熊猫宝宝泰山一周岁啦

You just know what mama panda's thinking, how could it have happened so fast, how could the National Zoo's most beloved baby be one-year-old already?

Baby panda,baby.Moving, moving...
He's moving. Yes. That's right.

Pretty impressive for a guy who started out as a squirmy blind pink thing. Nicknamed Butterstick for his size, he was as adorable as a bar of lard. But he's grown up and cuter,quickly.

At one point, his keepers called Tai Shan the incredible expanding panda.

"He,he was pretty much doubling in,in size every week."

Chief vet¹ Susan Murray marveled at his remarkable² birth and all the panda-mania that's followed.

"There is something about him that is so charismatic that the instant you see him and you are hooked."

"Did it sound? "

The tiny giant panda sold tons of trinkets, boosted zoo attendance to new records and even created a new species, the panda-parazzi.

"So I'm one of the weirdoes, huh."

He said it, but how would you describe a guy who comes almost every day and on a typical morning shoots more than 1100 pictures of the bear just for fun.

"Is this bordering on the obsessive³?"

"Well, perhaps, it's a bit obsessive, yes."

He's not alone though most visitors are content to just woo and oh and ponder what to get a bear who has everything.

I don't know. Maybe more bamboo than he already gets. A brother or a sister?

Now don't spoil the surprise. It's a special fruit and veggie ice-cake to celebrate Tai Shan's first year and all the excitement he's brought to the zoo.

For the Saturday Early Show, Joe Chen, CBS News, Washington.

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squirmy:蠕动的
-mania:used for making nouns describing a particular type of mental illness 狂躁症
charismatic:someone has a strong personal quality that makes other people like them and be attracted to them 魅力超凡的
weirdo:informal someone who behaves in a way that seems strange 古怪的人
border on:to be very near to a particular quality,feeling,state,etc. 类似于,有点
veggie:spoken vegetarian 素食主义者

1 vet   

n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查

参考例句：

• I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
• Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。

2 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

3 obsessive   

adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的

参考例句：

• Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
• He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。