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Dolphins are what we call charismatic megafauna, which means that people view them as charismatic.

海豚被我们称作是魅力大型动物，因为它们真的很有魅力。

People get excited about some animals more than they get excited about others.

人们有时候更偏爱某一类动物。

But that's okay, because then we can use that to get them to conserve in general.

但没关系，因为我们可以利用人们的偏爱去保护更多动物。

So, if they're conserving the dolphins that means we're conserving their habitat, which means we are conserving all the animals that live in that habitat as well.

如果人们保护海豚，就会保护它们的栖息地，这也意味着我们同时也在保护生活在那个栖息地的所有动物。

Hi, guys. My name is Dr. Kelly Jaakkola. I am a cognitive researcher, right now work with dolphins.

我是凯利·贾科拉博士，从事认知研究，现在主要研究海豚。

You want to do a high five? No? This one? You can't really reach. I know it is hard to reach up here.

想击个掌吗？不想？这个呢

Ricochet was trained as a service dog but she was not placed because she likes to chase little animals, critters, squirrels.

跳跳曾被训练为服务犬，但她还没有正式上岗，因为她喜欢追逐小动物，例如小松鼠。

She would not make it as a service dog, but she also surfs. So, she surfs with people who have disabilities. So now I call her 'a surface dog'.

她无法成为服务犬，但她会冲浪。她会与残疾人士一同冲浪。现在我叫她“冲浪犬”。

She was eight weeks old. I had her in a kiddie pool and there was a boogie board and I kind of tapped it to invite her on it and she climbed on and had really good balance.

她当时才八周大。我把她放在一个儿童泳池里，泳池里有一块冲浪板，我轻轻拍了拍冲浪板，示意她爬上去，她就爬了上去，而且平衡感非常好。

So, from that I just continued playing around with it. I lay on the board...

Over two thirds of Brits agree that being able to laugh at yourself, or what we call 'self-deprecating humour', is a defining part of British culture, according to a recent survey by the charity Comic Relief. British comedian Sir Lenny Henry says it's not about putting yourself down, it's about bringing people together. After years of doing stand-up comedy, Lenny says that laughing at yourself is "one of the quickest ways to feel connected to a room full of strangers". But when is it good, and when is it bad, to make fun of yourself? Can it be taken...

The Israeli military said on Friday that one of the bodies released by Hamas did not belong to any of the hostages held in Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating an already shaky cease-fire.

以色列军方周五表示，哈马斯释放的一具尸体不属于任何被关押在加沙的人质，指责哈马斯违反了本已摇摇欲坠的停火协议。

The military said two of the bodies were identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel,

军方表示，其中两具尸体被确认为婴儿Kfir Bibas和他四岁的哥哥Ariel，

while a third body that was supposed to be their mother Shiri was found not to match with any hostage and remain unidentified.

而第三具尸体，本应是他们的母亲Shiri，但发现与任何人质都不匹配，因此身份不明。

The military said in a statement, "This is a violation of utmost severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obliged under the agreement to return four deceased hostages."

军方在一份声明中表示：“这是哈马斯恐怖组织极其严重的违反行为，根据协议，哈马斯有义务归还四名已故人质。”

The family of

In a video statement, Chen Kugel, the chief of the Israeli National Institute of Forensic Medicine, confirmed on Saturday Shiri Bibas' body shows no evidence of injuries caused by bombing.

以色列国家法医研究所所长Chen Kugel在视频声明中证实，Shiri Bibas的尸体上没有爆炸伤证据。

"We have identified the remains of Shiri Bibas two days after identifying her children, Ariel and Kfir. Our examination found no evidence of injuries caused by bombing."

“我们在确认Shiri Bibas的孩子Ariel和Kfir身份两天后确认了她的遗体身份。我们的检查没有发现爆炸造成的伤害证据。”

Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization, said in November, 2023 that the children and their mother had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

被美国认定为恐怖组织的哈马斯于2023年11月表示，这些孩子及其母亲在以色列空袭中丧生。

Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run Gaza Government media office, said Netanyahu "bears...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would make Hamas pay for failing to release the body of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed in the latest potential threat to the month-old cease-fire.

以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡周五表示，哈马斯未能按照协议归还人质希里·比巴斯（Shiri Bibas）的遗体，以色列将让其为此付出代价，这是对一个月前停火协议的最新潜在威胁。

Reuters correspondent Fiona Jones reports. Hamas said Bibas' remains appeared to have been mixed with others after an Israeli airstrike hit the place she was being held, later adding that it was investigating the possible error.

路透社记者菲奥娜·琼斯（Fiona Jones）报道。哈马斯表示，以色列空袭袭击了比巴斯被关押的地方后，她的遗体似乎与其他遗体混在一起，后来又补充说，正在调查可能的失误。

Netanyahu gave no details on a possible Israeli response, but the incident highlights the fragility of the month-old cease-fire deal reached with U.S. backing and help from Qatar and Egypt.

内塔尼亚胡没有透露以色列可能做出的反应，但这一事件凸显了在美国支持以及卡塔尔和埃及帮助下达成的一个月前停火协议的脆弱性。

The failure to return Bebas' body during this staged public handover caused outrage in Israel.

在这次分阶段的公开移交中，以色列

Germans are electing a new parliament Sunday after a campaign focused on the state of Europe's biggest economy and calls to curb migration.

