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2014年新年的庆祝活动
Fireworks are crackling through the night skies across the globe as revelers celebrate the first moments of 2014.
Crowds gathered in public spaces in major cities across the Asia-Pacific region to ring in the new year with music, fireworks and revelry. As clocks marched toward midnight around the world, crowds massed in Moscow, Dubai, London, New York and other major cities ahead of their celebrations.
Dubai created what it called the world's largest fireworks show. About a million people are expected to gather in New York's Times Square to watch a giant ball drop at the stroke of midnight, the best known of the American New Year's Eve rituals.
Fireworks erupted from Auckland's Sky Tower as people danced in the streets of New Zealand's biggest city. In Sydney, Australia, more than a million people watched fireworks launched for the first time in more than a decade from the sails of the city's famed waterfront opera house. Billowing fireworks soared over Hong Kong's skyscrapers1.
In Japan, some celebrators ate noodles and seafood2 - thought to bring good luck in 2014 - and offered prayers at Buddhist3 shrines4 and temples.
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1 skyscrapers | |
n.摩天大楼 | |
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2 seafood | |
n.海产食品,海味,海鲜 | |
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3 Buddhist | |
adj./n.佛教的,佛教徒 | |
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4 shrines | |
圣地,圣坛,神圣场所( shrine的名词复数 ) | |
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5 somber | |
adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的 | |
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6 cape | |
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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7 poignant | |
adj.令人痛苦的,辛酸的,惨痛的 | |
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