英语六级翻译模拟练习：端午节

　　端午节 the Dragon Boat Festival

　　追溯到 date back to

　　战国时代 the Warring States Period

　　纪念 commemorate

　　大夫minister

　　因…感到绝望 despair over

　　没有成功 in vain

　　撒 scatter

　　引开 distract

　　演变成 transform into

　　赛龙舟 race dragon boats

　　吃粽子 zongzi—a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves

　　联合国教科文组织 United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

　　宣布 proclaim

　　非物质文化遗产 intangible cultural heritage

　　【精彩译文】

　　The Dragon Boat Festival can date back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the service of the Chu Emperor. Despairing over corruption at court, Qu threw himself into a river. Townspeople jumped into their boats and tried in vain to save him. Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the people scattered rice into the water. Over the years, the story of Qu’s death transformed into the traditions of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi—a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival was proclaimed an intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2009.