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  • #1
    Yesterday · 4 min

    第3133期:The US designates October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

    A moment that is filled with both happiness and worry for future parents. 对准父母来说,这是一个既充满幸福又夹杂着担忧的时刻。 It's like we're having a baby. Social networks are filled with such videos. 我们要迎来一个新生命了。社交网络中充斥着这样的视频。 However, it's pretty hard to find stories from the other end of the spectrum: families talking about miscarriages. 然而,要找到另一个极端的故事却相当困难,即那些谈论流产经历的家庭故事。 Heather Hodnicki and her husband Joe, parents of a one-year-old boy, recorded this video when doctors told them Heather's second pregnancy is unlikely to be viable. Heather Hodnicki和她的丈夫Joe有一个一岁大的男孩,当医生告诉他们Heather的第二次怀孕不太可能成功时,他们录下了这段视频。 A hematoma formed around the fetus, and at nine weeks Heather had a miscarriage. 胎儿周围形成了血肿,到第九周时,Heather流产了。 Instead of closing up, she started a blog on Instagram, where she shares her difficult experience. 她没有封闭自己,而是在照片墙上开了一个博客,分享自己的艰难经历。 It was a loss of a little life, and then I would relate to it. As you know it was a little soul that was with me, and I saw a heartbeat on the monitor, and then that little soul was gone. 我失去了一个小生命,我对此感同身受。如你所知,那是一个曾陪伴着我的小灵魂,我在监视器上看到了心跳,接着那个小灵魂就消逝了。 So talking to other women took the taboo. I mean, I know it's something that's very taboo to talk about. 和其他女性谈论这个话题就成了禁忌,我知道这是一个禁忌话题, But in doing so, it made it easier for me to process the fact that it is a loss, and I am allowed to feel the emotions that I'm feeling. 但这样做让我更容易接受失去的事实,而且我也被允许去感受自己当下的情绪。 Out of every hundred pregnancies, about 10 to 15 end in miscarriages and a lot of women blame themselves. 每100次怀孕中,大约有10到15次会以流产告终,许多女性会自责。 Doctors say a miscarriage before the end of the first trimester usually means the embryo had chromosomal abnormalities. 医生表示,在妊娠前三个月内发生的流产通常意味着胚胎有染色体异常。 We've just gonna present next month a study on 55,000 patients that had miscarriages, and they had genetic testing on the miscarriage. 我们将在下个月发布一项关于55,000名流产患者的研究,并对流产组织进行了基因检测。 56 percent of the pregnancies that were lost were genetically abnormal. 在流产的孕妇中,有56%是基因异常。 Doctors say age plays a critical role. If a woman is in her 30s and has one or even two miscarriages, there can be a reason that is structural. 医生说年龄起着至关重要的作用。如果一个30多岁的女人流产了一次甚至两次,可能有一个结构性的原因。 In other words, like a fibroid, or can be immunological or homological, that could be a clotting disorder or an antibody, could be an infection, so there could be something that is really treatable. 换句话说,可能像纤维瘤一样,可能是免疫问题,也可能是同源的,可能是凝血障碍或者抗体问题,也可能是感染,有些病症是可以治愈的。 If a woman's in her 40s, then recurrent miscarriages are usually due to the eggs not being healthy, because when a woman's in her 40s, almost 90 percent of the eggs exit chromosomally abnormal. 如果一个女人40多岁,反复流产通常是由于卵子不健康,因为当女性到了40多岁时,近90%的卵子会出现染色体异常。 Doctors say that most women who have experienced a miscarriage will in time give birth to healthy babies, most of them without any special treatment. 医生们表示,大多数经历过流产的女性最终都会生下健康的宝宝,其中大部分无需任何特殊治疗。 I had a patient years ago. She came in and she was in her early 30s. She had 27 miscarriages and I said first I didn't believe her. 几年前我有个病人。她来就诊时,大约三十岁出头。她经历过27次流产,起初我不相信她。 I got all her records, went through them. They all had been documented. 我拿到了她所有的记录,仔细查看了一番。所有记录都已存档。 She had had most of the tests done and we completed the tests, and really in her case there were a few little things that were off but nothing major. 她已完成大部分检查,我们完成了剩余检查,就她的情况而言,确实有几个小指标异常,但并无大碍。 And after I got all her information, I said, "Can I ask you a question?" I asked her. 等我了解到她所有的信息后 ,我问她:“我能问你个问题吗?” I said, "I've been seeing patients with miscarriages for many many years. 我说:“多年来,我一直在接诊流产患者。 I don't even, I can't even imagine how you can think about trying to have another pregnancy after having 27 pregnancies and 27 miscarriages." 我简直无法想象,在经历了27次怀孕和27次流产之后,你怎么还会想着再去尝试怀孕。” And she said, "Dr Kutteh, I just know that. I'm gonna have a baby." 她说:“库特医生,我就是知道。我会怀上孩子的。” And I said, "Well, as long as you're willing to still have hope and continue trying that, I'm willing to do everything that I can to help you." 我说:“只要你愿意仍然抱有希望并继续努力,我愿意尽我所能帮助你。” And she eventually, with her next pregnancy, did have a pregnancy. 最终,她再次怀孕时,确实成功受孕了。 Three months ago, Heather gave birth to a healthy baby girl. 三个月前Heather生了一个健康的女孩。 Like many other women who have gone through a miscarriage experience, she calls her daughter a rainbow child, and baby Willow unknowingly helps her mom heal very fast. 和其他许多有过流产经历的女性一样,她称自己的女儿为“彩虹宝宝” ,而小薇洛在不知不觉中帮助妈妈很快地治愈了心灵创伤。 It's always emotional thinking about that baby that we lost. 一想到我们失去的那个孩子,总是让人感慨万千。 The best advice that I can give to women who are going through something similar is to reach out to your friends, reach out to your family, possibly reach out to your doctors, to see if they can give you any advice on who to turn to, who to talk to. 我能给有类似经历的女性的最好建议是:向你的朋友求助,向你的家人求助,也可以向你的医生咨询,看看他们能否给你一些建议,告诉你该向谁求助、该和谁倾诉。 Definitely, you know, talking it out with anybody I find helps. 当然,我觉得和任何人把事情说出来都有帮助。

  • #2
    Friday · 38 sec

    第3132期:Spider monkeys sharing fruit knowledge

    Researchers from universities in Edinburgh and Mexico spent seven years studying the behaviour of black-handed spider monkeys in the Yucatan Peninsula. They observed that the large groups the primates live in split into smaller subgroups when searching for food. Different combinations of monkeys would split off each time, meaning the same subgroup might never forage together twice. 来自爱丁堡和墨西哥多所大学的研究人员花了七年时间研究尤卡坦半岛上黑掌蜘蛛猴的行为。他们观察到,这类灵长目动物群居的大群体会在寻找食物时分成一个个小分队。每次分出来的小分队成员都不同,这意味着几乎不会出现原班人马第二次一起觅食的情况。 Dr Matthew Silk from the University of Edinburgh says these groups are a clever way of sharing knowledge about the locations of the best fruit trees. Some parts of the forest were known by many monkeys, like a town's favourite restaurant, while others were known by just one or two, like a hidden gem. 爱丁堡大学的马修·西尔克博士称,这种分组方式很聪明,可以有效地分享最好吃的果树位置。森林里的某些地方就像城里最受欢迎的餐厅,很多猴子都知道;而有些地方则像一个鲜为人知的 “宝藏小店”,只有一两只猴子了解。

  • #3
    Thursday · 34 sec

    第3131期:Near-extinct snails rescued from rock

    Less than a centimetre in size, these tiny snails had been pushed to thebrinkof extinction. 这些体长不足一厘米的小型蜗牛一度濒临灭绝。 Their home on the Madeira Archipelago had been grazed bare by invasive goats and rabbits, while mice saw the molluscs as a water source. 它们在马德拉群岛上的栖息地被入侵的山羊和兔子啃食殆尽,而老鼠则将这些软体动物当作水分的来源。 But after conservation work, including a breeding programme at Chester Zoo, hundreds of the snails have now been returned to the wild. The team said they had one shot to save the species. 不过,在实施了一系列动物保护措施后,包括切斯特动物园的一个繁育项目,数百只蜗牛如今已经被重新放归野外。研究团队表示,他们只有这一次机会来拯救这一物种。 The mission involved transporting them in the dark to snail-friendly crevices in the rocks. It's hoped they come out of their shell to restore soil and boost the natural habitat. 此次行动包括在夜间将这些蜗牛转移到适宜生存的岩石缝中。人们希望它们能从壳中爬出、重新活跃起来,从而帮助恢复土壤环境,促进当地生态栖息地的恢复。

  • #4
    Wednesday · 3 min

    How seasons affect our moods.

