你可能不知道的荷蘭有趣事實(2)

According to the 2013 United Nations World Happiness Report of 2013, the Netherlands was ranked fourth happiest country in the world. The Netherlands has the thirteenth-highest per capita income in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund. Perhaps that's why it is such a happy country!

根據聯合國2013年的世界幸福報告，荷蘭是全球第四快樂的國家。而根據國際貨幣基金組織的統計，荷蘭的人均GDP在全球排第13，可能這就是他們如此快樂的原因。

There are still over 1,000 traditional working windmills in the Netherlands. 19 of these can be found at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Kinderdijk.

荷蘭現在依舊有超過1000座仍在運作的傳統風車。金德代克景區就有19座可以看，這裏被聯合國教科文組織評爲了世界遺產。

There are 1,281 bridges in Amsterdam! There are almost no streets in the Dutch village of Giethoorn, but there are many canals, which is why it's also known as the "Venice of the Netherlands".

阿姆斯特丹有1281座橋！在羊角村幾乎沒有街道，但有像街道一樣密集的運河，正因爲如此它纔有“荷蘭威尼斯”的別稱。

There are more bikes (over 18 million) in the Netherlands than there are people. There are about 15,000 km of bike lanes in the Netherlands. Pedestrians are not allowed to walk on the specially-designated bike lanes, found all over the country. A Dutch person will cycle 2.5 km per day on average and 900 km per year.

荷蘭的自行車比人多，自行車有超過1800萬輛，自行車道總共有15000千米長。他們的自行車有專門的車道，行人不許在上面行走，這樣的車道遍佈全國。每個荷蘭人平均每天騎行2.5千米，一年900千米。

The Netherlands are famous for their tulips, but tulips originally didn't grow there. They were imported from the Ottoman empire in the 17th century. Today, the Netherlands is the biggest producer and exporter of tulips in the world. But not just tulips. 75% of the world's flower bulbs come from the Netherlands. The famous tulip garden Keukenhof is the largest flower garden in the world.

荷蘭的鬱金香非常出名，但鬱金香其實並不是荷蘭原產的。鬱金香是他們在17世紀從奧斯曼土耳其帝國引進的。而現在，荷蘭是全球最大的鬱金香生產者和出口商。而且不只是鬱金香，全球75%的花苞都是從荷蘭來的。著名的庫肯霍夫鬱金香園是全球最大的花園。

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the world's oldest stock exchange. The Netherlands was a founder member of the Euro, swapping their "gulden" to the euro on January 1, 1999. The Netherlands was one of the six founding members of the European Union.

阿姆斯特丹的股票交易所是全球最古老的一個。荷蘭是歐元的創始成員國，並在1999年1月1號把貨幣基爾德換成了歐元。荷蘭也是歐盟的6個創始成員國之一。

The Netherlands has produced many well-known painters including famous names such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh, and Willem de Kooning. There are at least 22 Rembrandt painting and 206 works by Van Gogh in Amsterdam alone. There are approximately 1000 museums in the Netherlands, 42 of them situated in Amsterdam.

荷蘭誕生了很多著名的畫家，比如倫勃朗、梵高以及威廉·德·庫寧。光是阿姆斯特丹就有至少22幅倫勃朗的畫作和206幅梵高的作品。荷蘭約有1000座博物館，其中42個都位於阿姆斯特丹。

Did you know that carrots didn't use to be orange? They were black, yellow, red, purple or white. An orange variant was made in honor of the House of Orange, that led the revolt against the Spanish and later became the Dutch Royal Family.

你知道胡蘿蔔本來不是橙色的嗎？胡蘿蔔本來是黑、黃、紅、紫或者白色的。橙色的變種是被研發出來向Orange家族（奧蘭治）致敬的，這個家族領導了反抗西班牙人起義，然後成爲了荷蘭的王室。

Both Australia and New Zealand were discovered by the Dutch. Australia was named "New Holland", and New Zealand was named after the province of Zeeland. The latter is a great place to spend a weekend, by the way.

澳大利亞和新西蘭都是荷蘭人發現的。澳大利亞本來叫“新荷蘭”，而新西蘭則是用澤蘭省來命名的。順便說一句，澤蘭省是個很適合週末度假的地方。