China Exclusive: Life under cold snap

 China Exclusive: Life under cold snap

BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- As rain fell on Beijing, a cold front began to sweep most part of northern China on Saturday, the third day of the ongoing¹ 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

On the country's microblog sphere of tens of millions of users, the sudden cold rainfall, dropping temperature, and forecasted blizzards² and high winds seem to have "disrupted" people's normal lives.

Microbloggers twittered their personal "struggles" right before the official winter kickoff in 2012.

"It's great to have a day off tomorrow, but sadly it's going to be cold ," posted Sina Weibo user "Miaojiang_WM" complaining a disrupted weekend.

Another user "Yellow Xiaomin" was not even ready for the pending³ cold snap, "The temperature is dropping! I haven't found my clothes. Come out, my fancy coats. I don't like playing hide-and-seek."

On Sina Weibo, the country's most popular twitter-like service, the cold snap topped the most-discussed topic list.

Others on the list included what the happiest job is, the wedding of a Chinese diving legend with the son of a Hongkong tycoon⁴, and a foreign football player who failed to win the MVP title in China's soccer league.

The front pages of major Chinese newspapers on Saturday focused on the CPC Congress. They reported the panel discussions of delegations⁵, which top Party leaders attended.

The CPC Congress will continue to dominate their Sunday front pages.

In the afternoon a presidium meeting of the CPC Congress was held at the Soviet-style Great Hall of the People overlooking the Tiananmen square.

The presidium meeting decided⁶ to submit the proposed name-list of nominees⁷ for the candidates of members and alternate members of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection⁸, to all delegations to the congress for consideration.

Earlier, the General Administration of Customs on Saturday issued September trade data, showing China's trade surplus widened in October, as export growth accelerated and import growth remained steady.

On Tencent, a popular microblogging site, the cold snap made to the top-ten most-talked-about list with over 35 million posts.

Discussion of the CPC Congress received a total of over 24 million posts, despite only a dozens of posts related to the topic were made on Saturday.

Tong Lihua, a Party Congress delegate and a lawyer from Beijing, said on Tencent, "It's really uplifting. I submitted my carefully thought-out proposal on deepening law-based governance, a proposal of over ten thousand words. I was told this was historic for the past several party congresses."

Sunday is Nov. 11, or the Singles Day, a Chinese pop culture holiday for people who are still living the single life. It got the name Singes⁹ day because the date consists of four "ones".

It will also be a day of huge discounts on China's major online department stores which began to offer half-price discounts over the past year.

"I've had everything ready. I have to get some nice and cheap stuff," said "Pingdan" on Tencent.

1 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

2 blizzards   

暴风雪( blizzard的名词复数 )； 暴风雪似的一阵，大量（或大批）

参考例句：

• Even in the summertime we might be struck by blizzards. 甚至在夏天，我们也可能受到暴风雪的袭击。
• Blizzards battered Britain for the third day. 大风雪袭击英国已进入第三天。

3 pending   

prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的

参考例句：

• The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
• He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。

4 tycoon   

n.有钱有势的企业家，大亨

参考例句：

• The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
• The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。

5 delegations   

n.代表团( delegation的名词复数 )；委托，委派

参考例句：

• In the past 15 years, China has sent 280 women delegations abroad. 十五年来，中国共派280批妇女代表团出访。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
• The Sun Ray decision follows the federal pattern of tolerating broad delegations but insisting on safeguards. “阳光”案的判决仿效联邦容许广泛授权的做法，但又坚持保护措施。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网

8 inspection   

n.检查，审查，检阅

参考例句：

• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
• The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。

9 singes   

v.浅表烧焦( singe的第三人称单数 )；（毛发）燎，烧焦尖端[边儿]

参考例句：

• It'singes our nose hairs, makes our eyes water and distracts us just the same. 我们的鼻孔一样会受刺激，我们的眼睛一样会熏得流泪，我们的注意力一样会被分散。 来自互联网