新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 08:00 2017/08/21

 

The Beijing Hour

Morning Edition

Shane Bigham with you on this Monday, August 21st, 2017.

Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.

Coming up on our program this morning...

Chinese researchers say a lake on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau has doubled in size in the last 40 years, at least in part because of melting glaciers¹..

Iraqi forces have recaptured 12 villages in the area around Tal Afar, west of Mosul...

And police in Spain are still searching for the driver of a van involved in a deadly terror attack on Thursday...

In business... a Chinese company has offered 1.3 billion dollars for a poultry² giant based in Northern Ireland...

In Sports...three games, three draws in the Chinese Super League...

In Entertainment...the Mandarin³ version of The Sound of Music returns to the stage in Beijing...

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1 glaciers   

冰河，冰川( glacier的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
• It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川，又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）

2 poultry   

n.家禽，禽肉

参考例句：

• There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
• What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?

3 Mandarin   

n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的

参考例句：

• Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
• Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。

4 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。