    We have four seasons in the UK. I like to think that spring gets its name from the flowers springing up to bloom. Next is my personal favourite – summer. I love the long, balmy evenings. Autumn, as some call fall, comes after. It's characterised by the orange and red leaves. Winter rolls around, and most of the vegetation is either decomposing or already dead, and the days are short and gloomy. 英国有四个季节。 我喜欢认为春天因花朵绽放而得名。 接下来是我个人最喜欢的——夏天。 我喜欢漫长而温暖的夜晚。 秋天,有些人称之为秋天,随之而来。 它的特点是橙色和红色的叶子。 冬季来临,大部分植被要么腐烂,要么已经死亡,白天短而阴沉。 It's no wonder that, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, about three in every hundred people in the UK experience seasonal affective disorder, otherwise known as SAD. However, researchers at the Royal College of Psychiatrists have discovered that all seasons have an impact on our psychological functioning. It's also been found that hormones play an important role in seasonal mood changes as they fluctuate throughout the year. 根据皇家精神病学家学院的数据,英国每 100 人中约有 3 人患有季节性情感障碍(也称为 SAD),这也就不足为奇了。 然而,皇家精神病学院的研究人员发现,所有季节都会对我们的心理功能产生影响。 研究还发现,荷尔蒙在季节性情绪变化中发挥着重要作用,因为它们在一年中都有波动。 An article published on Springer Nature Link observes positive emotional and physical changes to volunteers who were exposed to UVA from the Sun. Serotonin, known as 'the happy hormone', and dopamine, which is linked to motivation and pleasure, increases in months where there is a boost of sunlight. Similarly, lovers of spring recalibrate their energy and mood. After the cold, dark seasons of autumn and winter, it can feel like a biological reset.Springer Nature Link 上发表的一篇文章观察到暴露于太阳 UVA 的志愿者在情绪和身体上发生了积极的变化。 被称为“快乐荷尔蒙”的血清素和与动力和快乐有关的多巴胺在阳光充足的月份会增加。 同样,春天的爱好者也会重新调整他们的能量和情绪。 在寒冷、黑暗的秋冬季节过后,感觉就像是生物重置。 Speaking of cold and dark, this is when those with naturally higher serotonin levels feel their mood regulating. They no longer feel overwhelmed by the high-level serotonin seasons of spring and summer. Reduced sunlight triggers higher melatonin, the sleepy hormone. There is the notion of preparing to slow down and get cosy, like that of animals in hibernation. It also rains more in autumn and winter. The Mind Company says that rain sounds reduce cortisol, the stress hormone, and helps you relax, focus and even sleep better. 说到寒冷和黑暗,这是那些天生血清素水平较高的人感受到情绪调节的时候。 他们不再因春季和夏季血清素水平高的季节而感到不知所措。 阳光减少会引发更高的褪黑激素(一种嗜睡激素)。 有一个概念是准备放慢脚步并变得舒适,就像冬眠的动物一样。 秋季和冬季雨水也较多。 The Mind Company 表示,雨声可以减少皮质醇(压力荷尔蒙),帮助您放松、集中注意力,甚至睡得更好。 We might like one season more than others. Our experience of seasons differs depending on location and environment. But one thing is for sure – our feelings change from season to season, and recognising these changes can help us act in ways that are in-line with our mental, emotional and physical capabilities. 我们可能比其他季节更喜欢某个季节。 我们对季节的体验因地点和环境而异。 但有一件事是肯定的——我们的感受随着季节的变化而变化,认识到这些变化可以帮助我们以符合我们心理、情感和身体能力的方式行事。

  • #5
    Wednesday · 2 min

    第3130期:The Pope joins the Vatican spiritual retreat remotely.

    Doctors said Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia, but have decided to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment. 医生表示,教皇方济各不再因肺炎而面临死亡危险,但决定让他住院几天接受治疗。 Francis on Monday followed the Vatican's week-long spiritual retreat via video conference. AP correspondent Charles De Ledesma reports. 周一,方济各通过视频会议参加了梵蒂冈为期一周的精神静修。美联社记者查尔斯·德·莱德斯马(Charles De Ledesma)报道。 As he did on Sunday, Francis participated in the retreat remotely from the Rome hospital where he's being treated. 与周日一样,方济各在罗马医院远程参加了静修。 He could see and hear the Reverend Roberto Pasolini, preacher of the papal household, but the priests, bishops and cardinals gathered for the retreat in the Vatican auditorium could not see or hear him. 他可以看到和听到教皇家庭传教士罗伯托·帕索里尼(Roberto Pasolini)牧师,但聚集在梵蒂冈礼堂参加静修的牧师、主教和红衣主教看不到也听不到他。 Pasolini is delivering a series of meditations this week on the hope of eternal life, a theme that was chosen well before the Pope's hospitalization on February 14 with a complex lung infection. I'm Charles De Ledesma. 帕索里尼本周发表了一系列关于永生希望的冥想,这个主题是在教皇2月14日因复杂肺部感染住院之前就选定的。我是查尔斯·德·莱德斯马。 The leader of Canada's most populous province on Monday announced a countermeasure to President Trump's trade war. AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. "It needs to end." 加拿大人口最多的省份的领导人周一宣布了对特朗普总统贸易战的应对措施。美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼(Sagar Meghani)报道。“必须结束这种局面。” Premier Doug Ford says Ontario is now charging 25 percent more for electricity to a million and a half American homes and businesses in New York, Michigan and Minnesota. 省长道格·福特表示,安大略省目前向纽约、密歇根和明尼苏达州的150万美国家庭和企业收取的电费增加了25%。 Ford says on CTV it's a necessary step amid what he calls the chaos and confusion of the president's on again, off again tariffs. 福特在CTV上表示,这是在特朗普反复加征关税导致混乱和困惑的情况下采取的必要措施。 "If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely." “如果美国继续加征关税,我会毫不犹豫地完全切断电力供应。” The president's trade war has incensed Canadians, sent markets sharply lower and worried American consumers about higher prices. Sagar Meghani, Washington. 特朗普总统的贸易战激怒了加拿大人,导致市场大幅下跌,美国消费者担心物价上涨。记者萨加尔·梅加尼在华盛顿报道。 Fears that uncertainty over trade tariffs will trigger a recessiongripthe U.S. stock market on Monday. Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener reports. 周一,对贸易关税不确定性将引发经济衰退的担忧笼罩着美国股市。路透社记者吉莉安·基钦纳(Jillian Kitchener)报道。 A Reuters poll showed 91 percent of economists see higher recession risks due to President Trump's shifting trade policies. But the White House pushed back on talk of a recession on Monday. 路透社的一项民调显示,91%的经济学家认为,由于特朗普总统不断变化的贸易政策,经济衰退风险更高。但白宫周一驳斥了有关经济衰退的说法。 The director of its National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, said there were many reasons to be optimistic about the U.S. economy, despite concerns about inflation and predictions of a contraction in GDP in the first quarter. 美国国家经济委员会主任凯文·哈塞特(Kevin Hassett)表示,尽管存在通胀担忧和第一季度GDP萎缩预测,但仍有许多理由对美国经济持乐观态度。 He argued U.S. tax cuts would boost the economy and said Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China were already bringing manufacturing and jobs back to the U.S. Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener. 他认为,美国减税将提振经济,并表示特朗普对加拿大、墨西哥和中国征收的关税已经将制造业和就业机会带回美国。路透社记者吉莉安·基钦纳报道。

  • #6
    Tuesday · 1 min

    第3129期:South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released.

