(495) Collin Street Bakery cake [読解]
Dear Preferred Customer,
When you buy a world-famous Collin Street Bakery cake, you’re getting a big, tasty piece of Texas! These delicious cakes have been eagerly anticipated1) Christmas gifts since 1896 by foodies2) throughout Texas, and around the world!
(1) anticipate: look forward to
(2) foodie:a person keenly interested in food, especially in eating or cooking.
Choose among any of these delicious Collin Street Bakery products:
Original Deluxe Fruitcake – Our world famous of Texas pecans3), pineapple and papaya4) handpicked from our own farms in tropical Costa Rica5), plump6) red cherries, and golden Sultana7) raisins, all bound together by our proprietary8) clover honey batter9). Beautifully decorated for the holidays.
(3) pecan: hickory tree bearing a smooth-shelled nut or the nut
(4) papaya: tropical tree with large edible fruit
(5) Costa Rica: country in central America
(6) plump: having a full rounded form
(7) Sultana: a pale yellow seedless grape grown for raisins and wine
(8) proprietary: (of a brand name, product, service, formula, etc.) protected by a patent, copyright, or trademark:
(9) batter: mixture of flour and liquid
pic. Original Deluxe Fruitcake
Sliced Deluxe Fruitcake – Try our world famous Deluxe Fruitcake pre-sliced into easy-to-serve portions for your net holiday party.
Texas Blonde Pecan Cake – Almost 1/3 Texas pecans, pineapple and papaya handpicked in tropical Costa Rica, ripe red cherries and golden Sultana raisins. Handsomely10) decorated with two concentric11) rows of pecan halves for a sophisticated12) presentation.
(10) handsomely: beautifully
(11) concentric: having a common center
(12) sophisticated: cultivated
pic. Texas Blonde Pecan Cake
Apricot Pecan Cake - A delightfully tangy13) blend of Australian apricots14) and crunchy Texas pecans. A customer favorite!
(13) tangy: having a strong taste or flavor
(14) apricot: peach-like fruit
pic. Apricot Pecan Cake
Pineapple Pecan Cake – Sweet and succulent pineapple from Costa Rica, combined with rich, crunchy, Texas pecans.
Pic. Pineapple Pecan Cake
Miniature Native Texas Pecan Cakes – The gift set includes one of our classic Mini Texas Deluxe Fruitcake, a Mini Apricot Pecan Cake, a Mini Pineapple Pecan Cake and a Mini Texas Blonde Pecan Cake. Each cake is delivered in our charming collector’s tins, measuring about 5” (12 cm) across. That’s four gifts in one! A true gift-giver’s delight!
Every Native Texas Pecan Cake we bake is loaded with rich, crunchy Texas pecans and exotic gla·céed15) fruit. These cakes are only available by mail order, or in one of our five Texas Bakeshops.
(15) gla·cée: to cook in heavy syrup until transparent, as fruit, fruit peel, or ginger.
Enjoyed by Millions of People Worldwide Every Year!
We delivered over 1 million Texas Pecan Cake and other Collin Street Bakery desserts every year. We are proud of our reputation as one of the finest bakeries in the world, and offer our products with an unconditional guarantee of satisfaction.
The Secret is in the Texas Native Pecans…and our Delicious Clover Honey Batter.
You and your gift recipients16) will enjoy full flavored native pecans in every bite. Native pecans, Nature’s finest, grow wild across Texas and the Deep South and comprise17) almost 30 percent of the cake. Our world renowned recipe comes from our founding baker, Gus Weidmann, who immigrated to Texas from Germany, founding his bakery in 1896.
(16) recipient: [rɪsípiənt] one that receives
(17) comprise: be made up of
Unconditional Guarantee
Every cake we bake is guaranteed to be the best you and your gift recipients have ever tasted. If you disagree in any way, just tell us and we will immediately replace you cake or refund18) the purchaser. Also, every cake sent to recipients on your list will include your name and person greeting.
(18) refund: give or put back (money)
We accept orders by web, phone, mail, or fax. Go to our website anytime at WWW.collinstreet.com. Call us at +1-903-654-6606, fax your order to +1-903-872-6879, or mail your order form to: P.O. Box 79, Corsicana, TX 75151, USA. We will take care of the rest!
