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Germans are electing a new parliament Sunday after a campaign focused on the state of Europe's biggest economy and calls to curb migration.
德国人将于周日选举新一届议会，此前竞选活动聚焦欧洲最大经济体的状况，呼吁遏制移民。

Uncertainty has grown rapidly about the future of Ukraine and the strength of Europe's alliance with the United States. VOA's Cristina Menenti has more.
乌克兰的未来以及欧洲与美国的联盟实力的不确定性迅速增加。美国之音新闻记者克里斯蒂娜·梅内蒂（Cristina Menenti）将为您带来更多报道。

The opposition leader and frontrunner Friedrich Merz vowed Saturday to revive thestagnanteconomy and defend Europe's interests in the face of a confrontational U.S. administration.
反对党领袖、领跑者弗里德里希·默茨周六誓言要重振停滞不前的经济，并在美国政府对抗的情况下捍卫欧洲的利益。

Meanwhile, hundreds protested for and against far-right Alternative for Germany's leader Alice Weidel in her Swiss town of residence.
与此同时，数百人在德国极右翼选择党领导人艾丽丝·魏德尔的居住地瑞士小镇举行了支持和反对她的抗议活动。

"We're really concerned about what's going on everywhere in Europe, about the rise of far-right movements."
“我们非常担心欧洲各地发生的事情，担心极右翼运动的崛起。”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats have shown little sign of coming back from a large poll deficit after the chancellor's three-party coalition collapsed in November.
在总理奥拉夫·朔尔茨的三党联盟于11月破裂后，中左翼社会民主党几乎没有迹象表明会从巨大的民调失利中恢复过来。

That led to the election being held seven months ahead of schedule. Cristina Menenti, VOA News.
这导致选举比原计划提前了七个月举行。美国之音新闻记者克里斯蒂娜·梅内蒂报道。

A federal judge has largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
一名联邦法官基本阻止了唐纳德·特朗普总统的全面行政命令，该命令旨在终止政府对促进多样性、公平和包容性计划的支持。

Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore found that they likely violate free speech rights and granted an injunction blocking them as a lawsuit plays out.
巴尔的摩法官亚当·阿贝尔森（Adam Abelson）发现这些命令可能侵犯言论自由权，并在诉讼期间下达禁令阻止这些命令。

The city of Baltimore and higher education groups sued, arguing the executive orders are unconstitutional and in overreach of presidential authority.
巴尔的摩市和高等教育团体提起诉讼，称这些行政命令违宪，超越了总统的权力。

The Trump administration has argued that the president was targeting only DEI programs that violate federal civil rights laws.
特朗普政府辩称，总统只针对违反联邦民权法的DEI计划。

Elon Musk is cutting jobs at the auto safety agency that oversees his Tesla company. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports.
埃隆·马斯克正在削减监管特斯拉公司的汽车安全机构的职位。美联社记者唐娜·沃德（Donna Warder）报道。

Elon Musk's cost-cutting team, DOGE, is cutting jobs at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
埃隆·马斯克的成本削减团队DOGE正在削减国家公路交通安全管理局的职位。

That's the agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving Tesla vehicles. The NHTSA says the number of eliminated positions is modest.
这是监管特斯拉的机构，已对涉及特斯拉汽车的致命事故展开调查。国家公路交通安全管理局表示，裁员人数不多。

The administration has mandated that Tesla and other automakers using self-driving technology report crash data on vehicles, a requirement that Musk has criticized.
政府要求特斯拉等使用自动驾驶技术的汽车制造商报告车辆碰撞数据，马斯克对这一要求提出了批评。

He's accused the agency of holding back progress on self-driving technology with its investigations and recalls. I'm Donna Warder.
他指责该机构通过调查和召回阻碍了自动驾驶技术的进步。我是唐娜·沃德。

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday a knife attack that killed one and injured three in eastern France on Saturday was "Islamist terrorism" after France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office confirmed it was investigating the case.
法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙周六表示，周六在法国东部发生的持刀袭击事件造成一人死亡，三人受伤，这是“伊斯兰恐怖主义”，此前法国反恐检察官办公室证实正在调查此案。

The PNAT prosecutor's office said in a statement a man attacked local police officers in the city of Mulhouse shouting "Allah Akbar" on Saturday afternoon.
PNAT检察官办公室在一份声明中表示，周六下午，一名男子在米卢斯市袭击当地警察，高喊“真主至大”。

The prosecutor's office added a passerby was killed trying tointervenewhile three police officers were injured. The prosecutor's office said the suspect has been arrested. [解析]
检察官办公室补充说，一名路人在试图干预时被杀，三名警察受伤。检察官办公室表示，嫌疑人已被逮捕。