德国人将于周日选举新一届议会，此前竞选活动聚焦欧洲最大经济体的状况，呼吁遏制移民。

Uncertainty has grown rapidly about the future of Ukraine and the strength of Europe's alliance with the United States. VOA's Cristina Menenti has more.

乌克兰的未来以及欧洲与美国的联盟实力的不确定性迅速增加。美国之音新闻记者克里斯蒂娜·梅内蒂（Cristina Menenti）将为您带来更多报道。

The opposition leader and frontrunner Friedrich Merz vowed Saturday to revive thestagnanteconomy and defend Europe's interests in the face of a confrontational U.S. administration.

反对党领袖、领跑者弗里德里希·默茨周六誓言要重振停滞不前的经济，并在美国政府对抗的情况下捍卫欧洲的利益。

Meanwhile, hundreds protested for and against far-right Alternative for Germany's leader Alice Weidel in her Swiss town of residence.

与此同时，数百人在德国极右翼选择党领导人艾丽丝·魏德尔的居住地瑞士小镇举行了支持和反对她的抗议活动。

"We're really concerned about what's going on everywhere in Europe, about the rise of far-right movements."

“我们非常担心欧洲各地发生的事情，担心极右翼运动的崛起。”

Chancellor Olaf Schol

Meet Andrew Savoia, a 24-year-old Northern Virginia cello player who is a social media sensation.

认识一下安德鲁·沙瓦亚，一位24岁的北弗吉尼亚大提琴手，他在社交媒体上很有名。

He created his TikTok account savoiboi in July and in just a few months he already had millions of likes or views.

他在7月创建了自己的TikTok账号savoiboi，短短几个月内就已经获得了数百万的点赞或浏览量。

There were some very catchy songs on the app and songs that you're just watching a video and it makes you want to get up and dance.

这个应用程序上有一些非常动听的歌曲，而且当你观看视频时 ，里面的歌曲会让你忍不住起身跳舞。

And there was only like a quick little segment of that I would see and I was like, okay, I could try to recreate this on the cello, so I did that.

我当时只能看到一小段快速闪过的内容，我就想，好吧，我可以试着用大提琴把这个重新演绎出来，于是我就这么做了。

I had one of my buddies record it and it was so fascinating because of the positive reaction th

The patient's tumour was benign but dangerously close to important bloodvessels and nerves, leaving him at risk of going blind.

这位患者的肿瘤虽为良性，但极度靠近重要血管和神经，使其面临失明的风险。

The team trained the AI tool on hundreds of videos of previous operations. They then used the AI tool in real time to help highlight sometimes hidden vessels and nerves, and to mark up the safest place to remove the tumour.

该医疗团队利用数百段过往手术视频对人工智能工具进行了训练。随后，他们在手术过程中实时使用该人工智能工具，协助凸显一些隐蔽的血管和神经，并标注出切除肿瘤最安全的位置。

Researchers hope that with larger trials, using AI in this way will help surgery become both safer and faster.

研究人员希望随着更大规模试验的开展，以这种方式使用人工智能将有助于让手术变得更加安全和高效。

This polling suggests that 5% of people in Britain believe their accent has cost them a promotion, pay rise or senior role. Those from Birmingham were the most likely to feel this - the figure rose to 13% among people with a Brummie accent.

这项民调显示，5%的英国人认为，自己的口音曾导致他们错失晋升、加薪或担任高级职位的机会。来自伯明翰的受访者最有可能持这种看法，因为在有伯明翰地方口音的人群中，这一比例上升至了 13%。

More than 3,300 people in England, Scotland and Wales were questioned. People from the West Country were most likely to report being mocked or criticised by colleagues for the way they spoke, at 15%, closely followed by those with a Geordie or Mancunian accent.

这项调查访问了英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士的 3300 多名受访者。调查显示，来自英格兰西南部地区的受访者最有可能表示，自己曾因说话方式而遭到同事嘲笑或批评，这一比例为 15%；紧随其后的是有纽卡斯尔地区口音和曼彻斯特地区口音的受访者。

Softening an accent is a common occurrence, the study suggests, with 13% of Britons polled admitting to changing the way they spoke in order to sound more professional. This rose to 23% of those with an East London Cockney accent, and 20% of those with a Scottish accent.

研究显示，刻意淡化口音是一种较为普遍的现象。13%的英国受访者承认，为了让自己听起来更专业，他们曾有意改变自己的说话方式。在有伦敦东区考克尼口音的受访者中，这一比例升至 23%；在有苏格兰口音的受访者中，这一比例为 20%。

Daydreaming has a bad reputation – we say things like "he's away with the fairies" or "she has herhead in the clouds" implying these people are inattentive, easily distracted, maybe even lazy. Is this reputation justified? Or is a trip to la-la land actually something that might benefit us?

白日梦的名声很差——我们说“他和仙女在一起了”或“她的头在云端”，暗示这些人注意力不集中、容易分心，甚至可能很懒。 这种声誉是否合理？ 或者说去la-la land旅行实际上可能对我们有益？

First, it's important to differentiate daydreaming from mind wandering. Mind wandering happens when you're busy with a task and your mind disengages from it, whereas daydreaming happens when you're doing nothing and spontaneous thoughts unrelated to your surroundings pop up. In a review of research called 'The costs and benefits of mind-wandering', the authors found mind wandering negatively impacted reading comprehension, attention, memory and intelligen...

