(1) Sichuan gang leader faces trial
Liu Han, a Sichuan Mafia boss accused of multiple charges , will face trial on Monday in Xianning Intermediated People’s Court of Hubei province, Beijing Times reported.
Liu and 35 others will be tried in separate courts in Xianning city, according to a court announcement. Liu Han faces more than 10 charges, including financial crimes, murder, running casinos and illegally selling firearms.
mafia 黑手党，黑社会 multiple 多种的，多样的
Xianning Intermediated People’s Court of Hubei province, 湖北省咸宁中级法院
casino 赌场 firearms.武器
(2) No Titles
The Palace Museum, known to some Westerners as the Forbidden City, plans to open to the public for free in the off-season and adopt limited sales during the peak tourist season, Beijing News reported on Thursday.
The iconic site will intensify crackdowns on ticket scalpers and unlicensed tour guides, especially during the upcoming tourist season.
The Palace Museum 故宫 the Forbidden City 紫禁城 off-season 淡季
ticket scalpers 黄牛党
(3) Worried single woman opts to be single mom
A 33-year-old Nanjing woman who has not yet found her “Mr Right” and is worried about a lonely future is now six months pregnant after artificial insemination, Yangtze Evening News reported on Wednesday. “I worried about my future life without a child to rely on, so I decided to have a child by myself,” said Nuo Xin. She said she still hopes to find a mate and hopes he will understand her decision.
opt 选择 Mr.right白马王子 artificial insemination 人工受孕
(4) Video websites to be restricted
Websites that play foreign TV shows and movies will reportedly face tighter control than before under the new State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television policy of “censor first, broadcast later”.
Websites that broadcast video have been asked to monitor the content of film and TV shows before the programs are broadcast online, Jianghu English reported.
administration 行政部门
state 国家
Press 新闻界
publication 出版
censor审查
monitor 监督 监控
(5) Man who robbed beggars sentenced
A man surnamed Wu from Shenzhen, Guangdong province, was sentenced to 11 years in jail for a spate of robberies and assaults on elderly beggars. Wu’s victims were mostly old and sick people, incapable of fighting back. In one case, Wu stole money four times from an 86-year-old man sleeping on a pedestrian bridge near Honghu Park in Shenzhen. He took about 200 yuan ($32).
A spate of一连串
assault 袭击 victim 受害者 pedestrian bridge 天桥
(6) Couple serves money to wedding guests
A netizen posted a picture of a wedding banquet in Changle, a county-level city in Fuzhou, Fujian province at which each guest was served a dish containing a stack of several 100 yuan notes.
Some said the phenomenon /fəˈnɒmɪnən/ is not unusual and has been seen at not only wedding banquets, but also funeral banquets.
netizen 网民 wedding banquet 婚宴
stack 堆 ， 叠
phenomenon 现象
(7) Kindergarten taken over
A private kindergarten that suffered a drug scandal in Lanzhou, Gansu province, has been changed into a public one and renamed Qilihe District Xihu Kindergarten.
The local government in Qilihe district promised to purchase basic medical insurance for children who were given antiviral drugs without permission.
scandal丑闻
antiviral drugs 抗病毒药
(8) Truck driver fined in worker’s death
A truck driver whose vehicle collided with a train and killed a person was fined 330,000 yuan ($53,200) in a trial on Saturday. The driver, surnamed Liu, was driving a company-owned truck from Tianjin to Beijing when he drove through a railway crossing despite the no-crossing warning, colliding with a passing train. One railway crossing guard died and another was severely injured.
vehicle 车辆 交通工具
collide with冲突，冲撞
fine做动词，罚款
(9) Ma Yili’s father says leave couple alone
A Weibo user who claimed to be the father of Ma Yili, a Chinese actress whose husband was exposed as cheating on his wife, called on media to stop probing(investigate) the couple’s domestic affairs on his Weibo account, a Twitter-like social networking site.
