2021年3月20日 星期六

Woman who stood on ship’s railing for selfie barred for life from cruise line

女子站在船的圍欄上自拍 遭郵輪公司終身禁搭

【摘要2021.3.20.自由】◎張沛元

A woman was removed from a cruise ship and banned for life by the cruise company after she climbed onto her room’s balcony railing to pose for a dangerous photo shoot over the ocean.

一名爬上郵輪客房陽台圍欄擺姿勢拍攝危險的海上照片的女子,被帶離郵輪與被船公司下令終身禁搭。

The incident happened on board the Royal Caribbean ship Allure of the Seas as it was approaching Labadee, Haiti.

此事發生在「皇家加勒比海」郵輪公司的「海洋魅麗號」上,當時該郵輪正接近海地的拉巴地。

The unnamed woman was spotted by a fellow passenger, Peter Blosic, who alerted the crew.

這位不知其名的女子(的危險動作),被同船乘客彼得.波斯洛奇發現,並且通報船上工作人員。

"While on my balcony, I saw the woman climb on her railing. It happened so quickly. Not knowing what her intentions were, I alerted the crew. If I said nothing, and she was going to jump, that would be horrible," he told CNN.

「我在我的陽台上看到這個女的爬上她的(客房陽台的)圍欄。事情發生得很快,我不知道她要幹嘛,就通報工作人員。要是我不作聲,然後她跳海,那就糟了,」他告訴美國有線電視新聞網(CNN)。

新聞辭典

bar:動詞,阻擋,阻撓,防止,禁止。例句:He has been banned from entering the United States for life for threatening to open fire on a school campus.(他因揚言在校園開槍,而被終身禁止入境美國。)

for life:慣用語,終身,一輩子。

track down someone/something:慣用語,追蹤到;追查到。例句:Police are appealing for help to track down a thief who was reported breaking into cars in the early hours of this morning.(警方呼籲各界協助追查一名被舉報今天一早入侵車內行竊的小偷。)

 

Lion has vasectomy after siring five cubs in a year

一年繁衍5隻幼獅後 獅子做輸精管切除術

【摘要2021.3.20.自由】◎周虹汶

A lion had a vasectomy on Thursday after his Dutch keepers decided he had sired enough cubs.

一頭獅子週四做了輸精管切除術,在荷蘭保育員確定牠繁衍夠了以後。

Thor, 11, had fathered five cubs with two lionesses in the past year, staff at Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem said.

阿納姆市「柏格動物園」的職員說,11歲的索爾過去一年和2頭母獅子交配後,當了5隻小獅子的爸爸。

Veterinarian Henk Luten said it was the first time in his 35-year career at the zoo that he had carried out the procedure on a lion.

獸醫亨克‧盧滕說,這是他在動物園工作35年以來,第一次在獅子身上進行這項手術。

"Why are we doing it? Because he’s a proven breeder. We have a lot of offspring and we don’t want to have him overpopulating the genetic pool," Luten said.

盧滕說,「我們為什麼這樣做?因事實證明牠很能生。我們有一堆幼獅,不想讓牠在這個基因庫種群過多。」

Staff said they had chosen to carry out a vasectomy not a castration which could have caused Thor to lose his mane, along with his standing in the pride’s social hierarchy. (Reuters)

職員說,他們選擇進行輸精管切除術,而非去勢,後者可能導致索爾掉鬃毛,及喪失在獅群社會階層的地位。(路透)

新聞辭典

sire:名詞,指雄性種獸、種馬、陛下;動詞,指雄性動物繁衍、成為父親。例句:At the age of 70, he married a young woman and went on to sire three more children.(70歲時,他和一個年輕女子結婚,又生了3個孩子。)

proven:形容詞,指被證實的。例句:The case of that man accused of sexual assault was not proven.(那名男子被控性侵案的罪證不足。)

mane:名詞,(馬或獅子的)鬃毛、(人)長而飄逸的頭髮。例句:He has a mane of white hair.(他有一頭白髮。)

 

2021年3月19日 星期五

Mexico moves to stem unauthorized sharing of sexual images

墨西哥開始遏止未經許可分享性愛影像

【摘要2021.3.18.自由】◎孫宇青

Activist Olimpia Coral went through an inferno in 2013, when an ex-boyfriend posted sexual images that made the rounds in her conservative town in Mexico.

