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台灣又榮登4/28紐約時報了，但使用的這張圖實在是讓人汗顏，在歐美普遍認為水砲車
(water cannon)是會造成生命威脅的工具啊(嘆)

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以下隨手一翻，請隨意轉載，翻得不好煩請指教

圖片的描述：

The police used a water cannon to disperse demonstrators in Taipei during a
protest against the construction of a fourth nuclear power plant.
警方使用水砲車來驅散示威者，這些示威者在台北抗議核四興建。

新聞原文：

Taiwan will halt the construction of a nuclear power plant that had met with
public opposition and raised concerns about safety, the governing party has
announced.
執政黨宣布，台灣將會中止核四工程，核四遭到廣大的反對而且令大眾對其安全性質疑。

The decision followed several large protests in Taipei and a hunger strike by
a former leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party.
這場抗議事件緊接著在數場大型在台北的抗議事件、前反對黨主席的禁食抗議之後。

The move was announced on Sunday after a meeting of county and city officials
from the governing party, the Kuomintang, which is headed by President Ma
Ying-jeou.
此舉是在國民黨主席馬英九於星期日與縣市首長的會議後宣布。

Work on the Lungmen nuclear plant, which would be Taiwan’s fourth, started
more than a decade ago in the island’s northeast, about 20 miles outside the
capital, Taipei. It has been frequently delayed, and opposition to the
project intensified following the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.
核四龍門電廠於10多年前在東北角動工，距離首都台北約20英里。核四過往數次被延遲動
工，而且反對的力量在2011年日本福島核災後大大加強。

The government has argued that the plant, which is expected to supply about
10 percent of Taiwan’s power, is needed to help meet growing demand for
electricity. But Mr. Ma has seen his popularity fall to near all-time lows in
recent months, and he has faced strong opposition on many policy fronts. An
effort to push through legislative approval of a trade deal with China was
thwarted after student-led protesters occupied the legislature for more than
three weeks in March and April.


The Kuomintang announcement said that the first reactor on the Lungmen plant,
which is near completion, would undergo safety testing and then be
mothballed. Work will stop on the second reactor, and a referendum will then
be held to determine whether the plant, also commonly known as No. 4, will be
completed and go online, the announcement said.
國民黨的聲明之中，第一、龍門電廠(核四)的第一反應爐已接近完工，會在安檢後封存。
二號反應爐將停工，未來是否核四完工以及啟用交由公投決定。

Taipower, the state-run utility that is building the plant at a cost of more
than $9 billion, says the first reactor is more than 95 percent finished and
the second more than 90 percent. Taipower’s chairman, Hwang Jung-chiou, told
Taiwan’s state-owned Central News Agency that stopping construction of the
plant would force the company to declare bankruptcy.

discuss a referendum, and while both sides agreed that a vote should be held,
they differed on the timing and on what level of voter turnout should be
required to validate any result. Mr. Su had argued that the vote should be
held as soon as possible, with a lower threshold than the 50 percent turnout
normally required.
馬先生上禮拜與反對黨主席蘇貞昌討論公投事宜，在兩造均同意公投應該實施時，他們在
公投的時機、公投的門檻看法不同。蘇先生認為公投應該越快實施越好，並且需要降低
50%同意的門檻。

On Sunday, Mr. Su called the Kuomintang announcement on the plant vague and
said it should come from a government body. He called on Prime Minister Jiang
Yi-huah to explain the decision as soon as possible.
禮拜日，蘇先生說國民黨的聲明不清不楚，並說該聲明應該要來自政府單位才對。他呼籲
行政院長江宜樺盡快解釋核四停工的決定。

Mr. Jiang confirmed the decision on Monday, saying that the move to halt
construction was not the same as abandoning the project and that the
government wanted to keep open the possibility of adding nuclear power
capacity in the future.
江先生於禮拜一時證實了停工的決定，並說停工並不是廢棄核四，而政府仍然會保持增加
核電發電量的可能性。

Protesters had taken to the streets of Taipei over the weekend to demand that
construction of the plant be stopped. On Sunday, tens of thousands of
demonstrators gathered near the Presidential Office Building, chanting “Stop
Nuclear Plant No. 4, Return Power to the People.” They festooned the barbed
wire barricades surrounding Mr. Ma’s office with yellow and black ribbons
displaying their slogan. Organizers said about 50,000 protesters
participated; the police estimated the crowd at 28,500 at its peak.

“Taiwan has lots of earthquakes, and we put these nuclear power plants next
to the sea,” said Lin Chin-lung, a 47-year-old who works in finance and
first joined the antinuclear demonstrations last year. “The earthquake in
Japan, that was important in making people pay attention to the risks we’re
talking about.”
「台灣有許多地震，而我們把核能電廠放在海邊」，一位47歲的銀行業員工，去年才第一
次參加反核遊行表示，「日本的大地震讓人們注意到我們在討論的核災風險。」

The protesters marched to a main street near the central train station on
Sunday afternoon. The police used water cannons to disperse some of the
demonstrators in the early hours of Monday morning.
抗議群眾於禮拜日下午在台北火車站附近的主要幹道集結。警方在禮拜一凌晨時使用水砲
車來驅散示威者。

The protesters say they were inspired in part by Lin Yi-hsiung, a former
chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, who began a hunger strike
against the nuclear plant on April 22. Mr. Lin, 72, was staging his hunger
strike at Gikong Presbyterian Church, located in a house where Mr. Lin’s
mother and twin daughters were stabbed to death in 1980. Those killings,
which have never been solved, occurred while Mr. Lin was in detention on
sedition charges related to his pro-democracy activism.


Mr. Ma and Mr. Jiang both visited the church but were unable to meet with Mr.
Lin.
馬江皆曾拜訪義光教會但未能與林先生碰到面。

“I respect what Lin Yi-hsiung is doing,” said Huang Hui-chang, a
60-year-old retired construction worker who joined the antinuclear
demonstration on Sunday. “But we are still waiting to see if it will have
any effect on Ma Ying-jeou.”
「我尊重林義雄的決定」一位參與反核運動的60歲退休核電廠建設工人黃惠彰(音譯)表示
，「但我們仍期待是否能影響馬英九的決定。」

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