    Hi, I'm VOA's Alexis Strope with your worldwide news update. 大家好,我是美国之音新闻记者亚历克西斯·斯特罗普(Alexis Strope),为您带来全球新闻。 Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday in an effort to advance the negotiations around the cease-fire in Gaza. 以色列表示,将于周一派遣代表团前往卡塔尔,推动加沙停火谈判。 Hamas reports positive signals in talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on starting negotiations on thetruce's delayed second phase. Talks on the second phase should have started a month ago. 哈马斯报告称,在与埃及和卡塔尔调解人的会谈中,就启动停火延迟第二阶段的谈判,出现了积极信号。第二阶段谈判本应在一个月前开始。 There was no immediate comment from the White House, which on Wednesday made the surprise confirmation of direct U.S. talks with Hamas. 白宫周三意外证实美国将与哈马斯举行直接会谈,但白宫没有立即发表评论。 Israel, over the past week, has pressed Hamas to release half the remaining hostages in return for an extension of the first phase that ended last weekend. 过去一周,以色列一直敦促哈马斯释放一半剩余的人质,以换取延长上周末结束的第一阶段谈判。 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol walked out of a detention center on Saturday after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court decision to cancel the impeached leader's arrest warrant oninsurrectioncharges. 韩国总统尹锡悦周六走出拘留中心,此前,法院裁决撤销对这位被弹劾领导人因叛乱指控的逮捕令,检方决定不提出上诉。 Reuters correspondent Trevor Koroll reports. The Seoul Central District Court canceled Yoon's arrest warrant on Friday, citing the timing of hisindictmentand questions about the legality of the investigation process. 路透社记者特雷弗·科罗尔(Trevor Koroll)报道。首尔中央地方法院周五取消了对尹锡悦的逮捕令,理由是起诉时间不当以及调查程序合法性存疑。 In his statement, Yoon thanked the court, quote, "for their courage and determination in correcting the illegality." 尹锡悦在声明中感谢法院“在纠正非法行为方面表现出的勇气和决心”。 The mainoppositionDemocratic Party criticized the prosecutor's decision and urged the Constitutional Court to remove Yoon from office as soon as possible. 主要反对党民主党批评了检方的决定,并敦促宪法法院尽快罢免尹锡悦。 Prosecutors could not immediately be reached for comment. Some 55,000 Yoon supporters rallied in Seoul on Saturday, while more than 32,000 demonstrated against him, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing unofficial police estimates. 记者未能立即联系到检方置评。据韩联社援引警方的非官方估计,周六约有55000名尹锡悦支持者在首尔集会,而超过32000人示威反对他。 Still, the public remains largely anti-Yoon. Sixty percent of respondents to a Gallup Korea poll released on Friday said he should be removed from office, while 35 percent opposed removing him. 公众仍然大多数反对尹锡悦。周五公布的盖洛普韩国民调显示,60%的受访者表示应罢免他,而35%的受访者反对罢免他。 In hisimpeachmenttrial, the Constitutional Court is expected to decide in coming days whether toreinstateor remove Yoon. 在弹劾审判中,宪法法院预计将在未来几天决定恢复或罢免尹锡悦。 That was Reuters correspondent Trevor Koroll. This is VOA News. 路透社记者特雷弗·科罗尔报道。这里是美国之音新闻。

  • #7
    Monday · 2 min

    第3128期:Former Philippine President Duterte detained

    The International Criminal Court said former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into custody by the ICC on Wednesday following his arrest in Manila on murder charges linked to his war on drugs. 国际刑事法院表示,菲律宾前总统罗德里戈·杜特尔特周三在马尼拉因与禁毒战争有关的谋杀指控被捕,随后被国际刑事法院拘留。 Reuters correspondent Olivia Zollino reports. The 79-year-old arrived at Rotterdam Airport on a chartered plane and was transferred to a detention unit on the Dutch coast. 路透社记者奥利维亚·佐利诺(Olivia Zollino)报道。这位79岁的老人乘坐包机抵达鹿特丹机场,并被转移到荷兰海岸的一个拘留所。 The court's warrant for his arrest alleges that, as president, Duterte created, funded and armed death squads that carried out murders of purported drug users and dealers. 法院的逮捕令指控杜特尔特在担任总统期间,创建、资助和武装了行刑队,对所谓的吸毒者和贩毒者实施谋杀。 Duterte's war on drugs was a signature of his presidency, which lasted from 2016 to 2022. 杜特尔特的禁毒战争是他2016年至2022年总统任期的标志。 The anti-drugs crackdown killed thousands and drew condemnation from around the world. Reuters correspondent Olivia Zollino. 反毒品镇压造成数千人死亡,并引起世界各地的谴责。路透社记者奥利维亚·佐利诺报道。 After hundreds of people were killed in massacres on Syria's coastline last week, locals say widespread calls for justice may give the country's new government a chance to stabilize. Heather Murdoch reports from northwest Syria. 上周,叙利亚沿海地区发生大屠杀,造成数百人死亡。当地人表示,广泛的正义呼声可能为该国新政府提供一个稳定局势的机会。希瑟·默多克(Heather Murdoch)在叙利亚西北部报道。 Hundreds of people were killed here in Syria's coastal area last week and over the weekend, with some death counts exceeding 1,400. 上周和上周末,叙利亚沿海地区有成千上百人被杀,死亡人数超过1400人。 Analysts say many of the killings were acts of revenge for the abuses of dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime, which collapsed in early December. 分析人士表示,许多杀戮事件是对独裁者巴沙尔·阿萨德政权暴行的报复,该政权于12月初垮台。 Many of the victims were Alawite, the religious sect of former regime leaders, but not necessarily abusers themselves. 许多受害者是阿拉维派,即前政权领导人的宗教派别,但他们不一定是施暴者。 Analysts say the fighting was initially provoked by pro-Assad attackers who also committed mass killings. Heather Murdoch, in Istanbul with our team in Syria, VOA News. 分析人士说,战斗最初是由亲阿萨德袭击者挑起的,他们也犯下了大规模杀戮。美国之音新闻记者希瑟·默多克与驻叙利亚团队在伊斯坦布尔报道,。 U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to escalate the global trade war with new tariffs on trading partners as 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum kicked in. Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener reports. 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周三威胁要对贸易伙伴征收新的关税,以加剧全球贸易战,美国已开始对钢铁和铝征收25%的关税。路透社记者吉利安·基奇纳(Jillian Kitchener)报道。 Canada, the biggest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the United States, announced its retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. products starting Thursday. 加拿大是美国最大的钢铁和铝供应国,该国宣布从周四开始对数十亿美元的美国产品征收报复性关税。 The EU's countermeasures are due to take effect next month, targeting up to $28 billion worth of U.S. goods. Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener. [解析] 欧盟的反制措施将于下个月生效,针对价值高达280亿美元的美国商品。路透社记者吉利安·基奇纳报道。

  • #8
    August 30 · 2 min

    第3127期:Self-sufficiency in the garden

    The Glover Park Community Garden Association started around 1939 and then it slowly grew to become a victory garden in 1942 when the US was at war. 格洛弗公园社区花园协会大约在1939年成立,随后在1942年美国二战时期,它逐渐发展成为一个“胜利花园”。 It became essential for the folks that lived in the area here to grow their own vegetables as they were not able to purchase these things in the grocery store at that time. 对于生活在这一带的人们来说,自己种植蔬菜变得至关重要,因为当时他们无法在杂货店里买到这些东西。 We really want to respect the intent, the original intent of this garden which was a victory garden during World War II. 我们真的很想尊重这座花园的初衷,它在二战期间曾是一座“胜利花园”。 And we just think that's kind of amazing because it's almost we're using it that way again now with food shortages potentially at the grocery stores. 我们觉得这有点不可思议,因为现在疫情期间杂货店食品短缺,我们又用这种方式自给自足。 And we think it's exciting to carry on that tradition for the people that have been here before us and gotten through rough times and to see better days. 我们认为,为那些在我们之前来到这里、度过艰难时期并迎来美好日子的人传承这一传统,是一件令人兴奋的事情。 So, hopefully they're not looking down on us saying, 'Oh God, what are you guys doing.' 希望他们不会居高临下地看着我们说:‘天哪,你们在干什么。’ My fingernails have not been clean since early March probably. They're the opposite of French nails. 我的手指甲可能从三月初起就没干净过。 I don't know what you would call them but they're, well, you'd call them dirty. That's all. 我不知道你会怎么说,肯定就说指甲很脏吧。 I got a lot of vegetables, especially squash. The biggest one that I harvested I think it was 42 pounds. 我在这里种了很多蔬菜,尤其是南瓜。我收获的最大的一个南瓜有42磅重。 I had to bring it home in a cart because it was so heavy. I couldn't just carry it by myself. 我不得不用手推车把它带回家,因为它太重了,我自己搬不动。 I think I'm the oldest gardener here, too, in age, heading for 90, the big one. 我觉得论年纪我也是这儿最年长的园丁了,快九十岁了。 I'm still out here. So, I guess the good Lord's looking after me a little bit. Either that or he's getting even with me. 但我还在这里坚持,我猜上帝多少还是在眷顾着我。要么就是他在跟我算账。 It seems like everyone wants to get back into the garden, regardless of the virus and the situation that we have in front of us. 似乎每个人都想重返花园,尽管现在是疫情期间,我们这里的境况也不是太好。 They all want to get back into the garden. They want to garden. They don't want to lose their gardens. 他们都想回到花园里。他们想打理花园。他们不想失去自己的花园。 It's become more and more a valuable commodity both, you know, from a growing perspective of fresh vegetables and sustainability as it is emotional as well. 从新鲜蔬菜的供应增长以及可持续发展的角度来看,同时从情感层面来说,它已经越来越成为一种珍贵的商品。 For physical and mental benefits, I have really enjoyed coming to the garden. I would not be very happy without the garden. 为了身心健康,我真的很喜欢来到这个花园。要是没有这个花园,我会很不开心的。 Coming here has helped me to manage the separation from my grandson. This is my destination on a daily basis. 来到这里帮助我应对与孙子分离的状况。这里是我每天必来的地方。 I don't think I've missed a day since COVID hit and since we've been self-quarantined. And a lot of times I'm here twice a day. 自新冠疫情爆发以来,以及我们开始自我隔离之后,我想我没有落下过一天。很多时候我一天来两次。 The timing has been interesting with the COVID-19 going on because this has really been our escape during this time. 虽然疫情在发展,但我们的时光都非常有意思,因为这段时间这真的成了我们的避风港。 It's a great place to come and have fresh air, sunshine, get some exercise, digging and pushing the wheelbarrow around, at the same time having some connection with our neighbors and other people as well. 这是个很棒的地方,来这里可以呼吸新鲜空气、享受阳光、锻炼身体、挖土和推着独轮车四处走动,同时还能与邻居和其他人建立联系。 But we all have our social distancing with our little cages here, 25×25-foot cage. 但在这里,我们都在各自25×25英尺的小隔离间里保持社交距离。

