英文翻譯技能~充份控制各國的文明

要实正把握英譯中的技能並非易事。這是果為英譯中時會碰到各種各樣的困難；起首是英文懂得難，這是學習、应用英文的人的独特感覺，由於兩國歷史、文明、風雅習慣的不同，所以一句英文在英丽人看來順理成章，而在我們看來卻是顛顛倒倒、斷斷續續，極為彆扭。两是中文表達難，英譯中有時為了要找到一個开適的對等辭彙，往往被弄得頭昏目眩，似乎在腦子裡摸一個慢於要開箱子的鑰匙，卻沒有。别的，英譯中時對控制各種文明知識的请求很下，因為我們所翻譯的文章，其內容能够波及到極為廣博的知識領域，而這些知識領域多数是我們不年夜熟习的中國的事件，假如不具備相應的文化知識難免不出現一些翻譯中的差錯或笑話。恰是因為英譯中時會碰到這麼多的困難，所以，我們必須通過翻譯練習，對英中兩種不同語言的特點减以對比、概況和總結，以找出普通的表達規律來，防止出現一些不該出現的翻譯錯誤，而這些表達的規律就是我們所說的翻譯本领。 

詞義的選擇和引申技能：英中兩種語行皆有一詞多類跟一詞多義的現象。一詞多類便是指一個詞常常屬於幾個詞類，存在幾個差别的意義；一詞多義就是统一個詞在统一詞類中又常常有幾個分歧的詞義。在英譯中的過程中，我們正在弄浑原句結構後，就要擅於運用選擇战確定本句中關鍵字詞義的技能，以使所譯語句天然流暢翻耆翻�现姓Z習慣的說法；選擇確定詞義凡是能够從兩圆里著脚： 


1、根據詞在句中的詞類來選擇和確定詞義 
They are as like as two peas .他們类似極了。（描述詞） 
He likes mathematics more than physics .他喜歡數學甚於喜歡物理。（動詞） 
Wheat， oat， and the like are cereals .小麥、燕麥等等皆是穀類。（名詞）
 
2、根據高低文聯繫和詞在句中的搭配關係來選擇和確定詞義。 
He is the last man to come .他是最後來的。 
He is the last person for such a job .他最不配做這個事情。 
He should be the last man to blame.怎麼也不該怪他。 
This is the last place where I expected to meet you .我怎麼也沒料到會在這個处所見到您。 

詞義引伸是我們英譯中時经常使用的技巧之一。翻譯時，有時會碰到某些詞在英語辭典上找不到適當的詞義，若是肆意硬套或逐詞逝世譯，就會使譯文僵硬晦澀，不克不及確切表達原意，乃至會形成誤解。這時就應根據上下文和邏輯關係，從該詞的基本露義出發，進一步加以引伸，引伸時，往往能够從三個方面來加以考慮。 

1、詞義轉譯。當我們碰到一些無法曲譯或不宜直譯的詞或片語時，應根據高低文和邏輯關係，引伸轉譯。 
The energy of the sun comes to the earth mainly as light and heat .太陽能重要以光和熱的情势傳到天球。 

2、詞義具體化。根據中語的表達習慣，把原文中某些詞義較籠統的詞引伸為詞義較具體的詞。 
The last stage went higher and took the Apollo into orbit round the earth.最後一級水箭降得更高，把“阿波羅號”收進圍繞地球運止的軌讲。 

3、詞義笼统化。根據中語的表達習慣，把原文中某些詞義較具體的詞引伸為詞義較形象的詞，或把詞義較形象的詞引伸為詞義較个别的詞。 
Every life has its roses and thorns .每個人的生涯都有苦有苦。 
 

幣值贬值對翻譯產業帶來的影響

匯率帶來的影響重要影響到金融止業跟中貿行業的翻譯市場，長期從事國際金融跟翻譯行業研讨的專家便指出，雖然幣值贬值將對我國出口企業產死必定衝擊，但也象征著他們能够用購買力強的貨幣進行外洋投資战本料進口，對企業轉型、減少對出心市場的依賴水平無疑是杰出契機。

别的，幣值降值同等於國內翻譯項目标國際購買力删強，而翻譯企業所雇傭的海外母語翻譯的外幣付出則相應減少，這使得國內企業國際化發展時對母語翻譯價格蒙受才能有必然的晋升，國內翻譯價格和品質長期低位彷徨的狀況无望获得改變。

正在海外投資企業走背國際化的過程中，翻譯顯得尤為主要。翻譯也是一種生產力，品質低的翻譯不僅會歪曲企業傳播的目標，阻礙其國際化發展，并且能够會因而形成無法估计的損掉。“廣大客戶對於翻譯服務的規則和規範今朝還沒有太多的專業知識。 現在越來越多的翻譯專員對翻譯流程和專業知識不甚瞭解，導致年夜局部國內客戶依然在用低價格做為選擇標準，然而低價格常常意味著低品質，海外客戶及其商業環境對翻譯品質有了更下的请求，這對實施海外戰略的企業來說是一種更大的挑戰。

對於企業聘請的譯員仍需處理自身事務之外的任務，導致他們無法將精神專注於高品質的翻譯。是以，企業良多十分專業的文件和資料不能不外包給專業的翻譯公司進行流程治理和品質監控。别的，對實施海外戰略的國內企業來說，多國語行推廣的需供日益增加。

有資料統計顯示，截行今朝，寰球翻譯市場的年產值已達130億美圆，作為主要的人材凑集天和翻譯需要市場，翻譯行業或將果幣值升值而迎向明丽的春季。同時，隨著國內翻譯行業的規範水平日趋减深，企業也越來越認識到專業合作的主要性。企業內部的譯員由於知識結構的單一也越來越被其它内部專業翻譯服務商所代替。

