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【原文标题】Panda mania sweeps Taiwan
【登载媒体】澳洲时代报 theage.com.au
【来源地址】http://www.theage.com.au/world/p ... -20090126-7pyo.html
【翻译】 bylife
【内容】
昨天，数千名台湾市民成群结队的参观首府动物园，因为让他们期待已久的中国送给这个岛的一对大熊猫首次亮相。
在毛毛细雨的中国年早晨，当地官员说大约有6000名参观者冒着寒冷来到台北动物园就是为了目睹这对4岁大的熊。
一整天大概有22，000人在熊猫家园次期待观看大熊猫，但是一些人抱怨时间太仓促了并且太拥挤了而导致没有好好的看看团团和圆圆。
一位从南部高雄来的四年级学生陈元培说“我非常喜欢熊猫但是今天我只看它们几秒钟。我想在不拥挤的时候再次来到动物园。”
大熊猫，中国四川独有，被送给台湾，成为两岸自从在1949内战分割以来进一步促进双方关系缓和的手段。
“团圆”- 中国字属意“再结合”或“一体”
动物园商家非常高兴有关熊猫纪念品销量看好，如：玩具，帽子，包包和气球。其中一个商家说“仅几个小时，我就卖了100个以上的熊猫玩具和我日销售额目标2万块台币（大概600美金，914.63澳元=人民币4332元）早就达到了。”
台北当局为熊猫家园曾投入1千万美金（1千5百24万澳元=7千万人民币）并期待每年大熊猫可以吸引6百万参观者。
团团圆圆是2006年被准备送给台湾的，但是这一切只有在对北京友好的马英九总统上台后才实现。
【原文】
Thousands of Taiwanese flocked to the capital's zooyesterday as a pair of giant pandas given to the island by China madetheir highly-anticipated public debut. More than 6,000visitors braved a cold, drizzly Lunar New Year's Day morning to get aglimpse of the four-year-old bears at the Taipei Zoo, officials theresaid.
More than 22,000 people are expected tovisit the panda enclosure daily, but some visitors complained there washardly time to take a good look at Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan due to thebig crowds. "I like the pandas very much butI only got to see them for a few seconds. I want to come to the zooagain when it's less crowded," said fourth-grader Chen Yuan-pei fromthe southern city of Kaohsiung.
The pandas, born in China'sSichuan province, were given to Taiwan as part of a series of measuresby the two sides to ease tensions that have lasted since a civil wardivided them in 1949.
"Tuanyuan" - a combination of the Chinese characters - means "reunion" or "unity".
Vendors at the zoo enjoyed brisk sales of panda memorabilia including toys, hats, bags and balloons. "Wesold more than 100 toy pandas in a few hours and our daily target of20,000 Taiwan dollars $US600 ($A914.63) US) in sales was already met,"said one vendor.
City authorities have spent about $US10million ($A15.24 million) on the enclosure and hope the bears willattract six million visitors a year. Tuan Tuan and YuanYuan were earmarked for Taiwan in 2006 but their arrival was only madepossible after Beijing-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou took office lastyear.
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