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‘She Is a Hero’: In Myanmar’s Protests, Women Are on the Front Lines
無所畏懼的一代：站在抗議第一線的緬甸年...
[時事英文] 婦女節快樂!
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‘She Is a Hero’: In Myanmar’s Protests, Women Are on the Front Lines
無所畏懼的一代：站在抗議第一線的緬甸年輕女性
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Ma Kyal Sin loved taekwondo, spicy food and a good red lipstick. She adopted the English name Angel, and her father hugged her goodbye when she went out on the streets of Mandalay, in central Myanmar, to join the crowds peacefully protesting the recent seizure of power by the military.
•adopt the name 取用…(姓名)
•peacefully protest (v.) 和平抗議
•the seizure of power 奪取政權; seize (v.) 佔領，奪取；查封，沒收，充公
鄧家希（緬甸名Ma Kyal Sin）喜歡跆拳道、吃辣，和大紅色的唇膏。她給自己取了個英文名，叫Angel（安傑爾）。她在緬甸中部城市曼德勒走上街頭，加入到和平抗議最近軍方奪取政權的人群之前，父親與她擁抱道別。
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“She is a hero for our country,” said Ma Cho Nwe Oo, one of Ms. Kyal Sin’s close friends, who has also taken part in the daily rallies that have electrified hundreds of cities across Myanmar. “By participating in the revolution, our generation of young women shows that we are no less brave than men.”
•a hero for our country 我們國家的英雄
•take part in 參加
•rally (n.) （尤指為表明支援某種主張的）集會，群衆大會 ; (v.) 集合；召集；（使）團結
•be no less brave than… 勇氣不比…少
「她是為國捐軀的英雄，」鄧家希的一個密友喬努烏(Ma Cho Nwe Oo)說。喬努烏每天都參加這些震撼緬甸各地數百座城市的集會。「通過參與這場革命，我們這代年輕女性表明，我們的勇氣不比男性小。」
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Despite the risks, women have stood at the forefront of Myanmar’s protest movement, sending a powerful rebuke to the generals who ousted a female civilian leader and reimposed a patriarchal order that has suppressed women for half a century.
•stand at the forefront of 站在…的最前沿
•protest movement 抗議運動
•send a powerful rebuke 發出強有力的譴責
•oust (from) 將…趕下臺，罷免，廢黜；趕走；淘汰
•a patriarchal order 父權秩序
•suppress （用武力）鎮壓，壓制，制止
儘管有風險，女性一直站在緬甸抗議運動的最前沿。她們向推翻了一名女性文職領導人、恢復壓制女性長達半個世紀的父權秩序的將軍們，發出強有力的譴責。
文章來自《紐約時報》: http://nyti.ms/2OdSdlp
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張忠謀對半導體供應鏈在地化的致詞引起矚目，我將全文的翻譯，分享給大家：
張忠謀APEC非正式領袖會議致詞全文：（中文在後）
This Informal Retreat has been called to discuss how Asia-Pacific can collaborate to move through the COVID health crisis, and to accelerate the post-COVID economic recovery. Chinese Taipei will address these two topics specifically.
On COVID-19, Chinese Taipei has had an excellent record so far. With a population of 23 million, over the last year and half, and in spite of a recent surge which has now abated, we have had a total of about fifteen thousand infected cases (.07% of the population), and 763 deaths (3 out of one hundred thousand).
We believe that our experience and know-how gained can help other APEC members. We have been, and continue to be willing to help. We have donated masks and other medical supplies to other APEC members in the past and are ready and willing to share our anti-COVID-19 know-how with you.
At the same time, WE NEED HELP! Our vaccination coverage at present is less than 20%. Although the U.S. and Japan have been generous in donating vaccines to us, and our private institutions have succeeded in procuring ten million doses of vaccines, we still need more vaccines, and need them sooner! Most other APEC members need help as well. We must ask for help from the APEC members that possess and produce more vaccines than they themselves need.
On re-vitalizing Post-COVID economy, Chinese Taipei urges free trade among APEC members and in the world, after giving consideration to vital national security needs.
In the past seven decades, free trade has enabled vibrant growth in most APEC economies. Free trade is merely a way in which each APEC economy contributes its own competitive advantage and every APEC member benefits.