“My daughter thanks you for exposing his affairs, you are doing a public scrutiny job, but we want to handle the following things ourselves… your pursuing this is making it harder… do you want them to divorce?” The anguished Weibo post urged Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly, which exposed the affair, to stop hyping the matter.
Wen Zhang, a well-known actor, made headlines recently after he admitted having an affair with another actress.
claim声称 probe 调查，探测 domestic affairs 家务事
handle 处理 anguished 痛苦的，苦恼的
hype 大肆宣传 Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly, 南都娱乐周刊
have an affair 有外遇
(10) Underground cellar banned
A man who built walls for many parking spaces he bought at an underground parking garage /ˈɡærɑːʒ/ to transform the area into a private cellar was ordered to demolish the work by the city’s management department, Wenzhou Metropolis Daily reported Monday.
The man from Wenzhou city, East China’s Zhejiang province, was using the parking space right under his first-story house, both of which occupy 300-square-meters. He had already built a staircase to the underground lot.
cellar地下室 private 私人的
demolish 拆除 ，摧毁
the city’s management department, 市管理局
occupy 占据
(11) Yutu still working after expected service span ended
China’s moon rover Yutu, which landed on the moon on Dec 14, has exceed ed its expected three-month life, and is still working, Chengdu Commercial Daily reported Wednesday, citing Yu Dengyun, deputy chief designer of China’s moon exploration project.
Yutu can still receive signals, process information and send data and photos back to earth, but it can’t walk due to a mechanical /məˈkænɪkl/ control abnormality /ˌæbnɔːˈmæləti/, Yu said.
Yutu entered its fourth lunar night on March 24. It is now less than 20 meters away from its lander, and the two can take pictures of and communicate with each other. Yu said the moon exploration project will continue to use the moon rover until it completely stops working.
(12) Operator confirms welcome message
China Mobile confirmed that the “Welcome to China!” text message received by some foreign journalists as they toured the Ren’ai Reef in the South China Sea on March 29 came from the company’s network. China Mobile has built 14 signal stations and a backup station on the Xisha and Nansha islands, and plans to build more on the Nansha islands, the company said on Saturday.
the Ren’ai Reef 仁爱礁
(13) Photos showing Deng Yaping crying go viral
A group of Deng Yaping’s photos that show her crying on a TV program is circulating widely online, Wuhan Morning Daily reported.
Some Internet users claim she was sad because of business failure, while the program - Chinese Dream Show - says Deng was moved by a cancer victim featured on the show.
Deng was once CEO of Jike Search, which merged with Panguso in March 2014.
Deng Yaping邓亚萍 go viral 流行，火了 .像病毒一样传播开来 ，
Jike Search 即刻搜索 merge 合并 Panguso盘古搜索
(14) Entrepreneur admits dating
Liu Qiangdong, founder and CEO of Jingdong, the nation’s second largest online retailer, admitted he is in love with Zhang Zetian, a Tsinghua University student known for her beauty, on his Weibo account on Monday. The post was forwarded 137,601 times and received 106,640 comments within 20 hours.
In an interview with Sohu Video and Sohu Entertainment, Liu, 40, said everyone has the right to decide and choose one’s own life and he did not want to be treated as a celebrity.
Zhang, 21, became popular after a photo showing her holding a cup of milk tea went viral online in 2009. She has been known as “milk tea sister” since.
retailer 零售商
forward 转发
(15) Homemade ‘license’
A man said to be over 70 years old had been riding an illegal electric tricycle on the street in Yangzhou when police stopped and questioned him. The old man then showed a hand-drawn “license”, Jinling Evening News reported on Monday.
