Calendar 2025

As the new year dawns, the works of Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse enter the public domain.
隨著新年的到來，弗里達・卡羅和亨利・馬蒂斯的作品進入公共領域。

The United Nations has declared 2025 the international year of quantum science and technology, co-operatives and glacier preservation, among other things.
聯合國已宣布 2025 年為國際量子科學與技術、合作社和冰川保護年。

Non-Europeans visiting Britain must have an ETA (electronic travel authorisation), which costs £10 ($13). Europeans will need one starting in April.
非歐洲人造訪英國必須持有電子旅行授權（ETA），費用為 £10（$13）。歐洲人從四月開始也需要。

Chinese new year is celebrated, as the year of the earth snake begins. Those born under this sign are said to be clever, calm and mysterious.
農曆新年慶祝，地蛇年開始。據說屬蛇的人聰明、冷靜和神秘。

Super Bowl LIX takes place in New Orleans. Kendrick Lamar will headline the half-time musical performance.
超級盃 LIX 將在新奧爾良舉行。肯德里克・拉瑪將擔任中場音樂表演的領銜。

Elections are held in Ecuador for the presidency and national assembly. A second round will take place in April if needed.
厄瓜多爾舉行總統和國民議會選舉。如有需要，將於四月進行第二輪選舉。

Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, two NASA astronauts who were meant to be spending eight days on the International Space Station from June 2024, return to Earth after eight months in orbit. The Boeing Starliner vehicle that carried them into space had technical problems and returned to Earth uncrewed in September, forcing the astronauts to return home in a SpaceX Dragon vehicle.
蘇妮塔・威廉斯（Sunita Williams）和巴里・威爾莫爾（Barry Wilmore）是兩名美國太空總署（NASA）宇航員，原定於 2024 年 6 月在國際太空站度過八天，但在軌道上停留了八個月後返回地球。攜帶他們進入太空的波音星際客艙車輛出現技術問題，於 9 月無人返回地球，迫使宇航員搭乘 SpaceX 公司的龍飛船返回家園。

Climbing season begins on Mount Everest. For the first time, drones will be used to carry supplies up, and rubbish down, as part of an effort to reduce the amount of waste left on the mountain. Testing of drones for this purpose took place in 2024.
攀登季節在珠穆朗瑪峰開始。首次將使用無人機運送物資上山，並將垃圾帶下山，以減少留在山上的廢棄物量。為此目的進行的無人機測試於 2024 年進行。

The 97th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles. Who will the Oscars go to?
第 97 屆奧斯卡金像獎在洛杉磯舉行。奧斯卡獎將頒給誰？

The first Formula 1 race of the year takes place in Australia. The 24-race season will end in Abu Dhabi on December 7th.
新一年的第一場一級方程式賽車比賽將在澳大利亞舉行。24 場比賽的賽季將於 12 月 7 日在阿布達比結束。

A partial solar eclipse is visible from parts of North America, Greenland, Europe, north-west Africa and north-west Russia.
部分日偏食可在北美洲、格陵蘭、歐洲、西北非洲和西北俄羅斯的部分地區看到。

Expo 2025 begins in Osaka, Japan and will continue until October 13th. It will take place on Yumeshima (“dream island”), an artificial island in Osaka Bay. The theme is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”.
2025 年世博會在日本大阪開幕，並將持續到 10 月 13 日。它將在大阪灣的人工島夢島舉行。主題是 “為我們的生活設計未來社會”。

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, ends its use of paper boarding passes and airport check-ins in favour of all-digital travel documents and processes.
瑞安航空，歐洲最大的航空公司，結束使用紙質登機證和機場報到，改為全數位旅行文件和流程。

The Biennale Architettura opens in Venice, and will continue until November 23rd. The curator is Carlo Ratti, an architect and urbanist who is director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The theme is “Intelligens”.
威尼斯建築雙年展開幕，並將持續至 11 月 23 日。策展人是卡洛・拉蒂（Carlo Ratti），他是麻省理工學院 Senseable City Lab 的主任，同時也是一位建築師和城市規劃師。主題是 “Intelligens”。

The Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Basel.
歐洲歌唱大賽在巴塞爾舉行。

In New York, the Metropolitan Museum reopens its Arts of Africa galleries after four years of refurbishment. In London, V&A East Storehouse opens its doors, expanding access to the V&A Museum’s vast collection in storage.
在紐約，大都會博物館經過四年的翻新後重新開放其非洲藝術展廳。在倫敦，v&a East Storehouse 開幕，擴大了對 v&a 博物館龐大收藏品的存取。

SXSW hosts its first conference in Shoreditch, London. The tech and culture festival is expanding from its base in Austin, Texas and has already held events in Sydney.
SXSW 在倫敦的 Shoreditch 舉辦了首次會議。這個科技和文化節擴展自德克薩斯州奧斯汀的基地，並已在悉尼舉辦了活動。

The FIFA Club World Cup begins in the United States, pitting 32 teams, all winners of continental football championships, against each other. Manchester City is the defending champion.
FIFA 俱樂部世界盃在美國開始，32 支球隊對陣，都是各大洲足球冠軍的勝利者。曼徹斯特城是衛冕冠軍。

Sweden scraps its tax on airline tickets, which was introduced in 2018.
瑞典取消了自 2018 年起推出的航空票稅。

Russia plans to begin “extensive introduction” of the digital ruble, a government-issued cryptocoin or “central-bank digital currency” (CBDC).
俄羅斯計劃開始對數字盧布進行 “廣泛引入”，這是政府發行的加密貨幣或 “中央銀行數字貨幣”（CBDC）。

The UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 football tournament begins in Switzerland.
2025 年 UEFA 女子歐洲盃足球錦標賽在瑞士開始。

The 2025 Tour de France starts in Lille.
2025 年的环法自行车赛将在里尔开始。

Fans of “real ale” converge on Birmingham, England for the Great British Beer Festival.
"Fans of “real ale” converge on Birmingham, England for the Great British Beer Festival."

The 80th anniversaries of the nuclear strikes on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are commemorated in Japan.
廣島和長崎市遭受核打擊的 80 週年在日本紀念。

The 2025 World Games, covering 35 sports not featured in the Olympics, begin in Chengdu, China. The sports include squash, korfball, fistball, floorball, flying disc, billiards, powerlifting, tug of war, wakeboarding and kickboxing. Cheerleading and powerboating will be included for the first time.
2025 年世界運動會在中國成都開幕，涵蓋 35 項奧運未收錄的運動。這些運動包括壁球、籃球、拳擊、地板球、飛盤、桌球、舉重、拔河、滑水板和踢拳。啦啦隊和動力船將首次納入比賽項目。

Ocean Race Europe, which features high-speed boats that foil above the water, starts in Kiel, Germany. The course runs from the Baltic Sea, through the North Sea and English Channel, and into the Atlantic Ocean before finishing in the Mediterranean.
歐洲海洋賽，特色是高速飛行船在水面上飛行，從德國基爾開始。賽道從波羅的海，穿過北海和英吉利海峽，進入大西洋，最後在地中海結束。

The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup begins in England.
2025 年女子橄欖球世界盃在英格蘭開幕。

The starting gun fires for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
世界田徑錦標賽在東京開幕。

The 13th edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup begins in India. Eight teams will compete over 31 matches.
第 13 屆女子板球世界盃在印度開幕。八支球隊將參加 31 場比賽。

A partial solar eclipse is visible in New Zealand and parts of Oceania, Antarctica and the Pacific ocean.
新西蘭和大洋洲、南極洲和太平洋部分地區可見部分日食。

Advertising of junk food online, and on television before 9pm, is banned in Britain as part of a campaign to reduce childhood obesity.
在英國，禁止在網路和電視上在晚上 9 點前廣告垃圾食品，這是為了減少兒童肥胖而進行的活動的一部分。

