A heart-warming story of recovery. A baby chimpanzee - Nemley junior - with a great appetite; an astonishing turnaround given the trauma he’s been through. Poachers killed his mother and the rest of his family and then sold him to wildlife traffickers. A raid led to two arrests – a young dealer called Ibrahima Traore and his uncle Mohammed – they’re now awaiting trial – the first prosecution for wildlife trafficking that Ivory Coast has ever seen.
Professor Robert E Kelly has been talking to the BBC about his unexpected viral fame last week, when his children crashed his live TV interview to the amusement of millions of people who later watched the clip. Professor Kelly, an expert on South Korea, was joined in the follow-up video with his wife, Jung-a Kim and was upstaged again by children Marion and James.
罗伯特·凯利(Robert E Kelly)教授在这段视频中给 BBC 讲述了上周让他迅速成名的那次意外事件。当时他正在家中接受电视直播采访,却被突然闯进镜头的孩子们打断,这让成百上千万名事后观看这段影像的观众们感到乐不可支。凯利教授是一位研究韩国问题的专家,他与妻子金正雅(Jung-a Kim)一同在镜头前回顾这次事件,视频中二人的女儿玛丽安(Marion)和儿子詹姆士(James)再次抢尽了父母的风头。
词汇
turnaround 改善,好转
upstaged 被抢风头
练习
请从以下词汇中选择适当的答案来完成句子。注意:你可能需要改变单词的时态来完成句子。
turnaround / upstaged
1. The TV presenter was ______ when a dog decided to urinate on the grass behind her!
2. Plans for a new entertainment centre could mark the beginning of the long-hoped-for ______ in the fortunes of the town.
答案
1. The TV presenter was upstaged when a dog decided to urinate on the grass behind her!
2. Plans for a new entertainment centre could mark the beginning of the long-hoped-for turnaround in the fortunes of the town.