The man told the police that he paid 5,000 yuan ($805) for the tricycle, but the seller didn’t tell him it couldn’t be ridden legally on the street. He said he had a license and produced the homemade document, the newspaper reported.
illegal不合法的 tricycle三轮车 license执照
(16) Duck bone killer
A 37-year-old man in Fuzhou died after swallowing a piece of duck bone, local online news portal Taihainet.com reported on Sunday. The victim, surnamed Chen, went to the hospital after the bone got lodged in his throat, but he refused treatment and hospitalization /ˌhɑːspɪtələˈzeɪʃn/, the website reported. Five days later, Chen returned to the hospital with chest pains. Doctors found that his esophagus /iːˈsɒfəɡəs/ and the artery /ˈɑːtərɪ/ next to it had been damaged. The man died of severe infection despite treatment.
portal门户网站 lodge卡住 esophagus 食道 the artery动脉 infection 感染
(17) Official investigated over woman’s death
Police in Sanming are investigating a district head after an incident in which a female teacher died. The 50-year-old woman, surnamed Wang, arrived at the office of Liu Zhenxing, head of the Meilie district, on Thursday afternoon. She had earlier told the city’s disciplinary /ˈdɪsɪˌplɪnərɪ/ watchdog that she had been in a relationship with Liu for 10 years, and also reported a number of “economic problems”, according to local media reports. Wang fell from Liu’s 12th-floor office some hours after arriving. Liu has been suspended /səˈspend/ from his position.
disciplinary watchdog 纪检
(18) Family lives over ancient tomb for 30 years
A family in Chaoyang county has lived for more than 30 years over an ancient tomb listed as a protected national cultural relic , Liaoshen Evening News reported.
In 1982, Wei Hongxi discovered the tomb, which was later confirmed by the local relics protection department as an Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317-420) tomb. To protect it, the Wei family did not perform repairs on their dilapidated /dɪˈlæpɪdeɪtɪd/ house or water their vegetables in the courtyard. The local government has not decided what to do with the tomb.
relic遗迹 dilapidated 残破，失修的
(19) Old man died in clash with officers
Two city maintenance officers suspected to be involved in a 68-year-old man’s death have been detained, and an investigation is under way , Fuzhou-based news website fznews.com reported.
Zheng Xiuyuan, in Fuzhou city, East China’s Fujian province, was suspiciously /səˈspɪʃəslɪ/ beaten to death, allegedly by two city maintenance officers on Wednesday morning, after he tried to resolve a quarrel between a street vendor and one of the two officers, Fujian-based Strait News said on its official Weibo account Wednesday. It later deleted the post.
But later a notice from Fuzhou government said Zheng collapsed and died during the clash.
city maintenance officer 城管vendor 摊贩 collapse昏倒 crash 碰撞
(20) $3.7m painting ‘thrown with trash’
A painting that was sold for HK3.7 million) on Monday at Poly auction in Hong Kong has gone missing, with police hinting that cleaners working at the auction house may have inadvertently thrown the artwork out, Jiangsu-based Modern Express reported.
The painting, “Snowy Mountain”, which was created by Chinese American artist Cui Ruzhuo in 2012, is 1.79 meters wide and 3.81 meters long. If the investigators are able to confirm that the cleaners threw the painting out with other trash, then the cleaning company will probably have to cover a major part of the insurance.
hint暗示 trash垃圾 insurance保险
(21) ‘Ignorant man’ worries about wifi radiation
A post on Sina Weibo — concerning a man who asked his neighbors to stop using wifi at home to protect his pregnant wife from the harmful effects of radiation — has become a trending topic.
The post was forwarded more than 10,000 times and has attracted more than 2,000 comments. Many well-known media organizations also forwarded the post, and some members of the public berated the man for his ignorance on the subject of radiation.
Experts say that radiation from a wireless router is within the safety limits when the router is more than about 50cm away, and the man does not have to worry about its effect on his wife and their unborn child.
(22) Non-local vehicles need approval to enter 6th ring road
Beijing expanded transport controls to the sixth ring road on April 11, meaning vehicles bearing non-Beijing registration plates must apply for a license to enter the area.
The new license is valid for seven days, and can be renewed for a further five. Those caught disobeying the rule will lose three points.
