>Trump fetes fast food feast
白宮廚房停擺無法宴客
特朗普自掏腰包點快餐
US President Donald Trump has put on a fast food feast at the White House, blaming the partial government shutdown for the lack of catering staff. He welcomed the winners of the national college football championship, the Clemson Tigers, with burgers, as well as fries and pizzas. "Because of the shutdown... we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me. We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries, all of our favorite foods," Trump said as he hosted the event in the State Dining Room on Monday. When asked to name his own favorite fast food by a reporter, Trump said that he liked them all. "If it's American, I like it. It's all American stuff," he replied.
由于政府部分停擺導(dǎo)致廚房人手不足，美國總統(tǒng)特朗普近日在白宮以快餐宴客。特朗普以漢堡、炸薯條和披薩歡迎來訪的大學(xué)生橄欖球全國冠軍克萊姆森老虎隊。特朗普14日在國宴廳主持這項活動時表示："由于停擺，我們出去訂購了美國快餐食品，我買單。我們有披薩、300個漢堡包，很多很多炸薯條，都是我們愛吃的食物。"當被一位記者問及什么是他最喜歡的快餐食品時，特朗普表示他全都喜歡。他說："只要是美國的我都喜歡，這些都是美國食品。"

>Veteran gets 50,000 cards
二戰(zhàn)老兵收5萬張生日卡
A 96-year-old World War II veteran from California will be spending plenty of time with family going through a mountain of birthday cards, after a request from his daughter on Facebook went viral. Sue Morse had put out a request for friends to send birthday wishes to her father and Purple Heart medal recipient Duane Sherman, expecting she would get maybe 160 cards. Instead, he received over 50,000. Sherman's wife of 57 years, Lois, died in 2011. The only mail Sherman receives most days are just bills, and he's outlived most of his friends. "I wanted him to feel special on his birthday," Morse said. Ever since Morse put out her plea on Facebook, her father has received birthday cards and notes from all 50 US states and 10 countries. Included in the fan mail are notes from elementary school students and prison inmates. The secretary of the Navy sent one. So did the Pittsburgh Steelers and Ohio State University. Since Sherman is legally blind, Morse has been reading the cards and letters out loud to her dad. She's gotten through about 1,700 letters and plans to enlist the help of friends to get through the rest.
因女兒在臉書上發(fā)布的請求被瘋轉(zhuǎn)，加利福尼亞一位96歲的二戰(zhàn)老兵收到了堆積如山的生日賀卡，他和他的家人想讀完這些賀卡可得花些時日了。蘇?莫斯在社交網(wǎng)站上請求朋友們，希望大家能夠為她的父親、紫心勛章獲得者杜安?謝爾曼送上生日祝福。她以為會收到160張左右的賀卡，結(jié)果卻有逾5萬張賀卡紛至杳來。相伴走過57年的妻子洛伊思于2011年去世，謝爾曼平時收到的信件基本上都是賬單，身邊的朋友也大多先走一步。莫斯表示："我希望他能過一個特別的生日。"莫斯在臉書上發(fā)布請求后，他的父親收到了來自全美50個州和全球10個國家的生日賀卡和書信。遙寄祝福的既有小學(xué)生，也有身處牢籠的囚犯。海軍部長、匹茲堡鋼人隊、俄亥俄州立大學(xué)也寄來了祝福。由于謝爾曼雙目失明，莫斯需要向他大聲讀出生日卡和信件上的內(nèi)容。目前她已經(jīng)讀了大約1700封信件，其余信件她打算請朋友們來幫忙讀。

>Avengers to save the Oscars?
奧斯卡請'復(fù)聯(lián)'英雄救場
The Avengers saved the planet from an alien invasion and an artificial intelligence hellbent on human extinction. Their next assignment: Saving the Academy Awards. The Oscars (Feb 24) were left without a host when comedian Kevin Hart stepped down from the gig following the widespread backlash to his history of making homophobic comments. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is instead scrambling to "reunite" cast members of Marvel's Avengers movies as a rotating team of quasi-hosts to introduce segments and hold the telecast together. It's unclear which Avengers specifically will take part in the show, but the Academy wants "appearances by as many big-name cast members" as possible, the Hollywood Reporter said.
復(fù)仇者聯(lián)盟曾拯救地球免遭外星人入侵，讓人類免于被機器人滅絕的命運。他們的下一個任務(wù)是：救場奧斯卡頒獎禮。將于2月24日舉行的奧斯卡頒獎禮沒有主持人了，原定擔任主持人的喜劇演員凱文?哈特因曾發(fā)表恐同言論遭到廣泛抵制，而后便退出了奧斯卡主持工作。據(jù)《好萊塢記者報》報道，美國電影藝術(shù)與科學(xué)學(xué)院正努力讓漫威電影中的復(fù)聯(lián)演員"重聚"，讓他們輪流做客串主持，每個人負責頒獎禮的一部分，共同完成整場主持工作。目前哪幾位復(fù)仇者會參與節(jié)目主持尚不清楚，但《好萊塢記者報》稱，學(xué)院希望能讓"盡可能多的復(fù)聯(lián)大腕"亮相。

>Brexit deal rejected
英國議會否決脫歐協(xié)議
British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin on Tuesday, triggering political chaos that could lead to a disorderly exit from the EU or even to a reversal of the 2016 decision to leave. After parliament voted 432-202 against her deal, the worst defeat in modern British history, opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn promptly called a vote of no confidence in May's government, to be held on Wednesday. More than 100 of May's own Conservative lawmakers - both Brexit backers and supporters of EU membership - joined forces to vote down the deal. Several outcomes are now possible following the government's defeat, including the calling of a general election, the prime minister's resignation, and even a second referendum. The UK also now faces the possibility of exiting the EU in late March without a deal in place.
15日，英國議會以壓倒性優(yōu)勢否決首相特雷莎?梅的脫歐協(xié)議，這一結(jié)果引發(fā)的政治動蕩可能導(dǎo)致英國無序脫歐，甚至逆轉(zhuǎn)2016年的脫歐決定。梅的脫歐協(xié)議遭遇英國近代史上最重大失敗、被議會以432票反對，202票支持的結(jié)果予以否決后，反對黨工黨領(lǐng)袖科爾賓立刻提出16日對梅的政府進行不信任投票。100多位梅所在的保守黨的議員——包括脫歐派和留歐派——也加入了到投票反對脫歐協(xié)議的陣營中。梅政府的挫敗可能導(dǎo)致幾種結(jié)果，包括各方呼吁舉行大選，首相辭職，甚至舉行二次公投等。英國如今還面臨在3月底無協(xié)議脫歐的可能性。

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