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Today, New Orleans is celebrating Fat Tuesday, also known as "Mardi Gras" in French. It's the last day before Ash Wednesday and the forty days of Lent, when many observers give up certain indulgences in anticipation¹ of Easter Sunday.

In Metro² Detroit, it's Paczki Day. Paczki singular "paczek", go back to the Middle Ages, when people in Poland would clear their homes of lard, sugar, and other decadent³ ingredients by making fried donuts filled with sweet jams or creams.

Stateside's Razi Jafri spoke⁴ to customers lined up outside of the New Palace Bakery in Hamtramck who were waiting patiently to pick up their very own batch⁵ of paczki.

Then he headed over to another Hamtramck establishment that offers its own take on paczki with a boozy twist.

Mike Mouyianis is the co-owner of Small's, a bar and music club on Conant Street in the heart of Hamtramck. He's also the creator of the paczki bomb, a miniature paczki with an alcohol-infused filling.

1 anticipation   

n.预期，预料，期望

参考例句：

• We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
• The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。

2 metro   

n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)

参考例句：

• Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
• The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。

3 decadent   

adj.颓废的，衰落的，堕落的

参考例句：

• Don't let decadent ideas eat into yourselves.别让颓废的思想侵蚀你们。
• This song was once banned, because it was regarded as decadent.这首歌曾经被认定为是靡靡之音而被禁止播放。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 batch   

n.一批(组，群)；一批生产量

参考例句：

• The first batch of cakes was burnt.第一炉蛋糕烤焦了。
• I have a batch of letters to answer.我有一批信要回复。