【文章內容簡介】 的蓋洛普支持率降至歷史最低—13%。In China the main worry was of an overheating central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates for the first time in three years amid concerns about trade statistics showed China had overtaken Germany as the world’s biggest over currency policy were at the forefront during summits of the G20 and ?？紤]到通貨膨脹，中國人民銀行3年來首次調高利率，這有些讓人意外。官方的貿易統(tǒng)計數字表明，中國已經超過德國成為世界上最大的出口國。G20和IMF峰會上，貨幣政策成為爭論的焦點。Google had a spat with China over censorship and a cyberattack on its website there, causing it to redirect its Chinese internet searches through Hong , Google, Facebook and others promised to do more to protect privacy after an outcry about their handling of users’ personal ，谷歌指責中國攻擊其位于中國的網站，導致中文搜索不得不轉道香港。人們抗議谷歌，臉譜和其他公司沒能保護好他們的個人信息后，這些公司分別承諾會更好地保護隱私權。The year of living dangerously 生存狀況危險的一年An earthquake in Haiti was a humanitarian disaster, killing at least 230,000 people and leaving 1m quake devastated PortauPrince and left swathes of the country’s fragile infrastructure in deadly outbreak of cholera later in the year and political unrest pounded the ，至少23萬人死亡，100萬人無家可歸。地震摧毀了太子港，導致該國脆弱的基礎設施遭受嚴重破壞。下半年海地爆發(fā)了致命的霍亂，政治動蕩加劇了人們的不幸。Drifting ash clouds emanating from a volcano in Iceland led to the closure of European air space for several days, causing the biggest disruption to worldwide air travel since September 11th ，造成911事件以來，全球最大規(guī)模的航空管制。American bat operations ended in Iraq, seven years after the start of the 50,000 troops remain in a support role until the end of continued to be troubled by violence and suicidebombs after the Americans election was held in March, though a new government didn’t begin to emerge until ，美國從伊拉克撤軍。大約有5萬名輔助士兵留在伊拉克直到2011年底。美國撤軍后，伊拉克繼續(xù)被暴力和自殺式爆炸襲擊困擾。3月份舉行了大選，但新政府直到11月份才出爐。The war in Afghanistan rumbled troops mounted their biggest offensive against the Taliban since deaths of civilians in targeted missile attacks aimed at the Taliban and alQaeda caused Stanley McChrystal was sacked as mander of coalition forces after a magazine published an interview in which he disparaged the handling of the war by America’s civilian David Petraeus took 。聯合部隊展開了2001年以來針對塔利班最具攻擊性的行動。意在攻擊塔利班和基地組織的導彈襲擊造成了平民傷亡，引起美國和阿富汗的分歧。在一份雜志的采訪中，上將斯坦利（Stanley McChrystal）對美國文職領導人對待戰(zhàn)爭的做法不屑一顧，作為聯軍總司令的他被撤職。上將大衛(wèi)彼得雷烏斯（David Petraeus）接替他的職務。Pakistan endured another year of severe terrorist attacks, starting on January 1st when a suicidebomber killed 100 people at a volleyball July, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for huge blasts at a Sufi shrine in Lahore and at a market in the tribal in Karachi after the assassination of a politician killed flooding from exceptionally heavy monsoon rains affected 20m people, adding to the country’s 。1月1日的一場排球比賽上，自殺式炸彈襲擊造成100人死亡。7月，巴基斯坦的塔利班宣布對拉合爾地區(qū)蘇菲派清真寺和部落地區(qū)的一個市場的巨大爆炸負責?？ɡ娴?*形勢在一名政客被暗殺后升級。異常的強季風帶來的無情洪水影響了2000萬人民的生活，加重了國家的災難。Among the year’s other deadliest terror attacks were coordinated bombings at two crowded bars in Kampala, the Ugandan Shabab, a Somali Islamist militia, claimed 。索馬里的伊斯蘭民兵組織宣布對此事負責。The heat is on 正在施壓A spate of terrorist assaults in Russia, including a suicidebombing on the Moscow metro, killed scores of separatists were hottest summer in Russian history resulted in hundreds of wildfires, causing a publichealth crisis in Moscow when smoke enveloped the ，包括莫斯科地鐵自殺式爆炸襲擊的多起恐怖主義襲擊造成多人死亡。車臣分裂分子受到指責。俄羅斯歷史上最熱的夏天引發(fā)了數百起的森林大火。大火產生的濃煙籠罩莫斯科，造成了人們對公眾健康的恐慌。A spoof broadcast in Georgia claiming that Russia had invaded the country caused bulletin, using imagery from the 2008 RussiaGeorgia war, prompted people to flee Tbilisi, the 。這份公告從2008年俄羅斯同格魯吉亞的戰(zhàn)爭中獲得靈感，導致人們逃離首都第比利斯。After months of cajoling, Israel and the Palestinians sat around the table for direct talks, though the negotiations soon broke down over the building of Jewish settlements on the West AmericanIsraeli relationship became somewhat ，以色列和巴勒斯坦進行了直接對話。但由于以色列在西岸建立猶太人定居點導致談判很快破裂。美國和以色列的關系變得有點緊張。Israeli intelligence was said to be behind the assassination of a senior Hamas military leader, who was killed at a hotel in diplomatic row ensued when it emerged that the assassins had travelled under the stolen identities of European and Australian was another international ruckus when Israeli mandos shot dead nine people on a Turkish ship with humanitarian supplies bound for ，以色列的情報組織策劃并暗殺了當時在迪拜一家旅館的一名哈馬斯高級軍事領導人。后來發(fā)現，暗殺者使用偷來的歐洲和澳大利亞公民的身份證旅行，外交摩擦由此爆發(fā)。以色列突擊隊打死了一艘裝有運往加沙地帶人道主義救援物資的土耳其船上的9人，引發(fā)國際上一片討伐之聲。The world cheered when all 33 men trapped underground for 69 days at a mine in Chile were brought safely to the mining accidents in China, Russia, West Virginia, New Zealand and Turkey each killed dozens of ，被困井下69天的33名礦