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而今，纽约依然是一座充满机遇的城市，它的人、景观和故事依然独具特色。对有些观光者来说，当他们看到因《金玉盟》、《老友记》、《宋飞正传》等电影或电视剧而熟悉的街道或建筑时，他们特别的“纽约一瞬”到来了。
Today, New York remains as much a city of people, places, and things as it is a city of moments. For some visitors, their special “New York moment” comes when they spot a street or building made familiar by movies or television, like An Affair to Remember or Friends or Seinfeld.
(Source: wwenglish.com)
Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng has called for new protective measures to prevent celebrations of traditional Chinese festivals dying out.
“However, we need to draw more attention from people in all walks of life by including traditional festivals in school textbooks, improving publicity and encouraging people to celebrate them,” Sun said.
In a recent nationwide campaign to protect cultural heritage, almost all traditional festivals were included in a list of cultural heritages under national-level protection.
A group of Chinese law makers and political advisers have maintained that important traditional festivals should be made public holidays so that people have time to celebrate them. A large number of netizens echoed their suggestions. When asked to comment on this, Sun did not respond directly.
But he went on to stress that the preservation of traditional festivals is crucial for China’s cultural heritage protection.
Sun acknowledged that traditional festivals are gradually fading away and it seems that the Chinese people prefer to remember the solar calendar rather than the lunar calendar on which the traditional festivals are based.
The Spring Festival, or the Chinese lunar new year, is one of the best-preserved traditional festivals and many foreign leaders have delivered speeches and hosted celebrations especially for the Chinese Spring Festival in recent years. The Spring Festival has thus become a widely recognized brand overseas for the promotion of Chinese culture.
In China, there are many famous traditional festivals including the Spring Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. There are also many other festivals of minority ethnic groups, such as the Water Splashing Festival of the Dai ethnic group in southwestern China. Enditem
(Source: xinhuanet.com)
(BEIJING, July 7) — Allen Johnson, the gold medallist in the 110m hurdles at Atlanta 1996, lost his chance to compete at Beijing 2008 after pulling out of the preliminary heats at the US Olympic track and field trials in Oregon on Saturday due to a leg injury.
The 37-year-old and four-time world champion will miss his chance of competing in his fourth Olympics. This could well be the cruel end of his legendary Olympic career.
“After the first hurdle, I felt it,” Johnson was quoted by Washingtonpost.com as saying, “and as I kept going, the pain just got progressively worse. I didn’t know what to expect. It didn’t heal. It didn’t hold up.”
Johnson, a seven-time US outdoor champion, said he had injured the posterior tibialis tendon in his lower leg in March. And the “sharp pain” became increasingly intense after the Adidas Track Classic in California in May, he said.
“I was hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst,” Johnson was quoted again by Washingtonpost.com as saying. “It’s real disappointing, but this is what sports is all about. I’ve had some great days and some bad days, and this is one of the bad days.”
When asked whether he would try to qualify for London 2012, he acknowledged that it would be a long shot at the age of 41 although he would like to do it.
In the men’s 110m hurdles final of the US track and field trials, David Oliver, Terrence Trammell and David Payne booked their tickets to Beijing 2008 by finishing in the first three places.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
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