China censors Oscar nominations

中国“和谐”了奥斯卡提名

China has censored this year's nominations for the Academy Awards, blocking out the name of a documentary about the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake

中国队今年学院奖的提名进行了审查，把关于四川地震的纪录片.

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 6:00AM GMT 04 Feb 2010

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province promotional poster

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, was one of five films nominated for best documentary short.

劫后天府泪纵横是5部提名奥斯卡最佳纪录短片的影片之一。

The movie shows the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake in May 2008, when over 70,000 people died, including 10,000 children, who were killed as their shoddily-built school buildings collapsed around them.

这部电影展示了一幅2008年五月当逾七万人在地震中丧生，而且还有一万名因为豆腐渣校舍坍塌而死亡的孩子的惨烈景象。

The collapse of the school buildings, killing the only child of many families, continues to be a highly-sensitive issue in Sichuan.

这些教学楼的倒塌杀死了很多家庭唯一的孩子，而在四川省这仍然是一个高度敏感的话题。

Grieving families have accused government officials of stealing the construction budget of the schools, creating flimsy deathtraps for the children inside. In Dujiangyan, some parents said the concrete of the middle school had been reinforced with bamboo, rather than steel rods.

悲痛的家庭控诉政府关于擅自挪用学校建筑预算的官员，这些人把孩子们置于危险之中。在都江堰，一些家长说中学教学楼预应力混凝土中的钢筋被换成了竹子。

However, the Chinese government has insisted that there was no wrongdoing leading up to the earthquake.

然而中国政府却仍在坚持说自己对地震中的损失毫无责任。

The documentary follows several groups of parents as their grief turned into protest.

这部纪录片跟随拍摄了几拨化悲痛为抗议的家长，

"It was tofu construction," said one interviewee, while another held up a brick to show how easy it was to brush off the "mortar" on one side.

“这就是豆腐渣工程。”一位受访者说到，而另一位受访者拿起一块砖头展示了要刷掉它边缘的“砂浆”是多么容易。

The 40-minute film shows how the parents are stonewalled and ignored by Communist party officials.

这部四十分钟的影片展示了共产党官员是如何阻碍和忽视这些家长的。

It was blocked from being aired in China, and the words "unnatural disaster" have been censored from the Chinese internet.

这段影片在中国被禁止播放，而且“人祸”这个词也已经在网上成了敏感词。

When the film garnered its Oscar nomination, Chinese media outlets either removed the film from their reports, or omitted the entire category.

当这部影片被奥斯卡提名的时候，中国的媒体在发表提名名单时不是把这部电影移除了，就是直接删除了整个（最佳纪录短片奖）分类。

There is also speculation that the Oscar ceremony itself may not be aired live in China because of the potential embarrassment if the movie wins.

同时也有预测说为了防止这部片子获奖而带来的尴尬，今年的奥斯卡颁奖典仪在中国并不会直播。

Instead, an edited version of the ceremony may be screened.

取而代之的是，被编辑过的版本会被搬上电视屏幕。

The move comes in the midst of an extremely hardline censorship campaign, which has seen internet cut off entirely in the far Western province of Xinjiang and may yet force Google to abandon its Chinese business.

现在已经到了与最严格的审查进行战役的一步，我们已经看到了新疆这个偏远的西部省份互联网被完全切断而Google也可能要放弃在中国的生意。

Xinhua, the official government news agency, reported that 900,000 mobile phones had been blocked in the southern province of Guangdong because they had been used to send text messages which contravened new regulations on obscene and controversial content.

官方的新华社报道说在南部省份广东已经有九十万部手机因为发送淫秽和不和谐的短信而被停止短信功能，

原文地址：http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/03/the_end_of_diplomacy?page=0,1

The End of Diplomacy?

美国外交政策的终结？

Once up a time, Americans achieved great things abroad. No longer.

曾经，美国在国外取得了巨大的成就。但，再也不是了。

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Back in the day, there was a time when American diplomacy did big and important things.

曾几何时，美国在外交上做了很多成功和重要的事情。

No more, it seems. The world's gotten complicated; America is a good deal weaker; and the U.S. administration is handicapping itself with a dysfunctional bureaucratic setup that makes it harder to focus and find its footing.

但是看起来那样的日子一去不返了。世界在变得复杂；美国也衰落了许多；而且美国政府正在把自己变成一个无能的官僚机构让它自己难以找到自己的立足点。

Effective American diplomacy may well be going the way of the dodo; and the sad fact is there may be little Barack Obama can do about it.

事实上美国外交可能正在走向不可挽回的灭亡，而令人难过的事实是奥巴马在挽回美国外交上几乎什么都做不了。

Lamenting the absence of great men years before his own shining moment, Winston Churchill wrote that in England, once upon a time, "there were wonderful giants of old." There's always a danger in idealizing what once was or seemed to be in order to make a point about the present. Still, looking back over the last 60 years, you really do have to wonder whether America's best diplomacy and foreign policy are behind it.

在伟人闪光之前是没有伟人的悲伤岁月，丘吉尔一次在英格兰的时候写到，“现在只有老去的巨人了。”通过对于过去的理想化猜想来解决今天的看法是危险的。让我们回眸过去的六十年，你会禁不住猜想美国最好的外交政策是在这之前的。

America never ran the world (an illusion the left, right, and much of the third and fourth worlds believe); but there were moments (1945-1950, the early 1970s, 1988-1991) when the United States marshaled its military, political, and economic power toward impressive ends.