  • #9
    August 29 · 4 min

    第3126期:All-Black towns in Oklahoma

    When the US government forced more than 60,000 native Americans to relocate to Oklahoma to make way for white settlers in the 1830s, their slaves came with them. 19世纪30年代,美国政府迫使6万多名美洲原住民迁往俄克拉荷马州 ,为白人定居者腾出土地 ,他们的奴隶也一同前往 。 After emancipation, the freed slaves, known as freedmen, settled and built their own towns. 解放后,获得自由的奴隶,即所谓的自由民,定居下来并建造了自己的城镇。 Where they would have the opportunity to live amongst people that looked like them, amongst people who understood the plights that they had escaped from, but ready to embark upon a new opportunity, form their own government in terms of their mayors and their elected officials, all of whom were like them, and it was an amazing opportunity. 在那里,他们将有机会与和自己长相相似的人生活在一起,与那些理解他们所逃离的困境的人生活在一起,同时准备好迎接新的机遇,按照自己的意愿选举市长和官员来组建自己的政府,而所有这些官员都和他们一样,这真是一个绝佳的机会。 The fully self-sufficient communities thrived in the 1910s. The town of Boley was flourishing, with hotels, doctors, lawyers, schools, colleges, and restaurants. 完全自给自足的社区在20世纪10年代蓬勃发展。博利镇一派繁荣景象,有酒店、医生、律师、学校、学院和餐馆。 They had their own newspaper in Boley. They had their own phone company. 他们在博利有自己的报纸。他们有自己的电话公司。 So it was a bevy of commercial and residential life, not to mention the thousands of farms around most of these towns. 这里有大量的商业和住宅生活设施,更不用说这些城镇周边还有成千上万个农场了。 But the Great Depression of the 1930s took a toll on the all-black towns. 但20世纪30年代的大萧条对全黑人城镇造成了沉重打击。 Many residents left to find work elsewhere. Town populations dwindled. 许多居民离开这里到别处找工作。城镇人口减少。 Today, just 13 all-black towns remain in Oklahoma, including Grayson, population 140. 今天,俄克拉荷马州只剩下13个全黑人城镇,其中包括格雷森镇,人口140人。 90 percent of the individuals or retirees, you know, or individuals or some type of disability, who move back to their home site you know in Grayson, and so that makes up really the population in our community. 90%的居民是退休人员或者残疾人,他们搬回格雷森的老家,所以这构成了我们社区的主要人口。 Today, an annual rodeo draws visitors to Grayson, where Anderson remembers flexing his cowboy skills as a teenager. 如今,一年一度的牛仔竞技表演吸引着游客来到格雷森,安德森记得自己十几岁时曾在这里展示过牛仔技能。 We didn't have a movie theater. We didn't have a drive-in theater to go to you know like on weekends for entertainment. 我们没有电影院。我们也没有可以在周末去消遣娱乐的汽车影院。 But we could all saddle up a horse and go down to the corral. So we'd go down and challenge one another. 但我们都可以跨上马鞍,骑马到畜栏去。这样我们就可以下去互相挑战了。 You know, we might ride the same horse, you know, trying to figure out if we can rope a calf faster than the next person. 我们可能骑同一匹马,想弄清楚我们能不能比下一个人更快地拴住小牛。 Shirley Ballard Nero grew up nearby in the all-black town of Clearview. 雪莉·巴拉德·内罗在附近全是黑人居住的克利尔维尤镇长大。 There were Indians that lived around us, because this is the Creek Nation. 我们周围住着印第安人,因为这里是克里克部落的领地。 So it's not just totally an all-black town. We all played at the same spot. 这并非完全是个全是黑人的小镇。我们都在同一个地方玩耍。 We all had our mailboxes in the same spot. But when it was time for the school buses to arrive, we got on separate school buses. 我们所有人的邮箱都在同一个地方。但到了校车到达的时间,我们却各自上了不同的校车。 Nero, a retired history teacher, returned home to Clearview with her husband, a retired college president after spending their work lives elsewhere. 妮罗是一位退休的历史教师,她和退休的大学校长丈夫在其他地方工作了一辈子后,回到了克利尔维尤的家中。 I wanted to come back here. I knew this town needed us. And we had the ability and the know-how to probably be an asset to Clearview. 我想回到这里,我知道这个小镇需要我们,我们拥有能力和技术,或许能成为克利尔维尤的一笔财富。 Many of the buildings in the old all-black towns are crumbling, abandoned, or neglected by absentee owners. 许多旧时全黑人城镇中的建筑正在破败、被遗弃,或者被那些不住在当地的业主们忽视。 Clearview managed to preserve the old school gym built in 1939, now a community center that hosts funerals, family reunions and other events. 克利尔维尤设法保存了建于1939年的旧学校体育馆,如今这里成了一个社区中心,用于举办葬礼、家庭团聚等活动。 Revitalizing Oklahoma's all-black towns is the goal of a group of volunteers called The Coltrane Group. 振兴俄克拉荷马州的全黑人城镇是一个名为“The Coltrane Group”的志愿者团体的目标。 If all of these buildings are gone, there's really no story because now you're looking at an empty land and people can visualize just an empty space. 如果所有这些建筑都没了,那就真的没什么故事可言了,因为现在你看到的只是一片空地,人们也只能想象出一片空地。 But if these buildings were developed, which I think would help the economy for these historical black towns to move forward. 但如果这些建筑得到开发,我认为这将有助于这些历史悠久的黑人城镇的经济向前发展。 The Coltrane Group leads tours of the all black towns, in hopes of raising interest and funds to keep this vital part of Oklahoma history from being lost forever. The Coltrane Group带领游客参观这些全黑人城镇,希望能引起人们的兴趣并筹集资金,以防止俄克拉荷马州历史上这一重要部分永远消失。

