英闻天下——614 China Protests over Japanese Fishing Boats, Shrine Visits

 　　The Chinese government is protesting a trip made by a group of Japanese activists¹ to the Diaoyu islands.

 

　　Su Yi has more.

 

　　China's foreign ministry² is calling the trip by the Japanese activists "illegal" and "troublemaking³".

 

　　Foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying:

 

　　"The Chinese Foreign Ministry has lodged⁴ a stern protest to Japan over Japanese nationalists sailing to waters near the Diaoyu islands to make trouble. The Chinese Marine⁵ Surveillance has dispatched a fleet of eight ships to the waters off the Diaoyu islands this morning. As far as we know, Japanese boats have left the waters."

 

　　China's State Oceanic Administration dispatched eight boats in waters near the islands, saying the Chinese ships were able to run the Japanese boats out of the region.

 

　　China's Ambassador to Japan has launched a formal complaint with the Japanese government, demanding all Japanese ships leave waters immediately.

 

　　Tensions have been running high between China and Japan over the group of islands in the East China Sea since last year.

 

　　At the same time, the Chinese government has issued its response, after over a hundred Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine⁶.

 

　　Spokesperson Hua Chunying again:

 

　　"How to reflect on history and how to handle the Yasukuni Shrine issue are important indicators⁷ Japan's Asian neighbors and the international community are monitoring to see what path Japan is going to take in the future. Whatever way the Japanese leaders use and whatever capacity they are with to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, the nature of their visits is to deny their military aggression⁸ past."

 

　　Despite strong protests from neighboring countries, a group of 169 Japanese lawmakers have made a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.

 

　　The shrine remains⁹ highly controversial, given that fourteen Japanese World War II criminals are interred¹⁰ at the site.

 

　　The visit to the shrine by members of the Japanese cabinet has prompted the South Korean government to cancel a trip to Japan this week by the country's foreign minister.

 

　　For CRI, I'm Su Yi.

1 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 troublemaking   

n.捣乱的行为

参考例句：

• But no, says Acheson, troublemaking will continue, and definitely so. 但是不，艾奇逊说，还是要捣乱的，并且确定地要捣乱。 来自互联网

4 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

6 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

7 indicators   

（仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的）指针( indicator的名词复数 )； 指示物； （车辆上的）转弯指示灯； 指示信号

参考例句：

• The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
• It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。

8 aggression   

n.进攻，侵略，侵犯，侵害

参考例句：

• So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
• Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。

9 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

10 interred   

v.埋，葬( inter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Marie Curie's remains were exhumed and interred in the Pantheon. 玛丽·居里的遗体被移出葬在先贤祠中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The body was interred at the cemetery. 遗体埋葬在公墓里。 来自《简明英汉词典》