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路透社:印度大米挑战取代冰桶挑战
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In India, rice replaces ice in bucket challenge
印度大米挑战取代冰桶挑战
The overwhelming success of the "ice" bucket challenge has inspired a journalist in India to launch her own challenge --replacing ice with rice. In the ice bucket challenge people dump a bucket of ice water over their head to encourage donations to a charity. In this new twist a bucket of rice is donated to someone in need. The movement's Facebook page defines it as a "local challenge for local needs" and has clocked tens of thousands of 'likes'. But it's getting international support. Germany's ambassador to India on Tuesday delivered rice to families in a New Delhi slum.
冰桶挑战的巨大成功激发了印度一名记者的灵感，发起了自己的挑战，用大米代替冰水。在冰桶挑战中，人们将一桶冰水倒在头上，鼓励人们为慈善机构捐款。在印度这项新的活动中，一桶大米被捐赠给有需要的人。该活动的Facebook页面将其定义为“满足当地需求的当地挑战”，引发了成千上万人的喜爱。但是此举逐渐赢得国际支持。德国驻印度大使周二向新德里贫民窟的家庭分发了大米。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) GERMANY'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA, MICHAEL STEINER, SAYING: "The society is still accepting the fact that there are poor people and I think we have to change that and this is why we are taking on this action here."
德国驻印度大使米夏埃尔·施泰纳(Michael Steiner)：“社会仍然接受穷人存在的事实，但是我认为我们必须改变这一点，这也是我参加这项活动的原因。”
The woman who started it all says it began with her own donation to a poor man in her neighborhood.
创办这项活动的这名女性表示，一切始于她向自己所在社区一个穷人的捐赠。
(SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) ACTIVIST WHO STARTED THE RICE BUCKET CHALLENGE, MANJU LATHA KALANIDHI, SAYING: "So after I donated, I clicked a picture and I uploaded it on my Facebook page and said, 'Hey guys, take up the rice bucket challenge and as part of this, you can donate cooked rice or a bucket of rice to anybody who is needy'."
开创米桶挑战的积极分子MANJU LATHA KALANIDHI：“我捐赠之后拍了一张照片，上传到我的Facebook上，写道。‘伙计们，参加米桶挑战吧，你可以向有需要的人捐赠煮好的大米或一桶没煮的大米。’”
Recently a Bollywood filmmaker was seen distributing rice in Hyderbad. India is the world's second biggest rice consumer and was the world's biggest rice exporter last year. But it also ranked 63rd out of 78 countries in a global hunger index.
最近，人们看到宝莱坞一名制片人在Hyderbad分发大米。印度是世界上第二大大米消费国，也是去年世界最大的大米出口国。但是在全球饥饿指数的78个国家中排名第63位。
Japanese fans line up outside Toyko Apple store for iPhone 6
日本苹果迷排队购买iPhone 6
They've brought lawn chairs and sleeping bags and a few other things (a bust of Steve Jobs) and have set up camp outside this Tokyo Apple Store. They're determined to be the first to get their hands on the new iPhone 6 when it is released here ---next week.
他们购买了草坪椅和睡袋，以及其他东西，在东京这家苹果品牌店外设起营地。他们决心在下周苹果新产品iPhone 6发布时成为第一个买到的顾客。
SOUNDBITE: iPhone Fan Tetsuya Tamura saying (Japanese): "I'm counting down the days left to the iPhone 6 launch on my T- shirt."
iPhone迷Tetsuya Tamura：“我在T恤衫上为iPhone 6发布的日子进行倒计时。”
While some Japanese media speculate that they've been hired by Apple, they're just fans. The long wait didn't seem to faze many here. They've got their gear and they'll just pass the time on their iPhones. Apple on Tuesday unveiled a watch and two larger iPhones. The iPhone 6 goes on sale here September 19th.
然而，一些媒体猜测这些人是被苹果公司雇佣的托儿。长长的等待队伍似乎并未煽动很多人。他们已经买到了自己心仪的手机，把时间转移到自己的iPhone上。周二，苹果发布了一款智能手表和两款更大的iPhone。iPhone 6将于9月19日在这里开售。
Iconic Rio statue is lit up to raise awareness of human trafficking
里约基督像点亮 警惕人口贩卖
The iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that looks out over this view of Rio de Janeiro was the gathering point on Wednesday for Brazilians whose loved ones have disappeared. The event organized by the Achrdiocese of Rio also marked the so called "Day of Alert" to call attention to the fight against human trafficking and to try to solve the case of missing persons. One woman said the pain of not knowing what happened to her 29-year-old is almost unbearable.
周三，俯瞰里约热内卢的标志性的基督像吸引了家人失踪的巴西人的关注。该活动由Achrdiocese of Rio组织，同时纪念“警惕日”，呼吁人们关注人口贩卖，解决失踪人口案。一名女子表示，她至今不知29岁的女儿发生了什么事，非常难以忍受。
(SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) MOTHER WHOSE DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED, JOVITA BELFORT, SAYING: "The pain of a mother is the same whether they were a child or not. Priscila was 29 years old when she left work to have lunch and then ended up as she did. I believe that disappearing is worse than death."
JOVITA BELFORT是一名失踪女孩的母亲：“无论他们是孩子还是长大了，母亲的痛苦都是一样的。Priscila 29岁的一天下班去吃午餐，然后无缘无故失踪了。我认为失踪比死亡还糟糕。”
To get the message out as widely as they could, the organizers bathed the statue in an orange light that could be seen throughout the city. The United Nations calls human trafficking one of the most "shameful crimes" affecting the lives of millions around the world.
