壹周星闻 | 郑爽在联合国气候变化大会上发言；马龙刘诗雯分获年度最佳男女运动员；牛姐圣诞神曲获Billboard单曲冠军

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郑爽在联合国气候变化大会上发言
Celebrity activist

当地时间12月2日，为期近两周的2019年联合国气候变化大会在西班牙首都马德里举行。12月10日，中国女演员郑爽作为Youth4Climate中国青年代表团特邀行动嘉宾，在大会上发出“气候承诺”。她表示应对气候变化是每个公民的责任，大家应该行动起来支持气候变化教育。

Zheng Shuang, made famous for her lead role in the television series Meteor Shower, is making headlines, but this time it isn’t for her acting skills. Zheng Shuang was formally invited to attend the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference, which started on Dec 2. At the conference, she served as a representative of the Youth4Climate Chinese Youth Delegation. She exchanged ideas with environmentalists and gave a speech stressing the importance of combating climate change. Zheng Shuang commented: “Tackling climate change is the responsibility of every citizen. Everyone should take action to support climate change education.” Zheng Shuang is often praised by netizens for her active involvement in social issues.

马上学：Make headlines意为“成为头条新闻，上头条”。

马龙刘诗雯分获年度最佳男女运动员
Table tennis titans


12月11日，2019国际乒联球星颁奖盛典在河南省郑州市举行，马龙和刘诗雯作为中国乒乓球主力不负众望，双双获得年度最佳运动员称号。这是马龙继2015和2016年后第三次获此殊荣，他表示乒乓球是自己的一切。而刘诗雯也已经是继2015年后第二次获此奖项。她表示这个奖项是对她2019年努力的肯定，特别是此前两年历经了一段迷茫期。如今28岁的她目标直指东京，直言最想说的话留在东京奥运会后。

Ma Long and Liu Shiwen, China’s table tennis world champions, received the Male and Female Star Awards on Dec 11. The 2019 Star Awards ceremony, hosted by The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), was held in Zhengzhou, Henan.

Ma Long cemented his reputation as one of the greatest male players in table tennis history earlier in the year, the ITTF stated. After 2015 and 2016, this was the third time Ma received the honor. “Table tennis means everything to me,” Ma said at the ceremony.

This was Liu Shiwen’s second Female Star Award after she won her first in Lisbon in 2015. Liu said that the prize was an approval of her effort in 2019, especially after struggling to perform in the previous two years. Now the 28-year-old player sets her eyes on the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

马上学：Cement one’s reputation意为“加强、巩固……的声誉”。

牛姐圣诞神曲获Billboard单曲冠军
Christmas Queen


时隔25年，牛姐Mariah Carey于1994年发行的圣诞神曲《All I Want For Christmas Is You》在本周Billboard单曲总榜正式夺冠了！这也是牛姐30年歌唱生涯中的第19个Billboard冠单。这首歌在圣诞期间最为流行，24小时内在流媒体音乐服务平台声田上的播放超过千万。牛姐也因为坚持写圣诞歌和举办圣诞音乐会而成为有名的“圣诞女王”。(戳这里回顾歌曲MV)

牛姐出生在工薪阶层家庭，早年间要打好几份工才能花钱录歌。尽管当时处境艰辛，但她对圣诞的热情从未改变。她还表示自己是个爱节日和喜庆的人，从小就唱圣诞歌。而牛姐也因为坚持自己所爱而名利双收。

Twenty-five years after its release, All I Want for Christmas is You, a Christmas single by US singer Mariah Carey, topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is also the 19th Billboard champion single from the US singer in her career of 30 years. It is the most-listened-to song during Christmas, with a record of more than 10 million listens within 24 hours on Spotify.

Mariah Carey is known as Christmas Queen as she keeps writing Christmas songs and holding Christmas special concerts.

Growing up in a working-class family, she had to work several jobs to pay for recording songs when she was young. Though she went through a tough time, her passion for Christmas never changed. Her love for Christmas continues throughout her career regardless of what people think of her. “I'm a very festive person and I love the holidays. I’ve sung Christmas songs since I was a little girl,” the singer told the media. As Carey sticks to what she loves, she is rewarded with fame and wealth by the warm and happy Christmas song she created.

马上学：Festive意为“喜庆的，欢乐的”，近义词有festal和merry。

综合来源：《21世纪学生英文报》高三702期、高二775、高一775期

本文英文音频由我报外籍编辑 Daniel Daugherty朗读