Author: Peter-Wang-Mobile-2026

Notes:
Portugal  ポルトガール;
monastery  修道院;
tray  受け皿;
loaf (loaves)  塊;
district  地区
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The festival of Tabuleiros is held once every four years in Portugal. A long time ago, one monastery gave bread and wine to poor people. Nowadays, the women of Tomar celebrate that event by parading in the street wearing white clothes. They put a tray with 30 loaves of bread on their heads. Every woman smiles even though the tray weighs more than 20 kilograms. The district with the most beautiful tray gets a prize. (written by students Kozue Y. and Iyo M., edited by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
brewery  ビール醸造所;
keg  たる;
theft  盗難
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Ireland has a famous beer called Guinness. The brewery also publishes the famous Guinness Book of Records. Now the company can put itself into its own book. In December 2007, a man drove into the Guinness brewery in Dublin, the capital in a truck and stole a trailer loaded with kegs of beer. There was enough beer on the truck for 40,000 pints (1 pint=600 ml). It is the biggest theft of beer in the history of Ireland.　(by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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