Woman killed by flying bottle in pub fracas酒館爭吵，飛來的酒瓶殺死女子

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A 19-year-old man who killed a woman when he threw a bottle into a crowded pub from which he had been barred, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to manslaughter.

一名19歲男子因為被阻擋進入一間擁擠的酒館，朝酒館內丟擲酒瓶，使一名女子喪命。他週二認了殺人罪。

Emma O’Kane, a 27-year-old mother of three, died after a shard of glass flew into her neck when the bottle shattered inside, Manchester Crown Court heard. She bled to death as the cut severed her jugular vein and an artery.

曼徹斯特刑事法院審案時得知，艾瑪．歐坎是一名27歲母親，育有3個小孩，當酒瓶在酒館內破碎時，一塊玻璃碎片飛插到她的頸部。由於傷口切斷她的頸靜脈與動脈，她流血過多致死。

The court heard that the death of O’Kane, who worked as a part-time barmaid at the Queen Anne Hotel in Heywood, was an "incredible mishap".

法院得知，在海伍德市安妮女王飯店擔任酒吧兼職女侍的歐坎之死，是一個「令人難以置信的災禍」。

Neil McNulty, from Heywood, was told he faced an "inevitable" custodial sentence after admitting causing the death last December.

來自海伍德市的尼爾．麥克納提，在承認造成去年12月這件命案後，被告知面臨「無可避免的監禁刑罰」。

O’Kane, who was not working at the time, was celebrating the birthday of her partner, Michael Shepherd, 38, whom she planned to marry.

當時沒在上班的歐坎，正慶祝38歲伴侶麥可．薛普的生日，此人也是她打算結婚的對象。

McNulty was also out enjoying birthday drinks but became abusive when he and his friends were not allowed into the pub.

麥克納提也是出來為慶生喝幾杯，但當酒館不准許他和其友人進入時，開始惡言相向。

French sex toy sales fall as financial crunch bites 金融危機侵襲 法國情趣用品銷售下滑

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Sales in the French erotic industry have fallen as the global economic crisis has driven consumers to reduce their spending on sex toys, massage oils and other kinky products, sector specialists say.

法國情色業生意已經隨著全球經濟危機導致消費者減少情趣用品、按摩油和其他怪異癖好用品花費而下滑，業界專家說。

At "Big Eropolis," an erotic fair that opened on Mar. 13 near Paris and bills itself as the biggest of its kind in the world, attendance was healthy but stall owners said customers were not spending as much as in previous years.

三月十三日在巴黎附近開幕的「情色大展」，以自稱是全球最大情趣博覽會為號召，參觀人數還算不錯，但是參展業者說，顧客花錢手筆不若往年。

"We are hit by the financial crisis. We are not in the car industry either, so we haven’t seen a drop （in sales） of 50 percent, but the financial crisis has hit us," the fair’s organiser Eric Heuninck said.

「我們正受到金融危機的打擊。我們並非如汽車產業（生意）掉了五成，但是這場金融危機已經真正衝擊到我們」，這場展覽的主辦人惠尼克說。

"We have had a fall in turnover of about 30 percent compared with last year," said Bernard Montagud, who runs a sex toy stand at the fair which travels around France.

「我們的銷售量和去年相比掉了大概30%」，在這場巡迴法國展出的展覽中設一個情趣用品攤位的蒙塔古德說。

"Before, when a customer came and we always managed to sell them two or three items. Now, alas, they leave with one single item. We feel the impact," he added.

「以前一個客人上門，我們總是能夠賣出兩、三樣產品給他們。現在，唉，他們通常就只會買一樣。我們確實感受經濟不景氣帶來的衝擊。」他說。

Dictionary 新聞辭典

turnover：名詞，（一定時間內的）業績、銷售量。例句：High turnover brings you high bonus. （業績好，你的獎金就多。）

kinky： 形容詞，古怪的，怪異到有點變態的特殊性癖好。例句：No wonder he can’t keep a good relationship with girls because he always like to talk kinky.（他老是愛講一些變態的性癖好，難怪和女生關係都不好。）

alas：副詞，（表示惋惜、遺憾）唉。

Italian porn star strips in Milan bourse protest 義大利色情片女星在米蘭證交所脫光抗議

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Italian porn star strips in Milan bourse protest

義大利色情片女星在米蘭證交所脫光抗議

An Italian pornographic actress stripped down to her panties at the Milan stock exchange on Tuesday to protest against the financial crisis, police said.

警方表示，一名義大利色情片女星週二在米蘭證交所脫到只剩內褲，以抗議金融危機。

Laura Perego, 22, climbed on to a table inside the bourse entrance clad only in her panties and with the Italian flag painted on her body, a police spokesman said.

警方發言人表示，22歲的蘿拉．沛瑞格爬上證交所入口內的一張桌子，身上只剩內褲，以及彩繪在身上的義大利國旗。

"Italy is down to its underpants," the Sicilian-born actress shouted before being taken away by police. She was charged with obscene acts.

