英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2025/03/19 05:30
◎管淑平
A representative for Brad Pitt has warned fans to be wary of impersonation scams after a French woman lost her life savings to fraudsters posing as the Hollywood star.

1名法國女子遭假扮布萊德‧彼特的詐騙份子騙走畢生積蓄後，這名好萊塢明星的1名代表警告粉絲，小心冒充他的詐騙行為。

"It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities," a spokesperson for the actor told US outlet Entertainment Weekly, and added it was "an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence," such as Pitt.

這名影星的發言人向美國《娛樂週刊》表示，「詐騙份子利用粉絲與明星之間的強烈情感連結，真是太糟糕」，並且說，這是「1個重要提醒，不要回應網路上任何不請自來的聯繫，尤其是來自像彼特這樣不在社群媒體上活動的演員」。

2025/03/18 05:30
◎魏國金

U.S. chipmaker Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan will receive a salary of $1 million and be eligible for an annual cash bonus of up to $2 million, the company said in a regulatory filing.

美國晶片製造公司英特爾的新執行長陳立武，將獲得100萬美元薪資，並有資格取得1年高達200萬美元的現金紅利，該公司在1份監管文件中指出。

Intel named Tan as the CEO, tasking the industry veteran to lead a faltering transition to a successful chip manufacturing firm as well as chip design house. He will take charge on March 18.

2025/03/17 05:30
◎陳成良

Sri Lanka vowed on Thursday to take urgent measures to curb costly clashes between villagers and wild elephants, following reports that nearly 1,200 people and over 3,500 elephants have died in such conflicts over the past decade.

斯里蘭卡政府週四誓言將採取緊急措施，遏止村民與野生大象之間的嚴重衝突。官方報告顯示，過去10年間，這類衝突已造成近1200人及3500多頭大象喪生。

Environment Minister Dammika Patabendi told parliament that authorities plan to construct more electrified fences and deploy additional personnel to help prevent elephants from raiding villages near wildlife sanctuaries.

2025/03/12 05:30
◎管淑平
Britain and Germany produced their cleanest electricity on record last year, with renewables reaching record highs, according to data released Thursday.

根據週四公布的數據，去年英國與德國創下這兩國最乾淨發電紀錄，可再生能源發電量達到創紀錄新高。

Renewable energy like wind and solar accounted for 59 percent of production in Germany, while in Britain it stood at 45 percent, the data showed.

這份數據顯示，如風力和太陽能發電等再生能源，占德國發電總量的59％，在英國則占45％。

2025/03/11 05:30
◎盧永山

A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR has been crowned the world’s oldest llama in captivity.

在納斯卡車隊創辦的北卡羅來納州1個營地裡，1隻齙牙駱駝每天都在安慰罹患慢性病的兒童，牠被評為世界上最年長的圈養駱駝。

At 27 years and more than 250 days, the selfie- and snuggle-loving llama called Whitetop dethroned Dalai Llama, the Guinness World Records announced last week.

金氏世界紀錄上週宣布，喜歡自拍和依偎、名叫「懷特托普」的駱駝，已經27歲250多天了，取代名叫Dalai Llama的駱駝，成為全世界最年長的駱駝。

2025/03/06 05:30
◎孫宇青
A California man discovered he has been mistakenly paying his neighbor’s power bill for up to 18 years.

1名加利福尼亞州男子發現自己犯下大錯，幫鄰居支付電費長達18年。

Ken Wilson, who has lived in the same apartment since 2006, said he recently noticed his Pacific Gas and Electric bill was going up, so he took steps to try to reduce his energy usage.

自2006年以來一直住在同一間公寓的肯‧威爾遜說，他最近注意到來自太平洋瓦斯與電力公司的帳單費用增加，因此他採取措施，試圖減少能源用量。

2025/03/04 05:30
◎魏國金

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Mexico has proposed matching Washington’s tariffs on China and urged Canada to do the same.

美國財政部長史考特‧貝森特說，墨西哥已提議對中國課徵與華府一致的關稅，並敦促加拿大也採取相同措施。

“I think it would be a nice gesture if the Canadians did it also, so in a way we could have ‘Fortress North America’ from the flood of Chinese imports,” Bessent said.

2025/03/03 05:30
◎陳成良

A Kiwi dairy company has been busted for falsely claiming its products were “100 per cent pure New Zealand”, despite using butter imported from India.

1家紐西蘭乳製品公司因謊稱其產品為「100％純紐西蘭」，但實際上使用從印度進口的奶油，而被揭發並遭到處罰。

Dairy firm Milkio Foods Limited was fined US$261,452 on Aug 26 after New Zealand’s Commerce Commission took it to court for making false claims about the origin of its butter products.

2025/02/27 05:30
◎孫宇青
Police in Munich are investigating a mystery: More than 1,000 stickers were put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in the German city, without any indication of where they came from or why.

德國慕尼黑警方正在調查一個謎團：在這座城市3座墓地的墓碑和木製十字架上，被貼上1000多張貼紙，沒有任何跡象表明它們從什麼地方出現，又是為何出現。

The 5x3.5-centimeter stickers are printed with a QR code, that, when scanned, shows the name of the person buried in the grave and its location in the cemetery — but nothing else.

