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文字稿 伦敦一家公司的前台接待员因拒绝穿高跟鞋上班被告知需离开公司回家去，而且不发当天的工资。此举引起了一场就强制办公室着装要求的讨论。以下是 Catriona Renton 的报道。 Nicola Thorp was on her first day working for the management consultancy PwC in central London. She was told by her employment agency Portico that as a receptionist she would have…
文字稿 科学家说他们现在已经对引起乳腺癌的几乎全部基因突变有了近乎完美的认识。这项发表在《自然》期刊上的研究结果被称为具有“里程碑”意义的时刻，因为此研究结果可以帮助解锁治疗乳腺癌和防止乳腺癌发病的新手段。以下是 James Gallagher 的报道。 To understand the causes of cancer, scientists have to know what goes wrong in our DNA – our blueprint of life – that transforms healthy tissue into cancerous tissue. Scientists, led…
文字稿 一家领先的医学机构说，吸烟者应被鼓励使用电子香烟来帮助他们最终戒烟。英国皇家内科医学院解释说，吸电子香烟比吸传统烟草要安全很多。以下是 Adam Brimelow 的报道。 The growing popularity of e-cigarettes has prompted debate about their safety, their potential to help people quit tobacco smoking and the risk they may encourage some people to take it up. The…
文字稿 在印度，至少有3.3亿国民遭受严重干旱的影响。印度政府已将灾情告知最高法院，并发出警告称受灾人数还会增加。请听 BBC Gill McGivering 发回的报道。 The government says about 330 million people are now affected by drought and that number may rise as more states submit reports. It’s a startling…
文字稿 健康专家呼吁厂商改良食品标签，在包装上标出人们要想消耗食物所含热量，需要做多少运动。英国皇家公共卫生协会在《英国医学杂志》上发表的文章中提到，该提议能够帮助降低肥胖率。以下是 Dominic Hughes 的报道。 Food and drink packaging already contains information such as calories, salt and sugar content, but the Royal Society of Public Health believes many people find this confusing. It’s proposing an…
文字稿 根据世界卫生组织的报告，大约每十一个成人中就有一个人患糖尿病。统计数字显示，全世界每年有150万人因患糖尿病而死亡。以下是 BBC Krista Beighton 的报道： The World Health Organisation says we are facing an unrelenting march of diabetes cases. In a major report it warns that cases rose from 108 million in 1980…
文字稿 有证据显示澳大利亚的大堡礁正遭受有记录以来最严重的珊瑚白化现象，科学家们再次呼吁联合国将其列入世界濒危遗产名录。请听 BBC Jon Donnison 的报道。 The Great Barrier Reef is considered one of the seven wonders of the natural world. But the study from Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Taskforce found that in some areas, 95%…
文字稿 德国著名足球运动员弗朗茨·贝肯鲍尔被列为参与2006年德国世界杯贿选事件六名调查对象之一。在审查德国足球协会委托的一份报道后，世界性管理机构国际足联下属的道德委员会决定采取相关措施。请听 Richard Conway 的报道。 The investigation centres on allegations that Germany made undue payments and contracts to secure votes when bidding successfully to host the 2006 World Cup. Last year, the German publication Der Spiegel claimed Germany’s World Cup…
文字稿 英国发起了一项活动，号召英国的小学在课程安排中加入每天跑步一英里（1.6公里）的时段，从而提高学生的身体健康状况。请听 BBC 记者 Robert Pigott 发回的报道。 The daily mile began four years ago at St Ninians primary school in Stirling and is now strongly backed by the Scottish government. Although a university study into the…
文字稿 运动时装品牌耐克宣布暂停与俄罗斯网球运动员莎拉波娃的合作。莎拉波娃在新闻发布会上宣布她没有通过今年初在澳大利亚网球公开赛期间的兴奋剂检测。请听 BBC 记者 Richard Conway 发回的报道。 Winning Wimbledon aged just 17 made Maria Sharapova a global star. And for the last 11 years the five-times Grand Slam winner has been the highest-paid woman…
文字稿 三名英国研究人员获得了一项价值一百万欧元的奖项。每年，这个奖项会颁给“对欧洲脑神经科学研究作出杰出贡献”的人。以下是 David Shuman 对这三名研究人员突破性研究发现的报道。 How the brain actually holds memories was for years something that was too difficult to understand. But scientists then realised than one part of it, called the hippocampus,…
文字稿 世界最著名的蒸汽机车之一，也是首辆创造时速每小时100英里记录的蒸汽机车，“苏格兰飞人”，在经过长达十年的翻修工程后重返铁轨。“苏格兰飞人”建造于1923年。以下是 James Alexander 的报道。 This is the moment steam enthusiasts have been waiting for: the moment Flying Scotsman, in its classic green livery, and with steam pouring from its chimney, thunders back onto the…
科学家说，尼安德特人和现代人类祖先之间的异血缘性接触比我们原先的印象要更早。从一名尼安德特人染色体里发现的现代人祖先的 DNA 痕迹说明，现代人类祖先与尼安德特人开始交配融合的时间比已知时间要早四万年。以下是 BBC Rebecca Morelle 的报道： The ancient remains of a female Neanderthal found in a remote cave in the mountains of Siberia are the source of the latest revelations about the sex lives of…
英国雷丁大学的一项新的研究显示，由于天气变化的影响从英国到美国的飞行时间有可能会延长。以下是 BBC Matt McGrath 的报道： Flights coming from the US to Europe normally benefit from the powerful winds from the jet stream, which can boost speeds by up to 300 km/h. But this new…
一项研究显示，热带雨林地区的树木砍伐促进了黑鼠对森林地带的入侵。发表在《热带生物学》期刊上的一篇文章指出，迄今为止，这些哺乳动物一直都在回避那些不能给它们提供地面保护的森林。以下是 BBC 记者 Matt McGrath 的报道： While black rats have spread rapidly throughout the world over the past 400 years, they’ve tended to avoid mature forests, disliking the leafy floors which are noisy for…