How many baby pandas can you fit on a bed?

How many baby pandas can you fit on a bed?

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/25/world/gallery/china-baby-pandas-chengdu/index.html?hpt=wo_t5

The collective noun for pandas is a sleuth, but perhaps a 'cuddle of pandas' is more apt. Fourteen artificially-bred baby pandas got camera shutters shuttering this week during a press conference in the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base in Sichuan province in southwest China.


noun /naʋn/ [C] 可數名詞 n.
a word or group of words that represent a person (such as 'Michael' or 'teacher' or 'police officer'), a place (such as 'France' or 'school'), a thing or activity (such as 'coffee' or 'football'), or a quality or idea (such as 'danger' or 'happiness'). Nouns can be used as the subject or object of a verb (as in 'The teacher arrived' or 'We like the teacher') or as the object of a PREPOSITION (as in 'good at football')


sleuth /sluθ/ n.                                             

1. 大獵犬; 大警犬
    
2. 【美】【口】偵探
3. [C] 可數名詞old-fashioned -someone who tries to find out information about a crime; DETECTIVE 【過時】偵探

 

cuddle /ˋkʌd!/   vt.  撫愛地擁抱; 親熱地摟住

1. She likes to cuddle her doll .   她喜歡撫抱她的洋娃娃。                                                       

                          vi.  偎依; 舒服地貼著身睡

1. The twins cuddled up to each other .   那對雙胞胎依偎著躺在一起。                                                        

 

                          n. 擁抱, 摟抱[S]

1. My little daughter came to me for a cuddle .   我的小女兒走過來要我撫抱。

   cuddle up 依偎著睡

 

 

apt / apt/ adj. 恰當的, 貼切的

     It was an apt remark .   這話講得得體。

 

shutter /shutter/ n.相機的快門

   He pressed the shutter when she smiled .   她微笑時, 他按下快門。