美国从来没有驾驭过全世界（不过左右派和大多数的第三世界国家相信这个假象），但是确实有几个时期（1945-1950，1970年代初，1988-1991）当时美国在军事、政治和经济上的实力是给人们留下了深刻印象的。

There were, or course, disasters and plenty of dysfunction during these years, including Vietnam War and out-of-control CIA operations. But there were also brilliant achievements: the Marshall Plan, NATO, effective Arab-Israeli diplomacy, détente with the Russians, opening to China, a competent American role in the acceleration and management of the end of the Cold War, and the first Gulf War.

这些年有一些事情是或造成了灾难和政府功能的失效，其中包括了越南战争和对CIA控制的失灵。但是美国也有几个明智的功绩：马歇尔计划、北约、有效的阿拉伯—以色列外交、与俄国关系的缓和、对中国的开放、称职的完成了在结束冷战中的职责以及第一次海湾战争。

For most of the last 16 years, however -- under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush -- America has been in a diplomatic dry patch. In the face of terrorism, nuclear proliferation, wars of choice, and nasty regional conflicts, conventional diplomacy has either not been tried or not been very successful. The image of the shuttling secretary of state pre-empting crises or exploiting them to broker agreements, doggedly pursuing Middle East peace, achieving dramatic breakthroughs with spectacular secret diplomacy seems a world away.

然而在过去16年在比尔克林顿和小布什管理下的大多数时候，美国的外交政策陷于停滞。当面对恐怖主义、核武器扩散、战争的选择以及令人厌恶的地区冲突的时候，常规的外交策略已经不能适用或是不成功了。那种国务卿来来回回的预先化解危机或是促进他们达成协议、，不屑的促进中东和平，通过令人吃惊的秘密来戏剧性的获得民主上的突破的景象看起来一去不复返了。

The Obama administration wants to do this kind of stuff. And it has done pretty well in managing the big relationships with Russia and Europe, though it has had its share of problems with China. But frankly, these are the easy ones. It's not from the big that the president's problems come; it's from the small.

奥巴马政府希望能做这种事。而且它在管理与俄国和欧洲的重要关系上做的很不错，尽管仍然同中国还有些问题。但是说实话，这些都是小问题。这并不是来自总统的大问题，这些都是小问题。

In garden spots like Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the problems are four parts military, five parts nation-building, and maybe one part diplomacy. And America is unlikely to prevail in any meaningful sense of the word where corrupt, extractive regimes are unable to control their own territory and cut deals with anti-American elements and place their security and political concerns first.

在热点问题如伊拉克、巴基斯坦、阿富汗、也门和索马里，这些是四个地区的军事问题、五个国家的国家建设问题，以及也许是一个部分的外交问题。美国不大可能去劝说那些腐败丛生、不能有效控制它们自己的恐怖活动或者切断与反美组织把自己的安全和政策放在第一位的国家。

Even in areas where diplomacy might seem to work on paper -- Kashmir, Arab-Israeli peacemaking -- the United States is hampered by conflicts driven by deep ethnic and religious hostility and by internal politics in which its own allies (Israel, Pakistan, and India) can't be of much help. And in one of the cruelest ironies of all, the U.S. president who has gone further to engage Iran than any of his predecessors is watching any hope for diplomacy being ground up by a regime under siege in Tehran.

即使是那些看起来外交政策还不错的地区——克什米尔、阿拉伯-以色列和平进程——美国也被种族宗教和内部同盟之间（以色列、巴基斯坦和印度）驱使的争斗所阻碍。而且最具有讽刺意味的就是当现任美国总统比他的前任们更努力的去解决伊朗的问题却看到任何外交上的希望都被德黑兰的政权所碾碎。

What's more, the power of the small is being matched by the weakening of the big. You don't have to be a declinist (I'm not) to see how far the image of American power has fallen. Forget the economic meltdown, which has much of the world wondering about what kind of great power the United States really is. America's currently fighting two wars where the standard for victory is not whether it can win but when it can leave.

而且小的国家已经开始被与衰落的大国开始相提并论。你不必是个衰落主义者（我就不是）就可以看到美国的势力已经有多么的衰落。忘记经济的衰败吧，那让世界很大程度的猜测美国到底真实水平是什么。美国进行的两场战争胜利标准已经不是是否可以赢，而是多会能撤军了。

Whether it's an inability to get tough sanctions from the international community against Iran, bring Tehran to heel, make North Korea play ball, get the Arabs and the Israelis to cooperate, or push the Pakistanis to hit the Taliban and al Qaeda in a sustained way, the world has gotten used to saying no to America without cost or consequence. And that's very bad for a great power.

对是否能得到国际社会制裁伊朗把德黑兰摔入地狱这样支持的无能为力，让朝鲜遵守国际规则，让阿拉伯世界和以色列合作或者是推动巴基斯坦长期打击塔利班和基地组织，这些事件已经让世界开始不用惧怕和承担任何后果的对美国说不。这对这个超级大国来说真是再糟糕不过了。

Finally, there's the issue of how the country organizes itself. A new bureaucratic flowchart won't replace skill and luck, better marshal American power, or create genuine opportunities for success abroad. But if you don't have the right structure, it makes success all that much harder.

