肯尼亚总统乌胡鲁· 肯雅塔周六焚毁了创纪录的105

    吨象牙，黑市估价超过1亿美元。此举旨在彰显肯尼亚根绝象牙贸易、保护大象的决心。请看本报昨日的报道：

    Eleven giant pyres of tusks were set alight Saturday as Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants.

    Huge white clouds of smoke spiraled into the sky as the flames took hold, fuelled by thousands of liters of diesel and kerosene injected through steel pipes.

    报道中的stockpile可作名词，也可作动词，是“库存、储备”的意思。例如：

    A Chinese trader has heard that he has a stockpile of pecans and wants to talk.

    听说他有大量山核桃存货，一个中国商人希望跟他谈生意。

    He and rival wholesalers are trying to stockpile lobsters in the hope that their biggest export market opens up again soon.

    他和其他批发商都在试图储存龙虾，以期最大的出口市场不久再度开放。