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Dialogues /monologues: 1、 Chang-O was banished to the moon where , according to the legend, Chang-O can be seen at her most beautiful on the night of the bright harvest moon. 翻译： 嫦娥被驱逐到月宫 , 根据传说 , 每当中秋之夜明月当空的时候 , 可以看到她最美的容颜。 ---where 在这里的用法称为 关系副词，引导非限制性定语从句，对前面的 先行词 the moon 起补充说明的作用． where ＝ on which ．在月亮上 2、 Especially exciting are the dragon and lion dances done during the festival. 3、 And to cap it all the food in the restaurant is awful. It was so bad we had to eat out all the time despite having paid for meals in the price of our holiday. 4、 Ancient people offered the year's first ripe grains to the gods in thanks for the crops that would sustain their communities for the coming year. 5、 The ancient harvest festival of Europe helped give rise to contemporary Thanksgiving Day celebrations Passage: Holiday refers to the day set apart for religious observance or for the commemoration of some extraordinary event total stoppage of work and normal business activities, including feasting, parades and carnivals, or displays of flags and speechmaking. Originally, in ancient times, holidays were predominantly religious in character and linked to natural events such as the annual course of the sun or the phases of the moon. The word holiday, in fact, is derived from holyday. Subsequently, secular holidays commemorating historical occasions or distinguished persons outnumbered holy days, although many ancient religious rituals and customs have been carried over into modern times and incorporated into both secular and religious observations. Today, the outstanding holiday is one of religious observance and abstention from normal work routines, taking place on Sunday for Christians, Friday for Muslims, and Saturday for Jews. In the U.S. , Sunday is not only a religious holiday but is also the only common-law holiday. | 
