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The future of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is in doubt after Israel stopped all aid from entering the Gaza Strip. Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem.
在以色列阻止所有援助进入加沙地带后，以色列和哈马斯之间的停火前景令人怀疑。琳达·格拉德斯坦（Linda Gradstein）在耶路撒冷报道。

Israel's announcement that it is blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza through its checkpoints has caused fear andpanicbuying in Gaza's markets.
以色列宣布阻止人道主义援助通过其检查站进入加沙，这在加沙市场引起了恐慌性购买。

The move comes as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and share festive meals in the evenings.
此举正值穆斯林斋月开始之际，穆斯林从黎明到黄昏禁食，晚上共享节日大餐。

This year's Ramadan is taking place amid massive destruction caused by 16 months of heavy fighting between Israel and the terrorist-designated Hamas.
今年的斋月正值以色列和被指定为恐怖分子的哈马斯之间16个月的激烈战斗造成大规模破坏之际。

Hamas seized 250 hostages in an October 7, 2023, terror attack on southern Israel, sparking a war that has left tens of thousands ofPalestinians and more than 1,700 Israelis dead.
哈马斯于2023年10月7日在以色列南部发动恐怖袭击，劫持了250名人质，引发了一场战争，造成数万名巴勒斯坦人和1700多名以色列人死亡。

So far, 147 hostages have been returned to Israel alive, most in two cease-fire deals with Hamas. Israel has also released some 2,000Palestinianprisoners.
到目前为止，已有147名人质活着返回以色列，其中大多数是在与哈马斯达成的两项停火协议中被释放的。以色列还释放了约2000名巴勒斯坦囚犯。

Hamas, Arab states, the United Nations and human rights groups have condemned the Israeli blockage of aid shipments, accusing Israel of violating the cease-fire terms.
哈马斯、阿拉伯国家、联合国和人权组织谴责以色列封锁援助物资，指责以色列违反停火条款。

Linda Gradstein, VOA News, Jerusalem. President Trump said on Monday that 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Tuesday.
美国之音新闻记者琳达·格拉德斯坦在耶路撒冷报道。特朗普总统周一表示，对加拿大和墨西哥进口产品征收25%的关税将于周二生效。

Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener reports. U.S. stocks plunged after Trump said there was no room left for a deal that would avert the tariffs by halting the flow of fentanyl into the United States.
路透社记者吉莉安·基钦纳(Jillian Kitchener)报道。特朗普表示，通过停止芬太尼流入美国，达成协议以避免关税，此后美国股市暴跌。

"On the tariffs, is there any room left for Canada and Mexico to make a deal before midnight?"
“关于关税，加拿大和墨西哥还有商量的余地在午夜前达成协议吗？”

"No room left for Mexico or for Canada. No, the tariffs, you know, they're all set."
“墨西哥和加拿大都没有商量的余地。他们都已经确定了。”

Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum on Monday told reporters, quote, "We maintained communication. We have made the agreements and the necessary coordination."
墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·辛鲍姆周一告诉记者，“我们保持着沟通。我们已经达成了协议并进行了必要的协调。”

But she said the decision to impose tariffs rested with Trump and said Mexico was ready with a plan B, C and D.
但她表示，征收关税的决定权在特朗普手中，并表示墨西哥已准备好B、C和D计划。

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday told reporters Canada should not be blamed for the amount of fentanyl in the U.S.
加拿大总理贾斯廷·特鲁多周日告诉记者，加拿大不应为美国的芬太尼数量负责。

"We had about less than one percent when we first started talking about this many months ago. That number is significantly lower than that even now."
“几个月前我们刚开始谈论这个问题时，我们的关税还不到1%，比现在要低得多。”

Economists say that if Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs, which cover more than $900 billion worth of annual imports from Canada and Mexico, it would deal a serious setback to the highly integrated North American economy.
经济学家表示，如果特朗普征收25%的关税，涵盖每年价值超过9000亿美元的加拿大和墨西哥进口产品，这将对高度一体化的北美经济造成严重挫折。