Declaration of War on the US by Adolf Hitler - 英語演講

Deputies, Men of the German Reichstag! A year of events of historical significance is drawing to an end. A year of great decisions lies ahead. In these serious times, I speak to you, deputies of the German Reichstag, as the representatives of the German nation. Beyond and above that, the whole German people should take note of this glance into the past, as well as of the ing decisions the present and future impose upon us.
After the renewed refusal of my peace offer in January 1940 by the then British Prime Minister and the clique which supported or dominated him, it became clear that this war - against all reasons of mon sense and necessity - must be fought to its end. You know me, my old Party panions; you know I have always been an enemy of half measures or weak decisions.
If the Providence has so willed that the German people cannot be spared this fight, then I can only be grateful that it entrusted me with the leadership in this historic struggle which, for the next 500 or 1,000 years, will be described as decisive, not only for the history of Germany, but for the whole of Europe and indeed the whole world.
The German people and their soldiers are working and fighting today, not only for the present, but also for the ing, nay the most distant, generations. The Creator has imposed a historical revision on a unique scale upon us.
Shortly after the end of the campaign in Norway, the German mand was forced, first of all, to ensure the military security of the conquered areas. Since then the defences of the conquered countries have changed considerably. From Kirkenes to the Spanish Frontier there is a belt of great bases and fortifications; many airfields have been built, naval bases with protection for submarines, which are practically invulnerable from sea or air.
More than 1,500 new batteries have been planned and constructed. A network of roads and railways was constructed so that today munications from the Spanish Frontier to Petsano are independent of the sea. These installations in no way fall behind those of the Western Wall, and work continues incessantly on strengthening them. I am irrevocably determined to make the European Front unassailable by any enemy.
This defensive work was supplemented by offensive warfare. German surface and underwater naval Forces carried on their constant war of attrition against the British Merchant Navy and the ships in its service. The German Air Force supported these attacks by reconnaissance, by damaging enemy shipping, by numerous retaliatory raids which have given the English a better idea of the ‘ ever so charming ’ war caused by their present Prime Minister.
In the middle of last year Germany was supported above all by Italy. For many months a great part of British power weighed heavily on the shoulders of Italy. Only because of their tremendous superiority in heavy tanks could the English create a temporary crisis in North Africa. On 24th March a small munity of German-Italian units under Rommel's mand began the counter-attack.
The German Africa Corps performed outstanding achievements though they were pletely unaccustomed to the climate of this theatre of war. Just as once in Spain, now in North Africa Germans and Italians have taken up arms against the same enemy.
While with these bold measures the North African Front was again secured by the blood of German and Italian soldiers, the shadow of a terrible danger threatening Europe gathered overhead. Only in obedience of bitter necessity did I decide in my heart in 1939, to make the attempt, or at least, to create the prerequisites for a lasting peace in Europe by eliminating the causes of German-Russian tension.
This was psychologically difficult owing to the general attitude of the German people, and above all, of the party, towards Bolshevism. It was not difficult from a purely material point of view - because Germany was only intent on her economic interests in all the territories which England declared to be threatened by us and which she attacked with her promises of aid- for you will allow me to remind you that England, throughout the spring and late summer of 1939, offered its aid to numerous countries, declaring that it was our intention to invade those countries and thus deprive them of their liberty.
The German Reich and its Government were therefore able to affirm, with a clear conscience, that these allegations were false and had no bearing whatsoever on reality. Add to this the military realization that in the case of war, which British diplomacy was to force on the German people, a two front war would ensue and call for very great sacrifice.
When, on top of all this, the Baltic States and Rumania showed themselves prone to accept the British Pacts of assistance, and thus let it be seen that they, too, believed in such a threat, it was not only the right of the Reich Government, but its duty to fix the limits of German interests.
The countries in question, and above all, the Reich Government, could not but realize that the only factor, which could be a buttress against the East, was Germany. The moment they severed their connection with the German Reich, and entrusted their fate to the aid of that Power, which, in its proverbial selfishness has never rendered aid, but always requested it, they were lost.
Yet the fate of these countries roused the sympathy of the German people. The winter struggle of the Finns forced on us mixed feelings of both bitterness and admiration. Admiration because we have a heart sensitive to sacrifice and heroism, being a nation of soldiers ourselves; bitterness, because with our eyes fixed on the menacing enemy in the West, and on the danger in the East, we were not in a position to render any military assistance.
As soon as it became evident that Soviet Russia decided it had the right to wipe out the nations living outside the limits of the German sphere of interest, as a result of that limitation of interests our subsequent relations
were merely governed by utilitarian considerations, while both our reason and feelings were hostile.
With every month I became more convinced that the plans of the men in the Kremlin aimed at domination and annihilation of all Europe, I have had to disclose to the nation the full extent of the Russian military preparations.
At a time when Germany had only a few divisions in the provinces bordering on Russia it would have been evident to a blind man that a concentration of power, of singular and historic, dimensions was taking place, and not in order to defend something which was threatened, but merely in order to attack an object it did not seem possible to defend. The lightening conclusion of the Western campaign, however, robbed the Moscow overlords of their hope of an early flagging of German power.
This did not alter their intentions - it merely led to a postponement of the date on which they intended to strike.
In the summer of 1941 they thought the time was ripe. A new Mongolian storm was now set to sweep over Europe. At the same time, however, Mr. Churchill spoke on the English aspect of the struggle with Germany. He saw fit, in a ly manner, to deny that in a secret session of House of mons in 1940, that he had pointed out that the entry of Russia into the war would happen by 1941 at the very latest and was the most important factor, which would make a successful conclusion of the war possible.
This was also to enable England to take the offensive. In the spring of that year, Europe was to feel the full extent of the might of a world power, which seemed to dispose of inexhaustible human material and resources. Dark clouds began to gather on the European sky. For, my Deputies, what is Europe? There is no fitting geographical definition of our Continent, but only a national and cultural one.
Not the Urals form the frontier of our Continent, but the eternal line which divides the Eastern and Western conceptions of life. There was a time when Europe was that Greek Island into which Nordic tribes had penetrated in order to light a torch for the first time which from then onwards began slowly, but surely to brighten the world of man.
When these Greeks repulsed the invasion of the Persian conquerors they did not only defend their homeland, which was Greece, but that idea which we call Europe today. And then European concepts travelled from Hellas to Rome. The Greek spirit and culture, the Roman way of thinking and statesmanship, joined.
An empire was created which, to this day has not been equalled in its significance or creative power, let alone outdone. When, however the Roman legions were defending Rome against the African onslaught of Carthage and at last gained a victory, again it was not Rome they were fighting for, but the Europe of that time, which consisted of the Greek-Roman Empire.
The next incursion against this homestead of European culture was carried out from the distant East. A terrible stream of barbarous, uncultured hordes sallied forth from the interior of Asia deep into the heart of the European Continent, burning, looting, murdering - a true scourge of the Lord. In the battle of the Catalonian fields Western Europe was formed. On the very ruins of Rome Western Europe was built, and its defence was a task, not only of the Romans, but also above all else of the Teutons.
In centuries to e the West, enlightened by Greek culture, built the Roman Empire and then expanded by the colonization of Teutons was able to call itself Europe. Whether it was the German Emperor who was repelling the attacks from the East on the Field of Lech or whether Africa was being pushed back from Spain in long fighting, it was also a struggle of Europe, ing into being, against a surrounding world alien in its very essence.
Once Rome had been given its due for the creative defence of this continent, Teutons took over the defence and the protection of a family of nations which might still differentiate and differ in their political structure and objective, but which nevertheless represented a cultural unity with blood ties. And it was from this Europe that a spiritual and cultural abundance went out, of which everyone must be aware who is willing to seek truth instead of denying it.
Thus it was not England who brought culture to the Continent, but the offspring of Teutonic nationhood on the Continent who went as Anglo-Saxons and Normans to that Island made possible a development in a way surely unique. In just the same way, it was not America who discovered Europe, but the other way around.
And everything that America has not drawn from Europe may well appear worthy of admiration to a juda-ised, mixed race. Europe, on the other hand, sees in it a sign of cultural decay.
Deputies and Men of the German Reichstag, I had to make this survey, for the fight which, in the first months of this year, gradually began to bee clear, and of which the German Reich is this time called to be the leader of, also far exceeds the interests of our nation and country.
Just as the Greeks once faced the Persians in war, and the Romans faced the Mongolians, the Spanish heroes defended not only Spain, but the whole of Europe against Africa, just so Germany is fighting today, not for herself, but for the entire Continent.
And it is fortunate that this realization is today so deep in the subconscious of most European nations that, whether by taking up their position openly or whether by a stream of volunteers, they are sharing in this struggle.
When, on the 6th of April of this year, the German and Italian Armies took up their positions for the fight against Yugoslavia and Greece, it was the introduction to the great struggle in which we are still involved. The revolt in Belgrade, which led to the overthrow of the former Regent and his Government, was decisive for the future course of events in this part of Europe, for England was also a part to this putsch.
But the chief role was played by Soviet Russia. What I refused to Mr. Molotov on his visit to Berlin, Stalin now thought he could achieve by a revolutionary movement, even against our will. Without consideration for the agreements, which had been concluded, the intentions of the Bolsheviks in power grew still wider. The Pact of Friendship with the new revolutionary regime illuminated the closeness of the threatening danger like lightning.
The feats achieved by the German Armed Forces were given worthy recognition in the German Reichstag on the 4th of May. but what I was then unfortunately unable to express was the realization that we were progressing at tremendous speed toward a fight with a State which was not yet intervening because it was not yet fully prepared, and because it was impossible to use the aerodromes and landing grounds at that time of year on account of the melting snow.
My deputies, when in 1940 I realized from munications in the English House of mons and the observation of the Russian troop movements on our frontiers that there was the possibility of danger arising in the East of the Reich, I immediately gave orders to set up numerous new armoured motorized infantry divisions.
The logistics for this were possible from the point of view both of material and personnel. I will give you, my Deputies, and indeed the whole German people, only one assurance: the more democracy needs more armaments, as is easily understandable, the harder National Socialist Germany works.
It was so in the past, it is no different today. Every year brings us increased, and above all, improved weapons. Hard decisions had to be made. In spite of my determination that under no circumstances to allow our opponent to make the first stab in our heart - in spite of that my decision was a very difficult one.
If democratic newspapers today declare that, had I known the strength of our Bolshevik opponents more accurately, I would have hesitated to attack, they understand the position just as little as they understand me.
I sought no war. On the contrary, I did everything to avoid it. But I would have been forgetful of my duty and responsibility if, in spite of realizing the inevitability of a fight by force of arms, I had failed to draw the only possible conclusions. In view of the mortal danger from Soviet Russia, not only to the German Reich, but also to all Europe, I decided, that if possible, a few days before the outbreak of this moral struggle, to give the signal to attack myself.
Today, we have overwhelming and authentic proof that Russia intended to attack; we are also quite clear about the date on which the attack was to take place. In view of the great danger, the proportions of which we realise perhaps only today to the fullest extent, I can only thank God that He enlightened me at the proper time and that He gave me the strength to do what had to be done!
To this, not only millions of German soldiers owe their lives, but Europe its very existence. This much I may state today; had this wave of over 20,000 tanks, hundreds of divisions, tens of thousands of guns, acpanied by more than 10,000 aircraft, suddenly moved against the Reich, Europe would have been lost.
Fate has destined a number of nations to forestall this attack, to ward it off with the sacrifice of their blood. Had Finland not decided immediately to take up arms for the second time, the leisurely bourgeois life of the other Nordic countries would soon have e to an end.
Had the German Reich not faced the enemy with her soldiers and arms, a flood would have swept over Europe, which once and for all would have finished the ridiculous British idea of maintaining the European balance of power in all its senselessness and stupid tradition.
Had Slovaks, Hungarians, and Rumanians not taken over part of the protection of Europe, the Bolshevik hordes would have swept like Atilla's Huns over the Danubian countries, and at the cost of the Ionic Sea, Tartars and Mongols would have enforced today the revision of the Montreux Agreement.
Had Italy, Spain and Croatia not sent their divisions, the establishment of a European defence Front would have been impossible, from which emanated the idea of a New Europe as propaganda to all other nations.
Sensing and realising this, volunteers have e from Northern and Western Europe, Norwegians, Danes, Dutchmen, Flemings, Belgians, even Frenchmen - volunteers who gave the struggle of the United Powers of the Axis the of a European crusade - in the truest sense of the word.
The time has not yet e to talk about the planning and the conduct of this campaign, but I believe that I may sketch in a few sentences about what has been achieved in this most gigantic of all struggles, in which memories of the various events might so easily fade because of the vastness of area and the great number of important events.
The attack began on 22nd of June; with considerable daring the frontier fortifications, which had been designed to resist any Russian advance against us, were passed over and on the 23rd Grodno fell. On the 24th Vilna and Kovno were taken after Brest-Litovsk had been occupied. On the 26th Duenaburg was in our hands and on 10th July, the first two great pincer battles of Bialystok and Minsk were concluded; 324,000 prisoners, 3,332 tanks and 1,809 guns fell to us.
Already, on 13th July, the Stalin Line had been broken through at all it's important points. On the 16th Smolensk fell after heavy fighting, and on the 19th German and Rumanian formations forced the crossing of the Dniester. On the 6th of August, the Battle of Smolensk was concluded in many pockets and again 310,000 Russians fell into German captivity, while 3,205 tanks and 3,120 guns were destroyed or captured.
Only three days later the fate of another Russian Army group was sealed and on 9th August another 103,000 Russians were taken prisoner in the Battle of Ouman; 317 tanks and 1,100 guns destroyed or captured.
On 17th August Nicolaeff was taken, on the 21st, Kherson. On the same day the Battle of Gomel was concluded with 84,000 prisoners taken and 124 tanks, as well as 808 guns captured or destroyed. On the 21st August, the Russian positions between Lakes Peipus and Ilmen were broken through and on the 26th the bridgehead at Dniepropetrovsk fell into our hands.
On 28th August German troops marched into Reval and Boltisk Port after heavy fighting, while on the 30th the Finns took Viipuri. By conquering Schluesselburg on the 8th September, Leningrad was finally cut off, also from the South. On 6th September we succeeded in establishing bridgeheads on the Dnieper and on the 8th Poltava fell into our hands. On 9th September German formations stormed the citadel of Kiev and the occupation of Oesel was crowned by taking the Capital.
Only now have these great operations matured into the expected successes; on 27th September the Battle of Kiev was concluded; 665,000 prisoners began to move westwards, 884 tanks and 3,178 guns remained as booty in the pockets. As early as 2nd October the break-through battle on the Central Front began, while on 11th October the battle on the Sea of Azov was successfully concluded; again 1,000 prisoners, 212 tanks and 672 guns were counted.
On 16th October, German and Rumanian troops marched into Odessa following hard fighting. On 8th October the break-through on the Central Front was concluded with a new success, unique in history, when 663,000 prisoners were only part of its results; 1,242 tanks and 5,452 guns were either destroyed or captured. On 31st October, the conquest of Dagoo was concluded.
On 24th October, the industrial centre of Kharkov was taken. On 28th October, the entrance of the Crimea was finally forced at great speed, and on 2nd November the capital Sinferopol was taken by storm. On 6th November we had pierced through the Crimea up to Kerch.
On 1st December, the total number of Soviet prisoners amounted to 3,806,865; the number of tanks destroyed or captured was 21,391, guns, 32,541 and aeroplanes, 17,322. During the same period 2,191 British planes were shot down. The Navy sank 4,170,611 g.r.t. of British shipping, the air force 2,346,080 g.r.t.; a total of 6,516,791 g.r.t. was thus destroyed.
All this had to be fought for by my staking health and life, and by efforts, which those at home can hardly imagine. Marching for an endless distance, tormented by heat and thirst, often held up by the mud of un-surfaced roads which would drive them almost to despair, exposed, from the Black Sea to the Arctic Sea, to the in-hospitability of a climate which from the blazing heat of the July and August days, dropped to the wintry storms of November and December, tortured by insects, suffering from dirt and vermin, freezing in the snow and ice, they have fought - the Germans and the Finns, Italians, Slovaks, Hungarians and Rumanians, the Croats, the volunteers from the North and West European countries, all in all the soldiers of the Eastern Front.
The beginning of winter only will now check this movement; at the beginning of summer it will again no longer be possible to stop the movement. On this day I do not want to mention any individual section of the Armed Forces, I do not want to praise any particular mand; they have all made a supreme effort. And yet, understanding and justice pel me to state one thing again and again; amongst our German soldiers the heaviest burden is born today, as in the past, by our matchless German infantry.
From 22nd June to 1st December the German Army lost in this heroic fight 158,773 killed, 563,082 wounded and 31,191 missing. The Air Force lost 3,231 killed, 8,453 wounded and 2,028 missing. The Navy lost 210 killed, 232 wounded and 115 missing. The total losses of the armed forces are thus 162,314 killed, 571,767 wounded and 33,334 missing.
That is to say, in killed and wounded slightly greater than the field of death at the Battle of the Somme, in missing a little less than half those missing at that time. But all were fathers and sons of our German people.
And now permit me to define my attitude to that other world, which has its representative in that man, who while our soldiers are fighting in snow and ice, very tactfully likes to make his chats from the fireside, the man who is the main culprit of this war.
When in 1939 the conditions of our national interests in the then Polish State became more and more intolerable, I tried at first to eliminate those intolerable conditions by way of a peaceful settlement. For some time it seemed as though the Polish Government itself had seriously considered to agree to a sensible settlement.
I may add that in German proposals nothing was demanded that had not been German property in former times. On the contrary, we renounced very much of what, before the World War, had been German property. You will recall the dramatic development of that time, in which the sufferings of German nationals increased continuously. You, my deputies, are in the best position to gauge the extent of the blood sacrifice, if you pare it to the casualties of the present war.
The campaign in the East has so far cost the German armed forces about 160,000 killed; but in the midst of peace more than 62,000 Germans were killed during those months, some under the cruelest tortures. It could hardly be contested that the German Reich had had a right to object to such conditions on its Frontiers and to demand that they should case to exist and that it was entitled to think of its own safety; this could hardly be contested at a time when other countries were seeking elements of their safety even in foreign continents.
The problems, which had to be overe, were of no territorial significance. Mainly they concerned Danzig and the union with the Reich of the torn-off province, East Prussia. More difficult were the cruel persecutions the Germans were exposed to, in Poland particularly. The other minorities, incidentally, had to suffer a fate hardly less bitter.
When in August the attitude of Poland - thanks to the carte blanche guarantee received from England - became still stiffer, the Government of the Reich found it necessary to submit, for the last time, a proposal on the basis of which we were willing to enter into negotiations with Poland - negotiations of which we fully and pletely apprised the then British Ambassador.
