英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2024/07/22 05:30
◎陳成良

Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Then research suggested that some could control their body temperature, but when and how that shift came about remained a mystery.

科學家曾經認為恐龍是行動遲緩、冷血的生物。後來的研究表明，有些恐龍可以控制自己的體溫，但這種轉變的時間和方式仍然是個謎。

Now, a new study estimates that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed the Earth about 180 million years ago, about halfway through the creatures’ time on the planet.

2024/07/17 05:30
◎管淑平

The decision to honour the founder of the AS Roma football club on a postage stamp has caused a furore in Italy due to his Fascist past.

義大利發行紀念「羅馬體育」足球俱樂部創辦人的郵票，因他過去的法西斯主義者背景引發軒然大波。

The stamp issued on Thursday bears the face of Italo Foschi, a Fascist militia leader who was accused of persecuting Jewish people.

2024/07/16 05:30
◎盧永山

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents.

邊境巡邏執法人員指稱，1名來自中國的女子在與加拿大魁北克省接壤的佛蒙特州湖邊被捕，因為她試圖以輕艇將29隻受保護的物種—東方箱龜走私到加拿大。

Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to an agent’s affidavit filed in federal court. Agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other people, including a man who was believed to be her husband, had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side of the lake toward the United States.

2024/07/15 05:30
◎陳成良

South Korea’s media regulator has banned access to a North Korean propaganda music video that it said idolised and glorified leader Kim Jong-un as a “great leader”.

南韓媒體監管機構已禁止訪問一段北韓宣傳音樂短片，該短片被指將金正恩美化為「偉大領袖」並將其偶像化。

The catchy tune titled Friendly Father has become an unlikely social media hit around the world, going viral on short-form video app TikTok and other platforms.

2024/07/12 05:30
◎ 張沛元

“John Lennon is coming to my house today,” Noriko, daughter of a martial arts master living in Tokyo, told her teacher one day in 1977 even though the visit was supposed to be secret.

「約翰‧藍儂今天要來我家，」1977年某日，家住東京的武術大師之女典子如此告訴她的老師，儘管這趟造訪本該保密。

The teacher just gave short shrift to the fifth-grader, saying, “That can’t be true.”