At one time polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year.
曾经，小儿麻痹症每年都会使数十万儿童瘫痪。

In Africa alone, it afflicted 75,000 children annually. That's no longer the case.
仅在非洲，每年就有7.5万名儿童受此折磨。现在情况已经不一样了。

We have just achieved a major milestone in global polio eradication, with the certification of the African region as well polio virus free.
我们刚刚在全球根除小儿麻痹症方面实现了一个重大里程碑，非洲地区被认证为无野生脊髓灰质炎病毒。

A vaccine ended polio in the developed world more than 50 years ago.
50多年前，一种疫苗结束了发达国家的小儿麻痹症。

In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative decided to end polio in developing countries.
1988年，全球根除小儿麻痹症倡议决定在发展中国家消除小儿麻痹症。

It's taken a lot of work: countless volunteers, global leadership, local leadership and the backing of many donors.
这需要付出大量的努力：无数志愿者、全球领导力、地方领导力以及众多捐助者的支持。

But now the wild polio virus exists only in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
但是现在小儿麻痹症病毒只存在于阿富汗和巴基斯坦。

In both countries, there has been a resurgence of the virus in recent years.
近年来，这两个国家的病毒都死灰复燃。

In Pakistan, people displaced by violence and conflict have resettled in communities with poor health services and sanitation.
在巴基斯坦，因暴力和冲突而流离失所的人们在卫生服务和环境卫生条件较差的社区重新定居。

Polio virus is very unforgiving in these communities. You know, they're densely settled. They're, you know, poor sanitation and hygiene.
小儿麻痹症病毒在这些社区里非常肆虐。这些地方人口密集，而且卫生条件和个人卫生习惯都很差。

The conditions are very favorable for polio virus transmission to thrive, to be really entrenched there.
这些条件非常有利于小儿麻痹症病毒传播扩散，使其真正在那里扎根。

Jafari says the eradication program is now helping these communities meet more of their health needs like access to clean water.
贾法里说，根除小儿麻痹症的倡议现在正在帮助这些社区满足更多的卫生需求，例如获得清洁水源。

In Afghanistan, the Taliban doesn't allow mass inoculations or house-to-houseimmunizations.
在阿富汗，塔利班不允许大规模接种疫苗或挨家挨户接种。

If you don't do house-to-house campaigns, can you perhaps carry outimmunizationcampaigns in smallimmunizationcenters?
如果你不进行挨家挨户接种，是否可以在小型免疫中心开展免疫接种活动？

Many smallimmunizationcenters in a particular community, so that families don't have to travel very far to have their children immunized.
在某个特定社区设立许多小型免疫接种中心，这样家庭就不必长途跋涉带孩子去接种疫苗了。

So we're trying to be creative, and looking at ways to move our polio eradication efforts forward in those two remaining endemic countries.
我们要发挥创造力，并研究如何推动我们在剩下的两个小儿麻痹症盛行的国家根除小儿麻痹症。

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, vaccinators in all countries wear masks and gloves.
由于新冠疫情，各国的疫苗接种人员都佩戴口罩和手套。

Global polio eradication is close and the milestones are significant, but unless the disease is wiped out in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it could once again circulate globally. [解析]
全球根除小儿麻痹症已接近尾声，且取得了重大里程碑进展，但除非该疾病在阿富汗和巴基斯坦被彻底消灭，否则它可能再次在全球范围内传播。

This ad posted to Youtube was part of an unprecedented 200-million-dollar initiative in California by Lyft, Uber and other firms to convince voters that workers who use their apps to find work should be classified as independent contractors, overturning 2019 state legislation that defined them as employees.
发布到油管上的这则广告是来福车、优步等公司在加利福尼亚州发起的一项史无前例的2亿美元倡议活动的一部分，旨在说服选民，让他们认为使用其应用程序找工作的劳动者应被归类为独立承包商，从而推翻2019年该州将他们定义为雇员的立法。

