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孩提时住在农村,常常盼望过节。I always looked forward to festivals while a kid living in the countryside. 记得最有乐趣的节,莫过于年终的“谢天地”。As I now recall it, no other festival held greater fascination for me than “Thanksgiving” ceremony held at the end of the Chinese lunar year. 那谢完天地之后,母亲用福礼汤(鸡、肉汤)下的银丝面条,To express gratitude to Heaven and Earth, Mother would use, among other dishes, “Thanks-for-Happiness Soup” (chicken and meat soup) as one of the offerings, and, the rituals over, she would cook the whitest and finest noodles (called “silver-thread noodles”) in the broth. 其鲜美无比至今还留下十分美好的记忆。The delicious taste lingers to this day!
V-I When something such as an idea, feeling, or illness lingers, it continues to exist for a long time, often much longer than expected.
V-I If you linger somewhere, you stay there for a longer time than is necessary, for example, because you are enjoying yourself.
工作之后,我却渐渐对过节不感兴趣了。After I graduated and started my career, my interest in festival-celebrating began to fade. 原因是当我单身时,我喜欢看书,笔耕。在写文章时经常需要随时查阅文献资料,When I was single, I loved reading and writing, which necessitated frequent trips to libraries to consult the relevant data. 如果遇上节日放假,图书馆就关门,我就只好干着急,眼看时间白白流失,所以我讨厌过节。When such a need should arise during the holidays when the libraries were usually not open, I’d feel much dismayed, being absolutely unable to make use of the valuable time that flew by.
V-T If something necessitates an event, action, or situation, it makes it necessary.
在诸多家务中,每天买菜是我的任务。中国人过节,吃是主要内容,Of the many household duties after my marriage, going marketing everyday is my job. Festival celebration for us Chinese chiefly consists in eating. 为了显示过节的气氛和水平,少说也要搞它个十菜八肴的。To help create the festival atmosphere and show off the level of the festivities, at least a score of meat and vegetable dishes should be laid out. 这样一来,节前的紧张采购暂且不说,节后的剩菜处理也落在我一个人身上,妻孩们是不愿吃隔天菜的,So, besides the pre-festival frantic shopping, the post-festival disposal of the leftovers fell to my lot, my wife and children being loath to touch the leavings. 自幼来自农村且深受“谁知盘中餐,粒粒皆辛苦”陶冶的我,是断然不肯将能吃的剩菜倒掉的,Born in the countryside and always taught to believe profoundly in the need to “treasure each and every grain of rice in the bowl”, I flatly refuse to throw away the leftovers. 于是节后天天吃剩菜。所以我不喜欢过节。Therefore, in the days immediately following the festival I had to finish up the scraps one by one. Hence, my distaste for the festivals.
N-UNCOUNT If you feel distaste for someone or something, you dislike them and consider them to be unpleasant, disgusting, or immoral.
V-T If someone or something convinces you of something, they make you believe that it is true or that it exists.