Are the two words “maze” and “labyrinth” the same or not?

In China, specifically in the region where the Han nationality live, there are two ways to celebrate birthdays, and they differ in food. The first one, occidental one, people will celebrate birthdays by eating cakes and blowing out candles. The traditional one is eating "longevity noodles"(长寿面). It is believed that the longer a single eaten noodle's length is, the more longevous a man can be. So usually chewing noodles before they get into mouth is not preferred.

Is “seldom” rarely used? In middle school my teacher taught me to use “seldom”, but I heard that “seldom” is actually rarely spoken. Is that true?

In middle school I read “1984”, and it has changed my opinion on politics completely. “1984”, written by George Orwell, depicts a world where the masses are controlled by the Big Brother Cooperation. In this suffocating world, the protagonist tried to find his own love, and he did then. However, as his deed was detected by police, he, as well as his lover, was arrested. Suffering from the BBC’s tortures, the protagonist surrendered, starting to think as the BBC requested. At last he chose to die voluntarily for BBC who had just tortured him. As a bullet shot through his head, his mind ended, and his story along with it. In my mind, the story satires the psychological control by government, and thus it has changed my opinion toward politics completely.

『一番の友情が大切ですが、他の友情を育てることも必要です』と、友が言ってくれた。

I’d keep my weekend busy. And of course, the weekend is not as busy as the weekdays. I have to say that this question is a little weird. In my mind , “busy” and “relax” are not antonyms strictly . As for me, I will do various things on the weekend, but doing those makes me relaxed.

The environmental problems we are facing are very serious. The pollution keeps deteriorate the environment, and tons of greenhouse gas discharged by factories cause the global warming. Meanwhile, species extinctions happens faster and faster due to the rapid environmental changes. The situation is very disappointing, but solution is hard to find. In developing countries, it’s a dilemma whether the government should restrain the discharge, because this will as well restrain the whole country’s development. Also, how to assign the tasks to all countries fairly remains a question. Although the whole society has started to protect the environment in various ways, a passionate, determined but wise government is needed to find a balance between environment and development.

Firstly, according to my experience, though translation software becomes more and more accessible and advanced, it’s function still has much room to improve. And it can be nearly unusable when translating the language that is not popular. This leads to a problem that when reading a new language, using translation software is NOT more preferable than learning it (and of course, in a long term). Secondly, between two languages, there is something that can NOT be translated explicitly. It is inevitable in many aspects, especially literature. So if you want to have a deeper understanding of a region, learnings it’s language is better than just using translation software.