Meet Andrew Savoia, a 24-year-old Northern Virginia cello player who is a social media sensation.
认识一下安德鲁·沙瓦亚，一位24岁的北弗吉尼亚大提琴手，他在社交媒体上很有名。

He created his TikTok account savoiboi in July and in just a few months he already had millions of likes or views.
他在7月创建了自己的TikTok账号savoiboi，短短几个月内就已经获得了数百万的点赞或浏览量。

There were some very catchy songs on the app and songs that you're just watching a video and it makes you want to get up and dance.
这个应用程序上有一些非常动听的歌曲，而且当你观看视频时 ，里面的歌曲会让你忍不住起身跳舞。

And there was only like a quick little segment of that I would see and I was like, okay, I could try to recreate this on the cello, so I did that.
我当时只能看到一小段快速闪过的内容，我就想，好吧，我可以试着用大提琴把这个重新演绎出来，于是我就这么做了。

I had one of my buddies record it and it was so fascinating because of the positive reaction that it received. I did not think that it would be received as well as it did.
我有一个朋友帮我录了下来，结果反响非常热烈，这让我觉得特别有意思。我没想到它会受到这么好的评价。

It was a stream of unhappy events that led Savoia to his social media success: a painful breakup, failing to get into medical school, depression.
一连串不幸的事件促使沙瓦亚在社交媒体上获得了成功：痛苦的分手、医学院入学考试失利以及抑郁情绪。

In a strange way all this contributed to his achievements.
奇怪的是，这一切都促成了他的成就。

Music for me has been a way for me to like, I said, process emotion, experiences, memories that I've had.
对我来说，音乐是一种处理我所经历的情感、体验和记忆的方式。

But it has an ability to heal because it can do the same thing for other people and it's very unifying.
但它具有治愈的能力，因为它也能为他人带来同样的作用，而且非常具有凝聚力。

His process is simple: Find the song he likes and play it on the cello.
他的做法很简单：找到他喜欢的歌曲，然后用大提琴演奏。

I listen to lots of different kinds of music. I listen to hip hop. I listen to rock music, country music, sometimes lots of classical music and countless other genres.
我听很多不同类型的音乐。我听嘻哈音乐。我听摇滚音乐、乡村音乐，有时也听很多古典音乐，还有数不清的其他音乐类型。

And I just try to do songs that have a melody line that would work well on this instrument. This instrument has such a diversity in its sound.
我只是尽力创作那些旋律线在这件乐器上能演奏出很好效果的歌曲。这件乐器的音色非常多样。

But music will not be Savoia's career. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in neurobiology and plans to become a neurologist in the future.
但音乐不会成为沙瓦亚的职业。他毕业于弗吉尼亚理工大学，获得了神经生物学学位，并且计划未来成为一名神经科医生。

But his two passions, music and medicine, are inseparable, something one of his former teachers sees as well.
但他对音乐和医学的两大热忱密不可分。他以前的老师也看到了这一点。

I could definitely see a specific you know sector of the population who has a specific ear or depending on the type of illness that you have that you can actually be soothed by music.
我绝对能想象到有这样一部分特定的人群，他们对音乐有独特的感知，或者根据你所患疾病的类型，实际上你是可以从音乐中获得慰藉的。

And if you watch him when he plays, and of course I only started watching him recently, he's very very passionate how he actually started playing the cello. I think that process sort of healed him.
如果你看他演奏时，当然我也是最近才开始关注他的，他对自己当初是如何开始拉大提琴这件事充满了激情。我觉得这个过程在某种程度上治愈了他。

Savoia's cover version of the song Come Get Her by a hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd got over 3 million views.
沙瓦亚翻唱了嘻哈二人组雷·什里默德的歌曲Come Get Her，视频浏览量超过了300万。

He hopes people who like his stuff will pick up an instrument themselves.
他希望喜欢他作品的人，能自己拿起一件乐器来演奏。

The patient's tumour was benign but dangerously close to important bloodvessels and nerves, leaving him at risk of going blind.
这位患者的肿瘤虽为良性，但极度靠近重要血管和神经，使其面临失明的风险。

The team trained the AI tool on hundreds of videos of previous operations. They then used the AI tool in real time to help highlight sometimes hidden vessels and nerves, and to mark up the safest place to remove the tumour.
该医疗团队利用数百段过往手术视频对人工智能工具进行了训练。随后，他们在手术过程中实时使用该人工智能工具，协助凸显一些隐蔽的血管和神经，并标注出切除肿瘤最安全的位置。

Researchers hope that with larger trials, using AI in this way will help surgery become both safer and faster.
研究人员希望随着更大规模试验的开展，以这种方式使用人工智能将有助于让手术变得更加安全和高效。