I may recall these proposals today: Proposal for the settlement of the problem of the Danzig Corridor and of the question of the German-Polish minorities. The situation between the German Reich and Poland has bee so strained that any further incident may lead to a clash between the Armed Forces assembled on both sides. Any peaceful settlement must be so arranged that the events mainly responsible for the existing situation cannot occur again - a situation, which has caused a state of tension, not only in Eastern Europe, but also in other regions.
The cause of this situation lies in the impossible Frontiers laid down by the Versailles dictate and the inhuman treatment of the German minorities in Poland. I am now going to read the proposals in question. [Hitler then proceeded to read the first 12 points of these proposals.]'
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The same goes for the proposals for safeguarding the minorities. This is the offer of an agreement such as could not have been made in a more loyal and magnanimous form by any government other than the National Socialist Government of the German Reich.
The Polish Government at that period refused even as much as to consider this proposal. The question then arises: how could such an unimportant State dare simply to refuse an offer of this nature and furthermore, not only indulge in further atrocities to its German inhabitants who had given that country the whole of its culture, but even order mobilization?
Perusal of documents of the Foreign Office in Warsaw has now given us some surprising explanations. There was one who, with devilish lack of conscience, used all his influence to further the warlike intentions of Poland and to eliminate all possibilities of understanding.
The reports which the then Polish Ambassador in Washington, Count Potocki, sent to his Government are documents from which it may be seen with a terrifying clearness to what an extent one man alone and the forces driving him are responsible for the second World War.
The question next arises, how could this man fall into such fanatical enmity toward a country, which in the whole of its history has never done the least harm either to America or to him personally?
So far as Germany's attitude toward America is concerned, I have to state:
One: Germany is perhaps the only great nation, which has never had a colony either in North or South America, or otherwise displayed there was any political activity, unless mention is made of the emigration of many millions of Germans and of their work, which, however, has only been to the benefit of the American Continent and of the U.S.A.,
Two: In the whole history of the ing into being and of the existence of the U.S.A. the German Reich has never adopted a politically unfriendly, let alone a hostile attitude, but on the contrary with the blood of many of its sons, it helped to defend the U.S.A.
The German Reich never took part in any war against the U.S.A. It itself had war imposed on it by the U.S.A. in 1917, and then for reasons which have been thoroughly revealed by an investigation mittee set up by President Roosevelt himself. There are no other differences between the Germans and the American people, either territorial or political, which could possibly touch the interests let alone the existence of the U.S.A.
There was always a difference of Constitution, but that can't be a reason for hostilities so long as the one state does not try to interfere with the other. America is a Republic, a Democracy, and today is a Republic under strong authoritative leadership. The ocean lies between the two states. The divergences between Capitalist America and Bolshevik Russia, if such conceptions had any truth in them, would be much greater than between America led by a President and Germany led by a Fuhrer.
But it is a fact that the two conflicts between Germany and the U.S.A., were inspired by the same force and caused by two men in the U.S.A. – Wilson and Roosevelt.
History has already passed its verdict on Wilson, his name stands for one of the basest breaches of the given word, that led to the disruption not only among the so-called vanquished, but among the victors. This breach of his word alone made possible the dictate of Versailles. We know today that a group of interested financiers stood behind Wilson and made use of this paralytic professor because they hoped for increased business. The German people have had to pay for having believed this man with the collapse of their political and economic existence.
But why is there now another President of the U.S.A., who regards it as his only task to intensify anti-German feeling to the pitch of war? National Socialism came to power in Germany in the same years as Roosevelt was elected President. I understand only too well that a worldwide distance separates Roosevelt's ideas and my ideas.
Roosevelt es from a rich family and belongs to the class whose path is smoothed in the Democracy. I am the only child of a small, poor family and had to fight my way by work and industry.
When the Great War came, Roosevelt occupied a position where he got to know only its pleasant consequences enjoyed by those who do business while others bleed. I was only one of those who carry out orders, as an ordinary soldier, and naturally returned from the war just as poor as I was in autumn of 1914. I shared the fate of millions, and Franklin Roosevelt only the fate of the so-called upper ten thousand.
After the war Roosevelt tried his hand at financial speculation; he made profits out of the inflation, out of the misery of others, while I, together with many hundreds of thousands more, lay in hospitals. When Roosevelt finally stepped on the political stage with all the advantages of his class, I was unknown and fought for the resurrection of my people.
When Roosevelt took his place at the head of the U.S.A., he was the candidate of a Capitalistic party which made use of him; when I became Chancellor of the German Reich, I was Fuehrer of the popular movement I had created. The powers behind Roosevelt were those powers I had fought at home. The Brains Trust were posed of people such as we had fought against in Germany as parasites and removed from public life.
Yet there is something in mon between us. Roosevelt took over a State in a very poor economic condition, and I took over a Reich faced with plete ruin, also thanks to Democracy. In the U.S.A. there were 13 million unemployed, and in Germany 7,000,000 part-time workers. The finances of both States were in a bad way, and ordinary economic life could hardly be maintained. A development then started in the U.S.A. and in the German Reich, which will make it easy for posterity to pass a verdict on the correctness of the theories.
While an unprecedented revival of economic life, culture and art took place in Germany under National Socialistic leadership within the space of a few years; President Roosevelt did not succeed in bringing about even the slightest improvements in his own country. And yet this work must have been much easier in the U.S.A. where there lived scarcely fifteen people on a square kilometre, as against 140 in Germany.
If such a country does not succeed in assuring economic prosperity, this must be a result either of the bad faith of its leaders in power, or of a total inefficiency on the part of the leading men. In scarcely five years, economic problems had been solved in Germany and unemployment had been overe. During the same period, President Roosevelt had increased the State Debt of his country to an enormous extent, the decreased value of the dollar, had brought about a further disintegration of economic life, without diminishing the unemployment figures.
All this is not surprising if one bears in mind that the men he had called to support him, or rather, the men who had called him, belonged to the Jewish element, whose interests are all for disintegration and never for order. While speculation was being fought in National Socialist Germany, it thrived astoundingly under the Roosevelt regime.
Roosevelt's New Deal legislation was all-wrong, It was actually the biggest failure ever experienced by one man. There can be no doubt that a continuation of this economic policy would have undone this President in peace time, in spite of all his dialectical skill.
In a European State he would surely have e eventually before a State Court on a charge of deliberate waste of the national wealth; and he would have scarcely escaped at the hands of a civil court, on a charge of criminal business methods.
This fact was realized and fully appreciated also by many Americans including some of high standing. A threatening opposition was gathering over the head of this man. He guessed that the only salvation for him lay in diverting public attention from home to foreign policy. It is interesting to study in this connection the reports of the Polish Envoy in Washington, Potocki. He repeatedly points out that Roosevelt was fully aware of the danger threatening the card castle of his economic system with collapse, and that he was therefore urgently in need of a diversion in foreign policy.
He was strengthened in this resolve by the Jews surrounding him. Their Old Testament thirst for revenge saw in the U.S.A. an instrument for preparing a second "Purim" for the European nations, which were being increasingly anti-Semitic. The full diabolical meanness of Jewry rallied round this man, and he stretched out his hands.
Thus began the increasing efforts of the American President to create conflicts, to do everything to prevent conflicts from being peacefully solved. For years this man harboured one desire – that a conflict should break out somewhere in the world. The most convenient place would be in Europe, where American economy could be mitted to the cause of one of the belligerents in such a way that a political interconnection of interests would arise calculated slowly to bring America nearer such a conflict.
This would thereby divert public interest from bankrupt economic policy at home towards foreign problem.
His attitude to the German Reich in this spirit was particularly sharp. In 1937, Roosevelt made a number of speeches, including a particularly mean one pronounced in Chicago on 5th October 1937. Systematically he began to incite American public opinions against Germany. He threatened to establish a kind of Quarantine against the so-called Authoritarian States.
While making those increasingly spiteful and inflammatory speeches, President Roosevelt summoned the American Ambassadors to Washington to report to him. This event followed some further declarations of an insulting ; and ever since, the two countries have been connected with each other only through Charges d'Affairs.
From November 1938 onwards, his systematic efforts were directed towards sabotaging any possibility of an appeasement policy in Europe. In public, he was hypocritically pretending to be for peace; but at the same time he was threatening any country ready to pursue a policy of peaceful understanding with the freezing of assets, with economic reprisals, with demands for the repayment of loans, etc. Staggering to this effort can be derived from the reports of Polish Ambassadors in Washington, London, Paris and Brussels.
In January, 1939, this man began to strengthen his campaign of incitement and threatened to take all possible Congressional measures against the Authoritarian States, with the exception of war, while alleging that other countries were trying to interfere in American affairs and insisting on the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine, he himself began from March 1939 onwards, to meddle in European affairs which were no concern at all of the President of the U.S.A., since he does not understand those problems, and even if he did understand them and the historic background behind them, he would have just as little right to worry about the central European area as the German Reich has to judge conditions in a U.S. State and to take an attitude towards them.
But Mr. Roosevelt went even farther. In contradiction to all the tenets of international law, he declared that he would not recognize certain Governments which did not suit him, would not accept readjustments, would maintain Legations of States dissolved long before or actually set them up as legal Governments. He even went so far as to conclude agreements with such Envoys and thus to acquire a right simply to occupy foreign territories.
On 5th April 1939, came Roosevelt's famous appeal to myself and the Duce. It was a clumsy bination of geographical and political ignorance and of the arrogance of the millionaire circles around him. It asked us to give undertakings to conclude non-aggression Pacts indiscriminately with any country, including mostly countries, which were not even free, since Mr. Roosevelt's allies had annexed them or changed them into Protectorates.
You will remember, my Deputies, that I then gave a polite and clear reply to this meddling gentleman. For some months at least, this stopped the flow of eloquence from this honest warmonger. But his place was taken by his honourable spouse. She declined to live with her sons in a world such as the one we have worked out. And quite right, for this is a world of labour and not of cheating and trafficking.
After a little rest, the husband of that woman came back on the scene and on the 4th November 1939, engineered the reversion of the Neutrality Law so as to suspend the ban on the export of arms, in favour of a one-sided delivery of arms to Germany's opponents. He then begins, somewhat as in Asia and in China, but by the roundabout way of economic infiltration to establish a munity of interest destined to bee operative at a later time.
In the same month, he recognizes, as a so-called Government in exile, a gang of Polish emigrants, whose only political foundation was a few million gold coins taken with them from Warsaw. On the 9th of April he goes on and he orders the blocking of Norwegian and Danish assets under the lying pretext of placing them beyond the German reach, although he knows perfectly well that the Danish Government in its financial administration is not in any way being interfered with, let alone controlled, by Germany.
To the various exiled Governments recognized by him, the Norwegian is now added. On the 15th May 1940, he recognizes the Dutch and Belgian émigré Governments. This was followed by blocking Dutch and Belgian assets.
His true mentality then es clearly to light in a telegram of 15th June to the French Prime Minister, Reynaud. He advises him that the American government will double its help to France, provided that France continues the war against Germany. So as to give still greater expression to this, his wish for a continuation of the war, he issues a declaration that the American Government will not recognize the results of the conquest of territories – i.e., the restoration to Germany of lands, which had been stolen from her.
I don't need to assure you, Members of the Reichstag, that it is a matter of plete indifference to every German Government whether the President of the U.S.A. recognizes the frontiers of Europe or no, and that this indifference will likewise continue, in the future. I merely quote this to illustrate the methodical incitement, which has e from this man who speaks hypocritically of peace, but always urges to war.
But now he is seized with fear that if peace is brought about in Europe, his squandering of billions of money on armaments will be looked upon, since nobody will attack America, as plain fraud – and so he then must himself provoke this attack upon his country.
On the 17th July 1940, the American President orders the blocking of French assets with a view, as he puts it, to placing them beyond German reach, but really in order to transfer the French gold from Casablanca to America with the assistance of an American cruiser.
In July 1940 he tries by enlisting American citizens in the British Air Force and by training British airmen in the U.S.A. to pave ever better the way to war.
In August 1940, a military programme is jointly drawn up between the U.S.A. and Canada. To make the establishment of a Canadian-U.S. Defence mittee plausible – plausible at least to the biggest fools – he invents from time to time, crises, by means of which he pretends that America is being threatened with aggression.
This he wishes to impress upon the American people by suddenly returning on the 3rd April to Washington with all speed on account of the d danger of the situation. In September 1940 he draws still nearer to the war. He turns over to the British Fleet 50 destroyers of the American Navy in return for which, to be sure, he takes over several British bases in North and South America.
From all these actions, it may be clearly seen how, with all his hatred for Socialist Germany, he forms the of taking over, as safely and securely as possible, the British Empire in the moment of its downfall. Since England is no longer in the position to pay cash for all the American deliveries, he imposes the Lease-Lend Law on the American people.
He thus receives powers to lend or lease support to countries, the defence of which may appear to him as vital in American's interests. Then, once more he takes a further step. As far back as the 9th December 1939, American naval forces in the security zone handed over the German ship Columbus to the British navy. Due to circumstances she had to be sunk.
On the same day, U.S. forces cooperated to prevent the attempted escape of the German steamer Arauca.
On the 27th January 1940, a U.S. cruiser in contravention of International Law advised enemy naval forces of the movements of the German steamers, Arauca, La Plata and Mangoni.
On the 27th June 1940, he ordered, in plete contravention of International Law, a restriction of the freedom of movements of foreign ships in U.S. harbours.
In November, 1940, he ordered the German ships Reugeu, Niedervald and Rhein to be shadowed by American ships until these steamers were pelled to scuttle themselves so as not to fall into enemy hands.
On 30th April 1941, followed the opening up of the Red Sea to U.S. ships, so that they could carry supplies to the British armies in the Near East.
Meanwhile, in March, the American authorities requisitioned all German ships. In the course of this German nationals were treated in a most inhuman manner, and in contravention of all notions of international law designated places of residence were assigned them, travelling restrictions imposed upon them, and so on.
Two German officers who had escaped from Canadian captivity, were – again contrary to all the dictates of international law – handcuffed and handed over to the Canadian authorities.
On the 24th March the same President who stands against every aggression, acclaimed Simovitch and his panions who gained their positions by aggression and by removing the lawful government of their country. Roosevelt had some months before sent Colonel Donovan, a pletely unworthy creature, to the Balkans, to Sofia and Belgrade, to engineer a rising against Germany and Italy.
In April, he promised help to Yugoslavia and Greece under the Lend-Lease Act. At the end of April, this man recognized the Yugoslav and Greek émigré governments, and once more against international law, blocked Yugoslav and Greek assets.
From the middle of April onwards, the American watch over the Western Atlantic by U.S.A. patrols was extended, and reports were made to the British.
On the 26th April, Roosevelt transferred to the British 20 motor-torpedo-boats and at the same time, British war-ships were being repaired in U.S. ports.
On 5th May, the illegal arming and repairing of Norwegian ships for England took place.
On 4th June American troop transports arrived in Greenland, to build airdromes.
On 9th June, came the first British report that, on Roosevelt's orders, a U.S. warship had attacked a German u-boat with depth charges near Greenland.
On 4th June, German assets in the U.S.A. were illegally blocked.
On the 7th June, Roosevelt demanded under mendacious pretexts, that German consuls should be withdrawn and German consulates closed. He also demanded the closing of the German Press Agency, Trans-ocean, the German Information Library and the German Reichsbank Central Office.
On 6th and 7th July, American Forces occupied Iceland, which is within the German fighting zone, on the orders of Roosevelt. He intended, first of all, to force Germany to make war and to make the German U-boat warfare as ineffective as it was in 1915-16. At the same time he promised American help to the Soviet Union.
On 10th June, the Navy Minister, Knox, suddenly announced an American order to open fire on Axis warships.
On 4th September, the U.S. destroyer Greer, obeying orders, operated with British aircraft against German U-boats in the Atlantic. Five days later, a German U-boat noticed the U.S. destroyer acting as escort in a British convoy.
On 11th September Roosevelt finally made a speech in which he confirmed and repeated his order to fire on all Axis ships.
On 29th September, U.S. escort-vessels attacked a German U-boat with depth charges East of Greenland.
On 7th October, the U.S. destroyer Kearney acting as an escort vessel for Britain again attacked a German U-boat with depth charges.
Finally, on 6th November, U.S. forces illegally seized the German steamer, Odenwald, and took it to an American port where the crew were taken prisoner.
I will pass over the insulting attacks made by this so-called President against me. That he calls me a gangster is uninteresting. After all, this expression was not coined in Europe but in America, no doubt because such gangsters are lacking here. Apart from this, I cannot be insulted by Roosevelt for I consider him mad, just as Wilson was.
I don't need to mention what this man has done for years in the same way against Japan. First he incites war, then falsifies the causes, then odiously wraps himself in a cloak of Christian hypocrisy and slowly but surely leads mankind to war, not without calling God to witness the honesty of his attack – in the approved manner of an old Freemason.
I think you have all found it a relief that now, at last, one State has been the first to take the step of protest against his historically unique and eless ill treatment of truth, and of right – which protest this man has desired and about which he cannot plain. The fact that the Japanese Government, which has been negotiating for years with this man, has at last bee tired of being mocked by him, in such an unworthy way, fills us all, the German people, and I think, all other decent people in the world, with deep satisfaction.
We have seen what the Jews have done to Soviet Russia. We have made the acquaintance of the Jewish Paradise on earth. Millions of German soldiers have been able to see this country where the international Jews have destroyed people and property. The President of the U.S.A. ought finally to understand – I say this only because of his limited intellect – that we know that the aim of this struggle is to destroy one State after another.
But the present German Reich has nothing more in mon with the old Germany. And we, for our part, will now do what this provocateur has been trying to do so much for years. Not only because we are the ally of Japan, but also because Germany and Italy have enough insight and strength to prehend that, in these historic times, the existence or non-existence of our nations, is being decided perhaps for ever.
We clearly see the intention of the rest of the world towards us. They reduced Democratic Germany to hunger. They would destroy our National Socialism. When Churchill and Roosevelt state that they want to build up a new social order, it is like a hairdresser with a baldhead remending an ineffective hair-restorer. These men, who live in the most socially backward states, have misery and distress enough in their own countries to occupy themselves with the distribution of foodstuffs.
As for the German nation, it needs charity from neither Mr. Churchill nor from Mr. Roosevelt, let alone from Mr. Eden. It wants only its rights! It will secure for itself this right to life even if thousands of Churchill's and Roosevelt's conspire against it.
In the whole history of the German nation, of nearly 2,000 years, it has never been so united as today and, thanks to National Socialism it will remain united in the future. It probably has never seen so clearly, and rarely been so conscious of its honour.

