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| The pair of pandas selected for Hong Kong |
| WOLONG, Sichuan, April 26 - The panda couple selected as gifts for Hong Kong left their hometown in China's southwestern Sichuan Province Thursday morning for their new home in the southern metropolis1.
The pandas, the second pair of the rare animals that the central government presents to Hong Kong, are gifts in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.
The truck carrying the couple departed the China Panda Protection and Research Center in Wolong around 8:00 a.m. Thursday in rain for the airport more than 100 km away in the provincial2 capital of Chengdu, where they will take a special plane to Hong Kong.
The pandas were placed at 7:00 a.m. inside two iron-wood cages, which are 1.45 meters long, 1.12 meters wide and 1.55 meters high.
"The cubs3 are in a good shape and the 10-hour journey won't be a big problem for them," Li Wei, a publicity4 official of the Wolong Center, told Xinhua.
They will have comfortable space and enough food and water during the trip, according to Li.
Both born in 2005 at the Wolong Center, the male panda presently identified as No. 606 weighs 69.6 kilograms and the female, No. 610, 61.3 kilograms, according to Li.
Selected out of 15 candidates, they are described as "well-mannered, lovely, mentally healthy and easy going".
The pandas will be taken care of through out the trip by five experts including a vet5 and a feeder from the research center, and a vet, a feeder and a nurse from the Hong Kong Ocean Park, who had been trained to take care of the pandas in Wolong for three months.
The chartered plane are expected to arrive at the Hong Kong International Airport at around 4:30 p.m., where a handover ceremony will be held and the names of the pandas will be announced.
A vet from the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department will go on board to conduct preliminary checkups for the pairs when they landed to make sure they are fit for further transportation.
The pandas will then be transported straight from the airport to the Ocean Park where they will be quarantined for about 30 days.
After adapting to their new living environment in the Ocean Park, the pandas are expected to meet the Hong Kong public on July1.
The Central Government presented the first pair of pandas, "An An" and "Jia Jia," as gifts to Hong Kong in 1999 and they now also live at the Ocean Park.
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metropolis
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| n.首府；大城市 |
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- Shanghai is a metropolis in China.上海是中国的大都市。
- He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花缭乱。
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provincial
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| adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人 |
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- City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
- Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
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cubs
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| n.幼小的兽，不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 ) |
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- a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
- Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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publicity
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| n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告 |
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- The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
- He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。
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vet
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| n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查 |
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- I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
- Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。
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