双语闲闻：什么是网球大满贯？加初中生科幻小说获全国最佳作品奖

1) Modi’s plan to change India’s name ‘absurd’: Rahul Gandhi.

印度反对党领袖拉胡尔·甘地认为，莫迪改变印度国名的计划太荒谬了。

2) LexisNexis is embracing generative AI to ease legal writing and research.

LexisNexis是一家法律领域的软件公司，公司正在采用生成式人工智能来简化法律文秘工作和研究。

3) Meet Falcon 180B: The Largest Openly Available Language Model With 180 Billion Parameters.

Falcon 180B是目前最大的开放语言模型，拥有1800亿个参数。

4) U.S., Saudi Arabia in Talks to Secure Metals for EVs.

美国与沙特阿拉伯就电动汽车金属原材料供应进行了讨论。

两国的目标是从非洲开采金属来保证供应安全。

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are in talks to secure metals in Africa needed for both countries' energy transitions.

5) Group calls for $100 billion, 10-year package on renewables.

澳大利亚的一些组织呼吁政府制定10年规划提供1000亿美元以开发可再生能源。

6) Vietnam Air, Boeing near $7.5 billion deal for 50 737 max planes.

越南航空与波音公司达成近75亿美元的协议，包括50架波音737MAX飞机。

7) Novak Djokovic wins gruelling U.S. Open final for 24th Grand Slam title.

诺瓦克·德约科维奇在美国公开赛决赛中赢得第24个大满贯冠军。

8) Canada defeats U.S. in overtime to claim bronze, first-ever medal at FIBA World Cup.

加拿大在加时赛中击败美国夺得铜牌，这是加拿大在国际篮球世界杯赛上的第一枚奖牌。

9) Teen sci-fi novelist from Rothesay wins national prize.

加拿大罗思西小镇的一位青少年写的科幻小说获全国最佳作品奖。

这位小说家今年14岁，他写的小说《永恒的盒子》在669个参赛作品中脱颖而出。

A 14-year-old from Rothesay has won a national writing competition for his latest novel.

Taym Saffar, who was a Grade 8 student at Rothesay Park School when he entered the competition last spring, is one of two winners of this year's Kids Write 4 Kids contest, put on by the Ripple Foundation.

The foundation says its judges chose Saffar's book, The Eternal Box, as well as a story called One in the Wilderness by Grade 6 student Roy Osborne of Haines Junction, Yukon, as the best out of 669 entries from across Canada, rated on creativity, originality, story structure and writing quality.

Taym says the idea for The Eternal Box came to him about two years ago.

组织该比赛的机构是瑞波基金会。瑞波基金会创建并提供免费社区项目，倡导儿童和青少年进行创意文学创作。创意文学创作有利于青少年建立信心、增强想象力、促进创造性思维和培养解决问题的能力。

Ripple Foundation creates and delivers free community programs advocating creative literacy among children and youth. The benefits of creativity literacy include building confidence, boosting imagination, and promoting creative thinking and problem-solving.