【读新闻学英语】“受够了奥克兰，我要搬到皇后镇，这是世界上最好的地方”

Eccentric internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has announced he is moving to Queenstown, which he called the "best place in the world".

互联网大亨Kim Dotcom宣布他将搬到皇后镇，他称之为“世界上最好的地方”。

Eccentric：古怪的；异乎寻常的

Dotcom said he was looking forward to "finally" moving to Queenstown in a post on Twitter today. "Best place in the world!!! Woohoo!!"

Dotcom今天在推特上发帖称，他期待着“最终”搬到皇后镇，这是“世界上最好的地方！！吼吼！！”

Look forward to：期待；盼望

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Dotcom showed interest in moving further south from Auckland about a year ago saying he was looking forward to raising his children surrounded by "beautiful lakes and mountains instead of spies".

大约一年前，Dotcom曾表示他有兴趣从奥克兰向南迁移。他说，他期待着在“美丽的湖泊和群山，而不是间谍”的包围下养育他的孩子。

Raise a child：养育孩子

Surround：环绕；包围；围绕；围住

Spy：间谍；密探

Dotcom shifted to a penthouse waterfront apartment on the fashionable Princes Wharf in downtown Auckland at the end of 2015 after a lease agreement on the Dotcom mansion ended.

2015年底，在Dotcom豪宅租赁协议结束之后，他搬到了位于奥克兰市中心Princes Wharf的顶层海滨公寓。

Penthouse：顶层公寓

Fashionable：流行的；时髦的；上流社会的

Lease agreement：租赁合同

Dotcom was househunting in the Otago resort town last year in August.

去年8月，Dotcom到了奥塔哥度假胜地找房子。

House hunting：找房子

Resort town：旅游胜地

In July last year a Hong Kong judge released some of his substantial fortune and four containers of possessions, enabling the move south.

去年7月，香港的一名法官解冻了Kim Dotcom的部分财产，也因此他拥有了足够的资金南下挑选豪宅。

Substantial：大量的；价值巨大的；重大的

Possession：拥有；具有；属地；个人财产

The German-Finnish father-of-five is the founder of now defunct cloud storage service Megaupload. US attempts to extradite him to face charges over Megaupload, which was used by users to share copyright material such as Hollywood movies, have had major political fallout in New Zealand, where the GCSB was found to have illegally spied on him as a resident.

这位互联网大亨是曾经红极一时的Megaupload（现已不复存在）的创始人，拥有德国和芬兰的双重国籍，是5个孩子的父亲。美国一直试图将其引渡回美国以接受审判。Megaupload涉嫌通过非法传播享受版权保护的电影（例如好莱坞电影）等，并且对新西兰产生了重大的政治影响。新西兰政府通信安全局(GCSB)曾对Kim Dotcom进行过非法监听。

Defunct：已故的；不复存在的；灭绝的；倒闭的

Extradite：引渡（嫌犯或罪犯）

Fallout：后果，余波

Illegally：不合法地

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