20091229 Salzbug For the Holidays (2)

Salzbug For the Holidays

While many visitors enjoy Salzburg in the summer and flock to the Salzburg Festival Christmastime sees almost as many people come to town. In winter, skiing enthusiasts take advantage of nearby mountain resorts. Decorations adorn the town and the Christmas markets. Salzburg's most famous market Salzburger Christkindlmarkt usually opens for business five weeks before Christmas. Groups of instrumentalists and singers entertain market-goers, and the smell of roasted almonds, hot chestnuts and Christmas pastry - Lebkuchen - wafts through the market area. The spicy gingerbread comes in many different shapes and sizes, often with nuts and dried fruit inside.

Merchants sell figurines for nativity scenes, toys, warm sweaters and other specialties of Salzburg. For some local culture, take in a performance of "Salzburger Adventsingen." This traditional play features local children performing a nativity play and singing in regional dialects. In addition, the most famous Christmas carol of all time, Silent Night, was composed in Oberndorf, a small town north of Salzburg. You can visit Salzburg's Silent Night Museum and enlighten yourself on the song's history or travel to Oberndort to see where the carol was first performed.


adorn v. 裝飾/使生色
eg: Ribbons and bows adorned the litle girl's dress and hair.
eg: The hall was adorned with beautiful paintings and mirrors.
eg: The director adorned the storyline in the movie with exotic settings and special effects.

waft v. 吹送/飄送/使飄蕩
eg: The smell of baking bread wafted down the hallway.
eg: The scent(香氣) of roses wafted along with the breeze.
eg: The smell of freshly baked cookies wafted up from the downstairs bakery.

take in
=> experiences with your senses
eg: We took in several Breadway(百老匯) plays when we went to New York.

en- 使如何
enlighten v. 啟發/啟迪/教導
=> teach
eg: The professor enlightened his class on the differences in the chemical makeup of the acids.
eg: The trip to Africa really enlightened Paul as he learned how to care about people.
eg: Can you enlighten me - I don't understand how to access the main computer.


instrumentalist n. 樂器演奏者

goer n. 參加者

almond n. 杏仁

chestnut n. 栗子

Salzbug
=> Salz:south
=> bug:castle

figurine n. 小雕像
=> tiny little statue of a person or thing

nativity n. 出生/誕生

specialty n. 特製品/特產/名產

Christmas carol 聖誕節頌歌




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(The spicy gingerbreod comes)(in many different shapes and sizes).
(擺設出來的薑餅) ======= (有各式有樣的形狀及大小)

=> 注意斷句


come into the room 進入房間
=> enter the room

come into a lot of money 繼承財產
=> inherit a lot of money

come down with something 罹瘓疾病
=> become sick, falling ill
eg: Many people come down with flu during the winter.

come out with something 出版/推出
eg: The company come out with new products(推出新產品).


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In October 1731, thousands of Salzburg citizens were forced to either reject their beliefs in God or leave the city. The thousands who refused to reject their faith flied north through a merciless Austrian winter. Over the next few years about 150 of the Salzburg exiles found their way to the British American colonies. Ten years later, in 1741, they officially founded the town of Ebenezer, Georgia.

merciless adj. 無情的/殘酷的