4.19 热门：星巴克关全美8000店面 进行反歧视培训平众怒

Island closes to tourists
菲律宾长滩岛封闭半年

The resort island of Boracay in Philippines will be closed to tourists for six months from April 26 to fix sewage and environment-related problems. More than 36,000 hotel and resort workers stand to lose their jobs, and the closure will cost the island's tourism sector some 56 billion pesos if it lasts for a year. 

菲律宾旅游胜地长滩岛将从本月26日起对游客封闭半年，以进行污水处理和与环境相关的整治。超过3.6万名酒店及景区工作人员面临失业。若将长滩岛关闭一年，该岛旅游行业的损失将达560亿比索左右。

The Department of Tourism has ceased marketing Boracay and is instead promoting alternative destinations in Western Visayas. Boracay's degradation has been blamed on the failure of the local government to enforce ordinances on marine conservation, garbage and sanitation, and zoning and construction. Boracay, famous for its powdery white sand and shallow azure water, was named the best island resort by magazine publisher Conde Nast in 2016.

菲律宾旅游局目前已经停止对长滩岛的营销，转而宣传西米沙鄢区其他景点。长滩岛环境恶化是因当地政府对海洋保护、垃圾及卫生、开发及建设的监管不力所致。长滩岛因其洁白细腻的沙滩和浅蔚蓝的海水而闻名，曾被杂志出版商康泰纳仕誉为2016年度最佳旅游岛屿。

Barbara Bush dies at 92

美前第一夫人布什去世

US former first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday at the age of 92, according to a release from the office of her husband former president George H W Bush. Having been hospitalized numerous times while battling congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she decided Sunday to seek "comfort care" instead of additional medical help. 

美国前总统乔治•H•W•布什办公室发布消息称，其妻前第一夫人芭芭拉•布什于当地时间17日去世，享年92岁。经过无数次入院治疗，对抗充血性心力衰竭和慢性阻塞性肺病后，布什夫人于15日决定不再接受额外的医疗救治，转而寻求"安适护理"。

Mrs Bush is one of only two first ladies in the history of the country who is also the mother of a president. She is the wife of the 41st US president George H W Bush and mother of the 43rd US president George W Bush. Her funeral will be held at St Martin’s Church in Houston.

布什夫人是美国历史上仅有的两位既是美国总统妻子又是总统母亲的女性中的一位。她是美国第41任总统乔治•H•W•布什的妻子，也是美国第43任总统乔治•W•布什的母亲。她的葬礼将在休斯顿的圣马丁教堂举行。

Starbucks to close stores

星巴克关全美8000店面进行反歧视培训平众怒

Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores and corporate offices in the US on May 29 to hold anti–racial bias training as the company struggles to cope with the fallout of two black men being arrested at a store in Philadelphia. 

连锁咖啡店星巴克将于5月29日关闭全美超过8000家店面和公司办公室以进行反种族歧视培训，该公司正在尽力摆平因两名黑人在其费城一家店铺被捕所产生的负面影响。

Witnesses said the two men hadn't ordered anything while they were waiting for a friend, and the manager asked them to leave and called the police. Fierce backlash against the coffee chain followed after a video of the two men being arrested on April 12 went viral. 

有目击者称，这两人在等朋友期间没点任何东西，于是经理便要求他们离开并报了警。这两名黑人本月12日被捕的视频被疯传后，星巴克遭到了民众的强烈抵制。

Nearly 175,000 employees will take part in the anti–racial bias trainings when the stores close, according to a statement from Starbucks. The curriculum, developed with several partners, including the NAACP and a former US attorney general, will also become part of the training for new hires, the company said. 

星巴克发表的声明称，店铺关闭期间将有近17.5万员工参加反种族歧视培训。星巴克称，此课程由全国有色人种协进会及某美国前司法部长等多方共同开展，该课程还将成为新员工培训的一部分。

"We will learn from our mistakes and reaffirm our commitment to creating a safe and welcoming environment for every customer," Starbucks founder Howard Schulz said.

星巴克创始人霍华德•舒尔茨表示："我们将从所犯的错误中吸取教训，并重申我们为每位顾客创造一个安全且舒适环境的承诺。"

Turning water into lemonade

科学家做出'虚拟柠檬水'

Researchers out of the National University of Singapore and Georgia Institute of Technology presented a method for creating "virtual lemonade." With an RGB color sensor and pH sensor, the virtual lemonade receiver who is actually drinking a cup full of plain H2O can experience simulated lemonade flavor. The "taste messaging" occurs via bluetooth when a control module sends the color and sourness information to a custom tumbler.

近日，新加坡国立大学和佐治亚理工学院的研究人员提出一种创造"虚拟柠檬汽水"的方法。通过一个RGB颜色传感器和一个pH传感器，虽然虚拟柠檬汽水接收方实际喝的是一满杯白水，却能从中喝出类似柠檬汽水的味道。当一个控制模块将颜色和酸度信息发送到一个定制的平底杯时，"味道信息"就会通过蓝牙得以实现。

The special tumbler has a rim of silver electrodes that that serve as a sourness simulator giving off 800-Hz pulses to tempt taste buds, and an LED device at the bottom of the tumbler gives off a mini light show by diffusing color through the water. The real lemonade tasted sourer than the virtual, but overall, there were no significant differences of real and virtual flavor.

这种特殊的平底杯有一圈银电极作为酸性模拟器发出800赫兹的脉冲冲击味蕾，杯底的发光二极管装置通过在水中扩散颜色发出微光。真正的柠檬汽水比虚拟的要酸一点, 但总的来说，两者并没有十分显著的区别。

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