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Dorian: This young lady. Manager: Miss Sibyl Vane, my lord, in the role of Ophelia. Sibyl: ...see that noble and most sovereign reason like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy. Oh, woe is me. Manager: May I present the Theatre Royale's Miss Sibyl Vane, my lord? Gray: I'm not really a lord. I don't know why he keeps saying that. Sibyl: We don't get many gentlemen in this theatre. Gray: Really? Well, then, I shall recommend it to them. Sibyl: May I ask what brings you to my dressing room? Gray: Well, I...I just happened to be passing the theatre and...Well, you see, I was in the gin shop... Sibyl: I know. Gray: You remember? Well, a friend took me there for the first time. Well, I say the first time. Of course, I have...Well, I wanted to... wanted to say hello, but then you left with... Sibyl: With Jim. Gray: Yes. Quite. Jim. Sibyl: My brother. Gray: Brother? Sibyl: Mm. Gray: Well, that's splendid! Sorry. It was wrong of me to... Please forgive my intrusion, Miss Vane. Sibyl: Wait! There's something you haven't told me. Gray: Yes, of course. I do beg your pardon. Ophelia is a most challenging role and your performance this evening was...impeccable. In fact, extraordinary. In fact...you are extraordinary. And when I saw you on the stage, and even more so, now I stand before you, I am awestruck and humbled by your radiance. Sibyl: I meant your name. You didn't tell me your name. *************************** Sibyl: So, how many other girls do you bring here? Gray: Hundreds. Thousands. Sibyl: You must be courting dozens at least. Gray: No. Sibyl: You can tell me the truth. Gray: There's only you. There's only you. ***************** Henry: Tell me, what are your actual relations with this young thing? Basil: A fraction of respect, man. Gray: It's not like that. Sibyl's sacred. Henry: It's only the scared things that are worth touching. People nowadays fear their passions. Gray: Well, I don't. Henry: Of course you do. We're taught terror from the nursery. Terror of God, or, even worse, of scandal. We're taught to spend our entire lives cowering in self-denial. The truth, Mr Gray, is that every impulse we strangle only poisons us. Basil: You'll make him wish he'd never mentioned the girl. Tailor: Well, Monsieur. Henry: There's something missing. Gray: Thank you, Harry. Gray: I took the liberty of filling it with my blend. ******************** Sibyl: Oh, Dorian. It's beautiful. Gray: I just thought it would suit you. Sibyl: I should be going. Jim will worry. Gray: Of course. Or we could...I mean...You could...stay...here...with me. We shouldn't be afraid of our feelings, Sib. Sibyl: It's just...I've seen other girls who give themselves, and then I've seen what becomes of them. Gray: I love you. Forgive me. I didn't mean... Sibyl: You're all I ever want in the world. 妙語佳句 活學活用 1. dressing room: 化裝室。Dressing table則是“梳妝臺”，dressing gown是“晨衣，睡袍”。 2. intrusion: 侵入；闖入；打擾。例如：numerous intrusions on somebody's privacy（無數次地侵擾某人的私人生活）。 3. impeccable: 無可挑剔的，無瑕疵的，完美的。例如：impeccable character（無可挑剔的品德）。 4. awestruck: 充滿敬畏的。 5. court: 求愛。影片中Sibyl覺得像Dorian這麼英俊的男子可能同時在和幾個女人談戀愛，她有點不相信自己會那麼幸運。看一下例子：We used to go there when we were courting.（我們談戀愛的時候常去那兒。）court還可以表示“設法贏得（某種地位等），求取”，例如：The teacher tried to court popularity by giving his students very little work.（老師給學生佈置很少的作業以博得他們的好感。） 6. cower: 退縮，畏縮。例如：We found the kidnapped children cowering in a corner.（我們發現被綁架的兒童畏縮在角落裡。） 7. self-denial: 克己，自我犧牲。影片中亨利指人們出於對上帝或對流言的恐懼而克制自己的欲望。 8．strangle: 抑制，壓制。例如：Creativity is being strangled by financial pressures.（創造力被經濟上的重重壓力抑制住瞭。） 9. take the liberty of doing sth.: 未經許可做某事。liberty指的是“（未經許可的）冒昧行為；放肆，失禮”。請看例子："Whenever he needs a car he just takes mine, without asking whether I mind." "What a liberty!" （“他一需要用車，就開走我的車，也不問我是否介意。”“真是太過分瞭！”） 10. become of sb./sth.: （常指壞事）……發生（遭遇）某種情況；結果（怎麼樣）。看一下例子：Whatever became of that nice girl you used to share a flat with?（過去同你合住一套房子的那個可愛的女孩後來怎樣瞭？） 1. Frailty, your name is woman! 脆弱啊，你的名字是女人！ 2. To be or not to be, that's a question. 生存還是毀滅，那是個值得思考的問題。 3. Out, out, brief candle, life is but a walking shadow. 熄滅瞭吧！熄滅瞭吧！短促的燭光！人生不過是會行走的幻影。 4. The course of true love never did run smooth. 真愛之路從來不是平坦的。 5. All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. 全世界是一個巨大的舞臺，所有紅塵男女均隻是演員罷瞭。上場下場各有其時。每個人一生都扮演著許多角色。 6. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! 人類是一件多麼瞭不得的傑作！多麼高貴的理性！多麼偉大的力量！多麼優美的儀表！多麼文雅的舉動！在行動上多麼像一個天使！在智慧上多麼像一個天神！宇宙的精華！萬物的靈長！ 7. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. 新仇舊恨，齊上心頭。 8. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. 傻瓜總以為自己很聰明，但聰明人知道自己是傻瓜。 9. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see. 戀愛是盲目的，戀人們看不見自己做的傻事。 10. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. 懦夫在未死之前就已經死過多少次瞭；勇士一生隻死一次。 11. There's daggers in men's smiles. 笑裡藏刀。 12. What's done is done. 覆水難收。 13. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't. 純真的面孔下可能隱藏著蛇蠍心腸。 14. Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. 求得的愛情是美好的，但主動給予的愛情更美好。 15. Men of few words are the best men. 寡言的人是最好的人。 16. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 美貌比金銀更容易引起歹心。 17. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! 哎！從別人的眼中看幸福，自己真有說不出的酸楚！ 18. Thus sometimes have the brightest day a cloud. 最晴朗的天空有時也會飄過一絲的雲彩。 19. If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. 若一年四季都是吃喝玩樂的假日，那麼盡情的玩樂也就像工作一樣的鬱悶。 (Source: http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/quotes/quotes.htm; http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4a4cc69a01000613.html?retcode=0) 考考你 1. 請原諒我擅自進來。 2. 她穿著得無可挑剔。 3. 狗受到主人大聲呵斥而退縮。 4. 盡管這封信是寫給你的，可是我冒昧地看過瞭。 5. 如果公司破產，我真不知道我們會怎麼樣。 《道林·格雷》精講之三 參考答案 1. Their quarrels are the talk of the town. 2. The fairy godmother changed four rats into four horses by conjuration. 3. They barter grains for cloth. 4. I like her unaffected manners. 精彩對白：We're taught terror from the nursery. Terror of God, or, even worse, of scandal. We're taught to spend our entire lives cowering in self-denial. The truth, Mr Gray, is that every impulse we strangle only poisons us.