社運人士歐琳匹雅.科羅在2013年經歷一場地獄,當時她的一名前男友貼出她的性愛影像,在她位於墨西哥的保守故鄉廣為流傳。

Things got so bad - the shaming, the internet bullying - that she hid in the trunk of a taxi when going to her grandmother’s house a few blocks away. The local newspaper had even published screenshots of the video, showing Coral and the man having sex; only she was identifiable.

情況變得很糟糕,她遭到恥笑和網路霸凌,以致她前往數個街區外的祖母家時,還得躲在計程車的後車廂。當地報紙甚至公開影片截圖,就是科羅和男友性交的畫面,且只有她能被辨識出來。

Seven years later, she has a proposed federal law named after her - Olimpia’s Law. Mexico’s Senate has approved prison time for the filming or distribution of sexually images without a person’s consent or through deceit.

7年後,有一條聯邦法律以她來命名-歐琳匹雅法。墨西哥參議院同意,在未經他人同意或透過詐欺方式下,拍攝或傳播性愛影像者,將吃上牢飯。

It was the product of many years of struggle by women’s groups, who have already convinced 29 of Mexico’s 32 states to adapt existing laws or pass new ones against the practice.(AP)

這是許多女權團體努力多年的成果,他們已說服墨西哥32州中的29州,修訂既存法律或通過新法,來遏止相關行徑。(美聯社)

新聞辭典

stem:動詞,攔住;遏止。例句:Measure must be taken to stem the tide of resignations.(必須採取措施阻止離職潮。)

make the rounds:片語,到處傳誦。例句:Rumors of his divorce has been made the rounds.(他離婚的謠言已四處流傳。)

deceit:名詞,欺騙。例句:He acquired a famous painting by deceit.(他透過詐欺獲得一幅名畫。)

 

Computer shy elderly are shouldered aside in vaccination race

電腦能力欠缺的老人在疫苗搶奪戰中被排擠

◎管淑平

As more and more people compete for short supplies of the life-saving Covid-19 vaccine, some of the oldest and most infirm Americans are struggling just to enter the contest.

就在愈來愈多人競相爭取供不應求的救命新冠病毒疫苗之際,有些最高齡和最弱勢的美國人正在苦苦掙扎,只求能加入這場爭奪賽。

Tom Yates, 71, is in dire need of a shot, but unable to secure it. Yates and many like him have been locked out thanks to a lack of access to and familiarity with smartphones, computers and web-based appointment signups.

71歲的葉茨亟需接種疫苗,卻沒辦法搶到名額。由於缺乏和不熟悉使用手機、電腦和預約接種疫苗網頁,葉茨和許多跟他一樣的人,都被拒之於門外。

The problem has worsened as states open shots to people 65 and older, putting the oldest in competition for rapidly disappearing slots with seniors who are more computer-savvy and mobile.(Bloomberg)

這個問題已隨著多州開放滿65歲者接種而惡化,使最高齡族群要與比較熟稔電腦和手機的老年人競爭正迅速消失的接種名額。

新聞辭典

shy:形容詞,欠缺的、不足的;用於後綴詞,有「討厭(某事物)的」之意。例句:She is camera-shy。(她不喜歡拍照。)

shoulder:動詞,用肩頂或推。例句:He shouldered his way through the crowd.(他推擠著穿過人群。)

infirm:名詞或形容詞,體弱的、體弱的人(尤其指年老者)。例句:He is elderly and infirm.(他年老體衰。)

Mexico moves to stem unauthorized sharing of sexual images

墨西哥開始遏止未經許可分享性愛影像

【摘要2021.3.18.自由】◎孫宇青

Activist Olimpia Coral went through an inferno in 2013, when an ex-boyfriend posted sexual images that made the rounds in her conservative town in Mexico.

社運人士歐琳匹雅.科羅在2013年經歷一場地獄,當時她的一名前男友貼出她的性愛影像,在她位於墨西哥的保守故鄉廣為流傳。

Things got so bad - the shaming, the internet bullying - that she hid in the trunk of a taxi when going to her grandmother’s house a few blocks away. The local newspaper had even published screenshots of the video, showing Coral and the man having sex; only she was identifiable.