For many worldwide, smartphones are used for everything from financial transactions to social media.

对于全球许多人来说，智能手机被用于从金融交易到社交媒体等方方面面。

So when screens break or crack, it can feel like life itself comes to a halt.

当手机屏幕破裂时，感觉生活仿佛都停滞了。

Long-time US glassmaker Corning has spent more than a decade making smartphone glass stronger.

美国老牌玻璃制造商康宁公司花了十多年时间，让智能手机玻璃变得更坚固。

These devices are typically a much higher percentage of a person's GDP in emerging regions, so durability and longevity of that phone becomes a much more critical feature than in other developed countries.

在新兴地区，这些设备的价格通常占个人GDP的比例要高得多，所以与其他发达国家相比，手机的耐用性和使用寿命就成了更为关键的特性。

Corning founded in 1851 has pivoted with the times. In 1879, Thomas Edison went to Corning for glass for his light bulb.

康宁公司于1851年成立，一直与时俱进。1879年，托马斯·爱迪生前往康宁公司，为他的灯泡寻找玻璃材料。

Corning's glasses used in the windows for NASA's space shuttles.

康宁公司的

Half of Senegal's household rely on wood or wood charcoal.

塞内加尔一半的家庭依靠木材或木炭。

To combat air pollution and deforestation, a cooperative of women produce biochar, an energy source made from straw.

为了应对空气污染和森林砍伐问题，一个妇女合作社生产生物炭，这是一种由秸秆制成的能源。

Theyburnit and mix the charred straw with clay and water. The end result is a carbon-neutral organic charcoal that does not involve chopping down trees.

他们将其焚烧，并将烧焦的稻草与黏土和水混合。最终得到一种碳中和的有机木炭，且无需砍伐树木。

The mixture is pressed and stored, resulting in about 150 pallets of biochar per day.

将混合物进行压制和储存，每天可产出约150托盘的生物炭。

The initiative is diversifying the economy of a rural region where many eke out a living from livestock and fishing.

该倡议正在使一个农村地区的经济多元化，在那里许多人靠畜牧和渔业勉强维持生计。

First of all, this biochar protects the forest. It protects our homes, it protects our supplies, it protects women, it protects the forest that no longer bu

Driving While Black, a documentary by Ric Burns, chronicles the discrimination and violence African-Americans have often encountered while driving.

里克·伯恩斯执导的纪录片《黑人驾驶》记录了非裔美国人在驾车时经常遭遇的歧视和暴力。

In order to understand what's happening today, I felt strongly, we felt strongly that you had to go all the way back to slavery because that's the point where freedom is denied and mobility is denied.

为了理解今天正在发生的事情，我们强烈地感到，你必须一直追溯到奴隶制时期，因为从那时起，自由和迁徙的权利就被剥夺了。

The film documents how during the US Antebellum era plantation owners employed slave patrols to monitor and punish slaves who tried to escape.

这部纪录片记录了在美国内战前时期，种植园主如何雇佣奴隶巡逻队来监视并惩罚试图逃跑的奴隶。

It portrays these slave catchers as a precursor to white supremacists and some local sheriffs of the post-slavery Jim Crow era, who targeted African-American motorists from the 1920s to the 1960s.

它将这些追捕奴隶的人描绘成白人至上主义者的前身，以及奴隶制废除后种族隔离时代某些地方警长的前身，这些警长在20世纪20年代至60年代期间专门针对非裔美国司机。

Liberty is locomotion. I

They could be the hottest accessory of an even hotter summer. As temperature records were smashed across Europe and other parts of the world, portable electric fans could be seen in the hands of millions of people. Estimates claim that up to 8 million of these devices were sold in the UK alone. The breeze that they provide will have been welcome to many, but could there be a downside to this popular product?

它们可能是炎热夏季最热门的配饰。 随着欧洲和世界其他地区的气温记录被打破，数百万人手中可以看到便携式电风扇。 据估计，仅在英国就售出了多达 800 万台此类设备。 它们提供的微风会受到许多人的欢迎，但是这种受欢迎的产品有缺点吗？

Concerns have been raised that these fans are just another example of fast technology. That is products that are sold cheaply and are likely to be disposed of quickly. Research from Material Focus, a British pro-recycling organisation, suggests that half of all the mini fans bought will end up unused or thrown away. This is unsurprising...

Israelis have mourned a family that was a symbol of the trauma their country suffered in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 terror attack.

以色列人哀悼了一个家庭，这个家庭是他们的国家在2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的恐怖袭击中遭受创伤的象征。

Reuters correspondent Zachary Goelman reports. Israelis on Wednesday mourned three members of the Bibas family.

路透社记者Zachary Goelman报道。以色列人周三哀悼了Bibas家族的三名成员。

They lined the funeral procession that carried the bodies of mother Shiri and her sons, four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir, on the way to their funeral.

他们沿着送葬队伍排列，送葬队伍运送着母亲Shiri和她的儿子、四岁的Ariel和九个月大的Kfir的遗体，前往他们的葬礼。

The two children were the youngest hostages seized during the attack on Israel.

