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2009年11月15日三级笔译实务真题英译汉Plans are well under way for a year of celebrations to mark the upcoming bicentennial of one of Polands favorite native sons-Frédéric, Chopin.The prestigious International Chopin Competition for pianists will mark its 16th edition in October 2010. Held every five years, the competition draws scores of young musicians from all over the world. In addition, Warsaws Chopin Museum, with the worldA lavishly illustrated new guidebook called Chopins Poland was already published this year. It leads visitors to dozens of sites in Warsaw and elsewhere around the country where the composer lived, ate, studied, performed, visited or even partied.Actually, Chopin doesnt need to be promoted, but we hope that Poland and Polish culture can be promoted through Chopin, said Monika Strugala, who is coordinating the Chopin 2010 program under the aegis of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, a body set up by the Sejm in 2001 to promote and protect Chopins work and image.We want to confirm to all that he is a very, very important Polish symbol, she said. Indeed, its not much of an exaggeration to say that Chopins music flows through the Polish national consciousness like some sort of cultural lifeblood.The son of a Polish mother and a French émigré father, Chopin was born in a manor house at Zelazowa Wola, about 50 kilometers, or 30 miles, west of Warsaw, and moved to Warsaw as an infant.The manor is something of a Chopin shrine-since the 1930 s it has been a museum and center for concerts. Like the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, it, too, is undergoing extensive renovation as part of bicentennial preparations.Chopin spent his first 20 years in and around Warsaw. He was already a noted pianist as a boy and composed concertos and other important works as a teenager. He carried Polish soil with him when he left Warsaw on a concert tour in 1830, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the November Uprising, an abortive Polish revolt against Czarist Russia, which then ruled Warsaw an