英语四级翻译练习与译文

　　在春节第一天或此后不久，大家都穿着新衣服，带着弓向亲戚和朋友打招呼并恭喜(祝贺)，彼此祝愿在新的一年里好运，幸福。在中国农村，有些村民可能有数以百计的亲戚，所以他们不得不拿出两个多星期来走亲访友。

　　On the first day of the New Year or shortlythereafter, everybody wears new clothes and greetsrelatives and friends with bows and Gongxi(congratulations)， wishing each other good luck,happiness during the new year. In Chinese villages,some villagers may have hundreds of relatives so they have to spend more than two weeksvisiting their relatives.

　　这是孩子们的父母和祖父母给他们作为春节礼物的钱。压岁钱据说能带来好运，能驱魔;因此，就有了“压岁钱”的称呼。父母和祖父母先把钱放入特制的小红包里，年夜饭后或当孩子们来拜年时，将红包发给他们。他们之所以要把钱放到红包里，是因为中国人认为红色是个幸运色。他们想给自己孩子既有压岁钱还有幸运色。

　　It is the money given to kids from their parents andgrandparents as New Year gift. The money isbelieved to bring good luck, ward off monsters;hence the name "lucky money". Parents andgrandparents first put money in small, especially-made red envelopes and give the red envelopes to their kids after the New Year's Feast or whenthey come to visit them on the New Year. They choose to put the money in red envelopesbecause Chinese people think red is a lucky color. They want to give their children both luckymoney and lucky color.