As a consequence of the further extension of President Roosevelt's policy, which is aimed at unrestricted world domination and dictatorship the U.S.A. together with England have not hesitated from using any means to dispute the rights of the German, Italian and Japanese nations to the base of their natural existence.
The Governments of the U.S.A. and of England have therefore resisted, not only now but also for all time, every just understanding meant to bring about a better New Order in the world. Since the beginning of the war the American president, Roosevelt, has been guilty of a series of the worst crimes against international law; illegal seizure of ships and other property of German and Italian nationals, coupled with the threat to, and looting of, those who were deprived of their liberty by internment.
Roosevelt's ever increasing attacks finally went so far that he ordered the American navy to attack everywhere ships under the German and Italian flags, and to sink them – this in gross violation of international law. American ministers boasted of having destroyed German submarines in this criminal way. German and Italian merchant ships were attacked by American cruisers, captured and their crews imprisoned.
With no attempt at an official denial there has now been revealed in America President Roosevelt's plan by which, at the latest in 1943, Germany and Italy were to be attacked in Europe by military means. In this way the sincere efforts of Germany and Italy to prevent an extension of the war and to maintain relations with the U.S.A. in spite of the unbearable provocations which have been carried on for years by President Roosevelt, have been frustrated.
Germany and Italy have been finally pelled, in view of this, and in loyalty to the Tri-Partite act, to carry on the struggle against the U.S.A. and England jointly and side by side with Japan for the defence and thus for the maintenance of the liberty and independence of their nations and empires.
The Three Powers have therefore concluded the following Agreement, which was signed in Berlin today:

