AS IT IS 2016-03-05 'How to Move to Canada'

AS IT IS 2016-03-05 'How to Move to Canada'

This is What’s Trending Today…

The Google search “How to move to Canada” reached an all-time high this week, right after Super Tuesday in the United States.

On Super Tuesday, 13 states and one territory voted to choose their preferred Republican Party and Democratic Party presidential candidates. It was the most important day yet in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Democrat¹ Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump² both won seven states on Super Tuesday. Trump now has one-third of the total delegates needed to win his party’s nomination³. 

As Trump gets closer and closer to the Republican nomination, it seems, more and more Americans are looking into moving to Canada.

Simon Rogers is a data editor at Google. He tweeted about the sudden search increase. He wrote earlier this week: “Searches for "How can I move to Canada" on Google have spiked⁵ 350 percent in the past four hours

But that was only the start of the Google trend. The Google search “How to move to Canada” actually spiked more than 1,000 percent this week.

The travel search engine Kayak took notice. Using the hashtag #1waytocanada, it offered 10 winners on Twitter one-way plane tickets to Canada.

An official from the Canadian city of Toronto also offered help to Americans looking to move to their neighbor to the north.

Toronto City Councillor Norm Kelly tweeted: “To all my American followers⁶ tweeting at me tonight, here’s the link.” His tweet included a link to the web page “Apply to Immigrate⁷ to Canada.”

Norm Kelly’s post has been re-tweeted more than 46,000 times.

And, a resident of Canada’s Cape⁸ Breton created the website CBifTrumpwins.com. The island off Canada’s east coast is “experiencing a bit of a population problem,” as the site says.

The website also says Cape Breton would welcome “all, no matter who you support, be it Democratic, Republican or Donald Trump.”

And that’s What’s Trending Today.

Words in This Story

spike⁴ - v. to increase greatly in a short period of time

ticket - n. a piece of paper that lets the user see a show, travel on a vehicle or take part in an event

1 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

4 spike   

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

• The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
• They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

5 spiked   

adj.有穗的；成锥形的；有尖顶的

参考例句：

• The editor spiked the story. 编辑删去了这篇报道。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They wondered whether their drinks had been spiked. 他们有些疑惑自己的饮料里是否被偷偷搀了烈性酒。 来自辞典例句

6 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

7 immigrate   

v.（从外国）移来，移居入境

参考例句：

• 10,000 people are expected to immigrate in the next two years.接下来的两年里预计有10，000人会移民至此。
• Only few plants can immigrate to the island.只有很少的植物能够移植到这座岛上。

8 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。