Robot điều hành gửi xe đạp dưới lòng đất
Từ vựng - Vocabulary
thronging (crowded, full of people): (đổ về) chật ních, đông đúc, đầy người
subterranean (under the ground): ngầm, dưới lòng đất
whisks (takes something somewhere else very suddenly and quickly): đưa/mang vút đi, lấy đi rất nhanh
rightful owner (person who owns something legally): chính chủ, chủ nhân hợp pháp
ID card (identity card): thẻ căn cước, chứng minh thư
Bài khóa - Transcript
Where do you park your bicycle in a crowded, thronging city like Tokyo?
The answer – in a subterranean cycle park.
A robot gracefully whisks your bike 11 metres underground.
It stores hundreds of them and returns each one to its rightful owner in seconds.
Just don't forget your ID card.
Bản dịch - Translation
Bạn để xe đạp ở đâu tại thành phố đầy người như Tokyo?
Câu trả lời là ở bãi đỗ xe dưới lòng đất.
Một chiếc robot rất uyển chuyển đưa vút chiếc xe đạp của bạn xuống sâu 11m dưới lòng đất.
Nó cất giữ hàng trăm chiếc xe đạp và trả lại xe cho chính chủ chỉ trong vài giây.
Chỉ có đừng quên thẻ căn cước của bạn.
Bài tập - Exercise
Hãy dùng các từ và cụm từ dưới đây ở dạng thích hợp để hoàn thành những câu sau:
thronging / subterranean / whisks / rightful owner / ID card
1. Two sisters in Peru are claiming to be the _________ of the land on which the Unesco World Heritage site Machu Picchu is located.
2. A big black suburban SUV lurked by the door of number 11 Downing Street as Mitt Romney spoke to the assembled press, ready to _________ him away when he had answered their last question about the Olympics.
3. The nurses who remained during the Sars outbreak described the hospital as having become like a "desert island" - suddenly isolated and alone in the centre of an otherwise _________ city.
4. The London Underground is celebrating its 150th anniversary and is the oldest _________ railway in the world.
5. Janice "Lokelani" Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele's name is so long - containing 36 letters and 19 syllables - that it would not fit on the documentation…
Hawaii government computer systems are to be upgraded by the end of the year, allowing her to have her full name on her driving licence and _________.
Giải đáp - Answers
1. Two sisters in Peru are claiming to be the rightful owners of the land on which the Unesco World Heritage site Machu Picchu is located.
Source: <link type="page"><caption> Peruvian sisters claim ownership of Machu Picchu</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/1bMpRSm" platform="highweb"/></link>
2. A big black suburban SUV lurked by the door of number 11 Downing Street as Mitt Romney spoke to the assembled press, ready to whisk him away when he had answered their last question about the Olympics.
Source: <link type="page"><caption> Mitt Romney's Olympic mishap</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/1hUkNQQ" platform="highweb"/></link>
3. The nurses who remained during the Sars outbreak described the hospital as having become like a "desert island" - suddenly isolated and alone in the centre of an otherwise thronging city.
Source: <link type="page"><caption> Sars: The people who risked their lives to stop the virus</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/1bAs3c1" platform="highweb"/></link>
4. The London Underground is celebrating its 150th anniversary and is the oldest subterranean railway in the world.
Source: <link type="page"><caption> Tube 150th anniversary: Your stories</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/18kqj9m" platform="highweb"/></link>
5. Janice "Lokelani" Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele's name is so long - containing 36 letters and 19 syllables - that it would not fit on the documentation.
Hawaii government computer systems are to be upgraded by the end of the year, allowing her to have her full name on her driving licence and ID card.
Source: <link type="page"><caption> Long-named US woman celebrates name victory</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/19CGhYy" platform="highweb"/></link>