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A quarter of a century after a famine in Ethiopia which dramatised failings in the food system, famine is again stalking the Horn of Africa.

埃塞俄比亚饥荒让粮食系统的不足昭之若然，25年过后，饥荒又一次接近非洲之角。

Interviewed in one such place, Shihezi, half a century later, a survivor of the force, a woman called Teacher Sun, recalled making schoolhouses — even desks and lecterns — out of sod bricks and mud in scorching summer heat and winters so frigid she was forced to use her plaited hair as padding for extra warmth.

采访就从其中的一座城市开始的，半个世纪以后的石河子市。接受采访的是当年的一位幸存者-孙老师，她回忆了当时建造学校的情景，连制作课桌和讲台的细节也没有遗漏。他们和泥制草砖，无论寒冬酷暑，冬天冷得实在受不了，就用编成辫子的头发做垫子取暖。

On July 3, 1790, a group of classical names was officially bestowed by the Land Office in New York City upon twenty-five unsettled town-ships in western New York state: Lysander, Hannibal, Cato, Brutus, Camillus, Cicero, Manlius, Aurelius, Marcellus, Pompey, Romulus, Scipio, Sempronius, Tully, Fabius, Ovid, Milton, Locke, Homer, Solon, Hector, Ulysses, Dryden, Virgil, Cincinnatus.11 Nearly a century and a half of ridicule has not sufficed to remove these names; and it is probably safe to predict that, likethe many pre-Celtic toponyms still in use in France12 and England, they will persist-modified in form, to be sure even when the English tongue itself has become one of the dead languages.

在1790年7月3日，古典名小组正式赐予20由纽约市国土局5个悬而未决的镇在纽约州西部的船舶：莱桑德，汉尼拔，卡托，勃鲁托斯，卡米勒斯，西塞罗，曼利乌什，奥勒留，马塞，庞培，罗慕路斯，西庇阿，森普罗，塔利，法比尤斯，奥维德，弥尔顿，洛克，荷马，梭伦，赫克托，尤利西斯，德赖登，维吉尔，Cincinnatus.11近一世纪的嘲笑有一半没有足以消除这些名字，并很可能是安全的预测，总量达747多前仍然在France12和英国使用凯尔特地名，他们将坚持在形式的修改，以确保即使在英语母语本身已成为死的语言之一。

A century later, at a time of sorest peril, this small and hitherto feeble nation--the only one in Europe that dared lend a helping hand--came to the deliverance of Germany in the terrible struggle of the Thirty Years' War.

一百年之后，在一个最紧急的危机之下，这一个向来是弱小的国家，在&三十年战争&的可怕挣扎中出来支援了德国，而且这是欧洲唯一胆敢出力相助的国家。

He is perhaps the showiest performer since Vladimir de Pachmann, a Chopin specialist of a century ago who used to milk cows to exercise his fingers and dip each digit in a glass of brandy before recitals.

一个世纪以前，那位善于弹奏肖邦作品的巴哈曼曾经通过挤牛奶锻炼他的手指，并且在演奏前把每一个手指都浸在一杯白兰地中。

In May, a 29-year-old British woman, Nuala Conway, gave birth to the country's first sextuplets for a quarter of a century.

5月，一名29岁的英国女子，康威，生下了该国25年来的第一例六胞胎。

In the early industrialized countries of Europe the process of industrialization-with all the farreaching changes in social pattens that followed-was spread over nearly a century,whereas nowdays a developing nation may undergo the same process in a decade or so.

在先前实现工业化的欧洲国家中，其工业化进程以及随之而来的各种深刻的社会结构变革，持续了大约一个世纪之久，然而如今的一个发展中国家在十年左右就可能完成这个过程。

Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.

不管是恐慌还是充满希望，许多希腊人都嗅到了一个政治体制倾覆的气息。这个体制已经存在了一个世纪之久，两个政治团体（理论上来说包括中立偏左和中立偏右两派，但双方都赞助和贿赂面前败下阵来。）在相互攀比中渐渐将国库坐吃山空。

THE longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst,"Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", at Sotheby's in London on September 15th 2008.

随着2008年9月15日在伦敦苏富比拍卖行举行的&我内心的美丽永存&拍卖会上Damien Hirst的56件作品的出售，艺术市场一个世纪以来最长的一次顶峰划上一个戏剧性的终结。

THE longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst,"Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", at Sotheby's in London on September 15th 2008.

原译： 随着2008年9月15日在伦敦苏富比拍卖行举行的&我内心的美丽永存&拍卖会上Damien Hirst的56件作品的出售，艺术市场一个世纪以来最长的一次顶峰划上一个戏剧性的终结。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。