品牌代言人 brand spokesman

泳坛飞鱼菲尔普斯这次又要再做一次"吸金王"了。他将签约成为一汽马自达"睿翼"汽车的品牌代言人。汽车业内人士透露，菲尔普斯是现代运动偶像，最近被美国《体育画报》评选为年度运动家，他作为代言人是马自达的首选。

Phelps, who is returning to Beijing this week for the first time since winning a record eight gold medals in August, has been signed to be the brand spokesman for Mazda in China

在今年8月的北京奥运会上破纪录地独揽八金后，菲尔普斯本周首次回到北京，他已经签约成为马自达汽车在中国的品牌代言人。

上面报道中的brand spokesman(spokesperson) 就是指"品牌代言人"。除了brand spokesman外，我们还可以用endorse来表示"代言"。比如上面的报道还可以表述为Phelps returns to China to endorse Mazda。

买东西时，你是不是也喜欢买name brand（名牌产品）呢？但要小心了，标价很高的也有可能是imitation brand（冒牌货），你可要仔细看清楚brand mark（商标），还要记住买brand new product（新产品）前一定要仔细考察。

除了表示"代言人"外，spokesman最常见的用法是表示某机构的"发言人"，比较中性的说法是spokesperson。比如spokesperson of Ministry of the Foreign Affairs就是指"外交部发言人"。如果想表达选举某人为发言人，可以说make/constitute sb. our spokesman/ spokeswoman/ spokesperson。

They sent the enemy ship to the bottom of the sea.
他们把敌舰击沉。

send to the bottom: v. 弄沉(打沉)
例句：There's a pub at the bottom of the road. 路的尽头有一家酒馆。

A polar bear cub lets his mother know he's ready to nurse. Polar bears nurse their cubs for two and a half years with milk containing 35 percent fat-a security blanket for the upcoming Arctic winter.

The Absent-minded Professor

An absent-minded professor was lecturing on anatomy.

"To show you more clearly what I mean, I have here a parcel with a dissected frog. I want you to examine it very carefully."

The professor unwrapped the parcel and saw that it contained two sandwiches and a hard-bioled egg. Astonished, the professor said, "I was sure I had eaten my lunch, but where is the frog?"

一位粗心的教授正在上解剖课。

"为了让你们更清楚地理解我所讲的内容，这个包里有一只解剖了的青蛙，你们要仔细地观察。"

教授打开包，里面竟是两个三明治和一个熟鸡蛋。教授十分惊讶："我肯定是已经吃过午饭了，可是那只青蛙哪儿去了呢？"