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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Pesky spring guest buzzes Obama’s Easter egg roll 討厭的春天訪客打亂歐巴馬的復活節滾彩蛋活動
◎李信漢
A flying, buzzing harbinger of spring briefly upstaged President Barack Obama at the annual White House Easter egg roll.
在白宮一年一度的復活節滾彩蛋活動上，一隻會飛的、嗡嗡叫的春天預告者，瞬間搶走美國總統歐巴馬的風采。
Squeals and shrieks from a clump of agitated children interrupted Obama’s reading of his childhood favorite, Maurice Sendak’s "Where the Wild Things Are".
來自一群激動小朋友的尖叫聲此起彼落，打斷了歐巴馬朗讀他童年最愛的讀物——莫里士．桑塔克的《野獸冒險樂園》。
Obama looked up to see what the trouble was.
歐巴馬抬頭看發生了什麼事。
"Oh no, it’s a bee!" he said, laughing, then quickly tried to reassure the kids. "That’s OK guys, bees are good. They won’t land on you. They won’t sting you."
「噢不，是一隻蜜蜂。」他說，大笑，然後立即試圖安撫孩子們。「那沒關係啦，孩子們，蜜蜂是好的。牠們不會停在你身上。牠們不會叮你。」
In fact, helping honeybees and other beleaguered pollinators survive is a goal of Obama’s administration. Elsewhere at the event, children were given seeds to encourage them to plant bee-friendly habitats.
事實上，幫助蜜蜂和其他受苦的授粉昆蟲生存，是歐巴馬政府的目標。在這項活動的其他區域，孩子們被贈予植物種子，以鼓勵他們栽種出適合蜜蜂生存的棲息地。
But the kids ducking and dodging in their hay-bale seats had no interest in being part of this bee’s habitat. "Scary!" one of them shouted.
不過，孩子們在其乾草堆綑成的座位上東躲西閃，對於參與培育蜜蜂棲息地的計畫毫無興趣。「好恐怖！」其中一名孩子大叫。
Officials said more than 35,000 people took part in the 137th egg roll, an event that began in 1878. （AP）
白宮官員說，有超過3萬5000人參加第137屆的滾彩蛋活動，這項活動始於1878年。（美聯社）
新聞辭典
pesky：形容詞，惱人的。例句：I’ve been trying to get rid of this pesky guy for weeks.（我已試圖擺脫這個惱人的傢伙好幾週了。）
harbinger：名詞，預告，預示。例句：The warm weather is a harbinger of spring.（溫暖的天氣預告春天即將到來。）
upstage：動詞，將注意力（從某人或事物上）搶走。例句：We don’t want the flower girl upstaging the bride.（我們不希望這名花童搶走新娘的風采。）
