In his spare time Mr Persson developed Minecraft and within a few months it was making nearly as much money as JAlbum, which had more than 1m users.

As part of the deal, employees of Mojang, the Swedish developer that created Minecraft, will join Microsoft Studios, which already publishes games like the blockbuster Halo.

该交易的内容之一是，《我的世界》的瑞典开发商Mojang旗下员工将加入微软工作室（Microsoft Studios）；后者已经发行过一些游戏，比如大热的《光晕》（Halo）。

Minecraft does not come with predetermined goals.

《我的世界》不预先设定目标。

Yet Minecraft looks little like Halo and its Hollywood-level graphics.

然而，《我的世界》看上去和《光晕》及其好莱坞级别的图像效果相似度极小。

Minecraft players have made cruise liners, rocket ships and even basic computers, as well as pixel-perfect recreations of Minas Tirith in Lord of the Rings.

《我的世界》玩家已经造出了游轮、火箭船甚至是初级计算机，还用像素完美还原出了《指环王》中的米那斯提力斯城堡（Minas Tirith）。

The uncompromising interface is probably why so many parents are baffled by their children's love of Minecraft.

许多家长对孩子热衷《我的世界》百思不得其解，很可能是因为其游戏界面有些单一。

Mojang remains dependent on one product but Minecraft's continuing success has dulled questions about developing other games.

Mojang仍然只依赖一款产品，不过《我的世界》的持续成功，让开发其他游戏的任务显得不那么紧迫了。

Small children often cry after a minor bump.

小孩子常常是稍微磕碰一下就哭。

He raised his voice a little, talking into the wind as they walked along.

他们往前走时，他略微提高了嗓音，迎着风说话。

From April through June, more than 140 outfits reported lobbying work on the issue, according to a review of disclosure reports by the sunlight foundation.

据阳光基金会（Sunlight Foundation）就信息披露发布的一则评论称，从四月至六月，记录在案的有140多个团体就债限问题开展过游说活动。

You are the cloud and mist early in April,

你是四月早天里的云烟，

On April 8th G24 Innovations, a firm based in Wales, announced that it may have come up with just such a cell.

在四月八日，一个总部位于威尔士的公司——G24Innovations宣布他们已经开发出这种光电池。

The cultural relics of either of two water clocks, each created in 1438 and 1536 and installed at royal palaces.

其中铜钟上刻有汉字“嘉靖十四年乙未四月日”。这个铜零件被认为是两个钟的零件，这两个水钟分别制造于1438年和1536年，放置在皇家宫殿里。

The change is part of the jobs act a.k.a. the jumpstart our business startups act a law signed by President Obama last April.

这个变化源自美国总统奥巴马于去年四月签署的《创业企业扶助法案》（Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act）。

I arrived at the end of April.

我是四月底到达的。

you are the warm love, You are the hope, the April of the world!

你是爱，是暖，是希望，你是人间的四月天！

If you foolishly don't have a copy of Titanic within arm's reach at the moment, don't worry: Paramount is set to re-release the biggest romance of all-time this April for a limited 3D run.

如果在此时，你没有傻乎乎的的把泰坦尼克号字样纹在手臂上，也不必担心：派拉蒙影业公司已经准备好于今年四月上映这部最伟大浪漫电影的重制3D版。

The new study published at the end of April in Science found that lightning may play a bigger role in global climate change than was previously2 known by the scientific community.

这项四月末发表在《科学》杂志上的新研究发现，闪电对全球气候变化的影响力可能比科学界先前所了解的更大。

The meeting is on the fifth of April/ April the fifth.

会议日期是四月五日。

The exact origin of the word April is not known.

APRIL（四月）这个词的确切来源并不为人所知。

But I believe that April is the hottest month of the year there.

但我相信四月是那里一年中最热的月份。