Since the rule was introduced, applications for such licenses have surged. At a checkpoint in Baimiao in Tongzhou district on Tuesday, a 200-meter queue had formed.
expand扩大valid有效的registration plates 牌照 surge 涌现checkpoint 检查站
(23) Teeth of tyrannical emperor on display
A total of 135 items excavated from the tomb of Yang Guang, or Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-618), went on display at Yang Zhou Museum in East China’s Jiangsu province on Wednesday, Jiangsu-based Modern Express reported.
The exhibition includes two teeth which are believed to be the emperor’s. Yang was the second and last monarch of the short-lived Sui Dynasty and was seen as a tyrant .
The tomb was discovered in April 2013 and, in November, more than ten leading archaeologists confirmed that it is Yang’s final resting place. The discovery of the tomb was listed as one of the top ten archaeological finds in China last year.
excavate 挖掘 emperor 皇帝 tyrant.暴君
archaeological 考古的 monarch君王
(24) Photo of polygamist a hoax
A photo showing a man in Ningbo with his two wives was reposted many times on Tuesday, but turned out to be a hoax, Today Morning Express said on Wednesday.
The man explained he had a “fake wedding” to please his superstitious mother who believed that such a wedding would deter misfortune and improve her health. He paid two women 100 yuan ($17) each to pretend to be his brides — but they did not apply for a marriage certificate. The women left as soon as the “wedding ceremony” was over.
The local police station said the man truly regretted his behavior and promised it would not happen again.
hoax恶作剧superstitious 迷信的 deter 阻止marriage certificate 结婚证
(25) Cough medicine addict spent 1 million yuan
A young man from Xinghua, Jiangsu province was addicted to cough medicine and spent about i million yuan over three years on it, China Central Television reported on Saturday. The man, surnamed Zhu, drank more than 10 bottles a day. He spent his savings and borrowed money to get the medicine. His father had to pay the son’s debt. The cough medicine contains ephedrine and codeine, which are addicting if taken for lengthy periods.
Be addicted to上瘾 ephedrine 麻黄碱，codeine可待因 lengthy 长期的
(26) Appetite1 for hit(very successful) series satisfied
The long-awaited second season of A Bite of China, a Chinese food documentary which scored high rating s and widespread popularity in its 2012 first season, began airi ng on Friday.
The first episode /ˈepɪsəʊd/ of the eight-part second season proved a hit(a thing that is very popular) with web users commenting that they “drool while watching it” and “want to watch it again” on the Weibo account of the program’s director Chen Xiaoqing.
A Bite of China is about crafted /krɑːft/ banquets and nature’s raw offerings across China, and the relationship between people and their local food. The second season covers more than 150 regions across the country and took six months to film.
episode集 crafted手工制作的
(27) Desperate fiance
A 63-year-old man sued his 22-year-old girlfriend for refusing to marry him on the agreed date and allegedly cheating him of more than one million yuan ($ 160,300) in gifts and money, Hunan-based news website voc.com.cn reported.
On Jan 27, Zhang Fuhua, from Yongzhou city in Hunan province, and his girlfriend Xia Jing, signed a marital contract requiring the couple to get married before May 1, or else the woman would return the 800,000 yuan and all the gifts that Zhang gave her when they were dating. The contract was signed at a police station and witnessed by police officers.
sue起诉，告 marital contract婚姻协议 witness 见证，目击
(28) Circumcision corruption
A civil service official in Guyuan city of Ningxia Hui autonomous region who took gift money from colleages and subordinates by holding a circumcision celebration for his son has been removed from his post and ordered to return the money, xinhuanet.com reported Wednesday.
The region exposed six cases on Tuesday, including this one, that breach ed the eight-point anti-bureaucracy guideline s from the central government.
