英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

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.

2024/12/20 05:30
◎ 張沛元

With students at many colleges wrapping up final exams this week and preparing for their winter break, a number of schools are advising their international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

隨著許多（美國）大學的學生本週結束期末考與準備放寒假，多所學校建議該校外籍生，在總統當選人川普（明年）1月20日就職前返校。

Harvard, Penn and U.S.C. were among the universities and colleges that issued advisories in anticipation of possible travel bans.

2024/12/17 05:30
◎盧永山

A western Michigan community is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its beloved singing Christmas tree.

密西根州西部的1個社區，正在慶祝其備受喜愛的歌唱聖誕樹誕生40週年。

The Mona Shores Singing Christmas Tree, which features a 180-student high school choir and stands 15 rows tall, belted out 19 holiday tunes at a Muskegon theater this week and was set to perform two more shows on Saturday. The 20-meter-tall tree is adorned with 25,000 LED lights and loads of greenery.

2024/12/16 05:30
◎陳成良

The Canadian government officially apologized Saturday to an Indigenous community for the killing of several hundred sled dogs by police more than half a century ago.

週六，加拿大政府就半個多世紀前警方殺害數百隻雪橇犬一事，向1個原住民社區正式道歉。

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree delivered the apology in Nunavik, in northern Quebec province.

2024/12/11 05:30
◎管淑平
New York plans to revive a $9 congestion mitigation charge for driving in Manhattan starting in January that the state indefinitely put on hold earlier this year, Governor Kathy Hochul said on Thursday.

紐約州州長凱西‧侯可週四表示，紐約計畫自1月起，恢復對行駛在曼哈頓的車輛，徵收9美元塞車費；該計畫今年稍早一度被無限期擱置。

New York City’s congestion pricing program, the first of its kind in the United States, was initially to have charged a toll of $15 during daytime hours for passenger vehicles driving in Manhattan south of 60th Street starting on June 30.

紐約市這項創下美國先例的塞車收費計畫，原定自6月30日起，針對日間行駛在曼哈頓60街以南的載客車輛，收取15美元費用。

2024/12/10 05:30
◎魏國金
The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident - "Apex," one of the most complete specimens ever discovered of the plant-eating dinosaur Stegosaurus.

美國自然史博物館揭示其最新居民的身分：「巔峰」，迄今發現植食性恐龍劍龍最完整的標本之一。

To excited gasps from an audience of school children, the museum pulled back a beige curtain to reveal the 3.4-meter tall, 6-meter long skeleton of the Jurassic Period dinosaur.

館方拉開褐色布幕，揭開這具3.4米高、6米長的侏儸紀時代恐龍骨骼，引發學童興奮不已。

2024/12/09 05:30
◎陳成良

Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was discovered in a Peruvian desert.

古生物學家週三揭示1具在秘魯沙漠中發現的年輕海洋鱷魚化石，其年代可追溯至1000至1200萬年前。

The fossil of the gharial － or fish-eating － crocodile, around three meters long , was discovered late 2023 in perfect condition in Peru’s Ocucaje desert, around 350 kilometers south of the capital Lima.

2024/12/05 05:30
◎孫宇青

At Singapore’s House of Seafood restaurant, the fish-head curry comes with a side of crunchy crickets, the tofu has bugs crawling out of it and the patrons can’t get enough.

在新加坡的「螃蟹之家」餐廳，魚頭咖哩配上酥脆的蟋蟀，豆腐裡爬滿蟲蟲，老饕們卻愛不釋口。

The seaside restaurant is the first eatery to put insects on the menu after the city state’s stringent food authority approved for human consumption 16 species ranging from crickets to grasshoppers, grubs and mealworms after two years of deliberation.

2024/12/03 05:30
◎盧永山
For nearly nine months, John Alfred Tinniswood held the title of world’s oldest man, marking his 112th birthday during his reign.

在近9個月的時間裡，約翰‧阿弗雷德‧提尼斯伍德一直保持世界上最長壽男子的頭銜，並在此期間度過112歲生日。

His record-holding status ended on November 25 when Tinniswood died in a care home in northwest England near Liverpool, where he was born on Aug. 26, 1912, his family said in a statement.

提尼斯伍德的家人在1份聲明中表示，他的紀錄保持地位在11月25日結束，當天他在英格蘭西北部利物浦附近的1家安養院去世，他在1912年8月26日出生於利物浦。