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西方的节日很多，象圣诞节、感恩节、愚人节等等都是为我们所熟知的节日，甚至在这些日子，我们也要庆祝一下呢！但大家听说过鲸鱼节吗？我想知道的人很少了。因为它只是爱斯基摩人的节日，预示着丰收和喜庆，就象我们庆祝中秋节一样。只不过他们的丰收果实是鲸鱼…… On the edge of the Arctic Ocean at Point Barrow, several fur-clad Eskimos gaze intently at a narrow area of blue water between the ice floes where a great creature of the sea comes closer and closer. They watch anxiously as she surfaces, blows a stream of water into the air and disappears, only to surface later a little nearer. * fur-clad:fur是"皮毛"、"皮衣"的意思，clad是"穿着"、"覆盖"的意思，fur-clad Eskimos 就表示"穿着皮衣的爱斯基摩人".是呵，Alaska的气候和Greenland相差无几，人们出来活动当然要穿皮衣了。 * floe:是"大片浮冰"的意思。 * she:当不知道动物的性别时，按照英语国家习惯，应称作she. Finally the huge 30-ton bowhead whale comes up almost close enough to touch. One man rushes toward him with a harpoon gun. He thrusts the gun hard against the whale's side and explodes a cartridge that goes through the bowhead's skin. The mammal dives again but in a few minutes he floats, belly upward, to the surface of the sea. * bowhead:bowhead指"北极露脊鲸"、"公头鲸". * cartridge:"弹药"的意思，harpoon gun是专门用来捕鲸的一种枪。如本文所述，得先把枪插进鲸的身体，然后让弹药在鲸体内爆炸。我想这种枪一定有个很锋利的尖吧？ | 