这两个孩子是袭击以色列期间被劫持的最年轻的人质。

Their bodies were returned to Israel last week as part of a Gaza cease-fire meant to facilitate the return of captives and the release ofPalestinianprisoners held in Israel.

他们的遗体上周被送回以色列，这是加沙停火的一部分，旨在促进俘虏返回和释放关押在以色列的巴勒斯坦囚犯。

Thousands of people, some in tea

Top officials from the U.S. and several other member states skipped a group of 20 major economies' finance ministers meeting in South Africa this week, raising questions about the group's continued relevance.

美国和其他几个成员国的高级官员缺席了本周在南非举行的二十国集团财长会议，人们开始质疑该集团是否继续具有重要意义。

Kate Bartlett reports from Johannesburg. The two-day meeting in Cape Town ended without a communiqué, with current G20 leader South Africa saying there was not sufficient consensus to issue one.

凯特·巴特利特（Kate Bartlett）在约翰内斯堡报道。在开普敦举行的为期两天的会议没有发表公报，现任二十国集团领导人南非表示，双方没有达成足够的共识来发表公报。

In his opening remarks at the event, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa referred to the fractured geopolitical climate and stressed the importance of international cooperation.

南非总统西里尔·拉马福萨在会议开幕致辞中提到了支离破碎的地缘政治气氛，并强调了国际合作的重要性。

"At this time of global uncertainty and escalating tension, it is now more important than ever that the members of the G20 should work together."

“在全球不确定性和紧张局势不断升级的当下，二十国集团成员国比以往任何时

The future of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is in doubt after Israel stopped all aid from entering the Gaza Strip. Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem.

在以色列阻止所有援助进入加沙地带后，以色列和哈马斯之间的停火前景令人怀疑。琳达·格拉德斯坦（Linda Gradstein）在耶路撒冷报道。

Israel's announcement that it is blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza through its checkpoints has caused fear andpanicbuying in Gaza's markets.

以色列宣布阻止人道主义援助通过其检查站进入加沙，这在加沙市场引起了恐慌性购买。

The move comes as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and share festive meals in the evenings.

此举正值穆斯林斋月开始之际，穆斯林从黎明到黄昏禁食，晚上共享节日大餐。

This year's Ramadan is taking place amid massive destruction caused by 16 months of heavy fighting between Israel and the terrorist-designated Hamas.

今年的斋月正值以色列和被指定为恐怖分子的哈马斯之间16个月的激烈战斗造成大规模破坏之际。

Hamas seized 250 hostages in an October 7, 2023, terror attack on southern Israel, sparking a war that ha

At one time polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year.

曾经，小儿麻痹症每年都会使数十万儿童瘫痪。

In Africa alone, it afflicted 75,000 children annually. That's no longer the case.

仅在非洲，每年就有7.5万名儿童受此折磨。现在情况已经不一样了。

We have just achieved a major milestone in global polio eradication, with the certification of the African region as well polio virus free.

我们刚刚在全球根除小儿麻痹症方面实现了一个重大里程碑，非洲地区被认证为无野生脊髓灰质炎病毒。

A vaccine ended polio in the developed world more than 50 years ago.

50多年前，一种疫苗结束了发达国家的小儿麻痹症。

In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative decided to end polio in developing countries.

1988年，全球根除小儿麻痹症倡议决定在发展中国家消除小儿麻痹症。

It's taken a lot of work: countless volunteers, global leadership, local leadership and the backing of many donors.

这需要付出大量的努力：无数志愿者、全球领导力、地方领导力以及众多捐助者的支持。

This ad posted to Youtube was part of an unprecedented 200-million-dollar initiative in California by Lyft, Uber and other firms to convince voters that workers who use their apps to find work should be classified as independent contractors, overturning 2019 state legislation that defined them as employees.

发布到油管上的这则广告是来福车、优步等公司在加利福尼亚州发起的一项史无前例的2亿美元倡议活动的一部分，旨在说服选民，让他们认为使用其应用程序找工作的劳动者应被归类为独立承包商，从而推翻2019年该州将他们定义为雇员的立法。

It's a big win for the companies who are no longer required to cover all their drivers for health care and paid time off.

这对公司来说是个巨大的胜利，因为它们不再需要为所有司机提供医疗保险和带薪休假。

The companies see their victory as a vote of confidence in their model of a third way of defining work, app-based gigs, and may inspire similar pushes elsewhere.

这些公司将自己的胜利视为对其定义工作的第三种模式——基于应用程序的零工模式的信任投票，这或许会激励其他地方采取类似的举措。

It's gonna be something that we're going to see affecting more than just California now at this point because other states are looking at a challe

The sea off the coast of East Greenland used to be covered in ice year-round. Now, as it warms and melts completely in the summer, the waters have opened up to new visitors – some of the world's largest whales and the fish that they feed on.

东格陵兰沿岸海域过去全年都被海冰覆盖。现在，随着海水变暖，海冰会在夏季完全融化，这片水域也因此迎来新的 “访客”，包括世界上一些体型最大的鲸类及其捕食的鱼类。

The scientists combined aerial surveys, satellite tagging and observations from local Inuit communities to track them. And the change has been dramatic.

