英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0918 - 习大大让我们出国少吃方便面

Topic1 Professor Gives Speech to A Sleeping AudiencePhotos of students snoozing during a lecture given by the 93-year-old professor Wu Liangyong at the Great Hall of the People go viral on the internet.

Are the students the only group who needs to be condemned¹?

Should we be concerned?

Topic2 Xi suggests Chinese tourists eat less instant noodlesChina's president Xi Jinping has some words of advice for the country's globetrotting citizens: Eat more local seafood² and fewer cups of noodles.

He made the remarks earlier this week during a meeting with Chinese entrepreneurs, local Chinese representatives, and staff of the Chinese Embassy in MaldivesSo, has Chinese affinity³ for cup of noodles become too obvious to be true?

Topic3 New types of homework for primary school studentsAt the beginning of the new semester, new types of homework for primary school students have already exhausted⁴ parents. Be it making a ppt or papercut, parents feel these experimental types of homework are difficult for pupils to complete on their own and they have no choice but to help their children.

Do parents really need to help?

Topic4 Is RV travel going to catch on in China?

Shanghai's first campsite for luxury RVs is set to open on September 22 on Chongming Island.

It is a new addition to an increasing number of such facilities in China as more Chinese want to travel wherever the road leads.

But will RV travel catch on among the Chinese public?

Topic5 Number of new drivers surges in China, crossing road like fleeing from the battlefieldChina has become one of the most dangerous countries to drive, according to a people.com commentary. In the last decade, cars have replaced bicycles as the majority of Chinese traffic. Cars owners have increased 13 times compared with 10 years ago. Chinese pedestrians⁵ also developed a free-and-easy way of crossing road by ignoring traffic lights.

What cause these problems?

1 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

2 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。

3 affinity   

n.亲和力，密切关系

参考例句：

• I felt a great affinity with the people of the Highlands.我被苏格兰高地人民深深地吸引。
• It's important that you share an affinity with your husband.和丈夫有共同的爱好是十分重要的。

4 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

5 pedestrians   

n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》