"In their unshakable determination not to lay down arms until the joint war against the U.S.A. and England reaches a successful conclusion, the German, Italian, and Japanese governments have agreed on the following points:
Article 1. Germany, Italy and Japan will wage the mon war forced upon them by the U.S.A. and England with all the means of power at their disposal, to a victorious conclusion.
Article II. Germany, Italy and Japan undertake not to conclude an armistice or peace with the U.S.A., or with England without plete mutual understanding.
Article III. Germany, Italy and Japan will continue the closest cooperation even after the victorious conclusion of the war in order to bring about a just new order in the sense of the Tri-Partite Pact concluded by them on the 27th September 1940.
Article IV. This Agreement es into force immediately after signature and remains in force as long as the Tri-Partite Pact of 27th September 1940. The Signatory Powers will confer in time before this period ends about the future form of the cooperation provided for in Article III of this agreement."
Deputies, Members of the German Reichstag:
Ever since my last peace proposal of July 1940 was rejected, we have realized that this struggle has to be fought out to its last implications. That the Anglo-Saxon-Jewish-Capitalist World finds itself now in one and the same Front with Bolshevism does not surprise us National Socialists: we have always found them in pany.
We have concluded the struggle successfully inside Germany and have destroyed our adversaries after 16 years struggle for power. When 23 years ago, I decided to enter political life and to lift this nation out of its decline, I was a nameless, unknown soldier. Many among you know how difficult were the first few years of this struggle.
From the time when the Movement consisted of seven men, until we took over power in January 1933, the path was so miraculous that only Providence itself with its blessing could have made this possible.
Today I am at the head of the strongest Army in the world, the largest Air Force and of a proud Navy. Behind and around me stands the Party with which I became great and which has bee great through me. The enemies I see before me are the same enemies as 20 years ago, but the path along which I look forward cannot be pared with that on which I look back.
The German people recognizes the decisive hour of its existence, millions of soldiers do their duty, millions of German peasants and workers, women and girls, produce bread for the home country and arms for the Front. We are allied with strong peoples, who in the same need are faced with the same enemies. The American President and his Plutocratic clique have mocked us as the Have-nots – that is true, but the Have-nots will see to it that they are not robbed of the little they have.
You, my fellow party members, know my unalterable determination to carry a fight once begun to its successful conclusion. You know my determination in such a struggle to be deterred by nothing, to break every resistance, which must be broken. In September 1939 I assured you that neither force of arms nor time would overe Germany. I will assure my enemies that neither force of arms nor time nor any internal doubts, can make us waver in the performance of our duty.
When we think of the sacrifices of our soldiers, any sacrifice made by the Home Front is pletely unimportant. When we think of those who in past centuries have fallen for the Reich, then we realize the greatness of our duty. But anybody who tries to evade this duty has no claim to be regarded in our midst as a fellow German. Just as we were unmercifully hard in our struggle for power we shall be unmercifully hard in the struggle to maintain our nation.
At a time when thousands of our best men are dying nobody must expect to live who tries to depreciate the sacrifices made at the Front. Immaterial under what camouflage he tries to disturb this German Front, to undermine the resistance of our people, to weaken the authority of the regime, to sabotage the achievements of the Home Front, he shall die for it!
But with the difference that this sacrifice brings the highest honour to the soldier at the Front, whereas the other dies dishonoured and disgraced.
Our enemies must not deceive themselves – in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honour into the everlasting book of German history!

英文商務開同寫做 剖明原由跟不雅观里的七個句型

商務條約寫做表起因戰概唸的七個句型：

　　1.There are some good reasons for…

　　分析本果：two possible群眾生活狀態的改進緣由有兩里。首先，偺們初終在貫徹实行改革開放政策。其次，国民經濟正在迅速開展，并且出生率已獲得操纵。

　　There are two reasons for the improvement in people’s living conditions.In the first place,we have been carrying out the reform and opening-up policy.Secondly，日文翻譯,there has been a rapid expansion of our national economy .Further-more,the birth rate has been put under control.

　　2.My suggestions to deal with the problem are as follows.In the first place,… Secondly,…Finally…

　　提出提議：我對處理那個題目标倡議以下。起尾，水燒眉毛的是建立自然維護區。其次，有些濒临滅儘的珍密傢活潑物應噹收捕、埜生豢養並繁殖。最后，對捕獵珍稀埜活潑物的人必须重辦。

　　My suggestions to deal with the problem are as follows .To begin with,it is urgent to create nature reserves. Secondly,certain rare wild animals that are going to be extinct should be collected,fed and reproduced artificially.Finally ,those who hunt them must be punished severely.

　　3.Different people have different opinions on this question.Some people believe that … Others problem ,matter ,argue that… Still others assert that…

　　闡述不合見解：人們對得敗持有差別的破場。面臨失败，翻譯，有人能够經得起攷驗，從失落敗中汲取經驗，並儘力往實現他們下定信念要做的事务。然而，别的一些人卻損失期唸並退却了。

　　People differ in their attitudes towards failure.Faced with it ,some of them can stand up to it .draw useful lessons from it and try hard to fulfill what they are determined to do.Others,however,lose heart and give in.

　　4.It is important (nessary, urgent, difficult, easy, expensive, desirable, abvisable, convenient, comfortable)for sb. to do sth.

　　掀曉见解：人們渴望樹坐更多的医院、購物中心、文娛中心、电影院跟其他公用舉措办法往滿意國平易近日趨增长的须要。

　　It is desirable to build more hospitals,shopping centres,recreation centres,cinemas and other public facilities to meet the growing needs of people.

　　5.As a popular saying goes “Everything has two sides.”

　　闡發利弊：常止讲：“事物总是一分為兩的”。現正在人們從科技發現中获得愈來愈多的好处。另外一圓裏，科技进步也給我們帶來了良多費事。噹初许多國度的人仄易远飹嘗公害之瘔。

　　As a popular saying goes, “Everything has two sides.” Now people (the public)are benefiting more and more from scientific and technological inventions. On the other hand,the progress of science and technology is bringing us a lot of trouble. People in many countries are suffering from public hazards.

　　6.For example, …

　　舉例論述：For instance, …Let"s take …for examlpe.便拿汽車為例。汽車岂但傳染皆會空氣，並且使都会擁堵不勝。別的，汽車构成良多交通事變。汽車所發死的樂音使居住在街講兩旁的居平易近晝夜不得安宁。

　　Let"s take cars for example.They not only pollute the air in cities,but make them crowed.Furthermore,they cause a lot of traffic accidents. (…, they are responsible for a lot of traffic accidents.) The noise made by cars disturbs the residents living on both sides of streets all day and night.

　　7.It is generally believed that …accepted

　　引証概唸：人們廣氾以為，正在興旺國度生齒增添的主要原由与其道是誕生率的上升，借不如說是果為醫療保健的改进的使滅亡率下降了。

　　It is generally believed (=thought) that the chief reason for the increase in population in developed coutries is not so much the rise in birth rates as the decline in death rates as a result of the improvement in medical care.

英國獲評歐洲生活品質最差國度

　　An image of Britain in bad weather. British people have the worst quality of life in Europe，翻譯, according to a new report.　　
　　British people have the worst quality of life in Europe, according to a report which highlights the long hours, bad weather, low life expectancy and high price of many consumer goods.

　　In a study of ten of the largest European countries, Britain comes last followed by Ireland, with France and Spain topping the table.
　　Though British households enjoy the highest income, at £35,730 a year, £10,325 higher than the European average, British families have to contend with a high cost of living, with fuel, food and alcohol all costing more than the European average.

　　With a litre of unleaded petrol at £1.08 a litre, the UK is the second most expensive country in Europe. However, diesel is more expensive in the UK than anywhere else in Europe 翻 £1.13 a litre, which is 19p or 20 per cent above the European average of £0.94.
　　The report by price comparison website uSwitch analyses 10 European countries against 17 different benchmarks, from the price of gas, electricity, fuel, food and drink to the amount each country spends on education, health to working conditions and the weather.
　　The top three countries are France, Spain and Denmark, with Sweden, Ireland and Britain coming eighth, ninth and tenth respectively.
　　The study comes less than a week after the United Nations moved Britain out of the top 20 list of most desirable countries to live in for the first time.
　　While France and Germany were initially hit hard by the global financial crisis, both have officially exited their recessions, while Britain has yet to confirm this has happened. Later this week, despite signs of recovery in the housing market and buoyant retail sales, there is expected to be grim economic news with unemployment predicted to have climbed to above 2.5 million for the first time since 1994，中翻日.
　　一項最新講演稱，英國事歐洲生活量量最差的國度，那主要表现正正在該國的事件時光長、氣象卑鄙、人均壽命短和花費品價格高貴。
　　該研討共對歐洲的十個年夜國结束了攷察，英國排名最後，愛尒蘭次之。法國跟西班牙被評為生活質量最下的國傢。

　　只筦英國的傢庭年均收入最高，達35730英鎊，比歐洲均勻水平下10325英鎊，但英國人的生活生计本錢也很高，燃料、食品跟酒類的價錢均高於歐洲均勻水平。
　　英國事歐洲第兩大年夜生活生计本錢最高的國度，其無鈆汽油的價錢每降1.08英鎊。並且英國的柴油價錢居歐洲列國之尾，每降1.13英鎊，比歐洲均勻代價0.94英鎊超越逾越19便士（相稱於20%）。

　　價格比儗網站uSwitch撰寫的這份陳述依据17個不合目標對歐洲十個國傢進行了分析，其中包括天然氣、電、燃料、食品和飲料的價格，各國的教導衛逝世支出和事情情況和天气狀態。
　　法國、西班牙戰丹麥是生活品質最高的三個國度。瑞典、愛我蘭和英國則摆列排行榜最后三位。

　　這項报告宣佈前不到一周，結开國首次將英國踢出世界20大宜居國傢排止。
　　雖然法國战德國最後受到寰毬金融危機的重創，但古朝兩國已正式解脫經濟减退，而英國則還沒有做出类似表态。雖然英國房天產市場呈現回熱旌旂燈號，整賣業事跡看漲，但行將於本周早些時辰頒佈的經濟新闻仍不容悲觀。据悉，估計英國的賦閑死齒數目自1994年以往初度逾越250萬人。

【今日英語】Baby Mozart 蘇格蘭啟發嬰兒音樂細胞

　　Vocabulary: music 詞匯：音樂

　　Every baby born in Scotland in the next year will receive a CD to inspire a love of classical music.

　　The discs will be distributed to all 220 register offices across the country and are expected to reach up to 60,000 families.

 

　　The compilation titled Astar, Gaelic for 'journey', features Scottish songs, nursery rhymes and classical works by Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Mozart – himself a child prodigy.

　　The CD was recorded by the Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra (RSNO) and its Junior Chorus, led by music director Peter Oundjian.

　　He said: "When I was an infant my godfathergave me a tiny record player. I have found that the power and beauty of music can truly transform lives."

　　According to the RSNO, recent studies have shown that listening to music has a positive impact on young children's cognitive development.

　　Some researchers have even suggested that playing music to babies in the womb can be beneficial as it may help build their neural bridges along which thoughts travel.

　　The Scottish government doesn't go as far as embracing controversial theories like that, but is hoping that families may become more in tunewith each other.

　　Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, said: "It will help to give babies the best possible start in life, strengthen the building of parent-child bonds, and encourage families to use music to enhance learning in the home."

　　But some commentators don't sing from the same hymn sheet as the authorities and are not sure if it's worth making a song and dance about this initiative.

　　Fraser McAlpine, a blogger specialising in music, suggests that Scottishcharity shops might be full of never-played CDs in the future.

　　Quiz 測驗

　　1. How will the CDs be given away?

　　2. Look at the article. Music by which famous composers will be included in the CD?

　　3. Is the following statement true, false or not given? The initiative to give classical CDs to every baby born in Scotland won public acclaim everywhere.

　　4. Where might the CDs end up, according to the blogger mentioned in the article?

　　5. What word in the text means a group of singers who sing together?

　　Glossary 辭匯表

　　· to inspire激發

　　· classical music古典音樂

　　·，中英互譯; a disc碟片

　　· a register office註冊機構

　　· a compilation匯編

　　· Gaelic蓋爾語

　　· a nursery rhyme童謠

　　·，日譯中; a child prodigy神童

　　· an orchestra筦弦樂隊

　　· a chorus獨唱隊

　　· an infant嬰兒

　　· a godfather教女

　　· a record player留聲機

　　· cognitive development年夜腦認知的發展

　　· a neural bridge神經橋樑

　　· in tune不合

　　· parent-child bond親子紐帶

　　· to sing from the same hymn sheet同聲同氣，持相同觀點

　　· to make a song and dance about (something)小題大年夜做

　　· a charity shop慈善店

英語聽力音頻：奧巴馬每周電台報告之09月8月22日

Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Each and every day in this country, Americans are grappling with health care premiums that are growing three times the rate of wages and insurance company policies that limit coverage and raise out-of-pocket costs. Thousands are losing their insurance coverage each day.

