Chinese performers promote Olympics in Hollywood

时间：2007-03-05 00:24:32

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa poses for a photo with young girls from Beijing. Around 600 performers from Beijing participated in a large parade in Hollywood on Saturday, March 3, 2007, to showcase traditional Chinese culture to the American public and promote the 2008 summer Olympics.
 
Mar1.4 - Nearly 600 performers from Beijing on Saturday staged a large parade for nearly two hours in Hollywood in an effort to showcase traditional Chinese culture to the American public and promote the 2008 summer Olympics, which will be held in the Chinese capital next year.

 

The event, jointly3 sponsored by Beijing and Los Angeles municipal governments, attracted thousands of local residents and tourists, who gathered along Hollywood Boulevard to watch various culturally rich programs by those in colorful classic costumes.

 

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, while inaugurating the event, said that it was a great honor for Los Angeles that Beijing chose it as the only U.S. city to hold such a gala.

 

Villaraigosa, who visited China by leading a trade and business delegation4 several months ago, said the two cities signed friendship agreement last year and face great prospects5 in fields like trade and tourism cooperation, noting that Los Angles has become the only foreign city with a tourism office in Beijing.

 

Besides more that 580 performers, aged2 from 7 to 70, from all walks of life in Beijing, some 200 schoolchildren and high school students from Los Angeles participated in the parade.

 

Los Angeles is the only U.S. city where the parade has been shown, after those Beijing performers staged similar annul6 parade in Paris, London and Sydney in the past three years, organizers said.

 

The Hollywood Boulevard parade was presented to Los Angeles, which has hosted two Olympic games separately in 1932 and 1984, to announce "Beijing Welcomes You" to encourage visitors to attend the 2008 Olympics, said Yu Debin, deputy director of the Beijing Tourism Administration.

 

The official said the event also served as an opportunity for those Chinese performers to share their traditional folk culture with the American public.

 



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1 mar f7Kzq     
vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟
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  • It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
  • Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
2 aged 6zWzdI     
adj.年老的，陈年的
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  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。
3 jointly jp9zvS     
ad.联合地，共同地
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  • Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
  • She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
4 delegation NxvxQ     
n.代表团；派遣
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  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
5 prospects fkVzpY     
n.希望，前途(恒为复数)
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  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
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6 annul kwzzG     
v.宣告…无效，取消，废止
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  • They have the power to alter or annul inappropriate decisions of their own standing committees.他们有权改变或者撤销本级人民代表大会常务委员会不适当的决定。
  • The courts later found grounds to annul the results,after the king urged them to sort out the "mess".在国王敦促法庭收拾烂摊子后，法庭随后宣布废除选举结果。

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