科学家通过结合航空调查、卫星标签定位以及当地因纽特社区的观测，对这些鲸类展开追踪。而其变化十分显著。

Surveys didn't record a single humpback whale sighting in the region until 2006. In 2007, seven humpbacks were seen. And, by 2024, there were 150 sightings of the giant whales from ships. Now, fin whales, humpbacks and minke whales come to East Greenland in their thousands to feed.

直到 2006 年，相关调查才首次在该地区记录到座头鲸的目击报告。2007 年，有七头座头鲸被目击。而到了 2024 年，船只目击这种巨型鲸类的记录已达 150 次。如今，成千上万的长须鲸、座头鲸和小须鲸会汇聚到东格陵兰觅食。<

Do you know anyone who is more confident in their own abilities than their actual performance suggests they should be? Perhaps they think they are an incredible singer, but they're actually tone-deaf. Most people believe that they are more intelligent and skilful than the average person, according to a 2020 meta-analysis by Zell and colleagues. Obviously, this cannot be the case. Overconfidence has a cost – it can lead to things like poor financial decisions and dangerous driving. So why do we have such a tendency to overestimate our abilities?

你认识的人中是否有人对自己的能力比实际表现更自信？ 也许他们认为自己是一位令人难以置信的歌手，但实际上他们是五音不全的。 根据 Zell 及其同事 2020 年的荟萃分析，大多数人认为自己比普通人更聪明、更有技巧。 显然，事实并非如此。 过度自信是有代价的——它可能导致糟糕的财务决策和危险驾驶等问题。 那么为什么我们会倾向于高估自己的能力呢？

Excessive self-belief requires self-deception – believing your own falsehoods. An evolutionary perspective argues that humans evolved self-deception so that we could deceive others more easily. The theory goes that if you believe your own lies about your abilities, you're less likely to display behaviours which will give it away, such as nervousness or hesitation. Decei

Reuters correspondent Zachary Goelman reports. Pursuing what he has called a, quote "America First" agenda, Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all foreign aid in his first day back in office.

路透社记者扎卡里·戈尔曼（Zachary Goelman）报道。特朗普在上任第一天就下令暂停所有外国援助90天，以推行他所谓的“美国优先”议程。

That order and ensuing stop-work orders halting U.S. Agency for International Development operations around the world have jeopardized delivery of life-saving food and medical aid, throwing global humanitarian relief efforts into chaos.

该命令以及随后的停工令暂停了美国国际开发署在世界各地的业务，危及了救命食品和医疗援助的运送，使全球人道主义救援工作陷入混乱。

Aid organizations accused Trump in lawsuits of exceeding his authority under federal law by stepping into an area that's a matter for Congress.

援助组织在诉讼中指责特朗普超越了联邦法律赋予的权限，介入了属于国会事务的领域。

A Washington-based U.S. district judge last month ordered the administration release approximately $2 billion in funding to contractors and grant recipients.

上个月，华盛顿的一名美

A senior Trump administration official said Thursday that Ukraine was given a fair warning by the White House before U.S. President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on American military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv.

特朗普政府一名高级官员周四表示，在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普本周下令暂停美国与基辅的军事援助和情报共享之前，白宫已经向乌克兰发出了警告。

AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. A Trump envoy says Ukraine has itself to blame for a pause on American military aid and intelligence sharing. "... they brought it on themselves."

美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼（Sagar Meghani）报道。特朗普特使表示，乌克兰应该为暂停美国军事援助和情报共享负责。“……这是他们自找的。”

Keith Kellogg, the president's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, tells the Council on Foreign Relations Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy was told last week's Oval Office talks would focus on signing a rare earth minerals deal with the U.S.

特朗普总统的乌克兰和俄罗斯问题特使基思·凯洛格告诉外交关系委员会，乌克兰领导人泽连斯基上周被告知，椭圆形办公室的会谈将集中在与美国签署稀土矿产协议上。

"The best way I can describe it is sort o

Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero film Black Panther about a powerful African kingdom and its king was one of the highest grossing films of all time raking in 1.3 billion dollars internationally.

瑞恩·库格勒2018年执导的超级英雄电影《黑豹》，讲述了一个强大的非洲王国及其国王的故事，是史上票房最高的电影之一，全球票房收入达13亿美元。

The mega blockbuster with a predominantly black cast has prompted Hollywood to flood money on more black productions and TV series than ever before.

这部以黑人演员为主的超级大片，促使好莱坞投入比以往更多的资金来制作更多黑人题材的影视剧。

That woke everybody up and said, "Wow, there's money here".

这把所有人都惊着了，说道：“哇，这里有钱可赚”。

And suddenly, all of the black film makers who had ideas and passion and vision, suddenly now they had money, so they could actually make the movies that they wanted to make.

突然之间，所有那些怀揣创意、激情与远见的黑人电影制作人有了资金，这样他们就能制作出自己想拍的电影了。

Over the course of probably the last 10 years, we've seen a renaissance in black storytelling, like we haven't seen probably in the fi

In the very heart of Manhattan, in the formerly hectic Times Square, New York city gave the best spot in town to plastic.

在曼哈顿的正中心，在昔日熙熙攘攘的时代广场，纽约市将城中最优越的位置让给了塑料。

There's tens of thousands of disposable plastic items in the grocery store that I spent a couple years collecting from various trash cans around New York city.

杂货店有成千上万件一次性塑料制品，这些是我花了几年时间从纽约市各处的垃圾桶里收集来的。

Every item in this pop-up grocery store installation is made of plastic bags.

