152. News-Meet Scooter

词汇

1.      conventional 依照惯例的，遵循习俗的

2.      reversed 翻转的

3.      peculiarity 特点，特征，古怪之处

4.      tongue-in-cheek 不认真的，半开玩笑的

5.      advocate提倡，拥护

Meet Scooter, the winner of this year's World's Ugliest Dog contest

Scooter isn't what many would call a conventional beauty. The 7-year-old Chinese Crested dog, with reversed hind legs, is nearly bald but for a shock of white wispy hairs. But it's those kinds of peculiarities that endeared the pooch to judges at the "World's Ugliest Dog” contest in Petaluma, California. Scooter's pink, wayward tongue may be drooping from his mouth. The contest's title, however, is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. The nearly 50-year-old event is held to show that these dogs are uniquely beautiful by celebrating "the imperfections that make all dogs special," and to advocate for adoption.