亚省男孩儿拼写赛夺冠

大棒骨

在North America's best-known spelling bee比赛中，来自加拿大亚省的小选手最终夺魁。

5 ^7 ]7 R* l; W. h& p8 e3 C' ?& |来自爱城东南67公里的Tofield的小选手Finola Hackett??去年加拿大纪录的保持者，在第四轮正确拼写出"cachinnate," "kaddish" 和"bdelloid"后，一举夺冠。

" s6 A* {+ t8 IThe Scripps National Spelling Bee于周三在华盛顿举行，275名选手中大多数是美国人，加拿大共有14名参赛者，年令在9到14岁。好笑的是，有些年令小的选手可能能拼出正确的字，却不知其意。
2 G. U9 F- m5 \" u# m
0 u6 |. A# r9 Z' {4 M' E有6名加拿大选手坚持到了第4轮比赛。
! o2 p, z# C7 U* n, U+ u
冠军Finola Hackett得到一座精美的奖杯和$42,000的现金。

（小小年纪不简单，不明其意照拿奖）

板儿砖

好像是个女孩吧，妈妈还像是华裔。

Lilin

She is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

. y( ~* W& T1 }, W1 d% f0 h失职失职，报歉报歉。

[ 本帖最后由 大棒骨 于 2006-6-4 10:27 编辑 ]

降龙十八掌

原帖由 Lilin 于 2006-6-3 23:57 发表
+ w+ x2 _5 ~' O0 Y* q) w' oShe is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

4 M* J$ I) f" X) R5 D0 Q1 a人非圣贤......
2 `: c* z3 I' Y' s" ]8 Z( w4 \$ w  O大棒骨是个好同志. 别打击人家的积极性.

板儿砖

Finola lives with her parents and two brothers in Tofield, Alberta, a tiny town southeast of Edmonton. “My oldest brother’s name is really hard to spell,” she says, as if bestowing on him the highest honour: “It’s T-a-d-h-g.” She also proudly spells her middle name — M-e-i H-w-a, Chinese for beautiful flower (her mom is Malaysian-Chinese, her dad Irish).
% X; |$ _3 ?/ \0 Y/ A
4 M/ ]) O$ J1 ^+ a( R$ ~

4 a2 C2 T( D  O1 e7 Z+ S
% }5 G/ ]7 |" Z8 S( [9 l# BEarlier in the day, Jaclyn Chang of Calgary was eliminated for stumbling on "gigerium" after spelling "strabismus" and "sortileger." Leslie Newcombe of Toronto misspelled "dhole" after getting "ersatz" right.
! q  @) p/ y3 b( ?& u  t
6 ^+ T' L. B+ yAnqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."

" C$ ^. g  b% }( {$ a
So many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!