Subordinate 下属 circumcision 割礼 breach 违反
(29) LV sues man for selling fakes
A trial for a man accused of counterfeiting Louis Vuitton products took place on Friday in Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong province. Valerie Sonnier, a legal representative of Louis Vuitton, sued Ji Zhibin, claiming he sold fake products using the company’s name. Ji, who ran a digital products store in Shenzhen, is suspected of selling fake goods under the LV brand, such as leather covers for tablet computers. The court did not announce a judgment on Friday.
counterfeit 伪造 representative 代表 tablet computers 平板电脑
(30) Hong Kong man tie money on his body
A Hong Kong man was detained by Shenzhen customs officers when he attempted to enter the Chinese mainland with about 5,000 or an equivalent amount in other foreign currencies must declare the money to customs, according to Chinese customs laws.
equivalent相等的 currency 货币
(31) Good Samaritan rewarded after 29 years
A man in Zhenjiang received a letter of thanks and a gift from a woman he helped 29 years ago, Modern Express reported on Monday. The man said he gave 5 yuan ($0.80) to a middle-aged woman who asked for help after losing money at Zhenjiang railway station in 1985 when he was 23. The woman, Yang Aiyu, now 76, said in the letter that she wrote down the man’s name and address but did not find him until 2012.
Good Samaritan善人
(32) Students strip2 in protest
Six female Guangdong University of Technology students went topless in a campaign seeking workplace gender equality at the university’s front gate on Monday, Guangzhou Daily reported via its official Weibo account. They carried slogans proclaiming “we need equal job opportunities” and “appreciate women’s values”. Some web users said the students were using “action art” while others questioned whether they had crossed the line of decency.
topless袒胸的 slogans标语，口号 decency 正派，文雅
(33) China approves stricter dairy import rules
A new regulation passed on Thursday by the General Administration /ədˌmɪn.ɪˈstreɪ.ʃən/ of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine means that only importers registered with the Chinese authorities will be able to sell dairy products in the country.
Overseas producers must follow Chinese rules and sanitation standards and are required to obtain permission from the authorities to sell dairy products.
卫生标准 乳制品
(34) Mother suspected of having thrown daughter to her death
A mother has been detained after allegedly /əˈledʒ.ɪd.li/ throwing her year-old daughter into a road where the baby was hit and killed by an oncoming vehicle on Tuesday, according to Chinese Twitter-like site Sina Weibo.
The woman in Cixi, Ningbo city in Zhejiang province was reportedly seen holding another child, a boy, as she was trying to throw the baby into the road. Before the incident she was reported to have asked a shop owner to borrow a pair of scissors /ˈsɪz.əz/ but was turned down . A passer-by noticed her abnormal actions and tried to stop her but was too late.
turn down拒绝 abnormal异常的
(35) Innocent man released after eight years detention
A man was found innocent and released on Tuesday after spending eight years in a detention center for killing a man in Zhijin County, Guizhou province, the Beijing Times reported.
In 1999, a friend of Zhang Guangxiang was killed and after four years local police detained Zhang as a suspect because he had not attended the victim’s funeral. Zhang admitted the crime but later withdrew /wɪðˈdrɔː/his confession ./kənˈfeʃ(ə)n/ He was released on bail in 2004 but rearrested in 2006. His third trial in Guizhou Higher People’s Court found him not guilty and released him on April 29.
A cousin of Zhang told the newspaper that he did not attend the funeral because he wanted to avoid the 20-yuan “fenzi” money which has to be given to the deceased’s family according to local custom. Zhang was in financial difficulties at the time.
innocent无辜的，清白的 withdraw撤回 bail 保释 the deceased 死者
(36) Poppies found on campus
Poppies have been discovered growing in a high school in Zhoukou city, Henan province. Found in the corner of a yard, the plants were identified by students whose parents reported the matter to police who uprooted them. An investigation is underway, Dahe Daily reported.
Poppy罂粟 uproot连根拔起
(37) Brides disappear with wedding gifts
Ten farmers in the Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province are believed to be victims of marriage fraud /frɔːd/, after their brides ran off with money they got as wedding gifts, Beijing Times reported on Sunday.
