Dear Parents and Teachers, Please find the following updates for this week. LHXCS Board Decisions LHXCS Board has held a meeting on 11/17 to seek final solution on the issues related to the MPM/MPE contract with Livingston BOE. The goal is to restrict parking on streets near MPM/MPE so that Livingston BOE will allow our parents entering MPE/MPM building and playing in the Big GYM. The LHXCS Board decisions are: Livingston Huaxia Chinese School will hire police to help maintain order on the streets near MPM/MPE on Saturdays for the 2015-2016 school year. The total cost is about $10,000. To defray the cost, the School needs to collect $10.00/student one-time fee. Livingston Huaxia Chinese School will open a registration membership for using the Big Gym to cover the gym rental cost and other related expenses. The membership fee is $100/person for the school year. Our school will start to collect money based on the above board decisions on this Saturday, 10/24. For students in Chinese (include Maliping) class of first grade and up or CSL class or AP class, parents please give $10 bill to your child and ask him/her to hand it in to his/her Chinese(or Maliping or CSL) class teacher. 1
For other students (adult class, culture class, kindergarten class, Preschool class), please pay $10 to school at the registration desk in the cafeteria. For Big gym users, you must register and pay the fee at the registration desk to get a card to access the Big Gym, and your name will be posted in the Big Gym for your legitimate gym membership. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation! Tuition Refund Tuition refund checks will be available next Saturday 10/31 at the registration desk in the cafeteria. Please come to pick up with your photo ID. Recitation Contest Winners I am excited to announce the winners of the annual Livingston Huaxia Chinese School Grades 1 to 3 Recitation Contest which was held on Oct. 17, 2015. Congratulations! 1-3 年级演讲比赛成绩 年级 / 班 / 教师第一名第二名第三名 一年级一班钟云赵家毅蒋乐天王柏博 一年级二班向晶晶杨旖怡汤崴莛王懿 二年级一班冯冉李书瑜杨成杰赵亦洋 二年级二班潘梅 申屠宣昀喻晗嫣, 郭羡铃 二年级三班潘梅路宇轩胡睿思张一心, 刘金锐 三年级一班王青戈在林王雨婷许远平 三年级二班高岳周忆南沈析人陈子兮 三年级三班王青陈思媛邢雅淑张昊洋, 容家宝 马力平一年级一班张莉莉黄霆锐吴克印黄安然, 黄飞虎 马力平一年级二班张莉莉赵天睿刘尹轩彭乐天, 陈墨 马力平一年级三班史慧颖王致远 李奕阳 马力平二年级一班吕红蒋乐炎吴悠郑德为 2
1-3 年级演讲比赛成绩 年级 / 班 / 教师 第一名 第二名 第三名 马力平二年级二班黄爱华 陈瑞恩, 王婧晖杜怡宁 马力平二年级三班吕红 田霈然 陈皓轩 梅昊然 马力平二年级四班武国珍 任天佑 Ian Xu 马力平三年级一班朱艳萍 李融 李乐伦 姚博骅, 苏琳琅 马力平三年级二班朱旭燕 程永馨 刘雯 徐睿杰, 徐安洁 马力平三年级三班赵谊 任天仪 Michael Tong Principal, LHXCS Fall 2015 Important Dates 10/31/2015 Halloween parade 11/1/2015 Daylight Saving Time Ends 11/7/2015 Chinese Dictionary Look Up Contest (Grade 2-9) 11/15/2015 LHXCS Teacher Conference 11/21/2015 Regular school day 11/28/2015 School closed for Thanksgiving Day 12/12/2015 Textbook Recitation Contest (Grade 4-9) 12/19/2015 Christmas & New Year Celebration ( 暂定 ) 12/26/2015 School closed for holiday 3
不请客, 就捣蛋! 写给李文斯顿学中文的孩子们沈其宗 秋风一起, 便迎来了金色的十月, 令小朋友兴奋的 Halloween 也就在下一个街口了 然而, 不管是在我们的中文课本里, 还是一些中文报纸上, 却都把 Halloween 说成 万圣节 ( 读过马立平四年级的同学该记忆犹新吧?) 我想借机试着用下面这个 练习 从另一个角度来激发同学们对语言学习的兴趣 先理一下事实, 在西方宗教日历上, 11 月 1 日是 All Saints Day, 照字面译成中文就是 万圣节 或 诸圣日 ( 这种译法叫 直译 (direct translation, literal translation, 或 word-for-word translation, 就像我们的 中秋节 被直译为 Mid-Autumn Festival 一样 ) 我们再来做点词源学的功课, Halloween 是缩自 All Hallows Even, 意为 :Eve of All Saints Day Eve, even 的变体, 在这是指重大日子或节日的前夜 前夕 我们都明白 Christmas Eve 与 Christmas Day 不是同一天, 就像 New Year s Eve 与 New Year s Day 不是同一天一样 讲到此地, 同学们还会把 Halloween 说成是 万圣节 吗? 其实, 这种张冠李戴的误译现象并非罕见 说到误译, 最经典的也许要算我小时候听过的一段名人轶事了 清代末期一位名人把英国的一份大报 The Times 误认为是以伦敦那条 泰晤士河 (The Thames) 为名的报纸, 于是他把报名译成 泰晤士报 介绍给了中国读者 就因为这是 4
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