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A court in eastern China sentenced a man to death Saturday for attacking 29 kindergarten students and three teachers with a knife, state-run media said.

The Taixing Intermediate People's Court found Xu Yuyuan, 47, guilty of intentional homicide after a half-day trial, Xinhua news agency said.

Xu told the court that his rage against society motivated him in the April 29 attacks, according to Xinhua. But he appealed the death sentence, arguing that the punishment was too severe since no one died in the attacks, Xinhua said.

Chinese penal code says a person can be convicted of intentional homicide for acting on an intent to kill, the news agency reported.

A police probe found Xu had been unemployed since 2001, when he was fired by a local insurance company. He told police he carried out the attack because he was angry about a series of business and personal humiliations, Xinhua said.

About 300 people attended Saturday's open trial, according to Xinhua.

Xu's sentence was the second death penalty conviction after a recent spate of school attacks that have prompted public outrage across China.

Zheng Minsheng, 42, was sentenced to death and executed on April 28 for attacking students in front of an elementary school in Fujian province, killing eight and wounding several others. Zheng also used a knife in the attacks, Xinhua reported.

Authorities said Zheng carried out the attack because he was frustrated at "failures in his romantic life," the news agency said.

At least four other such attacks on school children in China have been reported since March.

Guns are strictly regulated in China, but until recently large knives were not. Chinese authorities have recently issued a regulation requiring people to register with their national ID cards when they buy knives longer that 15 centimeters.

Other measures have been put in place.

In April, the Ministry of Education ordered kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools to restrict strangers from entering the campuses. The ministry instructed schools across the country to hire security guards, install security facilities and ensure that pupils were escorted home. Schools were also urged to teach pupils to how to protect themselves.

