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.
冰岛人决定用冷水轰炸它，直到它结冰并选择另一条路。
Icelanders decided to bomb it with cold water until it froze and chose a different path.
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.
冬天，冰岛人要度过漫漫黑夜。
In winter, people in Iceland have 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.
然而冰岛人对此却不太在意。
或者：冰岛人适合做什么？
然而有谁知道艺术雨衣比知道冰岛人更多。
And who knows better the 'art' of rain clothes than Icelanders?
注意，没有人问，冰岛人想做什么？
属于或关于冰岛、冰岛人、冰岛文化的。
而直到几天前，冰岛人还认为他们能够靠银行为生。
Up until a few days ago, Icelanders thought they could live on Banks.
他是冰岛人。
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.
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.
一个挪威人、一个法罗人和一个冰岛人就要被处死。
A Norwegian, a Faroese and an Icelander are about to be executed.
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.
曾经冰岛人捕鱼为生，而今捕鱼不赚钱了，大家都在想别的办法。
For a long time Iceland's main income was fishing, but when that become uneconomic people started looking for other ways to earn a living.
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.
当自己的国家在全球金融风暴中飘摇时，冰岛人几乎不会坐以待毙。
Icelanders are hardly sitting idle as their country is slammed by the global financial hurricane.
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.
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.
冰岛人(多数)没有姓，只有名和父名，称呼和显示都是使用名+父名的形式。
Icelanders (mostly) have no surnames, only given-names and patronymics, and use given + patronymic for both sorting and display.
可能是因为自身就是冰岛人，所以马格努松先生并没有觉得这些菜肴特别怪异。
It may be that, as an Icelander himself, Mr Magnusson does not find such dishes particularly exotic.
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.
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.
没有人考虑过冰岛人可能对精炼铝有某种天分，并且，如果事实证明恰恰相反的话该怎么办。
No one thought that Icelanders might have some natural gift for smelting aluminum, and, if anything, the opposite proved true.
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.
他了解到这个小国家实际上是个大家族；奇怪的是，遗传学家们发现所有的冰岛人全都是亲戚。
He learned the small nation is quite literally a family; curiously, geneticists have found that all Icelandic citizens are related.
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.
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