纽约暴风雪致二十多人死亡；乌拉圭的全球野心撼动了拉美的南方共同市场贸易集团丨双语资讯速览
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纽约暴风雪致二十多人死亡
More than two dozen people have been killed and thousands left without power after a blizzard hit western New York state over the Christmas period, in what local officials described as the area’s deadliest snowstorm in decades.
圣诞节期间，一场暴风雪袭击了纽约州西部，造成20多人死亡，数千人断电。当地官员称，这是该地区几十年来最致命的暴风雪。
States across the US have been struck by the storm, with the hardest-hit area being New York’s Erie County, which includes the city of Buffalo, the state’s second-largest city.
美国各州都受到了暴风雪的袭击，受灾最严重的地区是纽约的伊利县，其中包括该州第二大城市水牛城。
Speaking on Monday, New York governor Kathy Hochul, who was born in Buffalo, said visiting the area was like “going to a war zone”.
出生于水牛城的纽约州州长凯西•霍赫尔(Kathy Hochul)周一表示，访问该地区就像“前往战区”。
——本文2022年12月27日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为More than two dozen killed in New York snowstorm
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乌拉圭的全球野心撼动了
拉美的南方共同市场贸易集团
Presidential meetings of the South American Mercosur alliance were usually sedate affairs — until Uruguay decided to “open up to the world” under its pro-business leader Luis Lacalle Pou.
南美南方共同市场(Mercosur)联盟的总统会议通常较为平静——直到乌拉圭决定在其亲商领导人路易斯•拉卡莱•普(Luis Lacalle Pou)的领导下“向世界开放”。
Hard at work negotiating new trade deals outside the regional bloc since taking office in March 2020, Lacalle Pou’s ambitions are running up against the other Mercosur members who are closing ranks on Uruguay, as political alliances shift.
自2020年3月上任以来，拉卡莱•普努力在区域集团之外谈判新的贸易协议。随着政治联盟的转变，他的雄心壮志正与其他南方共同市场成员国形成对抗。
Those tensions were on display at the Mercosur summit in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo in December. There were accusations of foul play and unsportsmanlike tactics on news that Uruguay had independently applied to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) days previously, an 11-member trade alliance including Australia and Japan. This followed separate bilateral trade talks with China and Turkey earlier this year.
12月在乌拉圭首都蒙得维的亚举行的南方共同市场峰会上，这种紧张局势得到了体现。几天前，乌拉圭独立申请加入包括澳大利亚和日本在内的11个成员国的跨太平洋伙伴关系协定(TPP)的消息传出，有人指责乌拉圭采取了不正当手段和不光明正大的策略。此前，乌拉圭在今年早些时候与中国和土耳其分别进行了双边贸易谈判。
——本文2022年12月27日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为Uruguay’s global ambitions shake up Latin America’s Mercosur trade bloc
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碳信用额度公司想方设法
吸引投资
Companies that create and sell carbon credits are considering options from public listings to the business model used by the precious metals industry to attract investment to the market.
创建和销售碳信用额度的公司为吸引对该市场的投资，正在考虑各种选项，从公开上市到贵金属行业所用的商业模式。
Credits, each of which are supposed to represent a tonne of carbon avoided or removed from the atmosphere and are generated by environmental projects such as tree planting, can be bought by companies to offset emissions.
每一个信用额度理应代表避免一吨碳排放或从大气中清除一吨碳，这类额度由植树等环保项目产生。企业可以购买碳信用额度来抵消排放。
In early December, London-listed investment group Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company, which is developing carbon credit projects, became the first to receive the London Stock Exchange’s new “voluntary carbon market” label — in reference to offsets bought voluntarily rather than to meet legal emissions targets.
12月初，正在开发碳信用额度项目的伦敦上市投资集团Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company成为首家获得伦敦证交所(LSE)“自愿碳市场”(voluntary carbon market)新标签的公司。该标签指的是自愿（而不是为了达到法定排放目标）购买碳抵消。
——本文2022年12月27日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为Carbon credit groups seek to expand investor appeal
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英国购物者回来了，
但支出预计将下降
The number of people hitting Britain’s high streets and shopping centres for the traditional Boxing Day sales rose sharply on last year when Covid concerns kept shoppers at home, but remained far short of pre-pandemic levels with the cost of living crisis expected to depress spending.
英国商业街和购物中心的传统节礼日销售人数比去年大幅增加，当时购物者因对新冠疫情的担忧留在家中，但仍远低于疫情前的水平，生活成本危机预计将抑制支出。
Figures from retail intelligence provider Springboard showed that footfall as of midday on Monday jumped 50 per cent on December 26 last year, when some restrictions were in place due to the spread of the Omicron variant and several large retailers remained closed.
零售情报提供商Springboard的数据显示，截至周一中午，客流量比去年12月26日增加了50%，当时由于奥密克戎(Omicron)变体的传播，实施了一些限制措施，几家大型零售商仍处于关闭状态。
But in the latest sign of the persistent pressures on bricks and mortar stores, foot traffic on the high street was down 25.3 per cent compared with pre-pandemic in 2019, while for shopping centres it was down 36.9 per cent.
但最新的迹象表明，实体店面临持续的压力，与2019年大流行前相比，商业街的人流量下降了25.3%，而购物中心则下降了36.9%。
——本文2022年12月27日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为Shoppers return to Boxing Day sales but spending expected to be down
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