日期:2013-09-13 A deputy speaker of Britain's parliament has been charged with several counts of sexual assault as well as rape, authorities said on Tuesday. 英国国会下议院副议长奈杰尔埃文斯被控性侵和强奸而于9月10日第三次被捕后宣布辞职。 Conservative MP and deputy... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-13 A Uruguayan man who went missing in May while trying to cross the Andes mountains from Chile to Argentina has been found alive, officials say. 一名乌拉圭男子5月在安第斯山的暴风雪中迷路,在求生意志的支撑下,他吃下一切能吃的东西,包括老鼠,苦撑四个月... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-13 A college has been condemned for asking 16 and 17-year-old students whether they were gay or straight on registration forms. 英国巴恩斯利学院在学生注册表上列出选项,询问其是同性恋还是异性恋,以及是否是变性人。 Form: The registration paperwork for Ba... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-12 The European Commission is proposing to scrap mobile phone roaming charges across Europe. 欧盟委员会提议,在欧洲取消移动电话漫游费。 The Commission described the reforms as the most ambitious plan in 26 years of telecoms market reform. It said the m... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-12 The US has remembered the victims of the 9/11 attacks in a series of memorials marking the 12th anniversary. 美国举行了一系列的纪念活动,纪念911事件发生12周年以及该事件中的受害者。 The 11 September 2001 attacks killed almost 3,000 people in New York... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-12 A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya which could supply the country for 70 years, the government says. 肯尼亚政府称,北部图尔卡纳不毛之地发现巨量水资源,可供全国使用70年。 The discovery of two aquifers... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-11 Apple has unveiled two new handsets: the top-end iPhone 5S and a cheaper iPhone 5C at an event in California. 苹果在加州新品发布会上发布两款新手机:高端iPhone 5S与廉价iPhone 5C。 Apple is covering the fingerprint sensor in sapphire crystal to preven... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 A local police department in southeast Missouri confirms the arrest of an HIV-positive man who published reports say admitted to having sex with hundreds of men without telling them his health status. 美国密苏里州警方证实,该州一名携带艾滋病毒的男子... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 Ariel Castro, the man who has been sentenced to life in prison for holding three Cleveland women captive for a roughly decade before their rescue this year, was found hanged in his cell and is believed to have committed suicide, Ohio officials said.... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 Forty-first President George H.W. Bush prematurely announced former South African President Nelson Mandela's death Sunday morning. 南非前总统曼德拉9月1日出院回家,美国第41任总统老布什当天竟然发表声明,向曼德拉去世表示哀悼。 The mix-up happened when... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 Usually when the Duchess of Cambridge steps out in recycled outfits, women across the country look on with admiration and think, 'maybe she is like us after all'. 英国王妃、剑桥公爵夫人凯特29日出席了安格尔西岛马拉松开赛仪式,这是她自7月23日抱着乔治... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 英国一名大学毕业生最近去参加一家电子产品零售旗舰店的销售助理职位集体面试时,面试官没有让应聘者展示任何他们擅长或喜爱的技能或活动,而是要求他们现场跟着播放的歌曲跳舞。 A university graduate says he was left humiliated after being asked to dance to a... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 家住苏格兰高地的一对夫妇最近举行的婚礼可能是世界上最节俭的一场婚礼,他们婚礼的鲜花、蛋糕、摄影以及乐队均为免费,连结婚戒指都是新娘用花园里找到的多叉鹿角自己做的,除70英镑的婚姻登记费以外,他们婚礼唯一的花费就是新娘花1英镑买的二手复古婚纱。另外,这对... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 因近几年小学入学人数剧增,学校教室不够用,英国伦敦部分小学可能从2015年开始实行每周三天上学制。也就是说,将所有在校生分成两拨,一拨周一到周三上学,另一拨则从周四到周六上学,在校时间为早8点到晚6点,其他时间家长需另外想办法安置自家儿童。 Thousands of p... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-08 欧洲委员会运输交通部近期提议为欧盟各国所有汽车安装限速器,将汽车时速限定在70英里(相当于112.6公里)以内,以减少因道路交通事故死亡的人数。 All cars could be fitted with devices that stop them going over 70mph, under new EU road safety measures which... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-05 An emergency operation is under way in the Salamat region of Chad after an alarming rise in cases of malaria. 乍得萨拉马地区疟疾患者数量令人担忧,一场紧急行动正在开展。 Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the number of reported new cases rose from 1... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-04 An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of four television channels that have been accused of sympathising with the Muslim Brotherhood. 埃及一座法院下令关闭四个电视频道,这些频道被指与穆斯林兄弟会有瓜葛。 They include the Brotherhood's own station... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-04 Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay. 南非大约八万名金矿工人举行罢工,要求提高工资水平。 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is now calling for a 10% wage rise, down from earlier demands for increa... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-04 A power cut has left 70% of Venezuela without electricity, including parts of the capital Caracas. 委内瑞拉70%的地区电力供应中断,包括首都加拉加斯部分地区。 The blackout disabled traffic lights in the city, causing traffic chaos. It also partially d... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-09-03 Small business owners in the UK work fewer hours than their counterparts in the US, Germany, France, Netherlands or Spain, according to a survey. 调查发现,英国小型企业业主的工作时间比美国、德国、法国、荷兰或西班牙的同行都要少。 Research funded by H... 阅读全文>> |
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