  • #10
    August 28 · 3 min

    第3125期:French anti-separatism bill sparks controversy

    France has been gripped this month by the so-called Charlie Hebdo trial against the alleged accomplices of Islamists, who attacked a French satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in 2015. 本月,法国正深陷所谓的《查理周刊》案审判之中,该案针对2015年袭击一家法国讽刺报纸和一家犹太洁食超市的伊斯兰主义者的涉嫌同谋者。 It was the first of a string of terror attacks along with the Islamist insurgency in the Middle East and elsewhere that fed a broader zeroing in on radical islam here. 这是中东及其他地区伊斯兰叛乱引发的一系列恐怖袭击中的第一起,这让更多的人把矛头对准了这里的激进伊斯兰。 This recent history partly forms the backdrop of upcoming legislation on so-called separatisms. 这段近代史在一定程度上构成了即将出台的所谓分离立法的背景。 Details are sketchy but reports suggest the bill will crack down on importing foreign imams and foreign financing of private schools, and increase surveillance on suspect groups. 细节尚不清楚,但有报道称,该法案将打击外国伊玛目入境和私立学校的外国融资,并加强对可疑群体的监控。 The government says it aims to fight so-called enemies of France, of French values and way of life. 政府表示,其目标是打击所谓的法国价值观和生活方式的敌人。 Officials say those enemies also include groups like white supremacists. 官员们说,这些敌人还包括白人至上主义者等组织。 Alexandre del Valle welcomes the legislation. He co-authored a book about the Muslim Brotherhood's alleged quest to infiltrate and conquer the West. 亚历山大·德尔·瓦莱对这项立法表示欢迎。他与人合著了一本书,内容是关于所谓穆斯林兄弟会试图渗透并征服西方一事。 I think it's necessary first of all to ban any organization that jeopardize our western, French, Republican and secular value. 我认为首先有必要取缔任何危害我们西方、法国、共和及世俗价值观的组织。 First of it, Muslim Brotherhood are the most fanatics among the radical islam organization. 首先,穆斯林兄弟会是激进伊斯兰组织中最狂热的团体。 Government officials say the measure does not intend to target moderate islam. 政府官员说,这项措施并不打算针对温和的伊斯兰教。 A recent doxa poll shows most French surveyed approve of a separatism bill. 近期的一项多克萨民意调查显示,大多数接受调查的法国人赞成一项分离主义法案。 But some Muslim leaders and groups worry it will unfairly single them out. 但一些穆斯林领袖和团体担心这会不公平地将他们单独挑出来。 Violence doesn't belong to a certain community. Terrorism doesn't belong to a single community. 暴力不属于某个特定群体。恐怖主义也不属于某个单一群体。 But it's not right to stigmatize a whole community because one member committed terrorist attacks. 但因为一名成员实施了恐怖袭击就给整个群体贴上污名化的标签是不对的。 Groups like Bashar cite an uptick in anti-Muslim acts and intolerance in recent years. 像巴沙尔这样的团体指出,近年来反穆斯林行为和不容忍现象有所增加。 Some observers say politics is behind the separatism bill, claiming president Macron and his centrist On the Move party are tilting right ahead of the 2022 elections. 一些观察人士认为,这项分离主义法案背后存在政治因素,声称总统马克龙及其中间派政党“复兴党”正在2022年大选前向右倾斜。 Meanwhile, France's mainoppositionparty, the far-right National Rally, says Macro is being too soft on extremism and is calling for an end to any system that encourages ethnic communities to function apart from the mainstream. 与此同时,法国主要反对党、极右翼政党“国民联盟”表示,马克龙对极端主义过于软弱,并呼吁终止任何鼓励族裔群体与主流社会脱节的制度。 What we want is a fight without mercy against communitarianism and separatism. 我们想要的是一场毫不留情地打击社群主义和分离主义的斗争。 But that means treating the politics at the roots, rethinking migration policy, closing Salafist mosques, banning financing for suspect associations. 但这意味着要从根源上处理政治问题,重新思考移民政策,关闭萨拉菲派清真寺,禁止向可疑组织提供资金支持。 There are a number of tools. So far, none has been used. 有很多工具。到目前为止,还没有一个被使用过。 Lots of expectations and fears about what fighting separatism really means, especially for France's Muslim community. 关于打击分离主义究竟意味着什么,尤其是对法国穆斯林群体而言,存在着许多期待与担忧。

  • #11
    August 27 · 2 min

    第3124期:Which English accent is the oldest?

    Would you like to speak with a British accent? What if I told you that there is no singular 'British' accent? In fact, linguists estimate that there are 40-60 regional accents across the UK, some of which exist very close together geographically. For instance, you can listen to Manchester's 'Mancunian' accent and then Liverpool's distinct 'Scouse' accent after just a 50-minute car or train ride. Some southern English accents, such as 'Received Pronunciation', are associated with social prestige, but can the south claim to have the oldest English accent? Or does another UK region take the title? The story is messier than you might expect. 你想用英国口音说话吗? 如果我告诉你没有单一的“英国”口音怎么办? 事实上,语言学家估计英国各地有 40-60 种地方口音,其中一些在地理上非常接近。 例如,只需乘坐 50 分钟的汽车或火车,您就可以听到曼彻斯特的“Mancunian”口音,然后再听到利物浦独特的“Scouse”口音。 一些南方英语口音,例如“公认发音”,与社会声望有关,但南方人能声称拥有最古老的英语口音吗? 或者英国的另一个地区是否会获得冠军? 这个故事比你想象的要混乱。 The first version of English, Old English, originated in the 5th and 6th centuries when tribes from northern Germany arrived in east England, a region now called 'East Anglia'. Their Germanic languages mixed with existing Latin and Celtic languages and became Old English. "It makes sense to think of East Anglia as being the source of the earliest variety of English as we know it," says Kerri-Ann Butcher, a lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds. Over the next few centuries, English absorbed many other languages arriving from places like the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The associated linguistic changes did not happen in an orderly way across the country. 英语的第一个版本是古英语,起源于 5 世纪和 6 世纪,当时德国北部的部落抵达英格兰东部,该地区现在称为“东安格利亚”。 他们的日耳曼语言与现有的拉丁语和凯尔特语混合,成为古英语。 利兹大学英语讲师克里-安·布彻 (Kerri-Ann Butcher) 表示:“认为东安格利亚是我们所知道的最早的英语种类的起源是有道理的。” 在接下来的几个世纪里,英语吸收了来自荷兰和斯堪的纳维亚半岛等地的许多其他语言。 相关的语言变化并没有在全国范围内有序发生。 With all these different influences, the English language became messy and inconsistent. But in 1476, some spelling norms became standardised with the arrival of the printing press. Nowadays, the words 'blood', 'food' and 'good', which all contain two letter Os, sound different, but back then, they might have rhymed. Between the 12th and 18th centuries, something known as the Great Vowel Shift happened, where some vowel sounds across the country changed. For example, the vowel sound in 'foot' and 'strut' used to be pronounced the same, but then people in the south began pronouncing 'strut' differently. Danielle Turton, sociolinguist at Lancaster University, says the northern pronunciation is absolutely the original one. "It was the south that branched off and created this new vowel." 由于所有这些不同的影响,英语变得混乱且不一致。 但到了 1476 年,随着印刷机的出现,一些拼写规范变得标准化。 如今,“血液”、“食物”和“好”这三个词都包含两个字母O,听起来不同,但在当时,它们可能是押韵的。 在 12 世纪和 18 世纪之间,发生了被称为“元音大转变”的事情,全国各地的一些元音发音发生了变化。 例如,“foot”和“strut”的元音过去发音相同,但后来南方人开始以不同的方式发音“strut”。 兰卡斯特大学社会语言学家丹妮尔·特顿表示,北方发音绝对是最原始的发音。 “正是南方分支并创造了这个新的元音。” So, there you have it. While East Anglia may have been the home of the earliest English sounds, it did not stick to the original pronunciations like accents in northern England did. And while many think Received Pronunciation is an older-sounding English, in fact, it didn't exist until the 18th century. The north of England wins! 那么,你就明白了。 虽然东安格利亚可能是最早英语发音的发源地,但它并不像英格兰北部的口音那样坚持原始发音。 尽管许多人认为标准发音是一种听起来更古老的英语,但事实上,它直到 18 世纪才出现。 英格兰北部获胜!