这家快闪杂货店装置中的每一件物品都是用塑料袋制成的。

This one took a while, but it was very fun to like figure out how to do all the like little, like frosting effects all the way around. You can touch it, yeah, for sure.

这一件花了不少时间，但琢磨出如何做出那些小小的、像糖霜一样的装饰效果，整个过程非常有趣。你可以摸摸它。

Turning something no one else wants into art is a time-honored tradition

Beloved by generations of visitors and steeped in history, Margam Park was already known to have an Iron Age hill fort, the remains of a Norman abbey and a Victorian castle, which looks out today over Port Talbot steelworks. Now, though, it can add a Roman villa to that list.

马格姆公园深受几代访客喜爱，且历史底蕴深厚。这里原本就因拥有一座铁器时代的山丘堡垒、一处诺曼时期修道院遗址，以及一座俯瞰塔尔博特港钢铁厂的维多利亚时期的城堡而闻名。而现在，公园的古迹名单上又多了一座罗马别墅遗址。

Sophisticated scanning devices were used to look for archaeological features hidden underground, and the Swansea University-led team struck gold.

由斯旺西大学领衔的团队利用先进的扫描设备寻找埋藏在地下的考古遗迹，并取得了这一重大发现。

The villa itself has multiple rooms, a substantial side building, and it sits within a defensive enclosure. The experts hope to findmosaicfloors and other precious artefacts, and say their discovery is of a scale and level of preservation unmatched in Wales so far.

这座别墅拥有多个房间、一座规模颇大的附属建筑，并坐落于一处设有防御设施的围合区域内。专家希望在此发现马赛克地面和其它珍贵文物，并表示，无论是遗址规模还是保存状况，此次发现在威尔士都堪称首屈一指。

Rollercoasters have been making stomachs flip for centuries. The earliest versions appeared in 17th-century Russia, where brave riders slid down giant ice-covered ramps. Modern steel rollercoasters transformed theme parks into thrill-seeking playgrounds. Today, they're bigger, faster and taller than ever. Millions of people queue for hours just to experience a few minutes of screaming, laughing and that heart-racing drop. But if you're anything like me, there comes a point when those rides stop feeling exciting and start feeling... slightly regrettable.
几个世纪以来，过山车一直让人胃部翻腾。 最早的版本出现在 17 世纪的俄罗斯，勇敢的骑手从巨大的冰雪坡道上滑下。 现代钢制过山车将主题公园变成了寻求刺激的游乐场。 如今，它们比以往任何时候都更大、更快、更高。 数百万人排队几个小时，只是为了体验几分钟的尖叫、大笑和心跳加速的感觉。 但如果你和我一样，那么到了某个时刻，这些游乐设施就会不再让你感到兴奋，而是开始感到……有点遗憾。

As children, rollercoasters seem almost impossible to resist. Part of the appeal is that contrasting mix of fear and excitement. According to BBC Science Focus, rollercoasters trigger the body's fight-or-flight response, releasing adrenaline, dopamine and endorphins that make the experience feel exciting and rewarding. Our brains quickly learn to associate that rush with fun, which is why so many children can't wait to jump back in the queue. The sense of a...

In 2014, California's King Fire blackened 400 square kilometers of forest, massive erosion followed.

2014年，加州国王大火烧毁了400平方公里的森林， 随后发生了大规模的水土流失。

One of Placer County's two reservoirs filled with sediment and had to be dredged, says county water chief Andy Fecko.

普莱瑟县主管安迪·费科表示，该县两座水库中有一座因泥沙淤积而不得不进行疏浚。

Every time we do that, it's a five to seven million dollar cost that you incur.

每次我们进行疏浚，都要花费500万到700万美元。

And you're out of business during the whole time when you're trying to clear those facilities out. And so we incurred those costs several years in a row.

当你试图清理那些设施时，你一直处于停业状态。我们连续几年支付了这些费用。

And he worried about the county's other reservoir, French Meadows, just a few kilometers away.

他还担心几公里外的另一座水库——法国草地水库。

So it was one of these watersheds that was very much under threat of a high-intensity wildfire.

正是这些流域之一受到了一场高强度野火的威胁。

It's what they do when they don't want something to happen, filibuster, an effort to prevent a vote in the USSenateby extending debate.

这就是他们不想让某事发生时会采取的手段——冗长辩论，这是一种通过延长辩论来阻止美国参议院投票表决的做法。

TheSenateprides itself on being a deliberative body where debate is vital to decision making.

参议院以自己是一个审议机构而自豪，在那里辩论对决策至关重要。

Senaterules allow debate on a measure to continue until three-fifths--60 out of the 100 senators--vote to end it.

参议院规则允许对一项议案进行辩论，直到五分之三（即100名参议员中的60名）投票决定终止辩论为止。

At one time, a two-thirds vote was needed, butSenaterules changed in 1975.

曾经需要三分之二的多数票，但参议院规则在1975年进行了修改。

So when asenatoror group of senators want to block something, they take the floor and keep talking.

当某位参议员或一群参议员想要阻止某项议案时，他们就会持续发言。

In recent decades, the mere threat of a filibuster has been enough to halt action on almost any bill that lacks the support of 60 senators.

近几十年来，仅凭冗长辩论的威胁就足以阻止任

A moment that is filled with both happiness and worry for future parents.

