belfast

EVEN before the recent outbreaks of violence in Belfast, the question of peace was on the mind of the British prime minister.

最近，就在贝尔法斯特暴力事件爆发前，英国首相还在考虑着北爱的和平问题。

He was one of the few Belfast IRA members who managed to gain the respect of hard-line elements in south Armagh and Tyrone .

他是少数贝尔法斯特的爱尔兰共和军成员，他们设法得到尊重的强硬分子在南部阿玛和泰隆。

photo above: The kitchen, with its lovely belfast sink, has a door that leads out to the garden.

上图：厨房里有可爱的Belfast水槽，从这里可以直接进入花园。

According to the Belfast Telegraph, Stewart is actually going so far as to say that Breaking Dawn may be the best Twilight film yet.

根据贝尔法斯特电讯报，斯图尔特其实甚至于说，破晓可能是最好的黄昏电影呢。

IT OUGHT to have been a festive week in Belfast.

贝尔法斯特本该是喜庆的一周。

And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums of Belfast.

乔治贝斯特在贝尔法斯特的贫民窟里对着一堵墙踢球的时候学会了使他一举成名的踢球动作。

A study at Queen's University in Belfast found that having sex three times a week could halve the risk of heart attack or stroke.

英国贝尔法斯特市皇后学院研究发现，每周性交三次可降低一半心脏疾病发作与中风风险。

In addition to making Belfast look like a war zone, at least on television, the dissidents drove a wedge between politicians and police.

这些反对派们除了把贝尔法斯特弄得像战场一样（至少在电视上看起来像）之外，他们还在政客和警方之间挑起不和。

As to what motivates them, a dissident spokesman provided a clue last month in a rare interview with a Belfast paper, the Irish News.

这些人的动机到底是什么呢？从贝尔法斯特报纸《爱尔兰新闻》对异见派发言人罕见的一次采访中可见一斑。

However dramatic this week's images were, to most people on the ground in Belfast, things seem less than apocalyptic.

然而，对于在在贝尔法斯特这片土地的大多数居民来说，本周过激的画面看来似乎与世界末日有一比。

The menu, along with other items of memorabilia from the ship, were bought by a private museum in Belfast, where the Titanic was built.

沉船上的这张菜单连同其他大事记文档，均被贝尔法斯特的一家私人博物馆买去了。

This week responsibility for policing and justice was transferred from London to Belfast in what was hailed as the completion of devolution.

本周，对政策和公正的责任，从伦敦转到了贝尔法斯特，这被称作终结转移。

A special fund has been set up to meet the costs of a life-size bronze sculpture in Belfast city centre.

已经建立了一个特殊基金用来支付这个位于贝尔法斯特市中心的真人一样大小的青铜雕塑的所需费用。

But I moved over from Belfast with my family and settled in Manchester so that I could play and train here all the time.

但我之后就随家人一起从贝尔法斯特迁居到曼彻斯特，这样就能全天候训练了。

He has often spoken of what Best meant to him growing up in Belfast and would later give a eulogy at Best's funeral.

他经常说贝斯特在他的贝尔法斯特那段成长过程中意义重大，后来他还在贝斯特的葬礼上呈上悼词。

In the north, Northern Ireland, with its capital Belfast, is part of the United Kingdom.

北部的北爱尔兰是联合王国的一部分，其首府为贝尔法斯特。

So, every single time that somebody got into a taxi in Belfast without knowing, actually, was funding the IRA.

每当有人在贝尔法斯特坐的士时，他们自己不知，他们是在赞助爱尔兰共和军。

I've done meetings where most of us were in a room, but one person was in Edinburgh on a mobile and another was in Belfast.

我组织过这样的会议：我们大多数人都在会议室，但有一人在爱丁堡通过手机连线会场，还有一个人在贝尔法斯特。

In 2007 Sean Hoey, the only person ever to be tried for the atrocity, was acquitted in Belfast.

仅剩的一位被认为试图发动这次暴行的受审者SeanHoey于2007年在贝尔法斯特被刑事法庭宣告无罪。

"As it turns out, the act of gossip can indeed be quite powerful, " said Jared Piazza of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特皇后大学的加里德·匹亚泽说：“事实证明，流言的力量的确很强大。”