“这是冰岛人的一部分，”他说。
冰岛人的贫富差异不大，犯罪率几乎为零。
There is no clear polarization of rich and poor. Crime rate here is almost zero.
这个发现是一个针对冰岛人的更大的基因研究的一部分。
The discovery is part of a larger genetic study of the Icelandic people.
在文章中提到目前75%到85%的冰岛人的祖先可以追溯到斯堪的纳维亚半岛和剩余的苏格兰或是爱尔兰人。
The journal said 75 to 80 percent of contemporary Icelanders can trace their lineage to Scandinavia and the rest to Scotland and Ireland.
冰岛的能量被困在冰岛内部，如果存在一些关于被困能量的诗意想法，那么也存在一些冰岛人的乏味的妥协措施。
Iceland's power is trapped in Iceland, and if there is something poetic about the idea of trapped power, there is also something prosaic in how the Icelanders have come to terms with the problem.
我希望美国的多元文化主义者和历史修正主义者能够理解冰岛人的这种思想：抛弃自己国家的传统来创造更好的社会是一种错误的方式。
I wish America's multiculturalisms and historical revisionists would grasp what Icelanders understand: trashing your nation's myths is the wrong way to create a better society.
根据短文，冰岛人过着什么样的生活？
According to the passage, what kind of life do people in Iceland live?
席卷全世界的环保意识却忽视了大多数冰岛人。
The environmental awareness that is sweeping the world had bypassed the majority of Icelanders.
在冬天，当冰岛人完成了他们的日常工作，他们会有很多特殊的活动来度过漫长的黑夜。
In winter, when people in Iceland complete their daily work, they will have a lot of special activities to spend the long dark night.
冰岛人非常有文化，人均出版的书籍比任何其他国家的人都多。
An exceptionally literate people, Icelanders publish more books per capita than do the people of any other nation.
既然已经有近四分之一的冰岛人签署了反对偿还债务的倡议书，因此，不难预料这次全民公决的结果。
Given that a quarter of the Icelandic population has signed a petition opposing such payments, it is not difficult to imagine how such a poll will turn out.
咱冰岛人骨子里是英勇无畏的，勇于冒险甚至于有点鲁莽了。
There is a wonderful characteristic in the Icelandic mentality - fearlessness, with an addiction to risk-taking to the point of being foolhardy.
农民们相信火山灰会使土地更加肥沃，这也是为什么许多冰岛人依然住在活火山边的原因之一。
Farmers have since credited the ash with enriching their soil — one reason why many Icelanders and others continue to live perilously close to active volcanoes.
冰岛人请求可以用老式文体撰写一篇叙事诗，内容是他受到的残忍待遇和冰岛是多么伟大。
The Icelander asks to be allowed to compose an epic poem in the old style about how cruelly he is being treated and about how great Iceland is.
在距离这座阁楼不远处是威尔斯鲁宁·赫尔杜布雷德建筑设计所，那里有更多证据来证明冰岛人应对危机的创造性精神。
Not far from the loft is more evidence of Icelanders' creative response to the crisis: the design shop Verslunin Herdubreid.
不过，我们冰岛人还是发现了欧洲这几大城市之间的差异。
However, we Icelanders do detect a difference among the great cities of Europe.
除了欧元自身缺点，如果冰岛人没有受到资本管制的强迫，他们是否还会热衷于持有并使用克朗呢？人们对此疑虑重重。
For all the euro's faults, it is doubtful whether Icelanders would be keen to hold and use kronur if they were not forced to by capital controls.
如果这件事情有其特殊性，那也只能是冰岛人反抗的成本比平常更加明显。
If they are unique, it is only that the costs of their defiance are clearer than normal.
如果冰岛是因为它的音乐家而闻名的话，那是因为冰岛人现在有时间演奏音乐和做其他的事情了。
If Iceland has become famous for its musicians it's because Icelanders now have time to play music, and much else.
相比之下，冰岛人通常不付小费，这无疑体现了他们的内向性格。
Icelanders, by contrast, do not usually tip — a measure of their introversion, no doubt.
这种现状的发生让大多数冰岛人感到难以适应。
This situation is not something that sits well with most Icelanders.
第一个问题是所谓的“隐藏的人”——或者通俗地讲，小精灵——为数众多的冰岛人长久以来对他们丰富的民间传说深深相信并沉浸其中。
The first was the so-called “hidden people”—or, to put it more plainly, elves—in whom some large number of Icelanders, steeped long and thoroughly in their rich folkloric culture, sincerely believe.
大多数冰岛人并不需要依靠教堂施舍的食品来养活自己，但是每个人都正回归低标准的生活方式。
Most do not need to rely on food parcels from the church to feed themselves, but everyone is going back to basics.
冰岛的经济复苏迹象说明爱尔兰人再也不能说服自己“其他地方还要糟糕的多”。
Evidence of economic recovery in Iceland means the Irish can no longer persuade themselves that things are worse elsewhere.
其它所有国家都将重心放在安抚国际投资人上，而冰岛却对资本的流动事实临时性限制，给自己留够回旋余地。
Where everyone else was fixated on trying to placate international investors, Iceland imposed temporary controls on the movement of capital to give itself room to maneuver.
这本书通过借鉴冰岛人过去几个世纪惊人详细的日记和信件，使外来者对非凡冰岛人过去生活得以一瞥。
This book, drawing on Icelanders' astonishingly detailed diaries and letters in past centuries, gives the outsider a rare glimpse into the past lives of an extraordinary people.
实际上，现在投资人看起来认为冰岛的债务比爱尔兰更安全。
In fact, investors now appear to consider Iceland's debt safer than Ireland's.
严格来说，半数国家的企业是破产的；约15%的冰岛人是负资产。
Half the country's businesses are technically insolvent; some 15% of Icelanders are in negative equity.
这些基金有足够能力改变市场格局――就像挪威人和冰岛人发现的那样。
They are big enough to shift markets—as the Norwegians and Icelanders discovered.
这些基金有足够能力改变市场格局――就像挪威人和冰岛人发现的那样。
They are big enough to shift markets—as the Norwegians and Icelanders discovered.
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