纪录片《中国春节》 第36期 团聚（14）

And Yan is with us now. Yan, thank you so very much for the invitation¹,

现在张岩和我们在一起。张岩，非常感谢你的邀请

Si and I are really honoured² we are going to be celebrating New Year with your family.

我们俩很荣幸参加你们家的迎新年

Welcome. Thank you.

欢迎。谢谢

Now, we want to be the perfect guests, so what can we do to help?

好吧我们争当好客人，我们能做什么

You know, there is a saying in Chinese for the New Year.

新年，中国有句老话

It's actually... Oh, great.

就是…哦，真的

Meaning a dumpling with Baijiu, the more you eat or drink, the richer you will be.

就是边吃饺子边喝酒，吃喝越多就越富有

It sounds like our sort³ of party, dude. It does. Baijiu, Baijiu?

这聚会对我们胃口。是的。白酒，白酒

So if you could, if you don't mind bringing some Baijiu in for us, that will be perfect.

那不介意的话就带着白酒来我家，这就完美了

Of course. That's a perfect job for us, dude.

当然。这个我们拿手

We will get the boose. Baijiu. Right.

我们去买酒。白酒，好的

OK, we'll go to buy it. We'll see you a bit later on.

好的，去买。过会儿见

Where has he gone? Hey!

人去哪了，嘿

What on earth are you doing?

你到底在干嘛

Kingy, I am square dancing. What? I am square dancing.

小金，我在跳广场舞。什么？跳广场舞

I'll take the speaking. It's Guangchangwu.

我用中国话说，这是广场舞

Oh, is it really?

哦，是吗

It is what all the participants⁴ in the community⁵ like to do.

这就是社区居民喜欢做的

In China, it started 20 years ago and, you know, it is so popular now

在中国，20年前就有了，而且现在很流行

more than 100 million Chinese people practice Guangchangwu every day.

一亿多中国人每天跳广场舞

Well, I can see all that work. Strictly⁶ you'll miss it.

好吧，这些我都能看到，你就没踩上点儿

Not, not at all. So it is a bit like Taiji in like swing dancing.

不，完全没有。这有点像类似太极一样的摇摆舞

You're not taking a thing. Anywhere.

你那调调根本不对。无所谓

We have got the job on. How's my dancing going?

我们还有活儿呢。我跳得怎么样

You dance very good.

你跳得很好

Is it? Thank you.

真的吗，多谢

I am going to take him away now because we've got a job on for New Year's Eve.

现在我要把他带走了，因为除夕夜的准备我们还有工作要做

1 invitation   

n.请帖；邀请

参考例句：

• Thank you for your invitation.谢谢你的邀请。
• You didn't send me an invitation!你没送我请帖！

2 honoured   

vt.尊敬（honour的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• In time-honoured tradition, a bottle of champagne was smashed on the ship. 依照由来已久的传统，对着船摔了一瓶香槟。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Queen's birthday was honoured by a 21-gun salute. 鸣二十一响礼炮庆祝女王的生日。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 sort   

v.排序，挑选，分拣；n.种类，类别，性质，程度

参考例句：

• She was a strange sort of person.她这个人有些古怪。
• I don't much care for that sort of man.我不太喜欢那种人。

4 participants   

参加者，参与者； 参加者，参与者( participant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Participants were categorized according to age. 参加者按年龄分组。
• However, there were two disagreements among some Asian and European participants at the colloquium. 然而，与会的亚洲和欧洲代表在两方面出现意见分歧。

5 community   

n.公社，团体，社会，（政治）共同体，共有，一致，共同体，（生物）群落

参考例句：

• I work in the community school.我在社区学校工作。
• There is a bakery in our community.我们小区有一个面包房。

6 strictly   

adv.严厉地，严格地；严密地

参考例句：

• His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
• The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。