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 A file photo of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. He has taken time out of his busy schedule to indulge his imagination by penning a children's book featuring his family pets, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken time out of his busy schedule to indulge his imagination by penning a children's book featuring his family pets, a spokeswoman said Sunday. Rudd -- who is so famed for his jet-setting work ethic he has been nicknamed "Kevin 707" by the local press -- wrote the book with Australian children's television star Rhys Muldoon, his spokeswoman told reporters. Titled "Jasper and Abby and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle", the book follows Rudd's pet cat and dog on an adventure through the grounds of The Lodge, his family's official residence in the capital, Canberra. "It's delightful, it's actually very very cute, even cuter than one might imagine," the spokeswoman said. "Jasper in the flesh is very hoity-toity, in a good cat way, and Abby's gorgeous. They're old family pets, much beloved." The book will be released on the January 26 Australia Day holiday, which commemorates the landing of the first fleet on Australian shores in 1788. Some profits from the sale of the book will go to children's charities, the spokeswoman said. The Mandarin-speaking former diplomat Rudd jokingly told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper he had wanted to beat his novelist daughter Jessica into print, and it "wasn't the most demanding" text he had ever worked on. "It's good to put a more human face on them," he said of his much-loved pets, who he claimed to have interviewed for the story with Muldoon. (Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a multimedia journalist at the China Daily Web site.) 點(diǎn)擊查看更多雙語(yǔ)新聞
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澳大利亞政府一名女發(fā)言人上周日稱，總理陸克文在繁忙的公務(wù)之外還馳騁想象力，寫(xiě)了一本以家中寵物為主角的兒童讀物。 陸克文的女發(fā)言人告訴記者稱，這本書(shū)由陸克文和澳大利亞兒童電視明星里斯?馬爾登合著。陸克文因工作關(guān)系，坐著飛機(jī)滿世界地跑，被當(dāng)?shù)孛襟w戲稱為“Kevin 707”。 這本名為《賈斯珀、阿比和混亂的澳大利亞日》的兒童讀物講述了陸克文的愛(ài)貓和愛(ài)狗在澳大利亞首都堪培拉的總理官邸歷險(xiǎn)的故事。 這位女發(fā)言人說(shuō)：“這本書(shū)令人開(kāi)懷，非常非常可愛(ài)，可愛(ài)程度超乎你的想象。” “現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的賈斯珀神氣活現(xiàn)，是一只非常可愛(ài)的寵物貓，阿比很漂亮。它們跟隨主人多年，深受寵愛(ài)。” 這本書(shū)將于本月26日“澳大利亞日”當(dāng)天發(fā)售。這位女發(fā)言人稱，圖書(shū)銷(xiāo)售的部分收益將捐贈(zèng)給兒童慈善組織。澳大利亞國(guó)慶日是為了紀(jì)念1788年首支艦隊(duì)登陸澳大利亞港口。 會(huì)說(shuō)漢語(yǔ)的前外交官陸克文在接受《星期日電訊報(bào)》的采訪時(shí)開(kāi)玩笑說(shuō)，他希望這本書(shū)的印刷數(shù)量能夠超過(guò)自己當(dāng)小說(shuō)家的女兒杰西卡，并稱這不是他寫(xiě)過(guò)的“最難寫(xiě)的東西”。 在談及自己的愛(ài)貓和愛(ài)狗時(shí)，陸克文說(shuō)：“以擬人化的筆法來(lái)寫(xiě)它們很不錯(cuò)。”他稱為寫(xiě)這本書(shū)，他還與馬爾登對(duì)它們進(jìn)行了“專訪”。 相關(guān)閱讀 經(jīng)濟(jì)形勢(shì)好轉(zhuǎn) 澳公司圣誕支出大增 （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯蔡姍姍） |
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Vocabulary: jet-setting：cosmopolitan, well-off, ritzy, or trendsetting（乘噴氣飛機(jī)到處旅游的，闊氣的，奢華的） in the flesh：present and alive before one's eyes; in person（活生生的；親自，本人） hoity-toity：assuming airs; pretentious; haughty（神氣活現(xiàn)的，傲慢的） |
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