奥巴马演讲视频：奥巴马夫妇准备在白宫庆祝万圣节

Heather Cooper: Okay, what I'm doing today is, I am putting together a topiary.

We have four of these that are going up.

We have almost all volunteers.

I would say by the end of the weekend, you will have seen almost upwards¹ of 60 people total that will have volunteered their time to make Halloween great.

The President and First Lady went out and chose some pumpkins² that they wanted to be made.

The President: Or, what about this one right here?

This one...

We've got to carve it up.

The First Lady: No -- yeah, I think we're going to carve one.

I think this could be a good one.

The kids would love this.

Sarah Martin:

The President picked out these pumpkins and we just picked out the best patterns that we had found for the trick-or-treating; this is the results.

Heather Cooper: Well, we have so many pumpkins coming, so we have to make sure that those are special amidst all of the other pumpkins.

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Susie Morrison: We are packing, right now, the cookies for the Halloween trick-or-treaters on the North Portico³ that the President and First Lady will be there to hand out.

The President: Come on, Spiderman!

How are the droopy ears?

Whoa!

Oh, a fairy!

Hey, bug⁴!

Good to see you, bug.

Susie Morrison: Inside each bag, we have the White House that is dipped in a lovely orange color this year.

We have 1,400 more to cut out, bake, dip and do the same thing.

We have the Presidential M&M's.

And then, of course, we have some assorted⁵ dried fruit.

It's so exciting; the children are just so full of such excitement when they come up and see the President and the First Lady and know that they're getting a special treat from the White House.

 

1 upwards   

adv.向上，在更高处...以上

参考例句：

• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
• The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。

2 pumpkins   

n.南瓜( pumpkin的名词复数 )；南瓜的果肉，南瓜囊

参考例句：

• I like white gourds, but not pumpkins. 我喜欢吃冬瓜，但不喜欢吃南瓜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put lights inside. 然后在南瓜上刻出一张脸，并把瓜挖空。 来自英语晨读30分（高三）

3 portico   

n.柱廊，门廊

参考例句：

• A large portico provides a suitably impressive entrance to the chapel.小教堂入口处宽敞的柱廊相当壮观。
• The gateway and its portico had openings all around.门洞两旁与廊子的周围都有窗棂。

4 bug   

n.虫子；故障；窃听器；vt.纠缠；装窃听器

参考例句：

• There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
• The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。

5 assorted   

adj.各种各样的，各色俱备的

参考例句：

• There's a bag of assorted sweets on the table.桌子上有一袋什锦糖果。
• He has always assorted with men of his age.他总是与和他年令相仿的人交往。