#謝謝美國 #thankyouusa🇺🇸 #covid_19 #武漢病毒 #武漢肺炎 #covid19vacccine #funkopop #usa #團結防疫守台灣 🇺🇸美國在台協會期待明天即將抵台的250萬劑莫德納疫苗，此批疫苗由美國政府捐助，數量包含了6月6日美國參議員達克沃絲、蘇利文及昆斯訪台所宣布的75萬劑，並再加上額外捐贈的175萬劑，總計250萬劑疫苗。此批疫苗捐贈展現了美國對台灣的承諾，台灣是可信賴的朋友，也是國際民主大家庭的一份子。🤝 ✅相關新聞：https://reut.rs/3gIWOWU 🇺🇸AIT looks forward to the arrival in Taiwan tomorrow of 2.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine donated by the U.S. government. The shipment includes the 750,000 doses announced on June 6, and an additional 1.75 million doses. The donation reflects our commitment to Taiwan as a trusted friend, and a member of the international family of democracies. 🤝 ✅Read the news: https://reut.rs/3gIWOWU

密切注意疫情變化的同時，我們仍然要堅定不移的告訴國際社會：台灣堅持民主自由，更盼望全球民主國家團結合作，凝聚出更強勁的良善力量！ #Taiwan stands with democracies around the world in the face of authoritarian expansion. As long as we work together, our shared values of freedom, human rights & the rule of law will prevail. 這是昨天晚上，我在國際組織「民主聯盟」 Alliance of Democracies 舉辦的第四屆「哥本哈根民主高峰會」（Copenhagen Democracy Summit）上，用英文發表的演說。 在演說中，我呼籲國際社會：團結對抗疫情挑戰、幫助受到疫情重創的朋友，此外更要齊心協力，確保民主和自由不會受到威脅。請幫我分享給外國朋友，一起傳達台灣對民主自由的信念！ #CDS2021 #TaiwanCanHelp #LetTaiwanHelp

[時事英文] How a Deadly Power Game Undid Myanmar’s Democratic Hopes 翁山蘇姬與軍方的權力遊戲：緬甸的民主希望是如何破滅的 The wrenching collapse of Myanmar’s once-celebrated democratic opening had many witting and unwitting accomplices along the way. But its central driver, activists and experts say, was a yearslong power struggle between the military and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s civilian leader. wrenching 極為痛苦、難受的 the collapse of ～的崩解、慘敗 once-celebrated (adj.) 一度令人鼓舞的 unwitting accomplices 不知情的、無意的的同謀 the central driver 主要推動力 power struggle 權力鬥爭 civilian leader 文職領導人 緬甸曾經一度令人鼓舞的民主開端遭受慘敗，在這個過程中有許多因素有意或無意地鑄成了這一結果。但是，活動人士和專家說，它的主要推動力是軍方與該國文職領導人翁山蘇姬(Aung San Suu Kyi)之間多年來的權力鬥爭。 ★★★★★★★★★★★★ Democratic transitions can be a messy business. Old regimes tend to surrender power slowly, piece by piece. In a transitional phase that might last decades, the authoritarian and democratic systems often operate side by side. If they stay on tolerably good terms, with a shared understanding of their eventual destination, they have a chance to make it. a democratic transition 民主過渡 a messy business 亂七八糟或棘手的事情 old regimes 舊的政權 a transitional phase 過渡階段 an authoritarian system 威權制度 stay on good terms 保持良好關係 民主過渡可能是一個混亂的過程。舊政權往往會逐步緩慢放棄權力。在可能持續數十年的過渡階段，威權主義和民主制度常常並存。如果它們相處得還不錯，並且對最終目標有共同的理解，那麼它們就有機會達成目標。 ★★★★★★★★★★★★ The collapse is in one way a harsh lesson in the grinding difficulty of managing a peaceful transition to democracy from dictatorship — a rarer and rarer phenomenon in this age of retrenching authoritarians and backsliding democracies. But it is also a case of difficult personalities and recalcitrant institutions that proved unwilling or unable to go the distance. a harsh lesson 一個慘痛的教訓 a peaceful transition 和平轉換、過渡 dictatorship 獨裁、專政 a rare phenomenon 罕見的現象 retrenching authoritarians 裁撤威權主義者 difficult personalities 強硬的性格 go the distance 堅持到底 從某種意義上說，這次政權的崩潰是一個慘痛的教訓，說明了實現從獨裁到民主的和平過渡有多麼艱難——儘管在這個威權主義者日益收緊控制、民主倒退的時代，這種過渡越來越罕見。但這也和強硬的性格與頑固的機構有關，事實證明，各方不願意或無法走得更遠。 ★★★★★★★★★★★★ 文章來自《紐約時報》: http://nyti.ms/3pRuvsB #EEL時事英文 #政治時事英文