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When Dr Maathai came home after half a decade in America, she found huge changes. They were not all for the better. Kenya had gained its independence just two years before, and political power was now...

马塔伊在美国求学六年之后，回到肯尼亚，此时祖国已经发生了巨大的变化。境况并未变好，尽管肯尼亚已在两年前独立了，政治权力现在在非洲人手上，可是新的歧视却已产生。她遇到的第一个对手就是部落歧视加性别歧视：官方曾委任她做内罗比大学一名动物学教授的...

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In many ways it seems odd that Wangari Maathai’s life should have been so closely associated with struggle. Success appeared to come almost effortlessly to her, even though her origins were humble. Sh...

旺加里·马塔伊的人生怎会如此紧密地与斗争相联系，不可谓不怪。因为尽管出身微寒，成功于她唾手可得。她生于肯尼亚中部高原一个名叫伊希特的小村庄，出身基库尤农民家庭，当时肯尼亚还是英国的殖民地。在二十世纪四十年代，像她这样的非洲女孩多半没机会受教...

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Books and Arts; Book review; Black magic in London; Crimes of passion; The Boy in the River. By Richard Hoskins. In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, young and newly married, spent six years as a mi...

文艺；书评；伦敦巫术； 激情犯罪；《河里的男孩》，理查德·霍斯金斯着。 在二十世纪八十年代早期，年轻且新婚不久的理查德·霍斯金斯，在博洛博（地名）做了六年的传教士，该地位于刚果首都，金沙萨市的上游。现今已返回英国，有几分非洲专家...

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As a student in Berlin, he irked Hitler by refusing to meet him. In 1938, as Austria’s leaders quailed before the Anschluss, the Habsburgs’ scion offered to return and rally resistance. Luckily, he di...

作为一名在柏林上学的学生，因为拒绝见希特勒而惹恼了他。1938年，奥地利的领导者在纳粹德国吞并奥地利时畏缩了，哈普斯堡皇室提议奥托回去，大家集结起来一起抵抗。幸亏他没去，纳粹下令对他就地处决。 应罗斯福的邀请，战争期间奥托移居美国，在...

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If only his great-uncle had died earlier. Franz Joseph I was a masterful ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but his 86 years brought rigidity when the times called for reform. This doomed the noble...

要是他那个伟大的叔叔去的早点就好了。弗朗茨·约瑟夫一世是奥匈帝国的一位优秀的统治者，只是当那个被称为改革的时代来临时，他86年岁月所带来的就只能算是顽固保守。这就注定他的侄子（全名弗朗茨·约瑟夫·奥托罗伯特·玛丽亚·安东卡尔·马克斯·海因里...

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Classical music; Conjurors; Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras. By Tom Service. IN “FANTASIA”, Walt Disney's 1940 film of musically ...

文艺；书评；古典音乐；音乐的魔术； 音乐就像点石成金——一段与伟大的指挥家和乐团的奇妙旅程。汤姆·瑟维斯奇着。 1940年沃特·迪士尼拍摄了音乐动画“幻想曲”，每一段的开始和结束都是利奥波德·斯托科夫斯基的剪影。而这位英国指挥家...

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In 1940, when she was living as a newlywed in Vichy France, it could have been another American Bar, this one in the Hôtel du Louvre et de la Paix in Marseilles. It was a chance encounter here with an...

上世纪40年代时亦是如此，1940年她刚刚结婚，嫁到维希政权下的法国，那时她经常出现在另一家美国酒馆，在巴黎卢浮旅馆里或者在马赛和平旅馆里。在那里，她很偶然地碰到一位被法国当局保释的在囚英国军官。 这位军官后来带领她加入了抵抗德国纳粹的运动...

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Books and Arts; Opera review; Einstein on the beach; Breaking the waves; An avant-garde opera on a rare world tour. THE music of “Einstein on the Beach” is so grand and epic—yet so mesmerising and...

文艺；歌剧评论；沙滩上的爱因斯坦； 乘风破浪；一部先锋歌剧在进行世界巡演，机会难得。 “沙滩上的爱因斯坦”的音乐如史诗般宏伟壮丽——同时循环重复，引人入胜——让人有置身梦中之感。这部由菲利普·格拉斯和罗伯特·威尔逊共同创作，经露...