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五月份 第 15 課

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  • Du Daozheng discusses about Zhao Ziyang memoir
  • 杜導正講述趙紫陽回憶錄之事
  •   A former top official in China says he and three others secretly helped deposed leader Zhao Ziyang pen a memoir in which he sharply criticizes the violent crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
  • 一名中共前高級官員說,他和另外三人秘密幫助被罷免的中共前總書記趙紫陽完成了一部回憶錄,趙紫陽在回憶錄中尖銳地批評了 1989 年天安門暴力鎮壓事件。

  •   Du Daozheng, once the head of China's state publishing watchdog, says he and the three other former officials transcribed recordings made by Zhao that were later turned into the recently published English-language book "Prisoner of the State."
  • 曾經擔任中國國家出版監督機構新聞出版署署長的杜導正說,他和其他 3 位中共前官員將趙紫陽的錄音轉為文字,後來這些文字被翻譯成了最近出版的英文書《國家的囚徒 》。

  •   In a statement released Thursday by the book's publisher, Du describes his role in encouraging the deposed leader to compose the memoir.
  • 在出版商星期四公佈的序言中,杜導正自述了他在鼓勵被罷黜的中共總書記趙紫陽口述回憶錄方面起的作用。

  •   The publisher did not reveal Du Daozheng's whereabouts.
  • 出版商沒有透露杜導正的下落。

  •   The book offers a rare glimpse into how Zhao Ziyang battled Communist Party hardliners and his failed efforts to convince Deng Xiaoping not to use force to stop the protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
  • 這本書提供了一個難得的機會,讓讀者可以窺視到趙紫陽如何同共產黨強硬派抗爭以及他試圖說服鄧小平不用武力制止在北京天安門廣場示威的努力的失敗。

  •   Hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed during the crackdown.
  • 幾百人,可能是數千人在那場鎮壓中喪生。

  •   Zhao, who died in 2005, was purged after the military crushed the student-led protests and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.
  • 在軍隊鎮壓學生領導的抗議示威後,趙紫陽遭到整肅,並在軟禁中度過餘生,於 2005 年去世。

  •   Du says he was helped by Xiao Hongda, former vice head of the party's disciplinary commission, Yao Xihua, former chief editor of the Guangming Daily, and Du Xingyuan, a former cabinet secretary.
  • 杜導正說,他得到了中紀委原副書記肖宏達,光明日報前總編姚錫華,以及國務院前秘書長杜星垣的幫助。

  •   The former censor calls the book incomparable to anything previously written about China's early years of economic reform and the period leading up to the Tiananmen crackdown.
  • 在趙紫陽回憶錄出版商公佈的序言中,杜導正稱任何先前撰寫的關於中國最初幾年的經濟改革直到天安門鎮壓這段期間的書都無法與趙紫陽的回憶錄相提並論。

  •   Du was purged for his reformist positions as the head of the General Administration of Press and Publication after the 1989 protests.
  • 1989 年抗議示威事件之後,時任新聞出版總署署長的杜導正因其改革派立場遭到整肅。

  •   More recently, Du came under pressure to resign as director of the reformist magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu after it published a favorable article about Zhao Ziyang.
  • 不久前,改革派雜誌炎黃春秋發表了一篇肯定趙紫陽的文章後,杜導正受到壓力,要他辭去雜誌社社長的職務。

  •   Du's statement will be included as a preface to a Chinese version of the book, which will be released later this month in Hong Kong to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the June 4, Tiananmen incident.
  • 杜導正的話將列入中文版趙紫陽回憶錄的序言,這本書將於本月晚些時候在香港發行,以配合紀念 6 月 4 日天安門事件 20 週年。

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  • Taiwan economy record down by 10.24%
  • 台灣經濟創紀錄收縮 10.24 %
  •   Taiwan's government says the island's economy contracted by a record 10.24 percent in the first quarter of 2009.
  • 台灣政府說,台灣的經濟在 2009 年第一季度創紀錄地收縮了 10.24 %。

  •   The island's Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics says weak overseas demand for exports was primarily to blame for the decline.
  • 台灣行政院主計處說,經濟收縮的主要原因是海外對出口產品需求減少。

  •   It said the deterioration of the job market was also weighing on the economy as falling domestic income battered consumption.
  • 該機構表示,就業市場的惡化也對經濟造成影響,因為國內收入下降影響了消費。

  •   The budgeting agency also announced that it had revised downward the island's full-year forecast and now expects the economy to shrink 4.25 percent.
  • 台灣行政院主計處還宣佈,已經將全年的經濟成長預測向下修正,預計台灣經濟今年將收縮 4.25 %。

  •   The agency had previously forecast the island's economy would contract by about three percent in 2009.
  • 台灣行政院主計處先前預測 2009 年的台灣經濟將收縮 3 %。

  •   The agency, however, said it believes the figure represents the bottoming out of the recession.
  • 不過,該機構表示,這個數字顯示經濟衰退已經見底。

  •   The government forecasts two more quarters of negative growth and then a return to positive growth in the last three months of the year.
  • 台灣政府預計台灣經濟還會繼續收縮兩個季度,將與今年最後一個季度出現增長。

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