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.
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.
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.
冰岛克朗是冰岛的官方货币。
冰岛克朗冰岛的一种基本货币单位。
这会造成货币危机和跨境争端，比如当下冰岛、英国和荷兰就补偿冰岛银行存款者所引发的争端。
That will lead to currency crises and cross-border disputes like the current spat between Iceland, Britain and the Netherlands over the bill for compensating depositors in Icelandic Banks.
在冰岛短短的500年历史过程中，还有很多次火山爆发，而冰岛本身就是火山活动的产物，拉基火山只不过是冰岛上众多火山中的一个而已。
There were others throughout Iceland’s 500 years of recorded history and Iceland itself was born out of volcanic activity, Laki being only one of many volcanoes on the Island.
奥德松的发言人称，奥德松曾在20多年的时间里负责冰岛最大城市和冰岛这个国家的金融。
Mr.Oddsson's spokesman says the banking chief has been 'in charge of the finances of the biggest city in Iceland and the Icelandic state for over 20 years.
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.
如果你是一个冰岛第一流的渔夫，你可以得到一纸文书赋予你在冰岛海域一个鱼季，比方说，百分之一的总捕捞量。
If you were a big-time Icelandic fisherman you got this piece of paper that entitled you to, say, 1 percent of the total catch allowed to be pulled from Iceland's waters that season.
2008年九月，雷曼兄弟倒闭，同时冰岛货币疯狂贬值，大受牵连的冰岛银行业不得不宣告破产。
The crisis in Iceland's banks came after they were pushed over the edge by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September and by the falling value of the Icelandic currency.
冰岛首相GeirHaarde说，除了北方国家的一些援助外，西方各国对冰岛的求救几乎置若罔闻。
Iceland's prime minister, Geir Haarde, said that apart from some support from Nordic states, he had received little response to his appeals for help from Western countries.
冰岛语是冰岛的官方语言他是一种北日尔曼语言。重要的外国语言包括丹麦的和其他的北欧语言、英语和德语。
Important foreign languages include Danish and other Scandinavian languages, English and German.
一块面积达到100平方英里的浮冰岛已经从格陵兰两大冰川之一崩离，用科学家的话来说，这块浮冰岛的崩落是近50年北极同类事件中最大的一个。
An ice island with an area of 100 square miles has broken off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers in what scientists say is the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years.
似乎冰岛女人缺乏的是——至少对于一个整整观察了他们10天的游客来说——是同冰岛男人真正的联系。
What Icelandic women appear to lack-at least to a tourist who has watched them for all of 10 days-is a genuine connection to Icelandic men.
他们当时正在冰岛进行一个短片和图片制作的工作，记录冰岛的有历史意义的种群---冰岛马。
They were in Iceland working on a short film and photographic project, documenting the historic herding of the prized Icelandic horse.
他说：“很明显，冰岛经历的是自从大萧条以来最严重的经济困境。”冰岛的情形是灾难性的。
"Iceland is clearly facing the worst depression since the Great depression and things are absolutely catastrophic in Iceland," he said.
欧洲确实可以向冰岛学习，但是冰岛的政策怎样可以被广泛的效法呢？
Europe could surely learn from Iceland, but how widely could Iceland's policies be copied?
到1958年前，冰岛也将其领海边界扩展到12英里，并导致了与英国的三个“鳕鱼战”中的第一个。冰岛的捕鱼量正逐渐减少。
By 1958, Iceland, whose fishing catches were already diminishing, extended its limit to 12 miles too, and precipitated the first of three "cod wars" with Britain.
冰岛遭受的冲击可能也是全球最为沉重的：去年秋天冰岛三大银行宣布破产，几乎整个银行体系崩塌，该国货币也急剧下挫。
Iceland may be the world's hardest hit: Last fall, three big Banks, or virtually the entire banking system, collapsed, and the island's currency went into free fall.
随着购买防范冰岛银行违约的保障需求增加，CDS市场的保险价格就会上涨，于是冰岛银行的利差就上涨。
As the demand to buy protection on Icelandic Banks increased, the price of the insurance increased in CDS markets and spreads on the Banks rose.
整个国家的财富全部蒸发并不常见，但是冰岛几乎就做到了，当投资者撤出后，冰岛的货币克朗如自由落体般快速贬值。
It's not often that the wealth of an entire country is wiped out. But Iceland almost managed that when its currency, the kroner, got caught in a freefall created when investors bailed.
2006年美国撤回了在冰岛的空军基地，这多少损害了冰岛的感情。
America bruised Icelandic feelings when it pulled out of its Keflavik air base in2006.
值得注意的是，10个英国人只有4.2人对银行系统有信心，这一数据比破产了的冰岛还低，冰岛的数据为4.6。
Remarkably, confidence in the banking system appears lower in Britain - 4.2 out of 10 - than in bankrupt Iceland, which polled 4.6.
冰岛火山会改变气候？这周冰岛的火山爆发喷发出大量的羽状物给欧洲带来了红艳的落日，还给天空蒙上阴影。
The vast plume of material spewing from this week's eruption of an Icelandic volcano is reddening sunsets and clouding skies across Europe.
快餐巨人麦当劳在冰岛的三家门店将于下周一停止营业。 这意味着冰岛将和阿尔巴尼亚以及波黑一起，成为为数不多的几个没有麦当劳门店的欧洲国家中的一员。
The closure of the fast-food giant's three restaurants on Monday means Iceland will become one of the few European countries, including Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, without a McDonald's.
在这封邮件中，郡议会的金融顾问就冰岛金融机构的可信度提出警告，建议不要往冰岛存钱。
The e-mail contained warnings from financial advisers to the council about the creditworthiness of the Icelandic institutions.
欧盟将于2月24日(星期三)提议与冰岛展开入盟谈判，这将使冰岛有希望于2012年成为欧盟的一员。
The European Commission will recommend on Wednesday February 24th that the EU begins accession talks with Iceland that could lead to its becoming a member by 2012.
但投资者担心，冰岛弱小的国库无法承担银行的负债，冰岛可能拖欠主权债券。
But investors fear that Iceland's tiny Treasury can't back its Banks' obligations and that the country might default on its sovereign debt.
但投资者担心，冰岛弱小的国库无法承担银行的负债，冰岛可能拖欠主权债券。
But investors fear that Iceland's tiny Treasury can't back its Banks' obligations and that the country might default on its sovereign debt.
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