英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2023/06/29 05:30
◎孫宇青
Softgrid Computer, an IT company in the central Indian city of Indore, has come up with an unusual way to ensure its employees maintain a healthy work-life balance - by creating software to remind them when their shift is up and it is time to head home.

印度中部印多爾市一家資訊科技公司Softgrid電腦，想出一種不同尋常的方式，確保員工維持工作與生活的健康平衡，那就是研發出一套軟體，可在員工下班前提醒他們，是時候回家了。

The software is equipped with a notification system that kicks in the moment an employee’s shift is over, warning them that "the office system will shut down in 10 mins" and asking them to "please go home".

該軟體內建提醒系統，會在員工下班前一刻跳出通知，提醒他們「辦公室系統將在10分鐘後關閉」，催促他們「請回家去」。

2023/06/28 05:30
◎管淑平

A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away.

一隻饑腸轆轆的黑熊闖進康乃狄克州一家烘焙店車庫，嚇壞好幾名員工，還自行取用了60個杯子蛋糕後從容離開。

Workers at the bakery were loading cakes into a van for delivery when the bear showed up.

這隻熊出現時，這家烘焙店的員工正在把蛋糕裝上一輛廂型車準備運送。

2023/06/27 05:30

◎盧永山

Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko’s stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had been covered in blood. As the red color shifted and moved, she realized instead it was an infiltration of crickets, some bigger than her thumb.

丹娜‧杜蘭開車穿過她居住的內華達州小鎮時，她以為自己遇到一場血淋淋的車禍。埃爾科鎮所在的80號州際公路周圍的地面，看起來像是被鮮血覆蓋。隨著紅色的轉變和移動，她意識到這是蟋蟀入侵，有些蟋蟀比她的拇指還大。

Dolan said,“it’s almost like a biblical plague,” laughing at the absurdity of the situation that is playing out in Elko, where she’s lived for six years.

杜蘭表示，「這幾乎就像聖經中的瘟疫一樣」，並嘲笑埃爾科鎮發生的荒謬情況。她在當地生活了6年。

Tens of thousands of Mormon cricket eggs buried about an inch deep in the soil began to hatch in late May and early June. For weeks, the red critters have been invading swaths of northern Nevada and causing chaos, said the state’s longtime entomologist Jeff Knight.

數以萬計埋在土壤中約1英吋深的摩門蟋蟀卵，在5月底和6月初開始孵化。內華達州資深昆蟲學家傑夫‧奈特表示，幾週以來，這些紅色生物一直入侵內華達州北部的大片地區，並造成混亂。

The big red bugs leave behind a stench so horrible, akin to burning flesh, that it forces residents to plug their noses while driving.

這些紅色的大蟲子留下一種非常可怕的惡臭，類似燒焦的肉，迫使居民在開車時掩住鼻子。

2023/06/21 05:30
◎管淑平

Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" involving paparazzi in New York, a spokesperson for the couple said Wednesday.

哈利王子與妻子梅根‧馬克爾在紐約發生一場與狗仔隊有關的「差點釀災的飛車追逐」，這對夫婦的發言人週三說。

The incident happened on Tuesday night.

這起事件發生在週二夜間。

2023/06/20 05:30
◎魏國金

A 62-year-old man in Chicago man is facing firearm charges after he told officers he accidentally shot himself in the leg while dreaming that an intruder was breaking into his home, police said.

一名62歲芝加哥男子在告訴警察，他意外開槍擊中自己的腿時，正夢見一名闖匪破門進入他的家之後，面臨槍枝有關控告，警方說。

Mark Dicara was charged about two months after Lake County Sheriff’s deputies were called to his home on April 10 on a report about a person with a gunshot wound.

馬克‧迪卡拉在萊克郡治安官的副手4月10日獲報有人受到槍傷，而被召往他的住家後2個月遭到起訴。