Local police received reports from farmers saying that in the past half-year, they were introduced to their future brides from the province’s Yuanyang county, and the brides disappeared several weeks later after they got money as marriage gifts. The farmers lost a total of more than 500,000 yuan ($80,000).
(38) The most enviable job in China
Being a panda caretaker could be the most enviable and fun-filled job in the country. A caretaker at the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Ya’an, Sichuan province, will earn 200,000 yuan ($32,000) a year, including the use of an SUV and receiving free meals and accommodation, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday. Recruitment for the position started on Saturday in Beijing
(39) More plastic scrap recycled
About 30 percent of China’s plastic scrap was recycled last year, up from 20 percent in 2010, the China Scrap Plastics Association said.
The country recycled about 28 million metric tons of the plastic scrap it produced, People’s Daily quoted the Association as saying. From 2006 to 2010, only about 46 million tons of plastic scrap were recycled, the Association said.
China is one of the world’s biggest producers and consumers of plastics. It needs about 80 million tons of plastic annually(every year), requiring 240 million tons of crude oil. Six tons of oil are saved for every ton of plastic scrap recycled, the report said. plastic scrap 塑料废品 crude oil原油
(40) Son, 74, gives mother, 93, math homework
A 74-year-old son in Changshu encouraged his 93-year-old mother to do simple arithmetic /əˈrɪθmətɪk/ problems and corrected her “homework” every day, aiming to reduce her risk of getting dementia /dɪˈmenʃə/, Yangtze Evening Post reported on Monday. Xu Zhenhong, the son, selected the math problems from his granddaughter’s second-grade arithmetic books, and he insisted on taking his elderly mother on walks to the community center for exercise.
arithmetic算术 dementia 痴呆症
(41) Netizen queries self-promotion photo
“Why are you sweeping a clean road? Doesn’t it feel crowded with a dozen /ˈdʌzn/ people sweeping within only a dozen square meters? Does this really help to keep the road clean?”
A netizen reacted to a photo in a local newspaper in Xinyang, Henan province, showing several officials cleaning a small section of a road, with the aim of trumpeting /ˈtrʌmpɪt/ the city’s efforts to improve sanitation /ˌsænɪˈteɪʃn/( the equipment and systems that keep places).
宣扬，鼓吹
(42) 8-year-old boy keeps himself safe with kidnapper
An 8-year-old boy “persuaded” a kidnapper to put down his knife after being kidnapped, in Xichang city, Sichuan province, on May 14. The boy recognized the kidnapper as his father’s business partner and then acted cute to prevent being hurt by the man he called “Uncle Yuan”. He kept talking to him and said that he is afraid of knives, which softened up the kidnapper and finally made him put down the knife.
soften up软化
(43) Students cry in group photo because of sick classmate
A class of middle school students in Chongqing cried in graduation /ˌɡrædʒuˈeɪʃn/ group photos because a sick classmate asked his father to show up in his place, Chongqing Economic Times reported.
Chen Zhuangguo, who suffers from leukemia, promised his classmates that he would show up for a group photo on Thursday. But because of severe sickness, he could not be present and so asked his father to take his place instead. Many classmates cried when the photo was taken.
Leukemia白血病
(44) Spoiled kid sparks(=cause) anger
A video showing a boy hitting and kicking his grandmother on a subway in Nanjing sparked wide anger among Chinese web users. The video shows the boy continuously hitting his grandmother using a vacuum cup, and slapping her in the face when she tried to grab the cup. Later he kicked his grandmother in her leg. The grandma said he is spoiled at home and she may have said something about him that he found displeasing.
Spark触发，引发 vacuum cup保温杯 displeasing 不愉快的
(45) 23 countries restrict entry of Zongzi
About 23 countries and regions have banned bringing or mailing Zongzi, sticky rice dumplings(补充说明), into their country, ahead of Dragon Boat Festival that features the food, people.com.cn reported on May 20.
