凯蒂猫不是猫的消息震惊了世界.doc

凯蒂猫不是猫的消息震惊了世界 How a Revelation About Hello Kitty ’s Identity Blew Everyone ’s Mind 来源:纽约时报 2014-09-12 18:17:21 Last week, The Los Angeles Times broke the news of the century. Or so it would seem by the shockwaves it sent through the . 上星期, 《洛杉矶时报》(The Los Angeles) 发布了这条世纪新闻。至少从互联网上激起的冲击波来看,堪称世纪新闻。 From TMZ to The Wall Street Journal, media outlets of all kinds picked up the story, celebrities tweeted their disbelief, children ’s reactions to the news went viral. 从 TM Z 网站到《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal) ,各种媒体竞相报道这件事,名人们纷纷发表推特表示难以置信,孩子们对这个消息的各种反应更是疯狂转发。 The ubiquitous, blank-faced and, as the world assumed, feline cartoon character Hello Kitty is not in fact a cat, announced The Los Angeles Times. It’sa little girl named Kitty White. 凯蒂猫(Hello Kitty) 茫然的脸蛋无所不在,全世界都以为它是一只猫,但《洛杉矶时报》却宣布她不是猫,而是一个名叫凯蒂· 怀特(Kitty White) 的小女孩。 Kitty, also shockingly, has an entire backstory: She is British, lives in London with her parents, has a twin, and isa perpetual third-grader. 同样惊人的是, 凯蒂还有一整套的身世:她是英国人,和爸爸妈妈住在伦敦,有双胞胎姊妹,永远都在上三年级。 The Times quotes Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, who was preparing the written text for a retrospective of Hello Kitty art at the Japanese American National Museum. When fact-checking with Sanrio, the character ’s pany, she was “ very firmly ” corrected about Kitty ’s identity. 夏威夷大学人类学家克里斯汀·R· 矢野(Christine R. Yano) 正在为全美日裔国立博物馆的凯蒂猫艺术回