麦兜抢包山

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Dough面团，钱! Cheung Chau Bun包子 Festival

① The traditions of the five-day celebration, which starts today, are said to stretch back to回溯到 the 18th century.

② When the small island south-west of Hong Kong fell victim to遭受……困扰 plague瘟疫，鼠疫 and pirates海盗, villagers assumed the guise装扮 of deities神仙 to drive off驱离 malevolent邪恶的 spirits鬼魂.

③ These days it is children parading游行 through the streets dressed as gods and political figures.

④ Visitors can also enjoy Chinese opera performances中国戏曲表演, dragon dances舞龙 and martial arts武术.

⑤ But the highlight is the bun scrambling抢，夺取 competition, wherein在哪里 participants climb a 14-metre tower snatching抢夺，抓紧时间做 as many as possible in three minutes.

⑥ After a bamboo tower collapsed in 1978, injuring more than 100 people, the structure is now made of steel.

⑦ And competition buns, once fluffy松软的, are now plastic.

⑧ But fear not: in recent years a food-processing machine has helped to speed up production of the 60,000 real buns munched狼吞虎咽 at each festival.

⑨ Tradition, with a helping hand from modernity现代性.

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▍补充

1. dough

Let's go make some dough.

How much dough (do) you make every month?

2. scramble

scrambled eggs: 炒鸡蛋

scramble for exams: 临时抱佛脚

3. wherein

the cave in which they live = the cave wherein they live

4. snatch

We are going to snatch a few hours' sleep.

5. 麦兜妈妈写给奥委会主席的信（节选）

你有孩子嗎? 我有一個孩子，麥兜。他是一個好男孩，他非常懂得搶那些包子。有一天，我看見他搶包山，搶了一個奧運金牌，那便是一個母親能夠有的最大的安慰。孩子的才幹，得到了世界人類的知道，父母願意做什麼的東西都行。於是我寫了這封信給你，雖然你不知道我是什麼微細的東西，但我的孩子很大，很大！有一天，你都會知道。多謝合作！

妳忠實的麥太