最终，这儿还有这个国家如何管理它自己的问题。一个新的官僚体系运转图不能取代技术和运气，更好的重整美国的力量或者创造真正在国外成功的机会。但是如果你没有一个正确的架构，要成功是难于登天。

And the United States has departed from the one model that has proven successful: the strong foreign-policy president empowering the strong secretary of state who rides herd over subcabinet-level envoys in real time and in close coordination with the president on strategy.

美国已经开始背弃了一个已经被证明是成功的模式：强力的总统授权国务卿的外交政策，而国务卿实时聚集总统顾问级别的使节与他们密切合作来符合总统的政策。

Instead, the Obama administration has created an empire of envoys with power concentrated in the White House but without real purpose or strategy. The nation's top diplomat (the secretary of state) seems to be everywhere and nowhere in terms of owning issues and finding a way to take on some of the nastiest challenges, which is what secretaries of state are supposed to do.

取而代之的是，奥巴马政府实现了对使节的绝对控制但却没有明确的目标和策略。这个国家的最高外交官（国务卿）看起来哪儿都去了，但是没有在任何地方进行谈判和解决一些最危机的问题，而这本应该是国务卿的职责。

It's still early, and maybe the Obama administration will get lucky. Perhaps the Iranian regime will collapse or the Arabs and Israelis will do something good by themselves. But the next several years are more likely to be tough ones for American diplomacy. And the image that comes to mind isn't a terribly kind one: America as a kind of modern-day Gulliver tied up by tiny tribes abroad and hobbled by its inability to organize its own house at home.

现在断言为时尚早，而且奥巴马政府也许会变得幸运。也许伊朗政权会倒台或者阿拉伯世界和以色列会做一些做他们自己有益的事。但接下来的几年对于美国外交政策看起来会有更大的考验。下面这个情形并不是最艰难的一种：美国像现代的格利弗一样被众多国外的小国所羁绊而且因为他自己国内机构的无能而步履蹒跚。

What to make of the latest row between China and America over Taiwan?

原文：What to make of the latest row between China and America over Taiwan?

译文：对台军售会如何影响中美关系？

Feb 2nd 2010 | WASHINGTON, DC | From The Economist online

IS IT a crisis or just (show) business as usual? With China and America, it can be hard to tell. Almost immediately after the United States said that it intended to sell more than $6 billion-worth of arms to Taiwan, the Chinese went into a spin. They summoned the American ambassador to denounce this interference in China’s “internal affairs” (Taiwan is part of the mainland, says the government in Beijing), threatened to cut off military ties with the United States and said they would impose sanctions on American firms involved in the Taiwan deal.

这很难说此次这中美之间的是一场危机亦或仅仅如以往一样还是一场商业秀。几乎紧跟在美国抛出对台湾的六十亿美元军售计划之后，中国就做出了回应。他们召唤了美国驻华大使来谴责这件干预中国“内政”的事情（北京政府强调台湾是大陆的一部分），并且威胁要中止双方的军事合作，以及要制裁那些出售给台湾军火的公司。

None of this looks good for the world’s most consequential relationship. From global warming to the sickly world economy to stopping nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran, co-operation between the established superpower and the rising one is vital to world stability. Why should either want to jeopardise this relationship?

上述的种种情况使得目前世界上最重要的双边关系显得非常糟糕。从全球变暖问题，到解决经济危机，再到防止朝鲜和伊朗的核扩散，两个超级大国的合作对世界稳定是至关重要的。但是为什么它们都想要损害这种关系呢？

That question has produced several theories. One is that China’s spritely economy is making it less afraid of conflict with a tiring America, especially when it thinks that “core” interests such as its claim to sovereignty over Taiwan or Tibet are at stake. The other is that America timed the Taiwan arms sale in part to punish China—for its shabby treatment of Barack Obama during last November’s presidential visit to Beijing, for its foot-dragging at December’s Copenhagen climate summit and for its reluctance to support new United Nations sanctions on Iran. Of course, neither theory excludes the other and bits of both may be true. But a third possibility is that there is in fact less to this “crisis” than meets the eye.

这个问题的原因已经有好几种理论来解释。一种是中国生机勃勃的经济状况让他不惧怕与美国产生冲突，特别当触及到中国的核心问题，比如对台湾和西藏的主权问题受到危机的时候。另一种说法是美国定时向台湾出售军火是针对中国的惩罚的一部分——为了报复十一月欧巴马总统来华访问时的不公正待遇、十二月在哥本哈根拖了美国的后腿以及在联合国制裁伊朗上的勉强态度。当然了，没有一种理论把另一种排除在外而且它们都有部分是正确的。但是第三种可能是这种“危机”没看上去那么严重。

America is obliged under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 to provide the island with the arms it needs to defend itself. America and China both knew that the United States would announce the package at some time and that China would vehemently oppose it, as it always does. The package includes some sophisticated weapons, such as Black Hawk helicopters and Harpoon missiles, but it does not include F-16 fighters that the Taiwanese would dearly like. As to the timing, says a senior administration official, “this is one of those issues where the timing is never right.” It certainly would not have been clever to announce the sale immediately before or after last year’s presidential goodwill visit to China.

美国是在承担1979年出台的《台湾关系法》规定的提供台湾军事装备来保卫台湾岛的义务。美国和中国都知道美国一定会在某时提出军售计划而中国会像往常一样激烈反对。军售计划中包括了一些尖端武器，例如黑鹰直升机和鱼叉导弹，但是并没有包括台湾人最渴望得到的F—16战斗机。关于（出售的）时机，一位资深管理官员说：“这是那些永远等不到正确的时候的议题之一。”在去年总统抱有良好意愿的访问前后宣布出售计划确实是不明智的。

If America’s announcement was expected, so was the indignant Chinese response. Denunciation and the cancellation of some military-co-operation meetings is in keeping with previous Chinese reactions. A new element this time was the public threat of Chinese sanctions against American firms involved in the Taiwan deal, but most of these have little or no business in China. One big exception is Boeing, which is huge in China. But for that reason it is unlikely that the Chinese will follow up on this particular threat.