In some schools, security guards have been armed with "forks," long poles with semi-circular prongs that can be used to fight assailants.

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C•Ronaldo: to be crowned

 

Cristiano Ronald

A much-vaunted prodigy when snapped up by Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon in 2003, Cristiano Ronaldo is now perhaps, apart from David Beckham, the best-known player on the planet. After winning all there was to win with the Red Devils, Ronaldo earned his dream move to Real Madrid in the summer of 2009 for a world record fee of ￡80m. Fast and tricky, Ronaldo possesses a thunderous dipping, swerving shot and is one of the most dangerous set-piece exponents in the game. It is time for Ronaldo to truly live up to his star billing on the world stage.

2003年，當克裡斯蒂亞諾•羅納爾多被曼聯從裡斯本競技買走時，他還隻是一個口碑不錯的足壇神童。如今，C羅已經是除貝克漢姆以外，全球最知名的足球巨星。在"紅魔"豪取個人榮譽大滿貫後，C羅在2009年夏天加盟皇傢馬德裡，8000萬英鎊的轉會費使其成為足壇身價第一人。球場上的C羅速度奇快且花樣繁多，射門力道十足且路線飄忽，他還是國際足壇最令人膽寒的定位球專傢。本屆杯賽，C羅唯有出色的發揮才不會辜負當前的超高人氣。C羅，是時候在世界舞臺證明自己瞭！

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Many of us may dream of owning a small but tasteful bookstore, café, or a flower shop around the corner. But where do you get the money for it? 我們中有很多人可能夢想擁有一間面積不大卻品味高雅的書吧，咖啡館或是位於一傢位於街角的花店。但是該從哪兒籌得一筆經營資金呢？ Wen Erniu (her Internet user name), 28, was not held back by the problem. She solved it creatively by getting together with like-minded people. 28歲的文二妞（網名）並沒有被這一難題難倒，她突發奇想，招募瞭一群志同道合的朋友，解決瞭這個問題。 Wen, a sociology graduate, worked as a civil servant at a governmental training institute in Beijing for three years. 文二妞畢業於社會學專業，並在北京某個政府培訓部門當瞭三年公務員。 “Sitting in front of my computer in the office, I always fancied holding a cup of coffee and enjoying the sunshine. Then I had the idea of launching a café of my own,” said Wen. 文二妞說 ：“坐在辦公室的電腦前，我總是喜歡端一杯咖啡，愜意的享受陽光。之後便有瞭開一傢自己的咖啡館的想法。” She did not have enough money, and did not want to quit her stable job for a risky startup. 她沒有充足的資金，也不想為瞭這種風險創業而辭去自己穩定的工作。 So she posted on douban.com to invite people to raise funds for a café last year 因此，她去年在豆瓣網上發帖邀請人們一起出資開傢咖啡館。. Unexpectedly, she attracted 79 partners from the Internet, and 410,000 yuan in total to start the project. 出乎意料的是，她吸引瞭79位合夥人，共籌得41萬元人民幣的項目啟動資金。 They worked on plans such as corporate charters and operational guidelines and signed agreements on how to manage the café. 他們起草瞭包括公司章程、業務準則等在內的一系列計劃書，同時簽署瞭有關咖啡館管理工作的協議。 The cafe named “Many People’s Cafe” opened in Beijing last September. 去年九月，這傢"很多人咖啡館”在北京開業。 As 80 people jointly own the 190-square-meter store, disagreements over management were inevitable. 這傢190平方米的小店有80位東傢，因此管理上的分歧自然不可避免。 Arguments flared up over how to decorate the café. Some wanted a rock music theme, others insisted on a rustic look. That was only the beginning. 爭論爆發於咖啡館的裝修問題上，一些人想采用搖滾樂主題，而另一些人則堅持鄉村原始風。而這次分歧僅僅是個開始。 “We are wading across the stream by feeling our way,” said Wen. 文二妞說：“我感覺我們是在摸著石頭過河”。 None of the 80 shareholders has any professional management experience. At the beginning, there were only four waiters in the café and no manager. 80位股東都不具備專業的管理經驗。起初，咖啡館沒有管理人員，隻有4位服務員，沒有店長。 “We found it was not good, so now every three months we elect a manager from shareholders and take turns to manage the café,” said Wen. 文二妞說：“我們發現這樣不行。所以我們現在每三個月就從股東中選出一名店長，大傢輪流管理這傢咖啡館”。 Although this group of young people are proud to run the café on the basis of mutual trust, respect and democracy, the lack of experience and systematic management adds uncertainty to its future. 盡管有一點讓這群年輕人頗為自豪，那就是這傢合開的咖啡吧是建立在相互信任，尊重與民主的基礎上，但相關經驗以及系統管理上的欠缺卻給咖啡館的未來增添瞭不確定性。 Currently, the running cost of the café is 35,000 yuan a month, while the turnover is merely 24,000 yuan, although they have launched a series of activities to attract customers. 目前，咖啡館的運營成本為3.5萬元/月。 盡管他們推出瞭一系列招攬顧客的活動，但營業額卻隻有2.4萬元。 Their model has inspired young people around the country. A café named March was launched by 80 shareholders with 300,000 yuan as capital in Wuhan last week. 他們的這種經營模式激發瞭全國各地年輕人的靈感。上周，另有80位合夥人共同籌集瞭30萬元資本，在武漢開瞭一傢“三月咖啡館”。 “Earning money is not our only goal. Many shareholders joined to make friends, or to have an interesting experience,” said Wen. 文二妞說：“賺錢並非我們唯一的目標，很多股東之所以加盟，是為瞭去結交朋友或去收獲些有趣的經

