英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

A small-town mayor in central Pennsylvania has an unusual campaign message: Don’t vote for me.

賓州中部一座小城的市長發出罕見的競選訊息：別把票投給我。

Bob Wiser is running unopposed for a second term as mayor of Port Matilda, a community near Penn State University.

鮑伯．魏瑟在無敵手的情況下，爭取連任位於賓州州立大學附近的馬堤達港的市長。

But the 70-year-old resident recently decided he’d rather leave the post. Yet he missed the August deadline for taking his name off the ballot.

但這位70歲的居民日前決定，他想要卸下這個重擔。但他錯過在8月把他的名字從選票上撤下來的最後期限。

Wiser tells the Centre Daily Times that he’s asking voters to write in a qualified alternative candidate.

魏瑟告訴中央每日時報說，他請求選民在選票上寫上一名合格的替代候選人。

Wiser says he’s enjoyed his time in office. But he says he’s lost interest and is tired of butting heads with the borough council.

魏瑟說，他在擔任公職期間過得很開心。但他如今已失去興趣，以及受夠跟當地議會起衝突。

An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Index published Thursday.

估計有全球3000萬人活在當代的奴隸制度下，根據週四公佈的首份全球奴隸指數指出。

The index, compiled by the Walk Free Foundation, said that while India by far had the largest number of enslaved people, the problem was most prevalent in the west African nation of Mauritania, where four percent of the population was deemed to be held in slavery.

這份由自由行基金會彙整的指數表示，雖然印度奴隸人口最多，但奴隸問題最猖獗的地方是在西非國家茅利塔尼亞，國內有4%人口被當成奴隸。

The WFF hopes the annual index will help governments to monitor and tackle what it calls a "hidden crime".

自由行基金會希望藉由每年公布指數，來幫助政府監控和處理這種「隱藏性犯罪」。

"A lot of governments won’t like hearing what we have to say," chief executive Nick Grono told AFP.

「有許多政府不會喜歡聽我們所說的事」，執行長葛羅諾告訴法新社。

Established in May last year, the WFF is a 20-strong team based in Perth on the Australian west coast, founded by philanthropists Andrew Forrest -- the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group -- and his wife Nicola.

去年5月成立的自由行基金會，由一個位於澳洲西岸柏斯的20人小組組成，由福特斯克金屬集團暨慈善家弗瑞斯特和他的妻子妮可拉創辦。

When Rob Taylor rolled down his car window on Christmas Eve and handed money to an apparently down on his luck man, the Iowa state representative from West Des Moines had no idea it was he who was about to receive a wondrous gift.

勞柏．泰勒在耶誕節前夕那天搖下車窗，遞錢給一名看來落魄的男子時，這名來自西狄蒙市的愛荷華州議員不知道，即將收到美好禮物的人，正是他自己。

The man was dressed in shabby clothes and holding a sign indicating he was homeless. He stood on a bitterly cold street corner in the Des Moines suburb of Johnston handing sealed envelopes to people who gave him money.

這名男子穿著破舊衣服，舉著牌子指他無家可歸。他在酷寒中站在狄蒙市郊區強斯頓的街角，把一個個密封的信封送給給他錢的人。

The envelopes were stuffed with a letter and either a $10 or $100 bill. He handed out roughly $1,000 dollars in the 50 envelopes he gave away.

這些信封裡裝了一封信和一張面額10或100美元的鈔票。他在送出的50個信封中總共發出約1000美元。

The letter inside the envelopes surprised Taylor when he opened it. It said that the ‘bum’ he just handed money wasn’t homeless, and was a successful business man giving back to people who do good.

當泰勒打開信封，裡面那封信讓他大為驚訝。信中說，他剛才慷慨解囊的那名「流浪漢」並非無家可歸，而是事業成功的商人在回饋行善之人。

Jonnie Wright was the man portraying the homeless panhandler. He told KCCI he did the giveaway because it was on his bucket list.

裝扮成這名無家可歸乞丐的人是強尼．萊特。他告訴KCCI電視台，他送錢是因為這是他死前想做的事情。

Australia’s national science agency has issued a rare apology to a seven-year-old girl for not being able to make her a fire-breathing dragon.

澳洲國家科學機構為了沒能為一個7歲女孩做出一隻噴火龍，而發佈罕見的道歉。

The youngster, Sophie, wrote to a "Lovely Scientist" at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation（CSIRO）, politely asking whether they could make her a winged pet of her own.

那個小傢伙，蘇菲，寫信給「聯邦科學暨工業研究組織 」（CSIRO）的「可愛的科學家」，客氣地詢問他們是否能夠為她製造一隻有翅膀的專屬寵物。

Sophie’s request prompted an unusual apology from the 87-year-old institution, which admitted "we’ve missed something".

蘇菲的要求促使這個有87年歷史的研究機構不尋常的道歉，坦承「我們遺漏了某些東西」。

"There are no dragons," it said in a blog reply posted on its website this week.

「沒有龍」，該機構本週在其官網上貼出的部落格回覆中說。

The enquiry had a fairytale ending Friday when the CSIRO announced that, thanks to Sophie’s letter, "a dragon was born".

這封詢問信函週五出現童話般的結局，CSIRO宣布，由於蘇菲的來信，「一隻龍誕生了」。

Likened to a weather forecast crossed with a church hymn, Switzerland’s national anthem could be binned in favour of a new version if campaigners get their way.

被形容成結合天氣預報和教會讚美詩的瑞士現行國歌，很可能會被換掉改成新版，假如推動換國歌的運動人士能夠順利如願的話。

Too heavy on God and Alpine vistas, the anthem fails to reflect today’s values and has never been etched into the national psyche, critics say.

批評者表示，現行國歌內容太偏重上帝和阿爾卑斯山景色，無法反映現代價值，也從未被銘刻在瑞士人的民族心靈中。

"Nobody knows the words! Anyone who tells you they do is a liar. Or else we manage the first few and afterwards we go ’la, la, la’," said Pierre Kohler, president of the jury holding an unofficial competition to choose a new anthem.