The 23rd Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea will end Sunday, and four Taiwanese athletes are competing this time around, including luger Lien Te-an and speed skaters Huang Yu-ting, Sung Ching-yang and Tai Wei-lin.
For the sport of figure skating that has attracted the most attention, Japan’s “Ice Prince” Yuzuru Hanyu, having recovered from injury, became the first in 66 years to win back-to-back Olympic titles in the men’s single figure skating competition. Shoma Uno of Japan took silver, and Spain’s Javier Fernandez, a former world champion, took bronze. The ladies’ single competition is taking place today.
In the pairs competition, Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany became Olympic champions, and in the ice dancing competition, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada became Olympic champions. In the end, Team Canada won the gold medal in the figure skating team event.
Photo: Reuters
照片︰路透
(CNA and Liberty Times, translated by Eddy Chang)
在南韓平昌舉行的第二十三屆冬季奧林匹克運動會將於週日閉幕,本屆台灣有四名運動員參賽——包括(無舵)雪橇好手連德安,競速滑冰名將黃郁婷、宋青陽、戴瑋麟。
在最受囑目的花式滑冰項目,日本「滑冰王子」羽生結弦傷癒復出,在男子競賽中勇奪金牌,成為六十六年來首位連續兩屆奪得奧運金牌的男子花式滑冰選手。日本名將宇野昌磨奪銀,西班牙前世界冠軍哈維爾費南德茲則銅牌入袋。女子競賽將於今日舉行。
在雙人競賽中,德國的薩芙琴柯/馬索特奪金。加拿大的薇楚/莫伊爾,則在冰舞競賽中勝出。加拿大最終勇奪團體賽金牌!
(中央社、自由時報)
Rice is an essential ingredient in Taiwanese cuisine. Many foods are made of rice, adding more variety to our cooking, such as rice cake, or “gui.” Wagui is made by steaming rice flour batter in a bowl. The term “gui” refers to a type of food made from rice, while “wa” refers to a bowl. The pronunciation of “gui” in Taiwanese Hokkien is similar to the word for “nobility” in Chinese, so it is common for people to prepare various types of gui, including wagui, as offerings to the gods or ancestors,. 米是台灣重要的主食,用米製成的食品十分多元,豐富我們的飲食,如米做成的「粿」。粿的意思是米做成的糕點,碗粿是將在來米漿倒入碗中蒸熟,因而得名。粿因為音同「貴」,因此碗粿等粿食常用作供品祭拜神明和祖先。 nobility (n.) 高貴,高尚;貴族 offering (n.) 供品 While Taiwan may not be
It’s no secret that Japanese people have a deep affection for noodles. Like in the rest of East Asia, noodles are an important staple food, second only to rice. Japanese people have enjoyed noodles for over 1,000 years. The first noodles came from China and were introduced around 800 CE. As time passed, noodles in Japan not only became widespread but also developed some unique Japanese characteristics. The three most popular types of noodles in Japan are ramen, soba, and udon. Ramen, typically made from wheat flour, is usually thin and firm. The dough is kneaded and left to
On Tuesday last week, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony. It will then be carried through Greece for more than 5,000km before being handed over to French organizers at the Athens venue used for the first modern Olympics in 1896. The pageantry at Olympia has been an essential part of every Olympics for nearly 90 years since the Games in Berlin. It’s meant to provide an ineluctable link between the modern event and the ancient Greek original on which it was initially modelled. Once
Drive-through (or drive-thru) restaurants provide people with the immense convenience of being able to purchase and pick up meals without needing to leave their vehicles. These restaurants have been around for decades, and their success has spawned a number of equally handy services. The drive-through concept originated with the drive-in restaurant, the first of which was established in the US in 1921. Patrons would order and eat the food that was delivered to their cars by workers called “carhops.” Ten years later, a drive-through service was introduced, but it was not until 1947 that the first exclusively drive-through restaurant opened its