jenny's blog

据彭博社报道，波音公司首席执行官Dennis Muilenburg已经辞职，David Calhour接任首席执行官，Lawrence Kellner接任董事会主席。
CEO of Boeing company, Dennis Muilenburg has already resigned, Bloomberg said. David Calhour will take his place as CEO and Lawrence Kellner will be chairmen of the Board.

波音公司声明，必须更换领导层来恢复公众对公司的信任。
In a statement of Boeing, they mentioned that they need to change their management team in order to regain the trust of the public.

波音公司的公众信任度在近两年的几起飞机失事后持续降低。
The company’s public trust has been lowering since a few planes crashed in the recent two years.

中国财务部23日宣称将于明年短期采用更低的进口税。
China will implement temporary import tariffs which are lower, said the finance ministry on Dec 23.

受影响的货物包括冷冻猪肉，牛油果，一些半导体等等。
The affected products include frozen pork, avocados, some types of semiconductors and etc.

中国希望这一举措可以促进收到中美贸易战影响而暂缓的经济发展。
China looks to boost its economy which has been slowed down due to the trade war.

12月19日晨，美国众议院就总统特朗普的两项弹劾做出表决。在民主党为多数的众议院，弹劾案的通过几乎毫无悬念。
On the morning of Dec 19, the House of Representatives arrived at a final decision of the two articles of impeachment towards US President Trump. In the Democratic-led House, passing the impeachment has no suspense.

特朗普是美国历史上第三位被弹劾的总统。
Mr. Trump is the third President in the history of the US that has been impeached.

英国原定于2020年1月31日脱欧，并在2020年年底前结束将近一年的过渡期。
The UK is scheduled to leave the EU ON Jan 31, 2020, and conclude an almost-one-year transition period by the end of 2020.

然而，如果英国和欧盟一致同意，脱欧过渡期可延长至两年。
However, in the case that the UK and EU mutually agree, the transition period may be extended to 2 years.

近期对脱欧协议的修改可能会取消延期的可能性。
A recent amendment to the Brexit deal might rule out the possibility of the extension.

印度近日通过了一项针对非法移民的新法案。该法案给来自印度的三个邻国——巴基斯坦、阿富汗斯坦和孟加拉的移民提供公民权。
India has recently passed a new law relating to illegal immigrants. The law provides citizenship to immigrants from three of India’s neighboring countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.

法案的通过引起了包括新德里、孟买等大城市的抗议。很多人受伤或被警方扣押。
This law has led to protests in many big cities, including New Dehli, Mumbai and etc. Many have been injured or detained by the police.

印度总理莫迪已发声，希望抗议者们保持冷静。
India’s Prime Minister has appealed for calm to the protestors.

仅有16岁的瑞典女孩Greta Thunberg近年来一次又一次地通过环保活动来提高人们对于全球气候变化的关注。
Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, who is only 16 years old, has raised people’s awareness of global climate change through her persistent effort in environmental protection activities.

今天，她当选了《时代》杂志的2019年风云人物。不得不说，她确实当之无愧。
She is announced today as 2019 Person of the Year of Time magazine. We must say that she totally earned it.

尽管新加坡进入雨季，近日阴雨连连，但大士弯48号的一处工业废料处理厂却发生了罕见的严重火灾。
Although perspiration has increased these days as Singapore moves into monsoon season, a rare severe fire broke out at a waste management site at Tuas Cresent 48.

火灾于凌晨6时发生，新加坡民防部队在接到举报电话后仅四分钟便火速赶到现场，共出动34辆紧急车辆和130名消防员。
The fire started around 6 in the morning. SCDF reached the scene in only 4 minutes after receiving the call. A total of 34 emergency vehicles and 130 firefighters were dispatched.

近日，美国迈阿密巴塞尔艺术展上的一件“香蕉艺术品”引起了极大关注。
Recently, a banana wall art on display at Art Basel in the US has raised a lot of attention.

该艺术品出自意大利艺术家Maurizio Cattelan之手，以用胶带固定在墙上的香蕉形象出镜。在它以天价12万美元被拍下来后，这根香蕉在网上引起了一波热议。
This wall art, in the form of a banana being taped to the wall, was done by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It raised a lot of discussions online after it is sold at an insane price of US$120,000.

星期一12月9日，新西兰怀特岛火山爆发。该岛位于新西兰北部。
A volcano erupted at Whakaari Island on Monday, Dec 9, which is in the Northern part of New Zealand.

新西兰警方随即采取救援行动，有20余人被从岛上带离，其中5人死亡，20人左右受伤。
New Zealand police quickly acted and performed search and rescue missions. More than 20 were evacuated from the Island, amongst which five people were killed and around 20 were injured.

警方仍需时间确认一些外籍游客的国籍。
Police still need some time to identify the nationality of some foreign tourists.

世界反兴奋剂机构 今日宣布，因俄罗斯对测验数据的篡改，将会禁止俄罗斯在未来四年内参加奥林匹克和世锦赛等很多国际性运动赛事。
Russia will be banned from the Olympics and world championships among some other international sports competitions for four years due to their manipulation of laboratory data, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced today.

俄罗斯对这一禁令如有异议，则将需要在未来的21天内提起上诉。
If Russia objects to this ban, it needs to appeal to WADA in 21 days.