At a crossroads outside town, an abandoned orchard had been divided by a chain fence and left beneath a heap of dead wood.
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在镇外的一个十字路口，一座废弃果园被铁链围栏分隔，枯木堆积其中，长期无人照料。
Reading 25: A Festival That Brought the Valley Together
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The council planned to convert the site into a contemporary cultural park with one core function: bringing a divided population together.
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市议会计划把这里改造成一座当代文化公园，其核心功能只有一个：让彼此分裂的居民重新相聚。
The proposal became a public issue because the orchard was also a small but unusual ecosystem.
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这项提案成为公众议题，因为这座果园同时还是一个规模虽小却不同寻常的生态系统。
A flock of birds nested there, a cuckoo returned each spring, and a brood of owls lived in the oldest tree.
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一群鸟在那里筑巢，一只杜鹃每年春天都会回来，最老的树上还住着一窝猫头鹰。
Environmental groups warned that a careless festival could damage local fauna as seriously as a swarm of pests, especially if workers had to dig through nesting ground.
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环保团体警告说，一场组织不当的节庆活动，可能像虫群一样严重破坏当地动物群，尤其是在工人必须挖开筑巢地时。
The festival chairman therefore invited an ecologist to join the planning forum and advocate a quieter design.
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因此，节庆活动主席邀请一名生态学家加入规划论坛，并倡导更安静的设计。
Her analogy was simple: a healthy park, like an orchestra, depends on different parts working together without one section dominating.
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她的类比很简单：一座健康的公园就像一支管弦乐队，需要不同部分彼此配合，而不是由某一部分压倒其他部分。
The chief architect kept the strongest trees, folded the main path around them, and placed each light behind a screen shaped like a leaf.
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首席建筑师保留了最健壮的树木，让主路绕树弯折，并把每盏灯置于一块形似叶片的遮光板后。
A unique local motif—two fish beneath a crescent moon—appeared on signs, tickets, and a wooden bow above the park's main gate.
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一种独特的本地图案——新月下的两条鱼——出现在标牌、门票以及公园主门上方的一把木弓上。
Some residents found the design magnificent; others thought the shining metal looked weird beside traditional farm buildings.
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一些居民认为设计十分壮丽；另一些人则觉得闪亮金属放在传统农舍旁显得古怪。
To avoid a vague compromise, the design team built a full-size section and invited people to inspect it in daylight and at night.
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为了避免模糊的折中，设计团队建造了一段原尺寸样品，邀请居民分别在白天和夜间查看。
That practical test revealed that the surface could dazzle drivers, so the team replaced it with a less reflective finish.
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实际测试表明，表面可能使司机目眩，于是团队把它换成了反光较弱的饰面。
The park would host a holiday festival, but it would not be purely commercial or depend on a lottery for funding.
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公园将举办节日庆典，但不会成为纯商业活动，也不会依靠彩票筹资。
Local corporations contributed money, while each club and church provided volunteers for one occasion.
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当地公司提供资金，各俱乐部和教堂则为活动中的一个场次提供志愿者。
A cathedral choir agreed to sing at the opening, and a mosque youth group offered to manage the picnic area.
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一支大教堂合唱团同意在开幕式演唱，一个清真寺青年团体则提出管理野餐区。
The nearby temple sent an elegant lantern, but its priest asked that holy symbols not be used merely as decoration.
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附近寺庙送来一盏优雅灯笼，但寺中的神职人员要求，不要仅仅把神圣符号当作装饰。
Organizers respected that request and created a seminar on faith, ritual, traditional usage, and the difference between respect and imitation.
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组织者尊重这一请求，并安排了一场关于信仰、仪式、传统用法以及尊重与模仿之别的研讨会。
The program mixed folk dance with jazz, comedy, and a newly written tune performed by the town band.
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节目把民间舞蹈与爵士乐、喜剧以及镇乐队演奏的新曲调结合在一起。
A virtual choir enabled former residents living abroad to appear on a screen and sing alongside those on stage.
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虚拟合唱团让旅居海外的旧居民能够出现在屏幕上，与舞台上的人一同歌唱。
Although the connection failed briefly, technicians restored it before the fourth verse.
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尽管网络连接短暂中断，技术人员还是在第四节歌词开始前恢复了它。
Children watched a circus performer manufacture a model whale from an empty carton, a packet, and a pile of paper.
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孩子们看着一位马戏演员用空纸箱、包装袋和一堆纸制作出鲸鱼模型。
The act looked like magic, but its moral was relevant: objects commonly called useless can acquire a second life.
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这个节目看似魔术，但其寓意很切题：通常被称为无用的物品，也能获得第二次生命。
At another tent, a naval engineer invited visitors to explore how whale research had inspired the shape of quiet underwater equipment.
