Martha Payne's blog NeverSeconds has logged more than three million page.(Agencies) |
Since Martha Payne’s fight against a council ban on her publishing photographs of her school dinners became an internet sensation, she has been inundated with promises of book, TV and movie deals. But it has emerged the nine-year-old accepted only one offer after her successful battle against censorship became an international cause celebre on Friday. The selfless Scottish schoolgirl has now agreed to team up with Nick Nairn, the celebrity chef, to help Argyll and Bute Council provide more nutritious meals for her and her classmates. The move emerged as Roddy McCuish, the SNP-run local authority’s leader, admitted the council had been wrong and offered to apologise to Martha when they meet later this week. He said the council’s communications department is to be overhauled after a public relations disaster that saw Martha’s case become the world’s third most talked about subject on the social networking site Twitter. David Payne, her father, yesterday said his daughter remains unfazed by the global attention, which drew more than five million people to her blog, NeverSeconds, where she posts photographs of her school dinners and rates them out of ten. “Since this started, we’ve had offers to appear on television shows from all around the world – daytime TV from Japan and from America. We’ve had Hollywood agents talking about a book and TV and maybe a film,” the smallholder said. “But we’ve turned them all down. Martha will be back in school on Monday and no doubt writing her blog.” However, she and her fellow pupils at Lochgilphead Primary School have agreed to help the council create a new menu. Martha has now raised more than £75,000 for development charity Mary's Meals after 5,500 people contributed. Her blog attracted the attention of Mr Nairn and Jamie Oliver last month when she posted a picture of a meal consisting of a pizza and solitary potato croquette, saying she would struggle to concentrate in lessons because of the miserly portions. Soon thousands of people from around the world were visiting the website to see what Martha had eaten that day, leaving comments and sending in photographs of their own lunches. But the council banned her from taking pictures last week, citing coverage in a Scottish tabloid newspaper calling for the school’s dinner ladies to be sacked. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
英國(guó)小女孩瑪莎-佩恩把學(xué)校供應(yīng)的午餐拍照并上傳至其博客,遭到政府禁止,此事在網(wǎng)上引發(fā)熱議。目前,佩恩已經(jīng)收到書(shū)籍、電視、電影等大量邀約。 但這位年僅九歲的小女孩只接受了一份邀請(qǐng)。她在上周五成功反擊政府審查一事在全球走紅。 這位無(wú)私的蘇格蘭小女生已經(jīng)同意和名廚尼克-納恩合作,幫助阿蓋爾-比特地方議會(huì)為她和同學(xué)們提供更有營(yíng)養(yǎng)的午餐。 當(dāng)?shù)刈h會(huì)議長(zhǎng)羅迪-麥克瑞什承認(rèn)議會(huì)的這種行為欠妥,并承諾在本周晚些時(shí)候與瑪莎會(huì)面時(shí)道歉。當(dāng)?shù)卣商K格蘭國(guó)家黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。 他說(shuō),地方議會(huì)的新聞傳播部門(mén)在這起公關(guān)丑聞后會(huì)進(jìn)行全面檢查?,斏陌咐蔀樯缃痪W(wǎng)站推特上全球第三大熱門(mén)話題。 小女孩的父親大衛(wèi)-佩恩昨天說(shuō),他的女兒對(duì)全球走紅一事仍然非常“淡定”。有超過(guò)500萬(wàn)人瀏覽她的博客NeverSeconds,她在博客上發(fā)表了學(xué)校正餐的照片,并用滿分10分來(lái)進(jìn)行打分。 他說(shuō):“自從這件事開(kāi)始以來(lái),我們已經(jīng)收到了來(lái)自全球的電視節(jié)目邀約,比如日本和澳大利亞的日間電視節(jié)目。還有好萊塢經(jīng)紀(jì)人和我們接洽寫(xiě)書(shū)、拍電視、或者拍電影等等?!迸宥鞯母赣H是一名農(nóng)戶。 “但我們都拒絕了?,斏轮芤灰貙W(xué)校,當(dāng)然還會(huì)繼續(xù)寫(xiě)她的博客?!爆斏退诼蹇思战切W(xué)的同學(xué)們已經(jīng)同意幫助當(dāng)?shù)刈h會(huì)重?cái)M一份新的菜單。 瑪莎為發(fā)起的慈善組織“瑪麗的午餐”已經(jīng)募集到了超過(guò)7.5萬(wàn)英鎊,已有5500人捐款。 她的博客上月吸引了納恩和杰米-奧利弗的注意,當(dāng)時(shí)她在博客上傳了一張午餐照片,其中包括一塊披薩餅,還有一份孤零零的炸土豆餅。她在博客上說(shuō),因?yàn)槌圆伙?,自己很難在課堂上集中精力。 不久,全球成千上萬(wàn)名網(wǎng)民瀏覽她的博客看她當(dāng)天吃了什么,留下評(píng)論,并且把自己的午餐照發(fā)給她。 但當(dāng)?shù)刈h會(huì)上周禁止她繼續(xù)上傳午餐照,并引述了蘇格蘭一家小報(bào)的報(bào)道,該報(bào)道要求解聘學(xué)校的用餐負(fù)責(zé)人。 相關(guān)閱讀 美8歲女生獲“災(zāi)難獎(jiǎng)” 因不完成作業(yè)理由最多 (中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯:陳丹妮) |
Vocabulary: cause celebre: 轟動(dòng)的訟案,有名的案例 |