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五月份 第 15 课

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  • Du Daozheng discusses about Zhao Ziyang memoir
  • 杜导正讲述赵紫阳回忆录之事
  •   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.
  • 一名中共前高级官员说,他和另外叁人秘密帮助被罢免的中共前总书记赵紫阳完成了一部回忆录,赵紫阳在回忆录中尖锐地批评了 1989 年天安门暴力镇压事件。

  •   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."
  • 曾经担任中国国家出版监督机构新闻出版署署长的杜导正说,他和其他 3 位中共前官员将赵紫阳的录音转為文字,后来这些文字被翻译成了最近出版的英文书《国家的囚徒 》。

  •   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,杜导正自述了他在鼓励被罢黜的中共总书记赵紫阳口述回忆录方面起的作用。

  •   The publisher did not reveal Du Daozheng's whereabouts.
  • 出版商没有透露杜导正的下落。

  •   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.
  • 这本书提供了一个难得的机会,让读者可以窥视到赵紫阳如何同共產党强硬派抗争以及他试图说服邓小平不用武力制止在北京天安门广场示威的努力的失败。

  •   Hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed during the crackdown.
  • 几百人,可能是数千人在那场镇压中丧生。

  •   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.
  • 在军队镇压学生领导的抗议示威后,赵紫阳遭到整肃,并在软禁中度过餘生,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.
  • 杜导正说,他得到了中纪委原副书记肖宏达,光明日报前总编姚锡华,以及国务院前秘书长杜星垣的帮助。

  •   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.
  • 在赵紫阳回忆录出版商公佈的序言中,杜导正称任何先前撰写的关於中国最初几年的经济改革直到天安门镇压这段期间的书都无法与赵紫阳的回忆录相提并论。

  •   Du was purged for his reformist positions as the head of the General Administration of Press and Publication after the 1989 protests.
  • 1989 年抗议示威事件之后,时任新闻出版总署署长的杜导正因其改革派立场遭到整肃。

  •   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,改革派杂誌炎黄春秋发表了一篇肯定赵紫阳的文章后,杜导正受到压力,要他辞去杂誌社社长的职务。

  •   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.
  • 杜导正的话将列入中文版赵紫阳回忆录的序言,这本书将於本月晚些时候在香港发行,以配合纪念 6 月 4 日天安门事件 20 週年。

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  • Taiwan economy record down by 10.24%
  • 台湾经济创纪录收缩 10.24 %
  •   Taiwan's government says the island's economy contracted by a record 10.24 percent in the first quarter of 2009.
  • 台湾政府说,台湾的经济在 2009 年第一季度创纪录地收缩了 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.
  • 台湾行政院主计处说,经济收缩的主要原因是海外对出口產品需求减少。

  •   It said the deterioration of the job market was also weighing on the economy as falling domestic income battered consumption.
  • 该机构表示,就业市场的恶化也对经济造成影响,因為国内收入下降影响了消费。

  •   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.
  • 台湾行政院主计处还宣佈,已经将全年的经济成长预测向下修正,预计台湾经济今年将收缩 4.25 %。

  •   The agency had previously forecast the island's economy would contract by about three percent in 2009.
  • 台湾行政院主计处先前预测 2009 年的台湾经济将收缩 3 %。

  •   The agency, however, said it believes the figure represents the bottoming out of the recession.
  • 不过,该机构表示,这个数字显示经济衰退已经见底。

  •   The government forecasts two more quarters of negative growth and then a return to positive growth in the last three months of the year.
  • 台湾政府预计台湾经济还会继续收缩两个季度,将与今年最后一个季度出现增长。

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