Kamala Harris will deliver what her campaign has billed as a “closing argument” to the American people on Tuesday, in a final effort to win over voters in the country’s knife-edge presidential election. 

卡玛拉•哈里斯(Kamala Harris)将于周二向美国人民发表其竞选团队所称的“总结陈词”，这是她在该国势均力敌的总统选举中赢得选民的最后努力。

The location for the speech, at the Ellipse just outside the White House, was chosen by Harris and her campaign to highlight the difference between the Democratic vice-president and her Republican opponent, former president Donald Trump. 

哈里斯和她的竞选团队将演讲地点选在白宫外的椭圆形草坪(The Ellipse)，以突出这位民主党副总统与她的共和党对手、前总统唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)之间的差异。

The Ellipse was the site of Trump’s controversial speech on January 6 2021 in which he called on his supporters to protest against the result of the 2020 election. Hours later a mob marched up the National Mall to the US Capitol to try and stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.

2021年1月6日，特朗普在椭圆形草坪发表了有争议的演讲，呼吁他的支持者抗议2020年大选的结果。几小时后，一群暴徒从国家广场游行到美国国会大厦，试图阻止乔•拜登选举团胜利的认证。

——本文2024年10月30日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为 Kamala Harris to give ‘closing argument’ speech at Washington’s Ellipse

Climate change-related hazards have caused death rates among older people to soar and a spike in the risk of infectious diseases as a result of heavy rainfall, an annual audit of health threats from global warming found.

一项针对全球变暖导致的健康威胁的年度审计发现，与气候变化相关的灾害导致老年人死亡率飙升，并因暴雨导致传染病风险激增。

The review by more than 100 scientists published in The Lancet underscores how climate change threatens both survival and quality of life. Low and middle-income countries are hit hardest, it said, as each fraction of a degree rise in global mean temperatures compounds the problems.

《柳叶刀》(The Lancet)上发表的这份由100多位科学家作出的评估，凸显了气候变化对人类生存和生活质量的威胁。报告说，中低收入国家受到的冲击最大，因为全球平均气温每上升0.1度都在加剧这些问题。

“This year’s stocktake of the imminent health threats of climate inaction reveals the most concerning findings yet in our eight years of monitoring,” said Marina Romanello, executive director of the project, known as the Lancet Countdown, at University College London. 

“今年对气候不作为带来的紧迫健康威胁进行的盘点，展示了我们八年监测工作中最令人担忧的发现。” 伦敦大学学院(UCL)的这个名为Lancet Countdown的项目的执行主任玛丽娜•罗马内洛(Marina Romanello)说道。

——本文2024年10月30日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为 Deaths of older people from climate extremes soar, annual review shows

In the prisoner’s dilemma, individuals who would do best by co-operating instead turn on one another, with less than optimal results. Something like that is playing out on a grand scale as giant technology companies such as Google parent Alphabet and Meta Platforms, both reporting earnings this week, duke it out for supremacy in artificial intelligence.

在囚徒困境中，个体本来可以通过合作达到最佳效果，却反目成仇，导致错过最优结果。类似的情况正在大规模上演，谷歌(Google)母公司Alphabet，以及Meta Platforms等科技巨头本周都发布了财报，它们为争夺人工智能领域的霸主地位展开了激烈的角逐。

These so-called hyperscalers, part of a group that also includes Microsoft and Amazon, have gone all-in on servers and data centres used for cloud computing and large language models. By 2026 the foursome will have amassed nearly $1tn in capital expenditure over five years, based on consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.

这些所谓的超大规模公司(hyperscaler)——这个群体还包括微软(Microsoft)和亚马逊(Amazon)——都在全力发展用于云计算和大语言模型的服务器和数据中心。根据Visible Alpha公司的共识估计，到2026年，这四家公司将在五年内积累近1万亿美元的资本支出。

Alphabet on Tuesday gave hints that the spending is tentatively paying off. Revenue grew by a forecast-beating 15 per cent year on year, and its cloud business expanded by 35 per cent. Alphabet chief Sundar Pichai says a quarter of Google’s new code is now written by AI.

Alphabet周二暗示，这些支出已初见成效。营收同比增长15%，高于预期，云业务增长35%。Alphabet首席执行官桑达尔•皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)表示，谷歌四分之一的新代码现在都由人工智能编写。

——本文2024年10月30日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为  Google and peers weigh an AI prisoner’s dilemma

Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh’s interim leader, has accused the political party of ousted authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina of exhibiting “all the characteristics of fascism”, saying it has “no place” for now in the country’s politics.

孟加拉国临时领导人穆罕默德•尤努斯(Muhammad Yunus)指责被推翻的独裁领导人谢赫•哈西娜(Sheikh Hasina)的政党表现出了“法西斯主义的所有特征”，并称该政党目前在该国政治中“没有立足之地”。

Yunus’s comments in an interview with the Financial Times make clear the 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate favours taking a hard line on the former prime minister’s Awami League, Bangladesh’s oldest and biggest political party, after she was toppled by a student-led revolt in August.

尤努斯在接受英国《金融时报》采访时发表的评论表明，这位84岁的诺贝尔和平奖获得者倾向于对前总理哈西娜领导的人民联盟采取强硬立场。人民联盟是孟加拉国历史最悠久、规模最大的政党。哈西娜在今年8月因为一场学生领导的抗议活动而被推翻。

Yunus also said his interim government would not immediately seek the extradition of Sheikh Hasina from India, an approach that may avoid for the moment fuelling diplomatic tensions between Bangladesh and its giant neighbour.

尤努斯还表示，他的临时政府不会立即寻求从印度引渡谢赫•哈西娜。这一做法可能暂时避免加剧孟加拉国与其巨大邻国之间的外交紧张局势。

——本文2024年10月30日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为 Bangladesh’s leader says ‘no place’ for Sheikh Hasina’s ‘fascist’ party