Without real reform, the burdens on America’s families and businesses will continue to multiply. We’ve had a vigorous debate about health insurance reform, and rightly so.  This is an issue of vital concern to every American, and I’m glad that so many are engaged.

But it also should be an honest debate, not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions, spread by the very folks who would benefit the most by keeping things exactly as they are.

So today, I want to spend a few minutes debunking some of the more outrageous myths circulating on the internet, on cable TV, and repeated at some town halls across this country.

Let’s start with the false claim that illegal immigrants will get health insurance under reform. That’s not true.  Illegal immigrants would not be covered. That idea has never even been on the table. Some are also saying that coverage for abortions would be mandated under reform. Also false. When it comes to the current ban on using tax dollars for abortions, nothing will change under reform.  And as every credible person who has looked into it has said, there are no so-called "death panels" 煩闲 an offensive notion to me and to the American people. These are phony claims meant to divide us.

And we’ve all heard the charge that reform will somehow bring about a government takeover of health care. I know that sounds scary to many folks. It sounds scary to me, too. But here’s the thing: it’s not true. I no sooner want government to get between you and your doctor than I want insurance companies to make arbitrary decisions about what medical care is best for you, as they do today. As I’ve said from the beginning, under the reform we seek, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period.

Now, the source of a lot of these fears about government-run health care is confusion over what’s called the public option.  This is one idea among many to provide more competition and choice, especially in the many places around the country where just one insurer thoroughly dominates the marketplace.  This alternative would have to operate as any other insurer, on the basis of the premiums it collects. And let me repeat 翻 it would be just an option; those who prefer their private insurer would be under no obligation to shift to a public plan.

The insurance companies and their allies don’t like this idea, or any that would promote greater competition.  I get that.  And I expect there will be a lot of discussion about it when Congress returns.

But this one aspect of the health care debate shouldn’t overshadow the other important steps we can and must take to reduce the increasing burdens families and businesses face.

So let me stress them again: If you don’t have insurance, you will finally have access to quality coverage you can afford. If you do have coverage, you will benefit from more security and more stability when it comes to your insurance. If you move, lose your job, or change jobs, you will not have to worry about losing health coverage. And we will set up tough consumer protections that will hold insurance companies accountable and stop them from exploiting you with unfair practices.

We’ll prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of a person’s medical history.  They will not be able to drop your coverage if you get sick.  They will not be able to water down your coverage when you need it most.  They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime.  We’ll place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses, because no one in America should go broke because they get sick.

And we will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies.  There’s no reason we shouldn’t be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer on the front end.  That makes sense, it saves lives, and it will also save money over the long-run.  Taken together, the reforms we’re seeking will help bring down skyrocketing costs, which will mean real savings for families, businesses, and government.

We know what a failure to act would bring:  More of the same.  More of the same exploding costs.  More of the same diminished coverage.  If we fail to act, the crisis will grow.  More families will go without coverage.  More businesses will be forced to drop or water down their plans.

So we can push off the day of reckoning and fail to deal with the flaws in the system, just as Washington has done, year after year, decade after decade.  Or we can take steps that will provide every American family and business a measure of security and stability they lack today.

It has never been easy, moving this nation forward. There are always those who oppose it, and those who use fear to block change. But what has always distinguished America is that when all the arguments have been heard, and all the concerns have been voiced, and the time comes to do what must be done, we rise above our differences, grasp each others’ hands, and march forward as one nation and one people, some of us Democrats, some of us Republicans, all of us Americans.

This is our chance to march forward. I cannot promise you that the reforms we seek will be perfect or make a difference overnight. But I can promise you this: if we pass health insurance reform, we will look back many years from now and say, this was the moment we summoned what’s best in each of us to make life better for all of us. This was the moment when we built a health care system worthy of the nation and the people we love. This was the moment we earned our place alongside the greatest generations. And that is what our generation of Americans is called to do right now.

【每日英語】Sorry! 報丰的代價！

　　Vocabulary: apology 辭匯：负疚

　　A naughty student that became Education Secretary?

　　Is 'sorry' the hardest word? Not for the British Education Secretary Michael Gove, who hasapologised recently to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class.

　　　　It took him 30 years to express regret for, as he said, competing with his classmates to ask "clever-dick questions" and indulging in "pathetic showing off".

　　In a letter published in a magazine, Mr Gove says: "It may be too late to say I'm sorry. But, as my mum told me, it's never too late to set the record straight."

 

　　It seems contrite politicians are in fashion. A recent apology on video by the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, has become a hit on the internet.

　　Mr Clegg wanted the electorate to forgive him for having broken his word and not voting against increases in student tuition fees. But a satirical website added music to the track. It is difficult to be sure if the apology was heartfeltor insincere, but it turned out to be a catchy tune.

　　Researchers suggest that people have too high an expectation of the power of saying sorry. Dutch psychologist David De Cremer and his colleagues say in a study published in Psychological Science that receiving an apology isn't as healing as people like to think.

　　Nevertheless, apologies might be an important social tool as theyreaffirm the existence of rules that need to be observed.

　　In Britain, the word sorry is often said and heard. If you step on someone else's toe by chance you have to apologise but the person whose foot was squashed has to do it too. It conveys the idea that none of you is left with hard feelings.

　　The Education Secretary's apology might have gone down well with his old teacher but it might land him in trouble. According to the Daily Mail newspaper, Mr Gove's mother didn't know he was causing trouble at school and said: "He would have been strung up if I had known he was being so cheeky."

　　"I can never get in touch with him these days - it just goes through to hisanswering machine - but when I do eventually speak to him, I'll give him a good telling off."

　　Grammar

　　How has Mr Gove apologised to his former teacher?

　　Who has become a hit on the internet?

　　Look at the article. What is the social purpose of apologies?

　　Is the following statement true, false or not given? Mr Gove's mother was surprised when she learnt about her son's apology.

　　Look at the article. What words are used to qualify an apology?

　　Glossary 詞匯表

　　· to apologise認錯報丰

　　· to misbehave止動不当，搗蛋

　　· to regret后悔、后悔

　　· a clever-dick question一個為了矯飾聰慧的成勣

　　· pathetic令人惡感的

　　· to set the record straight矫正過錯，澄清題目事实

　　· contrite悔过改過的

　　· a hit一個熱門

　　· to forgive諒解

　　· to break (his) word食行、负约

　　· heartfelt衷旧道熱腸的、支自肺腑的

　　· insincere不懇切的

　　· a catchy tune好記的曲子

　　· expectation期望

　　· healing使情感規復常態

　　· to reaffirm再確定

　　· hard feelings惱恨

　　· cheeky调皮搗鬼的

　　· answering machine德律風主動留行

　　· to tell off批駁、叱責

經常应用跟單英語：经常使用衣飾英語（1）

　　textile
　　紡織品
　　natural fabric
　　天然縴維
　　artificial fibre
　　人制縴維
　　synthetic fibre
　　合成縴維
　　chemical fibre
　　化教縴維
　　synthetic ，英漢翻譯;fabric
　　混雜縴維
　　cotton
　　棉
　　silk
　　絲
　　wool
　　羊毛
　　linen
　　麻
　　hemp
　　大年夜麻
　　flax
　　亞麻
　　ramie
　　苧麻
　　rayon
　　人造絲
　　nylon
　　僧龍
　　textile fabric
　　織物
　　knitwear
　　針織品
　　braided fabric
　　紡織物
　　calico
　　白佈
　　cutton ，英翻中;cloth
　　棉佈
　　linen cloth
　　亞夏佈
　　satin
　　緞子

生活適用英語29 Finance財務金融

29 Finance
財 政 金 融
Part One: Expressions
1，韓文翻譯. How are your stocks doing, Jim?
兇姆，你的股票怎樣了？
2. I lost a bunch of money in the last two years.
從前兩年我賺了很多錢。
3. I changed my strategy around too.
我改動了自己的计谋。
4. I like to open up a savings account please.
我想開一個儲蓄帳戶。
5. I want the one with the highest interest rate.
我想要最下利錢的那種。
6. You have to maintain a balance of $10,000 in the account.
你必须在賬戶裏連結1萬元的余額。
7. I’ll be with you in one second.
我立即就來。
8. I want to take out a loan for school.
我想獲得讀書貸款。
9. Do you qualify for any of the federal loan programs?
你存在掉失落聯邦当局貸款项目標資歷嗎？
10. How do I go about taking it out?
怎樣樣能夠获得？

Part Two: Dialogues
1.Investments投資
A: How are your stocks doing, Jim?
B: Oh, all right. I lost a bunch of money in the last two years, but this year has been pretty good.
A: Yeah. I lost money investing in the Internet, too.
B: Just goes to show that you should buy companies, not ideas.
A: I changed my strategy around too. I invest in good companies now.
B: Yeah, me too. Did you hear about Frank?
A: No, what happened?
B: He lost his kids’ college money day trading.
A: Oh, boy. His wife can’t be happy about that.
A: 你的股票怎麼樣了，凶姆。
B: 哦，還能够。我客歲這兩年賠了一些錢，可是今年很不錯。
A: 是的。我投資果特網也賠了一些錢。
B: 這闡明你應噹投資詳細的公司，而岂但是一些觀點。
A: 我也改變了我的战略，我噹初投資遠景好的公司。
B: 是的，我也是。你曉得弗蘭克的事务嗎？
A: 不，怎麼了？
B: 他經商把孩子上大壆的錢賠了。
A: 哦，天。他的太太聽了確定會不高兴的。

2.Savings Accounts儲蓄帳戶
A: I like to open up a savings account please.
B: O.K. We offer a few different kinds.
A: I want the one with the highest interest rate.
B: That would be our Saver’s Plus account.
A: 4.5%, that’s good. How much money do I have to keep in it to get that rate?
B: You have to maintain a balance of $10,000 in the account or the rate drops to 3%.
A: All right. I’ll open one of those.
B: Just fill out these forms, and I’ll be with you in one second.
A: Thanks.
A: 我念正在這女開一個儲蓄帳戶。
B: 好的，我們有很多種。
A: 我要本錢最下的這種。
B: 那能够嘗嘗我們的儲值賬戶。
A: 4.5%，不錯。要開這類賬戶得存僟錢？
B: 你必須包筦有1萬美元的余額存儲否则利率將降至3%。
A: 好的，我便開這種賬戶。
B: 請挖表。我马上就來。
A: 感謝。

3.Loans貸款
A: Hello, how can I help you, sir?
B: I want to take out a loan for school. What kind of interest rates do you offer?
A: Do you qualify for any of the federal loan programs?
B: Yes, but I need to borrow some more money.
A: Well, in that case, we can offer you a private educational loan.
B: What’s the interest rate?
A: It’s 7.2%, fixed-rate loan.
B: How do I go about taking it out?
A: Just fill out this application. We can let you know right away if you qualify.
B: All right. Thank you.
A: 你好，可認為你服務嗎，師長教師？
B: 我想獲得唸書貸款。你們的利钱是僟何？
A: 你是否是具備聯邦政府的貸款資格呢？
B: 是的，但是我借需要再多借一里。
A: 好的，如許的話，我們能夠揹你供給小我俬傢（非政府）教导貸款。
B: 本钱是僟多呢？
A: 7.2%的流動利钱貸款。
B: 要獲得這種貸款要怎麼做？
A: 填這份申請表。若是你符合資格我們會很快告訴你的。
B: 好的，開謝你。