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Michael Rorrer said his great aunt once mentioned having comic books she would one day give to him and his brother, but it was a passing remark made when they were boys and still into superheroes. Ruby Wright gave no indication at the time - and she died last February, leaving it unclear - that her late husband's comic collection contained some of the most prized issues ever published. The 345 comics were slated to sell at auction in New York on Wednesday, and were expected to fetch more than $2 million. Rorrer, 31, of Oxnard, California, discovered his great uncle Billy Wright's comics neatly stacked in a basement closet while helping clear out his great aunt's Martinsville, Virginia, home a few months after her death. He said he thought they were cool but didn't realize until months later how valuable they were. Rorrer, who works as an operator at a plant where oil is separated from water, said he was telling a co-worker about Captain America No. 2, a 1941 issue in which the hero bursts in on Adolf Hitler, when the co-worker mused that it would be something if he had Action Comics No. 1, in which Superman makes his first appearance. "I went home and was looking through some of them and there it was," said Rorrer, who then began researching the collection's value in earnest. He found out that his great uncle had managed as a boy to buy a staggering array of what became the most valuable comic books ever published. "This is just one of those collections that all the guys in the business think don't exist anymore," said Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Heritage Auctions, the Dallas-based auction house overseeing the sale. The collection includes 44 of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide's list of top 100 issues from comics' golden age. "The scope of this collection is, from a historian's perspective, dizzying," said J.C. Vaughn, the guide's associate publisher. Once Rorrer realized how important the comics were, he called his mother, Lisa Hernandez, 54, of League City, Texas, who had divided them into two boxes. She sent one to him and kept the other one at her house for his brother. Rorrer and his mother then went through their boxes, checking comic after comic off the list. "I couldn't believe what I had sitting there upstairs at my house," Rorrer said. Hernandez, who works as an operator at a chemical plant, said it really hit her how valuable the comics were when she saw the look on Allen's face after he came to her house to look through the comics she had there. "It was kind of hard to wrap my head around it," Allen said. Rorrer said he only remembers his aunt making the fleeting reference to the comics when she learned that he and his brother, Jonathan Rorrer, now 29, of Houston, liked comic books. He said his great uncle, who died in 1994 at age 66, never mentioned his collection. The Action Comics No. 1 - which Wright bought when he was about 11 - is expected to sell for about $325,000. A Detective Comics No. 27, the 1939 issue that features the first appearance of Batman, is expected to fetch about $475,000. And the Captain America No. 2 with Hitler on the cover that had caught Rorrer's eye? That's expected to bring in about $100,000. Allen, who called the collection "jaw-dropping," noted that Wright "seemed to have a knack" for picking up the ones that would be the most valuable and managed to keep them in good condition. The core of his collection is from 1938 to 1941. Hernandez said it makes sense that her uncle - even as a boy - had a discerning eye. The man who went to The College of William and Mary before having a long career as a chemical engineer for DuPont was smart, she said. And, she added, Wright was an only child whose mother kept most everything he had. She said that they found games from the 1930s that were still in their original boxes. "There were some really hard to find books that were in really, really great condition," said Paul Litch, the primary grader at Certified Guaranty Co, an independent certification service for comic books. "You can see it was a real collection," Litch said. "Someone really cared about these and kept them in good shape." QUESTIONS 1 How much is a set of valuable comic books expected to fetch at auction? 2 Where did they come from? 3 When were they purchased? Answers 1. $2 million 2. Private collection of Billy Wright 3. Mostly from 1938 to 1941

