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This type of mechanism is exactly what more than 130 countries signed onto in 2021, with implementation of a 15% minimum tax set to begin soon in the EU, U.K., Japan, Indonesia and many other countries.

这种机制正是 130 多个国家于 2021 年签署加入的方案。目前，欧盟、英国、日本、印度尼西亚以及许多其他国家即将开始实施 15% 的最低税率。

It would be solved with more countries cutting tax rates.

如果有更多国家下调税率，这个问题就能得到解决。

She enjoyed them all, but best, in her view, is Money Match Cafe, a board game where she must work out the value of different denominations(面额) of coin in her imaginary restaurant, her "customers" being her stuffed toys.

她喜欢这些游戏，但在她看来，最好玩的是《金钱配对咖啡馆》：这是一款棋盘游戏，她需要在自己想象中的餐厅里弄清楚各种面额硬币的价值，而她的“顾客”则是她的毛绒玩具。

With around 600 hectares replanted around the world since 2015 and another 1,100 planned for this year, the company's drive fits into the Bonn Challenge, a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded land by 2020.

自2015年以来，该公司已在全球范围内重新造林约600公顷，今年还计划再造林1,100公顷。这项行动与“波恩挑战”相契合；“波恩挑战”是一项全球倡议，旨在到2020年恢复全球1.5亿公顷遭到砍伐和退化的土地。

Surprisingly, given the research about habit-forming in young children, there are very few gaming apps that can help under-sevens—Pigby's Fair, developed by NatWest, being a notable exception.

令人惊讶的是，鉴于有关幼儿习惯养成的研究，能够帮助七岁以下儿童的游戏应用却寥寥无几；其中，英国国民西敏寺银行开发的 Pigby's Fair 是一个值得注意的例外。

There are other reasons for the rising incidence of depression in young people, with increasing pressure to succeed in education and in life more broadly—to be famous, beautiful, rich—often cited as a source of unhappiness or anxiety which can, if aggravated by other factors and not managed, tip into ill health.

年轻人抑郁症发病率上升还有其他原因。人们常常认为，社会对个人在教育和更广泛的人生领域取得成功的压力不断增加——要成名、要漂亮、要有钱——是导致不幸福或焦虑的根源；而这些问题如果再受到其他因素加重且未得到妥善处理，可能会进一步发展为健康问题。

With the costs of education continually rising, public libraries remain places where all people can have access to education.

随着教育成本的持续上升，公共图书馆仍然是所有人都能获得教育的地方。

With the world more and more digitalized, people sometimes underestimate the role of libraries as community and cultural centers.

随着世界越来越数字化，人们有时会低估图书馆作为社区和文化中心的作用。

There is no room in their timid regimented minds to imagine that someone might be clever, kind or good—and yet somehow have been overlooked entirely by society, their qualities lying hidden beneath an unfamiliar veil, and having as yet discovered no obvious outlet.

在他们胆怯而墨守成规的头脑中，没有空间去想象某人可能聪明、善良或优秀——但却不知为何被社会完全忽视，他们的品质隐藏在不熟悉的面纱之下，并且至今没有发现明显的宣泄途径。

With population increases and global urbanisation ever accelerating, much attention is focused on the sustainability of our cities and scarce attention is paid to the countryside.

随着人口增长和全球城市化不断加速，大量注意力集中在我们城市的可持续性上，而对农村的关注却很少。

Actually the whole world is in a rage to borrow and to spend, with the USA leading the trend.

实际上整个世界都处于借贷和消费的狂热中，美国引领着这一趋势。

With cities across the world growing rapidly, how will the current urban generation respond to the inevitable social changes of mass urbanisation?

随着全球城市快速发展，当前的城市一代将如何应对大规模城市化带来的不可避免的社会变革？

Finally, on October 9, 1942, the over 30 meter tall and 200-400 year old tree fell, rumor has it, as a result of a severe windstorm and/or via having previously died and its roots rotted.

最后，在1942年10月9日，这棵超过30米高且有200到400年树龄的树倒下了，据传，原因是一场强烈的风暴和/或因为它之前已经死亡且根部腐烂。

Houseplants disperse chemical compounds more quickly with people moving around.

