I don't know enough about Tzu Chi to endorse them, but their bottles-to-blankets activity seems a grittier form of the recycling done by charity shops in the UK.
我对慈济知之不多不便发表什么。但他们的“瓶子到毯子”的活动更象是英国慈善商店的回收形式。
Although shops must see resizing as a way of boosting sales, Debenhams surveyed 1,000 women across the UK and found the biggest reason for not going to get professionally measured was embarrassment.
虽然女性们重新确定文胸的大小对店铺来说是个可以促进销售的商机，但Debenhams调查了英国1000名女性后发现，由于害怕尴尬，大部分女性不想让专业人员测量自己的尺码。
Although shops must see resizing as a way of boosting sales, Debenhams surveyed 1, 000 women across the UK and found the biggest reason for not going to get professionally measured was embarrassment.
虽然女性们重新确定文胸的大小对店铺来说是个可以促进销售的商机，但Debenhams调查了英国1000名女性后发现，由于害怕尴尬，大部分女性不想让专业人员测量自己的尺码。
Coffee shops are failing to make it easy for customers to recycle the estimated 2.5bn takeaway cups thrown away each year in the UK, a consumer group warned on Tuesday.
英国每年多达25亿个外带咖啡杯被随意扔掉的浪费行为并没有从其源头——咖啡店得到有效遏制，周二一个消费者组织警告说。
There may be coffee shops on every UK street corner, but Britain is resolutely a tea-drinking nation.
也许在英国每条街的拐角都有咖啡店，但英国绝对是个饮茶的国家。
According to the local data company, more that 14% of shops across the UK are now empty.
当地数据公司的统计显示，目前全英范围内超过14%的店铺是空置的。
Contrary to the UK stereotype of the grumpy old man not wanting to be dragged to the shops, men shopped more often than women did.
与英国典型的脾气暴躁的老年男性不愿意被拖去购物相比，这里男性购物的次数多于女性。
UK: retail sales rose for a third month in April as the economic recovery encouraged consumers to spend more at clothing shops and department stores. Sales climbed 0.3 percent from March.
英国：4月零售销售连续第三个月上升，因为经济复苏鼓励消费者多花钱在服装商店和百货公司，销售额自3月增长0.3%。
In the UK there are a lot of talking shops, a lot of conversations and a lot of eulogising but there is not much capital invested in technology or in the partnerships that they'll need for the future.
英国有很多清谈俱乐部，很多对话，很多动听的泛泛而谈，但没有多少资本投入未来需要的技术或者合作伙伴关系。
There are now around 8,500 fish and chip shops across the UK - that's eight for every one McDonald's outlet.
英国全国有近八千五百家炸鱼薯条店-与麦当劳店铺足足是八对一。
There are now around 8,500 fish and chip shops across the UK - that's eight for every one McDonald's outlet.
英国全国有近八千五百家炸鱼薯条店-与麦当劳店铺足足是八对一。
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