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Venezuela Is Plunged Into Darkness by a Major Electrical Blackout
委内瑞拉电力中断,陷入黑暗
(CARACAS, Venezuela) — Much of Venezuela plunged into darkness Thursday evening, creating chaos as people struggled to navigate their way home amid what appeared to be one of the biggest blackouts yet in a country where power failures have become common.
(委内瑞拉加拉加斯) - 周四晚上,委内瑞拉大部分地区陷入黑暗,人们艰难地寻找回家的路,造成了一片混乱。在这个停电频繁的国家,这似乎是迄今为止规模最大的停电事故之一。
Commuters took to the sidewalks in Caracas after subway service stopped and a snarl of cars jammed the streets with stoplights out.
在加拉加斯,地铁服务停止,交通拥堵,红绿灯停止,上班族纷纷走上人行道。
State-owned electricity operator Corpoelec blamed the outage on what it called an “attack” on the Guri Dam, one of the world’s largest hydroelectric stations and the cornerstone of Venezuela’s electrical grid.
国有电力运营商 Corpoelec 将这次停电归咎于古里大坝遭受的所谓"攻击"。古里大坝是全球最大的水电站之一,也是委内瑞拉电网的基石。
“We’ve been targeted again in the power war,” Maj. Gen. Luis Motta, President Nicolas Maduro’s minister of electrical power, said on state television.
“我们在电力战中再次成为攻击目标,”尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统的电力部长路易斯·莫塔少将在国家电视台表示。
US police detain black man picking up rubbish outside home
美国警方拘留一名在家门外捡垃圾的黑人男子
Police in the US state of Colorado have launched an internal probe after an officer detained a black man holding a rubbish picker in front of his building, US reports say.
据美国媒体报道,在一名警察在一名黑人男子的住宅前扣留了一名手持垃圾清理机的科罗拉多州后,美国警方展开了内部调查。
Footage showed the man asking an officer why he had drawn his gun.
录像显示,这名男子问一名警官为什么拔枪。
"I don't have a weapon! This is a bucket! This is a clamp!" he says in the video taken by a neighbour.
"我没有武器! 这是一个桶! 这是一个夹子!" 他在一个邻居拍的视频里说。
Police in Boulder said an officer had called for back up as the man was "unwilling to put down a blunt object".
博尔德警方表示,由于该男子"不愿意放下一个钝器",一名警官呼吁支援。
Several more officers attended the scene before they determined that the man had a legal right to be on the property and took no further action, a police statement said.
警方的一份声明称,还有几名警察赶到现场,之后他们确定这名男子有合法权利进入这处房产,并且没有采取进一步行动。
Archaeologists find tunnels below Alcatraz
考古学家在恶魔岛下面发现了隧道
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Archaeologists confirmed a long-time suspicion of historians and say that famed Alcatraz prison was built over a Civil War-era military fortification.
美联社旧金山(美联社)ー考古学家证实了历史学家长期以来的怀疑,并称著名的恶魔岛监狱是在内战时期的一个军事要塞上建造的。
Researchers found a series of buildings and tunnels under the prison yard of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which once held Al Capone, SFGate reported Tuesday.
据周二 SFGate 报道,研究人员在阿尔卡彭监狱的监狱院子里发现了一系列建筑和地道。
A study published last week in “Near Surface Geophysics” said archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scans and historical maps and photographs. They found fully buried structures, ammunition magazines and tunnels.
上周发表在《近地表地球物理学》杂志上的一项研究表明,考古学家使用了透地雷达和地面的激光扫描以及历史地图和照片。 他们发现了完全埋在地下的建筑物、弹药库和隧道。
Toyota to review operations in Britain in case of ‘no-deal’ Brexit
丰田将重新评估在英国的运营,以防止英国退欧
GENEVA--Toyota Motor Corp. is weighing whether to pull up stakes and cease production in Britain in the event of “no-deal” Brexit from the European Union.
日内瓦——丰田汽车公司(Toyota Motor corp.)正在考虑,如果欧盟(eu)拒绝英国退欧,是否要撤资并停止在英国的生产。
Johan van Zyl, president and CEO of Toyota Motor Europe, told a small group of reporters at the Geneva International Motor Show here March 6 that Toyota is not ruling out the possibility of re-examining its investment in Britain in such an event.
丰田汽车欧洲公司(Toyota Motor Europe)总裁兼首席执行官约翰•范•齐勒(Johan van Zyl)3月6日在日内瓦国际车展(Geneva International Motor Show)上对一小群记者表示,丰田不排除在这种情况下重新审视其在英国的投资的可能性。
He voiced concerns about the possible imposition of high tariffs on auto exports and urged Westminster to avoid a “no-deal” Brexit at all costs.
他对可能对汽车出口征收高额关税表示担忧,并敦促英国政府不惜一切代价避免"不达成协议"的英国脱欧。
The queen just posted on Instagram for the first time
女王刚刚第一次在 Instagram 上发布消息
Queen Elizabeth II published her first ever Instagram post on Thursday.
周四,伊丽莎白二世发布了她在 Instagram 上的第一篇文章
Sent via the Royal Family’s Instagram account, the post shared a photograph of a letter sent to her great-great grandfather Prince Albert in 1843.
该帖子通过皇室的 Instagram 账号发布,分享了一张1843年写给她曾曾祖父阿尔伯特王子的一封信的照片