The Dragon Boat Festival is expressed in English as Dragon Boat Festival, pronounced [?dr?ɡ?n]? [bo?t]? [?fest?vl].

Key vocabulary explanations:

1. boat

n. boat; wheelbarrow

vi. rowing

2. festival

n. festival; celebration, commemoration; joy

adj. festive, festive; joyful

3. dragon

3.

n. dragon; (large) lizard; fierce man; stern and vigilant woman

EXTENDED INFORMATION:

1, boat usage:

boat basic meaning is boat, mostly refers to a few people sitting with oars rowing a small boat, in informal English can also refer to a short distance sailing large passenger ships.

boat is a countable noun; when used in the singular, it is preceded by a or the.

boat is used in conjunction with the preposition by to mean a boat ride without the article the.

boat can be used as either a transitive verb (usually in the gerund form) or an intransitive verb. When used as a transitive verb, it takes a noun or pronoun as its object.

2, Festival's use:

festival means festival, mostly refers to folk or religious festivals, used as a proper noun, the definite article must be added in front of it; sometimes it can also refer to music, theater, film and other festivals of performance.

Generally speaking, festivals consisting of the definite article plus the noun festival need to be preceded by the definite article when they are expressed, such as the Spring Festival.