By Vivien Marsh, BBC News

媒体英语会带大家一起学习 BBC 撰稿人在报道世界大事时常用到的单词和短语。

Background: 一只帝企鹅在南极迷路了，结果飘游数千英里来到新西兰的海滩上。 成为40多年来，第一只出现在这里的企鹅。

Misdirected penguins are the stuff of fiction; the animatedmusical Happy Feet and the Ukrainian satire Death and the Penguin both feature large aquatic birds who've strayed far from home.

And a woman out walking her dog on New Zealand's North Island said she couldn't believe her eyes when she saw what she described as a "glistening white thing" standing on the beach.

It turned out to be a juvenileemperor penguin, about a metre tall, and 3,000 kilometres from its base in Antarctica after taking a wrong turn.

No such bird has made that journey for more than 40 years. Conservationists are baffled and concerned. One penguin expert was quoted as saying that although the bird was healthy, it had been eating wet sand, having mistaken it for snow.

The New Zealand winter is too warm for an emperor penguin, and it's thought it'll soon need to find its way back south if it's to survive.

• musical [´mju:zikəl]   a.音乐的；悦耳的   (初中英语单词)
• standing [´stændiŋ]   n.持续 a.直立的   (初中英语单词)
• emperor [´empərə]   n.皇帝   (初中英语单词)
• expert [´ekspə:t]   n.&a.专家；内行   (初中英语单词)
• healthy [´helθi]   a.健康的   (初中英语单词)
• survive [sə´vaiv]   vt.幸存；残存   (初中英语单词)
• fiction [´fikʃən]   n.小说；虚构；谎言   (高中英语单词)
• concerned [kən´sə:nd]   a.有关的；担心的   (高中英语单词)
• saying [´seiŋ, ´sei-iŋ]   n.言语；言论；格言   (高中英语单词)
• mistaken [mis´teikən]   mistake的过去分词   (高中英语单词)
• satire [´sætaiə]   n.讽刺；讽刺作品   (英语四级单词)
• animated [´ænimeitid]   a.栩栩如生的；活跃的   (英语六级单词)
• juvenile [´dʒu:vənail]   a.少年的 n.青少年   (英语六级单词)
• taking [´teikiŋ]   a.迷人的 n.捕获物   (英语六级单词)