为了尽可能广泛地传达信息，组织者将这座雕像沐浴在橙色的灯光中，整座城市都可以看得到。联合国称贩卖人口是最可耻的罪行之一，影响着全世界数百万人的生活。
路透社娱乐:詹姆斯·邦德座驾复制品拍卖
Replica of James Bond's Aston Martin auction
詹姆斯·邦德座驾复制品拍卖
It's been 50 years since Aston Martin became James Bond's vehicle of choice. The film was "Goldfinger" and 007 drove a DB5.
And to celebrate, Christie's in London is auctioning a gold-plated replica of the car. Mitch Barnes, a model maker with Propshop, says it comes complete with Bond special effects. SOUNDBITE: Mitch Barnes, model maker, saying (English): "The number plates move and we can also do the machine guns which pop out -- these are the 50 cal machine guns for dealing with pesky traffic I'd imagine. And at the rear we have a bullet-proof screen that I can operate as well that pops up." The model costs a pretty penny and could set a prospective bidder back more than 100 thousand U.S. dollars. But if that's too rich for your blood, there are other items up for grabs, like this Omega wristwatch created for the movie's anniversary. And there's an original British cinema poster, as well as an LP soundtrack, signed by Dame Shirley Bassey, who sang the title song.Bidding will close on September 17, the 50th anniversary of the world premiere of "Goldfinger".
白宫发言:每周讲话:美国应为中产阶级提供机会
Weekly Address: Time to Give the Middle Class a Chance
每周讲话:美国应为中产阶级提供机会
WASHINGTON, DC —In this week’s address, the Vice President discusses our continued economic recovery, with 10 million private sector jobs created over the past 54 months. Yet even with this good news, too many Americans are still not seeingthe effects of our recovery. As the Vice President explains, there’s more that can be done to continue to bolster our economy and ensure that middle class families benefit from the growth they helped create, including closing tax loopholes,expanding education opportunities, and raising the minimum wage.
The audio of the address and video of the address will be available online atwww.whitehouse.govat 6:00 a.m. ET, September 6, 2014.
Remarks of Vice President Joe Biden
Weekly Address
The White House
September 6, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe Biden, I’m filling in for President Obama, while he addresses the NATO summit in Wales.
When the President and I took office in January of 2009, this nation was in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the great depression. Our economy had plummeted at a rate of 8% in a single quarter – part of the fastest economic decline any time in the last half century. Millions of families were falling underwater on their homes and threatened with foreclosure. The iconic American automobile industry was under siege.
But yesterday’s jobs report was another reminder of how far we’ve come. We’ve had 54 straight months of job creation. And that’s the longest streak of uninterrupted job growth in the United States’ history.
We’ve gone from losing 9 million jobs during the financial crisis to creating 10 million jobs. We’ve reduced the unemployment rate from 10% in October of 2009 to 6.1% today. And for the first time since the 1990s, American manufacturing is steadily adding jobs – over 700,000 since 2010. And surveys of both American and foreign business leaders confirm that America once again is viewed as the best place in the world to build and invest.
That’s all good news. But an awful lot of middle class Americans are still not feeling the effects of this recovery. Since the year 2000, Gross Domestic Product – our GDP - has risen by 25%. And productivity in America is up by 30%. But middle class wages during that same time period have gone up by only fourteen cents.
Folks, it’s long past time to cut the middle class back into the deal, so they can benefit from the economic growth they helped create. Folks, there used to be a bargain in this country supported by Democrats and Republicans, business and labor.
The bargain was simple. If an employee contributed to the growth and profitability of the company, they got to share in the profits and the benefits as well. That’s what built the middle class. It’s time to restore the bargain, to deal the middle class back in. Because, folks, when the middle class does well, everybody does well – the wealthy get wealthier and the poor have a way up.
You know, the middle class is not a number. It’s a value set. It means being able to own your home; raise your children in a safe neighborhood; send them to a good school where if they do well they can qualify to go to college and if they get accepted you’d be able to find a way to be able to send them to college. And in the meantime, if your parents need help,being able to take care of them, and hope to put aside enough money so that your children will not have to take care of you.
That’s the American dream. That’s what this country was built on. And that’s what we’re determined to restore.
In order to do that, it’s time to have a fair tax structure, one that values paychecks as much as unearned income and inherited wealth, to take some of the burden off of the middle class. It’s time to close tax loopholes so we can reduce the deficit, and invest in rebuilding America - our bridges, our ports, our highways, rails, providing good jobs.
With corporate profits at near record highs, we should encourage corporations to invest more in research and development and the salaries of their employees. It’s time for us to invest in educational opportunity to guarantee that we have the most highly skilled workforce in the world, for 6 out of every 10 jobs in the near term is going to require some education beyond high school. Folks, it’s long past due to increase the minimum wage that will lift millions of hardworking families out of poverty and in the process produce a ripple effect that boosts wages for the middle class and spurs economic growth for the United States of America. Economists acknowledge that if we do these and other things, wages will go up and we’ll increase the Gross Domestic Product of the United States.
My fellow Americans, we know how to do this. We’ve done it before. It’s the way we used to do business and we can do itthat way again. All the middle class in this country want is a chance. No guarantee, just a chance.
Americans want to work. And when given a fair shot, the American worker has never, ever, ever, let his country down. Folks,it’s never a good bet to bet against the American people.
Thanks for listening.
May God bless you, and may God protect our troops.
