Launch declared a success as space station era beckons 标志着空间站成功发射新纪元的到来。 JIUQUAN, Gansu – China’s space dream took a step closer to reality as the Tiangong-1 module blasted off into the night sky on Thursday from the Gobi Desert. 星期四晚上，中国甘肃酒泉卫星发射基地的茫茫戈壁滩上，天宫一号点火升空。 The Long March II-F T1 rocket, under the unmanned module, Tiangong-1, lifted off from the Jiuquan [...]
BEIJING — Twelve government employees have been fired and stripped of their Communist Party membership after an investigation into allegations that family planning officials kidnapped children in an impoverished rural area in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, People’s Daily, the party’s official newspaper, reported Thursday. 北京- – -一份调查指控称计划生育官员在中国南部省份湖南省的一个贫困农村绑架儿童，十二名公务员被开除公职和党籍，共产党的官方报纸人民日报周四报道。 While investigators concluded that the government [...]
Vladimir Putin has sparked speculation he has had a facelift amid a backlash over his decision to return as Russian president. 普京为了重当总统去整容使人们发生猜想。 The 58-year-old’s appearance at the United Russia congress in Moscow set tongues wagging about cosmetic surgery. 人们纷纷议论参加在莫斯科统一俄罗斯党年会上58岁的普京外貌。 Mr Putin appeared to have puffier cheeks, while bags under his eyes that were clearly visible [...]
La Nacion is reporting that an unknown explosion has leveled a few buildings, killing at least one person, in the town of Monte Grande, Argentina. What is also included in some reports are the testimonies from witnesses who claim to have seen a gigantic fireball falling from the sky just before 2 am on Monday morning. [...]
SHANGHAI — Hundreds of people were injured here on Tuesday when a subway train slammed into the rear of another train in a sprawling transit line that opened just last year. The accident cast new scrutiny on the safety record of China’s rapidly modernizing mass transit rail systems. 上海-去年新建地铁启动时发生两辆地铁碰撞事故，周二那天数以百计的人受伤。这次事故给快速发展的中国现代化铁路交通安全系统敲响警钟。 The state-run news media reported that [...]
BEIJING — For a nation not yet inured to lurid and senseless crime, a report that a former civil servant in central China kept six women enslaved in an underground bunker — and that he killed two of them — was shocking enough. 新京报-作为一个国家还尚未习惯于耸人听闻和愚蠢的犯罪，曾有一篇报道指出一名公务员把六名女子囚禁在地下室，他杀害了其中两个，让人震惊万分。 But perhaps almost as disturbing, at least to some readers, was [...]
PARIS — An explosion at a nuclear waste facility in southern France killed one person and injured four on Monday. Authorities said there was no radioactive leak, but critics urged France to rethink its nuclear power in the wake of the catastrophe at Japan’s Fukushima plant. 巴黎– 周一，在法国南部一个核废料设施的爆炸导致一人死亡四人受伤。当局说那里无放射性泄漏，但是批评者呼吁法国应该重新考虑它的核能不再步入像日本福岛核电站的大灾难。 The Nuclear Safety Authority declared the accident [...]
LONDON — Just a small family affair? Hardly. Yet Prince William of Wales and his bride, Catherine “Kate” Middleton, now the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, managed to get the wedding they wanted — a blending of family intimacy with the grandeur of a semi-state occasion that could be shared with the British people [...]
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed what they believe is a 2,400-year-old pot of soup, state media report. 官方媒体报导：中国考古学家已经挖掘出他们认为是2400年前的火锅汤。 The liquid and bones were in a sealed bronze cooking vessel dug up near the ancient capital of Xian – home to the country’s famed terracotta warriors. 这个被密封在青铜烹饪容器中的液体和骨头在中国最有名的兵马俑所在地古都西安被发掘出来。 Tests are being carried out to identify the ingredients. An [...]
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, likes to say that his Web site brings people together, helping to make the world a better place. But Facebook isn’t a utopia, and when it comes up short, Dave Willner tries to clean up. 加州的PALO ALTO–马克扎克伯格，Facebook的创办人和首席执行官，喜欢去说他的网站使人们聚在一起，并帮助使世界变得更加美好。但是Facebook不只是一个乌托邦，当它出现短处的时候，大卫威乐会尝试清除这些问题。 Dressed in Facebook’s quasi-official uniform of jeans, [...]
German home-owners who have chosen to opt out of Google’s Street View service appear to have become the unsuspecting victims of anti-privacy vandals. 德国房屋拥有者已经决定退出谷歌的街景服务，因为他们已经变成反对隐私破坏者想像不到的牺牲品。 Local media report that homes in Essen, west Germany have been pelted with eggs and had ‘Google’s cool’ notices pinned to their doors. 当地媒体报导：在德国西部，埃森的家庭已经被人砸过鸡蛋，并且在他们的门上被钉上：“谷歌酷”的警示。 The properties involved have all chosen to [...]
The 911 system does not currently support text, photo or video messages from mobile phones911系统当前不支持来自于手机文本，相片或者视频信息 The US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is considering updating the 911 emergency call system to accept photo, text and video messages. 美国联邦通信管理委员正在考虑提升911紧急呼叫系统，以能够接受照片，文本和视频信息。 Roughly 70% of 911 calls are already being made from mobile telephones, said FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. FCC主席Julius [...]
该机构从1947年及早期的测试期已经开始运输美国的核武器材料。 US agents who drive nuclear weapons around the country were involved in 16 alcohol-related incidents in two years, the energy department has said. One was arrested for public drunkenness and two were held after an incident at a bar while on overnight missions. The incidents “indicate a potential vulnerability in [a] critical national security [...]
Leaders from the 13 countries where tigers still live in the wild have been meeting in Russia to discuss how to keep the species going. 在俄罗斯，来自于13个依然有野生虎国家的领导人正举行会议去讨论如何保持老虎物种的延续性。 Only around 3,000 of the big cats remain but the aim is to double the number over the next dozen years. 目前仅约3000头老虎仍然存活于世，但是在未来十几年后的目标是将此数量进行翻倍。 Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is hosting [...]
A French farmer has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (£428) for feeding his ducks marijuana to rid them of worms. 为驱赶鸭子身上的虫子而向鸭子喂大麻，因此事一位法国农场主已经被判缓刑一个月，同时罚款500欧元。 Police arrested Michel Rouyer after they discovered 12 cannabis plants and about 5kg (11lb) of the drug during a visit to his home after a theft. 在一次失窃后警官搜查了他的家，发现了12株大麻和大约5公斤的药，因此，警察逮捕了米歇尔。 Mr [...]
YUZHOU, China (Oct. 16) — Dozens of anxious relatives and friends of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in central China gathered outside the site Sunday while rescuers said they were fighting tons of coal dust to try to reach the workers. 10.16日周日，中国禹州，11位在中国中部的一次爆炸中被围困在地下的矿工的数十位焦急的亲属和朋友都聚集在事发地点外，同时，救援人员说他们在数吨煤尘中工作以尝试接触到那些被围困的工人。 The number of miners confirmed dead rose Sunday by five to [...]
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