日期:2010-12-05 Nine out of 10 people have run up unsecured debt and many fear they will never be able to pay back what they owe, a survey has claimed. 一项调查称,十分之九的英国人背负无抵押债务,许多人担心会永远无法偿清自己的债务。 Around 89pc of people aged betwe... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-05 The United States on Monday said it was carrying out a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and would pursue the whistle-blower website's chief if he were found to have broken the law. 本周一,美国宣称正对维基解密网站展开刑事调查,如果发现这家泄密... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-05 After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner -- a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property. 经过数十亿年时光,太阳终于有主了!来自西班牙加利西亚省某潮湿... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-05 Two million husbands and wives are not lawfully married because of a Church of England blunder, it was revealed yesterday. 昨日有消息透露,由于英国国教会的一个失误,200万夫妇都未能成为合法夫妻。 Their church weddings are legally invalid because the... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-04 德国南部的一所小学鼓励学生上课嚼口香糖,表示嚼口香糖有助于孩子健康的同时还能提高他们的成绩。 A Bavarian primary school is encouraging pupils to chew gum in class in an attempt to improve their grades. Wolfgang Ellegast from the Education Ministry in... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-04 艾莉西亚凯斯、Lady Gaga、亚瑟小子等美国娱乐界名人计划在世界艾滋病日当天开始暂时关闭自己的Twitter、Facebook等社交网站账号,直到慈善活动募集到一百万美元的善款之后,所有参与者的账户才会再次开放。 Alicia Keys poses in a coffin for a World AIDS Day to sa... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-04 为了鼓励更多人骑自行车出行,丹麦首都哥本哈根计划将现有的自行车道改建为自行车高速路。 People ride their bicycles on Noerrebrogade boulevard, Copenhagen, on Oct 2. Copenhagen is already one of the world\s most bicycle-friendly cities. Copenhagen, one... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-04 印度北方邦的一个地区议会近日发布公告,禁止该地区未婚女性携带手机,希望此举能够阻止当地不同种姓间的男女交往过密甚至私奔。 A local council in northern India has banned unmarried women from carrying mobile telephones to halt a series of illicit(违法的... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-03 A British exploration company says it has discovered oil off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic - the second such find this year. 一家英国勘探公司称,在南大西洋福克兰群岛海域发现油田这是本年度发现的第二个油田。 Desire Petroleum said it would... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-03 Qantas has begun legal action against the engine supplier Rolls-Royce following the explosion of an engine on one of the airline's Airbus A380s. 澳洲航空一架A380空中客机的引擎发生爆炸,该公司已经对其引擎供应商劳斯莱斯提起法律诉讼。 It said the legal... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-02 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has confirmed he will not be in Zurich for Fifa's decision on the 2018 World Cup on Thursday. 俄罗斯总理普京证实,他将不会出席本周四在苏黎世举行的2018世界杯举办权大会。 He said Fifa had been the victim of a smea... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-02 More than 10,000 people have attended a memorial service for the 29 miners killed in a New Zealand coal mine. 一万多新西兰民众参加了矿难中丧生的29名矿工的追悼会。 Mourners around the country observed two minutes' silence for the dead. The memorial s... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-02 Heavy snowfall has caused disruption across northern Europe, closing airports and bringing traffic to a standstill. 北欧地区突降大雪,造成机场关闭、交通停止。 In Poland, eight homeless people died as temperatures fell below -20C (-4F). Airports were... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-02 Air safety investigators in Australia say they have identified a serious manufacturing fault with engines fitted to Airbus A380 passenger jets. 澳大利亚航空安全调查委员会称,他们已经在A380空中客机上的引擎中发现了一个严重的生产故障。 The engine explo... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-01 The eurozone's unemployment rate hit 10.1% in October as jobless rates rose in Italy, inched down in France and Germany, and remained stable in Spain. 欧盟10月份失业率达到10.1%:意大利失业率上升,法国、德国稍降,西班牙则保持稳定。 The rate was the h... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-12-01 Toyota has said it will repair 650,000 Prius models worldwide because of a fault with the coolant pump. 丰田宣布将对全球65万辆冷却液泵存在问题的普锐斯车型进行维修。 The fault with the coolant pump does not represent a safety risk The problem, which... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-11-29 Police have uncovered a 670m (2,200ft) drug smugglers' tunnel under the US-Mexico border - the second such discovery this month. 墨西哥警方在美墨边境发现了一条670米长的毒品走私隧道,这是本月发现的第二条隧道。 The 800m-long tunnel has a ventilation s... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-11-29 The New Zealand cabinet has agreed to open a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Pike River mining disaster in which 29 miners died. 新西兰内阁同意成立一个皇家调查委员会对派可河矿难进行调查。 Fires in the Pike River mine could delay the recovery of... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-11-29 Southern Sudan has given potential voters an extra week to register for January's referendum on possible independence. 南苏丹向明年一月份全民公投的潜在选民提供另外一周的注册时间,此次公投将可能使南苏丹独立。 The authorities said moving the deadline... 阅读全文>> 日期:2010-11-29 Brazilian security forces have taken control of a major Rio de Janeiro drug trafficker stronghold. 巴西安全部队已经控制了里约热内卢一个主要贩毒团伙的据点。 Some 2,600 police and troops, backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters, moved into the Ale... 阅读全文>> |
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