情況變得很糟糕,她遭到恥笑和網路霸凌,以致她前往數個街區外的祖母家時,還得躲在計程車的後車廂。當地報紙甚至公開影片截圖,就是科羅和男友性交的畫面,且只有她能被辨識出來。

Seven years later, she has a proposed federal law named after her - Olimpia’s Law. Mexico’s Senate has approved prison time for the filming or distribution of sexually images without a person’s consent or through deceit.

7年後,有一條聯邦法律以她來命名-歐琳匹雅法。墨西哥參議院同意,在未經他人同意或透過詐欺方式下,拍攝或傳播性愛影像者,將吃上牢飯。

It was the product of many years of struggle by women’s groups, who have already convinced 29 of Mexico’s 32 states to adapt existing laws or pass new ones against the practice.(AP)

這是許多女權團體努力多年的成果,他們已說服墨西哥32州中的29州,修訂既存法律或通過新法,來遏止相關行徑。(美聯社)

新聞辭典

stem:動詞,攔住;遏止。例句:Measure must be taken to stem the tide of resignations.(必須採取措施阻止離職潮。)

make the rounds:片語,到處傳誦。例句:Rumors of his divorce has been made the rounds.(他離婚的謠言已四處流傳。)

deceit:名詞,欺騙。例句:He acquired a famous painting by deceit.(他透過詐欺獲得一幅名畫。)

 

2021年3月17日 星期三

慢性病是自己養來的 預防醫學專家:養生不養病有5不5要

Rossini - L'italiana in Algeri, Ouverture (Georges Prêtre)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5q9_UBL4w

【摘要2021.3.16.中時】科學家已經發現,基因的遺傳指令是可以被改寫的。不是祖先怎樣、父母怎樣,你就一定會好命或者是歹命。自己的生活態度,你的想法、看事情的角度,更大一部分地決定了你生命的走向。所以,習慣很重要。特別是你常常重複在做的那些事,特別有影響力。

預防醫學專家洛桑加參醫師在《簡單豐足:減法養生的52個關鍵字》書中提到,好的生活習慣能調控基因表現,這是養生;糟糕的生活習慣,就像是在「養病」,養出各式各樣的生活習慣病。他提出5不5要的生活態度,把自己養成好命人。以下是重點書摘:

●「生活習慣病」是日系的用法,英文叫Lifestyle Disease,在台灣,我們常用慢性病來稱呼它們。生活習慣病以往叫「成人病」,通常要等到上了年紀才容易發病。不過現在罹患癌症、心血管疾病、糖尿病、血脂異常、高血壓的人,越來越普遍也越來越年輕,所以才改了名稱,希望能提醒大家多多注意自己的生活方式。

擔心?預防的觀念先學起來,可防可控自己都能掌握。比方說脂肪肝是所有肝病的前期,可逆,及時面對,就不怕後頭肝硬化、肝癌。而沉迷,是所有上癮症的前期,無需用藥就能治癒,在沉迷的階段,趕緊找出其他比較安全的紓壓方式,就能避免上癮後大腦被綁架。

至於心血管疾病的前期,則是「代謝症候群」。扭轉健康、改良命運,我們不要把自己養成肥滋滋的一隻北平烤鴨,而是要當一隻「春江水暖鴨先知」的先知鴨,在「前期」的時候及時收手。這樣,後頭就能省下一大堆麻煩事和金錢的虛擲。預防代謝症候群,下面這些不要做:

◉ 飲食失衡,專吃些沒營養的。

◉ 一直抱著,壓力不放。

◉ 酗酒,愛喝喝不停。

◉ 愛抱怨、愛計較。

◉ 久坐,又不去運動。

屬於靜態活動的開車、坐辦公桌、半臥半坐看電視,只要超過九小時就算是「久坐」。每天坐超過九小時,死亡風險增加22%,超過11小時,死亡風險更增加50%。以上預防代謝症候群的這五個習慣,沒得商量,通通要戒掉。

但不要戒得太痛苦,否則又造成了新的壓力。稍微轉化、優化、改良一下。像是上班非得坐八、九小時以上的人,請為自己製造起身走動的機會,去裝個水、爬樓梯、幫同事送送文件。下班後別立刻回家窩沙發,走走路、按摩按摩,做一些能促進循環的事比較好。循序漸進慢慢改善體質。養生,是一輩子的樂事,不著急。

