时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语科技新闻


英语课

 Hello Kitty is a girl, not a cat


凯迪猫是个女孩,不是猫


The creators of a widely-recognised cartoon character have set the record straight. Japanese toymaker Sanrio said the iconic Hello Kitty is not a cat. The bombshell came following publicity 1 for an upcoming exhibition on the character at an American museum. The curator of the exhibition, Christine R Yano, said she received a mail from Sanrio correcting her script for the show. It said: "Hello Kitty is not a cat. She is a little girl. She is a friend….She's never depicted 2 on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature." Sanrio adds: "Kitty is a bright little girl with a heart of gold."E-mail this lesson to someone who would like to use it in classroom or study with it.


Hello Kitty has become amazingly popular since its introduction in 1974. It has become ubiquitous, used on everything from chopsticks to airplanes. A Japanese carmaker even sold a specially 3 branded Hello Kitty car. It had Kitty upholstery, a speedometer with the character's face on the glass and a Kitty-shaped gear stick. The creators said the character represents cuteness. Sanrio said she has no mouth because she speaks with her heart. Social media has been full of comments on the news that Kitty is a girl. A rapper tweeted: "This is worse than finding out Pluto 4 is not a planet.



1 publicity
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
2 depicted
描绘,描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 ); 描述
  • Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
  • They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。
3 specially
adv.特定地;特殊地;明确地
  • They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
  • The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。
4 Pluto
n.冥王星
  • Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun.冥王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Pluto has an elliptic orbit.冥王星的轨道是椭圆形的。
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a taco
acetarson
ailing
alpine silicated raw soil
anti-backlash driving
antiwart therapy
Arno River
arteriae digitales volares propriae
beechcrafts
boil-over
breaking down
cablelike
capacitive emf
capacity loading and scheduling system
cellular autonomy
certner
chenopodoside
chilling machine (chiller)
code selector
commuting matrices
compound pressure and vacuum gage
conditioning agent
cooling-water leakage detector
Couphochlore
crosscompatibility
cubed
cutinites
cytofluorograft
Daboia elegans
differential density separation
digestion-promoting prescription
downstream section
drill jig for air cylinder
drum-type pickup
dynamic formula for piling
enantioselection
extend into
falling of blossom
fasciculi thalamomamillaris
fuel element deposits
furnace-cooling
Galicians
gaussian randomprocess
gorbuscha
gum stick
hinge axis point
hollow ball
hot plug
ideal operational amplifier
independent wholesaler
keratotom
L. I. F.
lateral binding
LMWH
locking wedge
minimum value point
misframing
mortgage-market
neutron soil-moisture meter
Nezelof
not-I
ooloid
orsay
pear gauge
phlebopexy
phytobacteriomycin
plane-tree
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preadaptive mutation
protolophule
pseudoileus
radiator core cleaner gun
radioiodin uptake (raiu)
receiving blanket
reciprocating type supercharger
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rieng
sector
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Sohna
somoun
stable price
submerged pipe
Swedish torch
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tape feed switch
total float
true to one's colors
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US Marshals Service
vacuum capacitor
vessel internals
viagra
visceroptosis
voyage letter
witold