全通翻譯/翻譯社

◎蔡子岳

Several hundred citizens of Venice rallied on Saturday to draw attention to an exodus of residents that they fear is sucking the life out of the fabled Italy city.

數百名威尼斯市民週六集會，以吸引注意：市民出走潮使這座義大利名城失去生命力。

◎周虹汶

Despite his unrivalled record for single-handedly saving the world from disaster while seducing beautiful women along the way, James Bond would not get a job as a British spy, the head of external intelligence agency MI6 has said.

對外情報機構「軍情六處」首長說，儘管具有在誘惑美女的同時，獨力拯救世界免於災害的無敵紀錄，但詹姆士．龐德拿不到英國間諜的工作職缺。

◎孫宇青

Cassie De Pecol, an intrepid traveler from Washington, Connecticut, USA, hopes to become the fastest female to travel to all 196 countries - and she’s just 27-years-old. She is nearing the end of her epic mission to visit most nations including Taiwan.

◎魏國金

At 105, Kunwar Bai, who lives in the small Kotabharri village, made up of only 18 families, is an unlikely hero to enact change throughout India. Yet she’s done just that.

住在僅由18個家庭組成的小村莊科塔哈里、高齡105歲的坤瓦．芭伊不太可能是造成印度各地改變的英雄。然而，她完成該成就。

◎陳正健

’Brexit’ has been named the word of the year by Collins Dictionary. The first recorded usage of the word arrived in 2013 , but this year saw a 3,400% rise.

◎蔡子岳

The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica’s waters reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world’s largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent.

關係南極海命運的多國週五達成歷史性協定，要在永凍大陸旁劃設世界最大海洋保護區。

◎孫宇青

A New Zealand maid service cleaning up the homes of hung-over party-hosts has been inundated with requests for their services, from home and abroad.

◎魏國金

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has promised God he will clean up his famously vulgar language.

菲律賓總統杜特蒂說，他已承諾上帝要將他知名的粗口放乾淨。

◎陳正健

The house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born is set to be demolished and replaced with a new building to stop it becoming a place of pilgrimage of neo-Nazis, the Austrian government has said. The future of the house has been widely debated, with opinion torn between razing it or changing its use.

◎茅毅

The budget for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s 2017 "livelihood stability and commemoration project for surviving comfort women," revealed on Sept. 5 by People’s Party lawmaker and National Assembly Gender Equality and Family Committee member Shin Yong-Hyeon, amounted to 3.039 billion won, down 1.126 billion won from 4.165 billion won this year.

「國民之黨」國會議員兼國會女性家庭委員會成員申容賢，9月5日揭露女性家庭部編列的明年度「支援尚在世慰安婦生計安定暨紀念方案」預算，總計30.39億韓元，較今年的41.65億減少11.26億韓元。

◎張沛元

◎孫宇青

As e-commerce continues to gain momentum in China, traditional shopping centers have been trying to encourage shoppers back to their physical stores.

隨著電子商務在中國行情看俏，傳統購物商場一直試圖吸引民眾重回實體商店購物。

◎魏國金

Bob Dylan’s failure to acknowledge his Nobel Prize in literature is "impolite and arrogant", according to a member of the body that awards it.

巴布．狄倫沒有對獲頒諾貝爾文學獎發表感言的行為是「無禮、傲慢」，頒贈機構的一名成員表示。

◎蔡子岳

Scientists say that humans have a biased view of the most repugnant insect - the cockroach. Not all species of cockroaches are pests. In fact, these group of insects have a diversity of forms, and some are used for medicinal purposes. Although cockroaches can withstand up to 10 times more radiation than humans, they are not immune to it.

科學家說，人類認為蟑螂是最讓人反感的昆蟲，這看法怕是偏誤的。並非所有種類蟑螂都是害蟲。事實上，蟑螂有很多樣的外型，某些還可供作藥用。蟑螂儘管能承受10倍於人類的輻射，但並非全然免疫於輻射。

◎茅毅

Most school songs in South Korea still have lyrics more suited to the 1970s, but some are moving recently to reflect student’s changing tastes by incorporating rapping and English lyrics and focusing on new values such as diversity. An active culture of students themselves arranging and recording their school songs or composing class songs is also taking shape.

南韓許多校歌歌詞仍較像1970年代的風格，但近來有些校歌正著手反映學子轉變中的品味，納入饒舌和英文歌詞，並注重如多元性等新價值。一種由學生自行改編、錄製其校歌或譜班歌的文化，正在成形中。

◎張沛元

In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

在一個曾以其南方邦聯國的過去為榮的城鎮，（美國維吉尼亞州）亞歷山卓市議會週六無異議投票通過更改傑佛遜．戴維斯（譯註：美國南北戰爭時的南軍領袖）公路的名稱，並尋求維吉尼亞州議會批准將一尊位於具有歷史意義舊城區的知名南方邦聯國士兵雕像，移往他處。

◎孫宇青

Courteney Cox, who played Monica Geller for 10 years in the comedy series Friends, has said she is reconciled to looking older and regrets some procedures she had in the past to keep the wrinkles at bay.

曾在一播10年的美國喜劇《六人行》中飾演莫妮卡．蓋勒一角的克特妮．考克斯表示，她現在安於容貌老化的事實，同時也對以前為了阻止皺紋生成而採取的手段感到後悔。

◎魏國金

Besieged by the Syrian government for two years, the city of Madaya has had little contact with the outside world － barely reachable by aid convoys, let alone video journalists.

被敘利亞政府圍困2年，馬達亞這個城鎮與外界幾乎沒有聯繫——救援車隊難以抵達，遑論影像記者。