法新社的文章！！！

jjs

虽然此时祖国已经深夜，开幕式 刚刚结束，我才21点，正好收集一下各大媒体的报道：以下是来自： AFP 法新社的报道，语言相对平和，不失赞美之词，同时还不忘对人权，达尔富尔问题对中国进行批判，   尤其是：The United States were to be led in by Sudan-born Lopez Lomong, a former refugee from Darfur, in a politically-charged choice given the criticism of Chinese foreign policy over the conflict in the African region.(文字很露骨，也简单，就不必翻译了)      我想知道美国真是这个用意！！！还望美国那边的人民给个答案!!!!
红色字体是我标的，他们总是带有色眼镜............
(管理员要求给出链接，不好意思，之前不知道规矩)：
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/newsmlmmd.01f3834c3d1bfe439d0b5d938cafb897.f1.html

Beijing's Games kick off with spectacular opening ceremony08/08/2008 13h54 Fireworks light up the night sky of Beijing
©AFP - Behrouz Mehri

BEIJING (AFP) - The 29th Olympic Games, costing an estimated 40 billion dollars and shrouded by political controversies, burst into life Friday with a spectacular opening ceremony.
President Hu Jintao was due to officially declare the Games open at the "Bird's Nest" stadium at 11:04 pm local time (1504GMT) in front of 90,000 spectators and a worldwide television audience of up to four billion.
The Olympic cauldron was to be lit by Li Ning, the Chinese gymnast who captured three gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
The three and a half hour opening ceremony, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Zhang Yimou, would see around 5,000 competitors from 204 nations parade in a lavish event, lit up by 35,000 fireworks.
In a country where eight is a lucky number, the ceremony burst into life at eight minutes past eight on the eighth day of the eighth month.
Organisers would welcome a dose of good fortune after seeing the Games, planned as the crowning acheivement of the country's breathless economic transformation, often overshadowed by disputes over human rights, press freedom and unease in the West over Chinese foreign policy.
A colourful, tightly-choreographed hour-long opening show, shot through with themes from Zhang's signature movies Hero and House of Flying Daggers, portrayed China's colourful history from ancient dynasties to modern superpower.
Appropriately, 2008 drummers kept the rhythm as a host of dancers, acrobats and trapeze artists told the story of the Great Wall of China, the Silk Road and the country's love affair with martial arts.
As tradition demands, Greece, the home of the ancient Olympics, were due to lead the parade of teams into the stadium.
But in a break from that famous tradition, the competing nations were poised to file through in the order based on the number of strokes of the names as written in Chinese characters.
As a result, Guinea were the first while hosts China brought up the rear led by flag bearer, and basketball superstar, Yao Ming.
The United States were to be led in by Sudan-born Lopez Lomong, a former refugee from Darfur, in a politically-charged choice given the criticism of Chinese foreign policy over the conflict in the African region.
Dancers perform during the opening ceremony
©AFP - Pedro Ugarte



South and North Korea, who failed to agree on marching in side-by-side were to follow one another instead.
Many heads of state were attending the opening ceremony.
They included US President George W. Bush and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
Before arriving in Beijing, Bush repeatedly highlighted during a speech in Thailand Washington's "deep concerns" over religious freedom and human rights in China.


Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a fluent Mandarin speaker, also pledged to raise China's human rights record with the Chinese leadership while Sarkozy sent China a list of prisoners and rights activists whose cases were a matter of concern for the European Union.
More than 100,000 security personnel have been called in to police the Games, amid fresh warnings of terror attacks from Islamic separatists while Beijing airport was also shut down just ahead of the start of the ceremony.
The streets were unusually quiet as many of the Chinese capital's 17 million residents stayed at home after the city government declared a public holiday.

[ 本帖最后由 jjs 于 2008-8-8 21:55 编辑 ]

vicky0318

翻译下哦，楼主