室内植物在人们走动时会更快地扩散化合物。

Many scientists believe that earth has now entered the sixth mass extinction, with humans creating a toxic mix of habitat loss, pollution and climate change, which has already led to the loss of at least 77 species of mammals and 140 types of birds since 1500.

许多科学家认为地球现在已经进入第六次大规模灭绝，人类造成了栖息地丧失、污染和气候变化的有毒混合体，这已经导致自1500年以来至少77种哺乳动物和140种鸟类的消失。

The political limit has also been reached in some places, with citizens meeting the construction of new wind turbines with loud protests.

政治限制在一些地方也已达到，市民们以强烈抗议反对新风力涡轮机的建设。

And then the legal storm began, with GME and Pritchett pitted against Florida and France.

然后法律风暴开始了，GME和普里切特与佛罗里达州和法国形成对立。

Roughly speaking, about 40% of a person's personality is determined by their genes, the other 60% by their environment.

粗略地说，一个人的性格大约40%由他们的基因决定，另外60%由他们的环境决定。

About 1 million plastic bottles are sold each minute around the globe and, with just 14% recycled, many end up in the oceans where they have polluted even the remotest parts, harming marine life and potentially people who eat sea food.

全球每分钟大约售出100万个塑料瓶，并且，只有14%被回收利用，许多塑料瓶最终流入海洋，在那里它们甚至污染了最偏远的海域，损害了海洋生物，还可能影响到食用海鲜的人。

Most universities have turned to natural gas as a replacement, with state funding backing the fuel switch.

大多数大学已经转向天然气作为替代品，有国家资金支持这种燃料转换。

With ice frozen to his beard, Wardian crossed the finish line that April afternoon in a winning time of 4 hours 7 minutes and 40 seconds, almost two hours slower than his personal best over 26.2 miles.

胡子上结着冰，沃迪安在那个四月的下午以4小时7分40秒的获胜时间冲过了终点线，比他26.2英里的个人最佳成绩慢了将近两小时。

With the use of driverless vehicles seemingly inevitable, mining companies in the vast Australian desert state of Western Australia are definitely taking the lead.

随着无人驾驶车辆的使用看似不可避免，在广阔的澳大利亚沙漠州西澳大利亚州的矿业公司肯定正在起带头作用。

The image of James Dean will be recreated on screen with his voice dubbed by someone else.

詹姆斯·迪恩的形象将在银幕上被重新塑造，他的声音由其他人配音。

In the film, which will be called Finding Jack, Dean will be recreated on screen with CGI based on old footage(影片镜头) and photographs, with another actor voicing him.

在这部将被称为《寻找杰克》的电影中，迪恩将通过基于旧影片镜头和照片的计算机生成图像在银幕上被重现，由另一名演员为他配音。

In those days, Texas was almost entirely rural, with no large cities and practically no industry; cotton and beef were the foundation of the economy.

在那些日子里，得克萨斯州几乎完全是农村，没有大城市，实际上没有工业；棉花和牛肉是经济的基础。

The researchers believe this was to seem honest, with the assumption being that others would be suspicious of a high expense claim.

研究人员认为这是为了显得诚实，其假设是其他人会怀疑高额费用报销。

With the software having been developed in the United States on the same variety of crops in seemingly similar conditions, the agronomist feels confident that the software will produce a nearly accurate result.

鉴于该软件已在美国针对相同种类的作物在看似相似的条件下开发，农学家相信该软件将产生近乎准确的结果。

Twenge's team's analysis of the answers confirmed the earlier, well-established wellbeing climb, with scores rising across the 1990s, and into the later 2000s.

特温格团队对这些答案的分析证实了早期的、公认的幸福感上升趋势，其分数在整个20世纪90年代持续上升，并一直延续到21世纪00年代后期。

So why, with so many problems discovered, didn't the airport corporation decide to give up on the project and start over?

那么，既然发现了这么多问题，机场公司为什么不决定放弃这个项目并重新开始呢？

Last year, a child was born at a hospital in the UK with her heart outside her body.

去年，一名儿童在英国的一家医院出生，她的心脏在身体外部。

With computers conquering what used to be deeply human tasks, what will it mean in the future to be human?