对准父母来说，这是一个既充满幸福又夹杂着担忧的时刻。

It's like we're having a baby. Social networks are filled with such videos.

我们要迎来一个新生命了。社交网络中充斥着这样的视频。

However, it's pretty hard to find stories from the other end of the spectrum: families talking about miscarriages.

然而，要找到另一个极端的故事却相当困难，即那些谈论流产经历的家庭故事。

Heather Hodnicki and her husband Joe, parents of a one-year-old boy, recorded this video when doctors told them Heather's second pregnancy is unlikely to be viable.

Heather Hodnicki和她的丈夫Joe有一个一岁大的男孩，当医生告诉他们Heather的第二次怀孕不太可能成功时，他们录下了这段视频。

A hematoma formed around the fetus, and at nine weeks Heather had a miscarriage.

胎儿周围形成了血肿，到第九周时，Heather流产了。

Instead of closing up, she started a blog on Instagram, where she shares her difficult experience.

她没有封闭自己，而是在照片墙上开了一个博客，分享自己的艰难经历。

Researchers from universities in Edinburgh and Mexico spent seven years studying the behaviour of black-handed spider monkeys in the Yucatan Peninsula. They observed that the large groups the primates live in split into smaller subgroups when searching for food. Different combinations of monkeys would split off each time, meaning the same subgroup might never forage together twice.

来自爱丁堡和墨西哥多所大学的研究人员花了七年时间研究尤卡坦半岛上黑掌蜘蛛猴的行为。他们观察到，这类灵长目动物群居的大群体会在寻找食物时分成一个个小分队。每次分出来的小分队成员都不同，这意味着几乎不会出现原班人马第二次一起觅食的情况。

Dr Matthew Silk from the University of Edinburgh says these groups are a clever way of sharing knowledge about the locations of the best fruit trees. Some parts of the forest were known by many monkeys, like a town's favourite restaurant, while others were known by just one or two, like a hidden gem.

爱丁堡大学的马修·西尔克博士称，这种分组方式很聪明，可以有效地分享最好吃的果树位置。森林里的某些地方就像城里最受欢迎的餐厅，很多猴子都知道；而有些地方则像一个鲜为人知的 “宝藏小店”，只有一两只猴子了解。

Less than a centimetre in size, these tiny snails had been pushed to thebrinkof extinction.

这些体长不足一厘米的小型蜗牛一度濒临灭绝。

Their home on the Madeira Archipelago had been grazed bare by invasive goats and rabbits, while mice saw the molluscs as a water source.

它们在马德拉群岛上的栖息地被入侵的山羊和兔子啃食殆尽，而老鼠则将这些软体动物当作水分的来源。

But after conservation work, including a breeding programme at Chester Zoo, hundreds of the snails have now been returned to the wild. The team said they had one shot to save the species.

不过，在实施了一系列动物保护措施后，包括切斯特动物园的一个繁育项目，数百只蜗牛如今已经被重新放归野外。研究团队表示，他们只有这一次机会来拯救这一物种。

The mission involved transporting them in the dark to snail-friendly crevices in the rocks. It's hoped they come out of their shell to restore soil and boost the natural habitat.

此次行动包括在夜间将这些蜗牛转移到适宜生存的岩石缝中。人们希望它们能从壳中爬出、重新活跃起来，从而帮助恢复土壤环境，促进当地生态栖息地的恢复。

We have four seasons in the UK. I like to think that spring gets its name from the flowers springing up to bloom. Next is my personal favourite – summer. I love the long, balmy evenings. Autumn, as some call fall, comes after. It's characterised by the orange and red leaves. Winter rolls around, and most of the vegetation is either decomposing or already dead, and the days are short and gloomy.

英国有四个季节。 我喜欢认为春天因花朵绽放而得名。 接下来是我个人最喜欢的——夏天。 我喜欢漫长而温暖的夜晚。 秋天，有些人称之为秋天，随之而来。 它的特点是橙色和红色的叶子。 冬季来临，大部分植被要么腐烂，要么已经死亡，白天短而阴沉。

It's no wonder that, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, about three in every hundred people in the UK experience seasonal affective disorder, otherwise known as SAD. However, researchers at the Royal College of Psychiatrists have discovered that all seasons have an impact on our psychological functioning. It's also been found that hormones play an importan...

Doctors said Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia, but have decided to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment.

医生表示，教皇方济各不再因肺炎而面临死亡危险，但决定让他住院几天接受治疗。

Francis on Monday followed the Vatican's week-long spiritual retreat via video conference. AP correspondent Charles De Ledesma reports.

周一，方济各通过视频会议参加了梵蒂冈为期一周的精神静修。美联社记者查尔斯·德·莱德斯马（Charles De Ledesma）报道。

As he did on Sunday, Francis participated in the retreat remotely from the Rome hospital where he's being treated.

与周日一样，方济各在罗马医院远程参加了静修。

He could see and hear the Reverend Roberto Pasolini, preacher of the papal household, but the priests, bishops and cardinals gathered for the retreat in the Vatican auditorium could not see or hear him.

他可以看到和听到教皇家庭传教士罗伯托·帕索里尼（Roberto Pasolini）牧师，但聚集在梵蒂冈礼堂参加静修的牧师、主教和红衣主教看不到也听不到他。

Hi, I'm VOA's Alexis Strope with your worldwide news update.