「義大利已經被扒到只剩內褲了」，這位西西里出身的女演員在被警察帶走前大吼。她被控從事淫穢行為。

"I want to send a message to all those who have so badly managed people’s savings," Perego told the Ansa news agency.

「我希望傳遞一個訊息給那些沒有好好管理民眾存款的人」，沛瑞格告訴義大利新聞社。

She added she had other public exhibitions in mind "always improvised and unexpected," Ansa said.

她補充說，自己腦中已經有了其他示威的構想，「總是隨興又無法預期」，義大利新聞社報導。

新聞辭典

bourse：（證券）交易所，此為由法文而來的詞彙，英文一般又稱stock exchange。

panties：內褲，原形為panty或pantie，但常做複數使用。下文的underpants，意思同為內褲。

clad：動詞，clothe的過去式和過去分詞。當形容詞時為穿…衣服的、被…覆蓋的。scantly-clad，幾乎沒穿衣服。

obscene：形容詞，猥褻的、淫穢的。名詞為obscenity。Obscene material/content，猥褻物品／內容。

Power grid is found susceptible to cyberattack 電力網易遭網路攻擊

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An emerging network of intelligent power switches, called the Smart Grid, could be taken down by a cyberattack, according to researchers at IOActive Inc., a Seattle-based security consultancy.

一種稱為「智慧電網」的新興智慧電力開關，可能被網路攻擊行動擊垮，據總部設在西雅圖的安全顧問公司IOActive研究人員指出。

IOActive researchers have spent the past year testing Smart Grid devices for security vulnerabilities and have discovered a number of flaws that could allow hackers to access the network and cut power, according to Joshua Pennell, IOActive’s CEO.

IOActive研究人員過去一年對「智慧電網」設備進行測試，以找出安全漏洞，結果發現若干瑕疵可能令駭客進入到這個網路並切斷電力，據IOActive執行長約書亞．培尼爾表示。

Smart Grid devices are small computers that are connected to the power grid, giving customers and power companies better control over the electricity they use. There are about 2 million of these devices currently deployed, but many more are expected to be added in coming years.

「智慧電網」設備是連接到電力網的小型電腦，讓消費者及電力公司對用電進行更佳的管控。目前已建置了約200萬部這種設備，預計未來幾年還會裝設更多。

IOActive and independent security researcher Travis Goodspeed concluded that these Smart Grid devices could be used to spread malicious code.

IOActive與獨立安全研究員崔佛斯．古茲匹德總結指出，「智慧電網」設備可能被利用來散佈惡性程式碼。

In the hands of a malicious hacker, this code could be used to cut power to Smart Grid devices that use a feature called "remote disconnect," which allows power companies to cut a customer’s power via the network.

在不懷好意的駭客手中，這種程式碼可能會被用來切斷「智慧電網」設備的電力。「智慧電網」運用一種稱為「遠端斷電」的特點，讓電力公司能透過網路切斷顧客的電力。

新聞辭典

susceptible to：片語，易受……影響的；對……敏感的；易為……感染（感動）的。例句：The plant is not susceptible to disease.（這種植物不易受病害侵襲。）

grid：名詞，（將電流輸送廣大地區的） 高壓輸電線路網。grid原意為「格狀的框架；格子」。美國的電力設施，多年來採取相互支援、將多區電廠透過電塔串接成棋盤網路的模式運作，形成所謂的「power grid」。

via：介系詞，經由；憑、藉（=by means of）。via air mail指以航空郵寄。

Mexican worker sews his lips to demand promotion 墨西哥勞工縫唇要求升遷

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A Mexican state water company worker has sewn his lips together to draw attention to his five-year fight to get a promotion.

一名墨西哥國營水公司的勞工已將他的兩片嘴唇縫起來，藉此吸引外界關注他歷時5年的升遷抗爭。

The man used a needle and thread to put five stitches through his lips in front of the water company headquarters in the eastern city of Veracruz.

這名男子在位於東部城市韋拉克魯斯的水公司總部前面，用針線把他的嘴唇縫了5針。

He handed a statement to reporters saying he has pleaded his case before several state institutions.

他交給記者們一份聲明，表示他已將他的案子向許多政府機構提出訴願，但只得到沒有下文的承諾。

The man has been a laborer at the company for 18 years and has been seeking an office job since 2004.

這名男子在這家公司做工達18年，2004年起開始爭取辦公室職位。

Water company labor-union leader Angelica Navarette dismissed the man as a troublemaker whose demands are unfounded. She said the company has offered him better benefits but he refuses to compromise.

