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AS IT IS 2016-03-29 Parents Crack Up Connecticut Easter Egg Hunt 寻找复活节隐藏彩蛋
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In America, one big Easter tradition sends children hunting for hidden Easter eggs.
Children carry baskets and collect eggs made of chocolate or candy. They search in the house, their yards or a park.
But one egg hunt on Saturday went wrong in the northeastern state of Connecticut.
A candy company hosted an egg hunt for children. The company is called PEZ, and it hid more than 9,000 eggs on its property in Connecticut.
But way more people showed up than the candy maker1 expected.
The egg hunt was set up on three separate fields, and children would be assigned2 to hunt for eggs based on their ages.
But Monday morning, stories reported parents going out of control at the hunt and made PEZ one of the top trending topics on Facebook.
It turns out the parents rushed on to the fields where the eggs were hidden. They said they were trying to get eggs for their children.
But instead, they left behind a lot of hurt feelings.
One 4-year-old boy told a local television station someone pushed him over and took his eggs. The boy’s bucket for collecting eggs also broke.
One employee said the display of parents rushing onto the fields reminded him of locusts3.
“We did our best,” he said. “Unfortunately, it fell a little short.”
Two PEZ pages on Facebook had comments from people saying the event was not organized well, while others said the parents overwhelmed4 an event designed for kids.
These were adults!! How are our children supposed to follow the rules when and be safe when we as grown adults/parents themselves can't act right. I am fortunate that I identified the chaos5 and exited before anything happened to my children. It was heartbreaking to explain to a 6 &4 that it was unsafe. Fortunately the understood that it was unsafe and were relieved6 that we made compromise7 to do our own personal hunt.
The company tried to make up for the chaos by giving people more candy as they were leaving the event, and passing out coupons8 for future purchases.
But in Washington, D.C., at the White House, the picture was very different. On Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted their Easter egg roll. It was the last before Obama leaves office after eight years.
The event featured thousands of people outside the White House who came to see the President and first lady read books to children, enjoy the grounds, play games and also roll eggs with long spoons. It is a tradition going back to the late 1800s.
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locusts –n. a type of grasshopper9 that travels in very large groups and that can cause great destruction10 by eating crops
chaos –n. confusion and disorder
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n.蝗虫( locust的名词复数 );贪吃的人;破坏者;槐树 | |
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