●The Tokyo Olympic Games has been rescheduled1

The Tokyo Olympic Games has been rescheduled to July 23 to August 8， 2021， organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic2 Games announced3. The Paralympic Games will be held from August 24 to September 5 next year. Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori told a news conference that the decision is important. They had also talked about the possibility to host the Games in the spring but finally chose summer.

IOC （International Olympic Committee） President Thomas Bach expressed his confidence that the IOC can “master this unprecedented4 challenge”.

“Humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel. The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel，” he said.

○東京奧運會改期

東京2020年奧運會和殘奧會主辦方宣布，東京奧運會改在2021年7月23日至8月8日舉行。殘奧會將于明年8月24日至9月5日舉行。2020年東京奧運會主席森喜朗在新聞發(fā)布會上表示，這一決定非常重要。他們也討論過在春天舉辦奧運會的可能性，但最后選擇了夏天。

國際奧委會主席托馬斯·巴赫表示，他相信國際奧委會能夠“駕馭這一前所未有的挑戰(zhàn)”。

他說：“人類現(xiàn)在正身處黑暗的隧道中。2020年東京奧運會能成為這條隧道盡頭的一盞明燈。”

●Finland tries to stop falling birth rates

Parents in Finland will get seven months to spend with their babies. This is almost double the amount of the current leave. Each parent will get 164 days and give up to 69 of their days to their partner. Single parents will get 328 days. Current parental leave gives four months to mothers and two months to fathers. The government explained it wants to put the child “at the centre of family benefits and promote wellbeing”.

○芬蘭設(shè)法阻止出生率下降

在芬蘭的父母將有七個月的時間來陪伴他們的寶寶。這幾乎是目前假期的兩倍。每位父母將獲得164天的假期，父母中的一方最多可以送69天假期給對方。單身父母將獲得328天的假期。而目前母親的育兒假為四個月，父親的為兩個月。政府解釋說，他們希望把孩子放在“家庭福利的中心，并增進福祉”。

【Notes】

1. reschedule [?????] vt. 重新排定日程

2. Paralympic [?????] n. 殘奧會

3. announce [?????] vt. 宣布

4. unprecedented [?????] adj. 空前的;無前例的