双语趣听精彩世界 第182期:英国人不能在地图上找出主要城市
时间：2019-01-28 作者：英语课 分类：双语趣听精彩世界
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七成半英国人不能在地图上准确找出本国主要城市.
英国人不能在地图上找出主要城市
Mail Online: a study has found more than three quarters of Britons cannot pinpoint 1 major UK cities on a map.
An astonishing 85 per cent of respondents failed to locate Sheffield, while the figure was 83 per cent for Birmingham and 76 per cent for Liverpool.
The research, carried out by the Jurys Inn hotel chain, also revealed Britons struggle to name and locate famous British landmarks 2 - with 36 per cent not knowing where Stonehenge is.
vt.准确地确定；用针标出…的精确位置
- It is difficult to pinpoint when water problems of the modern age began.很难准确地指出，现代用水的问题是什么时候出现的。
- I could pinpoint his precise location on a map.我能在地图上指明他的准确位置。