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France has long been seen as something of a paradise when it comes to labour rights, with it’s 35-hour week, long lunches and generous holidays.

說到勞工權益，法國長期以來被視為天堂，每週工作35小時、午休時間長，假期又多。

Now, a new legally-binding agreement effectively banning workers from after-hours work emails could be the icing on the gateau.

現在，一項具有法律約束力的新協議可能讓這個天堂好上加好：禁止員工下班後處理公務電子郵件。

The deal signed between employers’ federations and unions representing workers in the digital and consultancy fields stipulates that employees should switch off work emails after 6pm and employers must not pressure them to be electronically available after this time.

這項由數位與顧問產業雇主聯合會與工會簽訂的協議規定，員工應該在晚上6點後關閉工作用電子郵件，雇主不得施壓他們在這個時間後保持電子聯繫管道暢通。

Employees will no longer check their work-related email before 9 a.m. or after 6 p.m., according to the agreement. The deal upholds the spirit of the 35-hour work week that France implemented in 1999.

員工將不再於上午9時前或晚上6時後查看工作相關電子郵件，根據這份協議。這項協議支持法國自1999年起實施的每週35小時工時精神。

1 million employees in the tech and consulting sectors will be covered by the new rule, the Guardian reports, including workers at the French offices of Google and Facebook.

這項新規定將適用於科技和顧問產業的100萬名受僱人員，衛報報導，包括法國的Google和Facebook員工。

Stolen paintings by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard hung on an Italian factory worker’s kitchen wall for almost 40 years, police have revealed.

被偷走的高更與波納爾畫作，在一名義大利工人家的廚房牆上掛了近40年，警方披露。

Now worth at least 10.6m euros, they were stolen from a collector’s London home in 1970 and left on a train in Italy.

現值至少1060萬歐元，它們在1970年從一名收藏家的倫敦家裡被偷走，被棄置在義大利的火車上。

At a lost-property auction in 1975, the unsuspecting Fiat worker paid 45,000 Italian lire （23 euros） for them.

1975年的一場失物拍賣會上，這名不疑有他的飛雅特汽車工人付了4.5萬義大利里拉（23歐元）買下它們。

He hung them in his Turin home before taking them to Sicily when he retired.

他把它們掛在他位於杜靈的家裡，退休後又帶到西西里島。

The worker only grew suspicious about their origins when his son saw another Gauguin in a book and noticed similarities with the painting in his father’s kitchen.

當這名工人的兒子在書中看到高更的其他作品，發現很像父親掛在廚房的畫作，他才對它們的出處產生懷疑。

North Korea failed to see the joke when a London hair salon used a picture of its leader Kim Jong Un to try to attract more customers and has written to Britain’s Foreign Office asking it to stop what it calls a "provocation".

當倫敦一家髮廊利用北韓領導人金正恩的照片試圖吸引更多顧客時，北韓未能看出箇中趣味，而致函英國外交部，要求停止其所謂的「挑釁」。

A hair salon in west London put up a giant poster of the North Korean leader in its window after reading media reports that men in the Asian state had been ordered to have the same hairdo. The promotional poster read： "Bad Hair Day? 15 percent off all gent cuts through the month of April."

倫敦西區一家髮廊在讀過有關這個亞洲國家的男性，奉命要與領袖有相同髮型的媒體報導後，在其窗戶張貼一幅這位北韓領導人的巨型海報。這張宣傳海報寫著：「髮型很糟？4月份所有男士剪髮降價15%。」

With its shaved sides and bowl-like shape, Kim Jong Un’s distinctive haircut has been a light-hearted talking point for North Korea watchers.

鑑於其推高的兩側與碗狀的外型，金正恩獨特的髮型已成為北韓觀察家的輕鬆話題。

But officials at the country’s embassy, which is just a short walk away from the salon, visited to complain and wrote to the Foreign Office asking it to take "necessary action" to stop "the provocation," a British diplomatic source said. The source said the Foreign Office was considering its response.

然而距離髮廊僅幾步之遙的該國大使館，官員前去抱怨，並致函英國外交部，要求採取「必要行動」以遏阻「挑釁」，英國外交消息管道透露。該消息來源說，外交部正評估如何回應。

The embassy filed a complaint to the police too. A spokeswoman for London’s Metropolitan police said on Wednesday that the complaint had been investigated and that no action would be taken. "We spoke to all parties involved and there were no offences," she said. （Reuters）

北韓大使館也向警方投訴。倫敦大都會警察局一名女發言人週三說，已對此進行調查，但不會採取行動。「我們與涉入的各方談過，並無違法行為。」她說。（路透）

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Sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought, causing a permanent loss of brain cells, research suggests.

喪失睡眠會導致大腦細胞永久流失，可能比過去想像的還要嚴重，研究顯示。

In mice, prolonged lack of sleep led to 25% of certain brain cells dying, according to a study in The Journal of Neuroscience.

針對老鼠的實驗顯示，長期缺乏睡眠導致25%的特定大腦細胞垂死，根據「神經科學期刊」刊登的研究。

If the same is true in humans, it may be futile to try to catch up on missed sleep, say US scientists.

如果相同的情況發生在人類身上，試圖彌補失去的睡眠可能沒有用，美國科學家說。

They think it may one day be possible to develop a drug to protect the brain from the side-effects of lost sleep.

他們認為，未來或許可能研發出能保護大腦不受喪失睡眠副作用影響的藥物。

The study looked at lab mice that were kept awake to replicate the kind of sleep loss common in modern life, through night shifts or long hours in the office.

A Pittsburgh lawyer’s online ad showing smiling robbers, drug dealers and prostitutes flashing thumbs up and thanking him for getting them off the hook has garnered tens of thousands of views and drawn fire from a local bar association.

匹茲堡的一名律師以面露微笑、比出大拇指向上手勢的搶匪、藥頭與娼妓為主角，感謝他（該律師）讓他們脫離麻煩的網路廣告，已吸引數萬瀏覽人次，並招致當地律師協會的嚴厲抨擊。

One fictional criminal pauses while climbing out a window, carrying a laptop to say "Thanks Dan," to the camera, while a pair of men carrying handguns offer a similar message before pulling ski masks over their faces in the three-minute, 27-second ad posted on YouTube by criminal defense attorney Daniel Muessig.

在這段由刑事辯護律師丹尼爾．穆希格張貼在YouTube的3分27秒廣告中，一名假扮成罪犯的廣告演員在爬出窗口時暫停，邊拿著（偷來的）筆記型電腦邊對鏡頭說「謝啦，丹」；另外兩名持槍男子則是在把滑雪面罩拉過來蓋住臉之前，說了類似的話。

Muessig, a 2012 University of Pittsburgh Law School graduate, then makes his own pitch："Trust me, I may have a law degree, but I think like a criminal."

2012年自匹茲堡大學法律學院畢業的穆希格，最後自己出來打廣告：「相信我，儘管我有法律學位，但我的思考方式跟罪犯沒兩樣。」

The spot has been viewed more than 80,000 times since Muessig posted it on Thursday, and the 32-year-old attorney said he believed the tongue-in-cheek approach would appeal to possible clients.（Reuters）

自穆希格週四貼出這段廣告後，已被瀏覽8萬多次，這名32歲的律師說，他深信這種搞笑反諷手法可吸引潛在客戶。（路透）

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off the hook：慣用語，形容解除職責或避免困境。例句：He got her off the hook by lending her some money.（他借給她一些錢讓她免於陷入困境。）