英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2022/12/28 05:30
◎管淑平

Three men have been rescued from the rudder of an oil tanker after spending 11 days crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

3名男子經過11天航越大西洋後，從一艘油輪的船舵上被救下來。

The men spent nearly two weeks at sea after the Alithini II left Lagos, Nigeria, according to MarineTraffic, a website that tracks shipping.

根據追蹤船隻動向的「海事交通」網站資料，這3人在這艘「艾里西尼二世」（Alithini II）離開奈及利亞拉哥斯後，在海上度過將近兩週。

2022/12/27 05:30
◎盧永山

The 52-year-old Philippine artist Elito Circa uses blood taken from his own veins to create canvas paintings, which has drawn both praise and criticism because of his unusual choice of medium.

52歲的菲律賓藝術家艾利托‧瑟卡用自己血管的鮮血來創作油畫，卻因不尋常的媒材選擇，同時引來讚譽和批評。

Born in a low-income household with little access to school supplies and art materials, Circa explored different mediums, but it was when he scraped himself as a young boy that his fascination with using blood began.

瑟卡出生於一個很難取得學習用品和藝術材料的低收入家庭，他曾探索各種不同媒材，直到少年時期刮傷自己，他開始對使用鮮血著迷。

2022/12/26 05:30
◎陳成良

Bachelor’s handbag - a roast chicken takeaway in a plastic bag － has been voted the Australian people’s choice as the new word of the year, the Macquarie Dictionary said on Tuesday.

麥考瑞辭典週二稱，「單身漢手提包」——裝在塑膠袋裡的烤雞外賣——已被澳洲人民選為年度新詞。

The Australian English dictionary defined the term as a "noun Colloquial (humorous) a takeaway roast chicken".

該澳洲英語辭典將這個詞定義為「名詞，口語上（幽默）稱呼外帶烤雞。」

2022/12/23 05:30
◎張沛元
Tours of off-limits areas, wedding photos and a specialty craft beer are some ways in which Narita Airport, a key gateway to Japan, is trying to deal with sluggish demand for international flights.

參訪禁區、拍婚紗照，以及精釀啤酒特產，都是日本一大主要門戶成田機場試圖解決國際線需求疲軟的因應之道。

The operating company expects people who have refrained from traveling overseas during the novel coronavirus pandemic to forge connections with the airport in other ways than through flights.

（成田機場）營運公司期待，在武漢肺炎疫情大流行期間避免出國的民眾，以搭機飛行以外的方式與該機場有所聯繫。

2022/12/22 05:30
◎孫宇青

A Massachusetts woman’s diamond wedding ring, a family heirloom, is back on her finger after a man with a metal detector responded to her social media plea for help and found it at the bottom of the ocean.

在一名男子回應一名女子在社群媒體上的求救，帶著金屬探測器從海底找到她的祖傳鑽石婚戒後，這枚戒指再次被戴回女子的手指上。

29-year-old Francesca Teal said that she was tossing a football with her husband at North Beach in Hampton, New Hampshire, when the ring that once belonged to her great-grandmother slipped off her finger.

29歲的佛朗希斯卡‧提爾說，她當時在新罕布夏州漢普頓鎮的北海灘和丈夫拋球，這枚曾屬於曾祖母的戒指從手指滑落。