Hong Kong's favorite new resident, a giant inflatable duck, took a turn for the worse on Wednesday, looking less like an oversized lovable plaything and more like an unappetizing fried egg on the water. 香港最受欢迎的新市民一只巨大的充气橡皮鸭在周三时表现不佳。此时的它看起来不那么像一个巨型的可爱玩具,而像漂浮在水上让人食欲全无的煎蛋。
But an ever-growing body of downbeat economic statistics has prompted other economists to worry that Chinese policy makers now face an unappetizing choice. 但是,不断出现的悲观经济数据已促使其他经济学家开始担心,中国的政策制定者们现在面临一个他们不愿做出的选择。
Vegetable grower in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the Winter, spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing. 另外,佛罗里达州中部地区种植蔬菜的农民正在以高得出奇的价格出售大量莴苣,这是由于加利福尼亚出产的莴苣受去冬今春雨水影响变得味道不好而且数量不足。