如果美国如预期的宣布军售计划，中国也会愤慨的回应。对美国的谴责和军事合作的取消也如中国先前的反应一样。这次一个新戏码是中国会制裁那些涉及到此次军售的军火公司，但是这些公司大多数与中国仅有少量或完全没有关系，除了波音公司，它在中国有巨大的销售额。但也正如这个原因，中国不会实施这个特别的制裁。

If the Taiwan weapons spat blows over, American officials will hail what they nowadays call the more “mature” relationship they have nurtured with China during Mr Obama’s first year. But many tests lie ahead. Some are mainly symbolic, such as a forthcoming meeting between Mr Obama and Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, which the Americans postponed last year to prevent it souring the president’s China trip. Others are more concrete, such as China’s reluctance to go along with new sanctions on Iran or to respond to America’s pleas to revalue the yuan. A world-shaking falling-out between China and America is always possible. But the falling-out over the Taiwan arms package is probably not it.

如果对台湾军售的争执能平稳度过，美国官方会称赞他们今天成为更“成熟”的在欧巴马总统第一年任期内培养出与中国的关系。但是还有很多考验摆在眼前。一些是象征性的问题，比如欧巴马总统将与西藏的精神领袖达赖喇嘛会面，此次见面是美国为了防止欧巴马访华变味而推迟到今年的。其他的问题则更加有实质性，比如中国不情愿对伊朗实施制裁和回应对美国要求人民币升值的要求。世界会因为中美关系可能的失和而颤抖，但是两国因为台湾军售而失和则几无可能。

Will TV be 'Lost' without Matthew Fox? Actor says he's leaving the small screen after series ends

原文地址：http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/02/02/2010-02-02_will_tv_be_lost_without_matthew_fox_actor_says_hes_leaving_the_small_screen_afte.html

Will TV be 'Lost' without Matthew Fox? Actor says he's leaving the small screen after series ends

Matthew Fox将在lost结束后离开电视荧幕？

BY NICOLE CARTER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, February 2nd 2010, 11:25 AM

Segretain/Getty

Matthew Fox in June 2009 at a 'Lost' photo call. The actor says he's leaving TV after the series ends this season.

After "Lost" goes off the air, so will Matthew Fox . . . for good.

"I won't be doing any more television," the 43-year-old actor told UsMagazine.com.

The father of two has been on major TV shows for the last 12 years.

在lost走到尽头的时候， Matthew Fox也会这么做。“我将不会参演任何电视剧集”这位43岁的男演员告诉UsMagazine.com。这个两个孩子的父亲在过去12年主要在参演电视剧。

He spent six years on the drama "Party of Five," playing the older brother, and then joined the cast of "Lost" as Dr. Jack Shepard in 2004.

他有六年的时光花费在剧集Party of Five上出演了长兄，然后于2004年加入了lost饰演Jack SHepard医生。

"I've done . . . about 300 hours of television," he told Usmagazine.com at the season premiere event on Waikiki Beachin Hawaii last weekend. "I'm done with that."
“我已经演了300小时的剧集了，”他在lost第六季在夏威夷Waikiki海滩上举行的的首映中告诉UsMagazine.com“我已经厌倦了。”
The series premiere airs tonight on ABC and fans will finally get some answers to the perplexing situation of the Oceanic flight survivors.

本季今晚在ABC上首映，粉丝们会得到这些大洋航空815航班幸存者的最终命运的答案。

"I'm either going to make movies with filmmakers I want to work with or I'll be doing something else entirely," he said.

“我会轻易参演一些电影或者做点别的什么事。”他说

But first things first: The star said he and his family will be moving back to Oregon after the stint in Hawaii, where "Lost" was filmed.

但有一件事的排在第一位的：这位明星说他会和他的家人在夏威夷拍摄地的工作之后一起回到俄勒冈州。

"Being in Hawaii and working here has been an incredible, fantastic experience. Hawaii and 'Lost' has been a great thing for me," he said.

“来到夏威夷和工作在这里是难以置信的，梦幻的经验，夏威夷和lost对我来说是很重要的事。”他说

White House spokesman says Obama will meet with Dalai Lama

白宫发言人说奥巴马会与达赖会面

February 2, 2010 2:32 p.m. EST

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, attends a special prayer session at the Mahabodhi Temple in India on January 10.

Beijing, China (CNN) -- President Obama intends to meet the Dalai Lama even though China has warned that such a meeting would harm bilateral ties, a White House spokesman said Tuesday.

奥巴马总统将会见达赖喇嘛，不顾之前中国警告说这样的会面会损害双边关系。白宫发言人在周二表示。

"The president told China's leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama, and he intends to do so," Bill Burton told reporters covering Obama's planned town hall meeting in New Hampshire later Tuesday.

“总统在去年到中国的访问中就说过他会与达赖喇嘛会面，而他现在就打算这么做。” Bill Burton周二晚些时候在New Hampshire告诉了记者们奥巴马总统的计划。

No date for Obama's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader has been announced. The Dalai Lama has speaking engagements scheduled in the United States in late February and in May.

