最有名的盛事是萨瓦琳娜歌剧节，最新奇的是一项可能要算一年一度的背媳妇比赛，胜利者的奖励是和他老婆一样重的啤酒。
The best-known event is the Savolinna Opera Festival, while the strangest is probably the annual wife-carrying championship, where the winner is awarded his wife's weight in beer.
诺贝尔奖得主、纽约斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)总裁瓦慕斯医生曾两次被哈佛医学院拒绝。 第一次被拒时，他感到沮丧。
Dr. Varmus, the Nobel laureate and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was daunted by the first of his two turndowns by Harvard's med school.
然而勒瓦达中心主持的一项民意测验表明，百分之六十五的莫斯科市民根本就不信巴图琳娜的言论。
Yet an opinion poll by the Levada Centre has found that 65% of Muscovites believe the contrary.
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