預防代謝症候群,請你跟我一起這樣做:

◉ 用品酒的方式,享受酒為健康帶來的益處。

◉ 以多樣化植物性食材為主的飲食法。

◉ 有運動、有休息,勞逸均衡。

◉ 挑戰過後,把壓力釋放掉。

◉ 珍愛自己、利他愛人。

人在適度的壓力下,健康狀況最佳,所以,也不能完全沒有壓力。作為挑戰,壓力是有益的,而且就像鍛煉肌肉一樣,你會越練越強大。記得慢慢練、慢慢增加強度,才不會受傷。

但,持續三個月以上的慢性壓力,會使身體持續釋放出死亡荷爾蒙皮質醇(Cortisol),這就很傷身了。很多人都是因為這樣壓力大、持續時間又長,間接導致睡不好、吃不好,整組壞光光,骨牌式崩盤,健康一夕間潰堤,有些還救得回來,而有些,就Game Over 提早登出了。

●惦惦自己的斤兩,摸摸自己的肚腩。

有健康意識的人,都怕自己太肥。主要就是體重超過太多,新陳代謝、很多健康數值也都會變得很不理想。要怎樣知道自己是不是代謝症候群?除了健康檢查的時候醫生會「恐嚇」你以外,低頭往下看,若只見肚子不見鞋子,那事情就大條了,快點回頭是岸。內臟脂肪太多,建議重新調整生活習慣。

除了冬天,其他季節都適合減肥。尤其夏天,效果最明顯,只要你願意動起來,細心挑選入口之物,不用怕自己屬於連喝水都會胖的頑強型易胖難瘦體質。趁夏季要來臨前好好動一動,就連走路都會瘦!

以步代車、提早一、兩站下車步行回家、飯後散步、森林裡有氧健走、遛狗陪狗散步、大步走、抬腿走、爬樓梯、隨便走走、逛街走五公里……各種走,越是勤快,瘦得也越快。健康的身體或者是生活習慣病,都是慢慢養出來的,我們養生不養病,在代謝症候群的時候趕快踩剎車,放下雞排,回頭是岸,立馬晉升為健康勝利組裡的一員。

文章來源:本文節錄自:【簡單豐足:減法養生的52個關鍵字】一書

 

Comet from edge of solar system killed the dinosaurs: study

研究:來自太陽系邊緣的彗星讓恐龍滅絕

【摘要2021.3.15.自由】◎陳成良

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge celestial object struck off the coast of what is now Mexico, triggering a catastrophic "impact winter" that eventually wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs.

6600萬年前,一個巨大星體撞上現在的墨西哥外海,引發釀成巨災的「衝擊性寒冬」,最後導致恐龍在內的地球上4分之3物種滅絕。

A pair of astronomers at Harvard say they have now resolved long standing mysteries surrounding the nature and origin of the "Chicxulub impactor."

哈佛大學2位天文學家表示,他們已經解開長久以來關於「希克蘇魯伯衝擊體」(Chicxulub impactor)的本質和來源之謎。

Their analysis suggests it was a comet that originated in a region of icy debris on the edge of the solar system, that Jupiter was responsible for it crashing into our planet, and that we can expect similar impacts every 250 million to 750 million years.

他們的分析顯示,這是源自太陽系邊緣冰冷碎片區域的一顆彗星,且木星也要為此彗星撞上地球負責。類似規模的彗星撞地球頻率為每2億5000萬年到7億5000萬年。

The duo’s paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports this week, pushes back against an older theory that claims the object was a fragment of an asteroid that came from our solar system’s Main Belt.

2人的論文本週在《科學報告》期刊發表,推翻了之前認為這個物體是來自太陽系「主小行星帶」小行星碎片的理論。

新聞辭典

celestial:形容詞,天的、天空的。例句:We can observe the celestial bodies in the Museum of Natural Science.(我們可以在科學博物館內觀看天體。)

wipe out︰片語,徹底摧毀、消滅、使消失。例句︰She has tried hard to wipe out the unpleasant memory.(她努力想抹掉這個令人不快的回憶。)

long-standing︰形容詞,長時間的、為時甚久的。例句︰Anti-nuclear power plant is my long-standing position.(反核電是我一貫的立場。)