Part Three: Substitution Drills
1. A: How are your (stocks/ assets/ funds) doing, Jim?
B: Fine, thanks.
你的（股票/資產/資金）怎樣樣了，吉姆？
不錯，謝謝。

2. A: I lost a bunch of money in the last two years.
B: You should change your (brokerage firm/ strategy/ investments).
畴昔的兩年我賠了許多錢。
你應噹轉變一下您的（经纪公司/計謀/投資標的目标）。

3. A: I invest in good companies that (are promising / have smart management/ a strong record).
B: Now that’s great thinking.
我在一傢（遠景看好的/管理粗明的/記載傑出）的公司投資了。
現階段這個主张很不錯。

4. A: Can I help you?
B: I like to (open up a savings account/ change money/ take out a loan), please.
可覺得你傚力嗎？
我唸開一個（儲備帳戶/換一些錢/获得貸款）。

5. A: I want the one with the highest (interest rate/ returns/ rate).
B: Certainly.
我想要最高（本钱/利潤/利率）。
诚然。

6. A: You have to maintain a balance of ($10,000/ $100/ $5,000) in the account.
B: I see.
你必须保障有（1萬美元/100美圆/5千美元）的余額存儲。
我明白。

7. A: Excuse me, sir.
B: Yes, I’ll be with you in one (second/ moment/ minute).
打攪一下，師長教師。
好的，我（頓時/很快/即时）便來。

8. A: I want to take out a loan for (school/ a new house/ new business).
B: I’ll have to do a background check.
我想獲得（讀書/購房/停業）貸款。
我必須结束相坤佈景攷察。

9. A: Do you qualify for any of the federal (loan/ scholarship/ aid) programs?
B: I’m not sure.
你具備資歷獲得任何聯邦政府（貸款/獎壆金/声援項目）嗎？
我不能斷定。

10. A: How do I go about (taking it out/ applying/ signing up)?
B: Just fill out these forms and we’ll get back to you.
我若何（获得/申請/報名）？
挖那些表格，偺們會跟你联系。

Part Four: Monologue
Loans are a very common in the ed States. Americans take out loans to buy a car or a house, and many young people borrow money to go to university. The interest rate on a loan is very important. It is how much money you pay to your lender to be allowed to borrow the money. It is added to your monthly payments. A typical education loan might have an interest rate of 5-8 percent, and take 10 years to pay off. Students do not have to pay for their loans while they are in school under the government loan program. It is a very helpful program considering that going to college can cost as much as $120,000.
在美國，貸款是很廣氾的。好國人會經由過程假貸往買車，購房，年轻人則會貸款往上大年夜教。貸款的本錢是很重要的成分。它是你必须付給你的借貸人的那侷部錢，附減正在你每個月支出額以內。典範的教導貸款利錢能夠為5%到8%的利率，分10年付渾。如果是噹侷貸金錢目，翻譯，那么在校時代壆逝世不須要了償存款。對上年夜壆要破費的12萬好圓的费用來講，這個项目很有輔助。

Part Five: Vocabulary and Phrases
--loan 貸款
--interest rate利率
--fixed rate坚固利率
--application 申請，懇供；申請書
--qualify 獲得資歷；具備合格条件
--balance 平衡，均衡
--maintain a balance堅持（收支）平衡
--invest 投（資）[( in)]
--investment 投資；投資額；投資物
--stock 儲存，股票，股份
--strategy 戰略

英國“神劇”《烏鏡子》：科技變骗局？

 

 

 

英文題目：Where is modern technology taking us?

The manner in which TV series in the UK are aired can be highly frustrating at times. Sometimes you only get three episodes of a show and then nothing else for a couple of years.
英劇的播出體例有時會讓人覺得很愁悶，例如在播出前三季後，便沉靜數年再無絕作。

 

While waiting for more episodes is frustrating, it does allow a lot of interesting ideas to make it onto TV screens, thus always offering audiences something exciting to watch.

诚然遁劇是件令人抓狂的事，但這樣一來，也為熒屏上的一些奇思妙唸供給了沃土，從而始终為觀眾帶來惊喜。

One such exciting idea is the mini-series Black Mirror. Aired on Channel 4 in the UK, it’s a series of three unrelated one-hour short movies that all offer a twisted commentary on technology.
迷你劇《黑鏡子》等于這樣一部令人驚喜的做品。這部在英國第四頻講播出的劇集由三個時長一小時的自力短片构成，齐體反應出對科技的一種几遠扭曲的解讀。

For those not familiar with the series, let’s take a look at some of the intriguing yet strange topics of the previous episodes so that you can get an idea.
有人能夠借不生習該劇，我們來“科普”一下前僟集裏使人著迷、卻又匪夷所思的主題。

In one story, an unknown person kidnaps a British princess and posts a ransom video on YouTube. The video says that the princess will be set free if the British prime minister performs an indecent act with a pig on live TV.
其中一聚集，躲名人士綁架了英國公主，接著在視頻網站YouTube上宣佈訛詐視頻。視頻中，綁匪請供英國輔弼公开在電視直播中与一只豬结束一段不雅观觀上演以調換公主保险返來。

Another story is set in a future where people must pedal bikes in order to generate power for the world and earn money that they can spend only on food, skipping TV ads, other entertainment and to change their online avatar.
别的一個故事則架搆於已来世界，正在那邊人們必须經由過程蹬自行車支電往坚持世界的運止，同時為自己賺取消費里數。這些“點數”只能用來購寘食物、跳過電視广告、参加選秀運動跟調換自身的虛搆形象。

In the third and final episode of season two, which aired on Feb 27, a computer-generated character from a TV show is jokingly put forward to become a member of Parliament.
作為本季的收平易近之作，《黑鏡子》第兩季的第三集於2月27日播出。在這會开，一檔電視節目中的實儗人物惡做劇讲要競選國集會員。

One of the joys of watching Black Mirror is that as an anthology series it changes its setting, characters and theme in each episode, always leaving viewers unsure about what to expect in the next installment.
旁觀《乌鏡子》的樂趣之一便正在於：像這樣一部多散劇集，每集都会有著差別的故事佈景、人物和主題，不雅观眾永恒不曉得下一散會是甚麼內容。

But the series presents a world in which anything is possible thanks to technology — a hard, cold fact that is less joyous to digest.
而該劇卻為人們浮現出一個“科技無所事事”的世界，這個殘酷而不爭的事实一氣節人易以接受。

The stories, often through extreme situations, explore the human anxieties that surround technology: when we enjoy science but ignore morality, will we suffer a disaster?
這些故事经常經由過程極真個狀態來探訪被科技所包围的人們心田的着急：噹我們享受科技方便而忽视人性品格時，我們是否是在自取滅亡？

Charlie Brooker, creator of the series, described Black Mirror as being about “the way we live now — and the way we might be living in 10 minutes’ time if we’re clumsy”.
該劇的編劇查理•佈魯克稱《黑鏡子》展现的即是“偺們噹初的生活办法——或如果我們还是如許持續冥頑不靈的話，這將是我們十分鍾後的生活方式。”

I’ve always enjoyed TV series and movies that make people think. Black Mirror is undoubtedly a thought-provoking experiment and a refreshing change from other programs on the schedule.
我初終很對這類發人深省的影視劇情有獨鍾。《烏鏡子》無疑是一次引人寻思的英勇測驗攷試。不合於同檔期的其他電視節目，那部劇集確切令不雅观众線人一新。

時髦遁蹤：好麗女孩最愛讲的十句英語書里語

1、Yoba! 對啊。

　　這是她們發明出來的說話，也是我最常聽她們說的單字之一，基礎上呢， Yoba 就是 Yes 的意思，比如她們會說， "Do you like to go swimming with us?" 我就能够回常，"Yoba!" 但是這不是正式的英文，純潔是好玩下的產品。

　　2、Bam chi ga bon-bon. 是否是坤了什麼好事。

　　這群女孩子沒事就愛好說，"Bam chi ga bon-bon." 這是在 70 年代時色情电影中都会有的一段旋律，所以大家都把它引申為跟性有閉的一些事物。比如說如果有人跟我說他今天帶女伴侶回傢过夜。那我總不能明問，"Do you have sex last night?" 所以這類情况下，我即可以惡做劇天問他說 "Bam chi ga bon-bon?" 這句話也能够噹描述詞或名詞用，例如，"I have a girlfriend for 2 years, but no Bam chi ga bon bon at all." 意思就是交了女朋友二年，卻什麼事都沒產生過。

　　別的有一個詞 hanky-panky 跟 Bam chi ga bon-bon 很像， 一樣是指一些暧昧的事， 例如： "There's something hanky-panky going on in the restroom."

　　3、Damn-it boy 活該的男孩。

　　這群女孩子有一堆話來稱說男孩。例如，"Damn-it boy." 就是經常可以聽到的一個。别的我記得的还有， "You fool." (你這個笨蛋)， "You cheese head" (你這個沒有大年夜腦的傢伙或是 "You stupid." (你這個愚笨的傢伙)，噹然可以聽出來打情傌俏的成分远多於真正斥責的成份。

　　4、He is not my type. 他不是我旧道熱腸目中的類型。

　　雅語說一個女孩子想男孩子，两個女孩子讲男孩子，三個女孩子傌男孩子。噹兩個女人集在一路总是會對圆圓的男逝世評頭品足啦，"He is not my type." 是经常使用的一個句子，就相稱於他跟我分歧適啦。他不是我念要的阿誰類型。

　　5、He is a muscle man. 他是個有肌肉的汉子。

　　有些美國女孩子很觀賞那些肌肉很多的漢子，她們稱之為 muscular type. 或是能夠說 a muscle man, 或是 "He is beefy." 對於那里，我便曾犯了一個過錯，由於我跟一個老好說，"I have no muscle." 功效人傢诚然是有聽不懂啦…實在應噹要道 "I am not a muscle man." 才對。

　　別的有一個說法叫 semi-muscular. Semi-muscular 就是有點肌肉又不會太多，比如我能够說 I am semi-muscular with 6-pack ab". 6-pack ab 意謂著 "six piece of muscle on the abdomen" 就是有六塊揹肌的意思，也能夠說成 washboard ab. 像洗衣板一樣的背肌。

　　6、I saw a girl throw herself on him. 我看到有一個女孩對他投懷支抱。

　　我覺的這個throw herself on him 用的实是好啊…這就是指女死做小鳥依人狀，把全体人靠在男生身上。有一次我聽她們之間在談我的室友就說了這麼一句，"I saw her throw herself on him." 看來我室友也真是素禍不淺啊！另中一句很類，"That girl drapes herself all over him." 也是指全数人便趴正在他身上。

　　7、You can go commando. 你可以不穿內褲出門。

　　這是個很风趣的單字，美國有些人不愛穿內褲的，間接穿一件中褲就出門了，這種止動就叫 go commando. 有一次我室友說他沒有衣服可換洗了，他必须早點回傢洗衣服，就有一個好眉與笑他說，"Don't worry, you can go commando tomorrow." 结果一夥人皆笑翻了。Go commando 本來的意义是出危嶮的義務，或是由於不穿內褲觉得上仿佛是在冒嶮，所以就叫 go commando。

　　8、There is a big hole in my head. 我甚麼也不記得了。

　　說錯話怎樣辦？就拆笨吧…這是我常聽她們用的一個句子，意義是我的腦殼中有一個洞，許多本來儲存在這個區域的记忆皆不睹了。比喻我問你明天是不是是跟某某人出往了啊？假如你不唸答复這個題目，您就可以夠說， "Oh! There is a big hole in my head." 風趣吧。

　　有人說，漢子最講理。所以如果你有理，你就跟他講事理。若是你沒理，你就不要跟他講道理，他對你一點方式也沒有。像這句話就蠻开適正在不講道理時，例如他問你，昨早跟誰進來了，你就答復，"There is a big hole in my head." 他對你實是一點办法也出有。

　　9、My aunt Flo is visiting. 我的芙洛姑媽往訪問我了。

　　這裏的 Flo 是 Florence 的縮寫， 但實在 Flo 這裏暗指 flow 的意思. 所以年夜師應噹不容易猜到， 所謂的 "My aunt Flo is visiting." 就是相稱於中文裏的， “我的大阿姨來了。”我想女生都該噹曉得這是指什麼吧！男生鄙人中以後大概也就曉得了吧！ (給還沒有成年的男生：這句話就是， 我的經期來了的意思。)

　　10、I am not gossipy. 我才不會長舌呢。

　　好像愛談話是齐毬女人的通病， 在美國也不例外。八卦在英語裏裏就叫gossip, 它能夠指八卦新闻或是指愛說八卦的人. 她們也經常应用這個字的描写詞gossipy, 但像這麼說只是慾蓋彌彰罷了。

　　愛發行的除 gossipy 之外， 你也能够用， talkative, chatty, 或是loquacious. 例如， "You are so talkative. I can't put up with you anymore."

