[彭蒙惠英语] 圣诞节降临埃克哈特湖(3/3)

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Christmas Comes to ELKhart Lake

A market full of international delights

June Anderson of Wausau, Wisconsin, also makes her living at trade shows, selling an exquisite collection of enameled ceramics from Uzbekistan. Her Father Frost figures, and pecking hens from Russia are signed on the bottom with the name of the artist and the town where they were made. Most of the goods come from a single village near Moscow, where Anderson negotiates for them using her “30 words of Russian.” For the last six years, she’s been selling her finds at The Osthoff.

“It’s so cool to see people coming back to me every year; it’s fun,” she said.

Other booths sell crystal from the Czech Republic, pottery from Poland and ornaments from Egypt. Vendors from Germany sell lace, straw ornaments and ceramics. Everyone seems to buy plump, iced gingerbread boys or girls from the Ovens of Gracie O’Malley, which also sells cellophane bags of gingerbread plums and pears, dusted with real gold. Few shoppers can resist a cone of the warm, roasted almonds that are a staple at German festivals. And for many, a bite of the potato pancakes, eaten with applesauce and sour cream, will be a reminder of childhood and perhaps of grandmother’s cooking.

By mid-morning on the first Saturday of the market, the weekend crowds have begun to arrive. Vaclav and Nadia Cinadr’s booth is people snapping up fragile glass at bargain prices.

“I put out so much, people can’t leave without buying something,” Nadia says with glee. “We have so much fun here.”

Vocabulary Focus

gingerbread man (n. phr) ---a hard ginger biscuit shaped and decorated to look like a person

carry on (phr. v) ---to continue to do something

the real thing (n. phr) ---the original, best or most typical example of something

make (one’s) living (v. phr) ---to earn money by working at a job

snap (something) up (phr. v) ---to buy something quickly and eagerly because it is cheap or exactly what you want

Specialized terms

Advent (n.)--- 降临节 the four weeks before Christmas

faux-Victorian (adj)--- 仿英国维多利亚女王年代的 characteristic of something made during the reign of Britain’s Queen Victoria, but actually much newer

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