Per aspera ad astra.
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China Daily 网站上的一个视频也许对你有些帮助：
字幕原文及注释：
The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a celebration that focuses on the moon. Enjoying the beauty of the full moon on this day has been a long-standing tradition Chinese custom for centuries.
* lunar month：阴历
* focus on：专注于
* enjoy：关于"赏月"的"赏"除了用 enjoy 之外，还可
以用更直白的 watch，或者 appreciate，很多国外
网站还用到了 worship (崇拜)，表达了对 Moon
Goddess 的崇敬之情。
* long-standing：存在已久的
* tradition：此处应为 traditional (传统的)
The West Lake "Three Pools Mirroring the Moon" in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, is a great spot to appreciate the full moon. There are three hollow stone towers in the center of the West Lake. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lights in the tower reflects fifteen "moons" across the surface of the water around the towers. The true moon and its reflected counterparts are difficult to distinguish, giving rise to the name "Three Pools Mirroring the Moon".
* mirror：原义为镜子，这里是动词"映照"。
* a great spot to appreciate the full
moon：赏月的绝佳地点
* hollow：空的
* reflect：反映
* counterpart：对应的人或物
* distinguish：区分
* give rise to：产生，导致
The Chinese loved the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival so much and even printed the picture of the "Three Pools Mirroring the Moon" on the back of one yuan note.
* note：纸币
According to the legend in ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky simultaneously and the strong exposure and extremely hot temperature made people's lives a mysery. A hero named Houyi came along, shot down nine suns and saved the world. To reward his bravery, the Queen Mother gave him an elixir as a reward. Houyi's wife Chang'e drank the elixir by accident and became immortal. Since immortals cannot remain in a mortal realm, she had to leave the earth, ascended to the moon and could only watch the human world from afar.
* simultaneously：同时
* exposure：暴露
* mysery：苦难，悲惨的遭遇，这个单词容
易和 mystery (神秘的人或物)混淆起来。
* bravery：勇敢
* elixir：灵丹妙药
其它"灵丹妙药"可以点击以下链接查看：
* as a reward：作为奖励，此处与上句词义
重复，可以删除。
* immortal：不死的(人)
* realm：领域，王国
* ascend to：升到
* from afar：从远处
China's "Chang'e Moon Exploration Project" is named after this story.
* exploration：探索
* be named after：以…命名
On Jan 3,2019, Chang'e Detector No.4 successfully landed on the moon, returning the world's first close range image of the dark side of the moon.
* detector：探测器
* land on：着陆于
* close range：近距离
Aside from Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most important festival symbolizing reunion. The roundness of the full moon expresses the people's desire for a wholesome happy family.
* aside from：除…之外
* symbolize：象征着
* reunion：重逢，团圆
* wholesome：健康的
Eating moon cakes is an important custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Due to the different diet habits in different regions, moon cakes vary in taste. Traditional flavors include fillings of five kernel, egg yolk, jujube paste and bean paste. Now there are new flavors like ice cream and durian.
* diet habit：饮食习惯
* region：地区
* kernel：坚果核
* yolk：蛋黄
* jujube paste：枣泥
Although the taste of moon cakes is changing, the symbolic meaning of the full moon remain unchanged and the Chinese custom of eating moon cake and longing for reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival will never fade away.
* symbolic meaning：象征意义
* remain unchanged：保持不变
* long for：渴望
* fade away：逐渐消失
After a short get-together during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival, a festival of renewal growth and cherishing the past is just around the corner led by the old and the wise.
* get-together：相聚
* renewal growth：renewal 为"更新"之
意，growth 为成长，个人认为表达为
renewal and growth 更合适一些，即人们
常说的"一元肇始"的意思，而"登高"直译为
climbing mountains 即可。
* cherish the past：珍惜过往
* around the corner：即将到来
* the old and the wise：长者与智者
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