we really love Taipei and we encourage our friends to come here.
[珍妮蕾佛，台灣歐洲人學校的教師]：
「真是太棒了，每個地方的氣氛都很好，到處都很熱鬧，真好，我們好喜歡﹗ 每個人真的，真的很友好，如果你要努力講幾句漢語，就會有許多新發現，是的，我們真的喜歡台北，我們鼓勵我們的朋友來這裡。」

本則英語新聞影音出處：新唐人英語新聞
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_asia/2009-05-30/076946565670.html

相關學英語文章集結點：http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/ncid205.htm

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