Brazil's
carnival
巴西狂欢节逾10万人参加
King Momo (King of Carnival) Wagner Monteiro, shows the city's key to announce the official opening of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival, Feb. 20 in Rio de Janeiro. The main Carnival samba parades began Sunday night, before the eyes of more than 100,000 people, including 10,000 tourists.
German carnival
德国狂欢节引万人参加
656 carnival-clowns in costumes get together setting a new world record
with the most clowns in one picture during a carnival party in a Cologne
street Feb. 21. Tens of thousands of people hit the streets in western Germany
to celebrate the annual carnival.
Tokyo's annual concert
东京年度音乐会5000人齐唱“欢乐颂”
More than five-thousand amateur singers surround orchestras to perform Ludwig
Van Beethoven's Symphony No.9 at the 20th annual concert in Tokyo, Feb.
22.
The chicken piano
法国图卢兹：公鸡演奏乐器
A chicken uses its pecking power to produce music on an instrument baptized
"The chicken piano" at the former abattoir, now a museum space
in Toulouse, Feb. 19. The chicken piano and other such luminary musical
instruments, mainly used and invented by street performers form part of
an exhibition dedicated to the life and art of street theatre.
Jane awarded as a Dame
黑猩猩专家荣膺爵士勋位
The world famous Dr. Jane Goodall is made a Dame by Prince Charles at Buckingham
Palace Feb. 20. Also honored was British actress Joan Plowright.
Sony's new thermal printer
索尼推出新型终端打印机
Japan's electronics giant Sony employee Saori Takahashi displays the new
thermal printer DPP-EX5 which enables it to edit and print out digital photo
images from digital camera directly without a PC at the company's showroom
in Tokyo, Feb. 20, while she shows off the new color version of the 5 mega-pixel
digital camera DSC-T1.US.
World's tallest man
土耳其世界第一高2.41米
Turkish giant Sultan Koese stands next to his uncle in Mardin Feb. 10. The world's would-be tallest man Koese attributes his height to hormone therapy that went wrong when he was 9 years old. Although until he is measured by the Guinness Book of World Records, 2.36-m Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia officially remains the world's tallest living man.
"When the facts on Iraq are all in, we will be neither completely
right nor completely wrong."
Central Intelligence Director George J. Tenet acknowledges for the first
time that American spy agencies may have overestimated Iraq's illicit weapons
capacities.
“在有关伊拉克的各种情况的事实面前,我们既不会完全正确,也不会完全错误。”
——美国中央情报局局长乔治·塔内特第一次承认美国间谍组织可能高估了伊拉克违禁武器的数量。
"It helps one fulfill the instinctive desire to explore space."
A U.S. firm has recently signed a deal with one of Taiwan's biggest funeral
homes to provide "space burials" to the Taiwanese by shooting
people's remains into space.
“这能够让人们实现探索太空的本能欲望。”
——最近一家美国公司与台湾最大的葬礼公司签约,为台湾人提供“太空葬礼”服务,将死者的骨灰发射到太空中。
"Am I bagging groceries at a very busy supermarket? No. I sit with
a little pencil and if I have an idea, I write it down. It's light work.
I can do that forever."
Mel Brooks, in London to launch a new stage version of "The Producers",
on the prospect of retirement.
“我是在繁忙的超市里打包所购买的物品吗？当然不是。我是手里拿着一支铅笔,端坐着,如果有灵感,我就写下来。这是很轻松的工作。我可以永远这么做。”
——音乐剧《制作人》在伦敦上演,当年迈古稀的导演梅尔·布鲁克斯被问及是否将要退休时,他如是说。
"I felt they should be given a special welcome this year as Leap
Years are special, and babies born on the 29th will effectively have to
wait for another four years for their birthday."
Ireland is to pay a 100 euro bonus to leap year babies born this Sunday.
“我觉得应该给他们一个特别的欢迎方式,因为闰年比较特殊,2月29日出生的婴儿要等四年才能过上一次生日。”
——爱尔兰将对本周日出生的婴儿给予100欧元的奖励。
"It is apparent to me that it would be difficult to maintain my journalistic
credentials and still be an active first lady of California. Therefore,
after much soul searching, I have asked to be relieved of my duties at NBC
News."
Maria Shriver, TV journalist and wife of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
announcing she is taking a new extended leave of absence from the network.
“很显然,身为加州第一夫人,要继续保证我作为记者所应具有的公正性将变得有些困难。因此,在经过了长时间的思考之后,我不得不忍痛割爱,提出辞职的请求。”
——加利福尼亚州州长施瓦辛格的夫人玛丽亚·谢里弗宣布将辞去NBC的记者职务。
