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　　年糕(Chinese New Year Cake)是中國人的傳統(tǒng)食品，距今已有兩千年的歷史。早期被用來祭奠灶神(the KitchenGod)，其后漸漸成為一種春節(jié)特色食品。年糕主要是用糯米粉(glutinous rice flour)制作而成，有黃、白兩色，象征金、銀。在漢語中，“粘”與“年”同音，而“糕”與“高”同音，所以年糕寓意人們的生活水平一年比一年提高。年糕營養(yǎng)豐富，不但吃起來香甜可口，而且還有健身祛病的作用。中國地域廣、各地的風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣不同，因而年糕的種類也多種多樣。

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　　Chinese New Year Cake is a traditional food forChinese people with a history of 2,000 years. In earlytimes, it was used as an offering to the Kitchen Godand gradually evolved into a kind of food typical inthe Spring Festival. Chinese New Year Cake is madeof glutinous rice flour, with yellow or white as its color, symbolizing gold and silver. In Chinese, "sticky" is identical in sound to "year" and "cake" to "high", so Chinese New Year Cake alsoimplies that people's standard of living would be improved year by year. Chinese New YearCake, containing lots of nutrition, not only tastes sweet and delicious but also benefits peoplehealth and wards off diseases. China is vast in territory and its customs vary from place toplace, thus the types of Chinese New Year Cake are also various.

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　　2.第二句應(yīng)增譯主語“年糕”，為避免重復(fù)，故翻譯為it;“被用來”和“漸漸成為”作it的并列謂語，第—個謂語動詞要使用被動語態(tài)。

　　3.第三句“年糕主要是…”中，“象征金、銀”是對年糕顏色的進(jìn)一步說明，可處理為現(xiàn)在分詞短語symbolizing gold and silver。

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