水公司工會領袖安潔莉卡．納瓦雷特將該男子斥為麻煩製造者，並說他的要求根本沒有事實根據。她說，公司曾提供他較好福利，但他拒絕妥協。

新聞辭典

sew：動詞，縫補。sew up，片語（非正式用法），大獲成功；完全控制／獨占；確保。例句：The Japanese baseball team has sewn up the 2009 WBC championship.（日本隊贏得2009年世界棒球經典賽冠軍。）

stitch：名詞，縫了一針。A stitch in time saves nine，諺語，事半功倍。in stitches，片語（非正式用法），無法控制地狂笑。例句：He had us all in stitches with his funny gestures.（他的滑稽動作讓我們狂笑不止。）

unfounded：形容詞，沒有事實根據的；未建立的。例句：The candidate’s Senate bid has been attacked with an unfounded accusation.（這名候選人的參議院選情遭到不實指控的攻擊。）

Strained marriages harm women 緊張的婚姻關係有害女性

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Women are more likely than men to suffer damage to their health from being in a strained marriage, research suggests.

研究顯示，女性比男性還容易因為婚姻關係緊張而傷害健康。

US psychologists found wives in tense marriages were prone to risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes. In comparison, husbands seemed relatively immune from such problems.

美國心理學家發現，身處緊張婚姻的妻子，容易有心臟病、中風與糖尿病的風險因子。相較來說，丈夫似乎對這樣的問題相對免疫。

Details of the study, based on 276 couples who had been married for an average of 20 years were presented to the American Psychosomatic Society.

這份研究以276對結婚平均20年的夫婦為對象，研究結果向美國身心醫學協會發表。

Each couple filled out questionnaires designed to assess the good and bad aspects of married life.

每對夫婦填寫用來評估婚姻生活優缺點的問卷。

They were also rated for how depressed they appeared to be, based on their self-reported symptoms. Doctors then carried out a battery of tests to assess whether or not the volunteers were showing signs of metabolic syndrome.

他們也根據自行通報的症狀，接受調查憂鬱程度的評分。醫師接著進行一連串測試，評估志願受試者是否出現代謝症候群的跡象。

Women in strained marriages were more likely to be depressed and to have a greater number of symptoms of metabolic syndrome.

在緊張婚姻中的女性，比較可能憂鬱，也會有較多代謝症候群症狀。

新聞辭典

strained ：形容詞，緊張的。例句：Relations between the two countries have become strained recently.（這兩個國家最近關係緊張。）

immune：形容詞，免於…的。例句：He seems to be immune to colds - he just never gets them.（他似乎對感冒免疫，就是從來沒感冒過。）

a battery of ：一連串。

Nigerian student gets 19 years’ jail for love scam 奈及利亞學生因感情騙局換得19年牢獄

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A Nigerian undergraduate has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for obtaining $47,000 from an Australian woman by convincing her over the Internet that he was 57 years old, white, and madly in love with her.

一名奈及利亞大學生被判19年徒刑，因為他在網路上讓一名澳洲婦女相信，他是瘋狂愛上她的57歲白人男子，而得手47000美元。

Lawal Adekunle Nurudeen met his victim on the Internet in 2007 and convinced her that he was a British widower called Benson Lawson. He said he was an engineer working in Lagos whose wife and only child had been killed in a car accident.

拉瓦．阿德庫．努魯定2007年在網路上遇到他的受害者，並讓她相信他是名叫班森．羅森的英國鰥夫。他說他是在拉哥斯工作的工程師，妻子與唯一的孩子在一場車禍中喪生。

"The victim, a 56-year-old woman from Australia, told the convict that she wanted a husband and all the men she had met always disappointed her," said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission （EFCC）, Nigeria’s anti-corruption police.

「來自澳洲的56歲受騙婦女告訴這名罪犯，她想要一個丈夫，但她遇到的所有男人總讓她失望。」奈及利亞反貪污警政單位經濟財政犯罪委員會指出。

"The convict, who is married with three children, instantly replied and told the victim she had met her Mr Right ... He sent the picture of a white man to foreclose any suspicions."

「這名已婚、育有3子的罪犯立即回覆，告訴受害者她已然遇到了她的Mr. Right…，為了釋疑，他寄送一張白人男子的照片。」

The woman sent Nurudeen money for medical treatment and travel costs to visit Australia. He spent the funds on two plots of land and a Honda Prelude car.

這名婦女寄給努魯定一筆醫藥費與澳洲之行的旅費，而他把錢花在購買2小塊土地與一輛本田Prelude轎跑車。

Nigerian confidence tricksters have a long history of extorting money via the Internet through "419" scams, named after the clause that outlaws them in Nigeria’s penal code.

奈國騙徒在網路上透過「419」騙術訛詐金錢的歷史悠久，「419」騙術是以判決其不法的刑法為名。

新聞辭典

foreclose︰排除、阻止。例句︰They tried to foreclose the possibility of his meeting with the press.（他們設法排除他與媒體會面的可能性。）

confidence trick︰（先取信對方的）騙局。confidence指信任、秘密話，例如︰blurt out a confidence（脫口說出秘密。）

outlaw︰動詞為宣布…不合法。名詞指歹徒、被褫奪公權者，例句︰He was accused of giving shelter to a hunted outlaw.（他被控窩藏逃犯。）