It's a big win for the companies who are no longer required to cover all their drivers for health care and paid time off.
这对公司来说是个巨大的胜利，因为它们不再需要为所有司机提供医疗保险和带薪休假。

The companies see their victory as a vote of confidence in their model of a third way of defining work, app-based gigs, and may inspire similar pushes elsewhere.
这些公司将自己的胜利视为对其定义工作的第三种模式——基于应用程序的零工模式的信任投票，这或许会激励其他地方采取类似的举措。

It's gonna be something that we're going to see affecting more than just California now at this point because other states are looking at a challenge.
现在这将会影响到的不只是加州，因为其他州也正面临挑战。

And that's including Massachusetts, New York and even New Jersey.
包括马萨诸塞州，纽约州甚至新泽西州。

Gerace supported the initiative because he said as an independent contractor, the promise of flexibility works for him.
Gerace支持这项倡议，因为他表示，作为一名独立承包商，灵活性的承诺对他而言是可行的。

I'm not full time, I'm part time, so I go on and off when I choose. It's much more convenient for me that way.
我不是全职工作，我是兼职，所以我可以根据自己的选择随时上班或休息。那样对我来说方便多了。

But opponents say the company's victory comes at the expense of workers' rights.
但反对者说，该公司的胜利是以牺牲工人权利为代价的。

This kind of app-based piece work may seem to offer flexibility, but it comes with serious downsides, they say.
他们表示，这种基于应用程序的零工工作看似提供了灵活性，但也存在严重的弊端。

The gig worker stuff in general, I think, is a problem for labor everywhere because it's making people independent contractors.
总的来说，我认为零工经济的问题对各地的劳动力都构成挑战，因为它正在让人们成为独立承包商。

You take away right unemployment, you take away workers comp. Anything that you kind of offer protections under the law you're losing those.
你取消了正当的失业救济，你取消了工伤赔偿。任何在法律层面提供保障的内容，你都在失去它们。

The victory by the app companies like Uber and Lyft may embolden other industries to pursue the third way model for their employees, some labor experts say.
一些劳工专家表示，优步和来福车等应用程序公司的胜利可能会鼓励其他行业为其员工推行第三种模式。

I think that maybe scarier prospect is just this sort of offers an avenue for lots of other types of companies to follow in step.
我认为，或许更令人担忧的前景是，这恰恰为许多其他类型的公司提供了效仿的途径。

And I wonder slash worry about instances where like a Walmart decides to say, "Hey, actually our workers are also independent contractors."
我不禁会想，也会担心出现这样的情况，比如沃尔玛会宣称：“实际上我们的员工也是独立承包商。”

As Uber, Lyft and other app companies look beyond California, the future of work, what it means to have a job may be a concept that is changing.
随着优步、来福车及其他应用程序公司放眼加州以外的地区，工作的未来，以及拥有一份工作意味着什么，可能是一个正在变化的概念。

The sea off the coast of East Greenland used to be covered in ice year-round. Now, as it warms and melts completely in the summer, the waters have opened up to new visitors – some of the world's largest whales and the fish that they feed on.
东格陵兰沿岸海域过去全年都被海冰覆盖。现在，随着海水变暖，海冰会在夏季完全融化，这片水域也因此迎来新的 “访客”，包括世界上一些体型最大的鲸类及其捕食的鱼类。

The scientists combined aerial surveys, satellite tagging and observations from local Inuit communities to track them. And the change has been dramatic.
科学家通过结合航空调查、卫星标签定位以及当地因纽特社区的观测，对这些鲸类展开追踪。而其变化十分显著。

Surveys didn't record a single humpback whale sighting in the region until 2006. In 2007, seven humpbacks were seen. And, by 2024, there were 150 sightings of the giant whales from ships. Now, fin whales, humpbacks and minke whales come to East Greenland in their thousands to feed.
直到 2006 年，相关调查才首次在该地区记录到座头鲸的目击报告。2007 年，有七头座头鲸被目击。而到了 2024 年，船只目击这种巨型鲸类的记录已达 150 次。如今，成千上万的长须鲸、座头鲸和小须鲸会汇聚到东格陵兰觅食。