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媒體英語會帶大傢一起學習 BBC 撰稿人在報道世界大事時常用到的單詞和短語。

稿印度胡裡狂歡節期間已經有近兩百人被送進瞭孟買的醫院。按照當地的習俗，人們在慶祝活動中相互投擲五顏六色的粉彩。不過醫生們懷疑某些粉彩可能含有有毒物質，導致一些人有不不良反應。以下是BBC記者 Rajini Vaidyanathan從孟買發回的報道： Doctors at Mumbai's Sion hospital say dozens of patients arrived at the casualty ward complaining of giddiness, vomiting and headaches. The vast majority were children from one of Mumbai's largest slums, Dharavi. Most are in a stable condition. It's believed they developed a reaction to coloured powders they were throwing. Across the country, millions of people from all walks of life smear and cover themselves from head to toe in bright paints and powders as is custom for Holi. But there has been concern for some time that some of the artificially-produced dyes, which are cheap to buy, contain harmful toxic chemicals which can lead to serious skin and breathing problems. There has been a push in recent years to encourage more revellers to use organic and environmentally-friendly dyes to avoid health risks

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Friday that North Korea must faces consequences over the

alleged sinking of a South Korean warship which has stoked tensions in the divided peninsular. A South Korean military report published this week claimed that the sinking of the Cheonan was caused by

a North Korean torpedo attack.

Pyongyang denies that claim and said Friday that it could back out of a nonaggression pact between the

neighbors if Seoul attempted to punish it over the sinking.

North Korea and South Korea have remained officially at war since an armistice in 1953 brought their

three-year Cold War conflict to an end.

"I think it's important to send a clear message to North Korea that provocative actions have

consequences," Clinton said Friday as she began a week-long Asian tour in Tokyo, Japan. "We cannot allow

the attack on South Korea to go unanswered by the international community."

She said she was consulting with international allies to find the appropriate reaction.

Meanwhile, North Korea said Friday that it would "regard the present situation as the phase of a war"

after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak accused it of engaging in military provocation and violating

the armistice agreement between the nations, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

South Korean military officials on Thursday announced the results of an official investigation into the

sinking of the Cheonan, which concluded that North Korea fired a torpedo that cut the vessel in half.

Lee vowed Thursday to take "resolute countermeasures" against North Korea for its alleged attack,

according to his office.

Should South Korea take steps to retaliate, North Korea will "strongly react to them with such merciless

punishment as the total freeze of the inter-Korean relations, the complete abrogation of the north-south

agreement on nonaggression and a total halt to the inter-Korean cooperation undertakings," North Korea's

Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement, Yonhap reported.

North Korea denied Thursday that it sunk the warship, which went down on March 26, killing 46 sailors.

"We had already warned the South Korean group of traitors not to make reckless remarks concerning the

sinking of warship Cheonan of the puppet navy," North Korea's national defense commission said in a

statement Thursday responding to the investigators' report, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

"Nevertheless, the group of traitors had far-fetchedly tried to link the case with us without offering

any material evidence," the statement said.

The South Korean military group that presented its report on the ship's sinking Thursday comprises

experts from South Korea, Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

"The evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that the torpedo was fired by a North Korean

submarine," said Dr. Yoon Duk-yong, the group's co-chair.

"There is no other plausible explanation," he said.

China asked both sides to stay calm to avoid an "escalation of the situation," said the country's foreign

affairs ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu.

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said the status of the 28,500 U.S. troops in South

Korea has not changed because of the findings.

"They are on their normal state of readiness. They are engaged very routinely out there," Mullen said.

The United States is bound by treaty to assist South Korea if it goes to war.

Japan said it stands behind South Korea. "We had received extensive explanation from the ROK [Republic of

Korea] side prior to today's announcement," Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said in a statement.

"On this basis, Japan strongly supports the ROK. North Korea's action cannot be condoned by any means,

and Japan together with the international community strongly condemns North Korea," the prime minister

said.

"In handling this matter, Japan will continue its close coordination and cooperation for regional peace

and stability with the countries concerned, including the ROK and the United States."

Military and civilian briefers said that damage to the Cheonan's hulk and injuries on the bodies of the

sailors were consistent with the kind of "shock-wave and bubble effect" produced by a homing torpedo

attack. Seismic data, witness statements and computer modeling provided further corroboration, Yoon said.

