Paint the Town Red
西班牙蕃茄节

【新闻关键字】
1. tomatina: n.= tomato fight蕃茄大战
2. tomato sauce: n. 蕃茄酱
3. turn up: v.phr. 出现、到达
4. intention: n. 目的
5. splatter: v. 泼、洒
6. ripe：adj. 成熟的
7. squishy: adj. 压扁的
8. missile: n. 飞弹

Anchor:
Tomato throwers painted one Spanish town red for an annual tomatina festival. In the end the whole town and everyone in it looks to be covered in tomato sauce. Here’s more.
新闻主播：
一年一度的番茄节把西班牙小镇染成一片红，最后整个城镇每个人看起来都覆盖上一层番茄酱。 我们继续收看更精彩的。

STORY:
About 40,000 people turned up for this event but they don’t wear their best clothes. Their intention is to splatter everyone else with ripe tomatoes. In fact they hurl more than 130 tons of squishy missiles at each other.
新闻内容：
约有四万人涌向这场盛会现场，但他们并未穿着最佳服装，因为他们要向每个人泼洒成熟的蕃茄酱汁，事实上，他们总共互丢了超过一百三十吨的挤烂番茄。

【新闻关键字】
9. patron: n. 守护神
10. goggle: n. 护目镜
11. onslaught: n. 突击
12. hose：v.用水管清洗

This is being done to honor the town’s patron saint, St. Luis Bertran. The famous festival attracts thousands from around the world and leaves the eastern Spanish town in a pool of tomato sauce.
这么做是为了荣耀保护神圣徒St. Luis Bertran。这个远近驰名的节庆吸引了数千名各国人士，让西班牙东部的小镇变成了蕃茄酱池。

People even wear goggles and shopkeepers put up plastic to protect their property from the messy onslaught. Later, local residents helped cool down and clean the tomato throwers by hosing them off.
人们甚至戴上护目镜，商店老板也把商品铺上一层塑胶，以避免遭到四面八方的突击。稍后，当地居民会用水管帮丢番茄的那些人冲洗，帮助他们冷静下来。（translated by Wen-Chi Liao）

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