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春节采访

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ID: 0429 Advanced
过年啦！过年啦！忙碌了一年，终于可以开开心心地迎来农历新年了。想知道这几天中国人都在忙些什么吗？中国人的过年方式经历了数千年，到底发生了怎样的变化呢？中国各地又有哪些不同的过年习俗呢？四位来自不同地方的中国人走进了高级中文播客的录音棚，和我们一起畅谈过年的种种趣事。
Wed Feb 14 2007 | Jenny, 肖霞
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
打成一片 dǎchéngyīpiàn to integrate
押韵 yáyùn rhyme
布置一新 bùzhì yī xīn to renovate
已逝 yǐ shì already passed away
大家好，我是张峰。是这样，我大概是从刚出生到十六岁之前都是在天津的，大概应该算是半个天津人吧。
dàjiāhǎo ，wǒ shì Zhāng Fēng 。shì zhèyàng ，wǒ dàgài shì cóng gāng chūshēng dào shí liù suì zhīqián dōu shì zài Tiānjīn de ，dàgài yīnggāi suànshì bàn ge Tiānjīn rén ba 。
Hi everybody, I'm Zhang Feng. It's like this: I was in Tianjin from the time I was born until I was about sixteen. I guess I count as half Tianjinese.
哦，你是半个天津人。那么，还有半个呢？
ō ，nǐ shì bàn ge Tiānjīn rén 。nàme ，háiyǒu bàn ge ne ？
Oh, you're half Tianjinese. Well then, what's the other half?
还有半个就是我本身的籍贯，就是上海的。剩下的一半是上海人。
háiyǒu bàn ge jiùshì wǒ běnshēn de jíguàn ，jiùshì Shànghǎi de 。shèngxià de yībàn shì shànghǎirén 。
Half of me is from my native place, Shanghai. So the second half is Shanghainese.
在春节期间你有没有坐过火车？
zài chūnjié qījiān nǐ yǒuméiyǒu zuò guò huǒchē ？
Have you ever taken the train during Chinese New Year?
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