Briefers displayed torpedo parts recovered from the Cheonan wreck site: part of a motor, a shaft and

parts of the propeller. Korean writing, with the words "Number 1" were inscribed on fragments of the

weapon. The parts displayed in a glass case were compared and shown to be identical to the blueprint of a

7.35 meter torpedo, obtained from a North Korean weapons export brochure.

General Han Won-dong, director of South Korea's Defense Intelligence Agency, declined to state how or

where South Korea had obtained the brochure, citing security sensitivities.

International members of the investigative team agreed with the conclusions.

"We worked closely and collaboratively, using separate tools and methods," said Adm. Thomas Eccles of the

U.S. Navy, adding that all members of the international team were in agreement.

Military officials also identified what they believe to be the type of vessel responsible.

"A few small submarines and a mother ship supporting them left a North Korea naval base in the West Sea

[Yellow Sea] two - three days prior to the attack," Yoon said, citing information gathered by a

multinational task force made up of Australia, Canada, South Korea, the UK and the U.S.

The likely culprit was a midget submarine of the Yeono ("Salmon"), a vessel equipped with night vision

equipment, Han said.

This is not the first clash the two Koreas have had near the maritime border.

In 1999 and 2002, there were fatal naval clashes between surface patrol boats near the inter-Korean

maritime border in the Yellow Sea. A November shooting incident also may have killed North Korean

sailors.

However, the use of a submarine is a significant escalation in terms of weapons used. It's also the

deadliest North Korean attack since the bombing of a South Korean airliner killed 115 people in 1987.

Gen. Park Jung-i, who co-chaired the investigative committee, said that South Korea would give the

evidence to the Armistice Commission that oversees the ceasefire that ended the 1950-1953 on the Korean

peninsula. The commission would make the findings available to North Korea, he said.

Asked what defensive moves the South Korean navy is taking to prevent a recurrence, Han said that that

the navy would establish anti-submarine detection measures, but admitted the difficulty of detecting an

underwater submarine once it has left its base.

 

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed knowledge of the Scientific Outlook on Development through study of senior leaders' insights into the transformation of the economic growth mode.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (C), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, addresses a meeting on further study and implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 8, 2010. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)

Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made remarks during a meeting on the study and implementation of theory.

Xi said various requirements for the transformation of the economic growth mode are of significance to the study and implementation of the theory and the victory in the fight against the financial crisis.

At a seminar for provincial and ministerial level officials which ran from Feb. 3 to 7, Chinese president Hu Jintao and other senior leaders made speeches on the transformation of the country's economic development mode and its sustainable development.

Hu urged the country to enhance its capacity for independent innovation, deepen reform of the system for managing science and technology, and speed up its building of a "grand" pool of innovation-oriented talented people in a bid to give scientific and technological support for the transformation.

Xi called on officials to listen to public opinion during their travels during the New Year holiday, and to be on the lookout for problems and to solve them.

The CPC launched the Scientific Outlook on Development study campaign in September 2008. It emphasizes the well-being of people and a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable approach to development.

The campaign, scheduled to end late this month, garnered wide participation with more than 75 million CPC members taking part.

