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英翻中习作:没完没了的法轮功!(原文来源:纽西兰先驱报)
brien 发表于草色新雨信仰论坛 2008-01-07 星期一 5:56 PM
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虽然在海外生活了一些年头,实际上英文水平还是很烂,读当地的报纸常常还是能找到不少生词的,为了提高自己的英文阅读水平,今天特此翻出一篇网上流传甚广的纽西兰先驱报的文章,试着翻译一下,望大家指正。
哦,介绍一下,纽西兰先驱报是纽国当地最大的英文报纸,据说占有46%的读者份额,所走的路线以科学、严谨为主,比较强势的板块是政治、经济、国际等,地位大致相当于人民日报+参考消息+中国证券报。最近法轮功很是不消停,相关议题不断被当地人关注,以至于这样的大报纸也开始有关于法轮功的政论了。
这篇文章作者是Kerre Woodham,是纽西兰家喻户晓的著名政论主持人,各大报纸专栏作家,地位大致相当于国内的邢质斌、贺红梅、李瑞英、李修平等人(不好意思,我在国内时,就是这几位比较红,现在是谁主持新闻联播来者?)这篇文章一定程度上代表了洋人对法轮功的态度。
好了,废话少说,翻译如下
《Kerre Woodham: 没完没了的法轮功!》
在自称和平主义者的群体中,法轮功还是挺JB冒尖的(*这么翻不知道是否妥当……谁能有更好的翻译?),不是吗?当初他们被禁止参加惠灵顿圣诞游行时,他们就威胁说要采取法律行动 ---- 其实也就是成年人版的当街打滚要糖吃的把戏罢了。
结果惠灵顿游行的组织者们屈服了,而法轮功成员得意忘形地在他们的彩车上向首都的孩子们微笑招手……
谢天谢地,奥克兰圣诞游行信托委员会的董事们比他们在惠灵顿的同事们要坚韧得多!他们已经告诉法轮功闪边了,让法轮功带着他们的诉状和投诉去烦人权委员会吧。
中肯地说,我和法轮功是一点儿过节也没有的,他们屡次在美神湾的小展出(即所谓的“人权画展”--brien注)还是挺搞趣儿的,他们穿着的原色服饰看着还是蛮振奋的....虽然,他们的画实在非常糟糕 --- 比如一种中国版的《黑天鹅裸胸黑人少女》,不过没胸部…… 真的,没有什么特别让人担忧的地方。
但我很奇怪,他们为啥要往圣诞游行里掺合呢?他们声称只是想娱乐一下孩子们,并且保证不发他们那些王婆卖瓜并诋毁中国的小册子。
可惜他们是有前科的。丹尼丁市的圣诞游行的组织者说法轮功今年不会参加圣诞游行,原因是他们在2005年据称是食言而肥了。
这帮小蠢货在想什么?圣诞游行本就不应该有法轮功的份!为什么不在元宵节节庆上摆个摊呢?或者举办他们自己游行也好啊!圣诞游行已经举办了70多年了,早已成为每个家庭的固定日程。没有参加过圣诞游行的人是不配当家长的,圣诞游行也是家庭聚会的动机。
N多年前,当我女儿还小,而我又独自在奥克兰生活工作的时候,我会带她去参加圣诞游行并且挤到最前排,好让我女儿有最好的位置。不过当我才在前排站稳,这小东西就总想去厕所。如果没有一个强壮的老公帮你占着位子,或者挤出人群去找移动厕所,那你就废了。然后就是连续几小时站在原地,在花车经过之前让小家伙保持愉快状态;还有诸如把孩子放在肩膀上啦,走10公里回去停车的地方并和低血糖作斗争啦等等。
圣诞游行就应该是这样的场景,就是小家庭参加的,而不是给法轮功预备的!但法轮功却不断地想在圣诞游行占一席之地,没完没了地搞这些害人的东西。
原文:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/catego ... p;objectid=10478154
Kerre Woodham: Going, going, Gong
5:00AM Sunday November 25, 2007
By Kerre Woodham
For self-proclaimed pacifists, the Falun Gong are pushy little buggers, aren't they? When they were initially refused permission to take part in the Wellington Santa Parade, they threatened legal action - the grown-ups' version of holding your breath until you turn blue.
The Wellington organisers caved in and members of the Wellington Falun Gong movement pranced around on their float, smiling and waving to the kiddies of the Capital.
However, the board members of the Auckland Children's Christmas Parade Trust are made of sterner stuff than their Wellington counterparts, thank heavens. They've told Falun Gong to push off and to take their lawsuits and complaints to the Human Rights Commission with them.
And quite rightly so. I've nothing against the Falun Gong people who live in this country. The little shows they put on in Mission Bay now and then are diverting. The people dress in primary-coloured clothing, which is always uplifting, and although they exhibit very bad paintings - a sort of Chinese version of the bare-breasted dusky maiden on black velvet but without the breasts - really, that's nothing to get terribly exercised about.
But why they want to rain on the Santa parade is beyond me. They claim they just want to entertain the children and have promised they won't pass out pamphlets promoting their movement and denigrating China.
But they have form. The organiser of the Christmas parade in Dunedin says Falun Gong won't be taking part this year after what he called dishonesty by the group in 2005.
What are the silly wee things thinking? The Falun Gong has no place in a Santa parade. Why not take a stall at the Chinese lantern festival? Or establish their own parade? The Farmers Santa Parade has been going now for more than 70 years and is a firm fixture on the family calendar. You cannot possibly consider yourself any sort of parent unless you have your Santa parade badge, and the Santa parade may well be the reason families stay together.
Over the years, when my daughter was little and I was on my own, living and working in Auckland, I would take her to the Santa parade and fight my way to the very front to get my girl the best position.
However, no sooner had I staked my claim for the prime possie, than the little one would want to go to the loo. Without a big burly husband to hold your place or to battle through the crowds to get to the minging portaloos, you were stuffed. And then there were the hours standing in one place, keeping the little one entertained until the floats started to come past. And the lifting of the child onto the shoulders. And the dealing with the sugar rush low as we walked the 10km back to where the car was parked.
The Santa parade is definitely one of those occasions for the nuclear family. It is not, however, an occasion for the Falun Gong. And they are doing their cause no end of harm by continuing to press for a place in the parade.
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