And he proceeded to pour a riverful of the salty black stuff on the china plate, right before my mother's shocked eyes.

接着他就当着我母亲吃惊的眼光，把“一河浜” 这种咸乎乎、黑溜溜的东西倒到了瓷盆里。

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Although westerners sometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on the plate, in China a whole fish is a symbol of richness.

虽然西方人有时看到鱼躺在盘子里会很难过，但在中国，整条鱼是富有的象征。

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The world was like a plate; paradise was up a mountain, across a sea, perhaps guarded by angels, maybe in China, or Armenia, or Abyssinia, or Mesopotamia.

世俗世界像是一个盘子，跨过群山，穿过海洋，或许在中国，或许在亚美尼亚，或许在埃塞俄比亚，或许在美索布达米亚，就是被天使所守卫的天堂。

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The other pieces used to decorate the table are the Clinton China service plate, the Johnson China center bowl, the Kennedy glassware, one brass candlestick from the Reagan administration, and some gilded silver candlesticks from the Eisenhower administration.

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