发言人并没有透露奥巴马总统与这位西藏精神领袖的会面日期。达赖喇嘛已经约定在二月底和三月访美。

Earlier Tuesday, China warned that ties between two of the world's superpowers would be strained if Obama met with the Dalai Lama.

周二早些时候，中国警告说如果奥巴马与达赖喇嘛会面，就会损害两个超级大国之间的关系。

"It will seriously undermine the foundation of Sino-U.S. political relations," said Zhu Weiqun, a Communist Party official who is in charge of talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama. "We will take corresponding action to make relevant countries see their mistakes."

“这将会严重的动摇中美政治关系的根基，” 中共负责与达赖代表对话的官员朱维群说：“我们会采取相应的动作让相关国家看到他们做错了。”

Zhu issued his warning during a news conference to discuss the lack of progress made during five days of talks between China and the Dalai Lama's representatives.

朱在一次记者招待会上发表了他的警告，此次招待会是为了讨论中国与达赖代表之间五天毫无进展的对话。

Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of advocating for Tibetan independence from China.

北京指责达赖喇嘛要谋求西藏独立。

"The two sides had sharply divided views," Zhu said. "We have been accustomed to such clash of viewpoints. It's been the norm rather than the exception."

“双方的观点完全不同，”朱维群说：“我们已经对如此对立的观点习以为常了。”

In explaining Obama's intention to hold the meeting, Burton said the Dalai Lama "is an internationally respected religious and cultural leader, and the president will meet with him in that capacity.

在解释奥巴马与达赖会面的意图时，Burton说达赖是一位广受国际尊重的宗教与反对派领袖，而总统与他会面是总统的权利。

"As the president has expressed, we expect that our relationship with China is mature enough where we can work out issues of mutual concerns -- such as climate, the global economy and nonproliferation -- and discuss frankly and candidly those issues where we disagree," Burton said. "The president is committed to building a positive, comprehensive and cooperative relationship with China."

“正如总统所说的，我们期望我们与中国的关系已经成熟到足以共同解决诸如气候变暖、国际经济和防核武器扩散的问题，而且是要开诚布公的讨论我们意见相左的议题，” Burton说到“总统许诺要与中国建立一个积极的、全面的、合作的关系。”

Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said they favor genuine autonomy and resent the slow erosion of their culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the most numerous ethnic group in China.

虽然西藏在名义上是自治的，但是达赖和其他人说他们想要真正的自治而且憎恨汉族这一中国人口最多的民族对西藏文化的侵蚀

Zhu said there would be no compromise on China's control of Tibet.

Representatives from the two sides have met eight other times, but have reached no consensus on the issue of autonomy.

朱维群说中国对西藏主权的控制是不会妥协的。双方的代表已经会面了八次，不过并没有就自治的议题达成任何共识。

The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. He lives in exile in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala.

Burton said the United States "considers Tibet to be a part of China, and we have human rights concerns about the treatment of Tibetans."

"We urge the government of China to protect the unique cultural and religious traditions of Tibet," he said.

达赖在1959年反抗中国管制失败之后逃离了中国。他住在印度北面的城市达兰萨拉。Burton说美国“认为西藏是中国的一部分，而我们在关注西藏在人权上的遭遇。”

他还说：“我们力促中国政府保全西藏独特的文化与宗教传统。”

Network Attacks on Facebook, Twitter Tripled in 2009

原文地址：http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/188278/network_attacks_on_facebook_twitter_tripled_in_2009.html

Network Attacks on Facebook, Twitter Tripled in 2009

针对web2.0社交网站的网络攻击在2009增加了3倍

By Joan Goodchild, CSO

As more organizations allow employees to use social media like Facebook and Twitter at work, cybercrime attacks on these networks have exploded, according to a report released Monday by IT security firm Sophos. Reports of malware and spam rose 70 percent on social networks in the last 12 months, the security survey reveals.

随着越来越多的组织允许员工在工作时使用像Facebook和Twitter这样的社交网站，针对这几个网站的网络犯罪呈爆炸性的增长，根据周一IT安全公司Sophos的报告，在过去的十二个月中，恶意软件和垃圾信息增长了70%。

Sophos' investigation, titled "Social Security," finds 57 percent of users report they have been spammed via social networking sites, and 36 percent reveal they have been sent malware via social networking sites. The "Social Security" survey is part of Sophos' 2010 Security Threat Report, which looks at current and emerging computer security trends.

Sophos题为“社交安全”的调查中揭示了有57%的用户在社交网站上收到过垃圾信息，还有36%的人收到过恶意软件。这份“社交安全”点差是Sophos公司2010的网络安全报告的一部分，这份报告旨在观察现在的和新兴的电脑安全趋势。

"Computer users are spending more time on social networks, sharing sensitive and valuable personal information, and hackers have sniffed out where the money is to be made," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "The dramatic rise in attacks in the last year tells us that social networks and their millions of users have to do more to protect themselves from organized cybercrime, or risk falling prey to identity theft schemes, scams, and malware attacks."