這些5x3.5公分的貼紙上印有QR碼，掃描後會顯示埋在墳墓中的人的姓名，及其在墓地中的位置，除此之外什麼都沒有。

2025/02/26 05:30
◎管淑平

This holiday season, many Russians are tightening their belts.

這個節日期間，許多俄羅斯人正勒緊褲帶。

Russians traditionally increase their spending in the final few weeks of each year, gearing up for New Year celebrations and nationwide holidays in the first weeks of January.

2025/02/25 05:30
◎盧永山
Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of the South Dakota museum where they had been displayed for decades.

由於擔心砷暴露，南達科塔州一間展示鱷魚、猴子、老虎、斑馬和其他數十種動物標本數十年的博物館被迫關閉，但這些動物標本將搬到新家。

The Delbridge Museum of Natural History at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls closed in August 2023 after testing showed potentially hazardous levels of arsenic present in 80% of the specimens of the Brockhouse Collection.

位於蘇瀑市大平原動物園的德爾布里奇自然歷史博物館於2023年8月關閉，先前的檢測顯示，布羅克豪斯收藏品的80%標本中，含有潛在危險水平的砷含量。

2025/02/19 05:30
◎管淑平

Japan wants renewables to be its top power source by 2040 in a push to reduce dependence on coal and gas, government plans showed Tuesday.

週二公布的政府計畫顯示，日本致力推動減少對煤炭和天然氣的依賴，希望在2040年前讓再生能源成為該國最大電力來源。

The government had already said it wants the world’s fourth-largest economy to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

2025/02/18 05:30
◎魏國金

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering taking a controlling stake in Intel Corp.’s factories at the request of Trump administration officials, a person familiar with the matter said.

一名知情者說，在川普政府官員的要求下，台積電正考慮取得英特爾廠的控股股權。

Trump officials raised the idea of a deal between the two companies in recent meetings with the Taiwanese chipmaker, the person said, and TSMC was receptive.

2025/02/12 05:30
◎管淑平

Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking a viral sensation covered widely by news outlets.

玩具眼睛出現在奧勒岡州中部本德市的雕塑上，逗樂許多居民，也一夕爆紅，被多家新聞媒體廣泛報導。

On social media, the city shared photos of googly eyes on installations in the middle of roundabouts that make up its so-called “Roundabout Art Route.”

2025/02/11 05:30
◎盧永山

Four days after the theft that law enforcement say could be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs, no leads have come in, Trooper First Class Megan Frazer, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania State Police, said Wednesday.

賓州警察局發言人、一級警員梅根．弗瑞澤週三表示，竊案發生4天後，執法部門表示，這可能與雞蛋價格過高有關，但尚未收到任何線索。

“We’re relying on leads from people from the community. So we’re hoping that somebody knows something, and they’ll call us and give us some tips,” she said.

2025/01/03 05:30
◎ 張沛元

Army veteran Wayne Hoey takes his saxophone with him everywhere. It came in handy late last year when his flight sat on the tarmac for more than an hour in Atlanta.

陸軍老兵侯伊帶著他的薩克斯風到處跑。此舉在他的航班去年底停在亞特蘭大（機場的）停機坪上超過1小時之際，派上用場。

Hoey was returning from a family visit to Detroit and was on a Delta Air Lines connecting flight to Augusta, Georgia. As his plane waited at the gate, delayed by a staffing issue, he noticed a few toddlers across the aisle were starting to fuss.

2025/01/02 05:30
◎孫宇青
Abi Richards, 35, of Hampshire, England, said she spent nearly $300 on food and drinks this Christmas since she’s cooking for 10 family members across three days.

來自英國漢普郡的35歲亞比‧理查茲表示，她今年耶誕節在食品和飲料上花費近300美元，因為她在3天內為10名家人做飯。

She’s charging them each just shy of $32 to cover the costs of breakfast, lunch and dinner during those days – Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day.

她向每位家人收取不到32美元費用，做為佳節期間（平安夜、耶誕節和節禮日）的早餐、午餐和晚餐費用。

2024/12/24 05:30
◎魏國金
An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru’s Amazon, according to Conservation International.

一種腳部部分有蹼、以水生昆蟲為食的「兩棲鼠」，是2022年一次秘魯亞馬遜考察中，發現的27種新物種之一，保育國際組織指出。

Scientists also discovered a spiny mouse, a squirrel, eight types of fish, three amphibians and 10 types of butterflies, Trond Larsen, head of Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program, told Reuters.

科學家也發現1種刺毛鼠、1種松鼠、8種魚類、3種兩棲類與10種蝴蝶，保育國際的快速評估計畫主任拉森告訴路透。

2024/12/23 05:30
◎陳成良

A Dutch court Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years prison for keeping a woman from the Yazidi minority as a slave after joining the Islamic State group in Syria.

荷蘭1所法院週三判處1名女子10年監禁，罪名是她在加入敘利亞的「伊斯蘭國」組織後，將1名雅茲迪少數民族婦女當做奴隸。

The court in The Hague convicted the 33-year-old from Hengelo in eastern Netherlands, identified as Hasna A, travelled to Syria in 2015 with her son, aged four at the time, the court said. She married an IS fighter and had children with him.