AS IT IS 2015-12-12 #WelcometoCanada, X-Men, and a Laughing Orangutan

AS IT IS 2015-12-12 #WelcometoCanada, X-Men, and a Laughing Orangutan

This is What’s Trending Today.

Syrian Refugees² in Canada

Justin Trudeau became the Canadian Prime Minister in November, and on Thursday night he may have made his biggest social media impression of his young term.

Trudeau was one of the first to welcome 163 Syrian refugees arriving in Canada. The refugees are among 25,000 Canada promised to accept by March.

As news spread of the refugees’ arrival, Canadians began celebrating their country’s openness with the hashtag #WelcomeToCanada.

Canadians like Twitter user @BriannaErnest wrote messages of support, saying, “my home is now your home, my country is now your country, and this safety is now your safety.”

Trudeau said, “You are home, you’re safe at home now,” to the first group of refugees to leave the plane.

A Syrian refugee¹ said to the Toronto Star, “We feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise³.”

Two viral videos

There are already seven films based on the X-Men comic books. Get ready for another one.

The trailer for “X-Men: Apocalypse” launched on YouTube on Friday morning and received almost 300,000 views in its first four hours.

The series follows characters like Wolverine, Professor Xavier and Magneto. They battle each other and various human enemies of mutants.

The films are guaranteed blockbusters. Since the first one came out 15 years ago, the Hollywood Reporter says the series sold $3 billion of tickets around the world.

The movie comes out in May.

Some might consider the powers of various X-Men characters “magical.” After all, no one in real life can use mind control or see into the future like the X-Men characters can.

But one everyday magician⁴ posted a funny video to Facebook and YouTube, and in just a few days, it was seen over six million times.

Dan Zaleski of Connecticut went on a trip to Spain and visited a zoo. He showed an orangutan a little magic trick where he made a seed “disappear” using a paper cup.

The orangutan loved the trick and fell to the floor with laughter.

If you watched the video, we bet you’re laughing, too.

And that’s What’s Trending Today.

Words in This Story

apocalypse – n. a great disaster : a sudden and very bad event that causes much fear, loss, or destruction

blockbuster – n. something that is very large, expensive, or successful

comic book – n. a magazine that is made up of a series of comic strips — often used as comic-book before another noun

paradise – n. a very beautiful, pleasant, or peaceful place that seems to be perfect

trailer – n. a selected group of scenes that are shown to advertise a movie

1 refugee   

n.难民，流亡者

参考例句：

• The refugee was condemned to a life of wandering.这个难民注定要过流浪的生活。
• The refugee is suffering for want of food and medical supplies.难民苦于缺少食物和医药用品。

2 refugees   

n.避难者，难民( refugee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees. 联合国已开始向难民空投食物。
• They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. 他们宣称自己是政治难民，不是经济移民。

3 paradise   

n.伊甸乐园，天堂

参考例句：

• My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院，那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
• On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。

4 magician   

n.魔术师，变戏法的人，术士

参考例句：

• With a wave of his hand,the magician made the rabbit vanish.魔术师手一挥兔子便不见了。
• The magician transformed the man into a rabbit.魔术师把那个人变成了兔子。