“电脑用户们在社交网络上分享敏感以及有价值的个人信息花费了越来越多的时间，而黑客在寻找哪里能够赚钱，” Sophos的资深技术顾问Graham Cluley说到：“这种令人吃惊的网络攻击增长告诉我们社交网站和它们数以百万计的用户亟需增强防范有组织的网络犯罪活动与他们的个人信息被窃取、诈骗或恶意软件攻击。”

While most of the 500 firms Sophos polled, 72 percent, were worried workers behavior on social networks is putting their business at risk, almost half of them, 49 percent, allow all of their staff unfettered access to Facebook and other social networking sites. (See also:Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn: Security Pros Warm to Web 2.0 Access)

根据对500强的调查，有72%的公司担心员工在社交网络上的行为可能让它们的商业利益受到损害，而几乎有一半的企业（49%）允许他们职员自由的接入Facebook与其他社交网络。

"The grim irony is that just as companies are loosening their attitude to staff activity on social networks, the threat of malware, spam, phishing and identity theft on Facebook is increasing," said Cluley.

“恰恰是对雇员在社交网络上持开放的态度导致了Facebook上恶意软件、垃圾信息和个人信息窃取的增加无情的讽刺了这些公司。” Cluley如是说。

Survey respondents were also asked which social network they believed posed the biggest security risk and 60 percent said Facebook.

对调查对象的问题之中有一个是哪一个网站引起了最大的安全威胁，有60%的人选择了Facebook。

"We shouldn't forget that Facebook is by far the largest social network - and you'll find more bad apples in the biggest orchard," explained Cluley. "The truth is that the security team at Facebook works hard to counter threats on their site - it's just that policing 350 million users can't be an easy job for anyone. But there is no doubt that simple changes could make Facebook users safer. For instance, when Facebook rolled-out its new recommended privacy settings late last year, it was a backwards step, encouraging many users to share their information with everybody on the internet."

“我们不应该忘记Facebook是目前最大的社交网络——而林子大了就会什么鸟都有” Cluley解释道：“事实是Facebook的安全队伍在努力解决他们站点上的安全问题——不过监管3亿5千万用户对谁都非一件易事。但是几个简单的改变会毫无疑问的使Facebook的用户变得安全。例如去年Facebook推荐的新个人设置，而这是一种倒退，因为它鼓励很多用户与互联网上的每个人分享他们自己的信息。”

The report also points out the inherent security problems presented by LinkedIn, which is a social network targeted to working people that allows them to network and job seek, among other things. Although LinkedIn is considered to be by far the least threatening of the networks, Sophos advises that it can still provide a sizeable pool of information for hackers.

报告同样指出了LinkedIn呈现的内在问题：这个社交网络的目标客户是工作的人群以允许他们加入社区和寻找工作。尽管LinkedIn是被认为目前危险最小的网站，但Sophos报告这个网站仍然能提供给黑客们很多的信息。

"Targeted attacks against companies are in the news at the moment, and the more information a criminal can get about your organization's structure, the easier for them to send a poisoned attachment to precisely the person whose computer they want to break into," explained Cluley. "Sites like LinkedIn provide hackers with what is effectively a corporate directory, listing your staff's names and positions. This makes it child's play to reverse-engineer the email addresses of potential victims."

Cluley进一步解释到：“针对公司的网络袭击此时已经出现在新闻中了，而对你公司结构了解的信息越多，黑客想要给他们目标电脑发送有害附件的难度就越小。像LinkedIn这种站点给了黑客有效的组织人员名单，上面列着你们的员工姓名和职位。这使得他们想要反向解析潜在受害者的电子邮件地址就像孩子游戏一般。”

Biggest Haul at Grammys Goes to Beyoncé

原文地址：http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/arts/music/01grammy.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

Biggest Haul at Grammys Goes to Beyoncé

Beyoncé成为格莱美最大赢家

Mike Blake/Reuters

Beyonce performs a medley of songs at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. More Photos >

LOS ANGELES — Affirming her role as one of the reigning queens of pop music, Beyoncé was the top winner at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, taking six prizes, including song of the year for her inescapable hit “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”

Beyoncé正在进一步巩固她流行天后的地位，她赢得了六个奖项，是周六晚上第五十二届格莱美奖的大赢家，当然这其中当然包括了她Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)这首歌获得年度最佳歌曲奖。

But she shared the spotlight with Taylor Swift, the poised 20-year-old country-pop singer, who was crowned a new superstar with four wins, including the top prize, album of the year, for “Fearless.”

但是她是与Taylor Swift一同分享场上的聚光的，这位20岁的乡村歌手。而Taylor也被四项奖项而加冕超级明星，包括了最具分量的奖项————“Fearless”赢得的年度最佳专辑。

“This is the story we’re going to be telling over and over again — in 2010, we got to win album of the year at the Grammys,” she said while accepting the award.

“这是一个我们会不断传诵的故事——在2010，我们赢得了格莱美的年度最佳专辑。”当她在发表获奖感言时这样说。

After a punishing decade for the music industry, the voters of the Recording Academy, the organization that bestows the awards, reversed its recent trend of showering acclaim on modest sellers, sticking instead to the biggest names in entertainment. Right behind Beyoncé, with three awards each, were the Black Eyed Peas, a powerhouse of radio-friendly hip-hop, and the alternative rock band the Kings of Leon.

在谴责了数十年音乐工业之后，那些授予这些奖项的投票者，对他们给予销量平平的专辑喝彩的做法发生了180度的转变，开始关注那些娱乐界的大人物了。就在Beyoncé之后，赢得三个奖项的，正是超人气嘻哈组合Black Eyed Peas和另类摇滚乐队Kings of Leon。

Kings of Leon won record of the year for the boogieing blues-rock song “Use Somebody.” (The record category is for performers; song of the year recognizes songwriters.) Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” also took best R&B song and best female R&B performance, and her “Halo” won best female pop vocal performance.

