不容错过的英语阅读:一起看丹麦

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不容错过的英语阅读:一起看丹麦

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不容错过的英语阅读:一起看丹麦

  Population

  Denmark has an estimated population of 5.4 million. The majority of the population is of Scandinavian descent, with small groups of Inuit (from Greenland), Faroese, and immigrants. According to official statistics in 2003, immigrants made up 6.2% of the total population.

  Capital Copenhagen

  Languages

  Danish is spoken in the entire country, although a small group near the German border also speaks German. Many Danes are fluent in English as well, particularly those in larger cities and the youth, who are taught English in school.

  Religions

  According to official statistics from January 2002, 84.3% of Danes are members of the state church, the Danish People"s Church (Den Danske Folkekirke), also known as the Church of Denmark, a form of Lutheranism; the rest are primarily of other Christian denominations and also about 4% are Muslims. For the last decade Danish People"s Church has seen a decline in the number of memberships.

  Economy

  This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and has a comfortable balance of payments surplus. The government has been very successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark, in a September 2000 referendum, reconfirmed its decision not to join the 12 other EU members in the euro. Even so, the Danish currency remains pegged to the euro. Growth in 2004 was sluggish, yet above the scanty 0.3% of 2003. Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits, a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish enjoys high living standards topped by no other nation. A major long-term issue will be the sharp decline in the ratio of workers to retirees.

  Main Sporting Events and Achievement in Olympics

  It is an official political objective that Danish sports should be for everyone, and sports activities are characterised by a parallel effort for the elite and the masses. The most popular sport in Denmark is football. Danes also enjoy jogging, bicycling, basketball, sailing, swimming, and other sports. In the country, it is said that boys typically prefer football, handball and badminton while girls generally prefer gymnastics, riding, handball and swimming.

  In football, the Danish football team was crowned the European champions in 1992. The badminton players have been very successful in the international competitions, and it is probably the only country who could produce players to compete with the Indonesian and Chinese players. It has produced world-class badminton players in the like of Morten Frost (Fourth-time All England Champions), Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen (1996 Olympic Champions), Camilla Martin (World Champion, 1999), and many others.

  The 2004 Athens Olympics was Denmark’s twenty-fourth participation of the Summer Olympics. The women handball team remarkably won the gold medal consecutively for the third time since winning it in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In total, Demark won two gold and six bronze medals in Athens. In Sydney 2000, it won two gold, three silver and one bronze medals, while in Atlanta 1996, it won four gold, one silver and one bronze medals.

  Culture

  The Dane most well-known in foreign countries is probably Hans Christian Andersen, a writer mostly famous for such fairy tales as The Emperor"s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, and The Ugly Duckling. Perhaps the most famous Dane is actually a mythical figure: Hamlet, the title character of William Shakespeare"s greatest play, which was set in a real castle (Kronborg) in Helsingør, north of Copenhagen.

  In music, Danish music has long been dominated by a fiddle and accordion duo, much like its northern neighbors in Scandinavia. An important difference, however, is that Danish fiddlers almost always play in groups, and so there is no tradition of virtuoso fiddle players capable of solo performance; Danish bands also tend to feature the guitar more prominently than the other Nordic countries, especially in recent years.

  The Danish folk scene did not come mainstream until the 1990s. The biggest catalyst for this change was the founding of several organizations to promote folk music, the most important of which was the Danish Folk Council.

  丹麦

  人口

  丹麦人口据估计有五百四十万。 大部分人是斯堪的纳维亚人的后裔,少数是纽因特人(来自格陵兰岛)、法罗人和外国移民。 根据2003年的官方统计数据,国外移民占全部人口的6.2%。

  首都 哥本哈根

  语言

  丹麦语是全国通用的语言,尽管小部分在德国边境附近的人也说德语。许多在学校学过英语的丹麦人说英语也很流利,尤其是生活在大城市的人和年轻人。

  宗教信仰

  根据2002年1月的官方统计数据,84.3%的丹麦人信仰国教丹麦人民教(Den Danske Folkekirk),也被称为丹麦教,由路德教构成;剩下的主要是其他的基督教教派和4%的穆斯林教。在过去的十年间,丹麦人民教的成员人数呈下降趋势。

  经济

  现代市场经济是以高科技农业、新型小规模合作产业、广泛的政府福利政策、适宜的生活条件、稳定的货币和高水平的对外贸易为特征的。丹麦是食品和能源的净出口国,有稳定的收支平衡。政府,成功地达到甚至超过了欧洲货币组织(EMU)的第三阶段活动(统一欧洲货币)过程中经济集中的标准,但是在2000年9月的全民公决中,丹麦再次确认不加入欧洲其他12国组成的欧盟。即使如此,丹麦货币还是和欧元相绑定的。2004年的经济增长缓慢,但仍超过2003年0.3%。由于其高人均GDP,良好的福利,较低的基尼系数和稳定的政治,丹麦是世界上生活水平最高的国家。一项主要的长期政策将明显降低退休工人的比率。

  货币- 克朗

  克朗(货币代码DKK) 丹麦的货币。在还没有实行欧元之前,克朗与马克挂钩。兑换比率是1 USD = 6.1 DKK。

  主要的运动项目和奥运上取得的成就

  丹麦政府规定了正式的政治目标,即体育必须人人参与,体育运动的特色是精英和民众共同努力。 在丹麦最受欢迎的体育运动是足球。丹麦人也喜欢慢跑、骑自行车、篮球、航海、游泳及其他体育运动。 在这个国家,男孩子通常喜欢足球、手球和羽毛球,而女孩子则普遍喜欢体操、马术、手球和游泳。

  足球方面,丹麦足球队在1992年的欧洲冠军杯中夺冠。 该国的羽毛球选手在国际比赛中表现出色,可能是唯一拥有可以与印度尼西亚和中国选手匹敌的羽毛球选手的国家。该国培养了许多世界级的羽毛球选手,如莫登?弗罗斯特(Morten Frost)(四次全英羽毛球赛冠军)Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen(1996年奥运会冠军),卡米拉?马汀(Camilla Martin)(1999年世界冠军)等。

  2004年雅典奥运会是丹麦第二十四次参加夏季奥运会。 值得一提的是,女子手球队赢得了金牌,那是自1996年亚特兰大奥运会以来连续获得的第三个奥运冠军。 在雅典奥运会上,丹麦一共获得了两枚金牌和六枚铜牌。在2000年悉尼奥运会上,丹麦获得了两枚金牌,三枚银牌和一枚铜牌,而1996年亚特兰大奥运会上,共获得四枚金牌,一枚银牌和一枚铜牌。

  文化

  最蜚声海外的丹麦人可能就是安徒生(Hans Christian Andersen),他是一名非常著名的作家,写过《皇帝的'新装》、《小美人鱼》、《丑小鸭》等童话。也许最有名的丹麦人却是一个虚构的人物:哈姆雷特――莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)最伟大的戏剧中的人物,它发生在哥本哈根北部的Helsingør一个真实的城堡(Kronborg)中。

  音乐方面,很长一段时期丹麦音乐以小提琴和风琴二重唱占主导地位,相似于其斯堪的那维亚(Scandinavia)半岛上的北方邻国。然而,一个重要的不同之处是,丹麦的小提琴家通常是团体演出,因为那里没有传统的欣赏小提琴独奏的鉴赏家。尤其在最近几年,丹麦乐队和其他北欧国家相比,呈现出更多以吉他为主的演奏趋势。

  丹麦的民间艺术直到上世纪90年代才成为主流。促成这一变化的最大的原因是几个促进民间音乐组织的建立,其中起到最大作用的是丹麦民间艺术委员会。