祝火
English translation: Chahârshanbe Sûrî (Iranian festival of fire)
| 02:51 Jan 12, 2007 |
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| 4 +1 | Chahârshanbe Sûrî (Iranian festival of fire) |
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| 3 +1 | "I wish the fire" |
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| 3 +1 | make bon fires and jump over them |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1"I wish the fire" Explanation: http://etiquette.asiaec.com/jieri/waiguo/569327.html |
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12 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1make bon fires and jump over them Explanation: 跳 - jump over 祝火 - bon fire Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaharshanbe_Suri |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Chahârshanbe Sûrî (Iranian festival of fire) Explanation: I actually provided this answer under your previous question which contains two terms. Maybe deleted by some administrator as is against one question one term policy. In case you have not read it, I would like to attach the text again for your information. I think here a word by word translation is not necessary, you may just translate it into "celebrate the Chahârshanbe Sûrî (Iranian festival of fire)". Text from the Norouz entry of wikipedia (EN): The last Wednesday of the year is celebrated by the Iranian people as Chahârshanbe Sûrî Persian: چهارشنبه سوری), the Iranian festival of fire. This festival is the celebration of the light (the good) winning over the darkness (the bad...The tradition includes people going into the streets and alleys to make fires, and jump over them while singing the traditional song... Chahârshanbe Sûrî literally means "Red Wednesday". Example sentence(s): Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norouz |
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