美国有线新闻 CNN 2016-6-23

 

AZUZ: It’s a question may be not everyone’s asked but how many hugs can someone give in a minute? And the answer:79. You can give 79 hugs in a minute.

这或许不是一个所有人都会询问的问题，但是在一分钟之内一个人能拥抱多少次呢？答案是79。你可以在一分钟内拥抱79次。

We know that, thanks to this man in India, along with the assistance of a whole bunch of students. They wrapped their arms around the Guinness World Record, defeating the old hug high mark by two people. This is definitely quantity over quality and some squeezes were actually disqualified because a genuine hug is defined as having both arms wrapped around another person.

我们可以知道这个，要感谢印度的这名男子以及在一大堆学生的帮助之下。他们张开双臂，拥抱吉尼斯世界纪录奖杯。打破了以前由两人所创造的拥抱高分记录。这绝对是重量不重质。一些拥紧实际上是不合格的。因为一个真正的拥抱被定义为用双臂环绕另一个人。

But why they upset about that? They can always hug it out. They know they tried to squeeze in everyone they could, in the hopes of clasping the record. And now that they’ve clinched¹ it, they truly deserve a pat on the back because now they’ve successfully embraced one challenge, maybe this is just hugging.

但为他们什么要对此感到生气呢？他们总是尽情拥抱。他们知道他们尽可能地试图紧握住每个人，带着打破纪录的希望。或许他们真正应该获得表扬并且现在他们已经取得胜利。因为现在他们已经成功地接受了一项挑战，或许这只是拥抱。

1 clinched   

v.（尤指两人）互相紧紧抱[扭]住( clinch的过去式和过去分词 )；解决（争端、交易），达成（协议）

参考例句：

• The two businessmen clinched the deal quickly. 两位生意人很快达成了协议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Evidently this information clinched the matter. 显然，这一消息使问题得以最终解决。 来自辞典例句