  • #12
    August 26 · 2 min

    第3123期:US astronauts stranded for 9 months set to return to Earth

    More hostages might be released in Gaza. VOA's Jeff Caster reports. 加沙可能会释放更多人质。美国之音记者杰夫·卡斯特(Jeff Caster)报道。 The U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas said in a statement Friday it is willing to release an American-Israeli hostage, Eden Alexander, along with the bodies of four dual nationals who died in captivity. 被美国认定为恐怖组织的哈马斯周五在一份声明中表示,愿意释放一名美裔以色列人质伊登·亚历山大(Eden Alexander),以及四名在囚禁期间死亡的双重国籍者。 The statement on Telegram did not say when the release would take place or what the group expected in return. Telegram上的声明没有说明释放时间或该组织期望的回报。 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office is questioning the offer, accusing Hamas of trying to manipulate the ongoing cease-fire talks in Qatar. 以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的办公室对这一提议提出质疑,指责哈马斯试图操纵卡塔尔正在进行的停火谈判。 Netanyahu's office said the prime minister will meet with his ministerial team Saturday night to receive a detailed report from negotiators and decide on next steps for the release of hostages. Jeff Caster, VOA News. 内塔尼亚胡办公室表示,总理将于周六晚会见他的部长团队,听取谈判人员的详细报告,并决定释放人质的下一步措施。美国之音新闻记者杰夫·卡斯特报道。 South Africa's ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in the U.S. That's according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a post on X on Friday afternoon. 南非驻美国大使不再受到美国欢迎,从美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥周五下午在X上的一篇文章中可以看出。 Rubio accused Ibrahim Rasool of being a "race-baiting politician" and declared him "persona non grata." No additional details were available from the State Department. 鲁比奥指责易卜拉欣·拉苏尔(Ibrahim Rasool)是“种族歧视政客”,并称他为“不受欢迎的人”。美国国务院没有提供更多细节。 An executive order was signed in early February by President Donald Trump that cut aid to the Black-led South African government. 2月初,唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项行政命令,削减了对黑人领导的南非政府的援助。 Trump said South Africa's white Afrikaners were targeted in a new law that allows the government to "expropriate private land." 特朗普表示,南非白人是新法律的目标,该法律允许政府“征用私人土地”。 Tit-for-tat tariffs from Mexico, Canada, the EU and China continue as the U.S. is set to impose new tariffs on April 2. VOA's Carolyn Presutti has the story. 随着美国定于4月2日征收新关税,墨西哥、加拿大、欧盟和中国继续针锋相对地征收关税。美国之音新闻记者卡罗琳·普雷苏蒂(Carolyn Presutti)报道了这一消息。 The unpredictability drives U.S. stocks wild. Analysts say if it continues, all governments lose. Jeffrey Schott is with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. 这种不可预测性导致美国股市疯狂上涨。分析师表示,如果这种情况持续下去,所有政府都会蒙受损失。杰弗里·肖特(Jeffrey Schott)是彼得森国际经济研究所的研究员。 "They think that if they protect their economy, they're going to increase the productivity and the competitiveness of industries in their own market. “他们认为,如果他们保护自己的经济,他们就会提高自己市场中各行业的生产力和竞争力。 And actually what they're doing is putting them at a disadvantage in terms of price and access to global markets." 而实际上,他们所做的是让他们处于价格和全球市场准入方面的劣势。” The U.S. argues economic pain now will yield great results later. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "the tariffs, we've got strategic industries we've got to have. We wanna protect the American worker that a lot of these trade deals haven't been fair." 美国认为,现在的经济痛苦将在以后产生巨大的效果。财政部长斯科特·贝森特说:“关税,我们必须拥有战略产业。我们想保护美国工人,因为很多贸易协定并不公平。” The administration is sending a signal that it's not business as usual here. It's now more exports and less imports. 政府发出信号,表明这里的情况并不正常。现在是出口增加,进口减少。 The next round of tariffs goes into effect April 2. Carolyn Presutti, VOA News, the White House. 下一轮关税将于4月2日生效。美国之音新闻记者卡罗琳·普雷苏蒂在白宫报道。 Two astronauts who have been living on the International Space Station since June of last year are about to get their ride back to Earth. 自去年6月以来一直生活在国际空间站的两名宇航员即将乘坐飞船返回地球。 SpaceX launched four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday night to the space station. SpaceX于周五晚上将四名宇航员从佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心送往空间站。 Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been on the space station since their Boeing Starliner capsule suffered a malfunction and returned to Earth without them. 自从波音星际客机太空舱发生故障并独自返回地球后,巴里·威尔莫尔和苏尼·威廉姆斯就一直在空间站上。 Wilmore and Williams are expected back on Earth next week. 威尔莫尔和威廉姆斯预计将于下周返回地球。

  • #13
    August 25 · 1 min

    第3122期:Starmer pressures Putin for peace

    Britain's leader encouraged his global counterparts to continue pushing for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine at the start of a virtual meeting Saturday intended to end the fighting between the two countries. 英国领导人在周六旨在结束两国战斗的虚拟会议开始时鼓励全球同行继续推动俄罗斯和乌克兰停火。 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a virtual meeting of mostly European leaders that "sooner or later" Russia would have to engage in talks on reaching a ceasefire in the three-year conflict. 英国首相基尔·斯塔默在主要由欧洲领导人参加的虚拟会议上表示,俄罗斯“迟早”必须参与谈判,以达成为期三年的冲突的停火协议。 He addressed the group, described as a "coalition of the willing," 他向这个被描述为“自愿联盟”的组织发表讲话, of mostly European leaders as well as those from Australia, New Zealand and Canada but not the United States. 该组织主要由欧洲领导人以及来自澳大利亚、新西兰和加拿大的领导人组成,但不包括美国领导人。 "Sooner or later, he's going to have to come to the table," Starmer said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. 斯塔默谈到俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京时说:“迟早,他必须坐到谈判桌前。”俄罗斯于2022年2月24日入侵乌克兰。 Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Moscow to accept a ceasefire deal agreed to by U.S. and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said "the ball is in Russia's court." 此前,美国总统唐纳德·特朗普敦促莫斯科接受美国和乌克兰代表团在沙特阿拉伯达成的停火协议,美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥曾表示“球在俄罗斯手中”。 Putin has said he agrees with a ceasefire in theory, but Russia still has certain conditions and questions that must be addressed before accepting any agreement. 普京表示,他理论上同意停火,但俄罗斯在接受任何协议之前仍需解决某些条件和问题。 In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that Putin is stalling and has demanded so many preconditions "that nothing will work out at all." 乌克兰总统泽连斯基在晚间视频讲话中暗示,普京在拖延,并提出了如此多的先决条件,“以至于什么都行不通”。 Meanwhile, the U.S. has expanded sanctions on Russian oil and gas as well as its financial sectors. 与此同时,美国扩大了对俄罗斯石油和天然气以及金融部门的制裁。 Saturday's discussion among world leaders could address future military and financial support for Ukraine and Zelenskyy's security concerns if a peace deal is reached. 如果达成和平协议,世界各国领导人周六的讨论可能会涉及未来对乌克兰的军事和财政支持以及泽连斯基的安全担忧。 Zelenskyy attended Saturday's online video session. 泽连斯基参加了周六的在线视频会议。

  • #14
    August 24 · 1 min

    第3121期:The 200th anniversary of the U.S. Botanic Garden

    Visitors come to the U.S. Botanic Garden to enjoy the variety of plants and the peace and serenity of nature. This woman works nearby. 游客们来到美国国家植物园观赏各类植物,享受大自然带来的和平与宁静。这位女士在附近工作。 "Feels like a forest in a city, so I can be thinking about something else that worked for almost for 5 minutes, which is sometimes very nice." “感觉就像城市里的森林,这样我能有大约五分钟时间思考其他事情。这一点很赞。” Located on the national mall, the Botanic Garden is made up of 65,000 indoor and outdoor plants, some more than 165 years old. 这座植物园位于国家购物中心,植物园里共有65000株室内和室外植物,有的已经生长了165年多了。 Inside the conservatory, the greenhouse, there are rooms with plants that thrive in different environments, like this tropical room. 温室里有很多不同的房间,这些植物在不同的环境里生长,比如这间热带植物房。 Since its beginning, visitors have been educated about the value of plants. 从建园开始,植物园就一直向参观者们展示植物的价值。 "We still have a very important role to play in educating people about the importance of plants, “我们在向公众普及植物重要性方面仍扮演着至关重要的角色。 particularly in urban audiences where people may not have a direct connection to a farm, may not understand where food in particular comes from." 尤其是对城市居民而言,他们可能从未接触过农场,甚至不清楚食物究竟从何而来。” One of the Garden's main attractions are the four thousand orchid plants that come from around the world. 植物园的主要景点之一是来自世界各地的四千株兰花。 During the annual spring orchid show, a sea of flowers bloom including some that are endangered. 在一年一度的春季兰花展上,花海绽放,其中还包括一些濒危品种。 During the Christmas season, a very popular exhibit showcases toy trains, chugging through plants and structures made from plant-based materials. 圣诞节期间会有一场很受欢迎的展览,玩具小火车穿梭于由植物材料制成的植物和建筑之间。 As part of the bicentennial, the newest exhibit "Deeply Rooted, Branching Outward", 作为建园二百周年庆典的一部分,最新的展览“深根延展”, highlights the scientific exploration of plants, which the garden hopes will give visitors. 突出展示了人类对植物的科学探索,园方期望借此为游客带来启发。 "So just a greater appreciation for plants, for plant discovery, for plant exploration." “我们可以更好地观赏植物、重视植物发现、关注植物探索。” The U.S. Botanic Garden is free and open every day, with more than 1 million visitors a year. 美国国家植物园每天都免费开放, 每年有100多万游客。 It has enlightened its guests for two centuries and will continue to for generations to come. 过去两百年以来,它一直启发着游客,并将继续为后世带来启示。

