英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2025/07/15 05:30

◎盧永山

Firefighters had to rescue a man who got stuck in the chimney of a Connecticut parks building while trying to retrieve his dog from a bathroom when the doors automatically locked for the night.

1名男子被困在康乃狄克州一座公園建築的煙囪裡，當時他正試圖從浴室裡救出他的狗，因為當晚浴室的門自動鎖上，消防員不得不救出他。

Police were called Sunday morning to Rockwell Park in Bristol for a burglary complaint and were told by parks employees that someone was in the chimney. Firefighters responded to the scene and got the man out after having to remove parts of the chimney and building, causing $5,000 to $10,000 worth of damage, police said.

2025/07/14 05:30
◎魏國金
Nvidia’s stock market value ended the trading session above $4 trillion for the first time on Thursday, solidifying the chipmaker’s position as Wall Street’s central player in a race to dominate AI technology.
輝達股票市值週四收盤首度突破4兆美元，鞏固這家晶片製造商在華爾街主導人工智慧（AI）技術之爭中的核心地位。
Shares of Nvidia ended up 0.75% at $164.10, giving it a market value of $4.004 trillion and extending its lead over Apple and Microsoft.

2025/07/10 05:30
◎孫宇青
A Peruvian fisherman was found alive after drifting at sea for 94 days, a navy official said.
1名海軍官員表示，1名秘魯漁夫在海上漂流94天後被發現生還。
Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued in his small fishing boat after being spotted by an Ecuadoran vessel off the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru.

2025/07/09 05:30
◎管淑平
The vast number of sheep in New Zealand relative to the country’s scant human population has long been the subject of jokes aimed at New Zealanders abroad.
紐西蘭相對於該國稀少人口的龐大羊群數量，長期以來一直是外國調侃紐西蘭人的笑柄。
It’s true: The country is one of a handful in the world that’s still home to more sheep than people. But humans are catching up, according to new figures released Tuesday.

2025/07/08 05:30
◎盧永山
An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth in a first-of-its-kind procedure for a bear.
明尼蘇達州東北部蘇必利爾湖動物園的1隻阿拉斯加棕熊，裝上1顆閃亮的銀色犬齒，這種手術對熊來說尚屬首次。
The 360-kilogram Tundra was put under sedation Monday and fitted with a new crown — the largest dental crown ever created, according to the zoo.

2025/07/02 05:30

◎管淑平

Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever are on the rise globally amid misinformation and cuts to international aid, the United Nations and the Gavi vaccine alliance warned Wednesday.

聯合國與全球疫苗免疫聯盟週三警告，在錯誤資訊以及國際援助削減的情況下，麻疹、腦膜炎和黃熱病等，疫苗可預防的疾病疫情正在全球升溫。

"Vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives over the past five decades," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.

2025/07/01 05:30

◎盧永山

Londoners have reported thousands of sightings of Pitbull this week. With that bald head, goatee and suit, he’s pretty hard to miss.

本週，倫敦人已報告數千次目擊「嘻哈鬥牛梗」：光頭、山羊鬍、西裝革履的他，很難被忽視。

On closer inspection, though, it becomes clear that Mr. Worldwide is not actually everywhere all at once —in his instead, those are clones swarming London, on their way to the O2 Arena to see him onstage. That goatee? Drawn on. That bare head? Bald caps, in lieu of a dramatic shave.

2025/06/30 05:30◎陳成良

Nepal has hiked the cost of an Everest climbing permit by a third, arguing it will help tackle pollution and boost safety on the world’s highest mountain, the tourism chief said Tuesday.

尼泊爾旅遊局局長週二表示，當局已將珠穆朗瑪峰的攀登許可費用上調3分之1，理由是此舉有助於解決垃圾污染問題，並提升這座世界最高峰的安全管理。

Fees for the peak spring climbing season will rise from $11,000 to $15,000 for a permit to scale the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, Narayan Prasad Regmi, director general of the tourism department, told AFP.

旅遊局局長納拉揚‧普拉薩德‧雷格米向法新社表示，春季登山旺季期間，攀登海拔8849公尺（2萬9032英尺）高峰的許可費用，將從1萬1000美元調升至1萬5000美元。

2025/06/26 05:30
◎孫宇青
Dutch police have finally cracked the case of a petrol station robbery nearly a decade on after the thief handed himself in, apparently wracked by a guilty conscience.
荷蘭警方終於偵破一起加油站搶劫案，因為這名強盜在犯案近10年後出面自首，顯然深受罪惡感折磨。
The cold case dates back to January 18, 2016. A robber stole a few hundred euros from a petrol station in the southern Dutch town of Terneuzen.

2025/06/25 05:30
◎管淑平
A census of brown bears using DNA for the first time has revealed that up to 13,000 of the protected species are living in Romania, much more than the 8,000 previously estimated, the government announced on Thursday.
羅馬尼亞政府週四宣布，首次利用去氧核糖核酸進行的棕熊數量普查顯示，目前羅馬尼亞境內棲息多達1萬3000隻這種受保護物種，比之前估計的8000隻還多。
The announcement raised scepticism among activists, who slam the government for increasingly allowing bear hunting in the country, home to Europe’s largest brown bear population outside Russia.

2025/06/23 05:30
◎陳成良
Estonia’s president on Wednesday signed into law a constitutional amendment banning non-EU citizens from taking part in local elections, a move targeting the large Russian minority in the Baltic state.
愛沙尼亞總統週三簽署一項憲法修正案，禁止非歐盟公民參與地方選舉，此舉針對的是該波羅的海國家境內規模龐大的俄裔少數族群。
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the change on March 26 as fears grow about security in the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

2025/06/19 05:30
◎孫宇青
The Shuntian Chemical Group, based in China’s Shandong province, told its 1,200 employees in January that any unmarried workers aged between 28 and 58, including those who are divorced, were required to "resolve your personal marriage issues" by 30 September.
總部位於中國山東省的舜天化工集團1月間通知1200名員工，凡年齡在28歲至58歲之間的未婚者，包括離婚者，都必須在9月30日前「解決個人婚姻問題」。
"If not completed by the first quarter, you must write a self-reflection," its announcement read.