【讀報筆記】春節(jié)臨近,各種糾結(jié)(附視頻)
作者:菲菲飛
來源:滬江英語
2011-01-20 09:20
Wanted: A train ticket home
The Spring Festival is fast approaching, and people are lining up to buy train tickets to go home to visit their families during this most important festival in the Chinese calendar. That will mean more pushing, shoving and grumbling at crowded train stations. If only someone would play happy music, which had this effect at one train station in Europe.
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line up :排隊
shove:推,擠
grumble:抱怨,牢騷
shove:推,擠
grumble:抱怨,牢騷
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Ads that go viral
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Internet websites such as this month are looking back on the popular advertisements of 2010.A yoga club in Shanghai became famous when this low-budget ad for Guangyin Yoga Club featured a man inside a box handing out business cards. Another ad that went viral was this action-packed ad by IBM in China that featured kungfu and even a few Star Wars moves.
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go viral:流行起來
action-packed ad:動作場面多的廣告
action-packed ad:動作場面多的廣告
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Wanted: A fake fiancee
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Because Spring Festival is almost here, some young men are hiring fake girlfriends to take home to meet parents who are pressuring them to get married. China Daily this week reports that one young man offered to pay 400 yuan for a woman willing to pretend to be his girlfriend for just one day. Let’s look in on one business that specializes in serving these desperate young men in search of a fake girlfriend to take home for the holiday.
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fiancee:未婚妻
specialize in:專門從事
desperate:極渴望的
in search of :尋找
specialize in:專門從事
desperate:極渴望的
in search of :尋找