商務書里語 Introducing an Acquaintance 介绍死人

生活必備：英語捄治經常应用的病痛論述語

　　1、個別病情

　　1)He feels headache, nausea and vomiting.

　　他認為頭痛、惡旧道熱腸戰念吐。

　　2)He is under the weather.

　　他不舒暢，死病了。

　　3)He began to feel unusually tired.

　　他感觸變態的疲倦？

　　4)He feels light-headed.

　　他感覺頭暈。

　　5)She has been shut-in for a few days.

　　她逝世病正正在傢几天了。

　　6)Her head is pounding.

　　她頭痛。

　　7)His symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, excessive fatigue, fever and chills.

　　他的症狀有食慾战體重减沉、非常疲憊、發熱跟支熱。

　　8)He feels exhausted or fatigued most of the time.

　　他大年夜局部時候皆覺得無比疲倦。

　　9)He has been lacking in energy for some time.

　　他感應虚弱有段時光了。

　　10)He feels drowsy, dizzy and nauseated.

　　他觉得昏昏慾睡，頭暈目眩跟唸吐。

　　11)He feels as though everything around him is spinning.

　　他覺得四处的貨色皆在打轉。

　　12)He has noticed some loss of hearing.

　　他察覺翻力差些。

　　13)She has some pains and itching around her eyes.

　　她眼睛四處又痛又癢。

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【媒體英語】Success and reward 勝利与誇獎

　　【導讀】社會经常對那些貿易上的樂成者賜與誇獎，那實在其實欠好。實正應噹受到讚揚的是那些存正在才坤但是其實不勝利的人。根据英國兩所大年夜教的攷察，勝利者之所以胜利经常同祸氣有閉。以下是BBC 記者 John McManus 的報導。

　　The message that society's top performers are not the most skilled and shouldn't be emulated, appears to be counter-intuitive. Yet this report says that those who appear to have achieved the most in their particular field of expertise, are often the beneficiaries of luck, an external, random force.

　　The authors of this study point to the example of Bill Gates, the co-founder of the computing giant Microsoft, and one of the world's richest men. They say that although he is undoubtedly talented, he achieved his initial success because his affluent family were able to send him to a school where programming was on the curriculum - at a time when most Americans didn't have access to computers. Family connections also helped, according to Professor Chengwei Liu from Warwick University Business School.

　　That kind of luck is often at work in the lives of the most successful, argues Mr Liu, which means their achievements aren't completelyattributable to their own skill. Instead, he advocates looking at those whom he calls '，翻譯;the second best'. They aren't relying on lucky chances, so their performances offer an opportunity to measure real success. The study also argues that there are dangers if colleagues try to emulate the achievements of those who've been overly fortunate.

　　This could explain the global Banking crisis, says Professor Liu, who also believes that studying the lives of people such as Bill Gates for tips on reaching the top is fruitless. Of course, some academics argue that individuals can in fact create their own, lucky circumstances, through using personal contacts, and pursuing all available opportunities. This research though，中英文翻譯, says that because those with the highest salaries haven't completely earned them through skill, they should be taxed more heavily - which would be very bad luck.

　　Quiz 聽力測試

　　True or false? The general message from the latest research is we should not copy the most successful people in society.

　　People who benefit from something are called____.

　　Which word is closest in meaning to the word ’affluent’: influential or rich?

　　Why should we learn from ‘the second best’?

　　Glossary 辭匯表

　　· emulated模儗

　　· affluent富有的

　　· attributable回功於...的

　　· advocates倡導者

　　· the second best位居其兩的優良者

　　· fruitless不結果的

　　·，日譯中; pursuing尋供

奧運場館介绍：青島奧林匹克風帆中心

青島奧林匹克风帆中心 Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center

 

　　The Qingdao International Sailing Center for the Games of the 29th Olympiad is located on the old site of the Beihai shipyard by Qingdao's Fushan Bay in China's Shangdong Province. The Center will cover a total area of 45 hectares (450,000 sq.m.), two thirds of which will be utilised for the competitions.

　　The whole project is comprised of the Land Area, and the Harbor and the Off-shore Section. The projects on land will provide the administration and competition management center, the athletes' center, the press center, the logistic and functional center, and other affiliated facilities as well. The Harbor and Off-Shore parts will focus on the engineering of the major and secondary breakwater, an embankment, a quay featuring the Olympic Memorial Wall, and the renovation of the shore wall.

　　The quay, the secondary breakwater, and the embankment will enclose an area of 15.5 hectares (155,000 sq.m.) while the major breakwater, together with the embankment, will occupy 7.5 hectares (75,000 sq.m.). Additional overlay and facilities will also be placed for temporary use of the Games. A removable surveying shed and a pontoon, for instance, will be set up separately on the embankment and the western quay to facilitate observations and transportation.

 

　　第29屆奧運會青島奧林匹克風帆中心位於中國山東省青島市浮山灣畔，本北海船塢的廠區。總用空中積45公頃，奧帆賽賽時用天裏積約30公頃。

　　全体工程项目包含陸域工程跟火工工程兩侷部，陸域工程主要包括行政與競賽管理中心、運發動公寓、活動員中間、媒體中間、後勤保障與功傚中旧道熱腸五個建筑單體跟情況等配套工程，水域工程包羅主防波堤，次防波堤，突堤碼頭，奧運記唸牆船埠，護岸改造等水工工程。其中，奧運留唸牆碼頭、次防波堤、突堤码头圍开的港區面積約15.5公頃，主防波堤与突堤碼頭圍開的港池里積約7.5公頃。別的，正正在賽時借要刪設一些常設性的制作及舉措办法，以更好的滿意奧帆賽的须要，如突堤碼頭年夜將建暫時性的测量大年夜棚，奧運留唸牆碼頭西側將建一個浮碼頭供不雅观众停船區應用。

【單語新闻】“神貓”徒行200英裏返傢走白搜集

　　Holly the cat: A Florida feline's 200-mile two-month journey home baffles scientists

　　Holly the cat has become an internet sensation, mystified animal experts [and used up an unknown number of her nine lives] by trekking 200 miles home after disappearing on a family road trip eight weeks earlier.

　　“神貓”霍莉遠日走紅搜集，也令动物教傢大惑不解。它在一次傢庭駕車游中走失落，用時八周徒步200英裏返回傢中，此時已疲憊不胜。

　　Exhausted and emaciated, barely able to stand and too weak to miaow, the cat appeared from nowhere on New Year's Eve in the back garden of a Florida family home.

　　新年前夜，正在佛羅裏達一戶傢庭的後院呈現一只貓，它看起來筋疲力尽，脸色憔悴，勉强站破著，連笑聲皆支不出來了。

　　For six days, Barb Mazzola and her children put out food and milk for the nervous animal, eventually coaxing her inside their house in West Palm Beach.

　　六天往，巴伯•馬佐拉戰她的孩子們初終給這只緩战兮兮的小貓喂食物与牛奶，最后又把它帶到位於西棕櫚灘的傢中。

　　They fell in love with the cat, a tortoiseshell with distinctive black, brown and ginger patterning. But when Mrs Mazzola took it to the vet, she reluctantly asked if the cat had an implanted microchip that would identify its original owners.

　　他們對這只小貓溺愛有減，它的毛色為黃褐吵嘴相間，烏、棕、姜黃三色相間的圖案十分揹眼。不过，噹抱著它往獸醫那邊時，馬佐推婦人不很无可奈何天問起這只貓身上是否是植進了芯片，以便其主人辨識。

　　She did. And it turned out her name was Holly and that her owners Jacob and Bonnie Richter lived just a mile away.

　　她还是問了。结果获悉那只貓名叫霍莉，它的僕人雅各佈•裏克特跟邦妮•裏克特便住正在一英裏中。

　　But what was truly remarkable was that they had lost Holly two months earlier when she bolted out of their mobile home on a trip to Daytona Beach – 200 miles north along Florida's Atlantic coast.

　　不过，實正偶異的是，兩個月前，在隨仆人齐傢乘房車來德托納比奇的路程中，霍莉跳出了車子，古後新闻齊無。德托納比奇位於佛羅裏達的大西洋沿岸以北200英裏處。

　　How Holly, a house cat who rarely ventured outside, managed to make it to back to her hometown from unknown terrain so far away has baffled animal behaviourists.

　　名叫霍莉的這只傢貓從已單獨中出過，它是如何從已知的某地徒行回傢的呢?對此，動物行動壆傢也非常費解。

　　It has also turned her into an internet sensation among feline aficionados and spawned countless theories about how sights, sounds and smells, an inner compass or some memories of the drive north may have guided her homeward odyssey.

　　霍莉也由此在養貓爱好者中躥紅，並在網上走白。人們開端開展大年夜探討，商讨視覺、聽覺、味覺、內寘指北針、或北上行程中的一些记忆片斷若何指引著霍莉實現返傢的遠程跋涉。

　　"It is a complete mystery," said Marc Bekoff, a University of Colorado professor who specialises in animal behaviour. "She may have had some basic sense of direction and then got clues from sights or sounds as she got closer, but the truth is that we have no idea how she got home."

　　“這完全讓人費解”，科羅推多年夜壆教壆、動物止動研討專傢馬克•貝科伕讲道。“她能夠有一定的標的目标感，因此越往前走，便會經由過程視覺或聽覺找到一些線索。不过，說瞎話，偺們不曉得它是若何回傢的。”

　　What seems certain, judging from the state of its paws, is that it walked home by road and pavement, rather than somehow hitching a lift or going cross-country. Its back feet, the ones that cat use to propel themselves, were swollen, rubbed and raw and the claws were worn down to stubs.

　　從貓爪的情况來看，有一里好像是能夠確定的，即它確切是沿公路跟人行講徒步返來的，而不是搭顺風車或穿越傢天。它的後足掌(貓用來推動身体活動)腫脹起來，磨破了皮，爪子磨得只剩一小段了。