  • #15
    August 23 · 2 min

    第3120期:Americans pay tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    Candles, flowers, and handcrafted signs surround the United States Supreme Court in memory of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died Friday. It just kind of crushed me. 蜡烛、鲜花和手工制作的标语环绕在美国最高法院周围,以纪念周五去世的大法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格。这真的让我心碎。 While Ginsburg's health had been deteriorating for the past several years, her death stunned many Americans including president Donald Trump. 尽管金斯伯格的健康状况在过去几年里一直在恶化,但她的去世还是令包括总统唐纳德·特朗普在内的许多美国人感到震惊。 She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman. 她度过了非凡的一生。你还能说什么呢?她是一位了不起的女性。 Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I'm actually saddened to hear that. I am saddened to hear that. 无论你是否认同,她都是一位拥有非凡人生的非凡女性。听到这个消息我真的很难过。 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said she was not only a giant in the legal profession but a beloved figure. 民主党总统候选人乔·拜登表示,她不仅是法律界的巨擘,还是一位深受爱戴的人物。 She practiced the highest American ideals as a Justice: equality and justice under the law, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for all of us. 作为大法官,她践行了美国最崇高的理想:法律面前人人平等与正义;露丝·巴德·金斯伯格代表着我们所有人。 I don't know a woman who's not going to be affected by this, I don't know a single one. 我认识的所有女性都受到了她的影响。 Ginsburg's advocacy for women's rights propelled her beyond legal stardom and into American pop culture. 金斯伯格对女性权利的倡导使她不仅成为法律界的明星,还融入了美国流行文化。 People started calling her the Notorious RBG, a reference to the famed rap artist Notorious B.I.G. 人们开始称她为“声名狼藉的RBG”,这是对著名说唱歌手声名狼藉先生的致敬。 Her status as a cultural icon grew when it was discovered the octogenarian worked out at the gym religiously, something that continued through the coronavirus pandemic. 当人们发现这位八旬老人一直坚持去健身房锻炼,甚至在新冠疫情期间也未曾中断时,她作为文化偶像的地位便愈发稳固。 Tributes to Ginsburg plastered the Brooklyn New York neighborhood in which she grew up. 向金斯伯格致敬的标语贴满了她成长的纽约布鲁克林社区。 William Brenneisen owns Ginsburg's childhood home. 威廉·布伦内森拥有金斯伯格童年时期的故居。 We've been here 47 years and we still hear her name during the course of all year, so she's not really forgotten. 我们在这里已经47年了,一整年里我们仍会时不时听到她的名字,所以她并没有真正被遗忘。 It was not lost on American Jews that Ginsburg died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. 美国犹太人都注意到,金斯伯格是在犹太新年前夕去世的。 But it was her fierce defense of women's rights that defines how she is being remembered. 但正是她对女性权利的坚定捍卫,定义了人们如何铭记她。 Well, she stood up for women. She was not swayed, easily swayed. 她为女性发声。她不会轻易动摇。 And she just had people's best interests at heart, viewed the world differently to a lot of men. I have great respect for her. 她只是把人们的最大利益放在心上,看待世界的方式与许多男性不同。我非常尊敬她。 Ginsburg will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, next to her husband Martin who died in 2010. 金斯伯格将被安葬在阿灵顿国家公墓,与她2010年去世的丈夫马丁葬在一起。

  • #16
    August 22 · 2 min

    第3119期:Life on Venus

    Good news this week for explorers seeking extraterrestriallife. 本周对于寻找外星生命的探险家来说是个好消息。 Scientists say they have detected a gas called phosphine swirling in the highly acidic clouds of venus. 科学家表示,他们在金星酸性极高的云层中探测到了一种名为磷化氢的气体。 But the European Southern Observatory's Itziar de Gregorio says it is probably too soon to say life exists on the planet. 但欧洲南方天文台的伊齐亚尔·德·格雷戈里奥表示,现在就说这颗行星上存在生命可能还为时过早。 This doesn't mean that we discovered extraterrestriallife on venus far from it. 这并不意味着我们在遥远的金星上发现了外星生命。 It is possible that we are unaware of a chemical that produces this phosphine and we have to investigate in that direction. 可能存在某种我们尚未发现的化学物质能产生这种磷化氢,我们必须朝这个方向展开调查。 The quest to study Venus began in 1960 with the Pioneer 5 space probe. 对金星的研究始于1960年的先驱者5号太空探测器。 But with this week's development, there's heightened interest in the planet. 但是随着本周的研究发展,人们对这颗行星的兴趣大增。 On earth, bacteria thriving in oxygen-starved environments like sewers and intestines produce the gas phosphine. 在地球上,细菌在缺氧环境中(如下水道和肠道)大量繁殖,会产生磷化氢气体。 The discovery on Venus is raisingspeculationthat microbial life exists there. 金星上的发现引起了人们对那里存在微生物生命的猜测。 But de Gregorio adds that the phosphine source could simply be something researchers have yet to study. 但德·格雷戈里奥补充说,磷化氢的来源可能仅仅是研究人员尚未研究的某种物质。 In other news that could be ripped from the pages of a science fiction novel, NASA and the European Space Agency or ESA joined forces this week to build a spacecraft to deflect an earthbound asteroid. 在其他仿佛是从科幻小说里摘录出来的新闻中,美国国家航空航天局(NASA)和欧洲航天局(ESA)本周联手建造一艘航天器,旨在改变一颗可能撞向地球的小行星的轨道。 This mission is essentially a demonstration so we can understand how these technologies could be used. 这次任务本质上是一次演示,以便我们能够了解这些技术如何被应用。 It's like billiards. Small force hits the asteroid that is heading for earth which should create an aversion. 这就像打台球一样。用较小的力量撞击朝着地球飞来的小行星,这样应该能使其偏离轨道。 And we want to practice this, so that we are ready if an asteroid is actually heading for us. 我们想进行这种演练,以便在小行星真的朝我们飞来时能做好准备。 NASA is set to launch a craft in June 2021 on a collision course with the asteroid to attempt altering its flight path. NASA计划于2021年6月发射一艘航天器,使其与小行星相撞,试图改变其飞行路径。 If the mission succeeds, the ESA will launch a follow-up in 2024. 如果任务成功,欧洲航天局将在2024年启动后续行动。 In other news, images from space showed the vast and ancient icesheetatop greenland shed a 113 square kilometer chunk of ice last month. 来自太空的图像显示,格陵兰岛顶部广袤而古老的冰盖上个月脱落了一块面积达113平方公里的冰块。 The new research is yet another piece important piece of evidence showing that it's really time we stop hitting the snooze button and wake up to the climate emergency. 这项新研究是又一项重要证据,表明我们真的该停止拖延,正视气候紧急状况了。 We need to curb climate emissions right now immediately. 我们现在需要立即控制气候排放。 And we need to create a network of ocean sanctuaries covering at least a third of the blue planet if we are to take climate crisis seriously. 如果我们要认真对待气候危机,就需要建立一个海洋保护区网络,使其覆盖这个蓝色星球至少三分之一的区域。 Dr Laura Meller from Greenpeace says the time to act is now. 绿色和平组织的劳拉·梅勒博士表示,现在就是采取行动的时候了。 As more ice melts, experts say more dark water appears in its place, absorbing heat, further accelerating the process of melting ice and rising seas. 随着更多冰层融化,专家表示,更多深色海水会出现在原本冰层的位置,吸收热量,进一步加速冰层融化和海平面上升的过程。 And finally, UNESCO certifies Italy's Saint-Barthelemy valley as a Starlight Stellar Park, meaning it's one of the best places on earth to look up at the sky. 最后,联合国教科文组织认证意大利的圣巴特岛山谷为星光公园,这意味着它是地球上观赏天空的最佳地点之一。 The northern Italian municipality takes this designation seriously, having recently replaced lampposts with special LEDs that do not shine up. 意大利北部的这个自治市非常重视这一称号,最近刚刚把路灯柱换成了不会向上照射的特殊发光二极管灯。

  • #17
    August 21 · 48 sec

    第3118期:Chimpanzees build trust through touch

    Anyone who watches team sports may be familiar with the sight of players joining a huddle before a big match. Researchers studying chimpanzees and bonobos in African sanctuaries found our closest ape relatives do something similar before feeding time, one of the most competitive moments in their day. 经常观看团队体育比赛的人,对赛前队员们围成一圈加油打气的场景应该不会陌生。在非洲多家灵长类动物保护区研究黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩的科研人员们发现,这些与人类亲缘关系最近的类人猿在喂食时间前也会有类似的举动。喂食时间是它们一天中竞争最激烈的时刻之一。 As they waited for food, the apes touched, embraced and sometimes kissed one another. Those with the most reassuring physical interactions were more likely to feed peacefully alongside others. 在等待食物时,这些类人猿会彼此接触、拥抱,有时还会亲吻。那些在进食前进行较多安抚性身体接触的个体,更有可能与同伴一起和睦地进食。 The researchers believe this behaviour may date back at least seven million years, suggesting that using touch to build trust and cooperation is an ancient social skill shared by humans and great apes alike. 研究人员认为,这种行为或能追溯到至少 700 万年前,表明通过肢体接触来建立信任和合作关系是人类和大型类人猿共同拥有的一项古老的社交技能。

