德国列车晚点

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王凡, '一言不合就晚点'——德意志守时神话破灭.  在中国网络上，曾盛传这样的新闻：'在德国，火车没有晚点这回事。' 在德国生活过的朋友大多不会相信这种 '神话。' 德国媒体近日报道称，如今德国列车 '前所未有般不准时.' 德国之声, June 26, 2016.
http://www.dw.com/zh/%E4%B8%80%E ... E7%81%AD/a-19343292

Note:
(a) The report cites three German sources: "德国《商报》在6月份报道," "德国《图片报》" and "德国《焦点》杂志/"

Apparently, only the first has a English-language report. See

Why German Trains Don't Run On Time. Handelsblatt (Global Edition), June 7, 2016.
https://global.handelsblatt.com/ ... ns-dont-run-on-time

(b)
(i) Handelsblatt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handelsblatt
(literally: "commerce paper" in English; published in Düsseldorf; established in 1946)
(ii) German English dictionary:
* Handel (noun masculine; from [Modern German verb] handeln [to deal, trade]):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Handel
* Blatt (noun neuter)"
"1. (botany) a leaf; the organ of a plant or tree
* * *
3. a page in a book or magazine
4. a sheet of paper
* * *
6. (colloquial) the newspapers"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blatt
(iii)
(A) George Frideric Handel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
(German name Georg Friedrich Händel; 1685 – 1759 [born in present-day Germany, settled in London in 1712 and died in the latter])

He was not Jewish.
(B) The German (also Händel) and Jewish surname Handel: "from a pet form of the personal name Hans. Sometimes this can be from a pet form of Heinrich, e.g Heindl, Haindl. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a merchant, German Handel 'trade,' 'commerce.' "  
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.