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The world is going digital, and Software Engineers who can help with that transformation are reaping the benefits. Their pay is great, hiring demand for their skills is through the roof, and working conditions have never been better. And that’s why the job of Software Engineer ranks tops in our annual Jobs Rated report on the nation’s best and worst jobs for 2012. 　　世界正在進行數字化的變革，推動此變革的軟件工程師正從中獲益。他們的薪水豐厚，所在行業的就業需求也在飛速增長，工作條件也是好的沒話說。這就是為什麼在我們的年度職業評估報告上，軟件工程師會登頂2012年的最佳工作。 　　Of course, any job may seem like the best job if you’re unemployed and the improving economy hasn’t ushered you back into the workforce. But there are qualities that make some professions more desirable than the rest of the pack. Again this year our researchers looked high and low to find those occupations that ranked the best in five key areas: Work Environment, Physical Demands, Job Outlook, Income Levels and Stress. And it should be no surprise that Software Engineer ranks No. 1, followed by Actuary, Human Resources Manager, Dental Hygienist and Financial Planner。 　　當然如果你失業瞭，而正在好轉的經濟形勢也沒能讓你重新找到工作，那任何職業對你來說都是最佳職業。但是有一些特征使得其中的一些職業更吸引人。今年我們的研究人員再次四處調研， 根據工作環境、體能要求、工作前景、收入層次和壓力這五個關鍵標準對職業進行排名。不出所料排名第一的是軟件工程師。接下來的排名依次是：精算師、人力資源經理、潔牙師和理財規劃師。 　　This year, there are several professions that are making their inaugural appearance on our Jobs Rated Top 10 Best Jobs list. Human Resources Manager , Financial Planner , Occupational Therapist and Online Advertising Manager are all rated as a Top 10 Best Job for the first time due to a combination of high incomes, great environments, good job growth and relatively low unemployment rates。 　　今年，有幾個職業是初次在我們的十佳職業清單上露面。人力資源經理、理財規劃師、職業理療師、互聯網廣告銷售經理，這些職業由於收入高、工作環境好、有良好的發展前景和失業率相對較低，第一次出現在瞭榜單上。 　　With the increase in digital computing demands and healthcare needs, it makes sense that most of the professions on our Best Jobs list this year are related to the fields of math, science and healthcare。 　　計算機相關需求和健康護理需求正日益增長，在我們今年的最佳職業排行榜上，大部分職業都是與數學、科學、和健康護理這些領域相關，這也是合情合理的。 　　1. Software Engineer 　　軟件工程師 　　Researches, designs, develops and maintains software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes。 　　研究、設計、開發和維護軟件系統，以及針對醫療、科學和工業領域進行硬件開發。 　　2. Actuary 　　精算師 　　Interprets statistics to determine probabilities of accidents, sickness, and death, and loss of property from theft and natural disasters。 　　利用統計數字來判定事故、疾病、死亡的概率，以及盜竊和自然災難造成的財產損失。 　　3. Human Resources Manager 　　人力資源經理 　　Plans, directs, and/or coordinates all human resource activities and staff of an organization。 　　對組織中所有的員工和人力資源活動進行計劃、管理或協調。 　　4. Dental Hygienist 　　潔牙員 　　Assists dentists in diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of a group or private dental practice。 　　在社區或私人的牙科診所裡，輔助牙醫進行診斷和治療。 　　5. Financial Planner 　　理財師 　　Related to careers in portfolio management, the financial planner offers a broad range of services aimed at assisting individuals in managing and planning their financial future。 　　理財師和證券投資組合管理的職業有關，主要是針對個人，在管理和規劃未來財務等方面提供廣泛的服務。 　　6. Audiologist 　　聽力學傢 　　Diagnoses and treats hearing problems by attempting to discover the range, nature, and degree of hearing function。 　　通過測試聽力損失的范圍、性質和程度來診斷和治療聽力問題。 　　7. Occupational Therapist 　　職業理療師 　　Develops individualized programs of activity for mentally, physically, developmentally and emotionally impaired persons, to aid them in achieving self-reliance。 　　為精神上、身體上、成長中和情感上受損的人士提供個性化的活動，幫助他們實現自力更生。 　　8. Online Advertising Manager 　　互聯網廣告經理 　　Plans, directs, or coordinates advertising policies, campaigns and programs online。 　　計劃、管理和協調互聯網廣告策略、活動和方案。 　　9. Computer Systems Analyst 　　計算機系統分析師 　　Plans and develops computer systems for businesses and scientific institutions。 　　為企業和科研機構計劃和開發計算機系統。 　　10. Mathematician 　　數學傢 　　Applies mathematical theories and formulas to teach or solve problems in a business, educational, or industrial climate。 　　在商業、教育或工業環境相關領域，用數學理論和公式來進行指導或解決問題。

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London Olympics triggers record rent for home

 