  • #18
    August 20 · 32 sec

    第3117期:World's most expensive dinosaur

    It was initially valued at $30 million, but Gus, as the T-rex has been affectionately named, went for much more after a bidding battle that lasted over 10 minutes. Cassandra Hatton, worldwide head of natural history at Sotheby's, said the price reflected the time to excavate and reconstruct the specimen and its quality. 这具霸王龙化石被亲切地命名为 “格斯”,最初估价为 3000 万美元。然而,在持续十多分钟的激烈竞拍后,其最终成交价远远超过预估价格。苏富比全球自然史业务负责人卡桑德拉·哈顿表示,成交价反映了发掘和复原这件标本所耗费的大量时间,以及标本本身的品质。 Standing at 12.5 feet tall and with more than 60% of the bones recovered, it is one of the most complete specimens of its kind. We are unlikely to find out the identity of the buyer immediately. Time will tell if the dinosaur is coming to a museum near you. 该标本高 12.5 英尺,已发现并回收的骨骼超过整体的 60%,是现存最完整的霸王龙标本之一。我们可能无法立即得知买家的身份。只有时间才能揭晓,这具霸王龙化石未来是否会在你附近的博物馆展出。

  • #19
    August 19 · 2 min

    第3116期:The art of farts

    It's a topic people usually avoid, yet it's a universal human experience. Flatulence, affectionately known as farting, is simply the releasing of gas from the backside. The word itself traces back to the Latin 'flatus', which literally means 'a blowing' or 'wind.' While it is often the butt of the joke, we do it for very practical reasons, which boil down to digestion. Most mammals have a complex, symbiotic relationship with their gut microbes which break down food. Digestion requires a lengthy process of fermentation, and flatulence is simply the inevitable byproduct of these hard-working bacteria. Passing gas is a sign of a highly functioning digestive system. 这是人们通常回避的话题,但却是人类的普遍经历。 胀气,被亲切地称为放屁,简单来说就是气体从背部释放出来。 这个词本身可以追溯到拉丁语“flatus”,字面意思是“吹”或“风”。 虽然这通常是笑话的笑柄,但我们这样做是出于非常实际的原因,归根结底就是为了消化。 大多数哺乳动物与分解食物的肠道微生物有着复杂的共生关系。 消化需要漫长的发酵过程,而胀气正是这些辛勤工作的细菌不可避免的副产品。 排气是消化系统功能强大的标志。 But we humans aren't the only mammals that like to let one off. In 2017, National Geographic and the BBC reported the results of an online survey. It revealed some incredibly unlikely farters, like zebras, which have been documented farting withevery single step whilst running away from predators. On a bigger scale, cow flatulence and burps are packed with methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is actively driving global climate change. And, if you've ever had a domesticated pet, you might've even blamed your own farts on them! I know I have. 但我们人类并不是唯一喜欢放纵的哺乳动物。 2017年,《国家地理》和BBC报道了一项在线调查的结果。 它揭示了一些令人难以置信的放屁动物,比如斑马,有记录显示,它们在逃避捕食者时每走一步都会放屁。 从更大的范围来看,奶牛的胀气和打嗝充满了甲烷,这是一种强效温室气体,正在积极推动全球气候变化。 而且,如果您曾经养过宠物,您甚至可能会将自己的屁归咎于它们! 我知道我有。 There are other fascinating examples of farting from the animal kingdom. The Sonoran coral snake expels air forcefully to startle predators when it's in danger. In an article published on The Conversation, it's mentioned that herring, a type of fish, will release gas as a way to communicate with each other that predators are nearby. It was also written in IFLScience that the beaded lacewing, a type of larva, can take down six termites with one fart! 动物王国还有其他有趣的放屁例子。 索诺兰珊瑚蛇在遇到危险时会用力喷出空气来惊吓捕食者。 在《对话》上发表的一篇文章中提到,鲱鱼是一种鱼类,它会释放气体,作为相互交流捕食者就在附近的一种方式。 《IFLScience》上还写道,珠状草蛉是一种幼虫,一个屁就能消灭六只白蚁! So it seems that some animals pass gas as an evolutionary survival tactic. Those not so 'silent but deadly' farts can ward off predators as well as let others know that there's potential danger. While farts for us are mainly the result of digestion, perhaps, like the Sonoran snake, herring and beaded lacewing, we could embrace the breeze and utilise them against our enemies? Hahaha, just joking! 所以看来有些动物放屁是一种进化的生存策略。 那些不那么“无声但致命”的屁可以抵御掠食者,也可以让其他人知道存在潜在的危险。 虽然放屁对我们来说主要是消化的结果,但也许,像索诺兰蛇、鲱鱼和串珠草蛉一样,我们可以拥抱微风,利用它们来对抗我们的敌人? 哈哈哈,开玩笑啦!

  • #20
    August 18 · 2 min

    第3115期:Gen Z's love of the past

    Today's youth are reinventing what it means to be cool. A surprising number of Gen Zers are actively looking to the past. They are choosing to romanticise old-school tech relics like CDs, wired headphones, and weighty digital cameras. This love for all things vintage extends into their wardrobes with a massive resurgence of Y2K (year 2000) fashion. Friday nights are increasingly filled with board games and classic card games. So why exactly is the most digitally advanced generation trying so hard to rewind? 当今的年轻人正在重新定义“酷”的含义。 数量惊人的 Z 世代正在积极回顾过去。 他们选择将 CD、有线耳机和笨重的数码相机等老式科技文物浪漫化。 随着 Y2K(2000 年)时尚的大规模复兴,这种对所有复古事物的热爱也延伸到了他们的衣柜中。 周五晚上越来越多地充满了棋盘游戏和经典纸牌游戏。 那么,为什么数字化最先进的一代人如此努力地尝试倒带呢? The answer lies in a desire to slow down and find comfort. Growing up as digital natives has its perks, but Profectus Magazine reveals that around 80% of Gen Z adults worry their generation is far too dependent on technology, while three-quarters feel social media is affecting their mental health. Swapping music streaming for physical CDs or endless social media scrolling for a tactile board game allows them to unplug and step away from the digital noise. 答案在于渴望放慢脚步并寻找安慰。 成长为数字原住民有其好处,但 Profectus 杂志透露,大约 80% 的 Z 世代成年人担心他们这一代人过于依赖技术,而四分之三的人认为社交媒体正在影响他们的心理健康。 将音乐流转为实体 CD,或将无尽的社交媒体滚动转为触觉棋盘游戏,让他们能够摆脱数字噪音。 This analogue revival could actually be good for everyone. Research by psychologist Dr. Clay Routledge shows that engaging with nostalgic media and traditions can dramatically boost positive moods, reduce anxiety and help people cope with daily stress. It suggests that nostalgia can act as a stabilising, hopeful force, helping a young generation build social confidence. 这种模拟技术的复兴实际上对每个人都有好处。 Research by psychologist Dr. Clay Routledge shows that engaging with nostalgic media and traditions can dramatically boost positive moods, reduce anxiety and help people cope with daily stress. 它表明,怀旧可以成为一种稳定、充满希望的力量,帮助年轻一代建立社会信心。 Yet, all of this begs a fascinating question – can a generation truly yearn for a life they never actually lived? Studies published in Profectus Magazine show that nearly 70% of Gen Z adults experience a unique kind of historical nostalgia for eras that predated their own birth. GWI, a global market research company, reports that young people are looking back at the past through rose-tinted glasses, viewing it as a time of genuine human interaction. 然而,所有这一切都引出了一个令人着迷的问题——一代人真的能够向往他们从未真正经历过的生活吗? Profectus 杂志发表的研究表明,近 70% 的 Z 世代成年人对自己出生之前的时代有一种独特的历史怀旧之情。 全球市场研究公司 GWI 报告称,年轻人正在带着有色眼镜回顾过去,将其视为真正的人际互动时代。 Though there have been mixed reactions from millennials, ultimately, Gen Z's obsession with the past suggests that no matter how advanced our gadgets get, human beings may always desire a simpler way of living. For a generation that grew up entirely online, going vintage isn't just a fashion statement, it's a total vibe. 虽然千禧一代的反应不一,但 Z 世代对过去的痴迷最终表明,无论我们的设备变得多么先进,人类可能总是渴望一种更简单的生活方式。 对于完全在网上长大的一代人来说,复古不仅仅是一种时尚宣言,更是一种整体氛围。

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