Microsoft withdraws support for a series of products, including Windows 10, Office 2016, Office 2019 and some versions of Exchange Server. The software will all still work, but Microsoft will no longer provide bug fixes, security patches or updates.
微軟停止支援一系列產品，包括 Windows 10、Office 2016、Office 2019 和某些版本的 Exchange Server。這些軟體仍然可以運作，但微軟將不再提供錯誤修復、安全補丁或更新。

Palisades, an 800-megawatt nuclear-power station in Michigan, is due to restart, the first of several shut-down nuclear-power stations to be recommissioned in America. It originally opened in 1971 and was shut down in 2022.
帕利塞德斯，密歇根州一座 800 兆瓦的核電站，預計重新啟動，是美國幾座已停運核電站中第一座重新投入運作的。它最初於 1971 年開始運作，並於 2022 年停運。

Gamers celebrate the launch of “Grand Theft Auto 6”, the latest instalment of the carjacking video-game franchise, 12 years after the previous version.
遊戲玩家們慶祝《俠盜獵車手 6》的推出，這是汽車劫持視頻遊戲系列的最新作品，距離上一個版本已經 12 年。

Presidential and parliamentary elections take place in Chile.
智利舉行總統和議會選舉。

The COP30 climate conference opens in the Amazonian city of Belém do Pará, Brazil. Delegates will be able to visit a new Museum of the Amazon which will have just opened in the city, which is known as the “gateway to the Amazon”.
cop30 氣候大會在巴西帕拉州的亞馬遜城市貝倫開幕。代表將能夠參觀一座新的亞馬遜博物館，該博物館剛在這座城市開放，這座城市被稱為 “通往亞馬遜的門戶”。

The world’s largest indoor ski centre opens in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
世界上最大的室內滑雪中心在中國深圳市開業。

The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) football finals begin in Morocco, after a six-month delay to avoid a clash with the Club World Cup.
非洲國家盃（afcon）足球決賽在摩洛哥開始，延遲六個月以避免與俱樂部世界盃比賽衝突。

From Christmas day, drivers of electric vehicles in London must pay the city’s £15 ($19) congestion charge to drive in the centre. They were previously exempt.
從聖誕節起，倫敦的電動車駕駛者必須支付該市的 15 英鎊（19 美元）擁擠費，才能在市中心行駛。他們以前是免費的。

The European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) comes into force, having been delayed by a year. It requires companies that sell products in Europe to demonstrate that they are deforestation-free and not linked to forest degradation, or to illegal harvesting and trade.
歐盟的森林砍伐法規（eudr）已生效，延遲了一年。它要求在歐洲銷售產品的公司證明它們不參與砍伐森林，也不與森林退化、非法砍伐和貿易有關。

Artemis II, the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since 1972 and the second mission of NASA’s Artemis programme, is scheduled to blast off no earlier than September 2025.
阿耳忒弥斯二號，自 1972 年以來首次進行有人乘員任務超出低地球軌道，也是 NASA 阿耳忒弥斯計畫的第二個任務，預定於 2025 年 9 月或之後發射。

Uber, a ride-hailing giant, adds autonomous “robotaxis” made by Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, to its fleet as part of a multiyear deal between the two firms.

Church leaders and theologians of different Christian traditions gather for a conference at Nicaea (modern-day Iznik, Turkey) to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 325, at which bishops formalised aspects of the Christian faith.
教會領袖和不同基督教傳統的神學家聚集在尼西亞（今土耳其伊茲尼克）舉行會議，慶祝尼西亞公會議成立 1700 週年，該公會議於 325 年由主教們正式確立了基督教信仰的各個方面。

Saudi Arabia hosts the first eSports Olympics.
沙特阿拉伯主辦第一屆電子競技奧運。

Russia rolls out “pay-by-face” technology to all its subway systems by the end of 2025, dismaying privacy advocates.
俄羅斯將於 2025 年底在所有地鐵系統推出 “刷臉支付” 技術，令隱私倡導者感到沮喪。