Kings of Leon通过布鲁斯摇滚歌曲“Use Somebody.”赢得了年度制作的奖项。Beyoncé的“Single Ladies”也获得了最佳R&B歌曲和最佳R&B女歌手的奖项，而她的歌曲“Halo” 赢得了最佳流行女歌手的奖项。

The Black Eyed Peas won for best pop vocal album (“The E.N.D.”) and best pop performance by a duo or group, and the R&B singer Maxwell won best male R&B performance and best R&B album (for “BLACKsummers’ Night”). The Zac Brown Band, a country-rock group from Atlanta, won best new artist, though since 2004 it has released three albums. The ceremony, packed with splashy performances, celebrated the power of pop celebrity in an age when the foundations of the recording industry are being shaken, and it linked older, established stars with their younger progeny, whose record sales may not be as great but are reaching for the same level of fame.

Black Eyed Peas 赢得了最佳流行专辑(“The E.N.D.”)和最佳Pop乐队/组合，而R&B歌手Maxwell获得了最佳R&B男歌手和最佳R&B专辑(“BLACKsummers’ Night”)。Zac Brown Band这个来自亚特兰大的乡村摇滚团体摘取了最佳新人/团体的奖项，尽管他们在2004以来已经发售了3张专辑。这个充满了吸引眼球的表演的盛典是在唱片工业根基已经动摇的时候来庆祝流行乐的力量，它同时也把成名已久的巨星和刚刚出道的新人们星联系在一起，尽管新人的唱片销量远没达到他们名气的水准。

Lady Gaga opened the show, held at the Staples Center, in a duet with Elton John, both singers covered in soot as they faced each other for a medley of Lady Gaga’s “Speechless” and Mr. John’s “Your Song.” It was a typically meta statement by Lady Gaga about her travails through the machinery of “the fame factory,” as the stage set proclaimed. “How wonderful life is with Gaga in the world,” Mr. John sang.

在斯台普斯中心，Lady Gaga同Elton John一起进行了开场表演，他们一起在烟雾中面对面的演唱了Lady Gaga的 “Speechless”和Elton John的“Your Song.”的混合歌曲。 而这正是典型的Gaga在台上宣称的经过“名气工厂”机器的痛苦过程。“与Gaga同处在一片蓝天下是多么美好啊。”John唱到。

Their performance also hinted at the prominence of powerful female pop stars, and ones who are particularly young for a ceremony that often favors established, midcareer artists. There is Ms. Swift and then there’s Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta. She is only 23 and has rocketed to pop fame in less than two years (though she ended up with only two awards). Beyoncé, a seasoned veteran — her wins this year brought her Grammy total to 16, along with her awards with Destiny’s Child — is 28. (Ms. Swift had a cross-generational superstar moment of her own, dressed in virginal white while singingFleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” and her own “You Belong With Me” with Stevie Nicks, whose dress was black as a black cat.)

他们的这段表演也暗示了这位年轻女星的如日中天的名望，这位非同一般年轻的歌手取代了那些成名已久处于职业生涯中期艺人的位置。前有Swift小姐后有真名是Stefani Germanotta的Lady Gaga。Gaga仅仅23岁而她已经如火箭般的速度在两年之内窜升至了名望的顶峰（尽管她最后只得到两个奖）。Beyoncé这位在今年之后连同她在迪斯尼的阶段，把自己的格莱美奖杯数增加到了16座的早已成名的艺人，也只有28岁。

For Ms. Swift, the Grammys capped a remarkable year. Her album “Fearless” (Big Machine) was the biggest seller of 2009, and she has taken trophies at almost every other big awards show, including the MTV Video Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards. When “Fearless” took the Grammy for best country album, she gushed, “I feel like I’m standing here accepting the impossible dream.”

对于Swift小姐，格莱美完成了她值得纪念的一年。她的专辑“Fearless”是2009销量最大的专辑，而且她在各种奖项中拿奖拿到手软，其中包括了MTV的音乐录影带奖和乡村音乐协会奖。最终，当“Fearless”取得了格莱美年度最佳专辑的奖项之后，她的情感难以抑制：“我感到自己好像是站在这里完成一个不可能的梦想。”

The Grammys are voted on by about 12,000 members of the Recording Academy, who must have credits on at least six commercially released tracks to qualify. To avoid competition with the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin on Feb. 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the awards are being held earlier in the year than they ever have been before, and as a result the window of eligibility for nominations had to be adjusted to 11 months, from Oct. 1, 2008, to Aug. 31, 2009.

格莱美是被12000名出过6张以上商业专辑的唱片学会的成员投票决定的。为了避开在英属哥伦比亚省温哥华市举办的2010冬奥会，这个奖项举行的比以前的任何一次都要早。因此造成了提名只能在2008年10月至2009年8月这11个月之间选择。

That change disqualified a number of major albums released in September, including releases by Jay-Z, Barbra Streisand, Miranda Lambert and Mariah Carey. But that did not prevent Jay-Z from taking three for singles, including best rap song and best rap/sung collaboration for “Run This Town,” and best rap solo performance for “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).”

这个改变是众多在9月发布的专辑不能被提名，而这包括了 Jay-Z, Barbra Streisand, Miranda Lambert和Mariah Carey一票大牌的专辑。不过这并没有阻碍Jay-Z拿到了3个单项奖：最佳饶舌歌手，最佳饶舌合作“Run This Town”和最佳饶舌单曲 “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).”