大家好，我是美国之音新闻记者亚历克西斯·斯特罗普（Alexis Strope），为您带来全球新闻。

Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday in an effort to advance the negotiations around the cease-fire in Gaza.

以色列表示，将于周一派遣代表团前往卡塔尔，推动加沙停火谈判。

Hamas reports positive signals in talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on starting negotiations on thetruce's delayed second phase. Talks on the second phase should have started a month ago.

哈马斯报告称，在与埃及和卡塔尔调解人的会谈中，就启动停火延迟第二阶段的谈判，出现了积极信号。第二阶段谈判本应在一个月前开始。

There was no immediate comment from the White House, which on Wednesday made the surprise confirmation of direct U.S. talks with Hamas.

白宫周三意外证实美国将与哈马斯举行直接会谈，但白宫没有立即发表评论。

Israel, over the past week, has pressed Hamas to release half the remaining hostages in return for an extension of the first phase that ended last weekend.

过去一周，以色列一直敦促哈马斯释放一

The International Criminal Court said former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into custody by the ICC on Wednesday following his arrest in Manila on murder charges linked to his war on drugs.

国际刑事法院表示，菲律宾前总统罗德里戈·杜特尔特周三在马尼拉因与禁毒战争有关的谋杀指控被捕，随后被国际刑事法院拘留。

Reuters correspondent Olivia Zollino reports. The 79-year-old arrived at Rotterdam Airport on a chartered plane and was transferred to a detention unit on the Dutch coast.

路透社记者奥利维亚·佐利诺（Olivia Zollino）报道。这位79岁的老人乘坐包机抵达鹿特丹机场，并被转移到荷兰海岸的一个拘留所。

The court's warrant for his arrest alleges that, as president, Duterte created, funded and armed death squads that carried out murders of purported drug users and dealers.

法院的逮捕令指控杜特尔特在担任总统期间，创建、资助和武装了行刑队，对所谓的吸毒者和贩毒者实施谋杀。

Duterte's war on drugs was a signature of his presidency, which lasted from 2016 to 2022.

杜特尔特的禁毒战争是他2016年至2022年总统任期的标志。

The anti-drugs

The Glover Park Community Garden Association started around 1939 and then it slowly grew to become a victory garden in 1942 when the US was at war.

格洛弗公园社区花园协会大约在1939年成立，随后在1942年美国二战时期，它逐渐发展成为一个“胜利花园”。

It became essential for the folks that lived in the area here to grow their own vegetables as they were not able to purchase these things in the grocery store at that time.

对于生活在这一带的人们来说，自己种植蔬菜变得至关重要，因为当时他们无法在杂货店里买到这些东西。

We really want to respect the intent, the original intent of this garden which was a victory garden during World War II.

我们真的很想尊重这座花园的初衷，它在二战期间曾是一座“胜利花园”。

And we just think that's kind of amazing because it's almost we're using it that way again now with food shortages potentially at the grocery stores.

我们觉得这有点不可思议，因为现在疫情期间杂货店食品短缺，我们又用这种方式自给自足。

And we think it's exciting to carry on that tradition for

When the US government forced more than 60,000 native Americans to relocate to Oklahoma to make way for white settlers in the 1830s, their slaves came with them.

19世纪30年代，美国政府迫使6万多名美洲原住民迁往俄克拉荷马州 ，为白人定居者腾出土地 ，他们的奴隶也一同前往 。

After emancipation, the freed slaves, known as freedmen, settled and built their own towns.

解放后，获得自由的奴隶，即所谓的自由民，定居下来并建造了自己的城镇。

Where they would have the opportunity to live amongst people that looked like them, amongst people who understood the plights that they had escaped from, but ready to embark upon a new opportunity, form their own government in terms of their mayors and their elected officials, all of whom were like them, and it was an amazing opportunity.

在那里，他们将有机会与和自己长相相似的人生活在一起，与那些理解他们所逃离的困境的人生活在一起，同时准备好迎接新的机遇，按照自己的意愿选举市长和官员来组建自己的政府，而所有这些官员都和他们一样，这真是一个绝佳的机

France has been gripped this month by the so-called Charlie Hebdo trial against the alleged accomplices of Islamists, who attacked a French satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in 2015.

本月，法国正深陷所谓的《查理周刊》案审判之中，该案针对2015年袭击一家法国讽刺报纸和一家犹太洁食超市的伊斯兰主义者的涉嫌同谋者。

It was the first of a string of terror attacks along with the Islamist insurgency in the Middle East and elsewhere that fed a broader zeroing in on radical islam here.

这是中东及其他地区伊斯兰叛乱引发的一系列恐怖袭击中的第一起，这让更多的人把矛头对准了这里的激进伊斯兰。

This recent history partly forms the backdrop of upcoming legislation on so-called separatisms.

这段近代史在一定程度上构成了即将出台的所谓分离立法的背景。

Details are sketchy but reports suggest the bill will crack down on importing foreign imams and foreign financing of private schools, and increase surveillance on suspect groups.

细节尚不清楚，但有报道称，该法案将打击外国伊玛目入境和私立学校的外国融资，并加强对可疑群体的监控。

The government says it aims to fight so-called enemies of France, of French values and way of life.<