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这一届印尼选举展现了两位候选人，现任总统佐科和其竞争对手普拉博沃的激烈角逐。在4月18日，投票结束之后，双方都宣布他们自己的快速统计显示己方领先。
There are two presidential candidates competing a close match in this election, current president Joko Widodo and opposition Mr. Prabowo. After the voting closed on 18th Apr, both parties announced that their own fast calculations show that they will win.

3月15日，28岁的澳大利亚人塔兰特在新西兰的两座回教堂进行了大规模无差别射击，并导致了51人死亡，多人受伤。这是新西兰历史上最严重的恐怖袭击事件。
15th Mar, an astonishing mass shooting fell upon two Mosques in New Zealand, caused by a 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant. 51 were killed and many were injured during this tragedy. This attack was the most serious terrorist attack in the history of New Zealand.

这起事件后，新西兰通过了非常严密的控枪法案，禁止新西兰国内使用军用半自动步枪与突击步枪。
After this tragedy, New Zealand passed a stricter gun-control law, banning military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles to prevent any such thing happening again.

继华为及其关联企业上美国商务部“黑名单”后，为了响应国家政策，谷歌成为了第一个向华为开刀的美国公司。
Shortly after Huawei and its affiliated being added to a ‘blacklist ‘ of the US Commerce Department, Google becomes one of the first US companies to start cutting ties.

一直以来，华为的手机和平板电脑上都在使用谷歌开发的安卓操作系统。
Huawei’s phones and tablets have always been using the Android operating system, developed by Google.

华为总裁， 任正非于5月18号接受了日经新闻的采访。采访过程中重点讨论了近日美国禁止使用华为技术的行为以及该国对华为“不安全性”的指控。
In a recent interview on Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei conducted by Nikkei News, Mr. Ren responds to the recent U.S. sanctions and the series of accusation about the ‘security risk’.

5月16日，世界著名的华裔建筑大师（jiànzhù dàshī – architect giant）贝聿铭去世，享年102岁。
16th May 2019, world-renown architect l M Pei passed away at the age of 102.

美国阿拉巴马州的参议院刚刚通过了一项几乎禁止（jìnzhǐ – v. to ban, to prohibit）了全部堕胎（duòtāi – n. abortion）手术的法案（fǎàn – n. bill）。在这个法案中，孕妇在任何孕期都不可以堕胎，包括强奸和乱伦这样非法的受孕行为。除非怀孕对孕妇的生命安全有极其危险的威胁（wēixié – n. threat, risk），否则孕妇肚子里的孩子必须生下来。
The senate at Alabama state just passed a bill which approves a near-total ban on abortion. In this bill, abortion cannot be conducted at any stage of pregnancy, including illegal forms of impregnation such as rape and incest. Unless the pregnancy poses a serious risk to the woman’s health, the child must be born.

美国已经在3天前（5月10日）开始，把从中国进口的2000亿美元商品的关税从10%上调到25%。对于一直观望中美贸易协商的我们来说，美国这一举措真的是突如其来。
3 days ago (10th May), the US has already raised the tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of goods imported from China. As bystanders who have been following the trade negotiations, this move really came out of nowhere.

而在今天之前，中方的反应一直是平淡无奇的。中方发言人多次宣称中美贸易协商“并没有破裂”，即使这和美方的声明和举措相矛盾。
Up till today, China has not made any active reactions. Its spokesperson stressed that the trade negotiations ‘did not break off’, which contradicts to what the US has been saying and doing.

就在两周前，中方和美方还都表示对贸易协商的进展很满意。谁能想到，两周之后的局势会变得这么扑朔迷离。
Just about two weeks ago, both China and the US expressed their confidence towards the trade-deal negotiations. Who would have thought that the situations changed so dramatically now?

星期天5月5号，美国总统特朗普发推文，指控中方试图重新协商。因此他准备从10号起，对价值2000亿美元的中国商品进行关税上调，从10%到25%。
US President Donald Trump sent out a tweet on 5th May. He accused China of trying to renegotiate. Hence, he planned to raise tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese commodities since the 10th of May.

作为古老的英国文化的象征之一，英国王室和它的成员们一直受到全世界的多方关注。而当王室添加新成员时，很多人同样会翘首以待。

As a long-lasting symbol of British culture, the British royals are constantly under the spotlight. When a new member joins the family, many people would also be filled with anticipation.

在5月6日，一位新成员加入了英国王室这个大家庭，他就是哈里王子和妻子梅根，萨赛克斯公爵和公爵夫人的第一个儿子。

On 6th May, a new member joins the royal family. He is the first son of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

小宝宝出生时重7磅3盎司，约3.26公斤。他会拥有王室继承权，是第七顺位继承人。

当地时间5月5日晚6时左右，一架原定从莫斯科谢列梅捷沃机场起飞、计划飞往俄罗斯西北部城市摩尔曼斯克的客机在短暂起飞后失火，随后在返回谢列梅捷沃机场并进行了紧急迫降。
Local time around 6 pm on 5th May, a Russian passenger plane caught fire shortly after take-off and was forced to an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport. The plane was scheduled to take off at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow towards North-western city Murmansk.