上海取消春节三大灯会惹争议

 　　"It is a real shame. You can't simply cancel an event after the Shanghai Stampede. The Yuyuan Lantern Festival is a state-level intangible cultural heritage."

　　"In my opinion, the authorities need to strengthen controls and take precautions instead of cancelling all the events. Otherwise, why don't we all just stay home and never leave our houses."

　　The complaints and disappointment come amid a series of cancellations of Spring Festival and Lantern Festival events in Shanghai in the wake of the Bund Stampede on New Year's Eve which left 36 people dead and 49 others injured.

　　上海取消春节三大灯会惹争议

　　The events which authorities have cancelled include the famous 18-day Lantern Festival at Shanghai's Yuyuan Garden in Huangpu District.

　　That annual festival last year saw some 600-thousand people pack into the garden on the night of the Lantern Festival.

　　The move by the Municipal authorities in Shanghai has been generating a lot of complaints, not only from the average person in the city, but also within the academic community as well.

　　Zhu Lijia is with the public management department at the National Academy of Education Administration.

　　"What the government should be doing is reflecting on, and learning lessons from, its mistakes, rather than trying to escape its responsibilities. If the public is banned from doing anything for safety reasons, then our government will end up doing nothing. From the perspective of public management, we call it the inaction of government."

　　The move by the authorities in Shanghai is also generating critical attention in leading media outlets² in China.

　　The China Daily has issued an editorial, describing the Shanghai government's reaction to the stampede "troubling", saying the cancellation¹ of events such as the Yuyuan Garden festival points to a lack of confidence.

　　Guyi Garden, another popular tourist site in Shanghai, has also canceled its lantern festival event amid concerns over safety.

　　Police in Shanghai have still not said what they think caused the stampede on New Year's Eve.

　　For CRI, I am Wang Mengzhen.

1 cancellation   

n.删除，取消

参考例句：

• Heavy seas can cause cancellation of ferry services.海上风浪太大，可能须要取消渡轮服务。
• Her cancellation of her trip to Paris upset our plan.她取消了巴黎之行打乱了我们的计划。

2 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》