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How to say ” To celebrate Valentine’s Day, I am going to buy my girlfriend a bouquet of roses and arrange a gourmet candlelight dinner with violin playing” in Chinese. 为了庆祝情人节，我将要买一束玫瑰花送给我的女朋友， 并且安排一顿有小提琴演奏的美味烛光晚餐。Wei4 le5 qing4 zhu4 qing2 ren2 jie2, wo3 jiang1 yao4 mai3 yi2 shu4 mei2 gui1 hua1 song4 gei3 wo3 de5 nv3 peng2 you3. Bing4 qie3 an1 pai2 yi2 dun4 you3 xiao3 ti2 qin2 yan3 zou4 de5 mei3 wei4 zhu2 guang1 wan3 can1. Wei4 le5 （为了in order to, preposition used to state purpose) qing4 zhu4 (庆祝 verb, celebrate) qing2 ren2 jie2 (情人节 literally means lovers’ day, noun, Valentine’s Day), wo3 (我 pronoun, I) jiang1 yao4 (将要 jiang1 means going to, yao4 means want; together they mean going to) mai3 (买 verb, buy) yi2 (一 number, one) shu4 (束measure word for flowers, bouquet) mei2 gui1 hua1 (玫瑰花 mei2 gui1 is the name for roses, hua1 means flowers) song4 gei3 (送给 compound verb phrase means give ) wo3 de5 (我的 possessive pronoun, my) nv3 peng2 you3 (女朋友 noun, girlfriend). Bing4 qie3 (并且 conjunction, also) an1 pai2 (安排 compound verb phrase means arrange) yi2 (一 number, one) dun4 (顿 measure word for meal) you3 (有 verb, have) xiao3 ti2 qin2 (小提琴 noun, violin) yan3 zou4 (演奏 verb, play an instrument) de5 (的 particle to connect the attribute and the noun it modifies) mei3 wei4 (美味 adjective, very delicious) zhu2 guang1 (烛光 candle light, noun) wan3 can1 (晚餐 noun, dinner).
Valentine’s Day is coming soon, have you decided how you are going to do to celebrate it with your significant (重要 zhong4 yao4) other? The above suggestion seems like pricy (昂贵 ang2 gui4). Under today’s bad economic situation, it would be good for people to honor Valentine’s day in a thrifty way (节俭方式 jie2 jian3 fang1 shi4)? Instead of buying a bouquet of roses, just buy one single stem will do; as for the candlelight dinner, how about just switch it to a McDonalds Happy Meal? Besides getting happy, you can also get toys:)
Roses are well known romantic (浪漫的 lang4 man4 de5) symbol (象徵 xiang4 zheng1) and also edible (可食用的 ke3 shi2 yong4 de5). Some people said that they tasted like apples for they came from the same family — Rosaceae (the rose family). The rose family is a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species.
The members of rose family can be herbs, shrubs or trees. There are many famous and important fruits come from Rosaceae — including many edible fruits (such as apples (苹果 ping2 guo3), cherries (樱桃 ying1 tao2), peaches (桃子 tao2 zi5), pears (梨子 li2 zi5), and strawberries), almonds (杏仁 xing4 ren2), and ornamental trees and shrubs (such as roses, of course).
Rose is many people’s favorite flower even it got a lot of thorns (刺 ci4). For roses’ thorns, Roman (罗马 luo2 ma3) mythology says Cupid (丘比特 qiu1 bi3 te4) gave roses their thorns. While Cupid was shooting arrows, accidentally a bee (蜜蜂 mi4 feng1) stung (刺 ci4) him. Thus, his arrow (箭头 jian4 tou2) landed in Venus’s rose garden and caused the roses to grow thorns. So, remember before you participate any shooting sports, do some pest control first.
Besides Cupid and thorns, there is another rose belief in ancient Romans.
Long time ago, there was a woman, Rodanthe, who was so beautiful that she got countless admirers (爱慕者 ai4 mu4 zhe3). However, none of them won her heart. Still, this large group of admirers were so brave and never thought of giving up the pursuing (追求 zhui1 qiu2). Many times, they broke down her door just wanted to see her beautiful face. Diana, the goddess of virginity and hunting, became mad at those people’s improper courting behavior. In order to save Rodanthe, Diana turned Rodanthe into a rose and her numerous admirers were transformed (转化zhuan3 hua4) into thorns.
On Valentine’s Day, this symbolic love flower will be madly (疯狂地 feng1 kuang2 di5) sold all over the world, and 60 percent of them will be red roses. Maybe that is why the rhyme goes like: Roses are red, violets are blue. Sugar is sweet, so is the price of roses on Valentine’s Day.
许景淳 – 玫瑰人生
Xu jing chun – Mei gui ren sheng
The life of a rose
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