BBC News:俄羅斯天降隕石雨造成1000多人受傷
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About 1,000 people have been injured in Russia after a large meteor burned up in the skies above the southern Ural’s region causing a shockwave that damaged buildings across a wide area. Most of those hurt suffered minor cuts and bruises from flying glass, but several dozen had to be kept in hospital. The meteor released several kilotonnes of energy equivalent to that of a nuclear bomb. An official in Chelyabinsk, Polina Zolotarevskaya, described what she had seen.
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一塊大隕石在俄羅斯烏拉爾地區(qū)南部上空燃燒后引發(fā)沖擊波，大約1000人受傷，一大片地區(qū)的建筑物受損。大多數受傷者因輕度割傷和飛濺的玻璃而劃 傷，但還有幾十人仍在醫(yī)院。這顆隕石釋放了幾千噸的能量，相當于一枚核彈的能量。車里雅賓斯克一名官員Polina Zolotarevskaya描述了自己的所見所聞。
“It was quite extraordinary. We saw a very bright light and then there was a kind of a track, white and yellow in the sky. It was a very broad track. And then in several seconds, there was a strong explosion.”
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said he thanked God that no big fragments from the meteor had fallen in populated areas.
“場面太壯觀了，我們看到很亮的一道光，然后天空就出現了白色和黃色的軌道，軌道很寬，幾秒鐘后就發(fā)生了強烈爆炸。”
俄羅斯總統(tǒng)弗拉基米爾·普京說，隕石沒有在人口密集地區(qū)落下大碎片，為此他感謝上帝。
An asteroid about half the size of a football field has safely passed Earth in what scientists say as the closest known approach for an object of its size. At its nearest point, the rock, with a diameter of about 45 metres came within about 28,000 kilometres of Earth, closer than some TV and weather satellites. Scientists say the asteroid has nothing to do with the Russian meteor. It’s just a cosmic coincidence.
一顆有半個足球場那么大的隕石與地球擦身而過，科學家稱這是至今所知的此類大小隕石距離地球最近的一次。這顆隕石直徑約45米，距離地球最近時只有28000千米，比有的電視和氣象衛(wèi)星距離還要近?？茖W家稱這顆隕石與俄羅斯的那顆沒有關系，這只是宇宙間的巧合。
The South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has denied murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In a statement issued after Mr Pistorius was charged in Pretoria, his family said that he disputed the charge. This report from Peter Biles.
南非殘疾人冠軍奧斯卡·皮斯托利斯否認謀殺女友瑞瓦·史蒂恩卡姆帕。皮斯托利斯在比勒陀利亞被指控后，其家人就發(fā)表聲明稱他否認指控。彼得·鮑爾斯報道。
Oscar Pistorius remains in police custody after his dramatic court appearance at which he broke down and sobbed. He’ll spend the next three days at a police station in Pretoria before returning to court on Tuesday. State prosecutors will oppose a bail application. They say this is a case of premeditated murder. But Oscar Pistorius’s family issued a statement saying the alleged murder was disputed in the strongest terms. They refer to the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as a terrible, terrible tragedy.
在法庭上，奧斯卡·皮斯托利斯戲劇性地情緒失控并哭了起來，隨后就一直在監(jiān)禁中。未來三天他將在比勒陀利亞的警察局度過，然后周二回到法庭。國家公 訴人反對保釋申請，他們稱這是一起有預謀的殺害。但奧斯卡·皮斯托利斯的家人嚴詞發(fā)表聲明，稱所謂的謀殺極富爭議，他們稱殺害瑞瓦·史蒂恩卡姆帕一事是場 很可怕的悲劇。
The Venezuelan government has released the first photo of President Hugo Chavez since his fourth round of cancer surgery which he underwent in Cuba last December. There’s been widespread speculation about when or whether the president will resume his leadership. Sarah Grainger reports from Caracas.
