《每日一句漢譯英》一周匯總 (21)

   
數億中國人每年都會聚集在電視機前，收看中國最著名的電視節目：央視春節晚會——每年除夕上演的囊括唱歌、舞蹈、雜技、相聲、小品等表演形式的盛大娛樂節目。今年除夕是1月22日。一般來說，四分之三以上有電視的中國家庭都會收看這個節目。
 
Hundreds of millions of Chinese annually gather around their television sets for the country’s most famous television programme: the CCTV Spring Festival gala, an extravaganza of song, dance, acrobatics, comedy and drama staged every year on Chinese New Year’s eve, which falls on January 22 this year. Typically, more than three-quarters of Chinese households with televisions tune in to the show.
 
大多數策略師和銀行家都在熱議以下可能性：假如伊朗和西方的政治關係進一步惡化，油價可能飆漲；假如歐元區再出現新的動蕩，金價可能大幅反彈；由於長期存在的供過於求問題，美國天然氣價格可能進一步暴跌。
 
Most strategists and bankers are talking up the possibility of an oil price spike if political relations between Iran and the west deteriorate further; a sharp rebound in gold prices on the back of fresh eurozone turmoil; or a further collapse in US natural gas prices based on chronic oversupply.
 
 
到任不久後，他把約70名中外記者邀請到自己的官邸，用流利的漢語普通話向他們問好，並告訴他們“四處看看，就像在家裏一樣”。
 
Soon after he arrived, he invited about 70 Chinese and foreign reporters to his residence, greeted them in fluent Mandarin, and told them to 'Take a look around and feel at home!'.
 
 
美聯社在朝鮮首都平壤開設分社，成為第一個從這個與世隔絕的國家以文字、圖片和影像專職報道新聞的國際通訊機構。
 
The Associated Press has opened a bureau in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, becoming the first international news organization with a full-time presence to cover news from the reclusive nation in words, pictures and videos.
 
  
同世界其它地區一樣，中國人正日益模糊黃金的零售需求和投資需求之間的分別。零售需求通常是指消費者購買黃金首飾用以佩戴，而投資需求則是指買入金條、金幣或黃金交易所交易基金份額。
 
As in other parts of the world, the Chinese are increasingly blurring the lines between retail gold demand, which is usually thought of as people purchasing jewelry to wear, and investment demand in the form of bars, coins or shares in exchange-traded funds.
 
 
西安曾經長達一千一百年為中國首都，因秦始皇埋葬地的兵馬俑而著名。秦始皇於西元前二百二十一年統一中國，並自稱皇帝。
 
Xian, a city that served as China's ancient capital for over 1,100 years, is famed for the terracotta army at the burial site of Qin Shihuang, who presided over the unification of China in 221 BC and declared himself the first emperor.