Icelanders decided to bomb it with cold water until it froze and chose a different path.
冰岛人决定用冷水轰炸它，直到它结冰并选择另一条路。
The environmental awareness that is sweeping the world had bypassed the majority of Icelanders.
席卷全世界的环保意识却忽视了大多数冰岛人。
An exceptionally literate people, Icelanders publish more books per capita than do the people of any other nation.
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。
Icelanders, however, didn't much mind.
然而冰岛人对此却不太在意。
And who knows better the 'art' of rain clothes than Icelanders?
然而有谁知道艺术雨衣比知道冰岛人更多。
However, we Icelanders do detect a difference among the great cities of Europe.
不过，我们冰岛人还是发现了欧洲这几大城市之间的差异。
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。
Few foreign boats are allowed in these waters, and none can buy Icelanders' quotas.
几乎没有外国渔船允许进入这些水域，而且没有一艘可以购买冰岛的捕鱼配额。
Littering and light pollution are spoiling parts of the landscape, many Icelanders say.
很多冰岛人称，垃圾和光污染正在破坏部分景观。
Due to chilly weather much of the year, Icelanders workout in order to beat the winter blues.
由于常年寒冷的天气，冰岛人要靠锻炼来抵御严冬的沮丧。
"The Icelanders would fish in all conditions," says Stefan, "fish until it is impossible to fish."
“冰岛人在任何情况下都将继续捕捞，”Stefan说，“直到不可能再捕为止。”
Most people think that they only exist for two reasons: to kill Icelanders and to destroy evil rings.
很多人以为他们的存在只有两个原因：杀死冰岛人和摧毁邪恶指环。
Like Icelanders, Americans are individualists. Where we seem to differ is in our sense of community.
美国人和冰岛人都是个人主义者，所不同的是各自的群体意识。
Half the country's businesses are technically insolvent; some 15% of Icelanders are in negative equity.
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。
Icelanders are good, too: They are all descendants, Barzilai says, of five Viking men and four Irish women.
冰岛人也是很好的对象，Barzilai说他们都是五个维京男人与四个爱尔兰女人的后裔。
Icelanders, by contrast, do not usually tip a measure of their introversion and lack of neuroses, no doubt.
相比之下，冰岛人通常不付小费，毫无疑问体现了他们的内向、平和的性格。
Icelanders claim that charging 5.5% interest over 15 years is extortionate in an era of near-zero base rates.
冰岛人声称，在几乎零基准利率的年代索要15年以上5.5%的高利率简直是敲诈。
Most icelanders derived their livelihood from farming? And people 's hopes were centered on the land, its soil.
大多数冰岛人靠农业谋生？ ？人们的希望寄托在土地，即土壤上。
If Iceland has become famous for its musicians it's because Icelanders now have time to play music, and much else.
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。
On Vestmannaeyjar, Icelanders celebrate at midsummer as did their forefathers-with fire, song, and plenty to drink.
在韦斯文尼查，冰岛人庆祝在仲夏当是他们的祖先—用火，唱歌，和充足的饮料。
Not far from the loft is more evidence of Icelanders' creative response to the crisis: the design shop Verslunin Herdubreid.
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。
No one thought that Icelanders might have some natural gift for smelting aluminum, and, if anything, the opposite proved true.
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。
Icelanders mostly have no surnames, only given - names and patronymics, and use given patronymic for both sorting and display.
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.
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。
The journal said 75 to 80 percent of contemporary Icelanders can trace their lineage to Scandinavia and the rest to Scotland and Ireland.
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。
Well, it looks like we have our own version of Icelanders here in the U.S. They're called the Hutterites, and they live in rural South Dakota.
其实，我们还有一个美国版的冰岛群体，他们就是生活在南达科塔的哈特派信徒，也被称为哈特人。
Well, it looks like we have our own version of Icelanders here in the U.S. They're called the Hutterites, and they live in rural South Dakota.
其实，我们还有一个美国版的冰岛群体，他们就是生活在南达科塔的哈特派信徒，也被称为哈特人。
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