随着计算机正在征服曾经是人类深度参与的任务，未来成为人类意味着什么？

Those involved in the clinical trials on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup.

参与临床试验的那些人平均每周吃3.3份意大利面来代替其他碳水化合物，一份大约等于半杯。

With so much stuff in space, and a limited area around our planet, the government wants to reduce the chances of a collision.

由于太空中有如此多的物体，且我们星球周围的区域有限，政府希望减少碰撞的可能性。

The dream of personalised flight is still vivid in the minds of many inventors, some developing cycle-powered craft, others pouring money into jetpacks(喷气飞行背包).

个性化飞行的梦想在许多发明家的脑海中仍然鲜活，一些人在研发脚踏动力飞行器，另一些人则在向喷气飞行背包投入资金。

W: I like how the book is clearly written with each chapter brought to life by pieces of fascinating knowledge.

W：我喜欢这本书是如何被清晰地撰写的，每一章都通过引人入胜的知识点片段变得生动起来。

One 2013 study of college students found that 80% of students use their phones or laptops during class, with the average student checking their digital device 11 times in a typical class.

2013年的一项针对大学生的研究发现，80%的学生在课堂上使用手机或笔记本电脑，平均每个学生在一节典型的课上查看他们的电子设备11次。

Foreign Accent Syndrome is rare, with only about 60 cases reported within the past century.

外国口音综合征很罕见，在过去一个世纪内仅报告了约60例。

(NYU is consistently ranked one of the country's most expensive schools, with room and board costs totaling upwards of $64,000 a year.)

（纽约大学一直被评为该国学费最高的学校之一，其食宿费用总计每年超过64,000美元。）

Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

根据皮尤研究中心的一项新调查，富裕家庭受日程表支配，孩子们参加芭蕾、足球和课后项目。

However, Brazil's stretch of misfortune has created opportunities for China, with a Chinese company winning the $100 million contract in 2015 to rebuild the Brazilian station.

然而，巴西的一连串不幸为中国创造了机会，一家中国公司在2015年赢得了价值1亿美元的重建巴西站的合同。

Sports drinks, which are often high in sugar and calories, made up most of the food and drink deals, with soft drinks and fast food filling out the remainder.

运动饮料，通常富含糖和卡路里，构成了大部分食品和饮料交易，碳酸饮料和快餐填补了剩余部分。

However, there are certain advantages of public universities, such as the fees being free.

然而，公立大学有某些优势，例如学费免费。

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

在一些地方，随着化肥价格在过去一年每吨上涨近50%，人类粪便成为一种有吸引力且常常是必要的替代品。

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

也许可争论的事情较少，因为国家处于一段平静时期，并且药物滥用和其他不健康行为的危险是众所周知的。

With a tax imposed on expensive health insurance plans, most employers will likely transfer money from health expenses into wages.

随着对昂贵的健康保险计划征收一项税，大多数雇主可能会将资金从医疗费用转移到工资中。

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy", and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

一项近期的研究试图计算这种“人类经济的生态透支”的程度，并发现我们正在使用相当于1.2个地球的环境资源和服务——这意味着在某个时刻，债务将会到期，而所有那些服务——即地球免费为我们提供的东西——将会戛然而止。

With almost a quarter of American children younger than 5 living in poverty, and with America doing so little for its poor, the deprivations of one generation are being visited upon the next.

由于几乎四分之一的5岁以下美国儿童生活在贫困中，且美国为其贫困人口所做甚少，一代人的匮乏正被施加给下一代。

But with wages still relatively flat and the economy increasingly divided between the well-off and the long-term unemployed, more people worry about the opposite, deflation(通货紧缩) that would aggravate the economy's problems.

但是，由于工资仍然相对持平，且经济在富裕人群和长期失业人群之间日益分化，更多的人担心相反的情况，即会加剧经济问题的通货紧缩。

According to data from the European Commission, Sweden has the safest roads in the EU, with the UK a close second.

根据欧盟委员会的数据，瑞典拥有欧盟最安全的道路，英国紧随其后，位居第二。

The global crisis of 2008 was no different, with the asset bubble focused on US real estate.

2008年的全球危机也不例外，当时的资产泡沫集中在美国房地产市场。