英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0109 - 网络作家实名制，还能看到H文吗？

 Topic1 Real-name Registration¹ for Online WritersChinese online literature authors are now required to register with their real names before their works are made available to their readers, according to a recent guideline issued by China's media watchdog.

Is it a good thing or not?

Topic2-Student lunch providers asked to leaveA management company of a residential² building in Kunming, Yunnan Province asks students who go to private lunch cafeterias in the building to pay five Yuan to use the elevator.

To avoid extra cost, elementary school students who visit these private student lunch cafeterias climb the stairs. Some of them burst into tears because of exhaustion³ after finally reaching the 22nd floor for lunch.

What happened?

Topic3 Glory days are over for traditional Chinese painting?

The dean of the Fine Arts Academy at Shanghai Normal University says traditional Chinese painting is facing a bottleneck⁴ in luring⁵ more young talents.

Liu Xuguang told a recent university forum⁶ that his academy, being the only higher education institution in Shanghai offering the Chinese painting major, finds it difficult to recruit students already with the skillset for it.

Is there a crisis for traditional Chinese painting?

Topic4 Girl Loses 3 Cell Phones to ConmenI don't trust strangers anymore. This is what a 14-year-old girl tells her parents after she was tricked out of her cell phone for the third time. The parents say they don't know how to tell their daughter to keep doing good deeds anymore.

What happened? Why do we care?

Topic5 Love triangle in pupils' compositionRecently, a pupil's composition aroused heated discussion on the Internet, in which the pupil described a story with love triangle, premarital pregnancy⁷ and abortion⁸. Users on the Internet are quite astonished by this shocking composition.

Is it shocking?

1 registration   

n.登记，注册，挂号

参考例句：

• Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
• What's your registration number?你挂的是几号？

2 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

3 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

4 bottleneck   

n.瓶颈口，交通易阻的狭口；妨生产流程的一环

参考例句：

• The transportation bottleneck has blocked the movement of the cargo.运输的困难阻塞了货物的流通。
• China's strained railroads already become a bottleneck for the economy.中国紧张的铁路运输已经成为经济增长的瓶颈。

5 luring   

吸引，引诱（lure的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
• Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她：有危险，要出错儿，这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。

6 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

7 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

8 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。