没有街道名的城市.doc

没有街道名的城市 Vocabulary: 词汇: a handful of 少量的，寥寥无几 no wonder 难怪 a needle in a haystack 大海捞针 residents 居民 boost 推动作用，注强心剂 BBC新闻词汇(视频版) 第144期:没有街道名的城市 A city of three million people, with only of a handful of street names. 一个三百万人口的城市却只有屈指可数的几条街有街名。 No wonder trying to deliver a letter here is like looking for a needle in a haystack. 难怪邮递员到这里来送信就如同大海捞针。 But this is changing, as the city of Cotonou, in Benin, is starting to name its streets and paint numbers on each house. 不过现在这种状况正在改变，贝宁城市科托努已经着手开始给街道取名并将给每家每户的房子外都刷上门牌号码。 Residents hope this will help the city become better connected to the world and provide a boost for local businesses. 当地的居民希望此举将有助于该城与外部世界建立更好的联系并能助推当地企业的发展。 A city of three million people, with only of a handful of street names. 一个三百万人口的城市却只有屈指可数的几条街有街名。 No wonder trying to deliver a letter here is like looking for a needle in a haystack. 难怪邮递员到这里来送信就如同大海捞针。 But this is changing, as the city of Cotonou, in Benin, is starting to name its streets and paint numbers on each house. 不过现在这种状况正在改变，贝宁城市科托努已经着手开始给街道取名并将给每家每户的房子外都刷上门牌号码。 Residents hope this will help the city become better connected to the world and provide a boost for local businesses. 当地的居民希望此举将有助于该城与外部世界建立更好的联系并能助推当地企业的发展。 任天堂发布便携式游戏机视频 网友大呼过瘾 This is Whats Trending Today. Video game company Nintendo announced its newest portable gaming device on Thursday. It is called the Nintendo Switch. It lets users play games both at home on their televisions and while moving around. The announcement came in the form of a video on Thursday morning. People around the world played the video over 10 million times in the first day. More than 100,000 people left comments. One person wrote: This is the future of gaming right here! On Twitter, Nintendo Switch was the top trending topic around the world on Thursday. One Twitter user wrote Nintendo switch is going to empty my wallet. Nintendo says the system will work for games from a variety of game designers. It will be available in March 2017. Some of the game de