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Survival International Renews Campaign Against De Beers 国际生存组织重新发起抵制戴比尔斯运动 By Avi Krawitz Posted: 10/16/08 09:24 Submit Comment RAPAPORT... Survival International relaunched its campaign against De Beers this week saying the diamond giant’s renewed presence in Central Kalahari Game Reserve would be devastating for the indigenous Bushmen, and the reserve's ecology. 国际生存组织（Survival International）本周重新发动了一场抵制戴比尔斯的运动，称该钻石巨头在中喀拉哈里狩猎保护区的重新出现对于土著布须曼人和保护区的生态将是毁灭性的。 The non-governmental organization’s protest revolves around De Beers’ exploration concessions near the Gope project, over which the two previously clashed and which De Beers recently sold to Gem Diamonds. 该非政府组织的保护行动让人想起了Gope项目附近戴比尔斯的勘探租地，双方原来就对此有过冲突，戴比尔斯最近将它出售给了Gem钻石公司。 “We are dismayed that De Beers feels that it can now return to the reserve whilst the situation with the Bushmen is still unresolved. Presumably it hoped no-one would notice,” said Stephen Corry, director of Survival ...
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ANTWERP, Belgium, Oct 9 (Reuters Life!) - The biggest diamond to be found in 13 years, the "Lesotho Promise," was sold on Monday at auction for more than $12 million and is expected to fetch in excess of $20 million once it is cut up. 这颗名为“莱索托承诺”的钻石是近13年来所发现的最大的钻石。周一，它在拍卖会上卖出了1200万美元的价格，而一旦被切割后，它的价格估计会突破2000万美元。 The 603-carat (120 gram) diamond, named after the tiny African mountain kingdom where it was found, went under the hammer at the Antwerp Diamond Center and was sold to the South African Diamond Corporation, owner of luxury jewellers Graff. 这颗钻石的名字源于它的发现地——非洲的这个山地小国。这颗重达603克拉（约合120克）的钻石在安特卫普钻石中心被卖给了奢侈珠宝品牌格拉夫所属的南非钻石公司。 The 10th largest white diamond ever to be found, it will be cut into a large heart-shaped diamond and several smaller stones which will then be sold. The uncut diamond is a third bigger than a golf ball. 这颗目前世界排名第10的白色钻石将被切割成一大颗心形钻石和数颗小钻石出售。这颗尚未切割的钻石比一只高尔夫球还要大三分之一。 Johnny Kneller from the South African Diamond Corporation said ...659 days ago
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《色，戒》英译本出自Julia Lovell 女士之手。Lovell 女士是剑桥大学中国历史和文学教授，已出版多部中国题材的著作和译作。比如最新的《长城：中国面对世界》（The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC-AD 2000）以及韩少功的《马桥词典》英译本等。 张爱玲小说的翻译，似乎只有女性能胜任。不说文思细密，就是那服装和打扮的描写，比如王佳芝在麻将桌上的装扮，令我等望而却步：“云鬓蓬松往上扫，后发齐肩，光着手臂，电蓝水渍纹缎齐膝旗袍，小圆角衣领只半寸高，像洋服一样。领口一只别针，与碎钻镶蓝宝石的'纽扣'耳环成套。” Lovell 女士却信笔译来，举重若轻： “She had her hair pinned nonchalantly back from her face, then allowed to hang down to her shoulders. Her sleeveless cheongsam of electric blue moiré satin reached to the knees, its shallow, rounded collar standing only half an inch tall, in the western style. A brooch fixed to the collar matched her diamond-studded sapphire button earrings.” 我另外摘录小说中关键场景译文如下，作为汉译英范例，与英语同好们共同学习： 在珠宝店，王佳芝心神不宁，在钻戒的璀璨里，为情而伤。 “这个人是真爱我的，她突然想，心下轰然一声，若有所失。” He really loves me, she thought. Inside she felt a raw tremor of shock—then a vague sense of loss. 易先生脱险后，余悸未消，心系红颜，悔愧交加。 “她临终一定恨他。不过'无毒不丈夫'.不是这样的男子汉，她也不会爱他。” She must have hated him at the ...
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Earlier last year, BOCOG unveiled the designs for the Olympic medals. For the first time in history, the medals blend gemstone and metal. On the reverse side of the medal there is an inlaid jade ring with a metal centerpiece engraved with the emblem of the Beijing Games. at the beginning of the new year BOCOG announced that Kunlun Jade, a precious nephrite jade from Kunlun Mountains in Northwest China's Qinghai Province, will be used to make Olympic medals for the Beijing 2008 Games. 去年早先时候,北京奥组委披露了奥运会奖牌的设计方案.历史上奥运金牌首次采用金镶玉制作.在奖牌的反面镶上玉环,环上有刻上北京奥运会标记的金属装饰物. 新年伊始,北京奥组委宣布,昆仑玉,一种产自中国青海省昆仑山的贵重的软玉,将被用来制作2008年北京奥运会奖牌.
