再过几天就过春节了。对全球华人来说，春节可能是一年当中最重要的节日了。
下面和大家分享一下与春节有关的部分英语单词和例句，可以在向外国朋友介绍中国春节时用上：
春节 Chinese New Year，老外是这么用的。中国人喜欢用 Spring Festival，其实不太准确。
例：The Chinese New Year is the most important festival in China.
农历新年 Lunar New Year 例 ：The Lunar New Year is a traditional Chinese festival.
除夕 Chinese New Year's Eve
（对中国人来说，除夕很重要。在西方国家，圣诞节前一夜也很重要！他们叫Christmas Eve，也叫Holy Night 神圣的夜晚 或 Silent Night 安静的夜晚。有两首英文歌分别叫Oh, Holy Night 和Silent Night，非常优美。）
年夜饭、团圆饭 New Year’s Eve dinner / Reunion dinner
例：The family gets together for the New Year's Eve Dinner on the Spring Festival.
生肖 Zodiac animal(s) / Chinese zodiac(s)
农历/阴历 Lunar calendar
阳历 Solar calendar
拜年 pay New Year’s call / pay a New Year’s visit
习俗 tradition / custom
压岁钱 Lucky Money
红包 Red envelope / Red Packet
派红包为“give red envelope”，而领红包就是“receive red envelope”。
鞭炮Firecrackers 例：People set off firecrackers to celebrate the Spring Festival.
饺子 Dumpling 例：Dumplings are a traditional food eaten during the Spring Festival.
舞狮Lion Dance 例：Children receive lucky money from their parents and relatives during the Spring Festival.
除旧迎新 Out with the old, in with the new.
春运 Spring festival travel season 不是spring transportation
春联couplet
由于春联许多都是对联形式，所以常用其复数形式couplets。贴春联是 hang up ～, 或者paste ～。
以下例句一起来看看如何用英语解释春联：“Spring couplets are a pair of poetic lines vertically pasted on both sides of the door, written in black ink on red paper. When I was a kid, my grandpa always taught me how to write spring couplets. After that, we pasted them on our front door together.”（春联是一副对联，竖着贴在门两边的诗句，用黑墨水写在红纸上。小时候，爷爷总是教我写春联。之后，我们一起把它们贴在大门上。）
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