Some countries, including the US, Japan and Canada, prohibited(=forbid) the entry of meat Zongzi because it might transmit /trænsˈmɪt/ infectious diseases such as bird flu /fluː/ and foot- and- mouth disease.
infectious disease传染病 flu流感
(46) Ban on eating lifted(=remove) on Beijing subway
A ban on eating and drinking on the Beijing subway was removed from the railway’s safety regulations, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.
Not eating and drinking on the subway will be included in the passenger manual as an encouraged behavior.
According to the previous ban, that started March 10, subway passengers were fined up to 500 yuan ($80) if they were found eating or drinking during their commute /kəˈmjuːt/. 通勤
(47) Crawfish killer
A 70-year-old woman in Huzhou city of Zhejiang province died after being bitten by crawfish, Zhejiang-based Morning Express reported.
The woman, surnamed Ye, was bitten on her finger one morning last weekend. Bleeding from the injury soon ended and the wound appeared normal, but became swollen /ˈswəʊlən/ that night. The next morning the woman had a high fever and went into a coma /ˈkəʊmə/. She was sent to a Hangzhou hospital on Wednesday for emergency treatment but died.
swollen肿的 coma昏迷
Tao Chengjun, a doctor who treated Ye, said she died of anaerobic /ˌæneəˈrəʊbɪk/ bacteria /bækˈtɪəriə/ and was very likely infected by the crawfish. But he said whether a person will be infected with the bacteria from such a bite depends on their immunity /ɪˈmjuːnəti/. Ye already had heart disease, high blood pressure and liver disease, all of which caused low immunity.
anaerobic bacteria厌氧细菌 immunity免疫力
Tao added that the crawfish itself is innocuous /ɪˈnɒkjuəs/, and the bacteria can be killed if the crawfish is well cleaned and cooked.
无害的
(48) Girlfriend blamed for losing winning lottery ticket
A man who had bought a winning lottery ticket - worth 6.71 million yuan ($1.08 million) – was unable to claim his prize as he lost the ticket, Chengdu Commercial Daily reported on Friday. The man, surnamed Wang, who is a resident of Leshan, said he bought the ticket on March 21, but his girlfriend threw it away - thinking it was trash - before the winning numbers were announced on March 23. The 60-day deadline for claiming prizes has now passed, and the payout was canceled because the ticket could not be found.
Dealine最后期限，截止日期
(49) Adorable(lovely) monk went viral
Photos of a one-year-old “monk” from Xichan Temple in Fuzhou, Fujian province went viral as soon as they were posted by a netizen with the screen name “momov” on Weibo.com , a Twitter-like microblog site on Sunday. The adorable kid dressed as a little monk captivated netizens’ attention and the post was forwarded more than 30,000 times by netizens in one day.
adorable可爱的，讨人喜欢的 captivate 迷住
(50) Horrible way to train dog swimming
A dog was seen struggling in the river with a rope tied around its neck, with the other end tied up to a boat in the Minjiang River in Fuzhou, South China’s Fujian province on Sunday, fjsen.com reported.
Passersby shouted at the shore, expecting that someone inside the boat would save the dog as the boat didn’t pull into the shore. Surprisingly, a man came out of the cabin, pulled the rope and lifted the dog on board, saying that he was just training his dog to swim.
cabin船舱
(51) Graduation rings is new trends
The University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, East China’s Anhui province, has issued 5,980 graduation rings with unique numbers and university abbreviations for 2014 graduates. The rings are souvenirs of students’ college life, xinhuanet.com reported on Tuesday.
The idea is inspired by the United States Military Academy, aka West Point, where there is a long history of tradition issuing graduation rings. The rings distributed by the university are made with an alloy of titanium and steel, valued at dozens of yuan.
abbreviation缩写词 souvenir纪念品 alloy 合金 titanium 钛