For all the power of youth, the Grammys still gave pride of place to older legends. A 3-D tribute to Michael Jackson featured Smokey Robinson, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood singing along with Jackson’s recorded voice in the ecological hymn “Earth Song.” Jackson’s two oldest children, Prince and Paris, accepted their father’s lifetime achievement award. “In all his songs, the message was simple: love,” Prince said, haltingly. “We will continue to spread his message and help the world. Thank you.”

虽然年轻势力很威猛，不过格莱美依然给了传奇们骄傲。由Smokey Robinson, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson和Carrie Underwood与Michael Jackson一同演唱的3D版“Earth Song”来纪念MJ。Jackson最大的两个孩子Prince和Paris代表他们的爸爸接受了终身成就奖。“在他所有的歌之中，他所传达的信息很简单：爱。”Prince哽咽的说到“我们会继续传达这个信息还会帮助世界。谢谢大家。”

The memory of Jackson, who died in June, hung over the ceremony as one of its most beloved recipients and as a symbol of lost megacelebrity. He was the best-selling artist of 2009 by a wide margin; his 1982 album, “Thriller,” stands as one of the most popular recordings ever made; and in 1984 he won eight Grammys.

对于6月去世的Jackson的纪念贯穿整场盛典，他是最为人所爱戴的接受者和巨星陨落的标志。他曾是2009唱片被广泛热卖的艺术家；他1982年的唱片“Thriller”是有史以来最受欢迎的唱片之一；他在1984年赢得了8座格莱美。

Other eye-catching performances included Pink singing “Glitter in the Air” suspended acrobatically from a snow-white swatch of silk, dripping what looked like sparkling water over the Staples Center’s orchestra seats. Beyoncé sang a medley of her song “If I Were a Boy” and Alanis Morissette’s girl-power anthem “You Oughta Know,” which won two Grammys in 1996.

另一个吸引眼球的节目来自Pink演唱的“Glitter in the Air”， 她是在雪白的丝带之上如悬浮杂技般完成的（译者注：貌似在VMA上就表演过了），她从斯台普斯中心的管弦乐座席上掠过的时候就像发光的水一样流下。Beyoncé用她的 “If I Were a Boy”和Alanis Morissette在1996年赢得两项格莱美的圣歌“You Oughta Know”一起演唱了一曲。

Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli sang Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” with proceeds from a future iTunes download going to Haiti relief efforts. Bon Jovi, in this year’s Grammy Internet experiment, played a medley that included “Living on a Prayer” by fans’ online requests.

Mary J. Blige和Andrea Bocelli演唱了Simon和Garfunkel的 “Bridge Over Troubled Water,”这首歌是为了通过在iTunes上下载给海地捐助。Bon Jovi在今年格莱美的互联网实验中，在网上粉丝的要求下，表演了包括“Living on a Prayer”在内的一组混合曲目。

Lifetime achievement awards were also given to Leonard Cohen, André Previn, Loretta Lynn, the 89-year-old jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, the 94-year-old blues guitarist David (Honeyboy) Edwards and Bobby Darin (who died in 1973).

终身成就奖同样授予了Leonard Cohen, André Previn, Loretta Lynn,89岁的爵士小号手Clark Terry,94岁的布鲁斯吉他手David (Honeyboy) Edwards和Bobby Darin (在1973年去世)。

Of the 109 award categories this year, 100 were given out in a brisk and far less glamorous pretelecast ceremony. Many winners — including Lady Gaga, who won two early prizes — did not appear, but one who did was Neil Young, who won his first-ever Grammy. Along with Gary Burden and Jenice Heo, Mr. Young, under the title of art director, won best boxed set or special limited edition package, for his mammoth “Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)” project. (He was held off from winning a Grammy that recognized his music; Bruce Springsteen’s “Working on a Dream” beat Mr. Young’s “Fork in the Road” for best solo rock vocal performance.)

今年有109座奖杯搬出，其中100座是在快节奏中颁出的。因此包括赢得两座奖杯的Gaga在内许多得到奖项的歌手并没有登台领奖，但是有一位仅拿了一座奖杯的却上台了，他就是Neil Young，因他的 “Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)”以总监的身份赢得了最佳盒装/限量版包装奖。

Also in the pretelecast ceremony, Alison Krauss won her 27th Grammy as a participant in the album “Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace,” tying her with Quincy Jones for the most lifetime wins of any living musician. Phoenix won best alternative album for “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” (Loyaute/Glassnote).

同样也在典礼中，Alison Krauss以她在唱片“Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace”合作者的身份赢得了她第27座格莱美，从而打平了Quincy Jones。Phoenix以”Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”赢得了最佳另类专辑奖。

For all its big names and elaborate, Las Vegas-esque productions, the Grammys can also cast a light on the shoestring budgets that most musicians have adapted to. Accepting an award during the pretelecast ceremony for best-spoken-word album for children, Buck Howdy, a singer-songwriter from San Diego, commented that it cost him less to produce his album than it did to pay for valet parking at the Grammy nominees’ dinner.

通过名人出席和精美的制作，这种拉斯维加斯的制作方式，格莱美同样也实现了为大多数音乐家所接受的小成本。从圣地亚哥来的歌手、作曲者Buck Howdy赢得了最佳儿童读物奖项，他说付给男侍者帮他在提名者晚宴上停车的小费比他做张专辑画的还要多。