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Indian girl, Chayya, kills herself amid media fear frenzy最大对撞机撞击印度人心灵1Yesterday morning, apparently fearing that the end of the world was approaching at the hands of mad scientists, a teenage girl in central India killed herself. 1昨天早晨，印度中央邦一个年轻女孩自杀，显然是因为害怕疯狂的科学家要让世界末日的到来。2Chayya, 16, drank pesticide. Her father said she had been asking him and other relatives “about the world coming to an end on September 10”. 216岁的查雅喝了农药。她父亲说，她问他和其他亲戚“有关9月10日世界末日的问题”。3The Indian media had been working itself into a frenzy as the switch-on time for the Large Hadron Collider approached. While some sought out one last fine meal, many thousands of others were praying and fasting for salvation. A temple in Orissa noted the arrival of extra worshippers. 3随着大型强子对撞机开动的日子越来越近，印度媒体陷入癫狂状态。有些人给自己准备了生前最后一顿美餐，无数人祷告、斋戒以求获救。奥里萨邦一个寺庙来拜神的人比平常多出很多。4“I am observing the fast for safety,” said Rukmini Moharana, a housewife. “Only God can save us.” 4家庭主妇鲁克米尼莫哈拉纳说：“我斋戒是为平安。只有上帝能救我们。”5In Israel, it was hoped that the start of the hadron collider could prove an agent for peace rather than catastrophe. Forty Israeli scientists had worked on developing the CERN facility, often side by side with scientists from enemy states such as Iran and Lebanon. The newspaper Yediot Aharanot reported that, at a celebratory party at the Swiss complex, Palestinian and Israeli flags hung side by side. 5在以色列，人们希望强子对撞机的开启能带来和平而非灾难。40位以色列科学家在欧洲核子研究中心致力于研制这种装置，而且常常与来自伊朗和黎巴嫩等敌对国家的科学家合作。新消息报晚报称，在瑞典区举行的宗教仪式上，巴勒斯坦旗和以色列旗并列悬挂。6“Science knows no borders and no enemies,” said Professor Giora Mikenberg, of Israels Weizmann Institute. “Its a wonderful thing.” 6以色列魏茨曼科学研究所的焦拉·迈肯伯格教授说：“科学没有国界，也没有敌人。这很奇妙。”7Somewhere between the terror of thousands in India, and the hopes of the media in Israel, were the European newspapers. They entertained the prospect of the end of the world without quite being capable of taking the matter seriously. 7欧洲报纸既不像成千上万印度人那样恐慌，也不像以色列媒体那样满怀希望。对于可能到来的世界末日，他们并不太在意。8The Germans seemed particularly unruffled by the approach of The End, perhaps because they are the most heavily insured people in the world. The mass circulation Bild newspaper deployed its usual clunking humour. “Some black holes arent bad at all,” it said. “The ones that make our tax returns disappear for example. 8德国人对世界末日似乎无动于衷，可能因为他们是全世界保险最多的名族。发行量巨大图片报以一贯的冷幽默说：“有几个黑洞也不错。比如让我们的纳税申报单消失的黑洞。”9There was even less concern about the worlds biggest physics experiment in Kenya. Newspapers did not afford it so much as a single column inch. 9对于这项全世界最大规模的物理试验，肯尼亚人甚至根本就不关心。报纸上连一小段报道也没有。10Paul Onyango, shopping for chickens in the slum of Dagoretti, expressed bewilderment after it was explained to him that scientists were seeking to answer the eternal, chicken and egg question of the Universe, and how it started. “This seems a very strange thing to spend money on,” he said. “We could use that money in a much better way.” 10在达戈雷蒂贫民区买鸡肉的保罗·奥尼扬戈在别人向他解释科学家是想通过这个试验解决先有鸡还是先有蛋的难题后表示出困惑。“把钱用来干这件事好像很奇怪”，他说，“这笔钱原本可以用在更合适的地方。”