fortune cookies

Currently companies like Google and Facebook make a fortune using 'cookies' that automatically save themselves onto your computer when you surf the web then monitor your browsing history.

近期，像谷歌和Facebook这样的公司利用信息记录程序cookies大赚了一笔，这些cookies会在用户的电脑上自动保存下来，之后在用户上网时监控浏览了哪些网站。

All American Chinese restaurants, they give out fortune cookies, which contain little pieces of paper with lucky sayings on them.

在美国的中国饭店，都备有一种叫做“fortune cookie”的小饼干。饼干中间包着一张小纸条，上面写些幸运的话。

Even fortune cookies are getting cynical!

就连幸运饼干都变的愤世嫉俗了！

I don't think they sent us any fortune cookies.

我想他们没送幸运饼干来。

Just then, the waiter brought over our post-meal fortune cookies.

就在这时, 服务员给我们上了一道饭后的幸运甜饼.

Well, the short answer is, we locked up all the Japanese during World War II, including those that made fortune cookies, so that's the time when the Chinese moved in, kind of saw a market opportunity and took over.

简单地说，我们在二战时扣押了所以的日本人，包括那些做幸运饼干的。这时候，中国人来了，看到了商机，自然就据为己有了。

Mmm! I can always predict the fortune cookies.

我总能猜到幸运饼写什么。

Fortune cookies through the/ proc filesystem

通过/proc文件系统实现财富分发

Fortune cookies are a Chinese tradition

吃福饼是中国人的传统。

Even if you don't have a ticket to one of these events you can still enjoy free Chinese poetry readings on the Underground, and fortune cookies handed out free to commuters.

即使没有机会参加这些活动也没关系，人们也可以在地铁里看到中国诗歌精选段落，并得到分发给乘客的福饼等。

Their idea of Chinese food is distorted by Americanized Chinese restaurants serving fried rice and fortune cookies.

他们对中国菜的看法被美国化的中国餐馆扭曲了，那里供应的是炒米饭和幸运饼。

' Charlie Chan always attributes these aphorisms to Confucius'oriental wisdom, but as we know, most of these kind of fortune cookie sayings, including fortune cookies today, are made in America.

陈查理通常把这些智慧归功于儒家的东方智慧，但是我们知道，大多数幸运饼纸条上的话，包括幸运饼本身，其实都是美国制造。

So, the interesting question is, how do you go from fortune cookies being something that is Japanese to being something that is Chinese?

所以有趣的是，幸运饼干是怎么从日本的东西变成中国的东西的呢？

Asian-Americans sometimes make traditional fortune cookies.

亚裔美国人有时会做传统的幸运甜点。

Another example is the Chinese cat from "The Aristocats," who sings about fortune cookies ( invented in America incidentally) with an almost unintelligibly Asian accent.

还有一个例子是《猫儿历险记》中有一只中国猫咪操着夸张的亚洲口音唱了一首有关幸运饼干的歌曲（幸运饼干是一种美式的亚洲风味的脆饼）。

Fortune cookies were originally the invention of Japanese-Americans before being widely adopted by Chinese culture.

在被中国文化广泛采纳之前，幸运饼干是日裔美国人发明的。

So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。

One of my client who is a manufacturer of fortune cookies.

我其中一个顾客就是幸运饼的制造商。

In 1368, chaffing under the Mongolian yoke after 88 years, an adviser to rebel chief Zhu Yuanzhang came up with a plot to send out rallying messages hidden in sweet pastries-much like fortune cookies.

公元1368年，在蒙古人残暴执政88年后，义军首领朱元璋的军师想出了一个计策：将号召起义的信息藏入一种甜馅饼中——就像西餐里的占卜饼干一样。

Japanese-American man is said to have invented fortune cookies in1914 when he folded up small thank-you notes and put them inside cookies.

签饼据说是在1914年由一位日裔美国人发明的，当时他把写著谢谢光临的小纸条摺起来放在饼乾里面。

Similarly, to most Americans, Chinese food doesn't go too far past orange chicken and fortune cookies, but more regional cuisines are becoming successful, especially in big cities like New York.

同样，对大多美国人来说，中餐依旧摆脱不了陈皮鸡和幸运饼的印象，但更多的地方菜系已经在纽约这样的大城市扎稳脚跟。

Please. You're really calling dibs on fortune cookies now?

给我，你现在对幸运饼干都要宣布所有权了？

Asian-American Success Real But Bittersweet Asian-Americans sometimes make traditional fortune cookies.

亚裔美国人成功不假，但苦乐参半亚裔美国人有时会做传统的幸运甜点。

How many fortune cookies do you want?

你要多少喜饼?

Particularly when you find out they got them from fortune cookies.

特别是当你在幸运曲奇饼里找到他们的时候。