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在另一个帐篷里，一名海军工程师邀请参观者探索鲸类研究如何启发安静水下设备的外形设计。
His expedition had used a dual battery system and an escort boat so that failure of one power source would not end the mission.
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他的考察队使用双电池系统和护航船，因此一个电源失效也不会终止任务。
The science area also displayed an exotic tiger photograph and discussed why breeding rare animals requires more than familiarity with their appearance.
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科学区还展出了一张异域老虎照片，并讨论了繁育稀有动物为何不仅需要熟悉它们的外表。
Visitors learned that every breed has typical needs and that no type of wild animal should be treated like a domestic donkey.
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参观者了解到，每个品种都有典型需求，任何类型的野生动物都不应被当作家养驴来对待。
Food stalls reflected the same variety: one served spicy stew, another offered mint cream, and a third followed a Greek recipe.
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食品摊位也体现了这种多样性：一家供应香辣炖菜，一家提供薄荷奶油，另一家采用希腊食谱。
Reusable mugs and saucers replaced disposable cups, while crumbs and fruit waste went to the orchard compost heap.
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可重复使用的马克杯和茶碟取代了一次性杯子，面包屑与水果残余则被送到果园的堆肥堆。
Volunteers had to scrub the mugs between uses, but most considered the extra work better than creating another mountain of rubbish.
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志愿者必须在每次使用后刷洗杯子，但多数人认为，多做一点工作也比制造另一座垃圾山好。
A race and a badminton league occupied the eastern field, while a golf club demonstrated a shorter game for beginners.
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东侧场地举行赛跑和羽毛球联赛，一家高尔夫俱乐部则为初学者演示简化玩法。
The winning troop of scouts received a medal, though their rival team finished only one point behind.
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获胜的童子军小队得到一枚奖牌，尽管对手只落后一分。
No event was divided by sex: female and male participants competed under equal rules.
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所有项目都不按性别划分；女性和男性参加者在平等规则下竞技。
A local boss objected, claiming that tradition required separate contests, but the organizers rejected his view as neither fair nor practical.
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一位本地老板提出反对，声称传统要求分开比赛，但组织者认为他的观点既不公平也不实际。
At the history tent, a postman displayed old letters describing a princess who had once visited the valley on vacation.
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在历史帐篷中，一名邮递员展示了旧信件；信中记载一位公主曾来山谷度假。
The familiar tale made her a flawless hero, yet the letters revealed a normal person who complained about rain and muddy roads.
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熟悉的故事把她塑造成完美无缺的英雄，然而这些信件展现的却是一个会抱怨雨水和泥路的普通人。
The discovery did not deny anyone's god or destroy her prestige; it replaced a divine image with a more human one.
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这一发现既没有否定任何人的神，也没有毁掉她的声望；它只是用更有人情味的形象取代了神化形象。
A classic puppet play then retold the story, giving its ruler a comic vice: he could command a kingdom but could never remember where he put his crown.
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随后，一出经典木偶剧重新讲述了这个故事，并赋予统治者一个滑稽缺点：他能治理王国，却总记不得把王冠放在哪里。
Behind the stage, performers arranged costumes in a cluster and tied each bunch of cables away from the rear exit.
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舞台后方，演员把服装集中放置，并把每束电缆固定到远离后门出口的地方。
This careful arrangement mattered when a firework produced a sudden shimmer and a small spark landed near the curtain.
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当烟花突然闪烁，一点火星落在帷幕附近时，这种谨慎安排发挥了作用。
The safety chief stopped the display, and nobody argued that spectacle was more important than life.
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安全负责人停止了表演，没有人争辩说视觉奇观比生命更重要。
By evening, the park was virtually full, yet the atmosphere remained calm because volunteers guided people along separate paths.
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到了傍晚，公园几乎满员，但由于志愿者引导人们沿不同路线通行，气氛仍保持平静。
The festival had not made every resident alike, nor had it solved every political or cultural issue.
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节庆并没有让所有居民变得相同，也没有解决所有政治或文化问题。
It had, however, created a connection among people who shared the valley but followed different customs.
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不过，它确实在共享同一山谷、却遵循不同习俗的人们之间建立了联系。
Its most radical idea was also its simplest: difference need not become rivalry when people have a common mission.
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它最具突破性的理念同时也最简单：当人们拥有共同使命时，差异不必变成对立。
As the final tune faded, orchard leaves shimmered above the crowd, and the old site seemed to possess a new spirit.
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当最后的曲调渐渐消散，果园树叶在人群上方闪烁，这片旧场地仿佛拥有了新的精神。