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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。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。