Paint the Town Red
西班牙蕃茄節
【新聞關鍵字】
1. tomatina: n.= tomato fight蕃茄大戰
2. tomato sauce: n. 蕃茄醬
3. turn up: v.phr. 出現、到達
4. intention: n. 目的
5. splatter: v. 潑、灑
6. ripe：adj. 成熟的
7. squishy: adj. 壓扁的
8. missile: n. 飛彈
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.
新聞主播：
一年一度的番茄節把西班牙小鎮染成一片紅，最後整個城鎮每個人看起來都覆蓋上一層番茄醬。 我們繼續收看更精采的。
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.
新聞內容：
約有四萬人湧向這場盛會現場，但他們並未穿著最佳服裝，因為他們要向每個人潑灑成熟的蕃茄醬汁，事實上，他們總共互丟了超過一百三十噸的擠爛番茄。
【新聞關鍵字】
9. patron: n. 守護神
10. goggle: n. 護目鏡
11. onslaught: n. 突擊
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.
這麼做是為了榮耀保護神聖徒St. Luis Bertran。這個遠近馳名的節慶吸引了數千名各國人士，讓西班牙東部的小鎮變成了蕃茄醬池。
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.
人們甚至戴上護目鏡，商店老闆也把商品鋪上一層塑膠，以避免遭到四面八方的突擊。稍後，當地居民會用水管幫丟番茄的那些人沖洗，幫助他們冷靜下來。（translated by Wen-Chi Liao）
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