隨著2012年奧運會的到來，倫敦富人區梅菲爾的一套7居室住宅掛出43.3萬英鎊/月的天價。該住宅占地有三個半網球場大，共三層，室內有遊泳池、電影院等。除月租外還可周租，租金為10萬英鎊。根據英國房屋租賃網站的統計，除瞭騎士橋區的一套6居室住宅也是一樣的周租價格，梅菲爾區的這套住宅目前為止租價最高。預計今年奧運會將有1100萬參賽運動員粉絲、媒體、企業客戶前來參觀，倫敦業主須增加6倍供應量才能滿足租賃需求。根據去年的調查，如果倫敦1/3的業主考慮出租房屋，整個奧運期間的租賃市場規模將達3.14億英鎊。倫敦豪宅市場受到海外投資者的追捧迅速升溫，在2009年3月至去年12月，豪宅價格大漲39.5%。 A seven-bedroom house in London's upmarket Mayfair district will likely set a British record rent of 433,000 pounds per month as landlords cash in on demand for space during this summer's Olympic Games. The house has a floor space equivalent to three and a half tennis courts spread over three floors and includes a swimming pool, cinema and seven bathrooms. It can be also rented for 100,000 pounds a week. In addition to a six-bedroom flat near the Harrods store in Knightsbridge that is for rent at the same weekly sum, it is the most expensive home on the findaproperty.com website, which displays houses being marketed by major estate agents. "The figure is unprecedented for an open-market rental," said Jemma Scott, head of residential corporate services at real estate agency Knight Frank. "It is purely due to the Olympics which, as a rule of thumb, will see monthly rents become weekly rents before reverting to normal after the Games." The house would likely attract interest from overseas individuals in the Far East, Middle East and Russia, she said. London homeowners are increasing rents by up to six times to meet demand from an estimated 11 million sports fans, media and corporate clients who will come to the city for the world's biggest sporting event this summer. The total Olympics rental market for flats, apartments or houses could be worth 314 million pounds, based on one in three homeowners considering letting out some or all of their properties, according to a survey by findaproperty.com last year. The luxury end of London's housing market has been buoyed by demand from overseas investors looking to shield their wealth from the euro zone crisis and Arab spring uprisings. Prices for the best homes rose 39.5 percent between March 2009 and last November, Knight Frank said. Renting homes was popular among certain wealthy individuals as it provided a greater level of privacy than a hotel, Scott said.

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倫敦奧運會吉祥物與公眾見面 London's Mascots are Revealed

 

They have frightened some and enchanted others. They are Wenlock and Mandeville, mascots of the London Olympic Games. The one-eyed figures join the large family of mascots that includes the Five Fuwa of Beijing (2008), the bear Misha of Moscow (1980) and many others. Wenlock is the name of the English village considered by many to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics. People think its local games inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the International Olympic Committee. The other mascot's name is a reference to the village of Stoke Mandeville, where the Paralympic movement began. The duet of mascots is a central part of London's merchandising strategy and will feature in everything from T-shirts to tea towels. No doubt they will be seen under children's arms as cuddly toys. Some adult commentators think that the mascots are creepy and might scare youngsters.However, children were consulted during their creation. The 2012 Committee Chairman, Sebastian Coe, said: "We want them to be part of our fan base. We want them to engage with young people. They have in large part been designed and driven by what young people want." The organisers of the Games are keen to avoid another controversy like the one that surrounded the unveiling of the puzzle-style Olympic logo in 2007. It was criticised by a sceptical British public. The video used to promote it was even claimed to trigger seizures in a few people. Young fans like their mascots to come with a backstory. Children's author Michael Morpurgo came up with the idea that the mascots origin,was from the last drops of molten steel left over from the construction of the Olympic Stadium. Adults and organisers might argue but the most important audience for Wenlock and Mandeville are children. Ten-year-old Kira, from Essex in England, wrote to the BBC to say: "I think it is wicked! I love the Olympics and so does my sister!"

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目前，2012倫敦奧運會的聖火傳遞正在如火如荼的進行中，配合火炬傳遞的歌曲《燃燒火焰》(Flame)也是在傳遞過程中傳遍英國的大街小巷。在MV中，觀眾可以跟隨火炬瀏覽火炬傳遞的路線，還有4天（7月28日）倫敦奧運會就要開幕瞭，讓我們先跟隨這首Flame提前感受奧運的激情吧！

歌詞： Intro/Chant/Outro Yocha noh gweh yocha, yocha noh gweh yocha, yocha noh gweh yocha Yocha yocha Chorus 1 Light the flame, light the flame, light the flame All the love that you get give the same Leave behind all the grief You can overcome the pain And light the flame Verse You can be swifter, you can aim further Yes, you can reach higher than before You can be stronger, you can act wiser Oh yes, you can achieve a better score Bridge Now you've come of age Don't allow fear in anymore Today has become Your Day The day that you were born to live The day that you were born to give A little bit more, give a little bit more Chorus 2 Catch the flame, catch the flame, catch the flame All the love that you get give the same Leave behind all the grief You can overcome the pain Chorus 3 Pass the flame, pass the flame, pass the flame All the love that you get give the same Leave behind all the grief You can overcome the pain And free the flame Free the flame Be the flame (Yocha noh gweh yocha, yocha noh gweh yocha) Be the flame (Yocha noh gweh yocha, yocha yocha) Free the flame