The researchers say this is a huge climate-driven shift, with some easily adapting, while other Arctic species, including belugas, narwhals and walruses, all of which need the ice to hide from predators or to breed, are being edged out.
研究人员表示，这是一次由气候变化驱动的巨大转变。一些物种能够轻松适应，而另一些极地物种，包括白鲸、独角鲸和海象，因需要依赖海冰躲避天敌或繁育后代，正逐渐失去生存空间。

Do you know anyone who is more confident in their own abilities than their actual performance suggests they should be? Perhaps they think they are an incredible singer, but they're actually tone-deaf. Most people believe that they are more intelligent and skilful than the average person, according to a 2020 meta-analysis by Zell and colleagues. Obviously, this cannot be the case. Overconfidence has a cost – it can lead to things like poor financial decisions and dangerous driving. So why do we have such a tendency to overestimate our abilities?
你认识的人中是否有人对自己的能力比实际表现更自信？ 也许他们认为自己是一位令人难以置信的歌手，但实际上他们是五音不全的。 根据 Zell 及其同事 2020 年的荟萃分析，大多数人认为自己比普通人更聪明、更有技巧。 显然，事实并非如此。 过度自信是有代价的——它可能导致糟糕的财务决策和危险驾驶等问题。 那么为什么我们会倾向于高估自己的能力呢？

Excessive self-belief requires self-deception – believing your own falsehoods. An evolutionary perspective argues that humans evolved self-deception so that we could deceive others more easily. The theory goes that if you believe your own lies about your abilities, you're less likely to display behaviours which will give it away, such as nervousness or hesitation. Deceiving others about your abilities may enable you to open doors, but it is when you have to prove yourself that overconfidence can lead to costly mistakes. For those who have a greater underlying ability, though, overconfidence can be highly beneficial.
过度自信需要自我欺骗——相信自己的谎言。 进化论认为，人类进化出自欺欺人的能力，这样我们就可以更容易地欺骗别人。 该理论认为，如果你相信自己对自己能力的谎言，你就不太可能表现出会泄露谎言的行为，例如紧张或犹豫。 欺骗别人你的能力可能会让你打开大门，但当你必须证明自己时，过度自信可能会导致代价高昂的错误。 然而，对于那些具有更强潜在能力的人来说，过度自信可能非常有益。

This is what researchers are calling the 'peacock's tail for people'. Peacocks have long and brightly coloured feathers to attract females, but they are extremely burdensome. The feathers are heavy and highly visible to predators, so only the healthiest peacocks can afford to carry such elaborate plumage. In other words, their feathers are a reliable indicator of their suitability for potential mates. Authors of a 2026 study, published in the Psychological Review compare this phenomenon with human overconfidence. They argue that only the most capable people can keep a high self-belief without suffering severe consequences. In other words, overconfidence may actually be a useful signal of ability.
这就是研究人员所说的“人类的孔雀尾巴”。 孔雀有长而鲜艳的羽毛来吸引雌性，但它们却极其沉重。 羽毛很重，对捕食者来说非常明显，因此只有最健康的孔雀才能携带如此精致的羽毛。 换句话说，它们的羽毛是它们是否适合潜在配偶的可靠指标。 发表在《心理评论》上的 2026 年研究的作者将这种现象与人类的过度自信进行了比较。 他们认为，只有最有能力的人才能保持高度的自信，而不会遭受严重的后果。 换句话说，过度自信实际上可能是一种有用的能力信号。

So, what lessons can be learnt from all this? If you have a high ability in a particular skill, make sure you have the confidence to match it. Ability can bring success, but remember, it is confidence which opens the doors in the first place.
那么，我们可以从这一切中吸取什么教训呢？ 如果您在某项特定技能上拥有很高的能力，请确保您有信心与之相匹配。 能力可以带来成功，但请记住，首先打开大门的是信心。