万花筒 2010-02-06&02-08 熊猫泰山在美国的成长点滴

-For tonight Shot, we watch them grow and play, and now we say farewell to two giant pandas. This is the Taishan in road in a container that’s now on a plane to China before your old male was with born the National Zoo in Washington had accompany also on board three-year-old Meilan, she was born at the zoo Atlanta. Both were raised here. They actually belong to China that’s part of an agreement between the two countries. They are endangered animals,of course. Taishan’s nickname is Butter Stick because that’s how small he was at birth.

 

-Frances Nguyen, who with her husband has grown very close to Taishan, take literally¹ thousands of photographs with him. We want to show you some of them tonight, we also want you to hear from Frances why Butter Stick is so special. Watch.

 

-When I first saw Taishan, my jaw² just dropped, and I was like “Oh, my God”. There’s no word to describe the feeling.

 

-Taishan is like a little angel, his arm very engaging, his eyes are beautiful and you feel connected to him. When I watch the interaction between him and his mother, the way that she cares and nurtures³ him so patient and he’s this rambunctious⁴ little bear that’s very play for, never gives up and full of confident. He’s brought me a community of friendship and even I found love. You know, I met my husband at the panda’s exhibit and my mom always said, you’re never gonna meet a guy,you know,all you do is spend  your time at the zoo taking pictures, but I did what I love and love was right in front of me. Panda’s love, being in the snow,he’s so excitable, when he rolls down the hill with the snow.

 

-This picture’s very special to me. When I was taken the picture, I didn’t realize that Tai was looking at me but I thought his big eyes and it was just incredible to be that close to him to hear him breathe.

 

-I have two hearts when it comes to Tai going to China, there’s a side of me that feels a great loss as if you losing your own child, and there’s a side of me that thinks that it’s for the better of the future in his future into spread his genes⁵.

 

-But he’s left me with a lot of gifts and a lot of good karma. It’s ironic⁶ because the last week I found out that I was pregnant, and that’s the week I found out,you know that’s before his leaving, so it’s like one child gone and one child coming, and I thought that was a gift from him.

 

-I won’t be surprised if she named her child Taishan.

-I know, really cute.
 

1 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

2 jaw   

n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训

参考例句：

• He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
• A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。

3 nurtures   

教养，培育( nurture的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Art nurtures the soul and culture cultivates the mind. 艺术滋润心灵，文化陶冶情操。
• Who first loves and nurtures us and takes care of every need. 是谁先爱上我们，哺育我们，对我们无微不至。

4 rambunctious   

adj.喧闹的；粗鲁的

参考例句：

• Their rambunctious son always got into trouble.他们那个不受管束的儿子老是惹麻烦。
• It's not the chirping,rambunctious play that they did when they first arrived.他们现在已经不像刚开始见面那会儿，总是冲着对方乱叫，或者在玩耍时动作粗暴。

5 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪

6 ironic   

adj.讽刺的，有讽刺意味的，出乎意料的

参考例句：

• That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
• People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”，但他们是在挖苦我。