The story takes place during summer vacation: Some of McDull`s classmates go off to New Zealand to a ski resort, some study Mandarin at Peking University, and others travel to Oxford to study English.

故事发生在暑假期间：麦兜的同学们有人去新西兰滑雪，有人去北大学普通话，还有人去牛津学英语。

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The story takes place during summer vacation: some of McDull's classmates go off to New Zealand to a ski resort, some study Mandarin at Peking University, and others travel to Oxford to study English.

故事发生在暑假期间：麦兜的同学们有人去新西兰滑雪，有人去北大学普通话，还有人去牛津学英语。

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Fan tells the story of a tourist who actually filed a lawsuit, claiming that a four-star rated hotel he stayed in New Zealand was not worth any more than two.

陈盛福还讲到了一件事，一名游客认为他在新西兰居住的四星级酒店顶多只有二星水平，于是为此起诉酒店。

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"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

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Then there is the story of Charlotte Badger, a convict who was one of the first white women to land in New Zealand, in 1806.

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