mooncakes

"It doesn't matter how much a package costs. . . . Mooncakes are the best way to say: Let us keep in touch. "

“月饼值多少钱没关系…它是表达‘保持联络’的最佳方式。”

The value is often not in the mooncakes, he says, but in the presentation.

他表示，价格通常并不体现在月饼上，而是在包装上。

A man was shocked to discover that his firm had deducted 45 yuan from his salary for a box of 300 yuan mooncakes it had given him.

一位男士吃惊地发现公司从发给自己的一盒价值300元的月饼里面扣了税，导致他的薪水被扣45元。

It is said "Hou Yi" missed his wife, so he made mooncakes.

这是说“后羿”失去了他的妻子，所以他做月饼。

It is said that mooncakes - which the Mongols did not eat - were the perfect vehicle for hiding and passing along plans for the rebellion.

据说月饼蒙古人不吃的被用来和传递起义用的计划。

Over 96 percent of the participants of an ongoing poll on weibo. com said the tax body should impose no tax on mooncakes.

正在进行的微博用户调查显示，超过96%的参与者认为不应征收月饼税。

They're too sweet and not healthy, " she said. " I just bring them with me when I meet friends and give mooncakes to anyone who wants one.

“这些月饼太甜了而且并不健康。只有我去见朋友时才会带着，给那些想要的人”。

Mooncakes are so pivotal to the Mid-Autumn Festival that in one popular myth it was the pastry that started it all.

月饼对中秋节的重要性不言而喻，在一个广为流传的传说中，月饼成了中秋节起源之始。

Most recently, the company made a Moon Festival comic strip and released branded mooncakes just for its fastest growing market.

该公司不久前制作了以中秋节为主题的连环漫画，并且专门为增长最快的中国市场推出了品牌月饼。

"We've created a very nice red box that looks like a jewellery box. It's a box to be kept after the mooncakes are eaten. "

“我们制作了一款非常漂亮的红色包装盒，看上去就像一个珠宝盒。在吃完月饼后，盒子可以收藏。”

Mooncakes symbolize the gathering of friends and family and are an indispensable part of the offerings made to the Earth God, Tu Ti Kung.

月饼不仅象征着家人、朋友的团聚，也是献给土地神的一种祭品。

In an effort to make mooncakes more palatable, Chinese and foreign companies have started incorporating unconventional flavors.

而为了让月饼更加可口，中外各家公司都开始尝试新的口味。

Just as turkeys symbolize Thanksgiving Day, mooncakes symbolize China's Mid-Autumn Festival.

就像火鸡象征西方感恩节一样，月饼象征着中国中秋节。

The price hike of raw materials including sugar, eggs, and cooking oil has contributed to the climbing cost of manufacturing mooncakes.

业内人士称，受糖、蛋、油等原材料价格上涨的影响，2011年的月饼涨价已成定局。

The colour of the paste in the mooncake is purple and is most commonly used in Teochew crusty mooncakes.

的颜色粘贴在月饼是紫色的，是最常用的潮州硬壳月饼。

I usually stay with my parents, my grandparents we eat the mooncakes and admire the full moon in the sky.

我通常与我的父母或祖父母呆在一起。我们在吃月饼的同时也在欣赏着天空中的一轮满月。

These luxuriantly packaged mooncakes are selling well both in supermarkets and hotels around the country.

这种豪华包装的月饼在国内的各大超市和酒店十分走俏。

As the day draws near, mooncakes become the most popular food and a gift given to mark the occasion.

随着中秋节一天天的临近，月饼成为这一时期的抢手货和礼品。

But residents old enough to remember a 2003 scandal involving mouldy mooncakes, probably will not mind.

不过，如果上海市民还记得2003年的一桩发霉月饼丑闻的话，他们很可能不会介意这一点。

You and your friends must come over to my house and see mooncakes.

你和你的朋友一定过来我的房子而且见到