自去年12月烏戈·查韋斯在古巴做第四次癌癥手術以來，委內瑞拉政府首次公開他的照片。人們普遍揣測總統(tǒng)是否會繼續(xù)執(zhí)掌大權，Sarah Grainger在加拉加斯報道。
The photos show Mr Chavez wearing his customary tracksuit, reclining on a bed next to his two daughters. He’s smiling in one of the pictures reading a copy of a recent edition of the Cuban newspaper Granma. Addressing the public on state television, Venezuela’s Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said President Chavez was breathing through a tracheal tube and could not speak at present. But he also stressed the measure was reversible. Ministers have been under pressure to produce some good news about President Chavez. Just a week ago the government announced that it was devaluing Venezuela’s currency.
照片上查韋斯穿著慣常的運動裝斜靠在床上，床邊是他的兩個女兒。照片上他面帶微笑，閱讀著最近一期的古巴報紙《格拉瑪報》。委內瑞拉信息部長維勒加 斯在國家電視臺上向公眾發(fā)表講話，他說總統(tǒng)查韋斯通過氣管導管呼吸，目前還無法講話。但他還強調這些措施是可逆的。各位部長頭頂壓力來炮制有關總統(tǒng)查韋斯 的好消息。就在一周前，政府宣稱將對委內瑞拉貨幣實施貶值。
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The International Committee of the Red Cross says the humanitarian situation in Syria is catastrophic. The organisation’s director of operations said he’d seen unbearable suffering for civilians on a recent trip to the country. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.
國際紅十字會稱敘利亞的人道主義危機是災難性的，該組織負責人稱他看到人們最近回國途中經歷的艱辛萬苦。伊莫金·?？怂乖谌諆韧邎蟮?。
The International Committee of the Red Cross has been working in Syria since the start of the conflict. It describes the situation now as nothing short of catastrophic. The number of different armed groups is increasing. Villages change hands on a daily basis. Attacks on hospitals and the killing of nurses and doctors are now so common. The Red Cross says that the health service in some parts of the country has become a wasteland.
自敘利亞沖突開始以來，國際紅十字就一直在該國進行工作。該組織稱敘利亞目前的局勢已是災難，各種武裝組織的數量日益增多。村莊每天都在變換大王旗，對醫(yī)院的襲擊和對護士、醫(yī)生的殺戮已司空見慣。紅十字稱該國部分地區(qū)的衛(wèi)生服務已經荒廢。
The authorities in the Netherlands have raided a meat processing plant they suspect of mixing horsemeat with beef and selling it as pure beef. It’s the latest in a series of similar actions across Europe. As Matthew Price reports from Brussels:
荷蘭當局突襲了一家肉食加工廠，懷疑其將馬肉同牛肉混合然后當做純牛肉出售。這是最近整個歐洲類似行動的一部分，Matthew Price在布魯塞爾報道。
This scandal has spread fast. Across Europe, some 13 countries so far have been affected. The Brussels bureaucracy has moved uncharacteristically rapidly. EU food safety officials decided to start new tests immediately to find out how much of the food chain has been affected. It’s clear this is not the result of one or two rogue suppliers. It’s beginning to look like an industry and continental-wide problem.
這起丑聞傳播很廣，整個歐洲已有13個國家受到影響。布魯塞爾當局行動迅速，這點很不尋常。歐盟食品安全官員決定立即開始新測試，以探明究竟食物鏈在多大程度上受到影響。很顯然這不是一兩家不法供應商的行為，目前看來似乎是整個行業(yè)甚至席卷整個大陸的問題。
A British academic has stumbled upon a 500-year-old proclamation calling for the arrest of the Renaissance political writer Niccolo Machiavelli in the Italian city of Florence. The Medici family, who ruled Florence at the time, accused Machiavelli of plotting to overthrow them. He was detained, tortured and placed under house arrest, where he started writing his famous book The Prince, describing the art of political manipulation. The term Machiavellian is still synonymous with the cunning pursuit of power.
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在意大利城市佛羅倫薩，一位英國學者偶然發(fā)現一張500年歷史的公告，內容是呼吁逮捕文藝復興政治作家尼古拉·馬基雅維利。當時統(tǒng)治佛羅倫薩的美第 奇家族指控馬基雅維利陰謀推翻他們，他被捕了，然后遭到毒打，并被軟禁起來，他就在軟禁期間創(chuàng)作了著名的《君主論》，論述政治操縱的藝術。 Machiavellian一詞至今仍是不擇手段追逐權力的同義詞。