Recently, however, we note with concern the tendency to want self-sufficiency or “on-shoring” of semiconductor chips. We must point out that in the past many decades free trade has greatly helped the advance of semiconductor technology. In turn, the ever greater complexity of the technology has caused the supply chain to go “off-shore”.
It would be highly impractical to try to turn back the clock. If it is tried, cost will go up and technology advance may slow. What may happen is that after hundreds of billions and many years have been spent, the result will still be a not-quite-self-sufficient, and high-cost supply chain.
We do recognize national security concerns, and believe that for security applications, a self-sufficient supply chain within one’s own borders is prudent. However, for the much larger civilian market, a supply chain substantially based on free trade system is by far the best approach.
In summary, on COVID-19, Chinese Taipei can help, is ready and willing to help with its know-how, but also needs more vaccines sooner, along with many other APEC members. On Post-COVID economic re-vitalization, Chinese Taipei urges free trade, after giving consideration to vital national security concerns.
（中文翻譯）
此次非正式領袖會議召開的目的是討論亞太地區應如何合作以度過新型冠狀病毒（COVID-19）疫情危機，並加速疫後經濟復甦。中華台北將就這兩個議題表達看法。
面對新型冠狀病毒（COVID-19）疫情，中華台北迄今維持傑出防疫紀錄。我們有兩千三百萬人口，儘管近期疫情曾一度升溫，但目前業已趨緩，在過去超過一年半的時間中，總確診病例數約為一萬五千例（佔總人口0.07%），其中死亡病例數為763例（約為十萬分之三）。
相信我們在過程中得到的經驗與知識能夠協助其他APEC成員。我們持續地願意提供協助。過去我們曾捐贈口罩與其他醫療物資予其他APEC成員，現在也準備好與你們分享我們抗疫的知識。
同時，我們也需要幫助！目前我們的疫苗注射覆蓋率低於20%。雖然美國與日本已慷慨捐贈疫苗，我們的民間機構也已成功採購一千萬劑，我們仍然需要更多數量的疫苗，而且需要儘快取得！其他多數的APEC成員也需要幫助。我們需要向目前擁有並生產超過他們自身所需疫苗數量的APEC成員尋求協助。
針對疫後經濟復甦，中華台北敦促APEC成員，在考慮重要國家安全需求後，彼此間及與全球進行自由貿易。
在過去70年，自由貿易使多數APEC經濟體蓬勃發展。自由貿易僅是各APEC經濟體貢獻自己的競爭優勢，而其他APEC成員藉此受惠的方法。
然而近來，我們很關切要求「境內」半導體晶片自給自足的趨勢。我們必需指出，過去數十年的自由貿易大幅促進半導體技術發展。因此，越趨複雜的技術致使供應鏈走向「境外」。
試圖讓時光倒流是相當不切實際的，如果嘗試讓時光倒流，不僅成本將會提升以及技術的進步可能放緩。在花費了數千億與許多年的時間之後，結果仍將是無法充分自給自足且成本很高的供應鏈。
我們認同國家安全的顧慮確實存在，也相信針對國安應用，在國境內存有一個能夠自給自足的供應鏈是審慎的作法。然而，針對規模大得許多的民間市場，一個基於自由貿易體系的供應鏈是最好的作法。
總結來說，針對新型冠狀病毒（COVID-19）疫情，中華台北能夠協助，我們也願意、並準備好以自身的知識與經驗提供協助，但也和其他許多APEC成員一樣，需要儘快取得更多疫苗。關於疫後經濟復甦，中華台北敦促在考慮關鍵國家安全需求後，應該採取自由貿易。
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報導一下緬甸的戰況，越來越多的緬甸年輕人放棄街頭抗爭，加入地方陣營或緬甸反對派成立的緬甸人民國防軍(MPD)，從中進行戰術訓練和強化射擊，今天還傳出位在伊洛瓦底江三角洲地區的村落，爆發軍政府部隊與村民的武裝衝突，民兵以彈弓和十字弓抵抗要來搜尋武器的政府軍，造成至少20人遭擊斃
當地居民用土製武器不敵政府軍的裝備，死傷相當慘重，在緬甸叢林裡隱匿著許多武器改造工廠，組成自衛隊的當地民眾製造土槍與政府軍交戰，不過他們的土製武器常常射偏，特別是居住在遭警方鎮壓而死傷慘重城鎮裡的多個族裔，紛紛在當地組成「防衛部隊」