Sunday, October 6, 2013

#3 Concordancer Exercise

粽子相關英文用法

1. dumplings 


For example:What are more than ten women doing in the temple, not sleeping but deftly tying the dumplings?

2.tzung-tzu

For example:According to the custom of Taiwan and southern Fukien, families in mourning are not supposed to make nien-kao or tzung-tzu for the holidays, but they can be given some as a present by their neighbors.

3.zongzi

For example:As housewives and older men, shopping basket on arm, chatted with whoever they met at the market or at roadside stalls, they would ask: "How do they cook this back where you come from?" Thus they swapped all kinds of recipes.
Chou Chao-ching says that in this way her mother learned to make all kinds of tasty foods, such as candied ginger, candied garlic, chilli sauce, zongzi (steamed glutinous-rice dumplings), sausage, cured pork and fermented bean curd.

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