April Fools' Day

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'To end our special news bulletin,'

“为结束我们的特别新闻快报，”

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said the voice of the television announcer, 'we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria.

电视播音员的声音说道，“我们现在转向卡拉布里亚的通心粉田。”

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Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.

通心粉在这片区域种植已有六百多年了。

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Two of the leading growers Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante,

两位主要的种植者朱塞佩·摩尔多瓦和里卡尔多·布拉班特，

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tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.

告诉我他们今年预计会有一个丰收，而且收割比往常开始得早。

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Here you can see two workers who, between them,

在这里你可以看到两位工人，他们俩，

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have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.

刚砍完了三车金黄色的通心粉茎。

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The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains.

整个村庄昼夜不停地收割和脱粒今年的庄稼，以赶在九月雨季之前。

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On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself.

在右边，你可以看到布拉班特夫人本人。

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She has been helping her husband for thirty years now.

她已经帮助她的丈夫三十年了。

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Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.

布拉班特夫人正在和当地加工庄稼的工厂经理交谈。

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This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest:

这最后一幕向你展示了收割结束后将发生的事情：

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the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition!

著名的卡拉布里亚通心粉大赛！

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Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.

现任冠军弗拉特利先生自1991年以来每年都赢得了比赛。

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And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st.

今天的特别快报到此结束，今天是4月1日星期四。

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We're now going back to the studio.'

我们现在回到演播室。”