英语新闻听写 英国肯德基闹鸡荒 750家门店被迫关门

750 KFC outlets¹ across Great Brtain have been closed over a chicken shortage.

由于鸡肉短缺，英国的750家肯德基门店关门了。

Reports say the closings, which represent 80% of all KFCs in Britain have been forced to close,

报道称英国全部肯德基门店的80%被迫关门。

because the main delivery company that recently took over the job of chicken distribution has been unable to deliver.

因为最近接管鸡肉分配工作的主要物流公司无法运送鸡肉。

The locations KFCs shut down are the result of the company recently swapping² deliverers from Bidvest Group to DHL,

因为最近该公司将运送公司从“Bidvest”集团换成了“DHL”，导致肯德基门店的关门，

which Bidvest claims is "not geared up" to deliver chicken around the country.

“Bidvest”宣称该公司没有做好在全国运送鸡肉的准备。

According to a Bidvest spokesman, DHL has one distribution depot³, while Bidvest had multiple ones around the country.

“Bidvest”发言人表示，“DHL”只有一个分配库，而“Bidvest”在全国有多个分配库。

1 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 swapping   

交换，交换技术

参考例句：

• The slow swapping and buying of horses went on. 马匹的买卖和交换就是这样慢慢地进行着。
• He was quite keen on swapping books with friends. 他非常热衷于和朋友们交换书籍。

3 depot   

n.仓库，储藏处；公共汽车站；火车站

参考例句：

• The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
• They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。