访谈录 2009-12-10&12-12 中国玩具zuzu身在曹营心在汉
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：访谈录2009
The most popular toys this holiday season, as you know, if you're a parent, are zhu zhu pets. They're little robot hamsters that move around or something and there're people going crazy for them. Zhu zhu pets are manufactured 1 in China, and over the weekend a consumer group raised concerns that they might contain high levels of a dangerous metal called antimony. Now today the government now said they do not contain a dangerous level of antimony, but, you know, they said they're safe and they're just as stupid as you imagine they would be when you spend the money on them.
But I want to make sure still, because I got one for my niece. And especially since they're made in China, I want to make sure they don't contain harmful amounts of lead, you know, some Chinese toys do. So we did our own test. Superman, as you know, cannot see through lead. It's the one substance that blocks his vision 2. So we got our Hollywood Boulevard superman and we taped a zhu zhu pet to, over each one of his eyes. And now let's see. If superman can make it across the street, they are safe. Right across the way from us here on Hollywood Boulevard. So maybe there is, maybe there isn't lead, no offence 3.
But dangerous or not, zhu zhu pets are the hottest toy out there. They're selling on eBay for like seven times the retail 4 price and they even found their way into the newest installment 5 of a very popular movie franchise 6. Oh, that's… I gotta go see that again.
- a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist 一位不道德的记者编造的一篇报道
- We want the machine manufactured to our own spec. 我们要求这台机器按我们自己的规格来制造。
- The wall cuts across our line of vision.那面墙挡住了我们的视线。
- Much reading has impaired his vision.大量读书损害了他的视力。
- She felt she had committed an offence against the right of others.她觉得自己侵犯了他人的权利。
- I agree with the theorem that the best defence is offence.我同意最好的防御是进攻的理论。
- In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
- These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
- I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
- He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。