The Swedes will find this paradoxical and try to find solutions.

瑞典人会发现这种自相矛盾，并试图找到解决办法。

That seems to have spooked some Swedes.

这好像吓坏了一些瑞典人。

Swedes equip themselves for the dark.

瑞典人为抵抗黑暗作了充分的准备。

And if the Swedes can do it, why can't the Americans?

如果瑞典人可以，为什么美国人不行？

Swedes rejected a proposal to join in a referendum in 2003.

瑞典人拒绝了参加2003年公投的提议。

To Mr Reinfeldt’s advantage, many Swedes seem to reason similarly.

对Reinfeldt先生有利的是，许多瑞典人持同样的观点。

But Mattsson says Swedes have another passion that is equally important.

但马特送说，瑞典人的另一种情感同样强烈。

It's not whether the Swedes are reading - it's what they are reading.

重点倒不在瑞典人读书与否，而是他们读的都是些什么书。

As it is the four Swedes have promised to appeal to Sweden's highest courts.

事实上，这四名瑞典人已承诺将向瑞典的最高法院提出上诉。

Then he headed north to meet the Swedes, before flying across to Norway.

而接下来，他一路往南与瑞典人会面，再飞往挪威。

In hard times Swedes' natural centre-left instincts tend to come to the fore.

瑞典人在困难时期的天生中间偏左的本能往往脱颖而出。

As many as one in 10 Swedes is thought to use such peer-to-peer services.

据称多达十分之一的瑞典人使用这种点对点对等服务。

To get it back, the Swedes ultimately look to the world's foremost art detective.

为寻回国宝，瑞典人最终找到了世界上最著名的艺术侦探。

They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes.

他们是英格兰人、苏格兰人、爱尔兰人、法国人、荷兰人、德国人和瑞典人的混杂。

Life will get no easier for those squeezed between the Swedes and the Chinese.

那些被瑞典人和中国人夹在中间的公司日子会不好过。

More than 13,600 Swedes have developed brain tumours in the intervening decades.

在这之间的几十年中超过13，600瑞典人得了脑癌。

A visit to the capital, Stockholm, confirms that life for most Swedes is pretty good.

只要前往首都斯德哥尔摩进行一场参访，就可证实大多数瑞典人的生活是何等幸福。

For example, the bottom half of Swedes have a collective net worth of less than zero.

例如，处于低层的半数瑞典人，拥有的净财产总额不足0美元。

He may have hoped that news just arrived from Poland might oblige the Swedes to withdraw.

他可能还希望过从波兰来的消息能迫使瑞典人撤军。

Also a century ago, many Swedes decided to remain in Sweden. They've done well there, too.

还是在一个世纪之前，许多瑞典人决定留在瑞典，他们在那里干得也不错。

Most Swedes are weary of listening to foreign claims about the perfection of their society.

多数瑞典人已经对外国人认为他们的社会如何尽善尽美感到厌倦。

There was basically no change in the life expectancy gap. Swedes now live 2.7 years longer.

期望寿命的差距基本上没有什么改变，瑞典人现在多活2.7年。

The Swedes were weakened by the privations of the winter and were desperately short of food.

瑞典人已经被物资贫乏的冬天所削弱，而现在正处于严重的食品短缺。

By this measure, Sweden is less equal than Britain, since fewer Swedes have private pensions.

采用这种测量，瑞典比英国更不平等，因为更少的瑞典人有私人退休金。

The Swedes last year imposed a maximum loan-to-value ratio of 85% on mortgages, for instance.

比如，去年瑞典强行规定抵押贷款的贷款与估值比例最高可为85%。

He remained at the furniture plant until it was purchased by a consortium of Germans and Swedes.

他一直在家具厂工作，直到它被一个由德国人和瑞典人组成的财团收购。

As such, the Swedes know the importance of getting out in the sunshine, when it finally arrives.

因此，瑞典人知道外出享受阳光的重要性，尤其当它到来时。

Of pre-2004 EU members only the Irish and the Swedes managed to look on the bright side of life.

在2004年以前加入欧盟的成员国中，只有爱尔兰人和瑞典人的生活态度比较乐观。

Swedes are very fond of lighting candles in the winter ... because it creates such a fine atmosphere.

他说：“瑞典人喜欢在冬天燃蜡烛，因为它能产生美好的氛围。