AS IT IS 2016-03-11 Is Sanders' Suit the New 'Dress?'

AS IT IS 2016-03-11 Is Sanders' Suit the New 'Dress?'

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Presidential candidates¹ Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton held their eighth debate on Wednesday night.

The two candidates met in Miami, Florida. Each is seeking the Democratic² Party’s presidential nomination³.

The Washington Post newspaper and Spanish language television network Univision helped organize the debate.

The candidates talked a lot about immigration reform and U.S. policy toward⁴ Latin⁵ American countries.

But on social media, people debated something else: the color of Bernie Sanders’ suit.

People watching the debate on television could not agree on the color. Was it brown? Blue? Or black?

People on the Internet simply could not come to an agreement.

The clothing debate took over social media. It brought back memories of the 2015 “The Dress” debate. That started when a woman in Britain posted a photograph of a dress she liked on the blog Tumblr. She wondered if the dress had blue and black lines or white and gold lines.

Her Tumblr post went viral after the Buzzfeed website picked up the story and asked readers to vote on the color of the dress. The site received more than three million votes on the issue.

The trending hashtag #TheDress and the silly debate about its color divided people on social media.

Wednesday night, the color of the Vermont Senator⁶’s suit did the same thing. In fact, his suit now even has its own Twitter handle, BerniesSuit.

Thankfully, a Sanders campaign worker tweeted about the true color of the suit. At first, the campaign staffer tweeted: “the suit Senator Sanders is wearing tonight is blue.”

But, minutes later, the staffer corrected himself. He wrote:  the suit Senator Sanders is wearing tonight is black* *corrects for wrong color.

But, the staffer’s answer did not satisfy everyone on Twitter:

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silly - adj. not serious, meaningful, or important

dress - n. a piece of clothing for a woman or a girl that has a top part that covers the upper body and a skirt that hangs down to cover the legs

handle - n (slang). a name or nickname

1 candidates   

n.报考者( candidate的名词复数 )；申请求职者；攻读学位者；最后命运或结局如何已显然可见者

参考例句：

• Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias. 雇主必须公平而毫无成见地考虑所有求职者。
• one of the leading candidates for the presidency 总统职位的主要候选人之一

2 democratic   

adj.民主的；民主主义的，有民主精神的

参考例句：

• Their country has democratic government.他们国家实行民主政体。
• He has a democratic work-style.他作风民主。

3 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

4 toward   

prep.对于，关于，接近，将近，向，朝

参考例句：

• Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.突然间我看到一个高大的身影朝警察靠近。
• Upon seeing her,I smiled and ran toward her. 看到她我笑了，并跑了过去。

5 Latin   

adj.拉丁的，拉丁语的，拉丁人的；n.拉丁语

参考例句：

• She learned Latin without a master.她无师自通学会了拉丁语。
• Please use only Latin characters.请仅使用拉丁文字符。

6 senator   

n.参议员，评议员

参考例句：

• The senator urged against the adoption of the measure.那参议员极力反对采取这项措施。
• The senator's speech hit at government spending.参议员的讲话批评了政府的开支。