Sincerely,
John Crawford
Executive V.P.& Director
Collin Street Bakery
P.S. Share the rich heritage of this world class Fruitcake and our world famous Texas bakery with family and friends. Our book, A Slice of Life, celebrates family, home and hearth with personal stories from Collin Street Bakery customers from around the world. Details at www.collinstree.com.
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(494) “Uwajima Sansa” and “Sansa Shigure” [英作文]
All Japan SGG Gathering at Matsushima 2018 was held on Nov. 2nd and 3rd. On the first day’s night many members got together at Matsushima’s Hotel and enjoyed buffet style party. One of the members of Sendai area began to sing a folk song, “Sansa shigure” meaning Sansa Icy Rain. This song was created by Date soldiers elated over their victory in the battle of Suriagehara (摺上原). Then I thought I must sing “Uwajima sansa” after him as a man born in Uwajima. I sang the song on the stage. It went like this:
The sparrow in bamboo Sendai lord, shongaina
竹に雀の 仙台様も ションガイナ
Now over here, ei ei ei together
今じゃこなたと エエー諸共にヨ
Uwajima warriors all made a vow, shongaina
しかと誓いし 宇和島武士は ションガイナ
For life and death, ei ei ei together
死ぬも生きるも エエー諸共にヨ
“Uwajima sansa” was sung for the first time by the Uwajima samurai Yoshida Mansaku at the mediation banquet about 270 years ago. He sang “Uwajima sansa” ad lib after “Snasa shigure” sung by a Sendai samurai. So I was happy that I happened to have a similar situation of the old time. Uwajima Date had the same culture as Sendai Date. Even now Uwajima has the same culture as Sendai, such as Uwajima Kamaboko (fish cake), shika-odori (deer dance ) and Tanabata festival.
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Picture: “Sparrow in bamboo” Date family crest on the incense-burner at Zuihoden (瑞鳳殿), the mausoleum of Date Masamune (伊達政宗)
(493) Halloween 2018 [調べる]
(493) Halloween 2018
pic. Halloween on cup
(1) What is Halloween?
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
The evening of October 31 observed esp. by children merrymaking and masquerading.
Oxford Advanced learner’s dictionary:
31 October, the eve of All Saints’ Day.
The Random House Dictionary:
The evening of October 31, celebrated by children as merrymaking festival.
Pic. JA Saisaikiteya market at Imabari
Longman Active Study Dictionary 5th edition:
The night of October 31, when children dress as WITCHES, GHOSTS etc.
Pic. Halloween Mask
The Charlie Brown Dictionary (1973):
Halloween is the last night in October. On this holiday some children wear masks like Charlie Brown’s. Others wear funny clothes like Lucy’s.
?The kids come to the door and say, “Trick or treat.”
?If they don’t get a treat like a candy, they will play a trick on the people who didn’t give them something good to eat. Now most kids gather money on Halloween for poor children all over the world.
Pic. Charlie Brown and Lucy
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/halloween?s=t
The evening of October 31: the eve of All Saints’s Day; Allhallows Eve: observed especially by children in costumes who solicit1) treats, often by threatening minor pranks2).?
?1) solicit: ask for,
?2) prank: playful or mischievous acts
(2) Historical Examples?of?Halloween
Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913
Pic. Armour’s Monthly Cook Book
Halloween
? ?The date of this oldtime celebration is always October 31st, the crucial moment 12 o'clock. To be sure, the original observance of All Hallows Eve has been considerably distorted during the course of years but the fun it affords the young folks in its present manner of keeping cannot be gainsaid1) and needs no changing. Halloween is the night when a magic spell enthrals2) the earth. Witches, bogies, brownies and elves are all abroad to use their power. Superstition proves true, witchery is recognized and the future may be read in a hundred and one ways.
(1)?gainsay: deny or dispute
(2)?enthrall: hold spellbound
(3) Word Origin and History for Halloween
c.1745, Scottish shortening of Allhallow-even “Eve of All Saints, last night of October” (1550s), the last night of the year in the old Celtic calendar, where it was Old Year‘s Night , a night for witches. A pagan1) holiday given a cursory2) baptism and sent on its way. See hallow; also cf. hallows.
(1) pagan: heathen, uncivilized or godless person
(2) cursory: hastily done, lacking in depth, solidity, and comprehesiveness
(Online Etymology Dictionary, 2010 Douglas Harper)
pic. Halloween at Towel Museum
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