布鲁塞尔有一个家喻户晓的笑话：欧盟外交政策高级代表凯西·艾什顿跟希拉里·克林顿说她现在又一个专线电话，因此美国可以随时与欧洲通话。

A JOKE doing the rounds in Brussels has Cathy Ashton, the European Union's foreign-policy chief, telling Hillary Clinton she now has the single telephone number so that America can "call Europe".

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美国选手凯蒂.霍夫曾经在4百米自由泳比赛中被看好夺冠，但是阿德灵顿脑海中的一个画面鼓舞了她。

American Katie Hoff was the favorite in the 400-meter freestyle race. But Adlington was inspired by a mental image.

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地球物理研究者和学者马尔凯姆—约翰斯顿代表美国地质勘测局说吧把这些事件归咎于月球轨道已经不是一个新观点了。

Research geophysicist Malcom Johnston with the USGS says that blaming such events on the moon's orbit is not a new idea.

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