This polling suggests that 5% of people in Britain believe their accent has cost them a promotion, pay rise or senior role. Those from Birmingham were the most likely to feel this - the figure rose to 13% among people with a Brummie accent.
这项民调显示，5%的英国人认为，自己的口音曾导致他们错失晋升、加薪或担任高级职位的机会。来自伯明翰的受访者最有可能持这种看法，因为在有伯明翰地方口音的人群中，这一比例上升至了 13%。

More than 3,300 people in England, Scotland and Wales were questioned. People from the West Country were most likely to report being mocked or criticised by colleagues for the way they spoke, at 15%, closely followed by those with a Geordie or Mancunian accent.
这项调查访问了英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士的 3300 多名受访者。调查显示，来自英格兰西南部地区的受访者最有可能表示，自己曾因说话方式而遭到同事嘲笑或批评，这一比例为 15%；紧随其后的是有纽卡斯尔地区口音和曼彻斯特地区口音的受访者。

Softening an accent is a common occurrence, the study suggests, with 13% of Britons polled admitting to changing the way they spoke in order to sound more professional. This rose to 23% of those with an East London Cockney accent, and 20% of those with a Scottish accent.
研究显示，刻意淡化口音是一种较为普遍的现象。13%的英国受访者承认，为了让自己听起来更专业，他们曾有意改变自己的说话方式。在有伦敦东区考克尼口音的受访者中，这一比例升至 23%；在有苏格兰口音的受访者中，这一比例为 20%。

Daydreaming has a bad reputation – we say things like "he's away with the fairies" or "she has herhead in the clouds" implying these people are inattentive, easily distracted, maybe even lazy. Is this reputation justified? Or is a trip to la-la land actually something that might benefit us?
白日梦的名声很差——我们说“他和仙女在一起了”或“她的头在云端”，暗示这些人注意力不集中、容易分心，甚至可能很懒。 这种声誉是否合理？ 或者说去la-la land旅行实际上可能对我们有益？

First, it's important to differentiate daydreaming from mind wandering. Mind wandering happens when you're busy with a task and your mind disengages from it, whereas daydreaming happens when you're doing nothing and spontaneous thoughts unrelated to your surroundings pop up. In a review of research called 'The costs and benefits of mind-wandering', the authors found mind wandering negatively impacted reading comprehension, attention, memory and intelligence. None of that sounds great, so are there any benefits at all?
首先，区分白日梦和走神很重要。 当你忙于一项任务而你的思绪脱离它时，就会发生走神，而当你无所事事并且与周围环境无关的自发想法突然出现时，就会发生白日梦。 在一项名为“走神的成本和好处”的研究综述中，作者发现走神会对阅读理解、注意力、记忆力和智力产生负面影响。 这些听起来都不太好，那么有什么好处吗？

Activities that allow your mind to wander, like having a bath or meditating can lead to the 'aha' moment that you've been waiting for, which is why people often say they have their best ideas in the shower. This might work in the workplace too. In a 2021 study called 'Zoning out or breaking through? Linking daydreaming to creativity in the workplace', the authors concluded that "daydreaming carries noteworthy benefits for creativity". In other words, daydreaming at work may help you to come up with solutions to your problems. It's also suggested that daydreaming can provide a sort of mental escape, both from the difficulty of the task, but also from the stresses of everyday life.
让你的思绪飘逸的活动，比如洗澡或冥想，可以让你得到一直在等待的“顿悟”时刻，这就是为什么人们经常说他们在淋浴时想到了最好的想法。 这在工作场所也可能有效。 在 2021 年一项名为“分区还是突破？”的研究中 作者将白日梦与工作场所的创造力联系起来，得出结论：“白日梦对创造力具有显着的好处”。 换句话说，工作中的白日梦可能会帮助你找到问题的解决方案。 还有人认为，白日梦可以提供一种精神上的逃避，既可以逃避任务的困难，也可以逃避日常生活的压力。

So, it seems daydreaming might be a bit of a double-edged sword, and the extent to which it provides benefits rather than downsides depends on things like how positive the thoughts are as well as your ability to identify and control them. If you find yourself endlessly staring into space, pondering the meaning of life while you're trying to get things done, why not try a mindfulness technique?
因此，白日梦似乎是一把双刃剑，它带来好处而不是坏处的程度取决于诸如想法的积极程度以及您识别和控制它们的能力等因素。 如果你发现自己在努力完成事情的同时不断地凝视着太空，思考生命的意义，为什么不尝试正念技巧呢？

Observe the thoughts as they pop up, visualise them as clouds and watch them pass by. Alternatively, when you've got some time to yourself, instead of reading a book or listening to music, why not let yourself get lost in thought?
观察突然出现的想法，将它们想象成云，然后看着它们消失。 或者，当您有一些独处时间时，为什么不让自己陷入沉思，而不是读书或听音乐呢？