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国家地理-2008-09-25 西班牙的蕃茄节

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Thousands of people descended1 on the Spanish town of Bunol on Wednesday to take part in the Tomatina festival. The annual food fight draws visitors from around the world.

 

They pelt2 each other with ripe fruit until they become soaked through with tomato juice and covered in pulp3, using more than 200,000 pounds of tomatoes. Some of those involved in this messy festival got a stinging reminder4 that tomatoes are acidic, and could be seen rubbing their eyes after getting a soggy missile to the face. When the tomato supply runs out, the messy throng5 jumps into a nearby river en masse.

 

La Tomatina is rumoured6 to have started in the 1940s when a group of young friends began throwing their lunch at each other one day, near a vegetable stand on a town square. Before long, it turned into an annual tradition

 

Pelt: to attack someone by throwing a lot of things at them

en masse: (from French) all together, and usually in large numbers

La Tomatina: a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region in Spain.
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1 descended guQzoy     
a.为...后裔的，出身于...的
参考例句：
  • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
  • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
2 pelt A3vzi     
v.投掷，剥皮，抨击，开火
参考例句：
  • The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。
  • Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.人群开始向警车扔石块。
3 pulp Qt4y9     
n.果肉，纸浆；v.化成纸浆，除去...果肉，制成纸浆
参考例句：
  • The pulp of this watermelon is too spongy.这西瓜瓤儿太肉了。
  • The company manufactures pulp and paper products.这个公司制造纸浆和纸产品。
4 reminder WkzzTb     
n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示
参考例句：
  • I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
  • It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
5 throng sGTy4     
n.人群，群众；v.拥挤，群集
参考例句：
  • A patient throng was waiting in silence.一大群耐心的人在静静地等着。
  • The crowds thronged into the mall.人群涌进大厅。
6 rumoured cef6dea0bc65e5d89d0d584aff1f03a6     
adj.谣传的；传说的；风
参考例句：
  • It has been so rumoured here. 此间已有传闻。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • It began to be rumoured that the jury would be out a long while. 有人传说陪审团要退场很久。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

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